The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1925, Page 6

_ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER ‘ie Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. t 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 r SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' By mail (in Chicago only): | By mail (outside of Chicago): ‘ $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | . $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months = Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iilinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE {* MORITZ J. LOEB. [ Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- Editors Business Manager cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <P 290 oo ‘Advertising rates on application. Labor Fakers and Scabs There is a strike on at the present time in Chicago involving ¢ about one thousand members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Two shops refused to sign an agreement with that union, when their demands for concessions were refused. The officers of one company informed their employes that they would sigu a contract with any union that accepted their proposal for a reduction in wages. The workers struck. Then there appeared on the scene in the role of a strikebreaking recruiting agency, the United Garment Workers’ Union, affiliated with the American Federatign of Labor. The officials of this scabby outfit had advertisements inserted in the capitalist papers urging clothing workers to apply for jobs at the offices of the two struck shops, assuring them that union shop conditions prevailed. In the advertisements both shops were said to be “affiliated with the United Garment Workers of America.” This brazen piece of scabbery is not a new phenomenon in the American labor movement. But it might be expected that some other city less noted for its devotion to even the simplest principle of trade unionism would be selected by the labor scab agents to do “their dirty work. The officials of the strikebreaking United Garment Workers’ Union, will not succeed in delivering the goods to their paymasters. The rank and file of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America will see to that. But the members of the American Federation of Labor in this city have a duty to perform. Not only is it a disgrace to the name of trade unionism, that labor officials can get away with such tactics, but it is also a serious menace to the whole labor move- ment. The Communists have been abused by the press agents and paid apologists of the reactionaries for characterizing the labor “fakers as ‘ts of the employing class. That we are justified in making this charge is shown by the action of the officials of the United Garment Workers, which only differs in degree from the ac cepted policy of the right wing of the American Federation of Labor. The trade unionists of Chicago affiliated with the A. F. of L cannot let this brazen piece of scabbery pass unchallenged. Thi matter should be raised on the floor of the Chicago Federation o! Labor at that body’s next meeting. The DAILY WORKER expect: the officers of the Chicago Federation of Labor who have often i: the past experienced their solidarity with the Amalgamated Clothin; Workers to now give a practical demonstration of this solidarit) by not only assisting them in winning the strike, but also in officiall condemning the strikebreaking tactics of the officials of the Unite: | Garment Workers. We expect as a matter of course that the loca. correspondent of William Green’s weekly news sheet, and also the "Federation News will join the DAILY WORKER in condemning this scabbery. “The Populace Seems Strangely Unmoved” | One military clique has kicked out another in Greece. Pangalos has replaced Michalakopoulos. His program calls for the “redemp- tion and purification of the country,” the usual fascist formula. Dispatches state that “the populace seems strangely unmoved * ‘by the event.” There is little to wonder at in this as the revolt has no social significance beyond its proof of the political instability of little puppet states like Greece. It is possible, however, that Great Britain has had a hand in organizing the overthrow of the Michalakopoulos government because of its consessions to Turkey where French diplomacy-is busy. Be- hind all of the maneuvers in that part of the world are always some of the great powers. The condition of the Greek working class is pitiable. Thousands of refugees have been shipped back there after the disastrous war with. Turkey to die by starvation. The army and navy eat up most of the public revenues and taxation is almost unbearable. The Greek Communist Party has suffered many persecutions be- cause of its activity among the workers and many of its leaders are now in prison. The Greek populace “seems strangely unmoved” by the change in the personnel of the government because it has long ago learned that these changes mean nothing unless it be added oppression. It remains now for the workers of Greece to learn that their THE OAILY WORKE The Riffian War of Independence N the far-off days of 1911, when the imperialist dogs in Europe were straining at the leash for international massacre, Morocco almost furnished an occasion for a premature declara- tion of the great war. It was avoided by the hasty summoning in “1912 of the Conference of Algeciras, where Morocco as an independent national unit was dismembered and divided— on the model followed in 1907 in Per- sia by Grey and Sazonoff—into two “spheres of influence,” one Spanish in the north and the other French in the south. Meanwhile Germany—then making its unfortunate debut as a rival to the older imperialist powers—was given compensations elsewhere in Af- rica, and England was assured, in re- turn for its neutrality in the Moroccan partition, complete freedom of exploit- ation of the riches of the Nile valley. And Italy, too—then in the throes of an ascent imperialism—came on the scene with the occupation of Tripoli. HE world has gone thru a complete “bouleversement” since those idyl- lic days when the imperialist powers could play in that way with the des- tiny of the peoples of northern Africa. The great war has dealt a fatal blow to imperialism and has brought out, and continnes to bring out in increas- ingly acute forms, its inherent contra- dictions. Northern Africa—like the rest of Africa and Asia in their dif- ferent degrees—refuses to be the play- ground of imperialist ambitions; and the. peoples, so long held in durance vile under the imperialist yoke, are at last conscious of their strength and are revolting, determined to be free. The new war of freedom of the vic- tims of imperialism stretches from China to Morocco; and already the rialism, the guarantee js not only in its internal weaknesses’ but also in the ‘twill to freedom of jts outraged vic- tims. ‘ PLACE of honoron the anti-im- perialist front bélongs to the val- jant peasants of the: Riff—numbering not more than 300,000—who, under the leadership of Abd el:Krim, have been fighting, it is now almost half a dec- ade, against the hordes of imperialism. From their little sector of land, stretching from the Mediterranean coast as a triangular wedge between the Spanish and the French zones, the Rifflans gave battle to the Spanish army of occupation, and in 1923 won their classic victory of Anual, where a whole Spanish army corps, with gen- erals and all, was captured and held to ransom. In December of last year, when the renewed Spanish offensive under the personal direction of Primo de Rivera had definitely broken -itself against Riffian resistan¢ée, Abd el Krim chased the Spaniards as far out as the sea littoral, where the presence of Spanish naval units alone saved the retreating remnants of the army.of occupation from disaster. EANWHILD Lyautey; the French high commissioner in Morocco, was holding himself ‘in readiness for the proper “political moment” to hurl himself against the Riff. He had asked for and obtained from ‘the successive governments of Poincare and Herriot in Paris the necessary reinforcements in men and money for what he well knew would soon, once engaged, as- sume the proportions of a colonial war and not be confined to a punitive expedition against a rebellious tribal | chief. For, Abd el Krim—as Lyautey, be- ing on the spot, had good reasons to know—is more than a rebellious tribal imperialist front is heavily dented. Of | the approaching destruction of impe- chief; he personifies a world factor in its local application in Morocco; he is the chief of a revolutionary move- ment of liberation from imperialist domination. If on the moral plane Abd el Krim and Lyautey represent two antagonistic world factors, on the technical plane—all allowances being made as between a great military power like France and the little Riff— Abd el Krim is no less a redoubtable adversary, because his war strategy and his equipments are modern. As Lyautey was getting himself ready, the diplomatic preparation in Paris for the French offensive against the Riff was coming to its culminating point after a long and tortuous detour. dependence that the French govern- ment allowed its citizens to furnish arms and munitions to Abd el Krim to be used against Spain. And if the British government in its turn allowed the same latitude to its own citizens, it was equally not from a motive of love. The French government—work- ing as the occult mandatory of French bankers covetously looking to the rich mineral sub-soil of the Riff—wanted Spain to be put out of the way as a possible reversionary owner of the Riff. With Spain demonstrably unable to hold its own in its zone, and thus unable to fulfil the terms of the Alge- ciras agreement, the occasion would be diplomatically legitimate for France to extend its Moroccan territory to the north, right up to the Mediterranean, While, precisely to avoid this contin- gency—namely, the appearance of France on the Mediterranean coast facing Gibraltar—England was forced, by the bankruptcy of Spain as an im- perialist power, to fall Back on the possibility of creating a Riffian buffer state by allowing surreptitious and, un- official help to reach Abd el Krim. So, from diametrically opposed motives, England and France adopted an iden- tical attitude during the Spanish-Riff- ian war. The tension of Anglo-French It was not for the love of Riffian in-/ Moroccan rivalry would have contin- ued to postpone indefinitely the open- ing of Lyautey’s offensive in the Riff, if some agreement had not meanwhile been reached between the Quai d’Or- say and the British foreign office de- fining more clearly the Mediterranean situation in the terms of a complete British hegemony in Egypt and French freedom of expansion in Morocco. NCE the diplomatic maneuvering was over, Lyautey found the nec- essary pretext to declare war against Abd el Krim. The frontier between the Riff and the French zone had been left purposely undefined, tho Abd el Krim had on several occasions asked for a proper delimitation, It would appear that Lyautey could not accede to the demand of Abd el Krim because the Riffian leader was not a “juridical entity” with which one could hold “ne- gotiations,” but—as recently interpret- ed by M. Briand—mere “conversa- tions” were possible. However, in the vague “No, Man'd Land” between the two frontiers there is the region or the Ouergha whence the Riff receives a portion of its food supplies. The appearance of Riffian soldiers in the Ouergha, not with a warlike motive, gave Lyautey the precise point of departure for his lang-prepared attack against the har- kas of Abd el Krim. All imperialist wars are fundamen- tally wars of aggression. The French war against the Riff is such a war, both in its motive and the way in which it has been opened by General de Chambrun acting under orders from Field Marshal Lyautey, himself in- spired by the Caillaux-Briand-Painleve ‘combination evolving, with the sup- port of the socialist parties, at the Palais Bourbon a shameless policy of imperialist aggression in the interests of the bandits of high finance. Abd el Krim has taken up the challenge of. Lyautey. The _ Riff- By Ali Kemal Fauladi ians are fighting with their accustomed valor against heavy odds. As Jacques Doriot of the French Communist Party pointed out in a recent debate in the chamber of deputies, the eyes of all \ Islam are turned on the Riff, Doriot might as well have said that the eyes ‘ of all the oppressed peoples of Asia { and Africa are turned on the Riff. In that narrow sector of land in the northwest corner of Africa, imperial- ism is at close grips with its destined enemy. It is the beginning of the pen- | ultimate phase of imperialist collapse. The collapse is a historic necessity which will achieve itself in spite 0 momentary or local respites. NEW element has ‘entered into | world economy to hasten that col- lapse. It is the consciousness of soli- darity which the advanced proletariat of the imperialist countries feel to- ” ward the subjugated peoples of Asia | and Africa, The solidarity is the in- vincible solidarity of common inter- ests, because the enemy of both. is one—capitalism and imperialism. The French Communist Party, as representing the advanced proletariat of France, has on this occasion taken its stand on the side of the Rifflans. In its manifestoes it has proclaimed | { its complete solidarity with the cause © of Riffian independence. From. the tribune of the chamber of deputies, Communist speakers have vindicated the inalienable right of the Riffian people ‘to self-determination. They have demanded more—they have asked for the evacuation of Morocco altogether. In the Communist press and from Communist platforms, the French proletariat has been reminded that the Riffian people are its fellow victim of the same oppression. Worthy of its revolutionary con- science, the French Communist Party has sent forth to the Fregch soldiers in Morocco the audacious slogan— “Fraternize with the Riffians!” y f A Canadian Budget and Coming Elections 5) Masrice Spector | 'N the debate on the federal budget, the Hon. Mr. Robb acting minister of finance in the “liberal” king gov- ernment, claimed there was a “sur- plus.” The tory opposition, thirsting ‘or the spoils of office, insisted there was a “deficit.” Regardless of tory demagogy, the facts do demonstrate that the “surplus” claimed by the king government is a rank fake. In. no less a measure than the recent Royal-Union Bank merger or the class struggle in Nova Scotia, the federal yudget throws a glaring light on the ‘ondition of Canadian capitalism— vhich lives increasingly by the in- tense exploitation of the Canadian masses, ... The public debt at the ond of the fiscal year for 1920-21 was 2,340 million dollars and the estimat- cd net debt at the end of the pres- ont year 1924-25, is 2431 millions—an increase in indebtedness in four years of over 90 million dollars. In addi- tion the government has during this period guaranteed National Railway bonds to the extent of some 180 mil- lion dollars, and as the National Rail- ways are burdened with the heritage of over-capitalization from the days of private ownership, this additional imount will eventually have to come out of non-railway revenues. So a to- tal national debt of only half a, bil- lion dollars in prewar days has swol- len to the present tidy sum of two and a half billion ($2,500,000,000) dol- lars. More than a third of the public revenue is now expended in interest payments, the annual interest bill hav- ing averaged 135 millions in the last three years. ‘The expansion of the national debt to the sum of two and a half billion dol- lars was largely due to dominion par- ticipation in the late imperialist world war. This fact of course partly ex- plains the reluctance of the king government to embark on further war ‘only hope lies in unity with the workers and peasants of the Balkans and Asia Minor, unity in the struggle against their own militarist _ government and the imperialists who set worker against worker as _in the Greco-Turkish war—unity under the banner of the Communist | _ International. a "The Boy Scabs From distant China comes the news that Boy Scouts in Hong Kong are taking the place of striking messenger boys. 2 The Boy Scouts is one of the many youth organizations that the capitalist class have sponsored in order to ineuleate the philosophy of subservience and lickspittle humility into the minds of the chil- dren of the working class. The scab and the stoolpigeon are glorified and held up to those youths as the highest type of American citizen- ship. It is therefore not surprising that members of this organization should play the role of scabs whenever there is need for their services. Like the American Legion, ostensibly neutral in the struggle between ihe workers and the capitalists, the Boy Scouts are at the service of the ruling class. Workers who have children should not underestimate the draw- ' ing power of organizations like the Boy Scouts. They are given uniforms, praised by prominent individuals, allowed to parade and indulge in many forms of activity that appeal to the young, They are taught to despise trade unionism and to hate the class organiza- tions that meant so much to their parents. In Europe the youth organizations of the working class have appeared as the rival# of the capitalists’ Boy Scouts. Here in Amer- ica we have the Young Workers League and the Junior sections of the Y. W. L. as competitors of the Boy Scouts. ‘These organizations _ should be supported by the workers and they should make it their y business to have their children join those working class organiza- which will put reyolutionary ideas into the minds of the young d of capitalist dope. 2 sg commitments spelling greater contri- butions to the maintenance of British navalism; it partly explains dominion insistence on “status” and the differ- ences with the British imperial gov- ernment over the signing of the treaty of Lausanne the Geneva proto- col.and the “Security Pact” in con- nection with the Rhine. In view of the. penetration and influence of American imperialism on the one hand, and the sharp antagonisms with- in the dominion itself between capi- talvand labor, between agrarian West and financial-maunfacturing East, be- ‘tween French-Canada and Orange On- tario, between the maritime prov- imees and all others—participation ir another war with the huge debt of the fast still bearing down, might shale the whole structure of Canadian con- federation to its foundations. But if this huge debt was incurred in the imperialist war, and if\ more than a third of the revenue is |going into perpetual interest ewan ts capitalist bondholders and war pkofit- ind if as the government has,ad mitted more than half of these war bonds are tax-exempt, one gr’ f source of the deficit and the way its liquidation becomes very clear, 1. to the present, however, the idea « the capital levy has been advocated by nobody outside the Communist Party of Canada. ‘The government, the capitalist parties, the bond-hold- ers and their crowd will not hear of anything that would make them pay the costs, The business’ interests ready fill the air with their eries 1 e taxation is “too high.” They ; ‘ A New Holy Alliance OW was this huge debt incurred, | t to whom is it owed and who is| expected to “pay the price” for it?| howl for “Economy” at the expense of the workers and farmers. These capitalist interests. point to the deficit on the Canadian Nationa! Railways, for instance, as due to the “inferiority” of government-owner- ship, and suggest as a means of wip- ing out this deficit, an offensive, not on the fixed interest charges, but on the railway workers’ wages. If there is a deficit on the Canadian Nationa) Railways it is due to scandalous over- capitalization. The’ Canadian Pacifie Railway (privately-owned) has a tota) mileage of 19.103 miles—has a capitai- ization of $623,960;000 or $32,000 per mile. The Canadian National with a total miledge of 26,751, has a capital- ization of $2,207,000,000 or $84,500 a mile. The National Ry. System must therefore pay interest (on bonds, de- beniures, loans ete.) ‘on the sum of $1,581,000,000, a matter of $75,000,000 a year. The nationalization of the Canadian Pacific, and. its unification with the Canadian National (after the latter has been cleansed by thorogo- ing nationalization!) would certainly go a long way towards wiping out the deficit on the government railway systom and consequently on the na- tional debt. But any’ proposal of thorogoing nationalization (without compensation) and unification is met with the same cordial reception by the bourgeoisie, as the idea of a capital levy! x By SHACHTMAN. eee is no depth to the infamy of social-democracy. One day a nicely moustached prime minister strains to kiss the toes of his king, and the next day another minister joins in demanding the heads of all the Communists in the country. Let us paint one more black stain in the already besmirched volumes of socialist history. In Brussels, there ‘was recently or- ganized an “American-Belgian Friend- ship Union” under the presidency of the crown prince Leopold whose tend- er old grandfather used to carve rub- ber out of the sinews and ivory out of the bones of thousands of Negro slaves in the African Congo. The composition of the committee is quite interesting. As honorary member there sits the meek servant of the Tord, Cardinal Mercier, the un- canonized angel of-death during the war to end all wars, In the active committee we find a pretty combina- lic and liberal party’s parliamentary fraction; M. Hymang, Belgian repre- sentative in the gue of nations, and a number of ieee net, Lafontaine, seated cheek by jow) with bankers, servile priests, generals, and bourgeois politiciang. But there is still more. responding committ in the United 8 we have Mr, In the cor- | tions, political touts, pacii which function HE squabble between the govern- ment and the tory opposition over the reality or otherwise of the budget- ary “surplus” is a maneuvering for election position this coming fall. ‘The liberals and conservatives make their differences hinge about the im- memorial fake issue in Canadian poli- tsss—tbe tariff. Both these parties are eentrolied by the same interests who ‘se now the one, now the other, as occasion demands. The interests of the Canadian manufacturers’ associa- tion and the Canadian bankers’ as- sociation are protected by both; the interests of the workers and farmers are protected by neither. In twenty years, and with all the party hulabal- loo over the tariff, it has not been revised one way or another more than a few cents. When King made cer- tain slight reductions in the tariff on agricultural implements, and Meighen the opposition leader raised an out- ery that this was ftuining the imple- ment industry, the Massey-Harris com- pany, largest Canadian implement manufacturers, published a statement. that they were well satisfied. The “free-trade” principles of the liberal are a farcical insincerity. The slight tariff revisions last year (there were none of a downward kind this year!) were a dry bone thrown to the pro- gressive dog. On imports of all duti- able agriculture impelements valued at $3,156,986 from April to October, dollars, and American capital already has a good wrestling hold on Belgian railways. HETHER or not these incidents mean the Dawesation—or Mor- ganification of Belgium, remains to be seen. It is clearly an indication of the growing hold that American finan- {cial capital is obtaining in every’coun- try of Europe, to the growing distress of both England and France—not to speak of the workers who have al- ready had their Dortmund disasters and Halle massacres as a first taste of the stabilization achieved by the American dollar. But the picture of Vandervelde, be- trayer of the workers during the war, and the one who pleaded so eloquent- ly at the Berlin three-internationals’ unity conference for guarantees from the Communists of their faith and sincerity in pleading for unity of the forces of the proletariat, — Vander- velde, serving as a naked arm for the spread of Morganatic alliances be- tween European labor, industrial and tion There is the hanker M. Franqui, | financial resources and Morgan’s capi- as chairman; the leaders of the Catho- ;tal, is one that will induce wretching with more speed and surety than an emetic. * HE earnest efforts of the Commun- proud therefor, They have achieved mans, to Lafontaine, Brunet and_M. Vandervelde. A new holy alliance of imperialist capital, the league of na- and the cond international, ohn Pierpont Morgan, whose Wash-| poured by the infallible represent -ngton office tlessage of greeti: cdnference, signed, it may be noted tt the United States some Calvin Coolidge. Y t Belgium owes| One billions of | workers nt an enthusiastic |tive of the infallible representative to the Brussels |of Jesus Christ, all of them chanting the sacred hymn: for all!/ All ists to achieve a united front may Ane this collection, we have also | not have succeeded so well up to this our friends, Bmil Vandervelde | time, and the socialists may well be leader of the second, socialist inter- national, his bosom companion Bru-/their united front. This latest ex- the president of the Belgian |ample is of the standard type: chamber, and the well-known pacifist, | Morgan, Cardinal Mercier, and M. Hy- From crowded to- gether under the shower of holy water | }| against the 1924, there was a reduction of 4.7 per cent or an actual reduction of $148,378 of duty paid by all the farmers! It is no pleasant spectacle to see the farmers so shamelessly betrayed by unscrupulous politicans who have wormed themselves into their graces under the banner of the “progressive party.” In the division on the budget, seventeen of these “progressives,” in- cluding the whip of the party, voted for the government despite the decis- ion to the contrary of the party cau- cus as a whole, So much for the protection of the farmer. How about the workers? Last winter there were close to one hundred thuosand unemployed. (All this time the goyernment agencies were working dvertime artifically stimulating immigration by means of lying propaganda abroad. The immi- grants came into the country only to swell the army of the workless, All winter the unemployed maintained an agitation for work or maintenance. They got neither. Unemployed marches were organized on the pro- vincial legislatures. Delegations went up to Ottawa from the Trades Councils (Toronto) to ask for main- tenance either in the form of “doles” or insurance, The government replied that “the country could not afford it,” that “doles” were “demoralizing,” that under the British North America act, the federal government had no power to deal with such a question, and was there any unemployment anyway? Meanwhile men starved or eked out a miserable existence on private charity. The budget main- tains a perfect silence on the question of unemployed maintenance . For months the miners of Western Canada carried on a desperate strug- gle against a wage reduction of $1.17 aday. They were finally starved into submission by the operators and their union organizations broken by com- pany unions, The whole world is aware of the heroic struggle of the Nova Scotia miners against a wage reduction of ten per cent dictated by the monstrous British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO.) But the bud- get says not a word about mines’ nat- jonalization, not a word in the ineter- ests of the workers. What the budget is concerned about is the protection of the British Empire Steel Corporation, which is given an increase In the duty on slack coal of from fourt to fifty cents a ton. Premier Armstrong of Nova Scotia, Besco’s hired man, himself admitted that under this tar- riff increase Besco could afford to pay the 1924 rates, f to cut and at the fourteen cent advantag the selling price they had claimed to effect by their wage reduction. did the budget make any provision for the miners to be given a living wage at the same time that Besco was bein: given its handsome little tariff dona wer of the government and Besco, LL tho usual signs and portents strategic importance for the govern ment. Montreal South shoro bridge. offices But tion? The military forces, in trench helmets and armed with machine guns, who have invaded Nova Scotia to coerce the miners, that is the ans- point to an election this fall, Ap- propriations have already been made for public works in constituencies of Five million dollars for the Quebec harbor, and many more mil- ions for the Toronto viaduct and the “The government's concession to American capitalists of the Carillon’s water} er may not be unconnected with collection of a fat campaign fund. ferred to dependable landlords and the Home bank depositors wno were caught in the failure of that institu. > tion will be given some financial com- pensation. The Dunning government ~ has been returned in Saskatchewan | and now the government is waiting © for results of the impending election ~ in Nova Scotia, } For the workers there is no other | way out of the exploitation they are suffering but independent political de. | tion on the basis of the class strug- / gle. The Communist Party will en- [/ deavor to rally the workers organ- ized in the trade unions and the Can- adian labor party, as well as those as yet unorganized, to make a stand for” class issues, for the capital levy, af mines nationalization, for nationaliz#® j' ~ tion of the banks, for unemployment’ insurance, a national minimum wage, a six-hour day, repudfation of the British North American Act, a work- ers’ and farmers’ government, a work- ers’ budget. 3 Chinese Workers Call Nation-Wide _ Strike for June 30 (Continued from page 1) with MacMurray’s aid, to again bring the Chinese under their oppressive rule. Three hundred white guard Russian refugees, who fought the Soviet gov- ernment are acting as strikebreakers in Honk Kong, having been transport- ed there on the Canadian Pacific liner Empress, to replace the Chinese ns strikers. An effort is being made to take the Empress of Asia out of port, and the white guards were given the strike- breaking jobs. ‘ The foreign police here have raid- ed the premises of a Communist news- paper,-it is reported. * * @ Excessive Foreign Demands. CANTON, June 29.—The American consul general has attempted to in- duce the Chinese to accept the for- eigners’ rule and go back to work, but after visiting the secretary of the Chinese Civil Governor, here, he an- nounced he had made no headway. The French and British are fur- ther fortifying Shameen, the foreign quarter, bringing in many machine guns. All foreign women and chil- dren have been withdrawn from Can- ton. The Chinese troops o¢eupy post t tions opposite Shameen. p& y The French demands show that the foreign imperialist governments in- tend to fight for the privilege of con- tinuing to plunder China. The French demand, it is reported here, an in- lemnity of half a lion ch ‘ettiben, he shooting of one Chinese the chet Pasquier, the disarming of -roops, the ending of the | strike and the deportation of Governor, * ef Shipping Piles Up. ese crews. coasting ships and ocean tied up in Kowloon Bay. ? Boy Scouts, true to their A tradition, are acting as