The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1925, Page 2

LEBEN VALLEY IS SUCCESSFUL | | Workers Refuse to Go| | | OF WAR —_—. (Continued from page 1) sibilities that would relieve the un- employed to a great degree. Moreover, it is pointed out that a rupture in relations and a breaking of the trade agreement would, as Chicherin claims, set England upon the road to war which would involve to War; Recruit Poles | wrote word. (Special to The Daily Worker) Soviet Union Seeks Peace. That Soviet Russia is seeking peace, PARIS, France, July 5.—The French | and not war, is pointed out from the positions in the upper Leben valley; report of M. W, Frunze, War Com- in Morocco have been pushed back/missar at the third congress of the by the severe bayonet attack of the | Soviet Union. Frunze pointed out that Riffiant troops, a dispatch from Fez| in four years the Red-Army has been states. violent. The statement of Premier Painleve to the French senate that the French | losses in the entire Moroccan cam-| paign have been only four hundred killed is believed by no one who is well informed of the Morocean situa- tion, It is well known that the losses have been many times greater. Socialists For Bankers. The senate gave Painleve a vote of confidence in his Moroccan policy of continued attack on the Rifflans, the Socialists again lining up with the im- perialists. The French foreign office an- nounced that the Franco-Spanish con- ference at Madrid is drafting peace terms to present to Abd-el-Krim. eee Workers Refuse to Fight. WARSAW, Poland, July 5,—An in- terpolation in the Polish Sejm (par- liament) by the Communist fraction, with regard to the French” invasion of Morocco disclosed that the French government is recruiting Polish im- migrants in France to go to the Mo- rocean front because the French work- ers are refusing to fight the Moroc- cans. ‘ There are The fighting near M’Lisa is 750,000 Polish workers and peasants in France. The Polish white terror government sent them ,in order to get rid of a large unem- Ployed army, and to be free of politi- cal opponents. Would Use Poles, The Polish immigrants were first used to lower the wages of the ; French workers and to act as non- union help to break up the French unions. They did not succeed be- cause the Communists established} two Polish language papers in Paris and informed the Polish workers of the situation. Now the French government is us- ing the same tactics to try to use the Poles to help win Morrocco for the Bankers. f see Workers Party Acts. The Polish section of the Workers (Communist) Party of America is calling on the Polish workers to pro- test against the use of Poles in the interests of bloody French imperial- ism. ee er | Communists Call General Strike. | PARIS, France, July 5.—The Com- ™munist Party of Paris has decided to call a general twenty-four hour strike , Of ‘protest against the Moroccan in- . Vasion. In Saint Pierre des Corps, near | Tours, the mayor has been arrested _ charged with “anti-militaristic propa- ; ganda,” and the municipal council held @ meeting tnd declared their approval of the mayor's stand against the Moroc- can war. Searches and arrests of workers’ homes by the Painleve government | Continue thruout France. Meetings are being held in all the other indust- Tial centers, which expose the imper- ' dalist aims of the French bankers who @re promoting the Moroccan war. Situation “Critical.” Premier Painleve has hinted that army classes will soon be mobolized to be sent to North Africa, The Riffian attack on Taza is push- ing back the French, and premier Painleve has called the cabinet to- gether, admitting to them that the Moroccan situation, from the view- point of the French imperialists, is “serious.” The war will cost at the Teast $250,0000,000, even if ended very s00n, it was estimated by experts here, The Journal des Debats declares the situation inMorocco is “critical.” The Moroccan natives in the region of Ta- za, where the Rifflans have battered their way to within a few miles of the town, have deserted the French and gone to the Rif_lans with their arms. ‘Taza is on the main line of the Ra- bat-Fez railroad. see Demonstrations in Tangier TANGIER, Morocco, July 5.—The workers have stormed the shops here and forced them to close in complj- ance with their organized demonstra- tion against the statutes of the Tangier international government, of France, Spain and England, They have refus- ed to pay taxes called for in the sta- tutes, and have ordered all shops to close in protest. The Spanish directory has asked Britian and France to send troops, de- claring that “the neighboring tribes no longer intend to observe the meu- trality of Tangier. Cal Takes Jobs From 25,000, NEW YORK, July 5.—~Twenty-ive thousand disabled war veterans, now in charge of the rehabilitation depart- ment of the U. S. veterans’ bureau, will be jobless when the department 1s abandoned next June by the Cool- idge administration. reduced from 5,500,000 to 562,000, The ring of imperialist nations and their puppet governments have, Frunze reported, been doing the exact oppo- site, They have been preparing for war—and openly—with Soviet Rus- sia. Frunze said: “The Helsingfors Conference of the Baltic governments, the General Staff Conference at Riga, the Bucharest Conference of the Lit- | tle Entente and the flerce agitation | which is being carried on in the bour- geois press of the world against the Soviet Union, compels us to most se- riously concern ourselves.” Roumania Increases Army. Roumania has recently increased her army by 25 per cent and bought 40,000 rifles and 62,000,000 rounds of ammunition for them. Poland has or- dered three torpedo boats and six submarines from France. Great Britain has just loaned White guard Esthonia $5,000,000 to arm her troops and pro- vide for increased forces. Frunze, in referring to these developments added; “You will have read that the Es- thonian government is ceding the islands of Oesel and Dagoe to Great Britain, If this report be confirmed, if the English flag is indeed to fly over the Islands of Oesel and Dagoe, it would mean that the English dréad- noughts could appear before the walls of Kronstadt and Leningrad within 24 hours and that the English air-fleet could cruise over the factories of Léningrad within an hour and a half. You will understand that this is by no means a matter of indifference to us. We must regard such a transaction as a direct challenge to our worker and Peasant state. Good Precedent for Sympathy. “You know that the ex-Prime Min- ister Lloyd George and the present French Prime Minister Painleve, as- sured the Ukrainian deputy Wassint- schuk, who had been sentenced to penal servitude by a Polish court, of their sympathy. Now if Painleve and Lloyd George consider it possible to do this, who can forbid the workers and peasants of our Union to call to our oppressed brothers: ‘We know your griefs, your sufferings,’ we are with you, heart and soul, we send you our warmest fraternal greetings.’ “In spite of all this, I declare most emphatically that we have no desire for war and that, in spite of the as- sertions of the foreign bourgeous press, we are not preparing for an attack against either Poland or Rou- mania, Numerical® Strength. “Tt will pass over the numerical strength of our Red air fleet. I will only say that it is unfortunately not much stronger than our nearest west- ern neighboring countries together, Poland, Roumania and the Baltics. “The strength of the Red Army without the navy amounts to only 529,000 men. That is 183,000 less than in France and 17,000 less than our nearest western neighboring coun- tries together, Poland, Roumania and the baltics, “These figures show with convinc- ing force that it is nonsense to speak of a ‘Red Imperialism’. Absolutely as well as relatively, we spend much less on armaments than all other, the ‘largest bourgeois states, and relative- ly even much less than the smallest bourgeois states. At the disarma- ment conference at Moscow, it was precisely Poland which frustrated our proposals for giving up the argument of arms,” **. British There With Cold Water LONDON, July 2.—Great Britain to- day threw cold water on Secretary of State Kellogg's proposal for a new conference of the powers to iron out Chinese troubles that have resulted in the present widespread disorders in that country. “China must put her house in order before there can be any conference to discuss matters of extra-territoriality,” said the usual hypocritical statement from the foreign office. Officials Show Surprise British officials were manifestly sur- prised at Kellogg’s. move, for no com- munication had been received from Washington, they asserted. In the absence of such official communica- tion, foreign office officials said they believed the United istates would con- tinue to cooperate with the other powers interested in China and deal with the issue of extra-territoriality “only after China herself has cleared up the present situation and showed herself able to protect foreign lives and property.” Foreign Minister Austen Chamber- lain has already stated that Britain sees no reason for considering the question of the extra-territorial rights now held by foreign powers in China. In fact, the British charge d’Affaires at Peking has been instructed to tell the Chinese authorities flatly that i N SOVIET UNION. IS‘STIRRING ALL EUROPE Great Britain is opposed to considera- tion of this question. British Seek Trade Protection The British policy is based primari- ly upon British trade and the need for its protection in China, The Daily Express spoke frankly on this angle today and showed clearly what is in the back of British minds. “Twenty-five per cent of the inhabi- tants of the world live in China,” said the Express. “Its more than 400,000,- 000 people make the country a vast potential market for British manufac- turers—and their rivals.” Fear Stirring of Rivalries Continuing, the editorial pointed out, that China already has signed trade,agreements with Japan and with Soviet, Russia. This incident was men- tioned.as showing the need for the careful nursing of British trade pros pects,in the Far East. “Deep rivalries may be stirred up by President Coolidge’s peace move,” concluded the Express. ALBERTA MINERS STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUT DRIVE Treason of Leaders Is Unavailing (By Worker Correspondent.) TORONTO, July 5—The whole of the Drumheller Valley in Alberta, Canada, is tied up by the rank and file strike, against a terrific wage cut, which the operators and the district oficers of the U. M. W. of A. are try- ing to,.put across. The cut was suggested to the oper- ators. by. Sherman, the president of ‘the district, sacrificing all kinds of conditions and concessions won thru years of, struggle, and leaving prac- tically nothing but the check-off to show that it is an organized field. A.Non-Union Agreement. There was no discussion, no vote, no explanation. The first word re- ceived .by members, was thru the capitalist. press to the effect that the agreement was signed. What kind of agreement, may be judged from the fact that, it is considerably worse than these offered by various operators dur- ing the past few months, in the at- tempt to get men to break away from the United Mine Workers. Some classes of work are cut near- ly thirty per cent. The men were given no choice, and in the only mine where any attempt was made to oper- ate with scabs, the men working (29 the first day, about 11 the second AND) LAST day), actually did not know how much they were going to get. Men Strike. The men took a Sub-District ballot and decided by an overwhelming ma- jority to reject the agreement. Sher- man.and the operators did their best to hound them back with mounted po- lice anda barrage of newspaper vili- fication, but so far the rank and file are solid. Miner Shot By Cossack. There have been numerous arrests, one young miner has been shot by a Mountie, and tear bombs are being used freely. But the miners have de- cided that this shall be the las time Sherman sells them out, and unless the operators listen to reason, there is every prospect of a long fight. Kenosha Communists Have Fine Picnic and Hope for Shop Nuclei By ALEX TISHON. KENOSHA, Wis., July 5—A most succesful Anti-Imperialist demon- stration and picnic was held yester- day by the Kenosha loa@l of the Workers Party. Several hundred workers attended and cheered Mor- ris Chilofsky, who spoke on “Imper- jalism Today.” A resolution was adopted by unani- mous vote of the assembled workers demanding that American impéerial- ism keep its “Hands off China.” Kenosha is a busy industrial city and the membership of the Workers Party has many opportunities before it, once it gets organized on the real Communist basis of shop nuclei, as most of the membership is located in a few large plants. Heretofore this opportunity seems never to have been thot of, but now Kenosha live wires are expecting to see a change as soon as the party is reorganized, Score of Bodies Recovered from Ruins of Building BOSTON, Mass., July 5.—A score of bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Pickwick club building, and from twenty to fifty are reported missing. The building collapsed dur- ing a July 4 ball. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of you. fHE DAILY WORKER GERMANY NOT TO Lo SOVIET Security Pact Must Also| Revise Versailles BERLIN, Germany, July 5.—Foreign Minister Stresemann will lay down among the conditions for Germany's entrance into a “security” pact with the allies that the Rapallo treaty with the Soviet Union must not be broken, according to a resolution passed to- day by the German péoples’ party, which he leads. .It is understood the conditions embodied in the resolution would govern his future’ policy. Condition of Entering League Stresemann will also lay down rigid conditions for Germany's required en- trance into the league of nations, the resolution shows. “Entrance to the League of Nations is out of the question unless the Ruhr sanction territories and the first rhineland zone are évacuated;" the re- solution set forth. “Our entering the league must first be preceded by the. copclusion of a security pact, Germany, must be exempted from giving military assist- ance to the league. If we enter the league any military control of Ger- many, exceeding the terms of the versailles treaty, shall automotically be abolished. Must Leave Germany Free Hand “The security pact must not exclude the possibility of revising the Versail- les treaty insofar as it deals with Ger- many’s eastern borders, but it must exclude any further sanctions and provide for submission to arbitration of all controversies regarding the de- militarization of the Rhineland. “The security pact must. Jeave Ger- many a free hand to conclyie similar pacts with her eastern neighbors and not allow France the privilege of ar- bitration of violation of such pacts. “It must not interfere with the Ra- pallo treaty.” (With — thé Soviet Union). a ELECTRIC TRUST REPRESENTATIVE BOSTON, Mass., July,.5.—~Altho Sec retary of War Weeks has, issued a, de- nial from his residence at West Glou- cester that he intends. 4p, resign, his Washington house is sold, and it is thought that President, , Coolidge is looking for his successor,, Secretary Weeks represents the Morgan electric trust in,the govern- ment. When it was thought Coolidge would pgy his political degt to Henry Ford by leasing him Muscle Shoals, it was Weeks who brought in ,counter- bids from the subsidiaries of the Mor- gan General Electric company. Weeks also looked aftey, the inter- ests of Wall Street in Panama, at- tempting to lease concessions to New York firms. ‘ ¥ Charge New Mexican Revolt Being Cooked Up in Wall Street MEXICO CITY, July 6— Former Minister of Foreign Relations, Gen. Candido Aguilar, according to the evening Grafico, declares a new revo- lution is being prepared from the American sidé Of the“border against Mexico and states he was invited by agents of Wall street and’ other heavy financial interests to, participate. According to the Grafico} the report- ed revolution has unlimited funds and aims at securing for American finan- ciers concessions denied by the pres- ent Mexican laws. Cal Indorses English-German Scheme. BERLIN, Germany, July 5.—Presi- dent Coolidge’s approval of mutual covenants among European nations,” was hailed by German capitalists here as an indorsement of their “security pact” offer. i The German capitalists are en- deavoring to form an alliance with the English government against France, and thru the pact negotiations extend Germany's easterif frontier at Poland's expense. ; Prisons Terribly Overcrowded. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 5.—The federal government is completing a canvass of available space in penal institutions at which federal prison- ers can be contracted out, as all avail- able space in federal prisons is tak- en, A frightfully overcrowded condi- tion exists. Lay Looting to Americans, ROME, Italy, July 5.-@he looting of St. Peter's, the gr it Roman catholic edifice, is attributed to crooks with American training by fascist po- lice, Another new MK: an- other Communist. * F od D. C. Stephenson, There is. No Escape for / the Imperialist Bandits: Who Plunder the World By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the spokesmen of the imperialist bandits are awakening to a realization of the fact that “Moscow” is not to blame for the growing discontent in Asia, India, Persia, Northern Africa, Mexico and other restless spots over the globe. The New York Times, for instance, displays a little intelligence, when it grudgingly admits: “Chinese radicalism is not primarily the creation of Soviet or Com- munist International activity, Wherever political and social unrest manifests itself on a larger scale, the tendency is to call it Bolshevism. The late Sun Yat Sen may have been inspired, in part, by the Moscow example, byt Bolshevism at Canton and elsewhere in Southern China has arisen from native conditions and under native leadership, It is the same in Morocco...” The Times then goes on to argue that the “Soviet gov- ernment is the leader of the opposition’ in the family of nations,” and that all discontented nations, therefore, seek its support, until its period of discontent has passed, when they are again supposed to go anti-Soviet. It is urged that all that is necessary is to appease the nations that have taken to the warpath, It is pointed out that there are many ways to placate China, Morocco, Mexico and other lands into joining the capitalist fold, with Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of the successful Turkish revolution pointed out as a brilliant example for them all to follow. * ® . * In other words the imperialists would find international nostrums for satisfying the aches of subject peoples and op- pressed nations, much after the fashion in which they offer old age pensions, welfare plans and class-collaboration schemes to ease the pains of wage slavery at home. But all these “good intentions,” set forth in beautiful words, go by the board as imperialist oppression continues in action against its victims, * * e J The American armada tours the Pacific and Hawaii is to be made an “impregnable” fortress, certainly not to ease the burden of U. S. imperialism upon the Chinese. But rather to make the American position in the Orient preeminent among those of other imperialisms. That means, to become the most successful plunderer of the Chinese. No intelligent student of conditions in the United States will contend that the class war here is less bitter now than in the past. The growing strength of the Workers (Com- munist) Party testifies gevinely to the growing class con- sciousness of American labor. Capitalism will not surrender its position of exploiter of labor. No more will the workers capitulate in their fight to achieve the final overthrow of the capitalist class. . * e e The victory of. the workers and farmers of the Soviet Republics stands as an inspiration to American labor, as it does to oppressed toil jn all other lands. But the victory of the American Soviet Republic grows out of American cap- italist conditions, that today seek to hold wage labor in end- less slavery. The New York Times is one of the best cham- pions of that slavery. 8 @ @ " For more than a hangin corsioning imperialism has sought to improve its stranglehold on China, and other fields of exploitation. Chinese resistance in the past has been beaten down, But the power of the Chinese to fight their own battles is today greater than ever. That is the biggest fact that troubles the imperialist diplomats, as they ply their games of secret diplomacy in Washington, London, Paris and Tokio. ' - * - ° Calles, the “socialist,” in Mexico, and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, in Turkey, as two examples, may seek to make peace with the imperialist oppressors, may make war upon the Communists in their own countries. But the farmers demand the land, the workers demand the industries, in spite of such betrayals. They continue the fight to the final victory. * * * . The imperialists, according to the Times, are tr find the magic formula “for reconciling Chinese nationalist aspirations.” They have hunted long, like the alchemists who have tried down the ages to transmute baser metals into gold. There is, of course, no such formula. Imperialism stands before an international defeat, of which China offers but one front. Imperialism faces complete destruction be- fore onrushing Communism. There is no escape for it. Working Class Youth MOL nt ran_|| Rosin, Enel in ATTACK AND MURDER on NEW YORK, July 5—The Board of Education here was taken by surprise NOBLESVILLE, Indiana, July 5. tl formerly grand ing to SPEAKERS FLAY International Protest Against Exploitation : The Anti-Imperialist demonstration by an overwhelming number of pupils dragon of the ku klux klan, and a who made applications for eptry into the four vacation high schools opened for the summer months. Hundreds had to be turned away, Recommend- ations will be made to the next meet- ing of the board that more ‘schools be opened. The tremendous number who have applied, shows that boys and girls of the working class cannot afford vaca- tions, As one of the students put it: factory owner, and leading Indiana politician, will go on trial here Mon- day for the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer, 28, Stephenson, according to a death- bed confession of the girl, kept her prisoner in a hotel room over night, attacked her, and refused her medi- cal aid after she took poison. Rosenbaum’s Bogus Cooperative Brot Big Stock Crash The Dean, Onativia and Co, broker- “After a long winter term of study, the youths of the wealthy go off to resorts for vacations but we have to lrustle around for a job. Jobs during vacations are at best very poorly paid because of the competition of an army of students who are eager to take age concern failed with liabilities of|®"¥thing to help them thru their pe- over $35,000,000 because the company bought stock of the Grain ‘Marketing corporation. The firm was organized with capi- tal furnished by the Rosenbaum brothers, who also control the Rosen- baum Grain corporation. The Rosen- baum grain corporation formed, with the Armour Co., and other large con- cerns, a bogus “co-operat: the Grain Marketing Co., and tried to sell the farmers stock in this concern: The farmers did not buy, however, and the Rosenbaums were forced to buy back 45,000 shares which had been put on the market, thru the brokerage house. The capital of the brokerage firm wa sed in buying this stock, and th followed, ‘ riod of study. Summer schools offer an opportunity to complete our course sooner.” COMMUNIST ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT 1 HOLLAND CONTEST (Special to The Dally Worker) THE HAGUE, July 5—One Com- munist, Devisser, was elected to parliament, defeating the socialist candidate, in the Dutch elections. The government lost five seats but the present catholic premier is ex- pected to remain in power, ana military preparation. as at the fourth annual Communist pic- nic, held at Beyer’s Grove, California and Irving Bivd., July 4, was a real international affair, with a Chinese, an American Negro, a West African, and American Communists speaking. The speakers were James P, Cannon, Ella Reeve Bloor, C. T. Chi, H. V. Phillips, and a West African worker. James P. Cannon, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) .Party,, assur- ed the representatives of the oppress- ed peoples who were present that the Workers Party fully supported their fight for freedom from foreign imne- rialism. Communists Support Chinese, The Communists, Cannon said, real- ize that world imperialism will never e destroyed until not only the col- onial countries drive out their foreign oppressors, but until the workers of those countries seize power and set up workers’ and farmers’ govern- ments, In the fight of the Chinese workers to drive out the American capitalists, the American Communists are whole- heartedly with the Chinese workers and against American capitalism, Can- non said. The Soviet government and the-Communists of the entire world fully indorse the fight of the oppress- ed races and nationalities against im- perialism. Chinese Speaker, C. T, Chi, of the Chinese Students’ Alliance, who received an ovation, as did the other anti-imperialist speak- ers, related the history of the present fight of the Chinese workers to take possession of their own country and drive out the foreign troops, who are slaughtering Chimese for the foreign capitalists. “This fight of the Chinese workers is different from the Boxer war, or any other Chinese movement,” Chi said. “In this movement, the Chi- nese have intelligent leadership, they know what they want and they will fight on until they are victorious.” An International Struggle. “We Chinese are not only against imperialism in China, but we realize that the fight against imperialism is an international one,” Chi said. “We support the fight of the workers of India, Morocco, and all other oppress- ed peoples against imperialism.” *Ella Reeve Bloor, who has just ar- rived in Chicago from California, en- route on a coast to coast hitch-hiking tour for the DAILY WORKER, told of the widespread unemployment which prevails thruout the country. She told of the campaign of the Work- ers Party in Los Angeles which se- cured 26,000 votes, in the recent muni- cipal campaign. Unemployment. “In the western industrial cities,” said Comrade Bloor, “the open shop bosses deliberately created an unem- ployment menace as part of their un- ion smashing drive. They threw thou- sands out of work and then they said, ‘These men, if they wanted to work could go out on the farms and get jobs.’ “But when I got to Kansas, I found the roads choked with workers who couldn't get jobs on the farms be- cause there were too many of them, and because the Kansas harvest this year is a failure. The crops are very poor and thousands of farmers are penniless.” Comrade Bloor told of the Chinese workers she met in Denver and in San Francisco, who are supporting the fight against imperialism and who are friendly to the Soviet Union be- cause they realize that Russia is the only nation friendly to the oppressed peoples. Negroes Fight Bosses. H. V. Phillips, representative of the American Negro Labor Congress, spoke on behalf of the seventeen mil- lion Negroes in the United States. “I can assure you,” he said, that altho the Negroes are oppressed more than he most exploited white workers, -hat the Negroes are taking an ac- tive part in the fight against impe- rialism.” The race problem in America is fundamentally a class problem, Phil- lips said, and the Negroes are taking their places along side the white workers in the struggle against capi- talist exploitation. Africa Uniting. A worker from West Africa spoke, describing conditions in Africa, and declaring that all Africa is uniting against imperialism, and is watching the struggle of the Riffans against the French bankers with great sympathy. Several thousand people attended. There was dancing, games, sports and refreshments, Advocates Militarization, PROVIDENCE, R. L, July 5.—In & speech here, Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske declared that there will be an- other war, and advocated increased : ’ IMPERIALISM AT. ORKERS’ PICNIC. \ a