The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1925, Page 3

4 ii? : Page Fi TEXTILE BOSSES IN WORLDWIDE PAY CUT PACT International U nity of Workers Needed By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—(FP)—A speech by Jesse H. Metcalf, United States senator from Rhode Island and leading woolen manufacturer of that State before the Pawtucket Textile Exhibit is being interpreted by textile unionists as an early warning of the possibility of a great International federation of textile employers that will put up a united front against the workers, Metcalf urged a series of confer- ences between the textile employers of America and Great Britain for the purpose of “stabilizing the industry,” as he put it. Textile employers have been using the term stabilization freely in recent months and’ mean by that the standardization of wages and SOVIET UNION DEVELOPS AVIATION THE: DAILY: WORKER ‘ALLIES TRYING’ TO WIN GERMANY AGAINST RUSSIA Intrigues of Powers Mark Anti-Soviet Plot (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Sept. 13.—In’ Many quart: ers the speech of Austen Cham- berlain, British foreign minister, be- fore the league of nations’ assembly wherein he said, “Great Britain's sole object is to assure the moral disarm- ament of the world by a new spirit of fraternity between men,” is inter- preted as an attempt to smother the suggestion of Premier Painleve of France that the league should sum- mon a disarmament conference soon. Painleve's call for a disarmament conference to be sponsored by the league of nations, is looked on as a means whereby the French govern- ment hopes to dodge the Washington disarmament conference proposed by | Coolidge Afraid of Wall Street. |however, consists in that our policy CHINESE WORKERS MUST DRIVE | THE FOREIGN IMPERIALISTS OUT OF COUNTRY TO PROGRESS, SAYS RADEK MOSCOW, (Tass.)—It was by far not a usual after-dinner speech that was made by Soviet Ambassador Karakhan at the banquet given by Mr. Mochizuki, the eminent Kenseikai lead anes@ statesmen and public Pekin, er, to. a@ company of Chinese and Jap- men, diplomats,,and prominent journalists at rites Karl Radek in a special article, headed “Hitting the Mark,” in the Izvestia, commenting on “Karakhan's speech at Mochizuki’s luncheon party in thd Hotel de Pekin. It was fax, says the writer, from usual post-prandial orations, which 80 often remind ong of the closing sentence in peasants’ letters of the good old times: wish the same to you,” or the like The speech of the ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socixlist Republics cannot fail to meet with deep re- sponse from the popular ynasses both in the Soviet Union and China Source of Soviet Influayce. Nor will Messieurs, the imperialists, find it easy to pass over in sNence or conceal this speech, which is sych a fitting retort to the cry raised Xn the imperialistic press about Soviet propaganda as being at the root of revolutionary trouble in China. Indeed, said the ambassador of the U. S. S. R., the Soviet Republic has influence in China. This influence, towards the Chinese people is such as our deeds correspond to our words. “And jf our fault is our good policy, I “Tt am keeping quite well and+ speaks not to conceal, but to speak aut what he thinks.” Now, believes the writer, the repre- sentatives of foreign powers should, for their own sake, carefully think over what Karakhan laid down be- fore them. Only thirteen years ago, the Chinese scholar Ku Hun-ming, & conservative writer, wrote in his work on the history of the Oxford move- ment in China, published in Shanghal, that in a perfod of expansion and ¢}revolution which Europe and China are now going thru, when two cul- tuves are clashing; at a time when the social structure of a people ig in danger of being smashed like earthen- ware pots in an earthquake—at such a time men are suddenly faced by new facts; these facts, wrote the Chinese scholar, one must be able to correctly howra ‘snd: enmpieyaaant, a F take pride in confessing to our being | ¢*Plain; otherwise, not unlike the International Strikebreaking France js strenuously opposed. to guilty,” Kaxakhan had declared. Our Egyptian sphinx, they will wreck entering a second Washington confer-| gnomies, Radek goes on to say, will those who fail to understand, ruin- The woolen senator’s propaganda for further international unity in his industry is all the more significant, coming as it does on the heels of the joint action that employers’ took this summer on both sides of the water in their wage-cut notices. The woolen mills of New England posted notices for wage cuts taking effect July 27th and August 3rd, or approximately at the sate time as the wage cuts ad- vertised to go into effect in the Brad- ford woolen and worsted district of old England, July 25th. At that time this common action was denounced by union men and women as evidence of an international understanding be- tween their employers, This summer's effort to “stabilize” wages on lower levels was successful in nearly all the American mills but defeated in England by a strike of the workers. Should a genuine alliance | be formed between the woolen lords of the two nations such strike move- with the massed opposition of both sets of employers. World Unity of Workers Needed Metealf’s own bad labor record in- dicates that any unity of world em- Ployers he would be associated with would bear down on the workers’ wages and working conditions to the etxent he had influence. In Rhode Island he is known as the father of the two-loom system and in a small New York state town the workers in one of his mills are now on strike agajnst a 10 per cent cut. The Metcalf interests are in both wool and cotton and the senator was able to see the advantages of collusion between the cotton employers of the world as well as the woolen and wor- sted men. Last fall the cotton work- ers of New England lost 10 per cent of their meager income in a wage re- duction and late this summer the cot- ton workers in the great Bombay tex- tile district of India went on strike against an 111% per cent cut. are shown below the glider. They are (left to right); Sernow, Mechonoschin, chairman Russo aviation society; gee Arzeuloff, glider pioneer; and presen: Jungmeister, E Soviet government motorless planes, bullt for glider flying, have won laurels at encurance flight meets in Germany. The “Red Moscow,” shown above, one of the best types of Soviet gliders, is seen in flight. Leaders in Soviet aviation development, who have made the Union's air craft fleet the envy of many countries, endurance flight record holders; Husband. ers (Communist) Party, ———————m—K——Ke———_______, SOVIET UNION SENDS DELEGATION T0.U. $. PORTS CONVENTION MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 13. A delegation to the convention of the American Port Official’s Associa- tion, to take place in New York this month, will leave here within a few days. The delegation, which is headed SCHEDEL, WORKER DEPORTED FOR BEING COMMUNIST, FIGHTS AGAINST | SECOND RAILROADING BY COOLIDGE ments in the future might be faced (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Thruout the country workers are awaiting with interest disposition of the case of John ©, Schedel, deportation proceedings is now before Assistant Secretary of Labor W. W. Schedel’s case is a re-echo of the famous Palmer “red raids” of the war days which, were later exposed in their illegalities by Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor at that time. Schedel was arrested in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as a member of the Work- Immediately thereafter he was deported. “*five years that intervened he made whose plea for stay of a continuous effort to return to this country. After several attempts he succeeded in slipping over the Mexi- can bomder. -A week after he had rejoined his family at Fort Wayne he was arrested on a charge of illegal entry. Tpon being taken into custody again, the department of justice mov- ed to have him re-deported. This time, however, having in the mean- time slowed up on its “red raids” the justice department did not press the charge of radicalism against Schedel. Illegal entry only was charged. In the OLYMPIC SAILS WITH SCABS AID; MELBOURNE SEAMEN SCORN JAILS (Special to The Daily Worker) SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 13.—The Olympic, liner to sail ghert handed with a pickup crew of scabs smuggled aboard at Cow@ Road sailed at noon itedenit for New York City with 1,595 passéngérs. Ports in the United Kingdom are still crippled by the strike while South,.African corn shipments.are paralyzed by the seamen out at Gape Town. But the Union Castle line there has refused the government's request to defer the wage cut and arbitration of the Maritime Boardiy At Melbourne, after 62 seamen were sentenced to jail for “‘disobey- ing orders,” the erews of three other ships for which summons were is- sued but not served, marched to- gether to the city police headquart- ers demanding that they be imme- diately jailed een eles enraranee. \|rather than be forced by Wall Street the \s cond White Star >} ence because of her difficulties with her colonies and her shaky financial situation. France would be the weak- est power in such a parley, and pre- | fers to actin the league of nations | pressure to acknowledge herself a second rate power. Great Britain, by rejecting the Gen- eva protocol, killed an- earlier at- |tempt at a league of nations disarm- ament conference and Chamberlain | hinted he preferred to enter a Wash- ington conference. After the league assembly the “se- curity” pact conference of allied and German foreign ministers will be called in an attempt to form a united front against the Soviet Union. At the same time the German govern- ment will attempt to gain as favor- able terms as possible for her cap talists by trying to play French and English imperialism against each other. The allies are attempting to come to an agreement before the con- ference in order to forestall this. Socialist in Anti-Soviet Move. The “socialist” premier, Vander- : Velde, who is representing Belgium in the anti-Soviet negotiations, declared at a banquet here that the allies and .Germany should unite as they “need each other,” of course, in a concerted | written scores and scores of books | Heve us, for | whole-heartedly and sincerely helping naturally say tMat our influence is but the result of instigation, propa- ganda, promises. “But, of course, they thamselves are the last to believe it. Hava they not to show how diffidently the oriental people look upon the westerners? And in that they were right; all nations suffering from exploitation, oppres- sion and humiliation, acquires a psy- chology of distrust against aliens, for no good comes to them from such aliens. The modern history of China has been written with blood, bayonet and cudgel, and ‘if the Chinese peo- ple did not feel’ that our good words are followed by our good deeds and equal treatment they, naturally, would not believe ug. However, they do’ be- they see that we are the Chinese people in its aspirations for national freedom. Chinese Must Drive Out Imperialism. “And, again, if only our policy to- wards China were a selfish and im- perialistic one, it would be easy for representatives of the imperialists to find a common language with us and propose a repartition of booty. But what exactly makes it so dificult for the imperialists is the fact that we are not after anything for ourselves attack on the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union. The league of nations. assembly means nothing, as the league is the servant of the allied imperialists, es- pecially Britain, and will do nothing except obey the orders of these pow- ers, who are making every effort to enlist Germany in the anti-Soviet league of nations. American ambassador to London, Houghton, has left London for Baden- Baden, from where he is slated to go }to Lausanne where the allied and German ministers are to meet, and act as “unofficial obeserver” for the Morgan-Coolidge government. Hough- ton, who was one of the instigators of in China and, therefore, cannot be bribed. “In this lies the reason of all the in- fturiated attacks and all the threats against us. Threats which we are not in the least afraid of, trusting as we do:to the inevitable drift of the great river of history. “Passing from defense to attack,” writes the author of the Izvestia ar- ticle, “Karakhan fittingly rated the hy- pocritcal statements and advices of representatives of capitalistic powers to long-suffering China fighting for her rights, ‘first set your house in order, and then we will talk over our relations with you.’ How, indeed, can the Chinese set their house in ing their social order and culture. European and American capitalism is streaming to China where it seeks cheap labor and abundant resources of raw materials, Radek further sets forth. It destroys the old Chinese culture, which grew out of the end- less toil of the petty owner, a culture to which were alien deep social con- flicts; for China since long knew no big landowners, knew not the capital- istic inequality of our days, and so the Chines@ masses Tyee a ae oy peaceful life. Changes Wrought by Loictantin’ It is this peace and quiet that im- perialism hag now ruined. Imperial- ism created big capitalistie centers, where the Chinese workmen, whose standard of life is worse than that of any other human being in the world, sees with his own eyes a tremendous accumulation of riches. Capftalistic goods are ruining the product of the artisan’s labor and capitalistic bond- age has penetrated into the very depths of the Chinese countryside. The Chinese villages are today throw- ing out millions of unemployed in search of dafly earnings. And the Chinese youth seeking learning in Bu- rope and America got it and, strong with western science, they ask them- selves: “Why cannot China stand on her own feet, why can she not free herself from foreign capitalists?” It was under the rush of these new things that the Manchu dynasty fell after three hundred years of rule— that same dynasty which European capital saved in the Taiping rebellion and supported to the last, anxious as that capital was to have this screen so necessary for its domination in China. Even then we should have known the answer to the questions put to Burope by the Chinese revolution of 1911. Instead, the imperialists stub- bornly believed they could cope with the Chinese revolution. And, in fact, they did cope with it as long as it embraced the intellectual “tops” r r 7 7 ‘ order when they are not masters in Pots wae ers of lowering of | by Leonide Serebriakov, chief of the | _ Fort Wayne citizens, including the idea of enlisting Germany in the thelr ova Neues, where foreigners ba pres Thus, by granting a loan to rhe textile workers standards is al-| department of ports in the Soviet | Schedel’s present employer, hold, allied move against the Soviet, is now | what they will? Just as any organism | Yvan Shih-kaf, they succeeded in at- ready in effect. World alliance of tex- however, that inasmuch as he was un- taching a millstone to the neck of tile owners, at least as far as those of Great Britain and America is con- cerned may not be far ahead. World solidarity of the textile workers is something that Metcalf and his ilk may or may not be reckoning with but, which economic conditions are bringing to the fore as a subject to be considered. } es Independence For Filipinos, WASHINGTON, Congressman Kincheloe of Kentucky, democrat, re- turned from a visit to the Philippines with eight fellow workers who travel- ed 18,000 miles on a govrenment transport at bargain rates, believes that the United States cannot hold the Philippines against naval attack. Hence the Filipinos shéuld get their independence, And Hawaii should be heavily fortified. He says Gen, Wood is an imperialist. oy TALES FOR RKERS CHILDREN commissariat of transportation, was invited to attend by the association. The Soviet Union is also greatly interested in the coming wireless convention in the United States. The radio is used extensively in the Soviet Union for business and offi- cial messages. The Moscow station is one of the largest in the world, Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. AMTORG EXPORTS $10,000,000 IN justly deported in the first place re- deportation now would be gratuitious cruelty. might have been unjust is now ad- mitted by Assistant Secretary of La- bor Husband. Schedel’s wife’s mind was derang- ed for awhile as the result of his per- secution and two of their daughters | had to be placed in an orphanage, an- other child dying. Since then his wife has recovered. MACHINERY TO THE SOVIET UNION NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—During the first year of its activities, the Am- torg, a Soviet-American joint stock company, importing to the U. 8. S. R. all kinds of factory equipment, farming machinery, tractors, automobiles, various implements and so forth, while exporting from the U. S, S. R. furs, hides, bristles, gut casings, medicinal herbs, flax, hand made wares, and others, has exported machinery and implements for a sum of 10.5 million dollars, which constitutes 25 per cent of the total American import to Russia in 1913, One and a half million dollars’ worth of automobiles and tractors were bought from Ford and three million from the International Harvester Co. Furs hold the first place in the im- materials. A branch of the Amtorg is being opened in Vladivostok and agencies have been established in Argentina, Canada and Brazil. Steck-Brookhart Neck and Neck, dollars’ worth of farming machinery MOSCOW.—The demand for Soviet Russan matches grows abroad, An order was lately placed by England for 50,000 cases. Another order was received from America for 10,000 cas- es, Many orders are being received That Schedel’s deportation | | | UPPER N, Y, AS and Higher Wages NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 13.—(FP) —No shaves and haircuts are being given in the barber shops of upper Manhattan between 659th and 125th streets, nor any shines either, unless the boss barbers find’ time to do them themselves. The ‘wage earners are on strike at the call of the Journeymen Barbers’ Union an@ the bootblacks are out in sympathy. * The 12-hour da¥ is one of the de- mands of the strikers, They want a maximum workday of from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m, with one day off in seven and a half holiday on Sunday, and closing at 1 p. m. holidays, unless the holidays fall on Saturday*when work would stop at 3 p. mA flat $10 a week raise is demanded and 60 per cent of all customers’ spendings over $42. a Burlington railroad, continued to argue before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission here for a five per cent in- crease in railroad freight rates, The farmers of the northwest are op- posing the move. BARBERS STRIKE | Demand 12-Hour Day paiding the allies to come to an agree- | ment. Picketing a Crime in Palestine, LONDON, Sept. 13—A_ dispatch from a London Herald correspondent |to that paper tells of drastic persecu- tion methods employed against strik- ers in Paletsine. The dispatch tells of a strike in Haifa where ten mason |strikers, were arrested while on picket duty. They were given five-day terms in the “harshest prison in Palestine where they were put to work on road repairs just as ordinary criminals.” GERMAN KLAN FORMED BY FASCISTS WHO KILLED MANY WORKERS BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 13.— The Germans connected with the “Knights of the Fiery Cross,” the German edition of the ku klux klan led by the American pastor, Stroh- schein, were formerly jociated plicated in the murder of Lieut. Sand in September, 1923, Many other leaders of the klan here were leaders of monarchist re- vo and ders in the German fascist organizations. gets rid of an alien body which Im-| pedes its growth, so will the great | Chinese people free itself of what hampers its life. Capitalism Seeks Cheap Chinese Labor. “Tho the telegraph gives us no in- dication ag to how Karakhan’s speech was received by the esteemed repre- sentatives of the diplomatic corps, it is not difficult to imagine the hue and cry that will be raised anew by the imperialistic press about our ‘pro- paganda,.’ But, may we say with the French author, ‘tu l’as voulu, Georges Dandin!’ The imperialists should not have forced the Soviet representative to speak, for a Soviet representative NUMBER The Little this revolution. However, ten years elapsed; the re- volution was growing in scope—in oreadth and depth, and still the for- eign capitalists refused to believe it. Scores of books, written by sympa- thizing authors, warned about the awakening of the Chinese people, and yet the lords of the international ex- change still hoped that, by playing off |one military governor against another, they could, quench the world conflag- ration of the Chinese revolution, If you want to see the Com. munist movement grow—get a sub for the DATLY WORKER, THREE Red Library i with the “black” reichswehr, and ree + td port trade from Soviet Russia, Two | Match Factories Week instead of the 33 per cent over distinguished themselves by mur- Principles of Communism i and a half million dollars of furs hav- In Soviet Uni all $40 takings now given. dering workers, especially radicals. ing been imported to America in nine viet Union Klapperoth, chief of the organiza- By FREDERICK ENGELS, months. Then follow hides, medicinal Export to World; _*2!! 8:sses Seek Freight Boost. | tion in Germany, was a friend of the Translation by Max Bedacht, herbs beet-root seeds and other raw : C. EB. Spens, viee-president of the| notorious Lieut. Schulz and was im- iO every worker and especially © to every student of the labor movement this booklet should prove of extreme interest. It is the original draft of the Com- munist Manifesto—and the first American publication of this original exposition of Communist principles. With the historical notes included, it definitely estab- lishes the Little Red Library as carrying “important contribu- from the near Hastern countries, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Greece. 1,400,000 rubles’ worth maches were exported abroad in 1924- 1925; in 1913 the match exportation reached only 1,200,000 rubles, Three and a half million cases of WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Slight gains for Daniel F. Steck as the re- turns in the Iowa senatorial contest are checked and re-checked, were an- nounced by the official tabulators. Steck and Senator Smith W. Brook- hart are running so close that Col, B. MASLOW, GERMAN COMMUNIST DEPUTY, SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS PRISON FOR “TREASON”; ONLY OFFENSE WRITING matches were yearly produced in Rus- yr isin Cloth B. Thayer, in charge of the tabula-|sia before the war. From 1918 up BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 13.—The national court at Leipzig has con- tions to the literature * one sat overs tion, could not even say which candi-| to 1923 the production dropped to one | demned the Communist Deputy Maslow to four years imprisonment for “in- olutionary movement. date was in the lead. million cases. The output has shown a i a growth in 1924-1926, 3,100,01 ataen to peal tl "eae The court could show no connection with the uprising, but mérely took 4,000,000 cases in 1925-19: The U,| the position that didyiows articles in pamphicts and rr 5. 8. 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