The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1925, Page 4

# me N, nce tt RRS DPA HA eemmmmamaaNe THE DAILY, WORKER ———$___—— | 4 ' ‘ CAILLAUX’S TRIP TO WASHINGTON Suspects Plot Behind Debt Negotiations WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, — The busiest spot in Washington today was not the room where the French and American financial experts haggled over the problem of negotiating a settlement of the $4,000,000,000 war debt, but the British embassy. Spies trod on each other’s heels coming and going with information of secret meetings between semi-ob- scure French and American agents who talked cold turkey while Cail- laux and Mellon were getting rid of the usual polite piffle. The British ambassador is reported to have expressed anger when he was shown an excerpt from the reply of Andrew Mellon to the opening re- marks of Joseph Caillaux. Mellon paid: “We were glad to receive the help which France extended to us when we were fighting for our inde- pendence and we were eager to make some return in France’s own great need.” British agents see in this cryptic remark a hint that the U. S. govern- ment is willing to find an excuse for} letting France down easier than Brit- ain in the debt settlement. The rea- sons for this willingness can be sum- med under the heading of business and political, Dangerous Rival. America has leaped to the front as Britain’s most dangerous competition in the capitalist world and both pow- feers are checkmating each other even while they profess friendliness and ac- tually work in agreement in certain } parts of the world. Caifll@ux is not believed to have given up his idea| of a European continental bloc against | England, France’s historical enemy. | Never have the relations between} France and England been more strained than since the end of the/| world war. | The tentative proposals of M. Cail-| laux have been submitted in writing. | Neither the French nor the American commissioners would discuss them, The conference opened without any formalities. At a nod from Mellon, Caillaux rose and consumed about one minute and a half in his opening speech. Mellon’s reply took three- quarters of a minute, ending with the sentence that disturbed the British ambassador. Caiflaux’s plan is said to involve, first of all, the most liberal terms, both as to time of payment and in- terest rates, that the American con- gress will swallow, and secondly, the floating of a gigantic commercial loan to France in Wall Street that may run as high as $400,000,000 or even $500,000,000. France Needs Ready Cash. The one, according to French finan- cial opinion, is dependent upon the other. If France is to undertake the discharge of a debt of roundly $4,000,- 000,000, four times the indemnity paid by Franceat the close of the Franco- Prussian war of 1870, then France must have entree to private money markets in the United States ta ob- tain funds to consolidate her internal debt and bring osder out of the chaos into which her national~finance has fallen, thru her militaristic adven- tures, her plofS against Russia, her financing of Polish, Roumanian and Czecho-Slovak conspiracies, against the Soviet government and her Riffian and Syrian wars. Army and Navy Collectors, Caillaux hopes to have easy access to Wall Street just as soon as he can fund the debt. The government has advised Wall Street quite frankly that any European government that would not come across could;secure loans from the private bankers, but the army and navy would not back up the money barons in case the debtors de- faulted. The bankers took the hint and so did Caillaux. When Coolidge passes the word around that the army and navy will be ready to collect from | France in case of necessity, the bank- | ers will call in the French borrowers and over the cigars and champagne, the shekels will be passed. The grand total of the French debt, now at slightly more than $4,200,000,- 000, probably will be scaled down to about $3,400,000,000 by the time the negotiations are concluded, this be- ing accomplished by figuring the ac- RS \N Lee East Side English Branch, Cleveland Upholds Convention The East Side English Branch of Cleveland, Ohio, at its meeting Sept. 10 had two resolutions before it ex- pressing the opinion of the branch on the work of the National Conven- tion and the new Central Executive Committee. By a motion both of these were combined and reads as follows: “The East Side English Branch of Cleve- land, heartily endorses the statement of the Central Executive Committee as published in the DAILY WORKER of Sept. 5. | The decision of the Communist In- ternational which is the basis upon which the new Central Executive Committee was unanimously elected puts an end to all legitimate further controversy. We declare our earnest intention to vigorously support the Central Execu- tive Committee in its efforts to carry| out the many tasks ahead of us and to support with equal energy the poli- cies laid down for our party by the National Conventionn, Resolved: That we accept the de- cision of the Communist International and endorse fully all the actions of the histhkea FULL INFORMATION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS BEING HELD IN REORGANIZATION DRIVE Workers (Communist) Party membership meetings arranged in the party’s reorganization campaign with the speakers, assigned, are as follows: BOSTON—Sunday, Sept. 27, 7:30 p. m., at the Paine Memorial Hall, convention. We endorse the expuls- ion of Lore from the party and the removal of Askelli from the editorship of the Tyomies and pledge our fullest the right wing within our party. We greet the determined attitude taken by the convention on the Bolsheviza- | tion of our party and the recognition by the convention that the reorganiza. | tion of our party on a shop nuclei ba-| sis as a real advancement of our| party towards Communist maturity, | We pledge the ‘Central Executive Committe our fullest support and co-| operation in carrying out all decis- ions. | J. BRAHTIN, Secretary. That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. 11 Appleton St. hall, 66 E, Fourth St. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Friday, Sept. Miller St. Robert Minor. CLEVELAND, Ohio—Sunday, Sept. 27, 1 p. m. sharp, In Finnish Hall, 1303 W, 58th St. Israel Amter. DETROIT, Mich—Sunday, Sept. 27, 1:30 p. m., sharp, at the House of Robert Minor and Edgar Owens. ILL.—Wednesday, Oct. 7, the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin. CHICAGO, Ruthenberg and Martin Abern, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Sunday, Sept. 27, 1 p. m., Finnish Hall, 1317 J. Louis Engdahi and Clarence Hathaway. John J, Ballam and William Simons, An organization tour of the western districts is being planned by the Seattle, Portiand, Tacoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other party. centers of the west will arrange mass member- ship meetings to be addressed by a representative of the Centra! Executive Western Ave., North. NEW HAVEN, CONN.—Oct. 11. Central Executive Committee Committee. William W. Weinstone and Alexander Bittelman. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Friday, Sept. 25, 8 p. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, big J. Lovestone, Willlam Z, Foster and Charies Krumbein. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Saturday, Sept. 26, 6 p. m., at the Machinists’ co-operation in the struggle against | Temple, 13th and Spring Garden streets. William W. Weinstone. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Sunday, Oct. 4. REGARDING | J. J. Ballam and R. T. Sullivan, 25, 8 p. m..at the Labor Lyceum, 35 at the Northwest Hall. C. E. FRANCE EXPECTS BIG LOAN FROM U.S. COIN LORDS Caillaux Expected to Doublecross J. Bull (Special_to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Sept. 24—The open sug- gestion that a debt settlement with the United States will enable France to float another big loan in America was made here today with the arrival of Finance Minister Caillaux in Wash- ington to open debt funding negotia- tions. Most of the morning papers refrain- ed from comment on the debt situa- tion pending the publication of the American reaction to M. Caillaux’s funding plan, but there was an under current of enthysiasm in view of gre- ports that France was likely to re- ceive better terms than Great Britain in the conference at Washington. The Midi was most outspoken in connection with a new loan, declaring that “even if Caillaux does not show enthusiasm for a loan, certainly Am- erica manifestes a strong desire to loan us as much as $400,000,000.” A Costly Venture The Morocco campaign is drawing heavily on French resources and it was the need for touching up Wall Street for more money that compelled the French government to send its best financial ace to haggle with Sec- retary of the Treasurer Mellon. It is reported here that the Amer- ican government intends to give France better terms than England,| headquarters and volunteer his services, but will not.do so openly. It is also stated that an unofficial envoy of Coolidge had a conference with Cail- laux shortly before he made up his CLEVELAND MEMBERSHIP MEETING SUNDAY; OTHER PARTY MEETINGS CANCELED CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 24—The Cleveland membership meeting for the’ discussion of reorganization and the Bolshevization of our Party will be held on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 1p. m. sharp at the Finnish hall, 1303 58th St. Branches must can- cel all éther affairs and meetings and branch secretaries should ren- der full assitance in notifying their members that they must attend the membership meeting. Admission by membership card. quarter the poisoned dagger will come, paar Another Conference GENEVA, Sept. 24.—The league of nations assembly today approved the proposal of M. Loucheur of France for an international economic conference to be held under the auspices of the league. The United States and Germany will be invited to participate in the conference, The date of the conference will be fixed. by the league council meeting in Madrid in December. * other attempt of the international ex- ploiters to keep the robber system from going to pieces, *-* Still Another Parley [BANNED UTTERANCES OF BRITISH TOKIO POLICE START AMAZING WATCH ON RUSS Workers Threaten Rush to Get to Banquet (Continued from page 1) sians around with a wall of police, the police have arrested all Com- munist leaders, together with those Japanese labor leaders who had gone to Shimonoseki, to meet the Russians, These will be held in jail until after the Russians leave the country. The police engaged a room in the Imperial hotel opposite the rooms of the Russian labor leaders and watch all coming and going, while a cordon of police is thrown around the hotel to prevent demonstrations. The ex- cuse given by the police for these as- tonishing moves is that the Japanese fascisti threatens to attack the Rus- sians and the police are “guarding” the unionists from the land of Sov- iets. COMMUNIST BEING PRINTED FOR AMERICAN-WORKERS IN PAMPHLET (Continued from page 1) people’s wishes. You see the same thing in Turkey. “No Eastern country would tolerate as the British people have tolerated the humbug and nonsense from the governing classes; they have over- thrown them and established the peo- ple in power. Will Not Yield to Terrorism. “I for one will not yield to terror- ism,” declared Saklatvala in answer to a charge of Comunism in the house of commons, “I am going to carry on subversive propaganda, revolutionary propaganda, Communist, propaganda with the assistance of the Russians, and the Chinese and the Germaris and the British. I am not alone in that. The government has kept quiet about the great Indian railway strike. I put it quite definitely, that taking in comparison with any other country, you pay the most miserable wages, and give the most miserable condi- tions, and deprive the population, which works you and for the properi- ty of your great empire, of their rights and inflict on them political indignity and humilation worse than can be However, the police are “guarding” ) found in any part of Asia.” the visitors from their friends, also, and the workers turning out by thou- sands give good evidence of furnish- ing any protection needed against the fascists without the aid of the po- lice. Political Quarantine. Held in a sort of moveable police corral, the delegates are further threatened by the police with deport- ation if they “attempt to start any subversive thots.” Yet such action by the Russians is entirely unneces- sary so long as the police monopo- lize the generation of “subversive thinking” by their acts. The capitalist press rages against the Russians, claiming that their vis- it to China “fomented anti-foreign (anti-imperialist) disturbances.” “Dangerous Thots” Loose A crisis threatens the police con- trol tonight. The workers had en- gaged a restaurant for a banquet to the Russians, the police have forbid the banquet and the~workers threat- en to rush the police lines and hold the banquet anyhow: “Dangerous thots” forbidden by Japanese law, are clouding the bright sun of Japanese capitalism. BERLIN, Sept. 24.—The German cabinet, presided over by President. Hindenburg, today formally decided to accept the allied invitation to partici- pate in a conference‘of foreign minis- ters preparatory to\a general confer- ence for the negotiation of a security pact. The cabinet decided to send Chan- cellor Streseman and Dr. Luther as the German delegates. The support of the social-demoeratic party in put- ting over the pact was appreciated by Hindenburg. Indian Day Today. The white man’s, indebtedness to the American Indian will be discussed thruout the state of Illinois today, which is Indian Day, according to an Illinois legislative enactment in 1919. Celebration in Chicago will be spon- sored by the grand council fire of American Indians, an organization composed of Indians ‘and whites in- terested in the Indian race. Its mem- bership includes representatives of the following Indian tribes: Black- feet, Chippewa, Creek, Flathead, Mo- hawk, Omaha, Oneida, Ottawa, Se- This is an- minole, Seneca, Sioux, Ute and Win- nebago. HUSTLING FOR SIGNATURES FOR PETITIONS IS IMMEDIATE TASK FOR EVERY N. Y. PARTY MEMBER\"" "°° NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Every year before elections it. becomes neces- sary for our comrades to hustle out to get petitions signed to place the Communist ticket on the ballot. There is very little time left for the com- ing muncipal campaign and we must get started on this work immediately. The work of getting signatures must therefore, have precedence over all other work for the next few days. Every New York party member must report at once to section campaign to get in touch with the district of- fice about petitions is daily between 6 and 8 p. m., on Saturday between 12 noon and 5 p. m., Sunday 11 a. m. mind definitely to go to Washington. ; and 3 p, m. It is not believed that the canny The following are addresses and French politician would venture his | telephone connections of section head- political career on a failure in Wash; | quarters: ington, erued interest at the new rate to be agreed upon instead of the 5 per cent that the demand notes call for, The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? Committee at this meeting and will effort to come'to this meeting, and DETROIT PREPARING FOR MEETING ON REORGANIZATION OF PARTY The Detroit membership meeting, which is to discuss bolsheviza- tion and reorganization of the party, takes place Sunday, Sept. 27, 1:30 p. m., at the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin St. Robert Minor will be the representative of the Central Executive The members of the garty In the Detroit district must make every intensive work in reorganizing the party on the shop nuclei ba Downtown—Joe Cohen, 108 East Caillaux’s recent expressions of re-| 14th street; Yorkville, Jdmes Lustig, gard for British have caused conster-| 250 E. 81st street, Lenox 8307; Har- nation in Downing Street, The British |!°™, A- A. Harfield, 64 EB. 104th street; politicians felt reasonably secure while the finance minister was in open opposition to England's schemes, but now they do not know from id the disoussion, thus pr re themselves to start what | 10485 Lower Bronx, L. A. Baum, 443 St. Annes Avenue, 535 EB. 146 street, Mott Haven 2863; Upper Bronx, Belle Rob- bins; 1347 Boston Road, Kilpatrick ; Williamsburg, George Prim- off, 56 Manhattan avenue, Stagg 6112; Brownsville, J, Rubenstein, 1844 Pit- kin avenue. Institute of Criminology. MOSCOW, Sept, 24—An institute I} has been opened in Moscow for the study of criminology and criminals. The institute will study the causes and circumstances responsible for the devel if criminal inclinations, and the methods of social hygiene and prevention of crime. Attention will be given to , the study of individual The best and most certain time By Y. W. L, Pledges Support, The following ‘resolution has been unanimously adopted at the meeting of the Jewish Branch Y, W. L., Sept. 9, 1926. The Jewish Branch Y. W, L, of Cleveland wholeheartely indorses the decision of the»Communist Inter- national concerning the American party. This branch pledges to solid- ity its forces in support of the new Central Executive Committee of the party in carrying out the policies and decisions of the party. Resolved to send this resolution to the Central Executive Committee of the party and the National Executive Committee of the League. STELLA KAUFMAN, jecretary, Young Workers League, eJwish Branch, Cleveland, Ohio, 6 Free Tuition of Orphans. MOSCOW, Sept, 24—-Orphans and homeless children ‘will be given free admission to occupational and techni- cal schools in the forthcoming educa- criminals, tional esaihacinnae ul his subscription, EMPTY PROMISES ONLY HOPE HELD OUT TO PARENTS No School Board Mem- ber Shows Up at Meeting To date the moyes made by the board of education to help the par- ents of the Eugene Field school out of their difficulty has been a series of stalls. That was the concensus of opinion expressed by most of the parents attending the last parents’ meeting held at 6459 Sheridan Road. The suitable grounds promised by the school board have not been found. Not only that, but no representative of the school board showed up. This was the third meeting held by the parents and tho they were promised each time to be visited by a member of the board they were disappointed each time. Julius F. Smitenka, acting presi- dent of the board of education acted greatly concerned about their trouble when the parents called on him He is showing by his actions how con- cerned he really is, said one of the mothers. “He did mot even consider it important enough to attend our meeting to tell us how much he has The parents realize now that when Elizabeth Murphy, assistant superin- tendent told them that nothing would be done, she told the whole -truth tho she used no diplomacy. And so Protest meetings are being arranged in Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, San Francisco, Minnea- polis and other cities by the Workers Party to protest the extlusion of Saklatvala. A Chicago protest meeting will be held Monday evening, Sept. 28, at Norwest Hall, North and Western Aves., and conducted by the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League. William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League, and Hindu and Chinese speakers representing other organizations will speak. Admission free. Announce Meeting for Detroit. A protest meeting of the Detroit workers will be held Monday evening, Sept. 28, at the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin St. There will be speeches made in English, Chinese and Hindu by speakers representing various organizations. Big Demonstration in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 24—A united demonstration of six organiza- tions took place Monday at the initia- tive of the Workers (Communist) Party as a protest against the exclus- ion of Saklatvala by the state depart- ment at Washington... Thousands of workers jammed the narrow street just off Union Square where the meet- ing was held. The estimates of the capitalist press. range from 1,200 (New York Times) to 8,000 (Daily News) as the number of workers that rallied on only three days’ notice to voice their solidarity with the ex- cluded British Communist and de mand his admission into this country, Hail Defender of Workers. Resolutions hailing Saklatvala as the defender of the workers and op- pressed peoples of the British empire, denouncing international imperialism and branding the action of the state de- partment as the beginning of a new campaign against all but the most servile of the foreign-born workers, were unanimously adopted and every one of the ten speakers representing the six organizations that co-operated ‘was enthusiastically applauded. In addition to the Workers Party, the Civil Liberties Union, the Friends of Freedom for India, the Association for the Recognition of the Irish Re- public, the International Labor De- fense and the Young Workers League were represented by speakers. Socialists Absent. Norman Thomas, candidate for mayor on the socialist ticket was con- spicuous by his absence altho he was specifically invited, and his act of treachery in breaking labor's solidar- ity in its united demand for free en- trance of militant foreign-born work- ers Into the United States and against British and American imperialism, did J, Lewis Coath when at the meet-| 48 Scored by the chairman, William ing of the building and grounds he W. Weinstone, and branded by the Workers Party candidate for mayor leaned over and confidentially warn- ’ ed one of the parents “They are de-| Benjamin Gitlow, as “a rejecting of a termined to make you like it.” united front with the workers and the The meeting also voiced the par-| forming of a united front with Cool- ents’ objections to the building of a|{dge and Kellogg and every enemy of junior high school on the Eugene | freedom of speech for the workers in Field school grounds when they have | this country.” been waiting for an elementary school The assembled workers roared which has been promised them for the | their approval of an invitation on be- past 13 years. Representatives of Mayor Dever|to Saklatvala to visit half of the American working class the United who attended the meeting, helped the | States, when Saleindra N. Ghose, a board of education out by suggesting | Hindu, representing the Friends of that a resolution of protest be sent|Freedom for India, declared: to the board of education and that “If the working class of America no meeting be held until a reply is|demand the presence of Saklatvala in received from them. Thus the school| this country he will be here within board can also keep on stalling on|a month in spite of Mr. logg and this matter until the parents become |in spite of Secretary James J. Davis discouraged and give up. Tho some of the parents have sent of the department of labor.” Peter Golden, representative of the the older children to distant schools,| Association for the Recognition of they are forced to keep the smaller|th Irish Republic declared: “Saklat- ones at home. Co-Operators in Russia. LENINGRAD—There are 22,000,000 mmebers of co-operative societies thruout the world. members of co-operative societies in the Soviet Union is now beyond 30,000,000, Make your friend a friend of the DAILY a, Send in The number of vala was banned because this goy- ernment feared he would say some true but unkind things about that holy of holies, the British empire. ‘ Fear Communist. “Mussolini, who rules by assassina- tion would be admitted. ..1 did not know that the United States was So fragile a thing that it feared de- struction thru a series of speeches by Saklatvala. The state department is making itself an accomplice .of the enslavement pf Ireland and India \ COUNTER REVOLUTION RAISES FUND IN CHINA ‘70 OVERTHROW GANTON CANTON, China, Sept. 24,—Re- ports received here say that mer chants at Swatow, 225 miles north- east of Canton, have given General Cheng Kwing- Ming $10,000,000 with which to finance a military counter revolutionary attack on the Canton Kuomintang government. Swatow is in the hands of General Cheng. The strike and boycott against im- perialist business and trade conti- nues here, with the boycott on Hong Kong paralyzing trade at that port. Paci E ton tise Aor Griese S Scsone ean wea Mee pou Teng when it bars this fighter for the free- dom of all the oppressed nations of the world. Arthur G. Hays, who spoke on be- half of the Civil Liberties Union, was introduced by the chairman as one who had battled for freedom of ‘thot in Dayton, Tennessee as associate counsel with Darrow in the Scopés trial. He made a plea for “free speech” in general and charged the Workers Party with being interested only in free speech for itself. Git- low, who spoke shortly after him, took up the challenge and declared: “Yes, the Workers Party is¢not interested in free speech for the capitalists. What capitalist reactionary was ever excluded from our shores? What cap- italist was ever denied free speech? The master class owns all the ave- nues of thot, the press, the pulpit, the school, and owns the government be- sides which it uses to suppress the workers, exclude the foreign-born militants and deny the right to speak and organize the workers in this country, Trade Union Unity. The dominant note of William Z. Foster’s speech was “World Trade Union Unity.” “The American work- ing class is perhaps the most con- servative in the world,” he declared. “But only ten or fifteen years ago, the British workers were even more conservative. Now the empiré is cracking, it has lost its dominant po- sition, there is a permanent economic crisis, and the British working class sees that its only way out is to imitate the Russian working class. That is why it is turning from MacDonald and Henderson to Purcell and Cook and Saklatvala. That is why it is working for trade union unity, and that is why the Scarboro conference took great strides toward a conscious revolutionary position. The Ameri- can working class will yet follow the example of its British brethren.” Tay Lovestone spoke on the real theaning of the exclusion of Saklat- vala. He pointed out that rival im- perialisms will always bury their dif- ferences face to face with the work- ers and revolting oppressed peoples. That is why there is a united front of the British and American govern- | ments against the colonial and back- ward nations. Rally to C. I. “India is the greatest colonial na- tion. Its revolt is the symbol of the revolt of all subject peoples and Sak- latvala, Indian and Communist is the symbol of the union of tite revolu- tionary proletariat with the oppress- ed colonial and semi-colonial peoples in a united struggle under the leader- ship of the Communist International to overthrow imperialist capitalism. The answer to the united front of the British and American imperialist goy- ernments is a closer united front of the workers and suppressed nations of the world under the banner of the Communist = declared Re Jay Lovestone. |) Charles Krupibein pointed out the sigilificance of the Kellogg action and the department of labor statements as the beginning of a new war of de- Portations against the foreign-born workers and called upon his hearers to form United Councils of Foreign- born Workers to protect the militant foreign-born from this new attack.” Rebecca Grecht described the “In- dias and Irelands” of America to be found in the Philippines and Latin- | America, She pictured the rising tide of colonial revolt which, leagued with the revolutionary workers would secure freedom for all subject na- tions. Herbert Zam, on behalf of the Young Workers’ League, declared that the principal burden of fighti: militarism and the use of the pst enslave colonies or break stries, falls upon the working class youth. He pictured the heroic fight of Lib- Knecht against militarism and war and pledged the Young Workers’ . League to imitate his example. IMPORTANT MEETING OF PARTY INDUSTRIAL WORKERS ON MONDAY NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 24—A very important meeting of all lead- ing party members engaged in in- dustrial work has been called for Monday evening, Sept. 28, at 108 E, 14th St, at 8 p.m. Each indus- try and craft must be represented by at least one leading comrade, Serene (= ater, oe