The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1925, Page 2

Ei Page Two AGAINST BRITISH DELEGATES WHO FAVOR BAN ON SAKLATVALA (Special to The NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—As Dally Worker) the steamship Caronia bearing some of the British delegation entered the Cunard pier a demon- stration of New York workers demanding the admittance of Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist member of the British house of commons, greeted the arch-reactionary Col. Woodcock. Police reserves were on hand*and began to club the demon- strators, who carried banners denouncing the cowardly stand of the British delegation in not demanding the admittance of the British Communist delegate to congress to be held in Wash-* ington, D, C., October 7.. As Col. Woodcock, Sir Park Goff and other members of the British delegation came down the gangplank, the demonstrating workers surged for- ‘ad ward to meet them with banners de- nouncing their reactionary stand Mounted police then rode down upon the crowd that had gathered-iu their attempt to break up the demonstra tion. The British delegates were quickly escorted by the police to a waiting automobile which hurriedly left the dock. se Another New York Meeting NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—A united demonstration protesting the ex- ion of Shapurji Saklatvala, Com- munist member of the British house of commons, the arrest of 100 Com munists in Budapest, Hungary and the « threatened execution of Mathias Ra- koski will take place at Union Square, Monday, October 6, at 6 p. m., under the auspices of the International La- bor Defense Council. The Workers Party will also participate. “ee the: interparliamentary union BOB LA FOLLETTE, JR., TAKES SENATE SEAT; 130,000 MAJORITY MILWAUKEE, Sept. 30—Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., was overwhelmingly elected to fill his father’s vacant seat in the senate in the Wisconsin election. Young LaFoilette was elect- ed by 130,000 majority and beat his opponent, Dithmar, supported by Coolidge republicans, in,every coun- ty in the state save one. \ Warren Workers Protest WARREN, Oftio, Sept. 30,—The workers of Warren, Ohio, will raise their voices in protesting against the exclusion of Shapurji Saklatvala from the United States at the Hippodrome Hall, (8rd floor), Sunday, October 4, at 2 p.m. This protest meeting has been arranged by the Protest Com- mittee in Behalf of Saklatvala. ‘ee Civil Liberties Protest | NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—In a speech | made by Elizabeth Curley Flynn at the Town Hall meeting of the Amer- jean Civil Liberties Union held as a protest against the exclusion of Sha- purji Saklatvala, Communist member of the British house of commons, she declared the willingness of the Am- erican Civil Liberties Union to assist Saklatvala ‘in his fight if he decides a ’ to enter America. On behalf of the i 5 Civil Liberties Union, she said that every possiblé means of assistance would be given the Hindu Communist if he desired to fight the decision of Secretary of State Kellogg. Frank P. Walsh said that the denial | of admittance to Saklatvala was a “hypocrital, sneaking effort to carry out the policy of the British empire.” ~ He called the exclusion an assault on American traditions in behalf of the greatest criminal organization in the world—the British empire, which is built upon the murder of innocent women and terrorism, Centuries ago Britain could support herself, but now she has to obtain markets for her goods. The white man’s burden is a myth, In India, Egypt, Ireland and elsewhere, murders take place to as- sure a market for British goods, The British empire is tottering. ‘The bal- ance of power is against her. The value of her money has gone down. Two per cent of all'the males in Brit- ain are living on doles. Ten per cent of all the people in Britain are now living in poverty. Russia Gets American Cotton, MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Sept. :30.— Practically the only raw “material Russia purchases from abroad is cot- ton. Purchases of American cotton have been arranged thru New York banks on credit and shipments. are being received in Russian ports. Countries Supported by U. §S, Compete, MOSCOW, U. S. S, R., Sept. 30.— The transactions following the auto transportation contests in which many countries participated, ineluding America, bring out a peculiar fact of international financial relations re- garding America. .The American auto companies refused to grant credit to Russia and consequently sold very few cars, Other countries granting credit sold many cars to the various Russian state trusts. It is pointed out that the very countries who advanced credit to Russia are themselves be- ing supported by loans from the U. S. No Hope For S-51 Crew WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—All hope of recovering any of the members of the crew of the S-51 alive was given up here by naval officials following receipt a report from the scene of the disaster. “THE DAILY WORKER WAR MEMOIRS — SS ee WORKERS DEMONSTRATE AT PIER | French Suspicious’ of New Flotation; Internal Loan Fails PARIS, Sept. 30.—The French treas- ury was forced to postpone the clos- ing time of the present internal loan being floated among the population, The interest is lower than on previous internal loans and the peasants, who are the biggest investors look with suspicion on it in view of heavy losses on previous government ven- tures, The government expected to obtain $1,500,000,000, but succeeded in get- ting only $300,000,000. This internal credit collapse is not expected to have a very healthy effect on France’s efforts to secure terms abroad, ASSASSIN STORY CIRCULATED 0 BULLY WORKERS “Plot” Against King to} Intimidate Congress LONDON, Sept. 30.—The so-called “plot” to assassinate King George be- ing played up by the press and laid to the door of Communists, is looked upon in working class circles here as amounting to a plot on the part of the government to influence, the dele- gates to the labor party conference in Liverpool! whose decision is being made whether to allow the Commun- ists to enter the labor party. The tories are. greatly concerned over the “swing to the left” now be- ing performed by the workers of Britain and is very much frightened about the resolution against imperial- ism passed by the Scarborough Trades Union Congress. Very few are fooled by the story, everyone having a dis- tinct recollection of several “Zinoviev letters” similarly played up. The plot is so obviously a publicity stunt that even Sir Joynsom Hicks, the reactionary home minister, “hesitates to accuse the Communists of com- Plicity, and as much as says he doubts Scotland Yard” and the London Times’ story that Communisj agents are be- ing sent from Berlin and Moscow to assassinate the king. The question fs being asked: ‘“‘What difference does King George make?” Litidegrad Workers 1) Welcome Hungarian ur) Emigres to Russia er . LENINGRAD, (By Mail.) — The steanie? Preussen brot twenty-three Hungarian emigres and their families to ‘Leningrad on August 25, Repre- sentatives of the Communist Party of Russia and the International Red Aid welcomed them to Soviet Russia. All of the comrades had been sen- tenced from 12 years to life in Hun- garian prisons with the exception of one'who was sentenced to five. After they have seen Leningrad, they are to go to Moscow, where the International Red Aid has arranged quarters for them and their families. OTA OF LORD GREY ARE REVEALING Pres. Wilson Decided for Allies in 1916 NEW YORK, Sept. 30. — Viscount Grey, foreign minister In Premier Asquith’s war cakinet,.has just pub- lished his memoirs in’ which he de- clares that President: Wilson, ‘as eatly as 1916 had decided to join the war on the side of the allies. Lord Grey writes that in February of 1916, Col. E, M. House, the presi- dent's confidential, spokesman, sub- mitted a memorandum ‘to Lord Grey, later approved by Wilson, which pledged America’s support to the allies. Lord Grey also ,“absolves the kaiser of guilt for beginhing the war.” He said Europe was an armed camp and war was inevitable in 1914. The same thing, he observes, is true today. It will be recalled that pre-war documents gleaned from various European archives held Lord Grey as responsible for the war as anyone. FRENCH CLIQUE AND AMERICAN BANKERS AGREE Dispute Only Interest _ Terms Now WASHINGTON, Sept, 30.—Finance Minister Caillaux of the French debt commission meeting in Washington has agreed to pay thepsum demanded by the American bankers.'’ In his des- peration as to the terms of the pay- ments, he threatened to quit the par- ley. This attempt is looked upon by all as an attempt to bargain with Aemrican capitalists for more lenient terms and is not taken seriously. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon insists upon American bankers get- ting the same consideration from French jmperialists that England re- ceived. France claims she cannot ac- cede to the demands of the American capitalists. Increase Offer Caillaux now offers the American commission $30,000,000 a year to start with and $100,000,000 annually after thestwentieth enh He also de- mands a safety clause the pact by means of which negotiations can be reopened to cut the annual sum in case of a crisis in France. The representative of the Amer- erican bankers, Méllon, demands $40,- 000,000 annually for the first five years and $130,000,000'"annually for the next sixty-two years. Many’ political observers around Washington realize that a failure of French capitalism to gét satisfactory terms at Washington will mean a fail- ure in floating the French:government loan*now being attempted by Wall Street bankers. Failure to get money will mean the end of imperialist policy for France. She is badly in care of the need of finances to take, gigantic expenditures on ‘the military campaigns she is making in-Morocco oe Hatching 3 TODAY: flocks of bourgeois statesmen, including 17 foreign By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Conferences ministers, three prime ministers and a score of pleni- potentiaries, wing their way back to their capitalist home- lands, following the adjournment of the sixth assembly of the league of nations. These capitalist birds of prey, who have kept warm the “Blatk Capitalist International” in the friendly atmosphere of Geneva, Switzerland, have scored their usual successes. They have hatched out three more conferences, or material- ly advanced the hatching process, as follows: FIRST:—It has brought about an agreement’ on the conditions under which a disarmament conference can be held and has ordered technical preparation to be made for such a conference. SECOND;—It has agreed that a conference to study the economic maladies of the world which might lead to war should be held, and has ordered the council to make an essential study for such a conference. THIRD:—lIt has ordered commencement of the preliminary work essential to .a conference for the control of the private manufacture of arms, * ° But while the disarmament joke was being seriously considered at Geneva, the greatest British military maneu- vers since 1913 were being held, on Englsih soil, “culminat- ing with the successful defense of London.” Counterparts of these British war preparations are going on in every capitalist country, while in the of air warfare is the biggest i tapha Kemal Pasha, head of United States the question lece of kept press news. Mus- New Turkey, in stating his position on the failure of the league of nations to settle the morale is excellent.” Mosul oil dispute, declared, “Our army is ready and its Even imperialist nations are not unwilling that inves- tigations be made into economic maladies that lead to war. Such investigations, when made by defenders of capitalist economics, are never dangerous to capitalist rule. Informa- tion that might enlighten the workers, and educate them as to the real causes of war, can easily be suppressed or clever- ly soft-pedalled. . Labor can get real information about the economic maladies leading to war by reading the DAILY WORKER and other Communist ‘literature. of nations has not yet ordered an’ investigation. But the league It “has merely ordered an investigation of the. advisibility of making such an investigation. * an) The-private manufacture of:arms is a question of keen interest to the great capitalist’ nations. If they do not + manufacture all arms and munitions themselves, they are at least anxious to control it. Arm$‘in the hands of oppressed workers and farmers, or subject péoples, is a dangerous pro- position. British and French imperialists are very much worried about the arms sent to the Riffians,.to the Chinese and to the Syrians who are in open war against them. They feel it an ‘invaluable aid to them: if they can place an em- bargo on munitions going to these discontented peoples. The solution offered is “the control of the private manufac- ture of arms.” Upon this issue they will get busy. » * ” But not one of these conferences will bring peace to Europe and the world, nor sol¥eany of the contradictions Beaurivage and Monopole, will lead to another war just and Syria. The viewpoint of observ- ers is that Caillaux will not be allow- ed to quit, but that the American bankers will meet the French com- mission half way in order to make France safe for the capitalist class. see Bankers’ Servants in Confab. WASHINGTON, D. ©., Sept. 30.— Since the declaration“of the French imperialist financial commission to bolt from the debt negotiations, Presi- dent Coolidge has summoned a num- ber of republican party leaders into a conference. a Curtis, the republicati party leader in congress, was met by a delegation of the French imperialists with a view to arranging more lenient terms. He then went to the banker satellite, Coolidge at the White House and had a conference on the debt megotiations. William E. Borah, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, was then called into a secret meeting in the White House,:The results of these conferences are: undoubtedly forerunners of the capitalist lackeys at Washington for theracceptance of the new offer made by)@aillaux in the desperate attempt te get another lease of life for impefialist France. A German Government “e t PersecutionGoes on in Spite of Amnesty BERLIN, Sept, 30.—In spite of the amnesty that the German working class forced the government to grant several hundred workers that thad been jailed, persecution of yorkers in Germany still continues. During the month of August, 25 trial took place resulting in 36 work- ‘ers getting a total ‘of 38 years of penal servitude, 6 yeats and 9 months of fortress, 30 yearsfand 11 months of prison, two 380 mark fines and 18 years loss of civil rights, Legal proceedings»were also start- ed against 155 workgrs, Ten revolu- ‘onary workers were arrested and are held in jai 9m Rule : India”’ + Delivered in the House of Commons July 9, 1925 and quoted by Kellogg as the reason for barring him from the United States, READ!..DISTRIBUTE American Imperialism aids British Imperialism by keeping out the man who made this attack. Shapurji Saklatvala You can bring into the hands of every worker this brilliant exposure of Imperialist oppression. READY NOW! PRICE—Single copies, 10c each 25 copies, 8c each 100 copies or more, 5c each DAILY WORKER * PUBLISHING COMPANY - \ 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. Chicago - ILL. 16 pages with cover photograph of the speaker in action. Turk Communists Get Long Jail Terms at Provocateur’s Behest ANGORA, Turkey, Sept. 30, — The Turkish bourgeoisie is carrying.on an unrelenting struggle against the Com- munists of Turkey. In a trial of 16 Communists before the court of inde- pendence at Angora, prison sentences of 7, 10 and 15 years were passed. Those convicted had been charged with the publication of a May Day leaflet, and for co-operation with the commission for the elaboration of la- bor legislation of the Workers’ As- sociation. Try to Corrupt Workers. The Turkish bourgeoisie is attempt- ing to corrupt the workers’ movement in Turkey at fts start. The ruling People’s Party, following the style of the ‘ezarist agent, Subatov, who, un- der the czarist instructoins, formed “workers’ organizations,” has started to do the same stunt. The chairman of the People’s Party in Constantin- ople is a member of the Workers’ As- sociation and also a spy in the gov- ernment service. Every Communist spotted in the Workers’ Association is pointed out to the government and immediately arrested. In the trial of the 16 Communists he played an important part. Every attempt possible is made by the Peo- ple’s Party to clean out the radical elements from the Workers’ Associa- tion by jailing them and thus make it & movement where government spies can control it and use it as @ weapon against the struggles of radical work- ers. Suppress Communist Papers, Following a general strike which occurred in the latter part of 1924, nfimerous arrests took place, and printing of all Communist papers was prohibited by the ruling People’s Party government. - Night Air Mail in Europe . STOCKHOLM, Sept. 30.—The , In- ternational air conference sitting here proposes a European night atr mail service similaY to that between New York and Chieago to connect the tm- portant countries of the continent, ; ) within the capitalist social systerp. serve to aggravate them. Which, prompts one observer at Geneva to report that it wasn't: what was done in the open sessigns of the league that counted, bu what was accom- plished in the secret gatherings'held behind. closed doors between the capitalist diplomats’ *in the hotels Bergues, But secret diplomacy here only lived up to its old pre-war traditions, hatching those alliances and building those blocs among the “imperialist nations that In fact, they will only as surely as the last world conflict broke on August 4, 1914... White Terror Victims, ‘WARSAW, Sept. 30—Comrades Hit- ler, Knieveky and Rytkovsky were ex- ecuted by the Polish reaction for their stand in the struggle of the workers against the landowners and capital- ists of Poland. Soldiers of the 30th infantry regiment carried out the or- ders of the Polish white terror. 2 too, want to be free, AND FREEDOM. WORKER EVERYWHERE, THE EVERYWHE ERS OF CHINA, DO IT Vy ogeolely HELP CHINA! In all the principal cities of China today; the workers are revolt against their oppressors, feeling the breath of freedom comes to them from the workers’ government of Soviet Russia, they “‘Thé ‘iron hand of international imperialism is, pressing harder and harder upon their throats in an effort to starve them and keep them fn submission, abject slavery and servitude, The success of international capitalism spells s tion, imprisonment and death for the workers of ail Don’t Let Them Starve THE CHINESE WORKERS ARE WAGING A BATTLE FOR LIFE r \ ’ THEIR VICTORY WILL BE OUR VICTORY. A LIBERATED CHINESE WORKER, MEANS, A LIBERATE THEY NEED OUR HELP—MORALLY AND FINANCIALLY. | WE MUST RALLY TO THEIR SUPPORT AND HELP PEMD M. ( IN RUSSIA, ENGLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, — THE WORKERS ARE SUPPORTING THE WORK- SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION TODAY, BIG OR LITTLE, To THE * INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID { ' American Section Workers’ International Relief’ -. 1553 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. formerly 19 So, Lincoln Street League of Nations Has Again Adjourned After WEST VIRGINIA MINE FIELDS A SCENE OF WAR Strikers Depending on Weak Leadership (Special to The Daily Worker) FAIRMONT, W. Va. Sept, 30-—Die- pute still rages whether the 5,000 non-union miners called upon to strike by Van Bittner, in charge of the cam- paign of the United Mine Workers in Northern West Virginia, will anewer the strike call. ‘ Meanwhile, the strike which began in April is still on, with the rank and file of miners making heroic efforts to hold out against the bitterest hard- ships and persecution. Union officials place the number on strike at 18,000. Bitter Class War. Twelve hundred families have been evicted and are living in rude bar- racks erected by the union. A state of unofficial martial law prevails. The mines are guarded by thugs of the Baldwin-Feltz type with rifles: and shot guns, machine guns and hand grenades, Barbed wire stockades have been erected around mine properties. The houses in which scabs live are bathed in a glare of lights every night. And then there are injunctions, injunctions galore, Federal and state courts are turn: ing out injunctions every day. Forty- one injunctions were served on John L. Lewis and other leaders Saturday, but the picketing rank and file do the going to jail. Marion county had to handle 180 pickets arrested in one demonstration and ninety union men and women, some mere children, are in jail for violation of injunctions. Great meetings of strikers were held here and in thirty other camps within seventy-five miles radius of this city on Saturday. Here women carried infants in their arms and bare- foot boys clung to their skirts as they marched up Main street to the old fair grounds. The parade was led by a group of 100 miners who had served in the world war, bearing banners “They can evict us from our homes, but they can’t enslave us,” ete. Chil- dren bore ‘banners, “We are proud of our union daddies,” Wives carried banners, “Our husbands are honest-to- god union men.” Lewis Looke to “Public Opinion.” The demonstrations are aimed at the Consolidation Coal company, the Bethlehem Mines Corporation, the Hutchinson Coal company, the Bertha Consumers Coal company, ‘the Pitts- burg and Cleveland Coal company and others. Lewis, in his speech, said that the Bethlehem company had agreements mnsylvania, which it lived up to, not explaining why he should not have ordered those mines struck, however. He replied upon “public opinion” and a new spirit among the operators which would in- guee them to keep the Baltimore agreement they have violated. Injunctions Good “Moral Influence.” The Baltimore agreement, Lewis contends, was made with the “oo-op- eration of high government. officials and he hoped that the moral influ- ence of those same officials would be utilized to see that peace was main- tained in the industry,” This, while all around him were the signs of grim war, armed men, search- lights sweeping the roads and camps, barbed wire barricades, and the fed- eral judges of the same capitalist gov- ‘ernment to whose “moral/ influence” he recommends the cause of the strik- ers, issued injunctions in job lots and throwing men, women and children in jail. Some miners are heard to say that this is the way to lose a strike, not to win it, . in at exploita- tries, NOW!