The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1925, Page 5

HARRIMAN MLL ‘BUILD SOVIET MANGANESE MINE Agrees to o Export 16 Million Tons MOSCOW, (By Mail.)—According to the following interesting details, now made public, the concession ag- reement signed between the Soviet government and the business firm of Harriman and company provides for transferring to the latter firm for.a period of 20 years the exclusive right to prospect, work and exploit the Chi- aturi deposits and to export manga-| mn and mangariese peroxide from these deposits, which are located in Sharopan county, Kutale provinee, in Transcaucasia. The concessionary firm is also ac corded the right to make use of the land, forests and waters throughout the territofy 6f the Soviet Union for the requiréinents of the concession under the general regulations in ac- cordance with the prevailing laws of the Union of Soviet Soctalist Repub- lies. The concessionary is exempted from the payment of all taxes and as- sessenents with the exception of miner duties (license,, stamp court fees and others) as stipulated in the agreement. The concessionary receives the privilege of importing from abroad articles and chines needed for the equipment and exploitation of the con- cession enterprise, such equipment to be importable duty-free during the first four years of the concession period, while articles now produced in the Soviet Union and patented ab- road shall be importable duty-free dur- ing the course of five years from the date the concession is signed. The government retains within the concession region a sector contain- ing ore reserves amounting to 15,000 000 tons, which it has the right to work for domestic requirements. In addition to this, throughout the con- cession period the government has the privilege of obtaining from the concessionary firm at cost price the quantity of manganese requisite for the industries of the U. 8. 8. R. Modern Equipment, The convessionary engages himself to construct and exploit the conces- sion enterprise in accordance with the latest teéhnical achievements. In particular the concessionary firm is obliged to build new ore washing Plants and to mechanize the delivery of ore from the mines to these plants within the first three and a half years, and to erect mechanical load- ing equipment (an elevator) with an annual loading ¢apatity of 2,000,000 tons at the port of Poti before the end of the fifth yéar. Within the same terms of years the concessionary has to convert the Chiaturi narrow gatige. branch rail- road into a broad gauge line*so that the freight capacity of the branch in question may correspond with the loading installation at Poti. The con- cessionary is also bound to provide with additional equipment the rail- CANADIAN PARTY CON CONVENTION REPORTS BIG TASKS AHEAD The proceedings of the fourth national conventiofi of the Communist Party of Canada held in Toronto on Sept, 11-13, indicate that slow but unquestionable progress is being made by the Canadian party towards development of its influence among the Canadian workers, The outstanding features in the Canadian situation for the past year were teported as: A continued decline in the trade union movement of Canada, the liquidation of the acute agfanian and industrial crisis of 1920- 1928, increasing penetration of Amer: ical imperialism and open shop drives accompanied by expropriation of thousands of mértgaged farmers. Industrial Report. Comrade Tim Buck, reporting on in- dusttial work, pointed out that 50 per cent of the local trade unions had sup- ported the amalgamation program and other moves of the party but that the bureucratic officialdom stepped drast- ically in whenever any organizational measufes were proposed, _ , The convention laid definite plans for the immediate reorganization of the party on the basis. of, factory nuclei and set up an agitprop depart- ment to Bolshevize .the, membership thru an intensive campaign. of. Marx- ist-Leninist education... ,, Politioal Resolution. The immediate demands. of the party formulated in its political reso- lution are, the establishment of state unemployment insurance, maximum eight-hour day and five-day week, a national minimum wage of $26 per week, the repeal of anti-labor legisla- tion, abolition of the use of troops in industrial disputes and full ‘recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, Labor Party, On the Canadian labor party the political resolution says. ‘The estab- lishment of a mass labor party in this country id an imperative necessity. The Communist Party of Canada will do everything in its power for the up- building of the Canadian labor party and will, within that party, advocate the linking up of the provincial sec- tions into a country-wide party.” A hational executive committee of thirteen was elected including Com- way sector from Chiaturi to the port of Poti, in order to increase.its traf- fic capacity. The concessionary firm is obliged to expend not less than $4,000,000 on the equipment work mentioned above, not less than $1,000,000 of this total to be spent on the constriction of the port loading elevator, $2,000,000 on the branch railroad, and not less than $1,000,000 on the equipment of the Washing plants at Chiaturi. Soviet Controls Railway. As soon as its re-equipment is com- pleted, the Chiaturi railway branch passes into the control of the peo- ple’s commissariat for transports, which will move the concessionary’s freight with special locomotives and rolling stock supplied for this, pur- pose by the concessionary. The tech- nical specifications for the construc. tion of the railway and.the loading equipment at Poti are appended to the agreement, in connection with which the people’s commissariat for transports is given the right. to. su- pervise the building operations, The freight rates to be charged, for car- rying the concessionary’s freight, be- fore as well as after the branch is rebuilt, are stipulated in detail in the agreement. * The concessionary guarantees to ex- port not less than 16,000,000 tons of Chiaturi manganese and manganese peroxide during the term of the’ con- cession agreement, annual minimum exports being fixed for each year according to a definite sliding scale: Apart from this, ‘the agreemetit’ sets a minimum yearly production pro- gram, in conformity with whiet® the concessionary is obliged to” ptédiice 300,000 tons during the ce Year, 400,000 tons the second year,"480;000 tons the third year, and HOt’ lé48 ‘than 500,000 tons during each Sageonding year, ta In return for the concession; the holding firm is to make the following payments to the government sin jac- cordance with a system elaborated in detail in the agreement: For .man- @anese, $3 on each ton exported ‘dur- ing the first three years, and $4 on ~ ASIMPLE MORNING FROCK (7 4955. 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The e order. ‘3 ae tt pH stock fest the a ry tear your pattern is take 8 a Toast 10 ¥ASHION BOOK NOTICE! yprtoreate Balt ang Winton, Shea, nae sino some, pointe the Re: aneots ie) al Tivcshte inet tote ine F Your, neighbor will asistadinse copy of ALLY WORK trades Buck, Spector, McDonald, Cus- tance, Bruce and Moriarty. each ton exported thereafter; for manganese peroxide $8 on each ton exported during the first three years, and $9 on each ton exported during subsequent yeats. The quantity of manganese peroxide exported may not be less than 4 per cent of the man- ganese shipments. Soviet Labor Laws Applied In addition to this, the concession- ary firm is to make a payment of 2 rubles per hectare on the sectors allot- ted to it for exploitation, and 100 rubles per heotare on the area turned over to it for building purposes. In labor matters the concessionary firm submits to the general legislation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics. The agreement also provides that the government shall’ participate in the profits of the: contessionary firm to the extend of 50 per cent if the price of manganese rises above the fixed sum, in conjunction with which the concessionary mitst keep special sales accounts. The concessionary must deposit a security of $1,000,000 in a foreign bank within three weeks after the agreement is signed and $1,0000,000 in the state bank of the U, 8. 8, R. with- in five days after the dissolution of the “Chemo” (Chiaturi Manganese Export company) as an advance on account of future payments, Disputed questions between the gov- ernment and the concessionary firm concerning the interpretation of the contract in whole or in separate clauses, are to be adjudicated by a court of arbitration consisting of one representative of the Soviet govern- ment and one of the concessionary, who select an umpire by mutual agreement, If no agreement is reached concerning an umpire, the government is to name six candidates from among the professors of the Sorbonne Uni- versity in Paris or of the University of Oslo and the concessionary is to choose one of these, as umpire. Nomads Flee Before Violent on Mount nt Algoz. Sask MOSCOW, U. S. 8: R., Oct. 1—A violent earthquake, accompanied by continuous rumblings, took place on the summit of Mount Algoz, in the government of Erivan, which is to the north of the plains of Ara: Enormous boulders have fallen into the valley. The namadic people who inhabit the mountain caves are flee- ing in panic. No casualties have been reported. The mountaifi rises to an altitude of 13,540 feet. RUSSIA TODAY The Official Report of the Brit- ish Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Ru: “Covering every phase of Soviet life today. With maps and charts. Art work by Fred Ellis. $1.25 $1.75 Duroflex Cloth Covers Bound DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1118 W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, Il, To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on , all their dental work. DR. RASNICK peNTist "645 Smithfield Street Pl GH, PA... SOVIETS'BUILD NEW FACTORIES; MAKE MACHINES). Building “Program to Take Two Years MOSCOW— (Tesn)—ct. 1— The supréme council of people’s economy has approved a plan for constructing nine new machiné-building factories. The total cost of building these nine new factories is being estimated at about 60,000,000 rubles. The term of construction and fully equipping of the plants is; 1 bi at two to three years. |‘ A special ribuilding factory with a yearly luction of 10,000 tractors tee in Stalingrad, formerly kno arizin, The cost of building this factory is estimated at about 15,000,000 rubles, The following factories will also be erected: A factory for’ production of poly- graphic machinery in Leningrad. A factory for “biilding textile ma- chinery in Késtroma. A factory” for all kinds of instru- ments and implements of metal with a yearly prada of 25,000 tons a year in Khai 4 A heavy aie} Cornet factory in Sverdlovsk! (formerly Bkatertis- burg.) A tactory | producing se with @ yearly output of three of four million pieces in Zlatoust and two factories for building rural machin- ery in Rostov-Don. New mills and factories are to be built in. the Ukraine amounting to 30,000,000 rubles. Your Union Meeting First Friday, Oct. 2, 1925 a re and eeencrenaee, 3420 W. Biackemia Road. smiths, 64th and 8. Ashland Boller Makers, 105th and Ave. M. Boller Makers, 55th and Hal 5 bay d Makers, 624 and Hais' Huniding ie adder Council, 180 W. asl Cae pengers: District Council, 180 ‘Washington, St. Carpenters, 4339 S. Hal rt Fg 19 287 122 PH 4 ti 2200 14286 ge Portrait 9 Bleotite ceieease ae i af Monroe 182 w. 683 Enurineers Mites). and Sacrame ento. 845 Engineers; 180 W. Washington. St. 674 Firemen. and- Enginemen, 5428 ‘ rer't Worth S| Ave. 17117 Sarteneen and Florists, Village Hall, Morton, Grove. 21 Garment, Workers, | 115 W. Wash- ington St., 6 p. br Worke: Pomily and Marsh- eld. thee 1850 Sherman St., magn oa wenkers Seine Bur Y Ashi nd Bivd. yey ety 8. Ashland. Bivd. ee 55th and Halsted Ste, Machnista SE. cor. Lexington an atin M iniste, 53d Pi.” 1 Molsted. i Polishers, pa ainters, a 8! eld A Pattern’ jakers, ii9 8. oop Bt Photo Engtavers, 814 W. Harrison aaterety Piao w. Washington St. Plumbers, 5212 §. Halsted St. Plumbers, 9261 8. Chicago Ave. jlway Carmen, 59th and Halsted allway Carmen, Blue island, Ill. Railway’ Garmen, 524 and Robey. 3 Rallway Wlerks, 9 8. Clinton St. Hope Spilcers: 508 Milwaukee Ave. Toschers } (Men), 315 Plymouth Ct, 7:30 p, Telegraphets, O. R. T. Cort Cluf, dahon Hotel. hols ree, ‘So N, State St. Watcha me Mi ke ape 9749 8. fee y. 260, he ‘ow Mt its every 2nd Friday, 1564 No. Robey. (Note—Uniless onepier stated all meetings are at 8 p. 11 Russian | Imports and Exports Improving in Spite of Bad Harvest MOSCOW, U. 8, 8.8.1 R., (Tass)—Oct. 1—According to the statistics issued by the people’s commissariat for the three-quarter period of the 1924-25 economic year, exports have decreas- ed by 2,400,000 roubles while imports have increased :250,600,000 roubles. In 1923-24 exports totalled 392,000,- 000 roubles, whilé im 1924-25 they to- talled 389,600,000 roubles, Imports in 1923-24 were 249,000,000 roubles and in 1924-25 were 499,500,- 000 roubles, Imports Decreasing In the course: the first months 1924-25, importation of victuals show- ed a consideral increase owing to the faflire of tHe harvest. The iast months of the period especially June, shows a decrease for this group of imported goods which is explained by the improving condition of the Soviet Union. Brighter Than Coney Island! American Mountains! Viadimir Mayakovsky Sunday, October 4, 2 P. M. at YORKVILLE CASINO, 210 E. 86th St, New York City. Get your tickets today at the THE DAILY WORKER jes | taxed so highly that he either worked Cheaper Than Chinatown! . LAST FAREWELL LECTURE-RECITAL ARR FB PEASANT CANDIDATES : IN RURAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS KISHINEV, B abia, Oct. t. tthe candidates, N. Bokur, [. Pora, uttesa, Merochanu, Petrescu and Gelma, running in opposition to the candidates of the Roumanian boyars n Bi rabla have been arrested. These candidates were put up in opposition to the boyar’s ticket In the rural coun- cil elections taking place in Bessarabia. Prohibit Hire of Motor Cars. Prefect of Police Tsapteu has issued an order prohibiting any motor-car owner from loaning the use of his car to a candidate of the opposition. Alf motor owners that allow the opposition to hire their cars for agitation tours will be faced with imprisonment and confiscation of their car. Rash Trial of Bessarabian Peasants evidence,” writes Bela Foldi in her confession published by Costa-Fern in his “Jaccuse.” Another victim of the siguarantsi, Mor Fishea tells of his torture in the following words: Use IndiaRubber Club “I was arrested on Dec. 13, 1924. I was accused of being a member of the Communist, Party. Before commenc- ing) the inquiry, the chief of the sig- urafitéi ordered me to strip, and from 2 to 6 p, m. beat me with an India- rubber chub. “I was then sent, in chains, to Arad. In Arad, the Assistant Chief Woolfe beat me about the head and all over my body with a rubber club. “Twas thrice so severely beaten about ‘the head and face, that blood flowed from my mouth and nose for a whole hour. During the night, I was called up several times for in- quiry and Assistant Chief Woolfe Most severely beat me in the presence of Chief Markalescu, Assistant Chief Kiorescu, and Commissar Stefanscu. Threaten Life. “After I had signed a declaration, the contents of which to this day I do not know, I was once more beaten and was threatened that I would be let out fn the street and shot like a dog, under the pretext that I was at- tempting to escape, “I demanded from the prison gov- ernor, that I be examined by a doc- tor; but as the latter treated us worse than dogs—lI refused his treat- ment.” These statements can be duplicated by thousands of other peasants who have been in the torture mills of the Roumanian boyars, Working Class Demonstrations There is but one thing that can save the lives of the peasants on trial and that is worldwide mass demonstra- tions of the working class against the White terror of the Roumanian boyars. It ig the duty of workers in all lands to carry on demonstrations protesting against the persecution of these peas- ants active in a cause to free them- selves from the slavery they now suf- (Continued from page 1) when they attempted to kill Lant- sutsky, The boyar government wants the trial to be carried out in entire sec- recy so that the workers will hear of it only after the sentances have been passed. The struggle of ‘the peasants in Roumania has been a bitter one. The land was taken away from the peas- ants and given to the gendarmes, the tax collectors, boyars, soldiers and other lackéys who blindly support the boyar rule. Agricultural Country. ‘ Bessarabia is not an industrial country, it is an agricultural coun- try. The price of land was high. If @ peasant bought some land, he was mainly to pay the taxes or tried to sell it to the first buyer. The land re- forms which the bourgeois press lauds mean nothing to the peasant. They may look good on paper, but in practice they mean nothing. Extensive Spy System. The Roumanian government main- tains a system of spies that cannot be beaten elsewhere, There is a spy to every village and in some places there is one spy to every three per- sons, For minor infringments of the law, the peasants are taken into an open field. There they are told that the sigurantsi (Roumanian secret po- lice) have nothing against them and tell them to run home. As the peas- ants start to run, the secret police draw their pistols and shoot the flee- ing peasants, The official reports that are handed to their chief con- tain the legend, “killed in the nr to escape.” In the village of Plachtovko, 13 peasants were arrested. They were brot to the prison. There the third degree of the Roumanian sigurantsi was given them. Their nails were pulled off, hot oil poured on’ their, shaved heads, the soles of their feet bricked with needles and then beaten with clubs. After the police found that the peasants refused to sign the confessions handed them, they were brot to a field and told to run home: The peasants were killed and left'on fe the field, N 1 ry Péheante Revolt. nothy _, Novgorod Fair te Success These conditions brot about a reef) MOSCOW, -—~(Tass)— Oct. 1—The turnover of the Nijny Novgorod Fair up “tS the 20th of August surpassed the’ sum of 66,000,000 roubles. The volt of the peasants in Bessarabia: Last autumn the greatest uprisings oceurred in Tatarbounar, Nikolayevka} Trubayevka, Bulkanikov, Jokfi, Cis: biggest transactions are those on nea and from these points spread all panned manufactured goods and over Southern Bessarabia. In three: districts, Soviet republics were pro- claimed. Tatarbounar, the villagé from which most of the peasants now on trial come, was bombarded by artil- lery and the town destroyed. The torture that the peasants, whose misfortune it was to survive the bloody reprisals of the Rouman- ian Boyars, underwent is vividly de- seribed in the following two state- ments made by victims of the siguar- antsi, Arrest Mother, “Two agents of ‘the sigurantsi, No- delko and Stefanescu, arrested me in my house in Arda. They straight away threw themselves at me and wanted to hit me, but when my baby began to scream, desisted. They drove me in a cart to the sigurantsi, and all the way beat me most fear- fully. When I arrived at the sigur- antsi, I was shown many prisoners who had already been beaten till they were half dead, and. was informed that the same fate awaited me also. “After this, they beat me about to such a terrible extent, that to this day I am feeling the pains, and am a pi maps and charts. Labor Unions, 288 pp. “After the beating they led me to the outskirts of the village, and de- clared that théy would beat me as they beat all Communists in Bessar- abia, if 1 do not answer as they re- quired. Gives Fi Evidence. “Under the pressure of these threats, I was forced to give false Proletariat. 100 pp. By |, Stalin. More Wondrous Than the By J, Lovestone masters, Novy Mir“30 Tinton fons. Page Five ~ |CANADA SEAMEN BACK UP CHINESE JAILED STRIKERS Boycott Laid on Any Ships Struck VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 1—That Canadian seamen are not asleep to the fact that their interests are the same as their fellow workers in China, is shown by the way the Fed- erated Seafarers’ Union has been supporting the Chinese crews who struck on British vessels entering western Canadian ports. One of the union’s leaflets, issued by the union to appeal to all seamen not to scab on the striking Chinese says: “Seafarers of all nationalities! tention! “Strike on—The Seafarers’ Union has passed the following resolution: “That members of the Federated Seafarers’ Union of Canada refuse to man the Empress ot any other line of ships, affected or involved in the present dispute with the Chinese workers. “There are 16 Chinese seafarers imprisoned for supporting their fel- low workers on strike. “Refuse to allow the employers to intimidate workers during disputes by these methods. Help us to get our fellow workers out of jail. Their fight is yours.” (Signed)—The Fed- erated Seafarers’ Union, Units Com- mittee. ‘ At- When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. ejererererereseserererererere Famous Russian Poet Mayakovsky will speak on Russian Literature and Poetry TODAY Friday, Oct. 2 . at TEMPLE HALL, Cor. 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