The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 3

* in @ year. “ernment. “program of the Briand ministry, altho ‘has been drafted will probably fore- FRENCH FINANCE CRISIS FORCES INFLATION MOVE Depreciation of Franc Is Alarming PARIS, Dec, 2—The Briand gov- ernment will launch an inflation pol- jey in the chamber of deputies to- night, it was learned officially today. M. Loucheur, finance minister will be forced tonight to ask the chamber to authorize the Bank of France to ad- vance 6,000,000,000 francs to the state, and to print 7,500,000,000 francs in addition, Assuming that the request upon the chamber is granted inflation in French currency since Jan, 1, 1925, will total 17,500,000,000 francs. This will seri- ously depreciate the franc, Wants More Taxes. As evidence of his intent to fight inflation, Finance’ Minister Loucheur will ask the chamber of deputies to increase taxation immediately thus enabling the stité to refund the ad- vances from the’ “ae of France with- M. Loucheur’s finance bill which cast the fortunes of the Briand gov- Passage of the finance bill thruthe chamber is the first act upon the the question of France’s external ‘debts is being wdiely discussed. But it is learned that M. Loucheur, while anxious to reach settlements upon the debts to the United States and Great Britain, will not make and overtures in'this matter until he knows what funds he may have available for debt payments, “Trumbull Will Couches Sentence at Alcatraz Prison on F February 4 ALCATRAZ, is Dec. 2—Walter M. Trumbull, originally sentenced to 26 years at hard labor for his defense of Hawaiian workers but cut to one year as a result of public protest, will be released Feb. 4, upon completion of sentence. Will Not Send Berenger. 4 PARIS, Dec. 2.—The cabinet has not yet considered sending Senator Henri Berenger to Washington as am- bassador, to replace M. Daeschner, the foreign office announced. STEEL WORKER KILLED WHEN TANK EXPLODES DUE 10 AIR PRESSURE LINCOLN, Neb. Dec. 2.—Loren E. Womack, steel worker; was in- stantly killed when a tank exploded under air pressure. Womack came here from Red Oak, lowa, last Jan- nuary. ‘ BUENOS AIRES NEWSIES “DEMAND MORE PROFITS AND LIGHTER PAPERS BUENOS AIRES, Dec, 2.—Object- ing to the weight of Buenos Aires newspapers, newsboys have gone on strike. Sales of newspapers have been seriously effected, In addition to protesting against the weight of newspapers, the boys also demand larger profits and op- pose night editions. Form Corporation to Found Rejuvenation Institute in Vienna VIENNA, bec. 2—To fight prema- ture old age and to promote rejuve- nation, 4’corporation has been formed here to inaugurate a rejuvenation re- search institute. Negro Worker Loses His Life in Fire KANSAS’ CITY, Mo., Dec. 2. — Negfo garage employe was burned to death and damage to several build- ings estimated at $10,000 was done by a fire of undetermined origin here. Need More Than Nose. The, fact that a prohibition agent's nose tells him there is a scent of alcohol in the air is not sufficient evi- dence upon which to base a search warrant.’ This decision by U. S. Com- missioner James R. Glass dashed hopes of internal revenue, custom and prohibition officials that a raid upon the plant of J. B. Scheuer & Co. might reveal evidence not only of liquor law violations but evasions of incomes taxes and of smuggling. Abolish Honor System. TALLAHASSEB, Florida, Dec. 2— Announcement of the partial abolition of the Florida honor system on the state prison farm at Raiford came as | a distinct surprise today. “Shiek” Replenishes Wardrobe. PARIS, Dec. 2—Rudolph Valentino left Paris for London,to have his wardrobe replenished by English tailors as he will face divorce court proceedings here. Liquor-Filled Candy. NEW YORK, Dec. 2—Dry agents seized two thousand boxes of liquor- filled candy ‘and arrested five girls who were filling the boxes in a fac- tory. ~ ~~ » Editorial Correction. By mistake, in reporting the coming to. Chicago this month of the general president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, The DAILY WORK- ER gave the name as George McElroy, instead of Edward Flore. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER iin your pocket when you go to” your union meeting. 7 KILLED WHEN CONVICTS MAKE BREAK FOR LIBERTY IN INDIA RANGOON, India, Dec. 2—Geven were "killed and twenty-five wounded in a battle between police by the convicts to make a break for and prisoners following an attempt liberty. TH CAL COOLIDGE’S HOME CITY GOES DEMOCRATIC FIRST TIME IN YEARS SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Dec. 2— The’ people of his home city think so much of President Coolidge and the party he represents that they defeated the republican party mayor by an overwhelming major- ity and elected in his place William M. Welch. Northampton has been republican for many years. But on this, the first election after Coo- lidge became president on the re- publican ticket the people who know him voted democrat. Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. LABOR IN THE FAR EAST | that the workers’ strike has become . the backbone of the entire nationalist * emancipation movement. The second | to weak organization, ended as a rule . in defeat. Thé main cause of the or- | ganizational backwardness of the tex- (The third installment of Labor in the Far East deals with the textile workers and their struggle against the capitalist offensive. The first in- stalment dealt with facts which show instalment .dealt with the revival of China’s labor movement in 1924). ee eee 4 By Ly HELLER. ARTICLE IL. HE first place in the Chinese labor movement from the point of view of activity and organization has until Jately been held by the railwaymen, sbamen and miners. To be sure, there have been sporadic strikes of textile workers in the past. as well, but they were generally rt-lived and owing ' tile workers is the domination of fe- ' per cent of all the workers. male arid child labor. It will suffice to state that in many of the largest textile factories women constitute 90 In the silk industry the percentage is still higher, reaching even as much as 99 per cent. About half the workers con- sist of children. This explains why Shanghai, the foremost industrial center of China, where is concentrated one-third of the entire industrial proletariat of the country, has not until recently played (160,000) and “silk workers (80,000) constitute nearly one-half. In addition, the next largest group are the porters (100,000) also, not given to or- the Peking with L with the rise of the nationalist movement in Northern and Central China, did the backward Shanghai proletariat begin to move. HE birth of the first trade union organizations among the Shanghai textile workers dates back to, the sec- ond half of the past year. The first to be organized were-the workers of certain Japanese textile factories, where men constituted a relatively high percentage. There were four such factories and they formed the nucleus of the Shanghai textile work- ers’ organization. The Japeness capitalists immedi- ately saw a menace in the organiza- tion of trade unions and started a de- termined offensive against them. The biggest, Japanese textile company, Nagai-Wata, owning 13 textile factor- jes in Shanghal and two in Tsintao, atically to replace the men by women, increasing at the same time the standard of production, and di ing, under various pre- texts, the most active men. This led to the February strike, involving all the factories of this company. De- spite the cry raised by the entire im- perialist press over this strike, de- spite all intimidations and provoca- tions, despite attempts to corrupt the strike leaders and despite even the formidable intervention of the Japa- nese amBassador, the strikers held out valiantly and after 11 days of struggle came out partially victorious. This success served to raise the Prestige of the union very high in the eyes of the workers and in a very short time, the union movement made good progress, membership growing from 2,000 to 10,000. Two months later, in April, a strike broke out in the Japanse textile fac tories of Tzintao. The Japanese capitalists decided to show theif | stri! teeth in Tsintao, a small town in the Shantung province, only evacuated ‘4 they found it more safe politically to use force and easier to browbeat the workers. The most ferocious meas- ures were employed, including mass arrests and deportations, beatings and shootings. Things came to a head when a Japanese warship entered the Chin port of Tsintao to crush the Chinese workers. In response to these events a second strike was declared in Shanghai by the textile workers, in solidarity with the striking textile workers of Tsin- tao, The Japanese capitalists then de- cided to apply the same ferocity in Shanghi Clashes followed, in which the Japanese foremen killed one and wounded 30 Chinese workers. N May 30 a peaceful demonstra- tion, held by the workers and students in protest against the mur- der of Chinese workers by the Jap- an was fired at by the British po- lice of the foreign settlement of Shanghai. This served as a prelude to the Shanghai events, which rever- berated loudly in every country, lead- ing to the unheard of rise of the na- tional movement that is still gripping entire China today. In this rise, as in a nutshell, is reflected the entire nationalist and labor movement of the last decade, During that period the movement was having its ups and downs. First in the stormy onrush on the political stage of the student movement in 1919 and in the splendid activities develop- ed by the young Chinese proletariat such as the strike of the Hongkong seamen in the spring of 1922 or the Shanghai strike in 1924, and then would go down during the period of reaction underground, engaging there in invisible activities and gathering volume and energy for the next out- seat: Their mainstay are the in Shanghai and Hongkong. } E DAILY WORKER | - THE #LOADED GUN” . i To | perfected the art of good government. | after the explosion (political) in our Page Three | AS WE SEE IT / (Continued trom page 1) H capitalist system cannot be hagmon- ized. see HE capitalist system is sliding to its doom. All the efforts of the capitalist doctors cannot save the pa- tient. They can halt the process of disintegration—that’s all. But not for long. Austen Chamberlain won 4 garter and Britain regained the di- plomatic leadership of Europe which she has been compelled to share with the United States and France since the end of the war. This will make the ‘ories and the liberals and’ the | tight wing of the labor party feel good. They will quaff goblets of| sparkling Burgundy to the old empire | but the old empire has seen her best | days. eee | S Leon Trotsky points out in his | book: “Whither England” the United States has the skids greased for Great Britain as a world power and anybody with even one pol- itical eye in his head can see the fine hand of British diplomacy trying to maneuver the capitalist states of Europe § against the capitalist government of the United States. In the meantime the diplo- mats of the Soviet Union are not idle and Trotsky declares that is regret- table that the Soviet government should be obliged to spend a lot of money on the red army, the rey navy and the red fleet. Trotsky is right, but the workers and peasants of Rus- sia must defend their country. one HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE does not think very much of the artist- ic ‘capabilities of the citizens of Oshkosh, Iowa, but on the whole it believes the American people have What the devil? Only a few days local county jail, and so many other scandals, municipal, state and nae tional, that the space alloted to this column could “be taken up for a year relating the incidents of known cor- ruption with which the government of this country reeks! Not that the cap- italist politicians of this country are more venal than those of any other country. No, they are as much alike as a family of pole cats. Perhaps they are more brazenly corrupt. 2 E learn that the Soviet govern- ment pumped half a pound of lead into several Soviet officials who made free with the profits from some oF reedom and More Production Dear Conifddes,—Let me tell you how we Riissian workers live and work now that the power is in our hands, and to compare our life with what it was before the revolution. I will speak only of the work in the steelrolling mill, and of the life of the workers of éur factory in Moscow (formerly* the “Houson,” now the “Sickle and’ Hammer”), because our life and work are characteristic of the industries thruout the Union of Republics. In former times we used to work in our mills in two shifts of twelve hours each. We used to work because we were goaded by fear, not from any love for the work. For every mis- take the worker was punished either by a blow or at best by a fine, losing about five rubles or more in fines every month, At the close of a hard-working day we had no facilities for sensible re- creation. We had no clubs of our own; the theaters were too expen- sive for us, and the secondary schools were only for the intelligentzia—not for the workers’ children. In the same way thé sporting clubs were in the hands ofthe bourgeoisie, and the only thing I¢ft to us were the beer- shops, the “gdvernment vodka shops, card gambling and fist fights. Many of us succunfbed either to these plea- sures or to “the dope of the priests, who told us'to await the kingdom of heaven. ‘a A New Life. Afer the October reyolution of 1917 we began to lead quite a different life. It is trueathat at first, harassed by the white guards who were aided by your capitalists, we experienced great hardships. We starved while our transportywas in a state of chaos; our factories ‘were at andstill, and most of us fought at the front. Our own factory, which employs 4,000 people, had hardly 400 at that time, and any kind of production was out of the question. But now we have raised our pro- duction over that of 1913, and we work less hours than we did then. All this is done without any compulsion, but by our own good-will and efforts. I feel that to produce in eight hours upon an old bench the quantity that used to be turned out in twelve hours on a new one is quite a big victory, and you will bea share in our jubi- lation. We now bata our own club, with an endless variety of circles—dramatic, choral, musical, art, radio, and sport. There are scones of members in every circle, but im the rib el oaed circle we have nine teams footballers in the whole factory, and even these played in the bourgeois club. The New Generation. Our sporting grounds are full of children during the day, and in the evening after work the adult work- ers engage in physical culture. Our youngsters are all pioneers and ,com- munards, robust and happy fellows, growing up under good conditions and in health of body and mind. They are some day to take our place, Our entire life, our production, our failures and our tasks are reflected in the columns of the newspapers. Since the newspapers cannot possibly give us all the space we need we run our wall newspapers in every factory. The news to the newspapers is com- municated by ourselves, so that there can be no garbling as is done by bourgeois reporters. Therefore, dear comrades, we wish you to get the same as we have— namely, all power in the hands of the workers. With fraternal greetings, Pogozhenkov (Non-party correspondent, Moscow). A. G. workers’ JAPANESE WORKERS CONVENE DESPITE REPRESSIVE ACTS 4 OF MILITARIST GOVERNMENT (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Japan, Dec. 2.—Despite all barriers thrown in the path of the Japanese workers, they have assembled here in a convention of the Prole- of its industries. Could such a thing happen in America? The culprits would stand a good chance of being in the next cabinet. Good government in America! It is a good government for the more clever of the robbers. In times of prosperity all the robbers | get something. out of it. But honest government! There is no such anima) under capitalism. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Dec, 2.—Great Britain pound sterling, demand 4.84%; cable 4.84%. France, franc, demand 3.86%; cable 3.87%. Belgium, franc, demand 4.52%; cable 4.53. Italy, lira 4.02%; cable 4.02%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.73; cable 26.76. Norway, krone, de- mand, 20.28; cable 20.30. Denmark, krone, demand 24.87; cable 24.89. Ger- many, mark not quoted. Shanghai, taels, 78.00. Postpone Merger of United Artists and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2—Plans for merging the releasing interests of United Artists and Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, two of the biggest motion pic- ture producing organizations have been abandoned. Joseph Schenck of United Artists announced that the plan had been given up. He denied that efforts of Charlie Chaplin had blocked the move. The United Artists is owned. by Schenck, Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. tarian Party where they plan to lay down a program under which they can rally the Japanese workers in a struggle against the capitalists of Japan and the imperialist powers that are entrenching themselves in the Far East. To Fight Illegality. One of the first acts of the conven- tion was the discussion of the repres- sive measures taken by the Nippon department of the interior against this organization of the Japanese workers. The organization has decided to fight the attack of the government under its “peace preservation act.” The department of the interior op- poses the Proletarian Party because of the militant stand expressed in the following program around which masses of workers are rallying: 1, National ownership of land, 2. Legal approval of the privilege that workers and farmers are able to work in their movement in unity, 3. In case of strike, the workers can legally defend themselves from employers. 4, Enforcement of 8-hour work day. 5. High taxes on variows forme of 6. Guarantee of minimum standard of living for unemployed. 7. Abolition of the house of peers. 8. Abolition of the peace preserva- tion act, under which the department of interior has been able to use repres- sive measures against working class organizations. 9. Reformation of the general suffrage bill that the age limit must be reduced to 18 years of age. 10, Absolute réduction of the army and navy, Ready 25 Cents December Issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY NOW! SINCE CONGRESS, NEGROES EAGER “TO BEGIN WORK Sunday Mastivgs Started in Pittsburgh By W. C. FRANCIS. By A Worker Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 2—Meet- ings of the. local t the Amer- ican Negro L held every S at the Labor Ly acéording to plans made at a recent meeting to hear the re -port t of t the dele ga tolloy Th the following « Confronting the Co is all Abont,” de Union Negro,” by C. W I operation of the America: > with Mexican and other Work« by A. Rodriquez; planation of the titution and Resolutions, : the Com gress,” by W sis; “Negro People as a We and Their. Historic Background H. Care- athers a race interesting ber of the Workers’ The meetir Ang nt, Irany of the reluc t to be come member t that in the past they had bi only to pull the out fire for their white broth they ever received wer The fact tt e is made up of the wor nd not the governing creates @ different situation workers are adjusting their 1g caps, and will not accept an t] same gang that cracy. LEWIS BLIND TO UNION WEAKNESS By A Worker Correspondent NEW EAGLE, Pa.—In of the Monongahela John L. Le pre! Dnited Mine Workers of lowing a “personal inv mining conditions in tl clares that the Pittsburgh Coal Co. has made a “pjtiful failure” tempt to operate its mines non-union, In another column of the same i sue, we find a tement of the Pitts- burgh Coal Co. claiming that 198 men are employed at Midland No. 1, 206 at Banning No. 1, and 271 at Ban- ning No. 2. Every one of these “pitiful fail- ures” as Lewis calls them is a nail in the coffin of the J sonville agree- ment and a victory for the scab op- erators If John L. Lewis had checked up. the conditions of this part of the state properly, he’ would have found that there are mc han the Pittsburgh Coal Co. repudiating the Jackson- ville agreement and that mines sup- posed to he working under the Jack- sonville agre are encroaching on the men to such an extent that the Jacksonville agreement is practically non-existent. For instance, at Mar- fanna, the miners are being treated like a lot of b: ians with a wire fense around them just like a slave peri, Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium Denounces Use of Tubercular Cows Directors the general and con- sulting staff of the Municipal Tuber- culosis Sanit meeting at the Hotel Sherman, adopted resolutions declaring that the Chi milk sup." ply is.menaced by tubercular cattle, Pasteurization not sufficient safe- guard against possible infection with tuberculosis, and are being sh resolution a School Board to Request Council for Tax Increase ny infected cattle into Illinois, the ted. The school oak will bring a Te quest to the city council meeting 6n Monday for an increase of approxim- ately $15,000,000 in taxes annually which it wishes refered to the voters at the April primary, This would re- quire an increase in the tax rate of from $1.92 to $2.92 on each $100 of assessed value or half of the full value of property. The board claims that this extra money is needed to take care of its deficits amounting at present to $20,000,000 and growing annually at the rate of from 3 to 4 million dollars, a Copy.