The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1925, Page 3

arta FARMERS OPPOSE ELECTRIC TRUST POWER SCHEMES Master or Slave Is Big Issue H. ©, Fillmore (Special to The Dally Worker) NORTON, Mass., Dec, %—The pro- ject to harness the tides in Passama- quoddy Bay, lying on the Atlantic coast between Maine and New Bruns- wick and by a system of locks and dams develop 750,000 horse power continuously, is a scheme that is being fostered by the power interests and opposed by the farmers of New Eng- land, As to how this super-power scheme strikes the New England farmer gen- erally is seen in an article appearing in the New England Homestead which says: “Super-power is here, not afar, off. Last week saw the completion of negotiations that have been under way for weeks whereby the New Eng- Janéd Power Co.; Power Corporation of ‘New York System, Stone & Webster and International Paper Co., have pooled their holdings in the electric light and power system covering a large part of New England and North- ern New York. These interests own hydro and steam plants having an output of more than 1,000,000,000 kilo- watt hours annually .. . this output can be increased five times the pres- ent amount, Master or Slave? “Shall super-power master or serve New Hngland? “Shall rural manufacturers villages, and farms be regenerated or shall our white coal be drained away to other districts? “Squarely up to people, what will they do? New England Public Service Co, advertises that 12 months earnings to July 31, equalled over 20 per cent on its new offerings of 80,000 no par prior lien preferred at 100. per share. Huge Power Earnings “This means that present rates are sé high as to net nearly three times the proposed 7 per cent dividends up- on all this new stock. It is advertised that such earnings have increased over 44 per cent in two years. “Add the changes now being caused by busses supplanting trolleys and ratlroads, the effect upon New England of pending efforts for higher or lower freight rates, not to mention higher phone rates granted in Massachusetts and about to be demanded in our other states, is not the Homestead amply justified in warning the public to beware lest some of these factors become our masters instead of our servants?” Big Business Smiles Up Sleeve at Co-ops. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Co-opera- tive activity in marketing and supply, in the United States, goes in waves, and only with these recurrent “bursts of enthusiasm,” says the report of the committee on methods of distribution to the nationwide business mass meet- ing which is staged for Dec, 14-15 in Washington. This report is called a study, and was drawn up by L. H. D. Weld, of the commeercial research department of Swift and Co., of the big three meat packers. In general, it points to the chain store and giant commercial house as the logical type of modern marketing, and denies that any fundamental change can be made whereby the middleman will be elim- inated. 3 “Co-operative marketing”, says Weld, “exists primarily in the field of agriculture, Few manufactured prod- ucts are marketed co-operatively, ex- cept butter, but many manufactured prodacts are purchased co-operatively by che farmers. The first great co- operative wave was during the Grar ger movement of the ’70s. In spits of these ups and duwns the general tea. dency of the movement is jecidedly upward,” Allot Forest Lands. MOSCOW, U. 8S. S. R., Dec. 9.—The separation of so-called forests of local importance which are only to serve the needs of the local peasantry from the general state forests has had the following result: in the Union of So- clalist Soviet Republics 25,400,000 des- siatins of forest land have already been handed over to the peasantry for use, namely, about 145 per cent which is one and a half times more forest land than the peasants possessed hith- erto. Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER, ESTHONIAN COURTS » "JAIL WORKERS FOR UNION ACTIVITIES { REVAL, Esthonia, Dec. 9. — The court here sentenced a worker, Goru- schkin to 7 years hard labor for pro- Posals made by him in a trade union meeting in 1921. His crime was a proposal that the Esthonian trade un- fons should affiliate with the R. I. L. vU, Court in Dorpat sentenced two young workers, both minors, to 4 and 6 years imprisonment respectively on account of alleged activity dangerous to the state carried on by them inside the trade unions. GARY DEMANDS CONGRESS PASS MORROW REPORT Angered by Demands for Investigation NEW YORK, Dec. 9,—Judge Elbert H, Gary, head of the steel trust and a loud advocate of perparation for war, expressed his ire at those in congress who are fostering the move to inves- tigate the investigators that conduct- ed the Dwight W. Morrow report on aircraft, and demands the immediate Passage of the recommendations by congress at a meeting of manufactur- ers of armament and chemical gases here. The Dwight W. Morrow report min- imizes the danger of an air attack and shows that it is necessary to increase land and water fortifications. It also rejects Colonel William Mitchell’s idea of an independent air service. Gary, who has made millions in steel that he sold to the United States and foreign powers during the world war is opposed to the air service being de- veloped as an independent arm as it might seriously hurt his money-mak- ing. “We view with apprehension the Possibility that national defense may become the football of politics in the forthcoming session of congress,” be- wailed the steel magnate. “There ap- pears to be a desire on the part of a certain element in congress to inves- tigate the investigators and so pro- long the controversy ad infinitum, whereas, what the army and navy really most need at this time is a moratorium of agitation from within and investigation fromi without.” “Bible Crusaders” Start Drive in Legislatures for Anti-Evolution Laws| TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 9—George H. Washburn, Boston millionaire and friend of the late William Jennings Bryan, led the advance guard of his “bible crusadors” into Tampa, Fla., recently, to begin a campaign “to seek legislation curbing teaching of the evolution theory on the ground it un- dermines faith in the bible.” ' Washburn has donated $100,000 to the campaign and asserts that he will give as much more if it is needed. The “crusade”. will move from Florida northward. In Washington a national headquarters will be established. Evangelism, radio and a new maga- zine, the “Crusador’s Champion”, will be the instruments of propaganda. Announcement that an anti-evoln- tion bill will be offered in congress has been made by several represen- tatives. Ferguson Mansion Busy Scene as Legislators Confer with “Governor” AUSTIN, Texas, Dec, 9.—"Ma” Fer- guson’s mansion here is a busy scene as senators and members of the state legislature are called in by the real ‘| power in Texas, Jim Ferguson, to pre- vent the special impeachment session which is threatened to be called. Speaker of the house, Lee Satter- white, has about 50 signatures to a pe- tition calling for a special session, It requires 100 to constitute a quorum. Jim Ferguson, who has been handing out juicy plums to his confederates, is conferring with as many members ofthe house as he can, getting their promises not to attend the special se! sion. , As far as the senate is concerned, the Ferguson gang feel quite confident that the senate high court of im. peachment will refuse to take any ac- tion against them. QUALITY vs. QUANTITY A New York bookseller advertises “over one million books in stock.” The Workers’ Bookstore (19 So, Lincoln Street, near Madison) may not hi as many books but what we have is all worth buying. Open every day, including Sunday, from’9 a. m. to 9 p.m. HELP US GROW! acted WORKERS MUST COMBAT ATTEMPT TO KILL RAKOS! First Stage « of Fight Has Been Won (By INPRECOR.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 9.—In an issue of the Pravda, Comrade Bela Kun, head of the short-lived Hunga- rian Soviet which was overthrown by the funds contributed by American bankers to “aid the starving Hungar- jans,” points out that the first stage in the fight to save the life of Mathias Rakosi, a former people’s commissar in the Hungarian Soviet, has been won, He points out that his transfer from the extraordinary court to the civil-court will not mean the saving of his life, unless the workers con- tinue their energetic activities on be- half of Rakosi, “Thanks to the determined and energetic action of the Hungarian working class, the international pro- letariat and all honest intellectuals of the old and new world, the first period of the struggle to save the lives of Rakosi and his four comrades has been successfully brought to a conclu- sion,” declares Bela Kun, Praise Heroism. Bela Kun then praises the cold- blooded heroism of the accused before the extraordinary court and points out that the transfer of the process to an ordinary tribunal is due to the following considerations: 1. The pressure exercised by the Hungarian workers and peasants upon the Hungarian government. This was so great that even the allies of the government, the social democrats were compelled not only to protest against the extraordinary court, but also to bring forward the question of legal- izing the Communist Party. 2. The unexampled solidarity of the international working class which carried thru an immense protest ac- tion, ‘a protest action which was sab- otaged only by the most corrupt el- ements in the Second International, MacDonald for instance, and which was. supported by prominent scholars, men of science, literature, art, etc., all over the world. _ 8. The split in the ranks of the Hun- garian ruling class itself: whilst Hor- thy is wholly in favor of extraordinary courts, Bethlen is in favor of using them only in execeptional circum- stances, Acting under the pressure of the fascists, the goyernment handed over Rakosi to the extraordinary court, and now the transfer of the process to an ordinary court is intended to represent the reintroduction of the so-called regime of legality, To Legalize Murder, Bela Kun stresses the fact that it is only the first stage in the struggle for the life of Rakosi which has been won, and that his life is in danger from the ordinary court also, as this latter is treating his actions during the proletarian dictatorship as crim- imal. The process will have an im- mense political importance as far as it,deals with the question of legalizing the Communist Party. The Communist Party of Hungary is naturally aware of the exact importance to be attached to the hypocritical bourgeois and so- cial democratic demands for the legal- ization of the party, and whilst expos- ing this hypocrisy it will struggle with strengthened powers for its le- galization and its growth into a mass party, Plantation Owners Hold Filipino Girls in Bondage for Debts MANILA, Dee. 9.—Cases of young girls who must serve from one to seven years in bondage to a planta- tion owner for debts ranging’ from $27 to $75 have been uncovered in the Occidental Negros Province. At a planiation near Isabella, many girls are pressed into bondage by the Plantation owners for debts. and are forced to work many years for these debts without pay. While working on the plantation, all of the food, cloth- ing and shelter are deducted from the girls’ “wages” and as the plantation owners do as they please ,the girls go turther and further into debt, A number of charges of illegal de- tentions and homicide have been filed against some of the plantation own- ers. But as the governor general's office and the plantation owners work hand in hand it is not expected that the trial will alleviate this condition. Production of Steel Increases in Russia MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 9.—Re- borts recently issued on tke produe- tion of the South Steel Trust (Yugo- stal) show that the business year which terminated on October 1 has been a record one. Production which amounted in the previous year to 53,100,000 roubles increased to 116,- 500,000 roubles, mamely, an increase of 119.5 per cent. Steel production has increased 128.7 per cent as compared with the previous year, ‘and the production of rolled iron 135 per cent, The number of worker semployed was 37,200 in the first quarter of last year and 59,000 at the end of the year, In the trust coal mines the yield of coal has increased 50 per cent, whilst the amount of coal used by the trus. decreased. - THE DAILY, WORKER RUSSIAN AND BRITISH TRADE UNIONS DISCUSS WORLD.UNTY 1 BERL (Special to/The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 9.—Michael Tom- sky, chairman of the Russian trade unions, is here to meet the dele- gates from the British Trade Union Congress on the question of world trade union unity. Alexander Bo- gadov, Gregoire Melnitchansky, Jean Lepse, Theodore Ugarov§ and Jacques Yaglom, all members of the presidium of the Russian trade unions accompanied Tomsky to Ber- lin, i The British delegation consists of Hicks, Pough and Findley. “While the direction of the con- ference work and the activity of the British-Russian committee depend upon the decision of the active members of the Amsterdam inter- national,” declared Tomsky, “we hope that the conference will strengthen International uniformity. Undoubtedly we shali find a com- mon language,in our conversations with our English colleagues, Despite all obstacles, unity will finally triumph, beoause.the vitai interests of the proletariat demand it.” This conference of the Russian and British delegations !s being called in conformity with the deci- sions of the..Scarborough Trade Union Congress., WEALTHY FIRMS MAKE WAY WITH $50,000,000 TAX Large_ Corporations lodge Laws WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 9, — Charges that powerful corporations in the oil, steel, and metal industries have benefited to the extent of $250,- 000,000 in the-settlement of disputed tax cases:is so ie a preliminary re- port to the senate committee investi- gating maladministration in the in- ternal revenue bureau. To Report .Loop-Holes. The committe will consider report- ing to the senate,a numicr of loop- holes that the righ corporations have been able to in the income tax laws and claims ate made that $600,- 000,000 has been deducted trom the incomes of large’tbrporations thru al- lowances for a zation. Lega Fixers. Undoubtedly there are “legal fixers” in high places in government who are able for “ ions” to “fix” a corporations’ | , Just as there were a John T, , Jesse Smith, Ned Thurston and others in the de- partment of justice and alien property custodian’s office and in many other departments of ;the federal govern- ment, and the ittee will discuss whether it will investigate who these legal “fixers” ., A number of ses- sions have been held of the committee behind closed doors and the proceed- ings are held in secrecy. ‘ SORBEE International Labor 3 Defense Branch Is A Formed in Columbus COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec, 9.—A branch of the International Labor De- fense was recently organized here which promises to become an active link in the chain of similar organiza- tions ali over the United States, At an enthusiastic organization meeting, Maria Beuder was elected secretary. All readers of The DAILY WORKER in Columbus who are in- terested in joining this organization to aid the hundreds of active workers who are languishing in jails or are about to be jailed are requested to get in touch with’Miss Maria Beuder, 770 South 22nd St, Dutch Indies Workers Fight Imperialist Rule ar HAGUE, Dec, 9—The workers of the Dutch Indies, are carrying on al- ready for year by hard struggle against the Dutch,imperialists. Thous- ands of workers,and peasants have been thrown into, prison for their fight against the terrijle exploitation, the brutal acts of violence and oppression of the Dutch government. The strug- gle of the workerg.is being carried on under the leader§hip of the Commun- ist Party of the Dutch Indies and of the national revolutionary organiza- tion “Sarekat Rayat,” and further- more by the trade unions. During the last strikes in August of this year all leaders of the local trade unions were arrested, All strikes are suppressed by brutal means. In the strike of the dockers which took place recently in Belawana, the demonstrators were dis- persed by force of arms and many workers, and women fell victim to the brutal police, Agricultural Co-operative Society. MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R,, Dec, 9.—The society has 38,000 consumers’ co- operatives and 420 agricultural co- operatives, On July 1, 1925, the co- operatives included, 5,000,000 peasant farms, whilst in ber of the prev- fous year they ingluded only 3,00,000. On January 1, the total capital of the society amounted to 712,000,000 roubles and on July, 1, already to 900,- 000,000 roubles. r GREECE REFUSES TO TAKE BLAME FOR INVASION League Council Meeting to Fix Indemnity (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec, 9—It is expected that the league of nations council will endorse the findings of its special commission calling upon Greece to pay a heavy indemnity to Bulgaria for its invasion. Greece is dissatisfied with the decision of the league of nations special commission and points out that she did not invade Bulgaria, but that she did just what the Italians did at Corfu, She claims her act was punitive. Must Pay $6,000,000, Bulgaria demanded the league make Greece pay $10,400,000 for the death of 12 Bulgarians and the discomforts caused by the Bulgars pho fled from the villages and also $6,200,000 for the loss in livestock, equipment, etc., which Greek soldiers stole from the Bulgarian villages. The league of na- tions commission recommended that Greece pay $2,000,000 on the first charge and $4,000,000 on the second, making a total of $6,000,000, To Fix Sentries, It is also demanded that a special guard of old men under civilian sup- ervision be placetl at the frontier and that the sentries be 600 yards away from the frontier and be connected with the rear by means of telephones and that a special commission of of- ficers appointed by the league of na- tions inspect the frontier for the next two years to see that the program is carried out. Depositors to Get Only One-Third from Bank That Failed GREAT FALLS, Montana, Dec. 9. ~—Federal Judge Charles’ N. Pray, authorized F. D. Williams, receiver of the First National Bank of Lewis- town in Fergus county to pay a dividend to the depositors that will reach $1,000,000. Plans have been under way for sev- eral months to pay a 30 per cent dividend to the creditors. Final au- thority to pay the dividend and the exact amount will be announced by the comptroller of the currency, At the time this bank closed its doors two years ago its liabilities a- mounted to over $3,000,000. Our London Letter | Official circles are Page Three ATTEMPTS AT FORMING. CZECH CABINET Fill "RAIL AT COMMUNISTS Worker) Prague, Czecho-Slovasia, Dec. In a note to the president, former pre- mier Svehla, bewatis his inability to (Special to The Dail rye form a cabinet as the catholic people's | party 'which a socialist will be granted the refuse to enter a cabinet in ministry of education. In his letter he bitterly condemns the Communists, who are the second largest party in the parliament and refuse to enter in- to the coalition cabinet. The job of forming a cabinet was then turned over to M. Sramek of the catholic people’s party. He had no better luck than did Svehla. now discussing the turning over the formation of the new cabinet to M. Bechine, leader of the social-democrats. It is not expect- ed that he will form a cabinet any more successfully than the others. Tirades against the Communist frac- tion in parliament are being delivered daily as the Communist group is look- ed upon as having the balance of pow- er and the only united delegation in the national assembly. ‘SOVIET JUSTICE SEIZES KILLERS OF 500 WORKERS Czarist Money Bought Gang of Murderers MOSCOW, Dec. 9—The long arm of revolutionary justice has laid its hands upon the murdereds of revolu- tionary workers under Czar Nicholas. Fifteen of these private assassins who are charged with having strangled to death nearly 500 revolutionary work- ers under czarism, were arrested yes- terday. They operated secretly and were paid by the czar’s agents to make away with revolutionists, The evidence, as set forth in the local press, says that they received from $10 to $50 for each execution, and that one of them, a priest named Rosanog, who officiated at the hang- ings, received $1.50 for each prayer on the gallows. The place of execution is said to have been in the cellar of a private house. There was a large table and on it a chair. Attached to the ceiling was a stout rope from which the vic- tims were suspended when the chair was trust from under them. -:- By Tom Mann Irish Boundary Problem orous action through the union when LONDON, Eng.—(By Mail)—The| attacked by the ship owners. resignation from the boundary com- Some months ago an award of the jon mission of the Free State representa-|federal arbritration court was given tive, Professor MacNeill, is a matter] fixing the wages to be paid by ship of grave consern, The commission] 0Wners and this was signed by both consisted of three, the chairman being} Patties but some of the Australian Justice Feetham of South Africa, Mr.) Shipowners violated the agreement by J. R. Fished representing Northern} Chartering ships in England at wage Ireland and Prof. MacNeill, rates much lower than the Australian. Jt has been understood all along to The cargoes in such chartered ships have been a matter over which serious | Were treated as “black” by the seamen trouble might arise, The Free State,|@nd this led to a number of ships be- and the northern government having |ing laid up in Australian ports. used the most emphatic language with| The prime minister in the name of regard to their respective claims, the|the government demanded of the men Free State were exceptionally vigor-|that they should handle the freight ous in staking their claims and the}and man the ships. The unron, led Northern men were equally emphatic, | by its officials, Walsh and Johannsen, the government hoped to secure| insisted upon the carrying out of the agreement by appointing a South Afri-|@ward, and the men stuck to this and can Judge as president, and all worked | for this the union officials are to be smoothly, at least on the surface, un-| deported, confirming what we have til a few days ago when the Fime|long since learned that capitalism is State representative tendered his re-j the same in all countries. poet ‘ Would Like To Know ae pidmcars & te inecuents br HE Left Wing sections of the trade this, and if a decision is given that unionists in England are often will receive the backing of the British] @sking when the Left Wing sections government, then civil war follows|°f the U. S.A. are likely to meet in and the end thereof no man can see. | ftiendly conference with them. Not o the stereotyped hard boiled supporter AE bing eg Sun a Gatoe Gemepic atts of the capitalist system but the men now proceeding at the Old Bailey with a vision, not the persons who te about one hundred per cent has already proved highly advantage- prat fs . ous to the Left Wing movement. The | Americanism, but the men who know wonderfully clear and explanatary chat the times demand a fundamental litt, Campbell and Gallacher has made | ~°'¥* a y , ch do a8 man’s share to get rid a distinctly favorable impression on (dior prodi the public and whilst it will require ot Che gaara Sonar ier Bor % for profit for the boss class and to truly. claus, conscious Kis something [DCE IM & s¥stem of production for to know these comrades have acquit- ne. aR. # FORRE-ARC ONE iTn ienens { 207,000,000 ITALIAN YOUTH WILL BE TAUGHT FASCIST IDEALS Mussolini Bares Aims Before Teachers ROME, Dec. Premier Benito olini, who now has more power hands than any of the ancient M in h emperors of Rome ever dreamed of, in an address before the Frist Na- tional Congress of the School corp- oration here laid down that in the fu- ture the school children of Italy would be tau “The govern akes it impera- tive that the school shall be inspired by the of sm,” declared ideals Mussolini. “ not be nool shall not ism and to hostil the attacks of but that in all grades and by y institutional in- struction the It youth shall be educafed to comprehend fascism and the noble aims which fascism pro- poses to acomplish.” Fundamental Change. He then went on to tell those that were at the congr that they might just as well recognize the fundamen- tal change that has been accomplished in Italy, by the decree passed by the fascist marionette parliament. “It was not 0} a change in the government, b 1 political and social revolution, which in all prob ability will le: nothing of that which constituted the old regime,” declared the fascist dictator. He ended his talk before the gath- ering telling them that many items that were now on the school curricu- lum would be taken off as he intended to make the schools “educative, form- ative and moral” and laid great stress on the teaching of fascist ideals to the youth. Workers’ Children Get Special Terms in Soviet Schools MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 9.—The Moscow Soviet has introduced a new regulation regarding school fees, ac- cording to which education in the el- ementary schools is free of charge, In the higher and technical schools educational remains free of charge for the children of Red army men, sail- gfs, invalids of labor, pensioners, un- employed and all workers whose earn- ings are less than 75 roubles a month, all artisans who do not employ hired labor and whose income does not ex- ceed 75 roubles a month, Manual and office workers earning between 7& and 100 roubles a month, pay a school fee of one rouble a month for, their chilaren, the school fees are graded according to the earn- ings of the parents, the maximum fee being 12 roubles a month. Artisans not. employing outside labor power pay the same as workers. For families with several children * of school age, the general school fee must not exceed 10 per cent of the father’s wage. People belonging to free profes- sions, trades people, clergy, etc. pay 160 to 220 roubles a year. All those who have to pay property tax, namely members of the bourge- oisie, pay 300 to 380 roubles a year. Soviet Union Plans 207,000,000 Ruble Agricultural Credit: MOSCOW, U. S. R., Dec. 9.—The plan of the people’s commissariat of agriculture provides for next year agricultural credit to the amount of roubles. This includes: 23,000,000 roubles for the purchase of agricultural machinery and implée- ments, 10,000,000 roubles for cattle, 9,900,000 for tractors, 11,000,000 roubles for making land arable and for settlement purposes, 6,100,000 rubles for reforestation, etc., 19,000,000 roubles for the agricultural machinery industry, the remainder being assigned for seed cultures, cattle breeding and co-operatives, Soviet High Schools. MOSCOW, U.S. 8. R., Dec. 9.—In the current year, 2,823 people were ad- mitted to the high schools of the Ukraine including 967 workers, 558 peasants, 646 office workers end others. ted themselves like men. , The trial is expected to finish in two more days. Houses for the People \ HERE is still a most sertous short- || age of houses for the workers throughout Britain. I was at a small || town in South Wales. Fifty houses only are going up there, three hundred applicants are on the list as in urgent need of a house, I have just returned from Coventry a place of only one hundred and thirty thousand inhabi- tants, there is at the present hour a demand in Coventry for over five thou- sand houses, Overcrowding exists to a deplorable extent, the government are trying now to force along the building of steel houses, but these are seri- ously objected to by the workers. TRENTON Saturday, December 12 Paddretz Hall, cor. Beatty and Whitman Streets. | NEW YORK | Saturday, December 19 Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Len- nox Ave, SAN FRANCISCO Sunday, December 20 Music, dancing, at 225 Valencia St, at 8 p. m, sormapeetsien Deportation of Australian Union Officials IH Australian government have passed an amending act to em- power them to deport any worker not of Australian birth, Tom Walsh the official of the Australian Seamen's Union has been @ very capable official, and has helped the members tain their standard by means i Dance and Enjoy Yourself at the DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTIES |