The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1925, Page 6

— Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago! TL Phone ‘Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (In Chicago only): By mail (outsids of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear ‘ $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F, DUNNE f MORITZ J. LOBB...... ..Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1 “at the post-office at Cht- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ‘Advertising ‘rates on application, | Back to the Marines Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler of the United States marines, who was loaned to the city of Philadelphia to act as police commissioner, liked the job so well that he wanted to remain per- Se 10 manenitly. As his leave of absence from the marines had expired at} the end of two years the general decided he would remain in Phila- delphia, so he sent his resignation to Coolidge at Washington. But onthe following day Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia decided that Butler’s ald was no longer required and asked the former marine commander to resign as police commissioner. Butler refused to re- sign as he comsidered the business of vice suppression in, the city ot brotherly love preferable to shooting unarmed workers in the warm climate of Haiti. The mayor, however, was adament and threatened to fire the t soldier and patriot. So Butler finally resigned, but in do- ing so he hurled a verbal volley at the mayor of Philadelphia. That gentleman, said Butler, ordered the police head to “lay off the big places” in enforcing the prohibition law, because “there is a differ- ence between a $7,000,000 investment and a cheap place which sells poor booze.” It seems that Butler was the veriest novice in politics and could not distinguish between bootleggers with political prestige and those seurvy knaves who peddle moonshine in alley shacks, Surely a po- lice commissioner who cannot recognize the difference between the head waiter of the Ritz-Carlton and a suit case bootlegger cannot be expected to add lustre to the administration under which he works. The brigadier general was brought to Philadelphia to pose as a crusader and when he stationed policemen before blind pigs it helped the bootleggers, as they acted as advertisements for the proprietors. But when he tried to interfere with the police system of graft received from protection of vice, he became obnoxious. Instead of realizing that he was dealing with sovereign voters who were able to buy votes to keep the republican administration of Philadelphia in power he imagined he could use the same tactics as he did in suppressing the population of Haiti in the interest of imperialism. His police conducted themselves like marines, breaking into houses, clubbing and beating people and bringing the whole administration of the city into disrepute. Butler was endangering the republican machine of Philadelphia, so Coolidge and the war department refused to grant a further leave to Butler, hoping peacefully to remove him under the pretext that the marines could not do without him. His resignation foreed ,the hand of Mayor Kendrick and the subsequent political scandal. Butler has now been asked by President Coolidge to reconsider “<~-his Fésignation from the marnies and Philadelphia republicanism can go on collecting tribute from the Ritz-Carlton, the Belleyue-Stratford and Walton hotels, while the great “vice crusade” continues against those bootleggers and proprietors of brothels who do not contribute to the slush fund of the Pennsylvania regular) republican machine, under the domination of Senator George Wharton Pepper. Meanwhile the Tammany mayor-elect. of New: York; James Walker, has ignored the suggestion that he select Colonel William Mitchell as police commissioner of that city and.has appointed a politician who knows whom to arrest and whom to. protect in the interest of Tammany hall. Marines and air colonels are all right when it comes to bombing defenseless peoples of undeveloped countries. or «mashing strikes, but it requires a degree of political sagacity in dealing with eminent bootleggers that is entirely too much to expect from army officers. a Determined to Stand Alone Decisions of the conventions of the Russian Communist Party ‘are always events of world-wide significance because that party is| win a population of 300,000 with a the vanguard and the motivating force of the revolution. No decision | considerable handicraft and agricul- is of greater importance than the one recently adopted to the effect | tural proletariat, with national revo- Iutionary traditions, with strong or- surrounded by that the Bolsheviks of Russia will “follow a reconstruction policy with a view to industrializing Russia to the extent where the coun- try will manufacture heavy machinery and equipment, thereby assur- ing independence from capitalist countries.” With heavy industries in the Soviet Union already surpassing in productive capacity the best years before the war and a steady ‘adywnce of its general economic life, this latest decision was the next logical step in face of the opposition of the capitalist world. Manu- facturers of machinery for heayy industry in the United States will pay-for the stupidity of a government that refused to recognize Rus- sia ata time when millions of dollars worth of orders could have “been wbtained for such machinery, ' Countries in the process of .heavy industrial development today “pass thru two grell-defined stages. The first is when they are in the wertd market to purchase the machinery of production for their “ownneeds, The second is marked by the increase of production to the point where there is a surplus sufficient to enable the country itself {0 establish industfies for building the machinery of ptoduction. Russia has, since the revolution, been in the market for hea machinery, and was ready and, anxious to purchase this. machinery from the United States. But the government dominated by such infeviorities as Hughes and Kellogg refused to recognize the Soviets with the result that manysheavy industries in this country are oper- ating ou part time and the workers are obtaining only partial em- ployment because of the absence of the market in Russia. The Russian Communist Party proclaims that it is determined to stand alone and will now proceed to produce the machinery of produetion instead of buying it from other countries. That means, furthermore, that with Russia’s tremendous natural resources it will be ab‘e not merely to supply its own needs, but to compete on the world market with the other producers of machinery for heavy industry. Now that the blundering of the government has become apparent tv all end Russia, by her achievements, proves that the Hughes- loge “information” regarding the Soviet Union were fables ob- ‘tained: ‘from the nda agencies of Riga, Paris’and Berlin, is developing a strong demand from industrialists and bank- Lei This is, of course, inspired by: ‘material in- Recognize ‘the Union of Soviet R peech was made by | | | The following | Boris EB. Skvirsky, sian Information Bureau, Washington, D, C,, at a gathering in Chicago, of the American Rambouillet Sheep Breeders’ Association, which celebra- ted the purchase by the Soviet Union of $260,000 worth of the finest Ram —~| nouillet sheep to be used for breeding | purposes in the Soviet Union: oe 8 } “Mr, ape Ladies and Genile inen: a citizen of the Soviet | Union sey one who for four years since his arrival in this country, has | been trying to assist in the develop ling of trade relations and in the stab- |lishing of a mutual understanding |between the two great countries, I wish to thank the organizers of this | brilliant banquet and all those pres: ent for such an @loquent expression Soviet Union. ‘I wish also to thank the Rambouil- |let, Sheep Breeders’ Association and their officers for the kind assistance given to the representatives of Soviet agriculture while in this country pur- chasing pureipreed sheep. It is a great pleasure to me to be in a po tion to assure you of the reciprocity of feelings toward the great Amer. of our union. There is no doubt that will assist in the further development of trade relations between the two countries. “The resources of America are de- veloped. Those of Russia have hard- ly been touched. American agricul- turé and industries have much to of- fer to the Soviet Union, which is willing to be one of the best of Am- erica’s customers. Rapid Development Assured. “Is rapid development assured to the Soviet Union? The union has the resources, it has a population still larger than that of the United States. The energy of this population -has been freed. A great local market is assured. It is not required to be 2 prophet to predict a speedy and re- markable development of the ‘Soviet | Union within a short time.. This is being substantiated by the pace of head of the Rus- | of friendliness towards the people of | ican nation on the part of the people | these friendly feelings will grow and | development of thejSeviet Union dur- the last three years. “As a result of the world war, of | evolution, of civil war fostered by the iilitary intervention, of foreign arm- and as a result of the blockade, ssian agriculture and industries were practically destroyed. As soon is the safety of the union was as- sured the Soviet Republics started | heir work of reconstruction and as result agricultural production this var is already greater than the pre war production within the present erritory of the Soviet Union, This year’s grain harvest aggregates near- y three billion bushéls, and it is fifty | Jer cent greater than the last year's production, This gives a chance tc he Russian peasalit to consume mor: than at any time ‘fore the war, Need Machinery. Pre-revolutionary “Russia knew lit e of tractors, and4there were in usc |only about five huidred of them. Ir jthe last harvest»ayyer, eleven thous and tractors participated, It is plan ned this year tojmport nineteen thousand more tragtprs and to manu facture in the Seviet Union three thousand. Most of the tractors, nine- ty-nine per cent of genom. are being mported from thé (hited States. All kinds of agricultudimplements aré also being importé&: “Industrial pro- \duction which only‘ four years ago stood at about twetity per cent of the | pre-war volume is téday about seven- | ty-five per cent, afid*judging by this ; economic year's Work and program it is going to be nearly one hundred per cent of the uch volume. Sev- | eral industries such fs the paper and | electrical “industries thave already ex- | ceeded the pre-war valume. A better | picture of the pace of the develop- | ment can be obtained from comparing | the percentages of the 1913 produc- tion of the industries, In 1921-22 the | percentage was only seventeen; in | 1922-23 it was thirty-seven; im 1923-24 it was forty-six; in 1924-25 it’ was seventy-two. The 1925-26 estimate (from October. first, to October first) is ninety-eight. ie isportation System Reestablished. | The Russian. transportation sys- | tem has been re-e: lished. The ex- {tent of damage s red by the rail- = roads may be judged from the 2 that 38,672 railway bridges with 2, total length of forty-eight miles a destroyed during the civil war and had to be rebuilt. 1,280 miles of road- bed have also been rebuilt. The Rus- sian railroads have already been de- ficitless this year and some profit is already expected during the next year Production inthe oil industry 18 about seventy-five per cent of pre- war, but oi] exports during the first nine months of the‘current fiscal year were about thirty per cent greater than in 1913. The Soviet oil industry has been electrified to an extent of about ninety to ninty-five per cent, but before the war only steam had been used, The electrification of the oil industry is an achievement of the ast few years. “The textile industry has practical- 7 reached seventy-five per cent of ‘e pre-war production and is very apidly moving ahead, Inteflsive work 3 being carried out in the installa- ion of new machinery and building of new mills. It is expected that with- n ten or twelve months the industry will surpass the pre-war output. This 1eans that American cotton is going o find its way into the Soviet Union s heretofore, Metal Industry Suffered Most. “The slowest to develop’ was the metal industry, as it suffered most ‘rom the destruction during the per iod of civil war and foreign interven- tion. During the fiscal year 1923-24 * the output was only about twenty-five | per cent of pre-war. This ‘last year it has been already fifty per cent, and the program for 1925-26 calls for pro- duction of nearly one hundred per cent of pre-war. “Productivity of labor in general is growing rapidly. The building of power plants is carried out success- fully and about one hundred million dollars have already been spent. , Currency Recovered, “The recovery of Soviet finances has been astonishing. Of various Eu- | money ropean currencies the Soviet was the first to be completely restored. is very stable. | Par value of which is five dollars and fourteen cents, has been quoted for By B. S. (A Letter From Damascus.) The rising of the Druse, which ac- |cording to the opinion of the French, ‘was only of local significance, and | which would be easy to suppress, has extended far beyorid the boundaries of the Jebel Druse. Insurrectionary tracting the army away from the main front, Jebel Druse-Damascus. raids also on the outskirts of Aleppo, | Lebanon, |put an end to the “brilliant victory” lot the French in the Jebel Druse and latter. Damascus the Key. But the main danger for the French is Damascus. Damascus is a town ganizations, and is By J. E. SNYDER. writing to The tem of that section. He says: groups are still being organized thru- out the whole of Syria, which are de- stroying rallways and telegraph lines, preparing local risings, and thus de- The risings at Hama, Hims in the tegion of Alsupta and the frequent |on the Damascus-Betrut road, south of and at Vadi-Azaham and Vadi-Kipr, all these movements have |have compelled them to evacuate the | A farmer who raises principally cot- ‘ton, near.the border of eastern Okla- |homa, and belongs to the gfarmers’ | Union in Green County, Arkansas, in National Farmers’ Magazine, exposes the landlord sys- “The the town. ‘Therefore, the insurrec- tention to Damasqys, around which considerable partisan, groups are con- centrated. BF 3 oe ‘A plan had alveauy been drawn up “in good time” atoghe French head- quarters, for provoking a premature rising, in order to-etamp out the revo- lutionary mood im:the town with | bloodshed and , which was to serve as a “lesson’fpfor other towns. ‘Massacre the Workers. The French began wiping out “bands” in the working class quar- ters, bombarding ‘ole villages and “suspicious” aeroplanes, destroying them ly, and kill- ing the inhabitants, There were cas- es of French ven dragging fellahin away from their Welds and killing them under the xt that they had been sheltering “bandits.” The field court martial was energet- ically at work in the town, and scores of insurrectionariés were publicly hung. The French are continually trying to rouse one section of the population against another, are spreading false rumors that the Druse are killing and beating up the Armenians and chris- ing them one ton of fertilizer for forty barrels of potatoe’ ready for the mar- ket. The Maine pbtatoes are selling in the market ‘ $6.75 a barrel, which, in addition’to the cost of pro- duction makes tl cost of fertilizer to the farmer 000 a ton. The commercial — (ot fertilizer is $35 @ ton.” , bulk of the best cotton land is owned by a few men, and a great many of them are cotton buyers who want to take the cotton from the tenant as soon as it is gathered and the tenant or he has got to get off their farms. has to let them have it at their bid, It does not matter how honest or how goof a tenant farmer is, these things happen here’ in my county. These landlords say it would be al- right if we just had business men to manage our co-operative business.” A western farm leader had this to say in the same magazine: “From all indications this will be the hard- est year since deflation, Farmers are hanging on by their eyebrows and it is evident that the homes of tens of thousands, which six years ago were considered safe from the clutches of ‘Shylock,’ are now hope- lessly lost. Since agriculture with- out organization is absolutely down and out, the courts and ollecting agencies are reaping rich harvests, Those who are being evicted are talk- ing revolution and all this under a full dinner pail administration.” PE na cota of Aroostook county dia noe have he money ro grea “erop mort- Borden cern. The trust» for take it and help, nation as they dnstance, might farm=rsc? “4a them in Maine. farmers’ iasgu- Yorker, printed ments: “We can ‘situation in the satisfaction to “ This magazine 8 tells of “A gi- , the Nation- corporation and idiart exceed y mil- all the stock of zine, The Rural ‘N in-New York, © view the dairy industry the dairy | in reciting a few gantic milk com| al Dairy prod twenty-five other sets of which Mon doMars will 1s now being | big corporation. gone thru some- gobbled up by Recently I thing like fifty It is the same | of them, with ones put out d of which there country. a nos nave ine The fer- tionaries have devoted their main at-| {lief and you know it. , the ase) Under the Yoke of French Troops large and marion gardens—places , tians. where entire groups; of partisans can | little avail, the town did not respond hide themselyes with;facility and also | to this provocation, and did not or-jover the town, which, togeher with the jeasily and undetected penetrate into | ganize a premature rebellion. But all these measures are of Acts of a “Socialist” General. Then the “socialist,” General Sar- | rail thought out new means: “banait prisoners were compelled “to carry thru the town on their shoulders the bodies of their murdered comrades.” The soldiers on the punitive B. expe- dition received complete freeaom to | kill and to plunder. In the surround- ing villages an absolute bacchanalia reigned. Young children and women were violated and then killed, Entire villages such as, Muliashi, Rabeul, Jeriman were cut up and destroyed. The plunderers sold their loot at the bazaars. This eventually got beyond the patience of the population. In one memorable night, iov French soldiers were killed in various parts of the town. The next morning a ris ing started in the Mindan and Sharur quarters. The French commenced bombarding these quarters and also the quarters of El Dervish and E! Zurie, The insurrectionaries mainly endeavored to seive the government buildings. The main fight took place on the outskirts of the house of the El Zei family (a prominent feudal min- ister) where General Sarrail lived and who had left Damascus a day before, sure that his provocation would be Gleaned From Farmers’ Publications gages on the ‘fartiiers’ potatoes, giv-| They make their own milk products and sell them. So do many of the other big concerns. Farm co-operators therefore, might well learn now to respect the facts of mighty combinations of wealth in the hands of the few and ponder how far they are going to get in trying to compete this octopus out of busi- ness, You ask the capitalist congress to help, but you won't get any re So we ask you once again to turn your atten- tion to world unity, a farmers’ and ' workers’ government that can and must take over the world for the workers, Let’s start now and build a labor party. It’s in the air, let's tune in Young Workers Jailed. PARIS, Dec. 24—The young work- ers Carmesmel and Candelais, who distributed L'Humanite, the central organ of the Communist Party, the day of the strike against the Morocco- an-Syrian war, were arrested and sen- company,” which |tenced to five months and a thousand francs fines each. The judges did not discuss whether the respective issue of the paper con- tained seditious material or not. The fact that the paper was distributed “on an excited day” was considered indictment against the state and the government. ‘ England-Spain Lifts. Passpo| rt. MADRID, Dec. 28, -» A. passport agreement between England and Spain was signed e: the citi zens of the two cot from the The | The Soviet |Monetary unit, the ‘chervonetz’ the | the last eighteen months mostly above par, «No-paper money is being issued for-the purposes of the budget and the growth, of the Soviet budget may be judged from the following figures: In 1913 it was 3,500,000,000 gold rubles; in 1922-45 it fell to one and one-third billion gold rubles, and the budget for the current fiscal year is alreay above three and three- quarter billion gold rubles, that is al- ready above pre-war. Where does the money come from? From direct and indirect taxation and profits from the industries. Where does the money go? In the Czarist budget only five and nine-tenths per cent were expend- ed for education and public health while the current budget provides eleven per Gent.’“And this is only the beginning. It’is‘the hope of the unior ] to have thi reentage increased from year to . The government a tims’ to the restoration and developmiént “of industries and agricultures;Aecording to thé agri- cultural: law of last year, the single agricultural tax; just one tax which the farmers payin the Soviet Union —this tax.has been reduced last year ‘rom four hundred million gold rubles to only 240,000, 000 gold rubles, to only $120,000,000, ‘Tf you consider that the Soviet Uniort “has 22,000,000 tarm- holds,, you will éasily come to the conclusion ‘thait\the taxation is very. low. Theré {s 410 doubt that the So: viet village: will:get: much more from the government, than it ‘pays to it. Cut Military Appropriations. “The appropriation for the army and navy was less than half of pre- war and the Soviet Union which has reduced its army from five millions to half a million would be willing to support the most sweeping universal disarmament proposal. Here is a cause in, which Russian-American co- operation would be greatly welcomed. Foreign Trade increases. “Foreign trade for the last year amounted to-over $664,000,000 com- pared with $485,000,000 of the pre- ceing year and $1,350,000,000 before the war. The turnover for this year was thirty-three per cent above the previous year and stands. at nearly. fifty per cent of the pre-war volume. | Imports for the year were: 316,000,000 successful, . A squadron’ ‘of 50 aeroplanes flew heavy guns, bombardea the poor quarters of the town. * “then< tanks were let loose. The town defended it- self heroically, the streets were barri- caded and the‘town could*have reésist- ed for avery’ long time; but seeing that the French ' were ready to fight even to the extent: of *reducing* Dam- aseus to ashes, the‘ revolutionaries finally left the tow: » Nobility Accept’ Conquerors. The nobility accepted all iue-condi-tes to tions of General Sarrail and Camielin neluding the payment’ of 15v,.u0 gold Turkish pounds; 10,000 rifles, ‘10,000 sounds of ammunition and the hand- ing over of all those suspected who will be brought beforeia Court martial. In the town of Nagam, the hangmen who were let loose, began hanging and shooting whole groups. . The number of killed is 6,000 at a-minimum,. The corpses have not yet been cleared away from beneath the ruined houses. the minimum material losses amount to 10 million gold pounds. In order to mask their cruelties, the French’are again spreading rumors about arab attacks on Armenians and But tuese are impudent In spite of the provoca- tion of the French, absolute peace is reigning now, just as before, between st Square, epublics! , S. KUREY. screeds heabces and small “prospects” are occupied by the stantly moving crowd, The sun seems less radiant in comparison with the red banners; borne by the workers who celebrate the first anniversary | their own government. “The International’ sung by millions of voices thindérs thru the streets, ong bscimstcid dies away at the The Soviet house is decorated in red. In the middle of the Saw cupied, preyibuely bya tremendous: monument: of General Skobeleft, sn NE ene and exports 261,000,000. The adverse balance of 50,000,000 as compared with a favorable balance of 65,000,000 in 1923-24 {8 attributed to the poor harvest of 1923-24 and the cessation of grain exports. It is expected that fhe figures for 1925-26 trade will she w considerable further progress over a billion dollars. “Trade with the United States was between forty and forty-five million dollars before the war. The last fiscal year, ending October 1, 1925, is about to show trade with the United States of about $100,000,000 which is more than double compared with pre-war. During the last few months forty per cent of Soviet imports came from the United States, which led all countries on the import list, for the year. Be- fore the war, the imports from Amer- ica were only six per cent of the to. tal. Only a Beginning. “But this is all only a beginning. American sheep growers were. prised to learn that the Soviet U: is engaged in improving the qi of its sheep and their fleece, but: aave met in person the representa: tives of the comimissariat of agricul: ure, who have spent here $250,000. They could not buy all they needed, and next. year, no doubt, may: sea chose men and others again in the } United States and more sheep may, -o the Soviet Union. With the excep: -ion of grain the Soviet Union needs practically all America has to offer for export. “In summing up I may say that tn che next three to five years the world. will be greatly surprised by witness- ing the remarkable development of the Soviet Union. Those who think that this is an exaggeration will have. to change their opinion. With each year the needs of the country will ‘ow larger and the possibilities of trade relations between the United States and Soviet Union will increase. We have already American tractors, machinery, cotton, sheep, eto, In this respect the Soviet Union is being ‘Americanized.’ Permit me to ex- press the hope that the future will see this trade set on @ permanent basis to the mutual advantage of both countries.” — (Great applause.) 7 ret in Syria the various sections of the population. For instance, on the outskirts of Khi- ma, the Fellahin in the first place burned the agrarian bank and oa same thing in Damascus. Government by Feudal Landlords, On the other hand, the government. “ of Sabkhibey Birikot proposes iss a decree for the confiscation of property of the revolutionaries. government of Subkhibey is the ernment of the large feudal sade whose interests coincide with those of the French troops. He therefore aot fendi intellectuals, who are. at the head of the insurrection. é The rising in Syria has not.yet. bean suppressed. The country has. only been temporarily weakened. A short time is required to heal the wounds. In this respect all efforts must be ‘strained for the organization of inter~ national class solidarity thru Inter~— national Red Aid. But the revo lutionary forces will gather once more and the hate for the French and for the foreign powers in general is grow- ; ing daily not only in Syria but thru- the neighboring countries The day is not far off when a wave of still more determined tionary risings will commence, will per! spread beyond the front- fers of 8: a rises a huge, tly finished obelisk + dedicated to the. memory of the he voes of. the,, October revolution, 140 The ives of the Sovnar-| com are already. on the balcony. All, except Gomrade Lenin. a The re awaiting with te aeHvel of their tavorite comes! “Long live one 4 Long live Comrade}. Lenin!” Dufing the next few seconds | nothing fy “heard” but these shouts. Thuraday—New Ye Year's ‘ie hialen its first. nom pind an opera Ay ; upon the fa novel bene name by Tolsto has been rese! Workers greet heartily their beloved teacher, Everybody listens breathless- ly to his speech. ‘It has a captivat- ing power. The audience clings to every word he utters. They strug- gle and. . . . conquer together. small, feeble figure dressed Lenin’ nal in a plain réd army soldier's uniform swells in the eyes of the audieuce in- to a gigantic powert personality, The leader of the field HP tevolu- tion, Bs wah