The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1926, Page 3

ag CHILE STIRS | "$0, AMERICA AGAINST UL. Pershing Arrogance Rouses Continent — WASHINGTON, Jan, 3—Statements by the White House spokesman that Gen, Pershing will not be consulted with reference to the decision to be made by President Coolidge as arbi- trator on Chile’s appeal in her border ‘dispute with Peru, add more fog to France Demands Debtors Pay Up; Needs Cash Now BUCHARDST,’ Roumania, Jan, 3.— France is appealing to her debtors to pay their debts, according to official notification to the Roumanian govern- ment by the French ambassador here.. The ambassador informed Foreign Minister Duca that France would send a note to Roumania within the next few days asking her, in view of the difficult position of France herself, to regulate the Roumanian war debts. GERMAN BOSSES CUT WAGES T0 “the mystery surrounding Pershing’s return from his job in '‘Tacna-Arica. The White House insists that the job ‘ of arbitrator has not been relinquish- ed by Coolidge,.and will be carried on without interruption. 3 Wall Street Retreats. Yet Pershing is coming back to the United States, having failed to induce the Chilean government to accept his rulings as to how the plebiscite in the disputed area shall be held. Dis- Patches from Tacna-Arica say that the whole American staff and its equipment is being sent home. If this 1s the fact, then Washington has suffered a serious defeat. fm the game of prestige which is being play- ed under the name of pan-American understanding. Chile has appealed from Washington to Geneva—if not in technical fact at least in effect, Consuls Report Resentment. Resentment of the growing imperial dominance of the United States: wer the internal affairs of Latin-Apn | "4 has culminated in this revolt ofsa | P° American consuls and diplomatme the Latin-American republics in kept the state department appto sof the growth of anti-Washd, sentiment. Now it has register self in the Pershing affair in Id Arica so dramatically that the whvel world is witness, i Nevertheless, up the need of American‘loans by thes; Latin-American governments ard their capitalists. He agrees with Séc- retary of the Treasury Mellon that they must, finally, come to the Amer- fcan money market, and accept its terms. Colleges No Place for R. O. T. C. Units, Declares Minister GALESBURG, Il, Jan. 3.—R! 0, T. C. units have no place in colleges, Prof. Raymond Brooks of Pomona college, California, declared at the convocation of Illinois congregational ministers. Imperialist Butcher Boasts of (Continued from page 1) truncheons of the Royal Irish Con- stabulary (heavy and unbreakable). Imperialist Bone Breakers. I had already broken two of the “old issue,” and was damn glad to get a hold of the “new issue,” held in reserve for just such as this. We broke scores of collar bones, frac- tured a dozen or more skulls, broke one Chinese back, and ruined faces, broke noses and arms and legs. Never in my life have | been so brutal, so utterly given over to the lust for blood as | was that day, unless it be on the many fights since then these past two weeks. Hank, it may seem incredible to you, eighteen white men fighting a mob of ten thousand hand to hand, ‘but I ask you only to come ont here, to see the Chinese, to live here awhile and realize that with the for- eigner here it is “get in the first blow make it final, or perish with wife and children.” Extreme means are necessary in dealing with.a Chinese mob—shoot first and talk later, or else you go “Up the Bubbling Well.” ‘Only that morning we had been car- rying on the works of peace—and this afternoon we were armed for a long campaign, had killed ten Chinese, crippled many for life, and had spilled blood;all over Nanking Road—to pro- tect “our interest, the city we had built, the system and order we had ‘produced, against the looting, crazy mob of Chinese. Well, when we were ‘about’ to open fire again, and this time to perhaps kill hundreds, two of * our armored cars arrived, each with 1 inch steel walls, turrets, and ma- chine guns mounted like in tanks— amd these cars drove full speed into the mob. Christians at Work. The injured was appalling, two crushed to death, their guts spurting all over the street, broken legs, ribs, and battered bodies caused by the mad rush for safety, And the street cleared, and the motor cars of the foreigner were able to pass, the large majority of the occupants rode up un aware of the trouble—and finally driv- ing off madly to arm themselves, and once more gird their loins, forget their work, don their uniforms and -Ventyre forth to protect their homes. Im a’ way it's like the development of the west, the Indian warfare, »» All night long we - patroled, in groups of four or five, now and then » fired upon by hidden snipers, now and ~ Coolidge shows ni Ses a sign of depression; he counts upor 4, & WIN MARKETS And Workers of Mill Towns Suffer BERLIN—(FP)—With a group of students I was able to go through a Gorman textile mill in Thuringia, The mill was located ina small town and employed about 450 workers. It was making up pattern goods of half and half cotton and wool, There was, no,electric machinery in the mill, All machines were driven by a complicated, system of overhead shafting, The weaving room was the largest single department of the mill. There was no’ spinning. The mill was on a 9-hour day. Most of the workers were over 40. Some of them were much older. “The young folks are all radicals,” someone ex- plained. “The older people are sfeadier and more reliable.” men The top hourly price paid in the cattl jweaving-room was 68 ptennig (17c). gMost of the weavers were handling famifWo looms. For a 9-hour day, the 68 capi Pfennig rate makes a gross wage of , $1.46. From this there are deductions for insurance etc. Women inspectors and finishers -xeceiving a top price of 50 = 12%e). They told us, that oS 2 were able to earn that LEFF zs. ¥ : The &xce in this mill was hard. The loofi.were, old and required a great deal of attention. The work was fine, and much of it was exacting. Yet @ weaver of 20 years experience con- sidered that he was doing well when he earned $1.50 per day. Workers in the textile industry are better paid than in the pottery and the chemical manufacturing indus- tries. All of them are reaping the results of the treaty, the Dawes plan and the Locarno pact. ‘The watchword of German industry is “Less wages; more work; lowered production costs. We must win back the world market.” Incidentally they must starve the workers. But that, is the essence of imperialism, S then the target for well-placed house bricks thrown by hidden devils. We jared not go into the Chinese quar- ters, for sudden death lay there—at least we had orders not to venture into the quarter. During the next few days I had repeatedly gone there, with a dozen or so Sikhs each time; and each time, when deep in the heart of the Chinese quarter, was attacked in force and had to shoot it out. Total darkness, only the flash of the enemy guns, only the shouts of the Chinese to fire at. Well, to get back to chron- ological order, dawn came, and found us nervous wrecks with worry and thinking. What was coming next? No man knew. -Preparatory Disarming, And at the first streaks of dawn the heathen devils emerged from their foul dens, and soon the streets were ican war steamers, are fairly reeking with Chinese, some armed with knives, some with clubs, some with scythes, but none with arms—because due to our raids car-|the burning tramear, the screaming ried on all the time, summer and win-| children, the moaning shamed woman, ter, no arms were to be had by the Chinese that we hadn't seized al-|the terrible retribution that overtook ready. And, once again we had to|them suddenly and quietly. And I fire into the mob. We first played fire hoses on them, but to no effect, which thus demonstrated the temper | part in it. of the Chinese. For ordinarily, the only thing that is able to drive a Ohinese off the streets is rain—and, soaked to the skin, these devils bomb- arded us with house bricks, I was cut badly about the head, my uniform torn off by back by a scythe, just missing my skin—so | killed the devil and the dirty work began. I wasn't] taught its respect for the foreigners, the first one to fire, for the firemen |needs to appreciate the fact that vio- were knocked out by bricks and had|lence cannot be done the white man to quit, and the first to open up the/or woman without punishment and ball was the Lewis gun outfit, The slaughter was pretty, at the first session, with the usual THE DAILY WORKER $33 A MONTH THE AVERAGE IN GERMANY, Workers at Edge of Real Starvation BERLIN—(FP)—Foms in one part of the world find it hard to think in terms of the economic struggle that is taking place elsewhere. There has been much talk about Germany under the Dawes Plan, and public men have found various grounds for discussion in the figures showing so many mill- ions of marks for this item and so many tens of millions for that. But no workers ever see merks by the million, They spend most of their time dealing with pennies. One worker in ‘Berlin has given me a careful statement of his income. He works for ‘the street-car company, and as he is a single man, with three years of service to his credit, he receives 70 pfennig per hour (about 17 cents). Beginners work for 60 pfennig. Workers on the Berlin streetcars work about 234 hours a month—26 days of 9 hours each. That makes a total monthly income, for a single man, of 163.80 marks. If the man had a wife, he would get 3 pfennig more per hour, He would also receive a like amount for each child. This man is single, however, so his income is just about $39 per month, gross. From it there are several de- duetions: For a pension 8 marks per month, health insurance 7,80, unem- ployment .90, income tax 5.70, or total Want Italian Fascism Here Investigated by Congress as Seditious ee WASHINGTON, Jan. © 3,—(FP)— Resolutions adopted by the Washing- ton central labor union call upon c ngress to investigate the activities of the propaganda staff sent to this country by the Italian government bureau of foreign propaganda of fa- scism, They ask the federal govern- ment to cooperate with the American Federation of Labo" in resisting the efforts of fascist party branches in the United States to prevent Italian immigrants from becoming American- ized. They denounce fascism as being provocative of disorder. GERMAN VISITOR TO ALF. OF L, DAWES PLAN NOW PROVING FAILURE TO GERMAN LABOR Gloom Fills Workers of Leipsic LEIPSIC, Germany—(FP)—Leipsic is one of the leading industrial cen- ters of Germany. It is a city with considerably more than half million people, many of them highly skilled | in book-manufacturing and in ma- chine-industry. There are 113,008 Leipsie workers affiliated with the German Federation of Labor and about 30,000 more organized in other. bodies. Wages are very low, In the chem- ical and machine industries, men work for as little as 20 marks ($5) per week, This is for unskilled labor. Skilled men are paid as high as 90 PEDDLING BUNK Tells German Labor to Produce More GERA, Germany—(FP)—Returned from America the Socialist Kurt Rosenfeld said four things in the United States impressed him: The immensity of American industrial and structural technique, the helplessness of the individual worker, the relative-| ly high economic standard of the skilled worker and the weakness of the American trade unions. Rosenfeld is a good speaker; a phalia; and an active opponent of the deductions of 22.40 marxs per month. There is left a net monthly income of about $33. Berlin is an expensive city to live in. Though rents are much lower than in the United States, the things that a worker has to buy cost much the same in Berlin as in Buffalo, Cincinnati or Kansas City. How do the workers in Berlin man- age to live and to maintain families on such wages? That is a question that I have asked 50 times since I came to the city, and thus far I have not found a single American who knew the answer. But the German workers know, and if you visit them in their crowded rooms, they tell you in very concrete terms of physical hardship. Doctor, They’ll Have to Get Rid of Plutes to Be Able to Do That NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—in the year 2,000 everybody will be at least a hundred years old and living until two hundred will not be uncommon, Dr, Hornell Hart, professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr, told the American So- ciological Society. street full of heathens crawling on all fours, bleeding and screaming, and the usual street full of gore. The devils at the far end of the street had stopped a tram car, pour- ed oil all over it, pulled out the white people, women and children, and stripped one English girl naked. And, some day, when I can speak to you, Hank, I'll give you the story of what was done to the Chinese present who were surrounded in one mob by us, while they were parading this poor woman down the street to the laugh- ter of their comrades. Some day I'll tell you : things, things that aren’t written in his- tory, nor published in papers, and are not talked about in police bar- racks. And, | put you on your honor not to let this stuff get out. Talk if you want to, mention not MARX SAW SPARK FROM CHINESE REVOLUTION. mtg may safely be augured that the Chinese revolution will throw the spark into the overloaded mine of the present industrial system and c: prepared general crisis, which spreading abroad, will be closel olutions onthe Continent. It would order into the Western World while be a curious spectacle, my name, but show this not to a soul. Honor. I'll never to my dying day forget the raving, screeching Chinese—and feel proud of the fact, in view of what sights I've seen, that I took Every so often these filthy devils need a regular whol: le slaughter brought home to them, a looting and raping, a torturing and murder- ing like the allied armies brought home to them at the re! of the legations in the Boxer, Every generation needs to be manifold; Without that teaching the seven |foreigner) must needs pack up and leave,-or-remain and see his wife vio- dy ause the explosion of the long- the Western powers, by English, French and conveying ‘order’ to Shanghai, Nanking and the mouths of the Great Canal.”—Karl Marx, August 8, 1853. conservative tendencies of the Ger- man Social Democratic party. For nearly three hours he held his audi- ence while he described the big buildings, the elevators, the subways, the hotels, the organization of facto- ries and the rush and hurry of Amer- ican life. His hearers were almost all from the working class, and Ro- senfeld’s picture of the comforts and conveniences enjoyed by skilled Am- erican workers contrasted sharply with the low living standards pre- valent in German industrial regions. Rosenfeld found the American un- ions engaged in banking but overlook- ing the class struggle. Rosenfeld’s,,conclusion was typical of the economic point of view domi- nant in the German Socialist party. After describing the terrible economic Juggernaut thé Americans have cre- ated, he endéd his talk by urging the German worke?s to increase produc- tion, with tH@ suggestion that they might thus @ijoy the same things that the Amefitan workers now have. Germany *}#facing an unemploy- ment crisis, but the speaker had nothing to sdy about where to find a market forthe increased output which he was urging. Build the, DAILY WORKER. 7 he lated in some anti-foreign uprising such as this. Teaching Another Generation. So, having-in mind the awful slaughter of foreigners here in 1905, wa descended suddenly and with vio- lence, attempting to nip it in the bud. But these last two weeks we've been nipping, and to date, after 16 solid days of fighting and policing and shooting, the situation is as bad as ever, For one week I went without sleep, without seeing a bed, without wash- ing, and what little catnaps I got were never of more than an hour's dura- tion in eight, and soon broken by some sudden alarm. And later, even our catnaps were broken by sniping into our barracks by snipers posted in high points, who fled when we stormed these,points. The question e followed by political rev- that of China sending dis- mer- on all tongues, heard and speculated on all hands, was “When will the ‘Awkins arrive. When will the Huron and the gobs arrive? When will the Loyal Irish regiment come from Hong- kong? Will they arrive in time?” Sailors Bring Fear of God, And, let me tell you, Hank, the prettiest sight I've seen was the first landing party of British sailors, in full war kit, marching thru the mass- ive irom gate of our Louza Fort, to take over some of our work and put the fear of God into the heathens that we hadn't sent west. Yet, they arrived even too late, and let me tell you about the worse fight of the up- rising: I'll skip over the shooting I had gotten into in the Chinese quarter while posting martial law proclama- tions, I had h squad of these fine, husky Sikhs, of the British army, with me, and ‘was posting proclama- tions of martial law in the heart of the worst district in We marks per week ($22.50) in the ma- chine industry, but this is exceptional. Printers are now getting about 65 marks ($16.25) per week. Food +is al- most as expensive as it is in a city of the same size in the United States. Clothing is a little cheaper. Rent is very much less, “We Americans cannot understand how families can be maintained on such wages,” I said to the secretary of the Leipsic Central Labor union He smiled grimly. “We Germans cannot understand it wither,” he said Matters are made worse by the rapidly increasing unemployment. Millions of German’ workers supported the Dawes plan because they thought | it would give them work, even if wages were low. During the past few weeks unemployment in Leipsic has increased greatly. Leipsic is only one of the many industrial industrial cities of Ger- many. Like all that I have seen, however, it is oppressed by economic pessimism. Germany has been re- habilitated. The profiteers are back in power, but they have .1ess business than they expected, and the working masses are living on the ragged edge of famine, Daily News Gets New Charter. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 3—The Chicago Daily News, Inc., of Chicago, with 1,000 shares of no par value stock, has been issued a chatter by Secretary of State Emmerson. The company, headed by Walter A. Strong, recently purchased the paper from the estate of Victor A. Lawson for $15,000,000. “Incorporators are O. F. Glenn, J. N. Franks and Laird Bell, Principal stockholders and directors are Mr. Strong; Frederick Lundgren and F. C. McCrum. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. Murders got into a tight mess, had over five thousand crazy rioters surrounded us, and throwing stones at us. Bayonet Work of Sikhs. The Sikhs took at the mob with bayonets, I commanded them not to fire, but to stick the ringleaders. We beat five up badly, one with a frac- tured skull, And, to avoid shooting and therefore more diplomatic com- Plications, we broke into a tea house and barricaded ourselves. The mob broke into the rear, and we had to shoot to defend ourselves, But we killed none, wounding only a tew— never stayed to count them. Then, far in the distance we heard firing, many rifles and machine guns in action. And, in order to be where we were needed, we beat a retreat, heading to the scene of action. And as we went up the wide paved street, into which we debauched we were greeted by a storm of bullets, hun- dreds of them, whizzing all about us. We stuck close to the house walls, and went on the double. At the most well-known corner of the Far Hast, at an intersection where the finest ‘sil- versmith shops, and finest diamond merchants’ shops are; and where the largest amusement house in the Orient is located, a fierce gun battle was going on. Up the street was charging a company of Scottish, and two troops of American cavalry; and three armored cars we: driving up the street, bull: P| ing all over their thick armour, their Lewis guns playing on the mobs and raising havoc. From the windows of the amuse- ment house, the New World, came a heavy ‘rifle fire, while from the win- dows of one of my buildings under construction came the fire of several automatic rifles, My Sikhs disap- peared, going into a small house from which several Chinese were shoot- ing—and the shooting soon stopped. A Crack Shot. I went into another house where Chinese were sniping, and we soon killed the snipers at their posts, and took over their positions—myself, ‘an- other cop and a man who later turned out to be one of the best shots in Shanghai, Two hard looking coolies emerged from the back entrance of one of the storm centers and started to make their getaway, but this crack shot put @ bullet in the eye of one of (Continued on ‘page 6) | Page Three Two Big Issues of The Daily Worker COMING! BIRTHDAY Issue JANUARY 9 The second anniversary of The Daily Worker brings to our readers the new and im- proved fighting daily—with | a record of glorious past achievements and filled with features that will stand as a promise of the future better Daily Worker. 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