The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKE CHICAGO LABOR GREETS TRUMBULL 'A.S Trumbull stepped off the train in the New Union Station hundreds of workers, representing many working class ¢erganizations affiliated to the International Labor Defense, greeted him on his return to active participation in the struggles of the American workers. Trumbull is now touring the United States telling of the conditions in Hawaii and the methods used by the American sugar barons to keep the Filipino workers in virtual slavery and also to what extent the military authorities will go when they discover that one of their army has labor views. BALDWIN PLANS BY MANEUVER TO BLOCK VOTE Wants No Discussion o Council Seats nr LONDON, March 7.—Great Britain will seek to prevent the formal dis- cussion of the enlargement league of nations’ council at nex Monday's session of the league, it was! ° officially announced today. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British delegate to the league, will suggest that Germany be admitted to the council and that the requests for representation on the council, made by Poland, Spain and Brazil, be deferred until September. Acting as mediator, he will pri- ately confer with the Spanish, Polish | | (Continued from Page 1) | pobaey seat until the regular meeting | of the assembly next September. ~ The situation is particularly un- fortunate for the French imperialists the situation may so shape itself rat by the time ‘next September rolls und Britain will be able to chal- jlenge the French mandate in Syria where the colonial war has been re- {sumed with increased fury. | At the present session Briand, like | Chamberlain, is unable to press his | policy of enlarging the league because | his own. government has repudiated | tho.Germany alone will enter the| ague council, unless the meeting is| postponed, which will be a victory. for| | Britain as the infrigues of that nation | at Locarno were directed toward | bringing Germany into the arena of jthe Ipague-as an ally against France and Italy. Mussolini Blocked. The fascist despot, Mussolini, has and Brazilian delegates, endeavoring #lso been conniving against Britain by to secure their consent to the post-| Striving to create a so-called “Latin ponement. Great Britain belfeves the| bloc” within the league. The backers purpose of Monda; session of the| of this scheme hope to do away with Jeague is the admission of Germany| the rule that decisions of the council and that the importance of this event| ™™uSt be unanimous and establish a must not be clouded by disputes. Re-| Procedure whereby a majority deci- ports that the vatican has intervened | !0n will be decisive. Hence France, in the dispute on behalf of Spain are discounted here. A Foxy Maneliver. Premier Baldwin is taking no chances of possible defeat in the house of commons on the ue of enlarge: ment of the league co’ il and so has decided upon a tactical maneuver which. will obviate the possibility of @n adverse vote against the govern- ment. By moving the adjournment of the house of commons this afternoon Before Sir Austen Chamberlain would have to make his statement concern- ing the British attitude on enlarg ment of the council, the debate will be far all technical purposes on thé que tion of adjournment and will make it Impossible for the laborites or the liberals to introduce resolutions de- finitely opposing the enlargement of the council A Technical Defense. The tactics adopted by the Premier have brought forth severe criticiem from the opposition, which claims that the government has not sufficient confidence in its position to face an open vote on the issue. Furthermore it charges the government with at- tempting to stifle debate. The govern- Ment spokesmen reply that the debate has not been limited, for it can pro- oeed on the motion for adjournment. Spanish Directorate Seeks to Place Labor, Under “Ethical”? Code (Special to The Daily Worker) MADRID, March 7.—The ministry of labor is formulating a code of ethics to govern the treatment of workers and their conduct in economic dis- putes, Eduardo Aunos, minister of labor, @tates that he intends by means of @pecial committess to deal with trikes and by boards of conciliation to remove all friction between capital and labor. Under the new code all workers would have to organize sub- Ject to certain rules designed to secure increased efficiency. The minister ‘wants to remove the labor issue from Politics. _ Why a worker correspondent? Why not? Is there nothing of interes hap- pend it int ‘pening around you? Write it up "| | Italy and Spain would have three | votes, and in case Poland is admitted, | four votes against Britain and Ger- }many. The cabinet crisis in France | temporarily blocks this scheme, Cham- | berlain’s proposal to enlarge the coun- cil had as its object the admittance }of South American republics that } might be lined up with British policy. This is recognized in Britain as a piece of adventurism because these.re- publics are likely to be dominated by| the United States and used against | Britain in the world conflict between | these two titanic imperialist powers. Fear Power of Wall Street, |. There is additional cause for be- lieving that the only nation admitted | will be Germany as a fight to enlarge | the council might provoke a crisis that | would wreck the league and thereby} | cause such widespread political and | economic chaos in Europe that Amer-| lean bank ital would be withheld } from Europe and diverted to China,} | which would be a terrific blow to Brit-| jain in the Pacific. On the other hand the unsettled conditions in China make uncertain the investments there. Wall Street is forced to find new places to invest its! great surplus of gold, so it is logical) | to. expect that it will bring the utmost | pressure td bear upon Italy and France| }to prevent an open break within the| |teague at this time. Agents of all nations except Britain are discussing the probable effect the crisis in the league will have upon future American loans, and the noed for these loans may force the nations to temporarily abandon their intrigues | for control until a more auspicious time. One thing is certain and that is the contradictions and the great political and economi¢ conflicts that rend Europe are today near the breaking point; the league is an impotent thing as proved by its helplessness in was invited to defend its claims in Mosul and Thrace and who hag con- temptuously ignored all demands of the league. China Applies for Seat. SuIL further complicating matters is the demand of China for a permanent seat on the league council. Whereas other’ nations striving to obtain per- manent seats on the council simply make requests, China makes a definite demand, the implication being that in Diplomats Struggle with Chaos case of refusal she will have nothigg | to do with the league. The semi-colonial status of China, the growing nationalist movement and the orientation toward the Sovjet Union, indicates a trend toward \a league of anti-imperialist nations, that, would bring under its influence all ye the colonials of Asia and Africa. Mutual fear of this eventually may paralyze action at the present. as- | sembly of the league and, with the ex- ception of admitting Germany, every- thing will remain just as it was be- fore. of the| him. As.he was the leader of the move-| The only alternative to this at +| ment to enlarge the council it looks} Present is to postpope the league le meeting on the eve of the date set for its opening. It is not improbable that France will strive to get a_post- ponement, altho there are more than forty nations represented here at this time and others are arriving every hour. ¥ ; World Chaos. Delegates here are alarmed at the slightest diplomatic move in any part of the world. All of them, without ex- ception, fear the growing power and influenee of the Soviet Union, but their own irreconcilable conflicts prevent any concerted attion on that front. They also view with misgivings the recent action of Mussolini in call- ing his fascist ambassadors from various capitals back to Rome for some sort of conference, Then, yester- day, they got a new scare when the American government called its Brit- ish ambassador, Houghton, to Wash- ington from London. Forces over which they have no control and be- fore which they tremble seem to be preparing the world for a great catas- trophe. Their confusion truly reflects the world-wide chaos that is more clearly manifesting itself in every con- ference that is held in a futile effort to uphold the shattered structure. of capitalism, Introduce Resolution Calling for Probe of. Chicago Officials A resolution has been presented to the Chicago council calling for an ‘investigation” of the alliance of city officials with gangsters and gunmen, ~ Many Furrier Bosses Sign Union Demands (Continued from Page 1) for the right of the union to appoin one worker in each shop fo act as its rogular investi the agreement, Some independents and a few mem- bers of the Manufacturing Furriers’ Association have made application for settlement of their shops, but these applications will not be taken up un- til the end of next week. Fascists Get Theirs, ESSEN, Germany, Mareh,7—At a clash in Bochum, a town in the Ruhr valley, between fascists and Commun- ists two of the fascists were badly wounded, A suh uw day will help to drive | face of open defiance by Turkey, who| °@Plital away. TRUMBULL appeals to YOu To write to the class war prison- ers of the United States, Information at office of the International Labor Defense, 23 8. Lincoln St, Chicago, Ww. NATIONALISTS DEFEAT ENEMY AT TSANG CHOW Select Cabinet Head for Peking Government ‘Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, March 7—The nationalists claimed two victories today. The na- tional army drove back attacking forces and succeeded in consolidating its lines around Tsahig-Chow, thus ef- fecting its first decisive victory. At the same time the nationalist political groups finally have réached a decision to assume political responsibility for the central government, Accordingly, they have organized a cabinet, keep- ing E. T, Wang as foreign minister and selecting Chica \Tap Yao, former minister of war, as premier. Fighting is now in progress north and south of Tientsin and in Honan. The defeat of the second national ar- my in Honan is admitted. But it is pointed out that the defeat was more apparent than real,. The nationalist troops withdrew in order to await the mobilization of Feng, Yu Hsiang’s former troops, at Kalgan. 40,000 of these will proceed to Honan immedi- ately. The government is being urged to appoint General Feng ‘as a special commissioner to pacify the agitated provinces of Shantung, Shen-Si and Honan. Big Audience Cheers Trumbull in Chicago (Continued from Page 1) ed upon by the commander, and the soldiers that had organized the Hawa- flan Communist League were allowed O Have it printed inthe army print shop. Persecute Communist Soldiers. ‘Trumbull declared that it was only two months later that the persecution of the Communist soldiers took place. 'Nvhen the letterhead was printed with the commander’s approval, the com- mander declared that he did not know that Communism was Yolshevism. After the short coyrt-martial, they were sent to Alcatraz, bie they first arrived at Alcatraz they received the same consideration as the other in- mates, pointed out Trumbull, but when the guards and a orities learn- ed .that Crouch bull were bolsheviks they begela their persecu- tion,/ Trumbull ended higjjtalk with an appeal to the assembled workers to anwar R By J. LOUIS publics. Roderick Matheson, stationed will hunt some good excuse for Siberia. * * the military decorations of F hand, and on the other pointin, their enslavement continue. an expansion of Japanese territory. Dream of Japanese War Against Soviet Union Is An American Nightmare ENGDAHL, MERICAN imperialism would gladly use Japan in new at- tacks from the east’ against the Union of Soviet Re- It is certainly this wish that fathers the hope openly ex- pressed in The Chicago Tribune, thru the correspondence of at Tokio, that the Japanese opening war on Soviet rule in * * The Tribune has made itself infamous thru the flock of jingo writers that it has sent into the orient, not the least of these being Floyd Gibbons, who returns to this country with rench capitalism on the one g out the dangers of granting independence to the Philippine Islands, and demanding that Matheson tries to state the situation for Japan in this paragraph: “We could drive the Russians back to’the Baikal line easily enough, but would we be allowed by the powers to keep Siberia if we won it?” asked a high official of the Japanese army, in cénversation recently re- specting the problem of Japan's surplus population and the necessity of The trick of quoting imaginary “high officials” is one at which America’s kept journalism has grown adept. It is not the Japanese “high official” who speaks, however, but the ambitions of American dollars that inject these silly dreams of continental conquests into the brain of the present dom- inating power over the Mikado's island realm. * * Let the Tribune explain wi the United States, with those it was that the soldiers of Japan and a host of other af anti-Bolshevik nations, that were once on Siberian soil for the purpose of crushing the workers’ and peasants’ repub- lic had to be withdrawn. They could not then stand against the Soviet power, even when it was being attacked along its whole western front in Europe, not to mention the foreign invasion of its soil from the Arctic Ocean, at Murmansk and Archangel. If the united imperialist armies could accomplish nothing but their own defeat in 1919 and 1920, Japan has certainly little chance of triumph, now. iia Japanese imperialism has confessed it realizes this sit- uation when it took its soldiers off every inch of Soviet soil, when it gave up its dreams for the retention of Saghalien Island, rich in natural resources, when it recognized the Soviet government and sent its ambassador to Moscow, and especially when it bowed repeatedly to the Soviet viewpoint in Russian-Chinese relations. but one example. The Manchurian flare-up is Japan has ambitions to be sure, both imperialist Japan and working class Japan. | imperialist Japan would like nothing better than to seize Siberia as the best possible place for Japanese expansion, to get control over Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern railroad, Siberian fisheries and stake its to grab the rights over the oil’ claims in North Saghalien.: That would make it much more worth while for the United States to launch its conquering “war in the Pacific” against the Nipponese empire. Join the Internstionss: mbes Lerscne But Japanese imperialism and aid in the release,ef all the class- war prisoners that are in prison to- day. 5 Soldiers Pile Up Bosses’ Profits Scott Nearing then briefly sketched the development of America as an im- Union who have not the least i ese aggression to establish itsel which the Red Flag now flies. workers themselves more dete: gator of violations of |«e perialist power and itspolicy of crush- ing colonial possessions. He declared that if the soldiers knew that they were being used to pile up profits for the bosses that they would refuse to do so and would fight against the cap- italist exploiters, He brought out that Crouch and Trumbull were imprisoned because they dared carry working class propaganda into the United States army and urge the soldiers of the imperialist armies to unite and fight side by side with the workers. He pointed out that in capitalist coun- tries the army was used to pile up riches for the exploiters but that in Soviet Russia it was used to protect the interests of the workers. He also showed that Russia was the first na- tion to stabilize its currency and be- come stabilized economically. “Freq. Mann, member of the Indus- trial Workers ot the World, spoke on the “Persecution of the Industrial Workers of California.” Ralph Chaplin, I . W. poet, acted as chairman of the meeting. Robert Morse-Lovett of the “American Civi. “iberties’ Union spoke. Need of I,,L. D, Max Schactman fn.his talk showed hat the slogan of the soldiers and orkers of the world uniting was aised first by Liebhmecht and Doriot. » ended his talk with an appeal as the needs ofthe International Labor vetense and urged the workers pres- ent to join. az Os ee McKinley Desperately Appeals to. Churches to Save Pelitical Hide United States Senator William B. McKinley in his desperation to save his political hide is now appearing before churches frantically pleading that they vote for him in the coming republican primaries, McKinley ts now calling upon the church-goers, “on whose recommenda- tion” he voted for the Morgan policy | his face in the coming election. In order to ald MeKiuley, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover will be here tomorrow at the John Bricson banquet and Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania will be here on Saturday, Mareh/13, at the Hamil- ton Club to agitate for the Morgan world court policy ‘and the candidacy of McKinley, WW BOX, not to fight against but with t has two great factors to deal with. There are the workers and peasants of the Soviet intention of permitting Japan- if anywhere in the realms over Then there are the Japanese rmined now than ever before heir Russian comrades. The American dollar tries to incite Japan to war sqnin’ Soviet rule. It will be a bad day for profit rule in both Japan and the United States when that war starts. It wouldn't be a glorious dream of conquest. It would rather be a black awakening in the jaws of defeat. FRANCO-TURKISH AGREEMENT ENDS. BORDER DISPUTE reer * Great Britain Withdraws eis Opposition (Special to The Daily Worker) CONSTANTINOPLE, March 7—The negotiations between Turkey and France over the rectification of the Syrian frontier have been concluded by an arrangement under which the principal Turkish claim has been con- ceded... Trouble over the boundary has been acute for some time. The Bagdad railway forms the division line for some 200 miles, between Aleppo and Nisbin.” The railroad will now defi- njtely be under Turkish control, tho # 60-mile section from Muslimieh and Rajun will still be within Syrian ter- /|ritory. Great Britain has hitherto opposed a settlement of the question because of her desire to prevent the concen- tration of Turkish forces in Kurdis- \tan, which the road taps, and in order \to keep them from the Msul border. |This opposition has been withdrawn ‘on the theory that it will placate ;Turkey for the league of nations’ de- cision giving Mosul to the British, Moreover, the French entrol of the 60 mile stretch df the railway in Syria will check the Turks’ use of the line, the English believe, as the trans portation of enemy troops over the division would be an act of war of getting into the world Court to save against Great Britain, Still no Decision, WASHINGTON, March 7 — The senate elections sub-committee, con- sidering ‘contested ballots in the con- test brought by Daniel F, Steck, de- mocrat, against Senator Smith Brook- hart, republican of Iowa, adjourned Saturday without reaching a final de- cision. ‘ aap" 4 soldi. “HOLIER THAN THOUS’ WILL HIDE TRUTH THAT GOD'S A LIE (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Iil., March 7. —A legal gag will silence the mouths of the obscene, profane and blasphem- ous, and will stop the public singing of suggestive songs, if the Clean Language League of America, ‘grant- ‘ed a charter here today by Sec’y. of State L, L. Emmerson, has its way. The gue intends to carry on a campaign for laws to bring this about. Incorporators are T. H. Rus- sell, Oscar Baertsch, E. A, W. John- son and.T. A, Russell, atl of Chicago, and R. H. Burnham, of Aurora. Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford Burns to the Ground (Special to The Daily Worker) STRATFORD-ON-AVON, England,— March 7—The Shakespeare memorial theater burned to the ground yester- day! The origin of fire has not been ascertained. The theater was a brick structure, circular in form, somewhat after the style of theaters in Shakespeare's own day and was built some forty years ago. As the scene of the annual pre- sentation of Shakespearean produc- tions it attracted audiences trom all over England, the continent, and trom America, The theater was beside the River Avon and just behind the site of Shakespeare's house, Below the theater is Trinity Church where he is buried, %, The theater was empty when the fire occurred, The Last Day of the Paris Com- mune, See it dramatized at the International Labor Oefense com- memoration March 19 at Ashland Auditorium, 198 i KELLOGG IS NOW UNDER FIRE FOR EXCLUSION ACTS Hungarian Count Fears an Investigation WASHINGTON, March 7.— Secre- tary of State Kellogg has been, chal- lenged by Sen. Borah, in a star-cham- ber session of the committee on for- eign relations, on Kellogg's legal right to exclude foreigners from the United States by autocratic decree. Kellogg came before Borah’s com- mittee to oppose the Borah bill which would repeal the war time legislation and immigration law amendments un- der which Saklatvala, the Countess Karolyi and Count “Michael Karolyi, among others, have been barred or gagged, Kellogg Refuse to Explain, When asked why he refused to per- mit the Countess Karolyi to enter the United States, Kellogg refused to ex- plain his reasons for action in that or any other case. He further asserted that his power, under existing laws, to bar any alien for any reason which seemed to him sufficient, could not be reviewed by any other authority. The courts could not interfere with his de- cisions. Borah pointed out that this made the Secretary of State Kellogg an autocrat, and that it changed the American government from a demo- cratic to an autocratic one whenever an alien approached our shores, He refused to believe that any constitu- tional basis for this condition could be found. Therefore he demanded that the pretense of such power be with- drawn. Pleads for Power. Kellogg pleaded that without this Summary power the immigration law could not be enforced so as to keep out the morally unfit. Lenroot inter- yened with an argument in support of Kellogg’s autocratic power. Borah an- swered with a concession of delay, pending study of the claim that immi- gration law enforcement is impossible without this special legislation, How- ever, he declined to agree that any unconstitutional scheme of enforce- ment could be tolerated, The committee failed to take up at this meeting the Wheeler resolution calling for a probe‘ of the Hungarian legation’s part in the Karolyi exclu- sion, Within a few days Sen. Wheeler ha} tell the committee what evidence ceived that ¢ it Szechenyi, Horthy's minister in Washington, ea $20,000 to a detective agency for a re- port which was used in persuading Secretary Kellogg to bar the wife of the former president of the Hungarian republic. Szechenyi Fear Probe, In diplomatic circles in Washington the rumor is current that Szechenyi is in a state of extreme nervousness, due to the possible developments from any inquiry into his dealings with de- tectives, Prospective witnesses before the senate committee have indicated that Szechenyi was engaged in in- trigues reaching to Europe, where his government has been embarrassed by discovery of the 30,000,000,000 trane banknote counterfeiting plot of its fascist supporters, ‘|Western Railroads Select Committee to Oppose Demands Executives of the western rail- roads, meeting in the office yesterday of the general managers association, elected a committee of twelve astheir representatives in the forthcoming conferences with the conductors and trainmen over their demands for’ @ 7 percent increase of wages. hty railroads had delegates in attendance, representing a total track age of approximately 135,000 miles, W. M. Jeffers, general manager of the Union Pacific, was selected as chair- man, and W, F, Thiehoff, general man- ager of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy was named as vice chairman of the managers’ committee. The man+ agers are already on record as oppos- ed to any wage increases. " Tariff Now Becomes Issue, in Congress WASHINGTON, March 7, — After lying dormant for two years, the tariff | was revived as an issue in congress when Senator Robinson of Arkansas, democratic leader of the senate, spon- sored a resolution proposing a sen- atorial investigation of the United States tariff commission, introduced a bill reducing the commission's mem- bership from six to four and issued a statement criticizing President Coo- Ei for “intimidating” the commis- sion, Get your tickets now for the Inter national concert of the T. U, E. by Sat., March 13, at 8th St, Theater,