The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1926, Page 2

Page Two PRESS LYING THE DAILY WORKER REPORT THAT (— New! 4,000,000 Back Confiscation Move Mussolini Glorifies the BERLIN, March 12.—More than 4,000,000 German workers and farm: NOE ABOUT MEXICO, STATES LEAGUE U. S. Delegate Broke Up Session, Is Charge (By Federated Press.) Charges that the American press Is falsifying the Issue between the! United States and Mexico are made by the All-America Antl-Imperialist League, an organization with branohes in Brazil, Venezuela, Colom- bla, Ecuador, Mexico, Porto Rico and Cuba as well as In the United States. It was the American representative | on the Mexican claims commission | and not the neutral Brazilian chair man that broke up the negotiations on claims for damages to Americans dur| ing the Mexican troubles, the league secretary, Manuel Gomez, asserts. The point at issue was whether damages shonld be allowed because of the de predations of the late Pancho Villa. ‘The United States claimed that Villa was a de facto revolutionary leader. Mexico claimed he was a bandit. If) Villa was a revolutionary of standing | the present Mexican government might have to stand responsible for the damage he wrought, but if he was a bandit it would be no more under obligation than the U. S. government, 4s when an American criminal cuts up. ers have signed the demand that the vast estates of the late kaiser, the counts, archdukes and princes be confiscated and the proceeds of the estates used to oare for the widows and orphans of the imperialist war victims, according to statements of various labor bodies thruout Germany. American Commissioner Balks. The neutral Brazilian decided that| Villa was a bandit. The American commissioner refused to accept this decision and the session broke up, the league relates. Now the American press is spreading the propaganda falsehood that the Brazilian refused to proceed and that the claims arising | out of the Villa episodes remain un- settled. This is being used to whip) up sentiment for intervention in} Mexico. But it rests on a lie, the} league points out, because the claims have been settled, strictly according to accepted procedure, having been rated as worth nothing under the bandit decision. The league appeals to American workers to protest to Secretary of States Kellogg against the drift to- ward war. Name Dry Committee to Hear Wet Plaints (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 12.—A spe- cial senate prohibition committee to consider all pending measures for re- peal or modification of the national dry law was named today by Senator Cummins (R.) of Iowa, chairman of the senate judiciary committee, to whom senatorial wets had appealed for public hearings. The committee named was Senator Means (R.) of Colorado, chairman; Goff (R.) of West Virginia, Harreld (R.) of Oklahoma, Reed (D.) of Mis- gourl, and Walsh (D) of Montana. All but Reed are drys. backed by the foreign financial, com- In Berlin alone over 500,000 signed this demand. Now it is up to the reichstag to enact the law and if the reichstag still reverses the rights of the German monarchists to the ext; ent that they refuse to enact the legis. lation, it will go to another referendum. U.S. Prepares to Intervene with Ship of War in Orient (Continued from page 1) f and communication open between this city and Tientsin, It is understood | that a similar note has been sent to | Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin, The statement points out that elec- | trically controlled mines have been | placed in the Taku channel at its nar- rowest point, where it is only §00 feet | wide. It also complains that artillery duels are going on over the main ship- ping routes and that the Peking-Tient- sin railway has been cut in several places and the international mails de- | layed. The note calls attention to the provisions of the Boxer protocol guaranteeing the continuity of com- munication and the safety of the lega- tions, ee me | To Commemorate Massacre, SHANGHAI, March 12.—The local Chinese plan @ monster demonstra- tion here on the anniversary of the May 30 massacres of last year. Elect Councillors, The regular slate of candidates for the Municipal Council, which was mercial and shipping interests, was elected. The silence of the candidates concerning issues vital to the Chinese, such as the abolition of the mixed court, the return of the settlement concessions to China, and the ques- tion of admitting Chinese to the coun- cil, is considered significant by the local native press. Selze Anti-Red Newspaper. The Anti-Bolshevik League, formed by reactionary Chinese, has not had much luck so far. Three weeks agb it started the publication of an anti- Red paper. After ten issues the Chi- nese who were printing and editing it seized the plant and changed its pol- icy to a pro-Soviet Russian one. The foreign manager had to call in the police to recover possession, This league has announced its in- tentions to start an open air campaign against all Bolshevik inflience. Mass meetings will be held in Chinese, French, Japanese and English. If the program is adhered to there will be plenty of excitement, as the seizure of the newspaper showed the strong Bolshevik feelings of the workers. State Police Terrorizes Foreign-Born, DETROIT, March 10.—State cas- sacks have been sent into Ham- tramck, a suburb, to terrorize the foreign-born workers, following the shooting of Patrolman Charles Budds {this Sunday night, at the Metropolitan TRUMBULL WILL SPEAK TO NEGRO WORKERS SUNDAY Walter Trumbull, young ex-soldier who has just been released from Alcatraz military prison, where he served a year for organizing a Com- munist League in Hawaii, will speak Community Center, 3118 Giles Ave. The meeting is to be held under the auspices of the Negro Anti-Imperialist Association, The slogan raised for this meeting is: Free Hawali, Morocco, Liberia and all colonies and semi-colonies now exploited by the imperialists! Trumbull, who was sta post in Hawaii at the time of his arrest, had opportunity to see the ef- fect of American imperialist rule on the working class of the island. Labor- ers receive only a $1.06 a day for the hardest kind of labor, Their homes are poor, their working conditions ex- tremely bad. Their strikes are put} down ruthlessly. The segregation of all Negroes who were drafted into the army during the world war was a sore point with the race, and opened the eyes of many colored workers to the real nature of American rule and the real meaning of the war. They were forced to do the dirty and disgusting work in the army and none were allowed in the more skilled arms of the service. Ar- riving in France, they found that the general of the American army, Per- shing, had instructed French officers | and troops not to associate much with the American Negro soldiers, on the ground that this would “give them wrong ideas of equality!” Back in the | United States, the Negro found him- | self once more segregated, jim-crowed | and lynched. | Trumbull will tell of his experiences in Hawaii and in the army generally. | Negro and Japanese speakers will also | address the meeting. e* 8 Pullman Hears Trumbull. Walter Trumbull, recently freed from Alcatraz military prison, after having a twenty-six year sen- tence shortened thru the activity of the International Labor Defense to one year, told the story of his ex- periences leading up to and during his arrest, conviction and imprisonment, to the workers of Pullman. L, Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER acted as chairman of the meeting. Robert Minor, editor of the by Acting Chief William Marquardt. The state forces were called into the city by the mayor, State troopers were called in two years ago and ter- rorized the foreign-born workers. The Anniversary HE 55th anniversary of the Paris Commune, March, 1926. What does it mean for the working class? Why should all workers re- member it and join in the mass demonstration on Friday, March 19th, at the Ashland Boulevard Auditorium? Why does the International Labor De- fense call on all workers to commem- orate the Commune? First and most important, because the Paris Commune, tho suffering a bloody defeat, nevertheless gave the signal for all working class victories that followed. From the mistakes of the French workers in their attempt at self-government were garnered Jessons that helped make the Russian Revolution triumph. The necessity of overthrowing the entire bourgeois state, its bureaucracy and its army ‘was made apparent; and, likewise, the need for an alliance between workers and the peasantry. Thus, the Paris Commune raised the stand- Remember the Paris Commune! FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 8 P.M, [.LD. DEMONSTRATION of the Commune ard of a workers state; tho this ban- ner fell, it was raised again by the Russian Communists and is being car- ried on, unfurled before’the world. Secondly, the Paris Commune dem- onstrated dramatically how enemy states will drop their own differences when the existence of either is threat- ened by the working class. French and German bourgeois and soldier- hirelings united for a wholesale mas- sacre of workers, despite the antagon- isms war had just created between them, Thirdly, the Paris Commune is com- memorated by the International La- bor Defense because this organization helps all persecuted workers, because it protests against all abuses of po- litical power. Therefore it calls on workers of all nationalities to rally to defend their class when it is attacked, “The unions are the pillars of the workers’ power.”—Losovsky, Saturday Magazine supplement of The DAILY WORKER, and _ Corienne O’Brien Robinson also spoke. The Pullman workers made a good showing by giving several subscrip- tions to the Labor Defender. A sub a day will help to drive capital away. Pullman I. L. D. Will Commemorate Paris Commune PULLMAN, Il, March 12.— Work- ers of Pullman will commemorate the Paris Commune on Saturday night, March 27, at Strumel’s Hall, 158 East 107th St., with the production of the “Last Day of the Commune” and with motion pictures of class war prison- ers’ aid in Europe and Labor Defense work in America, The demonstration will be in charge of Pullman branches of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Prominent speakers will tell the story of the Commune and explain its role in class war history, May Include Chicago and Alton in Merger (Special to The Daily Worker) BLOOMINGTON, IIL, March 12.— Rumors that the Chicago and Alton Railroad would be included in the pro- posed merger of the St. Louis and San Francisco and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads gained credence here today when a party started an inspection tour of the Chi- cago and Alton lines, J. BE. Gorman, president of the Rock Island System, GERMANY WINS COUNCIL SEAT Reach Compromise to Delay Others (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, March 12.—The league of nations conference here is still with- out decisive result. Six days of un- interrupted talkfests have left all the distinguished visitors in a most ir- ritable mood. But for, the overwhelm- ing importance of the gathering and the fact that its breakup. means that the famous Locarno agreement is void and would plunge the tangled affairs of the continent into imextricable con- fusion, no one doubts but that the majority of the delegates would have given up in disgust long. ago. Representatives of «the powers which signed the Locarno treaties,— Great Britain, France, aly, Germany, —met this morning to attempt some compromise regarding the enlarge- ment of the council. The most likely compromise, and the! one it is be- leved has been reached, would give Germany the permanent seat which she has been promised and postpone the claims of all other nations to the September meeting. | This solution seemed the only alternative to a com- plete deadlock. Under Protests, Yesterday considerable more irri tation was added to that already ex- isting by the charges and denials of pressure being exerted on various delegates. Unden, the Swedish for- eign minister, thru his secretary is- sued a statement denouncing Austen Chamberlain for his violent lan- |guage used when the former refused to budge from his position that ac- jeording to the instructions of his gov- ernment he would vote for no admis- sions to a permanent seat except to | Germany. Socialist do Dirty Work. The British and French deputed Albert Thomas, French minister of war during the world war, and M. Vandervelde, Belgian ‘prime minister, both socialists, to use their persua- sive powers upon Unden, who is also a socialist and get him to change his position. It is a umique feature of the conference that a large proportion of the leading delegates are renegade radicals, now become; the most dan- gerous misleaders qnd recognized traitors to the working, class, De Valera Announces He Will Keep/Up Fight for an Irish Republic (Special to The Dally Worker) DUBLIN, Merch #£2—Eamon De Valera will not cease “his battle to make Ireland a republic free from English control even tho he has re- signed as president of the republican party, he announced “today. “I have not left the republican party,” said De Valera, “I intend to deny the claim of any foreign power to rule_in Ireland and will oppose the will of England to rule.” He added that he would “make use of every means, rightfully available, towards those ends.” Vrooman Endorses $300,000,000 Bill for Farmers’ Relief (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 12—The Robinson-Oldfield farm relief bill, providing $300,000,000 for disposing of surplus crops, was endorsed today be- fore house agriculture committee by Carl Vrooman, Bloomington, Illinois, former assistant secrefary of agricul- ture. i Foreign companies would be loaned $200,000,000 for\American crop purchases and an additional $100,- 000,000 would be placed at the dis- posal of farmers to équalize foreign import duties. “The only opposition to this meas- ure,” said Vrooman,‘“‘eomes from in- ternational bankers who oppose such government loans abroad.” Committee Approves Aeronautics Bureau ‘ WASHINGTON, March 12.-—A bill Whiteman Sanbek at Capitalists to Justify His Fake Labor Unions By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. BENITO MUSSOLINI, fascist dictator of Italy, delivered his confession of faith in the capitalist social order before the Italian senate, preliminary to its adoption of the so- called “Fascisti capital and labor bill.” Mussolini's declarations are interesting, not only be- cause he heads one of the bloodiest tyrannies in Europe, that is applauded by America’s international bankers, but because he was formerly a socialist, member of the Italian socialist party. He displays admirably the type of mind of the rene- gade. ° e * e Mussolini reveals his charlatan role when he makes such silly declarations as the following: “The modern capitalists are generals of industry, great organizers, men who have and must have a high regard for clvil and moral respon- sibilities, men on whom future health, happiness, and wages for thou- sands of individuals depend. The success of their industry is the suc- cess of the nation.” . The other day a professor presiding over a commerce class in a university asked his students whom they consider- be en the students replied John D. Rockefeller. Yet Rockefeller is a doddering old man, who spends his time playing golf and passing out brand new dimes, as alleged ifts to those with whom he comes in contact. His son, John . Rockefeller, Jr., knows little more about the oll industry than the most isolated worker in the most distant “Stand- ard” oil field. The Rockefeller picture mirrors American capitalism, that now dominates the world, and that Musso- lini flambuoyantly claims “has several centuries of exist- ence before it.” * ° e ° Outside of Henry Ford, who has already evinced signs of decay by dabbling with fiddlers, old dances and the pur- chase of decripit “wayside inns” in Coolidge’s New England, there is hardly a widely known capitalist of the organizer or even of the financier type in the whole land. The railroad world once knew Jim Hill, E. H. Harriman, Gould, Vanderbilt and others who either dabbled in the con- struction or manipulated the financing of railroads. There isn’t today a single railroad capitalist of any consequence in the land. They are directed by managers who are merely the office boys of the great banks, Louis Hill is a waster. Harriman left no progeny. The offspring of the Goulds and Vanderbilts spend most of their time in the probate courts, fighting for the money left behind by their ancestors, or in the divorce courts when they are not planning new marital ties with some bankrupt foreign title. The “civil and moral responsibilities” of the Hills, Harri- mans, Goulds and Vanderbilts, as of all American capitalists, were summed up in Gould's declaration, ‘Damn the public!” They debauched everything they touched. Every public offi- cial had his price. The government was their agency for plundering the people. In spite of Mussolini’s bdincombe the active capitalists in Europe have been just as adept in the high art of corruption. Italy is no exception. The best and one of the most recent examples of the or- ganizing ability of “modern capitalists” in this country was uncovered in the Teapot Dome scandal, where Doheny and Sinclair used the highest officials of the government to help them plunder the oil fields, * » e e It is Mussolini, like the American labor officialdom, who must give the capitalists holy qualities they do not possess in order to bolster up their class-collaboration policies and jus- tify the existence and continuance of capitalism. The fascist industrial unions that have been legalized in Italy have accepted the principle of co-operation between capital and labor and “the revognition of each other's needs.” These Mussolini unions have been established upon the ruins of the whole Italian trade union movement built up thru many years of struggle as effective weapons against the capitalist class. Even the catholic unions have been outlawed. The fascist unions are nothing more than the “company unions” of Italian capitalism. The trade union movement in the United States will become the same prisoner of Ameri- can capitalism if class-collaboration continues to be the dominant idea to be imposed by the labor officialdom upon the organized workers of this country. U.N. I. A. Oepns Meet- ings in Detroit on Sunday (Continued from page 1). sessions only those who are delegates will be allowed. During the evening session which will be held from 8:30 until 10:30 the public will be invited, It is not yet decided whether report- ; ers will be permitted to record the ‘ events during the day sessions. The interest in this convention on the part of the rank and file of the members is very keen, The interna- tional outlook of the organization is threatened. Wm, L, Sherrill, an Amer- ican, is the acting president general and during his administration he is St. Louis on Monday (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 12.—Lovett to establish a bureau of civil aero-|Fort-Whiteman, national organizer Of pocuged of having tried to “American- nautics in the commerce department/the American Negro Labor Congress, | jz9”, the Universal Negro Improve- was approved today by the house in-| will speak at the Pythian Hall, 3137) ment Association, The American sec- terstate commerce committee. Pine St., Monday evening, March 14 at| tion of the Universal Negro Improve- The measure, recommended by the|8 o'clock. All workers are invited to! ment Association is not the largest. Morrow air board, would give the sec-| attend. Theodore Christian will act/ ‘phe African group is the base of the retary of commerce powers to en-jas chairman. and his party, under the direction of Receiver W. G, Beird of the Chicago and Alton, are making the trip. courage and regulate civil aviation. entire international organization, and A special boosters’ meeting is plan-| as is known, their ultimate goal, It is The more you'll write the better! coum, 1243 North Garrison Ave., on|dopted by the convention, you'll like It. 1871 ed the greatest industrial leader in the United States today. THE PARIS COMMUNE By Max Shachtman. Read the history of the first great attempt at pro- letarian dictatorship. Order a Bundle for Your Paris Commune Meetings! 10 Cents 12 copies for one dollar. DAILY WORKER PUB. 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Foreign Exchange, NEW YORK, March 12 — Great Britain pound sterling, demand 4.86%, cable 4.86%; France, franc, demand 3.63%, cable 3.64; jum, franc, de- mand 4.53% le 4.544; Italy, lira, demand 4.01%, cable 4.01%; Sweden, krone, demand 26.79; cable 26,82; Norway, krone, demand 21,71, cable 21.73; Denmark, khone, demand 26.16, cable 26.18; Shanghai, tael, demand 78,50, cable not quoted, ‘