The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1926, Page 5

CHINESE TELL OF KUOMINTANG FIGHTING PLAN Party Controls Army; Has 900,000 Members (Special to The Dally Worker) PEKING, China, June 8.—Altho Pe- king is under martial law of the troops of the murderous and reactionary Chang Tso-lin, whose white guard Rus- sian mercenaries shot to death the ed- ftor of Peking’s Kuomintang news- er, three leaders of the Kuomin- , all of whom are in hiding from hang'’s assassins, have ventured to give a correspondent an account of the present situation as regards the Kuo- mintang and its strength, “There are three stages in the pro- gram ‘of the Kuomintang or People’s Party,” said the three party adherents. “The first is the military stage, the second is the educational and the third true democracy. But we have riot yet reached even the second stage. ‘We are now engaged in military devel- opment. Have 900,000 Members. “From the district around Canton the Kuomintang is pushing its part in the campain against Gen. Wu Pei-fu, the Hankow war lord and most active figure among the reactionaries, We are not numerous enough for open fighting in the north, altho we have 5,000 Kuomintang members in Peking and possibly 200,000 in the northern provinces. Altogether in the southern provinces we have 700,000 members. “The Kuomintang armies in Kwang- tung and Kwangsi number 200,000 men. Those are well equipped. Their first corps under Chiang Kaishih are the best of these troops. Know Why They Fight. “Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s influence and memory are very strong with the Kuomintang, which follows his teach- ings as nearly as possible. Our sol- diers are well instructed in military tactics and politics, so they know why they are fighting. For each 100 sol- diers there is a political adviser who goes to battle with the rest, and many are killed. The orders of the army officers are not to be obeyed unless approved by the party. Many of the Kuomintang are Communists. Only two or three Communists are among the thirty-six members of the central committee of the Kuomintang.” State Department Is Silent on Fascist Bombing | Frame-ups WASHINGTON, Jud June 8.—State de- partment information from the Ameri- can embassy in Buenos Aires and the American legation in Montevideo gives no suggestion that the explosions caused by bombs planted near the two offices have been traced to sympathiz- ers with Sacco and Vanzetti. Dis- patches from official sources in these South American capitals do not at- tribute any motive for violence against the American envoys or their office premises. “At the time of the last great port strike in the Argentine capital a native fascist force was organized by the business interests. Two armed men of this private army stood guard over each strikebreaker on the docks. Strikebreakers were imported from distant parts of the country. It is de- clared the bombings may have been the work of these fascist groups in an attempt to frame up some of the lead- ers of the port strike. Tho the strike was broken the fascist bands seek to make “an example” of those that led the strike. IN SPOKANE, WASH. You can buy The Daily Worker and The Workers Monthly at the cigar store ee ' S. P. JACOY, 230 Stevens. Drop over for a paper and a smoke! OUT OF WORK? Another expedition into the far north gets under way this month—the American Museum of Natural History’s No attempt will be made to reach the pole, as the alm of the expedition is simply to study Photos show Captain Robert Bartlett, Car! Durad and the converted Newfound- Captain Bartlett was a member of Peary’s scientific cruise. foot. animal and plant life in the arctic, land fishing schooner, “Morrisey” In which the voyage will be made. 1909 Pole expedition and is, today, the only living white man who has come within 100 miles of the North Pole on Carl Durad plans to use his famous lariat on muskox and walrus. Scientists Sail on New Far-North Expedition | OBTAIN MORE PRODUCTION WITH FEWER WORKERS AND A LOWER SUM OF WAGES IN 1926 THAN 1923 By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press Service). Layoffs by the country’s factories between March and .April meant loss of jobs to about 85,000 workers, according to the monthly report of the U. S. department of labor. This means a reduction of about one per cent in the total employed. Total wages fell off 1.9 per cent, Employment is nearly 1 per cent above April, 1925, but it is still slightly under 1924 and 9 per cent below April, 1928. Comparing these figures with U. C. department of commerce reports on factory rpoduction it appears that this April the owners of industry got 6% per cent more production than in April, 1923, with 9 per cent fewer workers and a reduction of 4.2 per cent JIM REED FORCES POSTPONEMENT OF WET REPORT (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 7.—Because of the opposition of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, the senate judiciary committee today postponed for one week final action on the reprt of the “prohibition” committee rejecting all wet bills proposing modification of the Volstead act. Reed told the committee he intend- ed to file a minority report, recom- mending enactment of several of the wet measures. He was given the week to prepare his report. The committee decided to recon- the Edge proposal for a na- tional referendum on modification of It was rejected by the “prohibition” committee on the ground that congress was without constitu- tional power to authorize a referen- dum. Reed insisted that there was ample authority for the national vote and the committee agreed to hear his sider prohibition. views later. U. S. Manufacturers cuss ways and m Want Higher Tariff on Foreign Products The leading manufactures of the middle west are to be summoned to a meeting in Chicgao on June 22, to dis- boost the tariff another notch or two in arder to keep out foreign goods, according to an announcement of the American Protective Tariff League. Some manu facturers do not regard the arrange- ments of the Dawes plan so optimistic. ally, since many German products are undercutting American pro ducts, the success of pe na plan in the total wage bill. Per capita production is 17 per cent the wages they pay. Per Capita Wage Slightly Up. The trend of per capita wages is cent. 53 industries. in fertilizers, 7.9 per cent in book and job printing, 7.6 per cent in stoves and 7 per cent in pianos and organs. portant industries in April, 1926, com- Dare with similar averages for the year 1923 as follows: Offset by Cost of Living. These figures show considerable wage gains in a number of industries, gain of 10.7 per cent. cent, dustries. cent in foundries and machine shops, above April, 1923. Employers are get- ting 11 per cent more production for slightly upward. ‘The advance in the last 12 months amounted to 2.4 per Wages advanced in 40 of the Important gains were 14.5 per cent in the cigar industry, 9.5 per cent in hardware, 8.4 per cent The average weekly wages in 18 im- Average wages April, Year, In U. S. 1926 1923 Automobile 3.76 $31.82 Auto tires 30.68 29.47 Baking ..... - 26.34 25.50 Boot and shoe .. 21.22 23,19 Car Bldg. and Repair - 29.33 28.60 Cotton 18.60 18.60 Elec, apparatus . 29.00 27.83 Foundries, Machine shops 30.11 28.61 Hosiery, knit goods - 18.58 16.76 Tron and steel 30.77 28.60 Lumber products 22.30 21.05 Meat packing .... 24.96 24.35 Paper and pulp 23.73 24.92 Petroleum . 32.26 32.92 Printing, book and jo! 34.90 31.70 Printing, newspaper 40.17 37.80 Silk .. 21.03 20.40 Stone, clay, glass 26.20 24.74 Hosiery workers lead with a 3-year Book and job printers gained over 10 per cent and workers in paper mills over 7 per There have been gains of ap proximately 6 per cent in the automo- bile, iron and steel, lumber, stone clay and glass, and newspaper printing in- Other gains include 5.3 per THE DAILY WORKER 4 Three | FARM PROSPERITY TALK 1S BUNK, WRITES FARMER Bankers ‘Squsese Out Many Farmers By a Farmer Correspondent. BISMARCK, N. D., June 8. — The capitalist press of the country is still talking about “farm properity.” Sure! the other day good rains fell over wide sections of the middle west states practically assuring the farmers of a “fair” return on his labor upon the land this year. The small papers in the prairie towns and cities, mouth- pieces of the big capitalist exploiters in the industrial centers of the coun- try, never fail to herald the news about the “million dollars” showers that come as a “blessing” to the farmer, of course. Dry Spell Hurts Crops. Reports coming in here from various farm communities in the northwest, however, do not warrant such optimism. Many farmers say that they have not had sufficient rain and that the long dry spell has caused a rather thin stand of wheat and other crops, and predictions right now point to a limited yield in many places. The early sown wheat in particular is not doing well. Yes, let's all shout for farm Prosperity! A farmer from Williams county, North Dakota, makes the statement that in his county several hundred tracts of land and town lots are to be sold for taxes in June and that the county pays in aid to the poor twice as much as during the last four years, Loan Sharks and Bankers. The loan sharks and the bankers al- ways take advantage of such a situa- tion. They buy tax titles cheap and then sell the land at a big profit to farmers coming into the state from the east. In the county in question one of these leeches got a deed to a quarter of a section of land for $600 to $700 and then sold it again for $2,800 to an old farmer from Min- nesota! And there are many such deals, ‘We have here’ what is called the Greater North Dakota Association, an organization of small town'capitalists, whose purpose is to tell the “truth” to farmers in other states about the great advantages that are open to “industrious” settlers in North Dakota. Tens of thousands of dollars are spent in advertising to show the riches and possibilities of North Dakota land and how “independent” the farmer can become if he makes his home here. Prosperity—For Bankers. Yes, things are coming along splendidly in this section—for the real estate dealers and bankers. For the farmers it means increased ex- ploitation and poverty. What about a farmerlabor party? CHINESE HITS AT HYPOCRITE IMPERIALISTS Told They.Can Stop Dope, But Don’t (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, June 8, — How hypocritical are the “more ad- vanced” Christian nations was shown in the league of nations’ opium traffic committee, when the English, Hol- land and German delegates objected to a proposal to limit exportation of drugs. The Chinese delegate, Min- ister Chu Chao-hsin, became angry. “Your government, he said to Van Wettum of Holland, “could issue an order in the morning and the drug evil would be gone the same evening. Why don’t you do it, instead of mak- ing trouble and then trying to regu- late the trouble you are making? It would be very easy to stop the trade in illicit drugs by limiting their manu- facture to legal needs, “It is more than ten years,” he added, “since Great Britain signed the Hague convention agreeing to reduce the consumption of oipum in her colo- French Imperialists nies, yet more than 40 per cent of the) Refuse to Allow the colonial revenues of England come Ss e ° from opium sales. Why don't you re- yrians Legal Defense strict the opium which our poor Chinese are using in. your colonies?” Gag Laws Still Kept Ready for Use, While Jails Hold Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 8. — “The ma- chinery by which mouths are gagged, presses stopped, assemblages broken up and working class organizations BBIRUT, Syria (By Mail).— After the bloodshed of Damascus and Aelp- Po a monster-process took place in Beirut in which leading members of all parties, opposing Franch imperi- alism, were accused with “excitation” to disorder and riots, The court was composed of French army officers who delivered their sen- tence on the basis of the old criminal law of Turkey, The Berlin section of the “League persecuted is all intact ready for use| tne Diet ae eda e whenever industrial Conflict arises. bs opin test against the atrocities of French Not a single gag law has been repeal- imperialiem, The French wection 4 ed; no adverse coutt decision re-| 1 saiately went a Shes aty shpat versed. Indeed the ressive meas- ures passed during and since the war | S@d0ul, to Syria, in order to defend the accused by all legal means, have been strengthened by ¢ 1. io Doge erasers Wie Sect | rae Fersch tigh” Wimmincioner, sion of the U. S, supréme court hold- ing constitutional the criminal anarchy | Jouvenel, refused to allow Sadoul to enter Syria. act of New York state, and with it, by implication, the sedition and criminal, sToup of French parllament mem- syndicalism laws of $4 states.” bers decided to raise the question in So summarizes the annual report of | the French parliament as to whether the American Civil Liberties Union.|Jouvenel has the power to refuse The report declares that-altho “radical, | French solicitor to enter Syria. The racial, and religious minorities found | Berlin Section, initiated a protest- movement and @ series of mass meet- it easier to live because of less inter- ings against militgry Tule in Syria, ference” in 1925, “intolerance and re- pression have by no means declined so far as to be insignificant.” The union U. $. TROOPS KILLED WOMEN IN ‘PACIFYING’ MASSACRES OF MOROS (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, P. 1., June 8. — Accord- ing to the report made by the Philippine constabulary itself, its members killed fourteen women and 154 men and wounded 200 men and women more in recent massacres of the Malanao Moros of Lanao prov- ince. These brave soldiers of U. S. imperialism whose commander Is General Wood, only lost seven killed and twelve wounded in the forays against the natives, being better armed than their victims, POLITICIAN AND LAWYER BRAWL IN WASHINGTON Hurl iekcstand and Glass of Water in Committee (Special to The Daily Worker> WASHINGTON, June 8.—A_ wild scene, in which a member of congress threw an inkstand at a distinguished lawyer, and the lawyer retaliated by hurling a glass of water at the con- gressman, was enacted today during the investigation by the house judi- ciary committee into the fitness of Frederick E, Fenning to be commis- sioner of the District of Columbia, The principals in the melee were Rep. John E. Rankin, democrat of Mississippi, and Frank J. Hogan, prominent capital attorney, who is representing Fenning. The aim of both was bad, but Rep- resentative Rankin got in the last lick by overturning a committee table on Hogan, and the hearing broke up in a riot, with women screaming and everybody yelling. Morris Gest Visits Soviet Russia in a Hunt for Film Star MOSCOW, June 8.—Morris Gest has arrived in Moscow accompanied by Ashton Stevens, dramatic critic of a Chicago newspaper. He was met at the railway station by Stanislawski and other members of the Moscow Art Theater. Mr. Gest said the purpose of his visit was the selection of one or two promi- nent artists to play in his film produc- tion of Belasco’s “The Darling of the Gods” next spring, when he plans to have an international all-star cast. He expects to stay a week. He will be en- tertained at dinner at the Art Theater and by the theatrical department of the Soviet and the minister of fine arts and education, Buffalo to Hold Big Sacco-Vanzetti Mass Meeting Friday Night BUFFALO, N. Y., June 8.—The workers of Buffalo are adding to the chorus of protest which has gone up at the threatened execution of the two working class fighters, Sacco and Van- zetti. A great mass protest meeting has been arranged for Friday, June 11, at 8 p.m, The meeting ts to be held in the Elmwood Music Hall. Among the well-known labor leaders who will speak are Rebécca Grecht, James Campbell, Brill, Batastoni, and others. Workers of Buffalo! Let us make the capitalist executioner hear our pro- test at the murder of these innocent men! Let us say together, with the workers of the rest of the world, “Sacco and Vanzetti must not die! Sacco and Vanzetti must be saved for the working class!” New Movie Monopoly to Run 500 Theatres, Producing Films Also Two powerful movie interests, the famous Player-Lasky and the Balaban and Katz corporations, have been merged in a deal that represents a to- tal investment of $100,000,000, it was announced in Chicago today. 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