The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1926, Page 3

oe . THE DAILY WORKER errant re eran et Tne Fa neon reenter eee . Page Three New Premier of Sivier and Oriental bait CANTON LABOR | FRENCH INTELLECTUALS PROTEST URGES RETRIAL IN SACCO CASE Similar Demands Made Thruout Country CANTON, China, July 8—The Can- ton labor movement 4s practically unanimous in its demand for justice in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti and the granting of a new trial sto the two innocent Italian workers who /are being railroaded to the electric chair. To date the Canton Central Labor Union, the Nimailla Lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, the public meeting of the Non-Partisan League at which’ the secretary of the Ohio State Federation of Labor spoke, the Sons of Italy, Edmonde De Amicis, No. 505, the Croatian Fraternal Union, Lodge No. 514, the Canton Interna- tional Labor Defense have adopted resolutions for Sacco and Vanzetti and forwarded them to the governor of Massachusetts. Ph a New Trial for Sacco and Vanzetti Avella Demand, AVELLA, Pa., July 8.—At a regular meeting of the International Labor De- fense at Avella, Pa., June 27, 1926, it was regularly moved and seconded that we take up the Sacco and Van- zetti case. After the subject was put to a motion, the majority ruled we should send in a protest to the gov- ernor of Massachusetts demanding a new trial for the defendants, said meeting feeling that Sacco and Van- zetti have not had a fair trial so far, and demand that said parties, Sacco and Vanzetti, are entitled to a new trial, (Signed) Fred Siders, President. Philip Di Giambattista, Secy, eee Hudson, Mass., for Sacco and Vanzetti. HUDSON, Mass., July 8 — The branch of the International Labor De- fense of Hudson, Mass., has adopted a resolution to forward to Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts de- manding a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti, says A. Felkauskas, secre- tary of the branch. ee 8 Demand Justice for Sacco and Vanzetti. ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 8.—Frank Hasik, president of the Allentown Slo- vak Workers’ Society, No. 11, an- nouncéd today that his organization has gone on record unanimously urg- ing justice for Sacco and Vanzetti and the granting of a new trial. Copies of the resolution have been forwarded to the governor of Massachusetts and to the préss. : se Tetxile Workers Endorse Sacco-Van- zetti Campaign. LAWRENCE, Mass., July 8—After re-elécting most of tts former officers today the convention of the American Federation of Textile Operatives lis- tened to an appeal for Sacco and Van- zetti by Robert Zelms, district organ- izer of International Labor Defense. Zelms spoke of the campaign ‘being conducted by I. L. D. for the two Ital- ian workers and infroduced a resolu- tion demanding a new trial for the innocent radicals. The resolution was adopted and a rising vote of thanks was given to Zelms by the convention, TWO SPEECHES BY KARL MARX Address to the Communist League, 1850 and The Inaugural , Address of the Workingmen’s Ass'n, 1864, These historical speeches, taken with the ‘Communist Manifesto,’ formulated only a few brief years before, constitute a key to Marx's outlook on fundamental questions of working class po- licy, By all means, add this pamphlet to your library, 5 Cents. Communist Manifesto....10 Cents Sssh-h! The Campaign Is Ended— BUT Sssh-b-h— Subscribe! JAILING OF POLISH WORKERS PARIS, July 8.— A number of French authors roused by the oppression of the working class and national minorities in Poland formed a committee to demand amnesty and reestablishment of the civil liberties in They issued the following appeal: Poland, “In Apnil, 1924, a group of French inteNectuals exposed the rule of ter- ror which is burdening. the shoulders of tthe workers, peasants and national minorities in Poland. “Since that time two years have passed, The terror continugs to rage. “Despite semi-official promises, de- spite the fact that Poland has a lib- eral constitution, persecution follows persecution, “From April, 1925 to April, 1926 the Polish courts have carried thru 381 political trials. They have sen- tenced 1379 intellectual workers and peasants to a total of 2392 years of hard labor, In March of this year 49 trials against 217 accused took place. “The situation of the prisoners in the prisons is frightful. To realize that one only needs to read the report of the parliamentarian Thugutt com- mittee, as well as the statements of M. Thugutt, member of parliament, and other members of parliament in the discussion in March of this year. In the prisons Lutzk, Kovel, Vlocla- vek, Lvov and Sambor in the years 1924 and 1925, 40 hunger strikes took place. The causes for this are the terrible treatment of the prison- ers and the extremely long time of imprisonment on remand (M, Som- merstein, member parliament, found out in November, 1925 that over 75 per cent of the prisoners are on re- mand for over two years.) “Not only is freedom of religion an empty word—all sects which do not belong to the Catholic National Church—Baptists, Adventists, Bible students, are ruthlessly suppressed. Not only are workers’ trade unions disbanded but the arbitrary rule of the prosecutors and constables sup- presses dozens of newspapers, The —— fate of that part of the population which belongs to the national minori- ties is a really deplorable one (1,000 Ukrainian, Lithuanian, White Rus- sian schools are closed), There is something else which one does not find anywhere else in Europe: The massacres of the unemployed. Since the beginning of this year the police have attacked and shot at groups and demonstrations of unemployed 65 times, Te results of these disturb- ances were 1,100 arrests, 250 injured and 13 dead unemployed, “The conquest of power by Mar- shall Pilsudsky, who is considered as a real democrat by the public abroad, gave rise to the hope that the terror in Poland would finally cease, “However, 6,000 prisoners have re- mained in their cells, treated inhu- manly, the schools remain closed, the trade unions remain disbanded, the hewspapers remain prohibited, the population of the national minorities remain suppressed and the police un- dertake new persecutions, new ar- rests, and new brutalities. “Once more French voices are rais- ed against the breaches of right and against the crimes against humanity in Poland. They will not cease to de- mand that together with an amnesty for the political prisoners those liber- ties are re-established which are the mpst elementary ones in a civilized ‘country. “The Initiative Committee: Sever- ine, Henri Barbusse, Madame de Saint Prix, Madelaine Marx, Leon Bazal- gette, Henry Torres, George Pioch.” _ Se Soviet Industry Steadily Rises ee | deste cee of the rumors of aydustry is considerably greater than crisis which are being spread by the social-democratic and bourgeois press, Soviet industry is not only con- tinuously increasing its production, but the last monthly increase of pro- duction in March, 1926, even shows in some branches of production a record which has not hitherto been reached: The value of the total production of industry in March amounts to 312.6 million pre-war roubles, i. e., almost 5 per cent more than in February, 1926 (297.7 million), and more than 40 per cent more than in March of last year (222.4 millions). (At the most flour- ishing time of capitalist development an-anpual increase of 56. per cent was extraordinarily good.) If we consider the separate branches of industry, textile produc- tion does not show any great change as compared with the production in February, which is to be attributed to the lack of raw material; all other branches of industry, on the other | hand, show a rapid increase. Increased Building. The tremendously increasing build- ing activity is evidenced by the in- crease in the production of cement, by fully 32 per cent in a month. The production of coal shows an ad- vance in two directions. The gross haulage increased from 1,812,357 tons in February to 1,964,364 in March, i.e., by 8.4 per cent. On the other hand, the amount consumed in the works themselves was reduced by 0.7 per cent. The production of naphtha has in- creased still more rapidly. It amount- ed to 578,906 tons in February and rose to 638,635 tons in March, 1. e., 10.3 per cent. Metal Industry Grows. The development of the metal in- dustry shows the following figures: Cast iron ........ 162,315 188,745 Martin steel... 226,028 264,732 Rolled iron ...... 176,805 193,944 The tendency of this growth in the direction of the industrialzation of the country is revealed by the fact that the comparative increase in heavy in- Sten terete meer nanans dust Off the: Press! The British Strike Its Background—Its Lessone By WM. F. DUNNE, An account of the great- est demonstration of work- ing class power seen since the Russian revolution, A booklet that should be read by every worker—and given to your shop-mate to read. 10 CENTS. Other booklets by the same author: “Speech at the Portland Con. vention of the A. F. of L.” 5 Cents “Worker Correspondence’ 10 Cents READ ALSO “BRITISH LABOR BIDS FOR POWER.” A record of the histo! Scarborough Con- gress. By Scott Nearing, 10 Cents that in light industry. Foreign. In foreign trade, too, a considerable increase is to be seen. After several months of an adverse trade balance, in March exports again exceed im- Ports. All the greater importance must be attributed to this fact since the success has been attained not by limiting imports, but by increasing exports (by almost 25,000,000 roubles @s compared with March, 1925), The development of production in the last few months justifies us in expecting that the annual increase of 40 per cent planned will be realized to the full extent. Altho, of course; the demand for goods will even then not be completely met, a decided re- liet is already felt in some fields, which, during the last few months, had been involved in the difficulties of growth, as for instance the pro- vision of fuel for the steadily growing industry, rades Unions Grow, The number of trade union mem- bers (90—91 per cent of the whole pro- letariat) amounted at the end of 1925 to 8,000,000 workers. . In the first half of 1925 the number of trade union members amounted to about 5,900,000. This means an increase of organized workers in two years by more than 2,000,000, i. e., by about 30 per cent. We will not overburden these few vemarks by detailed figures. We get, sowever, an imposing picture if we consider the number of workers who, in the last five months of 1925, have, as is proved by national employment statstics, been newly employed in in- dustry: August . . 185,503 September - 190,048 October . 207,631 November . 150,511 December . 147,750 (The new employment ot workers who are not included in the national employment statistics increases these figures at least twofold.) Social Insurance. From the most recent statistics of the national social insurance which are available, we see that the number of workers and employes who are go- cially insured rose from Jan. Ist to Noy. 1st, 1925, by about’ 1,800,000 and reached on Nov, Ist 7,876,000. This number has, of course, been far ex- ceeded since then. These few figures culled from the wealth of indications of economic growth show how much importance is to be attached to the malicious gossip of our opponents with regard to the “all-embracing” crisis of Soviet econo- mies, Great Historical Task. As is well known, there are indeed some even greated difficulties in so- cialist construction, and‘ we speak just as openly of them as of our suc- cesses—sometimes these difficulties are even painted in too sombre colors in order to concentrate the attention of the proletariat on overcoming them. The fact, however, must never be for- gotten that these difficulties are not an indication of a decline of an an- archist method of economics, or of its having arrived at a deadlock; they are due to the great historical task of the Soviet government, the task of bringing sytematically into harmony and guiding on to socialist lines the various elements of an unprecedent- edly rapid growth which has been made possible by the proletarian rev- olution. Maipet Wcfiesstprresgondent must bscriber to the American eicpio ~ AAS 288 Sweden Is Not a Social-Democrat With the death of Hjalmar Brant- ing, late socialist premier of Sweden, and the determination of Swedish cap- italism to lower the standard of liv- ing of the workers, the social-dem- ocracy has passed out of the picture in Sweden as the leading political par- ty. Above is Carl Gustav Ekman, a pliant tool of Swedish “business, who has been given the premiership. Be- low is his wife POPE ATTACKS MEXICAN LAWS WITH PRAYERS r 8—Cardinal Gaspari, Pope “Pius XI has “to ‘all representa- tives of the +holy see thruout the world attacking the Mexican govern- ment in the forceful language as “hypocritical” and winding up by ask- ing prayers that God might forgive it. The letter asserts the Mexican gov- ernment is expelling catholics in the “most inhuman manner, as if they were the most vulgar criminals, while other religions) are given ample li- berty.” { “The pope recalls his horror, ex- pressed in the consistorial allocution Dec, 14, 1925, and ‘his request for prayers for Mexico. Now again he asks such prayers and fixes August 1. The pope hopes ‘that by such a univer- sal prayer, God will deliver the Mexi- can catholics from persecution and that their persecutors will be par- doned.” ees ‘a ied, Fe eee Treats Them All Alike, MEXICO CITY, July 8.—The chyrch authorities, protestant, catholic, na- tive and foreign are saying little about the new religious regulattons prohibit- ing churchmen of any kind from mix- ing politics in religion. The regula- tions, say the government, are noth- ing new, only following the constitu- tional clauses. Natives, protestant or catholic, may be punished for viola- tion, Foreigners, catholic or protest- ant, may be deported if they disobey the law. High Pressure Agent Puts Out Propaganda for Longer Work Day LONDON, July 8—Sir Charles High- am, @ big British publicity man train- ed in American propaganda methods has been hired by the government at an enormous salary to issue propagan- da in favor of the law providing long- er hours for the miners, In three days over $100,000 has been spent in full. page advertise- ments trying to make the British working man believe that working longer hours .is good for him and, es- pecially for “the country.” Added intensive publicity is put out where it has most effect, on the sporting pages of all city and provin- cial papers, since the workers gener- ally read the sporting pages, The government hopes that enough miners will go back to work seeking the little more money that they might earn in working longer hours, to wreck the union’s control of the men and lead to open shop conditions, Pope Receives Hughes, ROME, July 8. — The pope today received in audience Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State of the United States, Trade Hope of Italy to Break Rivals’ Grip ROME, July 8.—From an article in “Tl Messaggero” it is understood that Italy hopes by trading with Soviet Russia and the orient, to “break the Anglo-Saxon grip on naw materials.” “By finding a means for exchanging our manufactured products for the orient’s raw material, Italians could escape the hold which has wounded them and in so doing realize one of the greatest aims in our national eco- nomic program.” The article is believed to have meant that Italy hopes for increased trade with Soviet Russia and with Persia. Persia, is is said by the Persian minister, provides an opening for Italian emigration. IGHINESE RESENT U._S. AGENCIES; STAGE PROTESTS CS: Sends W. arships to Hainan Province (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, July 8. — Representations from the American government are expected as the result of repeated “outrages” alleged to have been com- mitted against Americans engaged in missionary and education work in South China. ~* Frenzied Missionaries. Secretary of State Kellogg has sent F. L. Mayer, counselor of the Amer- ican legation here, to Canton to con- sult with consular authorities there. Tales of acts against American mis- sions and missionaries have reached the legation here from Kwangtung province. The christian and missionary alli- ance at Wuchow, on the Kwangtung Kwangsi border, was looted, accord- ing to the reports, after an, “unpre- cedented display: of violence and hatred on the part of the natives.” Anti-Foreign Meeting. Aroused by an anti-foreign street meeting, the crowd stood outside the mission, shouting so loud as to pre- vent the congregation from hearing the words of the preacher, Another report from Kachek, re- ported that a group of Americans were routed from their mission pro- perty. U. S, Warship Sent. An American destroyer was sent to Hainan and the compound cleared by force of all natives. PRESIDENT OF MEXICO SETS NATION TALKING Obregon and Morones Leading Prospects MEXICO CITY, July 8.—Who is to be the next president of Mexico is the question agitating Mexican politics. An effort is being made to advance the candidacy of Alvaro Obregon, ex- president, but his opposers say that this would be a violation of the con- stitution of Queretaro and of the prin- ciples of the revolutionists against Diaz, whose slogan was “no re-elec- tion.” Obregon himself claims this does not apply to him, contending that the constitution forbids only that presi- dents should succeed themselves, but not that when one or more terms have passed that an _ ex-president could not run again. The agrarian party is said to be backing Obregon. Calles’ attitude is unknown. He says nothing that would give the im- pression of favoring any one for his successor. A real dark horse in the race is Luis Morones, who will be the candi- dete of the labor unions. He is a strong candidate. The Catholic party is also strong, having heavy financial backing and skilled leaders, But it is too quiet so far. Some army men are proposing Gen- eral Arnulfo Gomez, commander of federal troops at Vera Cruz. The con- gressional elections now on will show the relation of forces. In the federal district there are 27 parties., Some other districts have as high as nine. Sacco-Vanzetti Case Troubles Police and Yankees in Argentina BUENOS AIRDS, July 8— When Americans gathered at different haunts in their colony here Monday, the police placed a guard at all gath- erings under the impresston that the Argentine workers who object to the frame-up that endangers the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts, might demonstrate their protests in the presence of the Americans who were celebrating the Fourth of July, Spanish Banker Suicide, SEVILLE, July 8. — Raoul Noel, Prominent Spanish banker and ad- ministrator of the estates of the Infanta, Louisa, shot himself to death today, Noel had been ee from neurasthenia, odode [FRENCH LABOR MENACED WITH NEW ASSAULTS Higher Costs and Longer Day Loom PARIS, July 8.—Things more signif- icant for French workers than whether or not the Briand cabinet may fall today by a failure to get a vote of confidence without reservations and a grant of plenary powers until Decem- ber 31, appear behind the scene in parliament when Joseph Caillaux, fi- nance minister and practical dicta- tor, goes before the chamber of depu- ties today to make these requests. Chief opposition is encountered on the proposal to ratify the Berenger Mellon debt agreement with the United States, but Caillaux is craftily planning on merely recommending it be ratified “some time in the future.” By this he hopes to get the granting of “plenary powers” of a dictator not only during the chamber’s reconven- ing in October, but for three years thereafter. An Attack on Working Class, Behind this wrangle in parliament, however, lies something more immedi- ately significant for the workers. Caillaux will make his bid for “plen- ary powers” on the basis of adoption of the French experts’ report. This report has the following important recommendations: 1. New taxes to be laid on the ne- cessities of life to raise four billion francs a year. This will increase the already high cost of living. 2, To “encourage capital” by reduc- ing the income tax and raising the exemption from 7,000 to 10,000 francs. 3. Doubling customs duties and in- creasing railway fares. 4, Ratifying the agreement on the debt owed to the United States in or- der to get a $200,000,000 loan from American bankers, 5. Speeding up production and a “more liberal” interpretation of the *|8-hour law. In addition the French experts of- ficially declare that the franc can never get back to its pre-war value. In this, the first official admission of the fact, the experts’ report says: Ruin for Holders of Paper. “The complete revalorization of the franc is today a dream, for it presup- poses a continued and systematic de- flation ruinous for the taxpayers, who would be crushed by a debt represent- ing nominally the totality of the pub- lic fortune of France, and ruinous for industry, commerce and agriculture, which could support fieither an indefi- nite reduction of prices nor the con- sequences of engagements made since depreciation has begun.” Therefore, the experts recommend that paper francs be permanently ex- changed at a discount to gold francs. IN THE July Issu Workers Monthly Articles About the American Revolution American Civil War Furriers’ Strike Trade Union Insurance Tasks of the American Communist Movement Mexico China British General Strike Moscow Uprising, 1905 BY WM. F. DUNNE WM. Z. FOSTER BEN GITLOW MANUEL GOMEZ ROBERT MINOR Cc. E. RUTHENBERG J. SULTAN BERTRAM D. 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