The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1926, Page 3

Pom Be is Vesa? batch IG ARRAN a Rr na ed BELGIAN KING ADE DICTATOR BY PARLIAMENT Belgian Franc Falls to 48.50 to Dollar BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 15.— Premier Jasper’s cabinet, in which Vandervelde, socialist leader of the Second International occupies a min- ister’s post, yesterday proposed to the chamber that King Albert be granted powers of a dictator, The chamber adopted the proposal. This action followed the collapse of the Belgian franc to the record low of 48.50 to the American dollar and re- sulting in an exorbitant cost of living. While the grant of dictatorial powers is made for six months no one can say when it will end. King Albert is the first royal dictator thus handed absolute power by an European par Manient, which practically abdicates. ‘Though the premier claims that the country was never better off, he said a dictatorship is necessary as against “our citizens without consciences” who “continne an odious and absurd campaign against our national our- reney,” How much King Albert 1s likely to follow Massolini, Caillaux and Primo de Rivera in attacking the hours and wage standards of labor is not di- vulged as yet, but he is granted “plenary powers” in general besides specifio power over financial matters and taxation. 270.8. Bankers Bring Smelling Salts. PARIS, July 15.—Creation of a permanent committee, consisting of leading bankers and exchange agents, to cooperate with the bank of France in stabilizmg the franc, was an- nounced by the ministry of finance today. Announcement of this committee was made following conferences last. uight between Finance Minister Cail- laux and ieading bankers, when the minister of finance appealed to the bankers to lend their aid to the gov- ernment’s efforts to check the fall of the franc. Plenty of Opposition. M. Caillaux’s financial program is still in a “fluid state,” and it is pro- bable that it will not be presented to the chamber of deputies before the end of this week, if then. The finance minister is faced with the necessity of meeting political op- position and whatever course he adopts must be a cautious one. The announcement of the terms of the settlement of the French debt to Great Britain has*somewhat strength- ened the hand of M. Caillaux, but to make his position impregnable he must be able to present a settlement with the United States, which is equally lenient with that made with Great Britain. There are still some hopes, despite Washington dispatehes to the contrary, that the United States will make some concessions in the Mellon-Berenger accord, officials be- lieve. AMERICAN FOREIGN TRADE $5,220,000,000 IN PAST FISCAL YEAR WASHINGTON, July 15.— Ameri- ca’s foreign trade for the year end- ing June 30, amounted to $5,000,- 000,000, the department of commerce announced. Exports totaled $4,753,516,000 and imports $4,446,687,000, leaving a favor- able trade balance of $286,828,000. The favorable balance was the low- est since the war, except for 1923 and compared to $1,040,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1925. Exports were $111,000,000 under last year and imports $642,559,000 over 1925 fiscal year. Exports of gotd for the fiscal year amounted to $113,438,000 and imports $210,726,000, The country’s gold sup- ply increased $97,200,000 during the year, INFORMATION WANTED concerning the whereabouts of BERTRAM L, MAC DONALD @ Idaho and Washington lumber cam, Information as to present address will’ be greatly appreciated by his ud H, E. MAC DONALD 3525 Hurlburt Avenue * DETROIT, MICH, ‘HE DAILY WORKER Missionary of Christ Brands Boy with Acid for Swiping an Apple TOKIO, July 15, — Petitions writ- ten in the blood of the signerg were presented to the American consul general, Ranford 8, Miller, at Seoul, Korea, demanding punishment of the American missionary Dr, Haysmeier, whose home is at St, Paul, Minnesota, and who branded a Korean boy he caught stealing apples in the mission yard. The “representative of Christ” seized the boy and branded him on both cheeks with acid, burning in the Korean word, “Thief.” GREEK KING 10 SEEK WORK IN UNITED STATES Former Ruler and Wife Live on Handouts BUCHAREST, Roumania, July 15.— King George of Greece and his wife Blizabeth, the eldest daughter of Queen Marie of Roumania, may soon go to America to “look for a job.” King George, who still signs him- self George Rex, lost his job as king of Greece in 1925. Since then the king and his wife have depended on the handouts of their relatives and friends, His funds have now come to an end and he has begun to think of going to America to work. A Florida real estate concern which is seeking to interest the fast disap- pearing royalty into coming to Amer- ica and colonizing Florida, offered the king $40,000 salary and commission. The king turned this offer down. In 1925 when the king was offered $60,000 a year to abdicate he refused. He was later forced to flee the coun- try. He now regrets his unwise action and despairs his refusal of this yearly income, U. S. Hypocrisy in Denying Filipinos Freedom Gets Blow MANILA, July 15— If Americans thought that the Filipinos had given up their complaints against continued subjection to the yoke of U. S. im- perialism, they were disabused of that idea by several statements of Filipino leaders yesterday. Filipino Senator Juan B, Alegre, in a speech attacking Carmi Thompson's visit as suspicious, said: “T hold no grudge against any man who comes to me in the open and sets my money out of my pocket, but I certainly am suspicious of one who comes and takes my money and says he does it with altruistic motives,” Dean Maximo, Kalew, former ex- change professor at the university of Michigan, also declares: “The American tariff policy has been dictated by capitalists and not by the mutual interests of the two peoples. From 1900 to 1907 the gov- ernment in the Philippines was in the hands of a civil commission, absolute- ly irresponsible to the people and violating the most elementary prin- ciples of democracy. Autonomous powers were granted in 1913, but these are now completely nullified. The veto power of the governor gen- eral is being used in a more arbitrary manner than was ever dreamed of by the state executive of the English gov- enor in colonial America.” Deliberate Abuse of Berlin’s Unemployed BERLIN, July 15.—With thousands of Berlin’s 90,000 unemployed work- ers, many of them women, waiting in the scorching heat while government clerks took their own sweet time about assigning’ them to jobs or giy- Ing out the small dole of about $2.50 a week, many of the women fainted from hunger and exhaustion, This infuriated the crowd and they began breaking’ the windows within the offices, and when police tried to arrest the ones inside, the long queues of jobless who had been waiting for hours to get to the desks turned on the police and beat up the captain. The mounted police were called and after a battle dispersed the jobless throng. The unemployed charge de- Mberate sabotage by the government to discourage them asking for their doles, DETROIT! If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. | Moscocki, President of Poland—-the Horse Pilsudski Rides On The eight weeks’ course of the Co- operative Training School for man- agers, directors and Bookkeepers of co-operative stores, conducted by the Co-operative Central (Wholesale) Ex- change, at Superior, Wisconsin, was held. 37 students were enrolled, 27 men and 10 women. The ages of these schoolboys and schoolgirls ranged from 16 years to 65 years. Upon gra- duation many of them went directly into the co-operative stores in the dis- trict, List of Subjects. The subjects taught were bookkeep- ing, business English, spelling, com- mercial arithmetic, principles of the labor movement and co-operation, his- tory of co-operation, theory of co- operation, founding and governing of co-operative societies, handling of co- Teaching Co-operative Workers Co-operative Section This department will appear in every Monday's issue of The DAILY WORKER on page three. NEWS AND COMMENT Co-operative Students in Superior, Wis. operative merchandise, etc. The stu- dents took trips to centers of co-opera- tive interest and had special lectures from leaders in the world of co-opera- tive or of private business. They or- ganized and operated their own co- operative - restaurant during the course, Established 1917 This Co-operative Training School has now ‘been conducted annually since 1917, and the majority of the stores in the territory are already manned by the graduates of previous years. As a-result, there are almost no co-operative failures; and the loyal support accorded the wholesale and the central educational movement by these men is ten times as great as the support given by former managers and leaders -who received their early training in private business. VANCOUVER, B. C., FARM JOURNAL BOOSTS SOVIET UNION’S AGRICULTURE (From Farm and Home, Vancouver, B. C., July 8, 1926.) NEW Russia, quite unlike the old, is emerging from the brutal cen- turies of serfdom under the czars and the nightmare of revolution by which at era was terminated. Mine-tenths of the people of Rus- sia are farmers, Under the old auto- cratic regime they were kept in the deepest ignorance and, for the greater part, wholly illiterate, lest learning make them dangerous to the estab- lished order. Their farming methods were of the crudest nature; of steel plough shares, harrows, discs, threshing machinery, spraying implements, tractors, and electricity they knew practically noth- ing. They did what they could with the soll in very much the same man- ner as their forefathers centuries ago. DAY a new condition existe; Rus- PICNIC given by the WORKERS’ EDUCATIONAL CLUB Sunday, July 18, 1926 at YOOHOO PARK, 13-Mile Road, near Main Street DANCING—GAMES—REFRESHMENTS DIRECTIONS—Tako Clawson or Troy Bug to 13-Mile Road and Main St. Automobiles—Go out Woodward to Main St., Royal Oak, then along Main St. to 12-Mile Road, then west a distance of 4 blocks, Admission 25 Cents Come Early! } many millions of her farmers have learned to read of farming as it is conducted in North America. Rus- plan agriculture is being revolution- ized; a sympathetic government 4s in- troducing and financing the use of modern farm implements which are being imported by shiploads and train- loads. A well versed department of agri- culture has come into existence, modelled after our own, and the per capita production of the Russian farmer is rapidly rising. HESE facts are being commented upon by the bankers of Canada, who see in the rise of Russian agri- culture greater future competition in food products than world trade, has heretofore known, Russia last year excelled the bumper wheat crop of Canada by 235,000,000 bushels and has not nearly reached her stride, sia See & public echool system and! Let us wish Russia well and x Farmers’ Co-operative Buying Success in Davidson, Sask. Co-operative News Service, Agricultural co-operative marketing as the big brother of consumers’ co- operation is the way co-operation pro- gresses on the Canadian prairies. ‘Twelve years ago, declares an official bulletin of the Saskatchewan depart- ment of Agriculture, a delegate to the Grain Growers Association brought back the gospel of collective buying to Davidson, That report set another member—a coal dealer—to thinking, Then came his offer of a car of coal towbe sold co-operatively, That was the beginning of the Davidson Co-op- erative Assn., which last year had sales of $360,000, Enlarge Premises. A new store has been made neces- sary by expansion to house the gro- cery, dry goods, butcher shop and wo- men’s wear divisions. Insulated walls are being erected to cut down the ‘fiel bills In Saskatchewan's long winter. The old store will be used as a ware- house, while a competitor's premises have been bought to house the hard- ware department, Co-operative marketing, the All American Co-operative Commission points out, is only half the story for farmers, They must not only sell co- operatively but buy in the same man- ner, Otherwise the 100 cents they receive for every dollar's worth of grain will be sadly depleted by the in- roads of private competitive business, Consumers’ co-operation is the natural concomitant of co-operative market- ing. ——— where we can; her long suffering peo- ple deserve a too long delayed pros- perity, The production of Russia will be largely absorbed by a steadily im- proving internal standard of living if the laws of economics prevail, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. : ame | napping” of Aimee Semple McPherson, |on which no work is done, making a | the 365 in the year of 1926, or one JURY PROBE OF AIMEE GETS IN SOME HARD HITS Milked Money in Big Wads from Faithful LOS ANGELS, July 15-—It ap pears that three days after the “kid- the female evangelist who has ac quired great wealth saving the souls of California’s sinful, her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, recefved a telegram written in handwriting like that of aj male wireless operator, Kenneth | Ormiston, from Oakland, Calitornta, | saying: | “Mother McPherson. Daughter O. K.| Do not worry. Communication proven. | Signing for J. H. A., whom I belfeve | O. K. Details in ma{l—Dr, Murton.”| Aimee and Mother Mum. | Aimee’s lawyer says thet nefther she | nor her mother will answer questions about the telegram or whether a let- ter was received afterward, assuring the mother of Afmee’s safety when sald mother was letting thousands of frantic devotees of the church turn the country upside down searching for “kidnappers” or looking for her body in the surf, Letter Gets Dough. It also is disclosed by the grand jury's investigation, that postal of- ficials state that a registered letter was teceived by the mother on June 18, containing a “demand for ransom of $500,000" and a lock of Aimee’s hair in proof that she was alive. On June 19, the mother officiated at a great memorial mass meeting at which an appeal for funds that got $34,000 in the collection; carried the state- ment that the woman “soul saver” was drowned. This was while 8,000 “fol- lowers of the temple” were organized in patrols watching the beach for “the body.” Huge Sucker Fund. The grand jury elicited the informa- tion from Mrs. Kennedy, that these “followers” had contributed $300,000 to pay for the magnificent home of the female evangelist, and that the money that poured into their hands was administered “like a corporation” with herself, Aimee and a certain Miss Schaeffer, Aimee’s secretary, “much the same as a board of directors.” “I sometimes bossed Aimee,” said the mother, when asked if she and the mother had not frequently quarreled about the division of spoils. One Day of Rest Out of Four for Workers of the Soviet Union MOSCOW, July 15.—Under the So- viet Labor Code all workers are al- lowed vacations of either two weeks semi-annually or one month annually —thirty days a year, all for full pay. Besides this vacation, there are Sun- days off and fourteen legal holidays total of some 92 days of rest out of day’s rest in four. The state holidays, beside the eight religious holidays preserved as days of rest, are January 1, New Year; Jan- uary 22, anniversary of Lenin’s death and of the 1905 revolution; March 12, fall of czarism; March 18, the Paris Commune; May 1, imternational labor day; November 7, the Soviet revolu- tion of the workers. When a holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday will be celebrated. The Central Council of trade unions fixed the rule prohibiting work on holidays, Australian Labor in Fight for 44 Hours MELBOURNE (By Mail).—In Jan- uary of this year the labor govern- ment of N. S. W. enacted a law to make 44 hours the maximum working week in every industry. Some unions are working under a federal award. The federal awards specify a 48-hour week, The employers took the mat- ter to the high court, and the judges decided that the workers under the federal awards must work 48 hours a week. The Metal Trades Employers’ Association also said so. The work- ers said they would not—so the men were locked out, A struggle ensued, during which the employers in the Motor Body Building Trades locked their men out. At the end of five weeks an agree- ment was reached with the Metal Trades Employers’ Association that the men work 44 hours for 44 hours’ pay. This was all that was demanded in the first place—the establishment of the principle of the 44-hour week. The employers in the motor indus- try also agreed to this, but failed to keep the agreement, consequently the fight is still on in that industry, World Circlers Make Record. NEW YORK, July 15.—Hdward §. Evans and Linton O. Wells today es- tablished a new world’s record for circling the globe when they arriv- ed at the Pulitzer Building here at 4:05. They left on the morning of June 16 at 1:30." Get your friends to subscribe to the American Worker Correspondent. The price is only 50 cents a year. SATURDAY JULY 17 ISSUE wilt contain these features in the NEW MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT “THE STORY OF CHINA” By. Herman N. M. Chang An. unusual article of the way in whick China became blesse¢ with the oppression ot Western imperialism written by an active participant in the struggle of Chinese nationalists—an ed$ tor, educator and at present studying com -woners ey, ditions in the United = States. EARL R. BROWDER writes an interesting letter FROM RUSSIA on “The New Great Electric Power House Near Leningrad.” A story showing how Russlan work ers are bullding Socialism. With photographs. A story of Russian Youth, by M. J. Olgin an unusual and colorful story, illustrated by FRED ELLIS “New Days in OM England” By T. J. O'Flaherty, Another unusual article on the great British strike. “Mexico and Its Labor Struggles” By Manuel Gomez With Illustrations, Pe ee “The Great Labor Battles of 1877” By Amy Schechter With original cuts and illustrationg from that period! 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