The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1926, Page 3

——S WIS, UNIONS OPEN MEETING AT GREEN BAY Shows Labor Gains as it Organizes GREEN BAY, Wis., July 21.—With 23 new affiliations ard with a balance in the treasury the Wisconsin State Federation opens its 24th annual con- vention in Green Bay. The officers report 324 local unions affiliated, 20 central bodies and one women’s union label league. The executive board em- phasizes that “labor's gains have been achieved in about the exact propor- tion that the labor unions and their federations have been developed.” It calls for more rapid organization of women. A Good Idea. The five labor colleges should be increased in number, the board recom- mends, but their control must remain in labor hands and their purpose con- tinue to be the training of workers “for the labor movement—to make them useful as unionists.” The private armies financed by bankers fn Illinois, Minnesota and elsewhere are determined and opposed in Wisconsin “an armed . dictator- ship by private interests.” Wary But Not Wise. The federation’s legislative commit- tee in its report cautions railroad workers that the federal Watson- Parker law will be effective only pro- viding the workers do not “lose their identity as trade unionists by joining hands with the bosses in the so-called company unions.” Thompson’s Report on Philippines to Favor Rubber Trust MANILA, P. I., July 21.—Col, Carmi ‘A. Thompson, personal representative of President Calvin Coolidge investi gating the Philippine economic situa- tion, will bring back @ report, it is in- timated, discouraging independence for the Filipinos as he has found that they can be easily exploited by Amer- foan capital, “if they are treated right.” In his trip about the islands he has been investigating the extent of the natural resources and the availability of cheap labor power. In his report it fs intimated he will stress the pos- sibility of having large rubber planta- tions in the islands which will be of great value to the American rubber in- terests. A New Booklet The British Strike Its Background © Its Lessons By Wm. F. Dunne 10 CENTS. 6 READ ALSO: British Labor Bids for Power. By Scott Nearing 10 Cents, British Rule in India. By Shapurji Saklatvala. 10 Cents. Whither England? By Leon Trotzky. . $1.75 FALL OF FRANC, LEADING TO. AN INCREASED COST OF LIVING, TO BRING STRIKES, IS PREDICTION PARIS, July 21.—The tremendous lead to rapidly increasing prices and of living if the workers do not fight item of most significant interest. Trade fall in value of the franc which will consequent reduction in the standards for concurrent wage increases, is the Therefore a survey of the present situation of French economy is of world importance, Defiolt, French foreign trade was deficient by $2,691,000,000 francs for the first half of 1926, while a year ago there was an export surplus of $2,570,000,000. This change was entirely due to the tremendous increase in imports, which were 10,404,000,000 greater than a year ago—a 55 per cent increase— while exports increased only 5,142,- 000,000, or less than 24 per cent. Franc’s Fall the Cause. It is thought the heavy import sur- Plus was largely due to the fall in French currency, which means heavy increases in expenditures to purchase foreign goods. On the other hand, French export prices have not risen sucffliently to offset the depreciation of the franc, because generally goods are offered to foreign customers at domestic prices. Tonnage More Favorable. It is considered important, however, that tonnage figures for exports and imports are growing more favorable to France, and while imports for the first half of 1926 stand at 23,404,000 tons, which is 365,000 higher than the corresponding period in 1925, exports ‘have reached 15,904,000 tons, or 819,- 000 more than a year ago. The main increases in imports were food products and raw materials, while the main export increases were raw materials and manufactured goods. In the first six months this year France imported 2,420,000 tons of food products and exported 122,000 tons. She imported 20,299,000 tons of raw materials and exported 12,961,000 tons. She imported 747,000 tons of manufac- tured goods and exported 2,221,000 tons. These figures show the country is selling more manufactured goods than it buys, while it imports more food products than it exports. Financial Bankruptey. The statement of the Bank of France for July 8 showed an increase of 1,510,000,000 franos in the note is- sue over the June 10 statement. , At- tache Jones pointed ont, and circula- tion now stands at. 54,860,000,000 francs, with an increase of 1,100,000,- 000 francs since the statement of, June 10, and are now 600,000,000 francs below the legal limit, “” The metallic reserve is now 5,890,- 000,000 and discounts have shown an appreciable decrease of 740,000,000; francs to 47,700,000,000. Miscella, neous credits have increased by 760;- 000,000 francs to 3,700,000,000 francs, and miscellaneous debits show a de- crease of 930,000,000 francs ag com- pared with last -week.. Coal Declines, Steel Rises. French production of coal and lig- nite during May showed a further de- cline from the high levels reached in March and stood at 3,942,000 metric tons, as compared with 4,700,000 tons during April and 4,566,000 during March. Production of the French fron and steel industry is reaching record lev- els. Both foreign and domestic pur- chases are heavier; prices of mate rial and productions are rising, May production of pig iron established a new record of 783,000 metric tons and the output of steel ingots and castings was also high, at 667,000 tons, Drunken Peace f Officers Attack Muskogee Residents MUSKOGEBE, Okle., July 21.—Five persons were shot and seven were beaten into unconsciousness in three small hotels by two drunken peace of- ficers. One of the injured is expected to die. He is Paul Davis, Muskogee county deputy sheriff who staged the brawl. Fire Devastates California Towns. SONORA, Cal., July 21—Two small towns were in ashes, an unidentified man badly burned and anoflfér town threatened this afternoon from the raging forest fire sweeping thru the Stanislaus National Forest area in Sonora county. The towns of Quartz and Stent were destroyed by the flames, which are now sweeping to- ward Standard City, a lumber village. (HE recent death at Bagdad of the British spy and political agent, Miss Gertrude Margaret Bell, whose official position was oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, the British high commissioner for Mesopotamia, brot to ght some of the more sinister machinations of British imperialism in uncrowned queen of Irak” because of the personal influence she exerted upon the British puppet, King Feisal, she is but one of the many adven- turesses who blaze the blood-streaked trail of British imperialism, ‘The lady's intrigues in Mesopotamia, where Britain pursues the two-fold policy of striving ¢o steal Mosul oil from the Turks, and consolidate its power for complete control of all land adjacent to India, extended over a period of thirteen years, beginning in 1918 when Europe was preparing for Sithe world. war, That yearshe devoted! saying: “ A Female Agent of Imperialism pursuing its policy of subjecting col- onial peoples. Dubbed in imperialist circles “the India’s Efforts to Be Free of Britain Alleged to “Moscow” LONDON, July 21.—Attempts of the millions of colonial slaves of Great Britain in India to free themselves from British empire rule are disclosed in government reports attacking the Movement as being “incited by Mos- cow.” The Indian people’s effort to get arms against their oppressors are al- leged in statements regarding small shipments of bayonets and small arms labelled as wood cutting instruments and agricultural machinery, eee British Police Kill. CALCUTTA, July 21. — Seven na-| tives were killed when police opened fire on a crowd alleged to be rioting over religious differences between Hindus and Moslems at a mosque in Piakapare. Such clashes are becom- ing more frequent of late and it is suspected that the natives are being incited against each other by British agents. Falling Franc Might Clear Internal Debt PARIS, July 21,—M. De Monzie, the new finance minister, is reported not only to favor the capital levy, but also to support the idea of wiping out in- ternal debt by letting the franc de cline until it has completely disappear- ed. This, however, will be a painful Proceeding to the holders. It is an open secret that the over- throw of Briand and Caillaux and the ascendancy of Herriot, the radical so- cialist and De Monzie, is a victory for the Bank de Paris et Pays Bas, and its boss, Horace Finlay, Austrian fi- nancial genius, while it is a defeat Afor another great banker, M. Lazard, who is connected with Morgan and company of New York. General Wood Gets Huffy at Thompson, Agent of Coolidge MANILA, P. L, July 21—The first open break between Governor General Wood and Colonel Carmi Thompson, the “personal representative” of President Coolidge now investigating the Philippine Islands, came yester- day. President Coolidge had, so it seems, designated ten newspaper men to ac- company Colonel Thompson. -The lat- ter therefore, invited the scribes to accompany himself and General Wood on their trip thru the archipelago. Wood proposed that Thompson and himself go alone. Yesterday, finding that Thompson held out for his view, General Wood announced that owing to “the press- ure of business” he would be unable to accompany Colonel Thompson on his trip as was planned. Cleveland I. L. D. Picnic July 25 ‘CLEVELAND, July 21. — Local Cleveland, International Labor De- fense, will hold its annual picnic Sun- day, July 25, at the Sachsenheim Gardens, 7001 Denison avenue. Bishop William M. Brown, a mem- ber of the national committee of the International Labor Defense, and Ralph Chaplin, author of “Bars and Shadows,” will be the speakers, All members and sympathizers of the International Labor Defense who reside in towns close around Cleve- land are invited. Preparations are being made to care for 5,000 persons. In case of a little rain there are plenty of buildings on the grounds. Come, rain or shine, | to the Arabian peninsula. The out- break of the war found her in Bag- dad, conspiring against agents of Ger- man imperialism. She was transform- ed to Egypt in 1915, where she oper- ated as a spy for the “military in- telligence” department back in Meso- potamia, where she remained until her death, In Bagdad her house, lavishly furnished by British gold, was a rendezvous for the imperialist banditti and it was there she became the guardian of King Feisal. She sur- rounded herself with elegant females of the arstocracy of London who con- sidered it a great lark to use their personal charm upon the native chiet- tains in behalf of their “land of hope and glory.” ‘ While the imperialists may extol her as a diplomat the workers of Britain and of other countries that read of her exploits will correctly consider her the mademe of @ government sub- sidized brothe), Was tt a | THE DAILY WORKER ~ FRANCE TO GET U. S. IT SUBMITS TO CONTROL; SECRET DEALS:PRESAGE WAR UPON LABOR By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, July 21—Until the French parliament ratifies the American debt settlement as signed in Washington. no American loans will be made to stop the downward plunge of the franc. French currency has fallen from 20 cents to 4 cents, and is likely to go lower, the French press has been promoting the idea that the Mellon policy would and that Secretary Kellogg would favor American bankers’ But the Washington atmosphere is hostile DAVIS’ SAFETY MEET IGNORES WORKERS’ HEALTH Dodge Proposals of the Trades Unions By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press, WASHINGTON, July 21.—Hushing up of the positive program of the Workers’ Health Bureau—to which some 500,000 workers are affiliated— was the final triumph of Secretary Davis’ Industrial Accident Confer- ence, in session in the capital. Only the protest of various trade union delegates induced the chairman of the resolutions committee to permit the reading of the buréau’s resolutions, which had been buried in committee. Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, was suc- cessful in keeping the advocate of this critical proposal from explaining it on the floor, “d List Occupational Disease, The bureau resolution pointed out that the official estimate of 2,500,000 workers injured annually in the United States, with a loss of more than 227,169,000 working days and at least $1,022,000,000' in wages, ignored the ravages of occupational diseases, both in lives and health. It declared that 52 separate industrial poisons are @ menace to health, with lead poison- ing in 133 trades, and industrial tuber- culosis steadily on the increase among stone cutters, molders, potters, rock drillers, sand blasters and other work- ers employed in buffing, polishing and grinding processes. It mentioned the new occupational poisons, largely un- regulated, such as tetra ethyl lead, which killed 11 workers and poisoned 114 others last year. It declared that safety campaigns have failed to deal with occupational diseases, and have also failed to prevent such disasters as the Gary steel by-products plant explosion. It ited the annual toll of 2,500 killed in American coal mines, and the failure of mine owners to rock-rust their mines as advised by the safety experts of the government. Need Health Protection, It favored action by congress to “gain federal regulation and control of industrial hazards; reduction of hours of hazardous occupations, and uniform workmen’s compensation laws for all the states, with payment of full wages and the best medical care for the entire period of disability.” To carry out this positive program it proposed that a committee be appoint- ed to formulate the necessary legisla- tion, organized labor to have equal representation on such committee. Objection was made that this con- ference was. called to discuss only statistics. Most. of the spokesmen of insurance companies, bég employers and state governments were opposed to any interference with state rights to handle industrial hazards. Douglas Fairbanks and love and war!” he wes working Mary Pickford to Sell Films to Soviet Union (Special te The Daily Worker) WARSAW, July 21.—Douglas Fair- banks and Mary Pickford are plan- ning to go to the Soviet Union to ar- range for the direct sale of their films. Up to the present time they hive made their sales to the “Hovkino,” the Soviet movie trust, thru a Ger- man agent, It Is Uncle Shylock for U. S. in Britain (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 21. — The British press has begun a veritable campaign against paying the United States the debt owing them by Great Britain and is scorchingly attacking the Untted States for its financial imperialism masked as “help to Europe.” Lord Northcliffe in the Daily Mail and Lord Rothermere in the Evening Standerd both picture in words and cartoons the United States as “Uncle *Shylock.” The Mail shows that Britain got no money on the loans, but only credit. “It bought with this, American goods at exorbitant prices, which were ap- proved by the U. S, government, and which—paying taxes to the govern- ment—makes the United States gov- ernment paid twice over.” U. S. Naval Experts Instructing Brazil + (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, July 21.—Brazil’s government has rénewed for four years its contract with the United States for the services of naval ex- perts for the instruction of officers in ite navy, This act, coming upon the heels of Brazil’s withdrawal from the league of nations, adds to the uneasiness among other Latin American coun- tries as to the relations being built up betwen Washington and Rio, Pres- ence of American naval experts in Brazil as instructors and advisers has caused frequent critieism in the press of Argentina and Uruguay, Aged Well Victim, BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich., July 21. smothered —B, A, Hamilton, 65, was to death by falling earth here today when the walls of @ dry well in which caved tm, at Ll Sri ORE ee eye be relaxed, loans to save the franc from ruin, to that scheme, While officials would not be caught saying anything publicly, might be claimed by the French to be known that they have not their demands. They insist that the debt settlement be approved by the French parliament. Until that is done, let France get loans elsewhere if she can! Talk About the Weather, Maybe. This disclostre is interesting be- cause Finance Minister Caillaux is quoted in press cables from Paris as saying that he has assurances that this debt settlement can be modified. The French immediately jump at the con- clusion that Benjamin Strong, gov- ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who has been conducting secret negotiations with the French finance minfetry for several months ‘past, has made terms with Caillaux. They think the Federal Reserve banks are about to make a big loan to France, secured by industrial property, to stabilize the franc. : The American debt commission members in Washington are—at least outwardly Tidiculing the whole thing. They say Strong is not au- thorized to negotiate any loans, and is not there for that purpose. Strong has said nothing as to his errand, but he is not a man who generally wastes months fn talking about trivial things. The fact that Montagu Norman, head of the Bank of England, has been constantly with him in London and BERLIN DISTRICT OF THE METAL WORKERS VOTES FOR COMMUNIST PROGRAMS IN UNION’S ELECTION changel LOAN WHEN Since the value of the which an attempt to hammer the franc, it is | Paris and Nice for nearly ten weeks, is also to be explained on some other theory than that the two men are talking about the weather. Cook Up Attack on Labor, Apparently, then, Benjamin Strong is telling the French government that it must accept the debt pact and mer- cilessly cut down its budget, and give ample security, before the billion-<dol- lar loan needed to stabilize the franc and tide over the industrial depres- sion sure to follow will be granted by Wall Street. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston has come home from a visit with Strong and Norman in London} and Paris. Now Secretary Mellon is to go over. And from his conferences with these other men, modified by ad- vice from the summer White House and state department and the big bankers in New York, will finally come a French surrender to Amert- can money-lenders. Economists be- lieve that the outcome will be a low- ering of the living standards of mil- lions of French workers, just as the pressure on the German mark, fol- lowed by stabilization under the Dawes plan, reduced the wages and lengthened the working hours of Ger- man labor. BERLIN, July 21—The Communist victory in the elections in the Berlin district of the Metal Workers’ Union has far-reaching political significance. After long years of retrogression and the isloation of the Communist Party a turning point has now come. The electoral fight in Berlin took place under peculiarly difficult cir- cumstances as the party and the working class were concentrating thefr forces upon the people’s referendum. ¢—————————_________ The opposition in the union fought with a clear political and trade union program which included the most ur- gent needs of the proletariat in its daily struggle. The weak participation in the elec- tion and the majority for the opposi- tion show that whilst the advance guard of the German proletariat is de- terminedly on the side of the revolu- tion, nevertheless the broad masses are still passive. The process of revo- lutionizing the masses is already go- ing on, but its only in development. The most important tasks in the present moment are to liquidate the passivity amongst the masses and at the same time to win the advance guard, The method of accomplishing this is systematic daily work in all facto- ries and trade unions, a clear atti- tude, the mobilization of all forces for the coming struggle for power with- out false compromises and without ultra-left phrases and destructive vacillations, Senate Probe Into Illinois Vote Bribery to Start on July 26 CHICAGO, July 21. — Members of Senator Jim Reed’s investigating com- mittee are expected to assemble in Chicago July 26 to start looking into the alleged $3,000,000 de luxe primary in which Frank L, Smith beat Senator McKinley for the republican senato- rial nomination, Senator Caraway says he has heard that Smith spent $2,000,000 and McKinley $1,000,000 in the tussle. Caraway has also charged that labor men, including President John Walker of the Illinois State Fed- eration, and President Frank Farring- ton of the Illinois Mine Workers, han- died some of the money. Workers’ Unity Assn. Demands New Trial for Sacco-Vanzetti NEW YORK, July 21.—The Work- ers’ Unity Association adopted a reso- lution protesting against the attempt being made to legally murder Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and demanding a new ¢rial for these two Italian workers, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! GRAND ANNUAL PICNIC at SACHSENHEIM GARDENS, 7001 Denison Ave. JULY 25, 1926, Beginning at 10 A. M. Speeches beginning at 3:30 p. m, by RALPH CHAPLIN, workers’ poet and author of “Bars and Shadows”, and BISHOP WM, M, BROWN, the heretic bishop and author of “Communism and Christiantsm.” Games——Sports——-Contests——T_ DANCING—Union Orchestra 5:30 to 9:30, Admission 60 Cents, This Includes a three month subscription to The Labor Defender, Auspices: Local Cleveland, International Labor Defense, . ., 414 W, Superior Ave, De Valera Gets Vote of Confidence from Irish-Americans PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 21. — Resolutions endorsing the policy of Hamonn de Valera that Irish repub- licans take seats in the Dail Eireann if they do not have to take an oath of allegiance to the king of Engfand | were adopted by the American As- sociation for the Recognition of the Irish Republic. | A resolution condemning the United | States for refusing to recognize the | Irish Republic was also passed. A boycott of all English-made goods was urged. A resolution congratulat- ing the Egyptians for “defying the might of the British empire and its | Shamokin Miners’ Union Aids Passaic PASBAIC, N. J, July 21.—he fol- lowing letter has been recetved, with & check for $25, from Local No, 3883, United Mine Workers of America: “Shamokin, Pa. July 8, 1926, “Mr, Gustave Deak, Treasurer, “Passaic Textile Strikes. “Dear Bir: I recetved your second appeal for afd and I read it in our local meeting and T am glad to state members to forward you @n additional $25 to add to our former donations. “We all wish we could be there to help you in your fight. Keep the good work up. Very truly yours, “Looal No, 3883, United Mine Workers of America, “N. H. Beisal, Secretary.” 5 Inois Central Crash * A in Chicago Injures 8 Etght or more persons were report- ed injured serfously and scores of oth- ers cut and druised tn a collision of Illinois Central suburban trains on the south side in Chicago today, A northbound express train was be- Meved to have crashed into the rear end of another northbound train, a local, between Twentysecond and Twenty-eighth streets, ‘ugo-War Page Threé Don’t Keep Your Nose to the Grindstone All the Time. Turn Out to the Fifth Annual Party CHICAGO PRESS PICNIC AUGUST 1 A joint picnic of The DAILY WORKER and 22 other working class papers in all languages, AT. RIVERVIEW PARK There will be Russian Dancers Gay, colorful folk dances of workers FOOT-BALL GAME Workers’ Sports Club., vs. ! Roosevelt Athletic Association : NO EXTRA CHARGE TO SEE THIS GAME GAMES OF ALE KINDS &°y SPEAKERS: WM, Z. FOSTER C. E. 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