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—aD were teres ayes RY, JAPAN SWEETLY. TOLERANT WITH ~ ASIATIC PARLEY Chinese Claim Japan Can Afford It (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, July 30, — The antics of the Japanese imperialists are both amus- ing and informative. ‘Thru their dele- gate to the International Labor Office they got that body to call a pan- Asiatio congress at Nagasaki, Japan, on August 1, The British got their jackey Indian delegate to join in the motion. The Chinese nationalists have re- cently denounced the congress as a maneuver of imperialism, chiefly that of Japan, to create a new organ to oppose the liberation movement of ex- Ploited colonial and subject peoples. Will “Tolerate” Themselves, The Japanese are now trying to off- set this broadside by an artful pro- paganda, Newspaper men gathering for the congress are told that Japan, usually so vigilant in suppressing all movements expressing ‘dangerous thoughts,” will “tolerate’ the con- gress. Again it is said that, “The police do not suspect the motives of the confer- ence.” Indeed, they should not, as besides the fifty Japanese delegates from capitalist political parties, and educational and social circles, there are @ great number of the most prom- inent imperialist spokesmen attending as “counselors” who are said qualified to give “wise and conservative ad- vice.” Among these are some Japanese generals, admirals and barons, The Chinese opposition is said by these gentleman to be “silly,” see Japanese Flood Takes Toll of Hundred Lives TOKIO, July 30, — More than a hundred persons were drowned at Tochio, Niigata prefecture, according to dispatches received here today. Many others are missing and the casualties are expected to mount when a complete check has been made. 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Searchers are probing the ruins for more bod- ies, FRENCH EXPORTS TO U.S. GROWING AS FRANC FALLS Iron and Steel: Nearly Doubles Volume PARIS, July 30.—American business men trying to sell American goods on a dollar basis are facing severe loses. Six American offices have cut down their staffs, and a dozen more are thinking of it if the franc continues to fall. But though the American trade with France is bad, French commerce with America is decidedly benefited. French iron and steel firms have increased their exports to the United States nearly 75 per cent during the last three months, and so extensive have become one firm’s business that a large warehouse has been opened in the New York district, French Metals In U. 8. French iron and steel is finding a good market in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and other cities. In the case of cast iron, the French undersell American firms in the American market by a $12 a ton margin, Last year the total exports of iron and steel to America was valued at 18,700,000 francs. This year it will reach nearly 30,000,000, and more if the franc declines. General exports to America will show an increase of at least a billion francs. . American firms doing business in France are now inserting a clause in contracts providing for gold payments, +. 95% Poincare and Herriot Unite Against the Left After getting a vote of confidence against interpellations, Poincare pro- posed his financial program, which briefly stated is: Poincare’s Program, 1. An increase of governmental decree on the tax on such articles as tobacco and matches, 2. <A slight increase in taxation on light drinks. 8. A 30 per cent increase on state tailroad fares. 4. An increase in the automobile tax at the rate of 360 francs in- crease per horsepower. 6. Rates of canal interport trans- Portation will be doubled, 6. A general tax of 2 per cent for business turnovers. 7. An export tax of 1.30 per cent, instead of the former sliding scale of taxation, and also a 12 per cent tax on export of luxury articles, 8. Revision of import duties. 9. A 50 per cent increase of tax- ation on dividends, 10. An extraordinary tax of 7 per cent on sales. 11. A sliding scale will be used in determining inheritance taxes, which will range from 25 to 40 per cent, 12. A 50 per cent increase on business profits up to 50,000 francs and above that a 15 per cent tax. 13. Agricultural profits taxes will be doubled, 14. A12 per cent tax, instead of 7 per cent, will be made on‘salaries above 40,000 francs, The income tax will be reduced from 60 per cent to 30 per cent, eo @ “Locarno Spirit” Troubled. PARIS, July 30. — While it 1s said that, of course, Poincare does not in- tend to be impolite, it is also clear that the famous “spirit of Locarno” has its limits with Raymond Poincare, He is, for example, completely opposed to the evacuation of the Rhineland, and a stout upholder of the revenge policy of the Versailles treaty. In addition, Poincare presages new trouble for the league of nations, which has plenty as it is. The question of council seats will find Poincare op- posed to admitting Germany without admitting some other France can con- trol. Germany demands to be admitted alone, Poland and Spain threaten to withdraw. The “Locarno spirit” is in trouble, Get an autographed copy of Red Cartoons by Fred Elila and Robert Minor, : NUMBER FOUR JUST OFF THE PRESS! (ae as you Fight AMERICAN WORKER. CORRESPONDENT A Magazine By and For Workers i the Factories, the. Mines, the Mills andon the Land i THE PA Clergy Plays on Superstitions of, Its F ormet ILY WORKER Daaiben Masses to Regain Position of Political Power in Mexico Here Is a view of the famous basilica at Guadalupe near Mexico City which has been made a national shrine by the catholic church. The church Is seen on the hill top and Mexico’s faithful were exhorted to make a pil- grimage to the shrine of the virgin as a protest against the government's regulations governing education In Mex ico. The labor movement has taken up the struggle and Is combatting the superstitious grip of the church on the masses built up by centuries of priest rule. SEVERE CRISIS ROCKS ITALIAN FASCIST STATE Deep Going Financial Difficulty Rife (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, July 23 (By Mail).—The diplomatic correspondent of the Lon- don Daily Herald sums up the present situation in Italy as follows: “The French financial crisis has caught the public eye, because of its theatrical qualities, But the Italian economic crisis is at bottom a far more serious one. For in Italy it is not only the government’s finance, but the whole economic system which is in a bad way. Stop Boasting. “The loud boastings about the pros- perity which fascism has conferred on the country have died away. The great Neronic schemes for rebuilding Rome in marble have been quietly pigeonholed, “Even Mussolini’s sabre has ceased to rattle, Fascism is no longer trucu- lent; it is anxious, with an anxiety already bordering on panic. The Falling Lira. “For day by day the lira falls, and the cost of living rises. Fascism has already forced the standard of living of the workers so low that it is already below the economic fodder basis. To lower it still further would be, from the most cold-blooded capitalist stand- point, uneconomic. “The government issues daily de- crees, a8 panicky as they are ineffect- ive. And the press becomes daily a little more hysterical. The Duce Scared. “The great Fiat company has been driven to borréw ten million dollars in New York, not for expansion, but to tide over immediate difficulties, And one may be sure that the loan has been given on no easy terms, Fascist Italy is in the hands of the money- lenders. “It is not surprising that, in face of an economic situation which must pro- duce universal discontent and resent- ment against the government, and in face of the flerce factional quarrel inside the fascist party, Mussolini should have hastily ordered the post- ponement of the municipal elections. “Even with all the terrorist appara- tus of fascism at his command he dare not face the polls.” AKRON CENTRAL LABOR UNION AIDS PASSAIC AKRON, Ohio, July 30.—The Central Labor Union joined the great rank and file of the American Federation of Labor in declaring its opposition to the criticism of the struggle carried on by the Passaic strikers for a union and a living wage, Following a vote to give the floor to several girl strikers from the Pas- saic front, the president of the Central Labor Union introduced the strikers with the following remarks: Will Stand by Strikers, “We have all had correspondence from the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor calling the Passaic strike an outlaw strike, ‘I want to say this—and you may be surprised to hear me say it—that I SSS SSS Ss Look Over These PRIZES for Worker Correspondence Offered to workers sending In stories and news this week— winners to be announced In the issue of Friday, August 6. the thane Wing Unionism,” by David J)Saposs. 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Four traffic lanes will be provided, Where the 200-foot width will not be possible.a minimum of 160 feet will be employed. Ohio Labor Meet Favors Modification of Volstead Dry Act AKRON, Ohio., July 30, — The Ohio Federation of Labor at its convention here adopted a resolution favoring the modification of the Volstead dry act. Mine Workers Caught in Explosion of Gas WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 30.—A 28-year-old mine tracklayer, Harold Nyren, is dead and another tracklayer, Anthony Popolovich, 81, {s critically in- RED LETTER’ FORGER TAKEN ON RUSS TRAIN Captured Trying to Cross Border (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, July 30.—Another drama- tic incident in the astonishing story of “Red Letter” forgeries is reported from Moscow. Serge Druzhelovsky, the ablest of all the forgers of “Communist docu- ments,” has been arrested while trying to cross the Russian frontier in dis- guise and under a false name. Document Factory, For years Druzhelovsky ran a regu- lar factory in Berlin, from which he issued a stream of spurious “Red Let- ters” which were eagerly bought up by the gullible agents of gullible docu- ments, Caused Death, He is known to have been the manu- facturer of the documents on which the Bulgarian government relied to “prove” that the Sofia Cathedral out- rage was organized by the Third In- ternational. A number of Bulgarian Communists and agrarians went to their deaths on account of this forged evidence. Fooled British, He is suspected to have had a hand in the production of those other docu- ments which were bought in Germany by the British secret service and made the occasion for a solemn note of pro- test to the Soviet government, The crushing exposure of them as clumsy fakes made the foreign office the laughing-stock of Europe at the time, “Proving” an Accident, It is not impossible that he or his accomplices, Goumansky, Gavriloff and Yakubovitch, had a hand in the Zino- viefft letter itself. Last year he succeeded in planting on the Polish embassy in Berlin docu- ments “proving” that a disastrous rail- way accident in the Danzig corridor was the work of Communist plotters. But suspicions were aroused. The Ger- man police was informed Druzhelov- sky’s house was raided. In it was found the whole apparatus he had used—false dies, imitation let- terheads, rubber stamps, and the rest of it. Documents For Sale. There were documents ready for the markef, documents half prepared, documents still in draft, documents adapted for sale in the Balkans, in England, in America, Druzhelovsky was not brought to trial: the Berlin police president de- cided that there was nothing illegal in what he had done; and after a month in prison he was released, sumably to continue his activities, Object in Russia Unknown, With what object, and in whose ser- vice, he was attempting to slip ovet the frontier into Russia are. matters on which his trial may throw some light. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all the's dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. GRIGER & NOVAK @ is ANEW | NOVEL (Copyright, 1926, by “Upton. Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, ni Ay J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, | unsuccessful’ In signing @ lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., because of intrigues ' of other operators and quarrels among the holders. While he is at Beach Cit; Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older. Pa has run away from home. His father is a poor rancher In the San Elido Valk who Is a “Holy Roll Paul goes away to make his living on the road ai Bunny goes about learning the oll business from his Dad who Is bringing in well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a quail hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortiy they arrive at the Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. In hunting for quail they find oil oozing cut of the ground and Dad wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to high schoo! at Beach City. With plenty of money and social standing he enters into the life of the school, His Dad warns him of dangers, tobacco, drink and women—a little bashfully on the latter. He falls In love with another student, Rose Taintor. In the m time Dad’s oll busi apidly. The World War begins and Dad, with other capitalist 8 by selling ol! to both belligerents. Christmas holidays come and Dad and Bunny go quail hunting on their new preserve, Bunny meets Ruth again. Ruth tells him that Paul sent her a book that apeke against the bible and that her Dad caught her reading It and whaled her, . 78 A VI Three months passed, and Dad brought In the Ross-Armi« tage No. 1, and made another big success, and proved up a Jot: of new territory, and was hailed again as a benefactor to the; Prospect Hill field. But once more the doctor said he was overs; working; and it was time for the Haster holidays, and oe studied the maps, and brought Dad a proposition—the Blues Mountains were only ten miles from Paradise, and there was nos end of trout fishing there, so why not make their headquartersd at the Rascum ranch, and get some trout? Dad smiled; Bunny, couldn’t keep away from Paradise! To which Bunny answere that Paradise was his discovery; and besides, he wanted to se how Ruth was getting along, and to hear about Paul, and about! Eli and his Third Revelation. Right on top of that came a letter from Mr. Hardacre, th agent, telling how the elder Mr. Bandy had gone out into a field! and been attacked by a bull and was badly crippled; Mr, Hard— acre didn’t believe that young Bandy wanted to work the ranch, but. move to the city, so it might be possible to buy the place,. Mr. Ross still wanted it. Bunny was all on pins and needles that, but Dad told him to keep his shirt on, that young gop! were a lot easier to catch than old ones; and he wrote Mr, Hard< acre he wasn’t specially keen for the land, but he would take. it at the same price as the rest; he was coming up fishing ina: days, and would tee about it. So then Dad wrote a letter to Mr. Watkins, asking him tosbe: 80 good as to have one of the children go and clean the at the Rascum ranch and get it ready for them. And Dad tol Bunny to go with Aunt Emma to a furniture store in Beach, City;, and get a little stuff, including crockery and kitchen things, and. have them put it on a truck and run it out to Paradise; Bunny had better put in some canned food, too, everything they’d need,! so the place could be ready when they got there. You cam im agine what fun Bunny had with that commission; in. hts:thought: he was fitting out this house, not merely for Dad and him camp in, but for Paul and Ruth to settle down and make:a. ht When you happen to be the son of a successful oil-ep you can make your dreams come true. Dad and Bunny out, arriving just at sundown, and went directly to the Ra place, and there, standing on the front porch, with the bougain villea vine now in full blossom, making a glorious purple above her head, was Ruth; and alongside her was.a mi distance Bunny thought it was old Mr. Watkins, butthen: he: it was a young man, and Bunny’s heart: went up: into: his: 4 He looked at. this big, powerful figure, clad in a. blue: shirt. and! khaki trousers held up by suspenders, and with a mop of yely lowish touselled hair. Could it be—yes, Bunny could never-mine take that sombre face, with prominent big nose and moutti - down at the corners; he whispered, excitedly, “It’s Paulf’” And so it was. The pair came forward, and Ruth introduned: her brother to Dad,-and Paul said, “Good evening, sir,” and waited to be sure that Dad wished to shake hands with him, Paul shooks hands with Bunny—and it was a strange to the latter, who had lost all at once the Paul he had beer dreaming the boy who might have been a good chum—and had! got instead this grown man, who seemed ten years older than! himself, and forever out of his reach. “Did the furniture come?” asked Dad; and Ruth answered that it had, and everything was in order, they’d have had ready, if they’d been sure that: Mr. Ross would arrive; they'd get it ready right off. Meantime Paul was helping Bunny carry it the bags, and oh, gee—there was the loveliest: little bu you ever laid eyes on, everything spick and span, even to-a : paper shade over the lamp, and flowers on the center tabk Evidently Ruth had put her heart into that job. She asked Da: very shyly what he’d like for supper, and Dad said: everything ini the place, and very soon the bacon was sizzling in the pan and making a nice friendly smell; and Paul, having emptied the 4 stood waiting, and Bunny started in right away to find out about him, and how he came to be here. Paul explained that he had turned up yesterday,. come to see Ruth. He had had things out with his father thi: time; being nineteen now, he thought he was old enough to be: allowed to take care of himself. Bunny asked if his father had “whaled” him, and Paul smiled and said his father wasn’t in condition to whale anybody, he was getting worse with rheumae tism, He was as bitter and implacable as ever, but told Paul to go his own way to hell, and his father would pray for him. B ; noticed right away that Paul no longer referred to hig father as “Pap,” and that he no longer murdered the English language like the rest of the Watkins family; he talked like an educated. man, as indeed he was, Well, they had supper. Paul and Ruth expected to wait om the table, but Dad made them sit down, and they had a Httle, party, the four of them, and it was great fun. Bunny bombarded: Paul with questions about himself and his life; and incidentally; told Paul how he had hunted for him ¢hat night at Mra Groarty’s, and why had he ran away? They talked about Paul's aunt, and the tragedy of her lease and of the worthless “unit?” she had bought. Paul had learned from Ruth how Bunny had sent money to her, and Paul expressed his gratitude, and sald he would pay it back; he still had that stubborn pride—he would! never ask a favor, and he never thrust himself forward, but held back unti he was called upon. He told how he had lived, and how the old lawyer, his bene factor, had died just recently, and had left him a part. of hig library, all but the law books, It was a most wonderful t a lot of scientific books, and the best old English literature, For nearly three years Paul had had the use of this library, and that had been his life, he had seldom missed an evening reading until after midnight; also he had studied a lot during the day, for he had really had very little work to do, Judge Minter had made a sort of pet of him—having no children of his own, and stirred by the {dea of a boy who wanted to educate himself, The te SEE ca — K OfrAG cannot pay any attention to such a declaration, “The United Front Committee is le up of struggling tollers revolting inst terrible conditions, and as long as there is such a class war ®oing on i ae ice jured as a result of a gas explosion Priee Sicents at Dorrence colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Four other workers hurt by the explosion are fn a serious condition, The explosion occurred in the Ross vein, about 1,000 feet below Saas and had made up his mind to a career; he was going to spend a ggg ILL: a couple more years reading science, and then he would get“a job 1934 West Chicago Avenue in some laboratory, a janitor’s Job, if necessary, and port Als way, (Corn, Winchester) Subscribe! 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