The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1926, Page 3

oer FRENCH RULE IN SYRIA ATTACKED BY NATIONALISTS Cruelty Warsi Than Under Gen. Sarrail PARIS, Aug, 2—iIt turns out that at the recent session of the leagne of na- tons council a manifesto by Syrian nationalists was addressed to the council, which manifesto only now has ‘been disclosed, Tt accused M. de Jouvenel, French high commissioner in Syria, of cruelty exceeding that for which General Sar- rail, his predecessor, was removed. It cites the following points which the commissioner did not carry out his office in conformity ‘with the league of nations mandate: Charges Against French Ruler. “1. Whe separation of the Alexan- @retta and Antioch regions from Syria and ‘their incorporation in e high ‘commissariat with a Frenchman at thetr head, “2, The abandonment of the richest and most fertils regions near Killis under the pretext of the revision of the treaty of Angora. “2, ‘Violation of all liberty, sven in fhose places where the state of siege ‘was not in operation. “4. A regime of terror. Executions -withont trial. The son of tho former Cadi of Damascus Alhalabi and sev- eral others have been executed with- out any trial and on simple accusa- which are proved by the French authorities themselves, “6, In order to crown his work, M. ée Jouvenel has appointed as presi dent of Syria a Circassian, a com- Plete stranger to the national aspira- tions, with a vague program based on distant promises, as the head of cer- tain renegade nationalists to whom he has gtven the appearance of govern- mental power. It is thus he pretends to bring about pacification and estab- lish the wishes of the people. Killed 700 People. “7. The recent bombardment of Damascus, which lasted for sixteen consecutive hours, during which 700 women, children and old men tragi- cally perished.” It was revealed by the council’s in- terrogation of De Jouvenel that the “president” whom he had appointed, Prince Damad Ahmed Namy Bey, had fallen out with his own “cabinet,” had dissolved it and sent three of his min- isters to prison. Liberian Chamber of Commerce Plans to Colonize Marshall MONROVIA, Liberia, Aug. 3. — The Liberian «Produce Exchange and cham- ber of commerce are sending a dele- gation of two to the United States in an attempt to get American Negroes to go to Liberia and establish a colony in Marshall. Free transportation is offered to a limited number to sail December 27, 1927. S.P C8. 7.5 at the First Annual DAILY WORKER TRUCK PARTY Sunday, August 8 Arranged’ by the Boston office of The Dally Worker TO NORTH MIDDLEBORO, MASS. Tickets can be obtained at the New International Hall, 42 Venonah St., Roxbury, at 36 iseway St., Boston, and at the Chelsea Labor Lyceum, Price $1.00 ’ ‘Trucks will leave these stations and Manhattan Sq. at 10 a. m. sharp, sgpanersil Pfs ag) w ‘ws, P | 3 : : 8 RUSSIAN MINERS’ UNION URGES INCREASED ACTION IN AIDING BRITISH MINERS (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S, Ry July 16.— (By Imprecor)—-The central commit- tee of the Miners’ Union of the So- viet Union has issued an appeal to all the members of the union to In- crease thelr collecting activities, In acoordance with the decision of the Berlin conference of the British and Russian miners’ representatives that the campalgn of ald for the British miners be intensified, JAPAN POLICE WATCH MEET OF PAN-ASIATICS Congrées Opens with 38 Delegates (Special to The Daily Worker) NAGASAKI, Japan, Aug. 3. — The pan-Asian conference opened at the Y. M. C. A, Hall here today with 38 delegates representing China, Japan, Philippines, India and Afghanistan. The congress is being watched by a large cordon of polica The govern- ment had refused the use of official buildings. Crisis Patched Up. The congress was very nearly brok- en up before the sessions when the Chinese delegation demanded that the Japanese agree to join in a resolution declaring for the complete withdrawal of the Japanese from Manchuria. The difficulty, however, was compromised and the congress saved at the last minute. Chinese and Indian speakers assail- ed Great Britain for it activities in the Orient and Japanese speakers took occasion to declare American 1s anti- Japanese, Favor Eastern Continent. Mr. Imiasato, a member of the Jap- anese parliament who was elected president of the congress said, “The 900,000,000 Asiatics that are experien- cing the most painful existence, social miseries and griefs, seemingly favor an Eastern continent.” “Justice, liberty and equality have departed from Asia where the down- trodden people are crying yainly for righteous treatment.” The keynote of the congress seems to be the uniting of all Asiatic people against the encroachment of the white races. Norway’s Economy in Continued Hard Fix; Much Shipping Idle OSLO, Aug. 3. —(FP)—Customs re® turns for the fiscal year ending June 30 fell short of the budget estimate by almost 5,000,000 crowns, and the ex- cise and stamp tax on chocolate and tobacco were nearly 2,500,000 below the budget calculations, due to the economic crisis of the past year. Localized industrial conflicts are fre- quent, while prices continue to move downward. A canvass of shipping, made by Nor- wegian daily newspapers, shows the idle tonnage to be 198,000 as compared with 65,000 tons idle ‘*st January. Owing to accumulatic orders and to seasonal conditions, employment has somewhat improved during the summer, 300,000 Denounce British Imperialism In Canton Meetings SHANGHAI—(FP)—The anniver- sary of the Shanghai massacre of May 10, 1925, perpetrated by’ the Brit- ish, passed off this year with a large memorial protest gathering which fire- hoses, policemen and automatics and other armed forces finally dispersed. In Canton 300,000 demonstrators de- nounced British imperialism and adopted resolutions stating that “we have not only been unable to avenge the dead but the alien imperialists have become more audacious.” FARM FOR SALE 80 acres, Prague, Ark, Five minutes walk from depot, Farm fenced with hog wire, About 18 acres under cul- tivation, All level land, no stones, plenty of good water, Include: stock and farm implements. A bar. gain for quick sale, Cash or terms $2,200. Write Andrew Remsik, Prague, Ark, INTERNATIONAL BARBER SHOP Private Beauty Parlor M. SALA, 2016 Second Ave. (Between 103rd and 104th Sts.) New York City GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL, nme THE DAILY WORK Crowds Gather About Banks in-- Paris to Watch Fall of Franc As the franc continues to drop and carry with it the whole economic system in France, anxious crowds, mostly people who have money to lose, watch the bulletins telling hour by hour the fate of the currency. The gov- ernment has considered stopping the displays for fear of manifestations on the streets. General Strike Inside Story Disappoints By BILL ROSS, Federated Press, LONDON.— (FP) — Labor's official inside story about the general strike is out at last, but it does not live up to the promise that secrets would be re- vealed. The report of the British Trades Union congress on the general strike was made public against the wishes of the general council by one of its members, John Bromley of the Locomotive Engineers & Firemen’s union. This report was intended for a special conference of trade union executives. But this conference was postponed to prevent division in the labor movement and present a solid front during the miners’ strike. This report attacks the miners. In face of the miners’ slogan, “not a penny off the pay,” the general coun- cil of the British unions felt that the men would have to accept reductions, “We donot greatly complain about the miners taking up this attitude,” states the report, “but we do suggest that it must have been known to their lead- ers that some time or other the mining industry would have to be reorgan- ized before it could continue to pay reasonable wages.” Miners are told that “it was time that some different methods of arriv- ing at that end were adopted than merely that of long strike periodi- cally.” A direct attack is made on the radical leadership of Herbert Smith, president, and A. J, Cook, sec- retary of the miners: “It is not lead- ership merely to stand by whilst hun- dreds of thousands of men and their families starve on a slogan, and no real advance is made, and this we feel will become manifest as time passes. To have adopted the slogan of the miners’ leaders would have meant the immediate throwing out of work of some 300,000 mine workers by the closing of uneconomic pits. The Mine Workers of America are told incidentally that the policy of their conservative leaders will also result in throwing thousands of min- ers out of work. “The strike was terminated for one sufficient reason,” the council's report continues, “namely, that in view of the attitude of the Miners’ Federation its continuance would have rendered its purpose futile.” Right Wing Aids Bosses. Capitalist newspapers comment daily upon the opinion of the labor leaders toward the miners’ strike. By quoting labor opinion they now bol- ster up attacks made previously against. Herbert Smith and A. J, Cook only by the enemies of the labor move- ment. Conservative labor leaders are meet- ing with a discontented rank and file everywhere. But the several conven- tions held since the end of the gen- eral strike do not indicate that the left wing can eliminate them. The convention of the National Union of Railwaymen, whose political secretary is J. H. Thomas, presented an impor- tant test. Thomas faced a delegation which seemed definitely opposed to his poli- cies. The president of the union, W. Dobbie, said in his address with refer- ence to Thomas that in the labor movement “there will be no place for men who have a foot in both camps.” Thomas was defeated on several is- sues, but when it came to a vote of confidence and election, he was able to carry a large majority. The rea- son given is that he is the ablest trade union administrator, that he made the N. U. R, one of the richest unions in the world, and that his negotiations secured high wages in the railroad industry, CANADIAN REACTIONARIES CONSPIRE TO GRAB PUBLIC OWNED RAILROADS By C.°McKAY, Federated Press. MONTREAL— (FP) —Conspiracies to hand back the Canadian National railways, now that they are becoming profitable, to private ownership, are believed behind much recent political maneuvering. The Hon, “Hasyoft” Patenaude, the political pet of the high financiers of Montreal, hag been made minister of justice in premier Meighen’s new cab- inet which sv&ceeded the shadow cab- inet that parliament declared illegal- ly constituted. Parliament was dis- missed for saying so. Hand Out Slush Fund. In the elections last year Arthur Meighen, who was mainly responsible for saddling the publi¢ with bank- rupt private railways, refused to de- nounce public ownership. So the mandaring provided Patenaude with a slush fund and sent him out to organ- ize an independent conservative group in Quebec, The theory was that Patenaude would go to Ottawa with enough fol- lowers to hold the balance of power, and force Moighen to permit high fi- nance to get control of the national railways for a song. Patenaude, who denounced the imperialist views of Meighen, was proclaimed by the news- paper organs of the ultra-imperialists of Montreal as the savior of French Canada, against the public ownership heresy of Ontario. But Patenaude and all his candidates were disastrously beaten. YA tem Some months ago Meighen had a conference with the financial lead- ers of the anti-public owner- ship forces and afew days later he and Patenaude smoked the pipe of peace. Now Meighen has given Patenaude the portfolio of justice. Patenaude wanted the ministry of railways, If Patenaude can muster the promised campaign funds and elect an important contingent from Quebec, he may get the ministry of railways after the elections to ald the return of the railways to private control. Canadian Labor Party. Canadian labor is making election plans which indicate a bigger political effort than ever before. Nearly all trades councils are represented in the Labor party locals. In the face of recent court decisions declaring peace- ful picketing and boycotting illegal, the need of political action is pressing. In Montreal which for some terms elected one labor representative to parliament, it is proposed to concen- trate efforts in two or three constitu- encies. Chief interest centers in On- tario where the Labor party has been active the past year. When the pro- vincial government was composed of Farmers and Laborites, Ontario had 20 Progressives and Laborites in parlia- ment, but in the dominion elections last year the only survivors of that combination were Miss Macphail, Pro- gressive, and Peter Heffernan, Labor. » SEND INA MEXICAN LABOR IS UNHAMPERED “BY INJUNCTIONS Have Lenrned to Use| Political Power By ALBERT F. COYLE, CLEVELAND — (FP) —Mexican la- | + bor is amazed to read in the news- |! papers of this country that a Chicago injunction judge, one Denis Sullivan, has thrust into jail a number of wom- en workers whose sole offense against the law is that, as members of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union, they dared to defy the anti- Picketing injunction of this judicial tyrant. Right to Picket. The workers of Mexico not only have the absolute right to picket, but have evolved a unique method of warning the public away from the store or shop where a strike is in prog- ress, A conspicuous labor flag is set up on the curb in front of a struck es- lin kind. |ing. In many mining areas every tablishment as a warning to the pub- lic not to patronize it. Woe unto the worker seen going into such a place! He will certainly be asked for his name and the number of his union when he comes out, and will be com- pelled by his fellows to atone for his treason to the labor movement. The Mexican employer, moreover, is not long in the dark as to what labor requires as @ means to ending the strike. There are no hidden or uncer- tain demands. The representative of the Mexican Confederation of Labor serves a written notice on the employ- er specifying just what the workers want and why they are entitled to it. Sometimes these demands are mime- ographed and distributed to persons passing in front of the struck shop. Publicity to Demands, We secured a copy of the demands made by the Confederation of Labor on the proprietor of a store in Mexico City against whom a strike had been declared for mistreating his clerks. Even the clerks in Mexico City are organized. We took this list of griev- ances to one of the leading American business men in Mexico City and asked him if he did not regard the de- mands reasonable. The American looked the list over for a moment and then replied, “Come to think of it, these are just about the same things that any group of organized workers in the United States would want.” The main difference between the workers of Mexico and those of the United States is that the Mexicans can enforce their legal rights because they control the government, while the Americans are usually at the mercy of hostile courts and indifferent public officials. Clayton Act. A decade ago organized labor in this country was boosting the Clayton act as the Magna Charta of Labor. It considered as “a commodity of com- merce.” A splendid phrase, but it gained nothing for the workers of America. Indeed, the whole Clayton Act has been virtually junked by our courts, while labor is not strong enough politically to protect itself. The American worker has a vote just the same as the Mexican worker. The difference in labor legislation be- tween the two countries is wholly due to the fact that in Mexico the workers have organized their political power in their own Labor party just the same as they have organized their economic power through their trade unions. The American workers have not, Noted Jewish Novelist, Israel Zangwill, Dies LONDON, Aug, 3. — Israel Zang- will, noted Jewish novelist and zionist died at a hospital in Midhurst Sussex following two month’s illness after a severe |nervous breakdown. It was thot last week he would improve but a relapse caused his sudden expiration. A novel, written by Zangwill in 1892, “The Children of the Ghetto,” made him famous. He was very active in the movement to establish a home for the Jewish race and during the war was a patriot in the allied cause, Pilsudski Plans to Force 9-Hr. Day on Polish Miners WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 3.—Marshal Pilsudski and the coal operators of Poland are planning a drive on the coal miners in an attempt to force the nine-hour day onto the workers and to crush the threatening strike. Since the beginning of the British coal strike, British gold has been shipped into Poland in payment for Polish coal. The British coal strike, it 1s de- clared by Pilsudski followers, has saved Poland from economic ruin and has strengthened the Pil#udski gov- ernment, Large shipments of Polish coal are being made to England. Report 4,000 Chinese Drown. LONDON, Aug. 3.—The Daily Mail's Pekin correspondent reports that 4,000 persons have been drowned near Loyang, former headquarters of Mar- shal Wu Pel+u, following inundation of 20 villages, Torrents rushed down the mountainsides after heavy rains,|signed a 2year agreement The natives,had mo warning of the approaching. disaster, ’ WOMEN'S COMMITTEE APPEALS FOR AID 10 BRITISH COAL MINERS LONDON—(FP)—Even soap is no longer within the reach of many min- er families, reports the women’s com- mittee for the relief of miners’ wives and children, “These relief funds,” iter providing food kitchens for th who from the left school law authoritte ppe “than the mother can giv Thousands of pounds go eve n the committee to provide t mothers, and m nd sent to the yvomen have even xpected child. There is, express it, a desperate need for and shoes, and few miners have touched any money at all for weeks past. means that everything in the house running short and the committee 1s providing large supplies of soa i the immediate need, but meet the cost of oil and gas to bed when daylight fails becausé cannot afford this necessity. “We know that America is a long way off but we do appeal for any help t! can be given in the name of that labor solidarity which should join us together thruout the world.” The report is signed by lips, secretary. Her add mentary Labor Club, 11 don, SW 1, England. been collected. M: DIPLOMATS IN SECRET DEALS ABOUT EUROPE : Backstairs Diplomacy Is Going Strong PARIS, Aug. 3. — Foreign Minister Vandervelde, socialist, whose party re- cently voted to make King Albert dic- tator of Belgium, has been in Paris in conference with Premier Briand. Vandervelde and Briand conferred over the prospects of both the Belgian and French franc, and the possibilities of all three dictatorships, Italian, French and Belgian, forming an alli ance. Another matter of discussion was the question, upon which an agree ment was reached, of admitting Ger- many into the league of nations. France is to take the necessary diplo- matic steps to have this agreed upon by the league powers before the next league meeting on September 2. It is also agreed to add to the members of the council, to make up for Brazil quit- ting and other expected withdrawals. see More Backstairs Diplomacy. BERLIN, Aug, 3. — It is reported that Hjalmar Schacht, head of the Ger- man reichsbank, is to meet secretly with Benjamin Strong, head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, at Scheveningen, Holland, on August 4, do discuss financial matters. It is cer- tain that Schacht will meet J. Pier- pont Morgan and Andrew Mellon, at least before they return to America. Germany is seeking not only for a modification of the Dawes plan and the reduction of the Rhineland allied troops of occupation from 85,000 to 50,000, with the withdrawal of the In- terallied Control Commission from Berlin, but also for a loan from Amer- ica of $20,000,000 or more to finance transportation improvements. Want Jobless to Starve. The Marx cabinet hopes to give a few of Germany's 1,700,000 unemploy- ed work by these improvements. It is known that American bankers want to make the cutting off of Germany's unemployment doles the prerequisite condition of any future loans, British Unions Find Government No Friend of Miners After All LONDON, Aug. 3.—In a review of the coal strike situation the British correspondent of the Internafional Federation of Trade Unions points out that the passage of the so-called eight- hour law, designed to break the mfn- ers’ federation, has stripped the tory government of any last vestiges of prestige with the people, “The result,” he says, “is that hence- forward it can no longer play the part of mediator, and the general situation becomes correspondingly worse. The cabinet will in the future, even more than in the past, have to carry on its baneful activities stealthily behind the scenes.” He predicts that altho for the mo- ment the April wage rates are being offered to most of the miners, yet soon a general wage cut will be or- dered unless the uneconomic mines are closed. He charges that the gov- ernment has done nothing to close these high-cost mines, and apparently wants them kept open in order to force wages downward, The Manchester Guardian, liberal mouthpiece, remarks that if the min- ers can get no better terms than these “one might well say that they had no option but to resist to the last ounce of their strength.” Wagon Drivers Get Incre ST. LOUIS.— (FP) —1400 union bread wagon drivers of St. Louis have for a ikly increase of $2 for drivers and $3 for stablemen, A ln al ton Lon- OV 150,000 has |t | good res HINDU PEASANT. PARTY TO HELP? MINE STRIKERS: Gives Peasants’ Stand on Labor Problem 5, ° )—Respondings; asants Inter avda” to the4 > Hinds 1 this following an peasants: ts gem LONDON, on the Kre e are again two} nd peasants or’ is getting m. Farmers with raw mate- hat The Matter Is. loaded up witli] the time for sleep r the next days > of their life i they are paid of wages thet m to support their and more they be 9 oppression is Dab wages decrease and families with it, come ‘poor, n Trouble. kers make up fm against their always get Spots The Whenever the their mind Opp sors, to ment an nd Suc prepare f. strike. the condition in Emg- land now. poor English labous ers oppressed by the capitalist class enforced com he Ist May but failed by the leaders’ fault, What To Do? 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