The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 3

. _— RAE Pe co ad ~ fHE DAShY WORKER : INFLATION GETS 0, K. BY FRENCH; BUSINESS UPSET Secret Deal Shown in U. S. Confidence (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Ang, 9.—The senate has rati- fled by a vote of 281 to six, Poincare’s project for a sinking fund and for the so-called ‘“industrialization’ of the government tobacco monopoly, meant to place it upon the basis of a semi- private corporation. Some of the dictatorial measures Poincare is whipping the chamber of deputies into granting include the right granted to the bank of France to issue unlimited paper money to buy foriegn currency, without having to report such dangerous inflation in its weekly statements. Afraid to Press tssue. ‘The government has been hesitating between proposing and withholding the proposal to ratify the debt agree- ments. Strong blocks of deputies have notified the cabinet that they will vote against ratification, Poincare undoubt- edly wants to ratify, but may only go far enough to get the aprpoval to rati- fy with reservations from the finance committees of the chamber and sen- ate, then dicker with the U. S, and Britain during the summer, preparing for ratification in the autumn, Lose Both Ways. | ‘The rise of the franc suddenly from 49 to 32 to the dollar, has caused nearly as much panic as its previous fall. People and firms who had hasten- ed to save themselves as the franc went down, by buying Englishtand American money with depreciating francs, now are in a fever to unload before they lose millions by its rise, sf @ Washington Confident. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Evidently having received secret assurance that the debt pact with France will soon be ratified, altho thera is no! apparent chance of this from official actions, the .government experts are already figuring out how much of a loan France will need. There has clearly been a secret conference between Mel- Jon and French politicians close to Poincare, The experts say they think France will need a loan of from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 directly, with a possible addition of $100,000,000 credit to draw upon. It must have this great sum to even try stabilization of the franc, No Easy Matter, But such stabilization will create new trouble. It will shut off much of French exports and produce an un- favorable balance of trade. This, too, will tend to send the franc down again. So stabilization or no stabiliza- tion, the franc seems bound to be risky speculation, ‘Avella I. L. D. Has Picnic Sunday AVELLA, Pa., Aug. 9.—The workers of this city and vicinity will hold a big picnic at Pine Flats, John Sokac’s farm, one and a half miles southwest of Avella, Sunday, August 15. All the proceeds will go for the de- fense of Sacco and Vanzetti and other Political prisoners. An elaborate pro- gram has been prepared, A ball game between the miners of the Pard W. and Duquesne mines will be staged. Admission, men 50 cents, ladies free. The picnic is arranged under joint auspices of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee and the International La- bor Defense. ‘Trucks will be running from’ the P. & W. School to the picnic grounds between 9 and 11 in the morning and from the picnic grounds between 5 and 7 in the afternoon. Young Mexican Lad Killed in Steel Mill Thru Company Neglect GARY, Ind., Aug. 9—A young Mexi- can, Francisco Calderon, working in the No. 1 open hearth ore bin of the Mlinois Steel Corporation, was killed. Celderon was loading cars with iron ore coming down huge chutes from the ore bin. He noticed that the ore ceased coming, There was a jam at the orifice at the top. None of the men working together with Francisco wonld venture to investigate, so he went himself..A touch of the shovel and down went the ore, carrying along, Francisco and burying him com. Pletely. It took fifteen minutes untfl the men around began to look for him and dug him out from- underneath the ore. He was dead. Francisco was only 23 years old. He was the sole support of his aged father and mother and four younger brothers, who survive on @ ranch near Santa Ana Maya, State Michoacan, Mexico. His body will be taken to his native land by his uncle, Salvador Calderon. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS It remained for The DAILY WORK. ER to tell the farmers and workers of the state of Washington that a real Farmer-Labor party is in process of organization here. None of the Seattle papers mentioned the meeting held there July 4. It is hoped that enough publicity can be goten for our candkiates so that the voters of the state who intend to vote Farmer-Labor will know their names, Thus they will not be fooled by the old, revamped “Progressive” party which ds now receiving more or léss publicity in the paid press if Seattle, ‘Not knowing the real Farmer-Labor activities many farmers and unorgan- ized workers ere due to throw away their votes in the fall elections. One suspects that is why the progresive party is being mentioned ‘by capitalist dailies. If lists of workers and farmers’ candidates for state and’ national offices could be published in the DAI- LY WORKER, the rather isolated farmers ‘and disconterited’ workers could find out who ‘to vote' for: ‘Correspodents in the various states should furnish this information. H. Butler, Rockport, Wash. England Puts Screws on Greece to Compel Break with Italians ATHENS, Aug. 8. — Dictator Gen- eral Theodore Pangalos is in,trouble, He desires an alliance with Italy, but he seems unable to form a cabinet of the same mind. General Paraskovo- poulos, M. Savitaianos and M. Zilimon, the latter the president of the high court, have refused to take the pre- miership unless given a free hand to resume Greece's former raltions of de- pendence on Great Britain. Great Britian has ‘undotbtedly in- fluenced these politicians to this sec- tion, as Britain is seeking to isolate Italy, whose new imperialist designs on the Balkans and in Africa aré viewed by England as hostile to her own imperialist aims. Since Greece is financially bankrupt, it must have aid. This it-cannot get from France, and England will not make any loans unless Greece changes its foregin pol- icy. Chicago Annual Rodeo. The second annual rodeo will take place in Soldiers’ Field, Grant Park, next week. It is expected that close to 250,000 people will attend this event. Over $35,000 is offered in prizes to winners in cowboys and cow- girls, The subscription price to the Amer- ent is out. Did you get your copy? PORTO RICO—PARADISE FOR THE RICH BUT HELL FOR THE WORKERS By MAX ROCH,. LY 15 was San Diego Day. in Porto Rico. San Diego was a strong national- ist who fought against the imperialism of the United States. The na- tionalist party, a group of intellectuals, whose chairman was Senor Campos, spoke about the horrible conditions of the island under American exploita- tion. There are 400,000 workers on the island, most of them peasants work- ing on the sugar, tobacco and rice plantations. These peasants can obtain work only six months a year, Eighty thousand of them only have been employed all year and their’ living conditions are indescribable. They are paid about $2 a day when they work ¢—————_____________ and their death rate is tremendous, Produces Enormous Wealth, My personal observation is that Porto Rico, that produces in sugar and tobacco crops an annual wealth of millions of dollars, has the most hor- rible living conditions in the whole world. Nothing has been done by American interests in the 26 yearg that they have controlled the isl to help the workers. Most of workers live in dirty hoveis, the toile! are holes made in the streets, chil a ways naked, unemployment al- ways present, diseases like hookworm, anaemia and under-nourishment kill- ing them off in large numbers. The island is controlled by the United States and Senor Campos men- tioned the fact that certain students, who exposed these horrible conditions of the workers, were expelled from the university by the president of the university, who is appointed by thé United’States. Eighty per cent of the groat “contrales” belong to American capitalists. These capitalists do not live on the island, but have large sugar mills here. The socialist party of Porto Rico works in the interests of American capitalists and the work- ers can look for little help from them. 1 Raps Imperialism, Navares Sager, secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League in Porto Rico, spoke and was well received by the workers, He made a plea to the work- ers of Porto Rico, asking them to join hands with the workers of the United States, who knew their condi- tions, and against the imperial- fem of the.«nited States. He showed how the Snited States Controlled the island thru its insular police, the head of which is an appointed American— thru its the head of which is an appointed American—and the press, which Is servile to American interests, organt- He made'i plea for a st zation ente.: AAeW RY, Charch-State War Sjlen ces Mexican Cathedrals Those splendid edifices built at the expense of the Mexican people and used for their mental enslavement are now closed as a result of the warfare between the clergy and the government. It would be well for the Mex- loan people if they were turned into schools, or public halls for the benefit of the masses. POLICE CAPTAIN AND SOCIAL- DEMOCRAT HEAD CHIEF WITNESSES AGAINST 58 HUNGARIAN WORKERS BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 21—(By Imprecor)—Today Police Captain Josef Schwienitzer and the detective Inspector Peter Hain were examined, Thrugh the reports of Vienna newspapers it was a matter of common knowl- edge before the Rakosi trial that Schweinitzer had spent weeks in Vienna trying to discover the foreign connections of the Vagi Party. Police brutali- ties and barbarities of recent date in connection ‘with political affairs are closely linked with his name. It is a matter of record in countless previous trials and in the present trial as well that Schwignitzer not only issued the orders for the brutal treatment of ¢————,-—2- prisoners, but took part himself in the maltreatment, Demolish Schweinitzer’s Testimony. The defense succeeded today in de- molishing Schweinitzer’s testimony completely and in proving his state- ments not worthy of credence, despite the special protection accorded Schweinitzer by the president, who did not permit the defendants to in- terrogate the former concerning their having been tortured. Schweinitzer was the star witness for the prosecu- tion. His examination lasted four hours. The result of his testimony, however, was the complete collapse of the pros- ecution’s case. It was intended that he testify that the Communist Party aimed to organize for the armed up- rising. He wanted to prove that the socialist labor party employed Commu- nist methods and received funds from the Third International. At the end of his examination he had to admit, however, that he only had circumstan- tial evidence in support of these charges and could adduce no direct proof, Soclal Democrats Betrayers, The miserable part played by the social democrats in this trial of 58 Hungarian workers was brought out by the barristers for the defense when they cross-examined Scheinitzer. Barrister Lengyel for the defense asked Schweinitzer whether the social democrats had not aided him in his investigations and arrests of the Com- munist and social labor party mem- bers. Schweinitzer refused to reply. Lengye: “Ludwig Samuel also fig- ured as a defendant in this trial. He was arrested but released in a few days, There is no mention of his re- lease in the protocol. The police ob- tained a position for him. According to the indictment he took part in the congress, How is it possible that he was set free by the police and, altho he lives in Budapest, was not sub- poenaed ¢o attend this triql” Schyeinitzer; “In accordance with the 4nstructions of my superior I can- not answer this question,” While Lengyel was asking this ques- tion Public Prosecutor Miskolezy, member of the Awakening Hunga- rians, makes a remark which cannot be heard distinctly. “Lengyel turns sharply to the public prosecutor and asks: “What did you say?” The lat- silent. Defendant Joset Gogos, f the defendants, says to Leng- yel: “The public prosecutor says that it is a disgrace to ask such ques- tions.” i “Orders From Above.” “First of all I protest energetically against a high government official taking cover behind ‘orders from above’ and’ refusing to testify in a matter of-ilife and death,” declared Tengyel héatedly. “The court allowed me the ‘qtié#tion and the witness is obliged to ‘féply. The impression is given that if Hungary the truth is an ness to réfuse to answer important questions, “Secondly, I protest against the dis- graceful, unspeakable remark of the public prosecutor. He has the right of keeping ‘silent when I ask him a question, but he cannot disturb or influence thé proceedings with such remarks. I demand that the court sup- port me in this and call the public prosecutor to order.” The president declares that he did not hear the remark and instructs the public prosecutor to refrain from mak- ing any remark whatsoever. Agent Provocateur, The defending barristers, Gyori, Domokos, Makai, Kollman and Bard then examine Schweinitzer. The barristers: “Who was the al- leged emissary of the socialist labor party in Paris? Was it not an agent provocateur of the Hungarian police, Visny, who has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in Russia?” Schweinitzer: “I protest indig- nantly against this provocative ques- tion,” Cea ee Social Democrat State Wtiness. BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 23 (By Inprecorr).—One of the witnesses for the prosecution today was Gabriel Horovitz, member of the executive of the social democratic party of Hun- gary and first secretary (chairman) of the Wood Workers’ Union. Restless- ness filled the room as everbody im- patiently awaited his testimony. It was a matter of common knowledge that not only had Horovitz testified to the police against the leaders of the socialist labor party, but that a secret report from.Horovitz figured in the trial documents. Witness Blows Up. After the examination of a number of unimportant witnesses the metal worker, Ernet°Schon, is called to the stand. The public prosecutor relied on him to prove that the socialist labor party had been in connection with the Communists. Ernst Schon declared thatvhe had no knowledge of this and that-he wag unable to adduce anay evidence in ‘support thereof, The president: “Your statments to the police read differently.” “Schoen: “The agent provocateur Ludwig Samuel was my friend. I did not know that he was in the pay of the police. A few days before our arrest, however, he told me that we would be both arrested, but that he would be released at oncce. And so did it come to pass, They compelled me to say to the police whatever the detectives wanted of me.” Just as the day before, the two star witnesses for the prosecution were a failure, rm Senda sub. now and get the spe- cial rate of five dollars for a year’s subsoription tnd the pleasure of DOH As smisbaaclanaitin,.. Contributions to Children’s Kitchen NEW YORK, Aug. 9. — The follow- ing contributions were received by the United Council of Working class House Wives for the Children’s Kitch- en of the Passaic strikers: Mrs, Bessie Zaltzman, colleotion of Women's Culture Club Directors Sho- lem Aleichem Folk School No. 1, $15.3. Women’s Club Sholem Aleichem School, Perth Aboy, N. J., $16.50. Camp Boiberik $16.00. Iithuanian Working Women Alili- ance of America, $137.59. Journeymen Barber's Intern, Union of America, Local 900, $25.00. Miguel Mendez Now Colombian President BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 9.—Miguel Mendez was inaugurated president ot the Columbia republic for the next four years. He succeeds Pedro Nel Ospina, (By KARL REEVE) MASLOV KUT — North Caucuses, U.S. S. R. (By Mail) — The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union continue to support the heroic strike of the British coal miners against a reduction in wages or a lengthening of the working day. Thruout the entire Soviet Union meetings are be ing held at which material aid is voted the British miners, and speech- es are made which show that the Russian masses understand the inter- national character, poHtical as well as economic, of the British miners’ struggle, Here in the little village of Maslov Kut, numbering 3,000 inhabitants, the members of the Agricultural and Forest Workers Industrial Union have met and have resolutions offering support and have donated money to their British fellow workers. The first meeting just before the general strike was called off by the treacher- ous Gomperses of England, convened in the Narodny Dom (People’s House) of the village, Agricultural Workers Donate An extended discussion of the Brit- ish strike took place, and a resolu- tion was unanimously passed that the agricultural workers of the village donate one third of a day’s pay to the British workers, with a promise of more as soon as it was needed. The only argument of the meeting occured when it wag suggested that the local union donate one half in- stead of one third of a day’s pay. It was finally decided that the amount asked for by the central headquarters in Moscow, one third of a day's pay be given by all, with half a day's pay for those who could afford it. Approx- imately one half of those present vol- unteered to give one half of a day's pay and since that time another do- nation has been given in behalf of the British miners. No Red Tape. There was no red tape or delay about the exhibition of solidarity among the Russian workers. The local union in Maslov Kut, as the other locals thruout the Soviet Union re- ceived a telegram explaining the call- ing off the general strike and the need The Source of “Russian Gold” Page Three I SOVIET UNION The Best Issue of MOURNS DEATH | ‘ieee 0 c D l ER ZH | N SK Y TOPERUSNANNTOANTULNYUGELUUEEEAANAU TOON ALE UC GEO e CHOOT TE Memorial Meetings Held Mi * eye inaltciiee "| SUPPLEMENT (Special to The Pally Worker) 4 samt tneAmr Tne MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., July 21. (By Mail.)—This morning all Moscow was shrouded in mourning. Black-draped That Has Yet portraits of Dzerzhinsky are to be | seen everywhere. Red and Black flags | Appeared of mourning fiy from all buildings. | At noon Dzerzhinsky’s body wasi| transferred to the Trade Union House } pijiiitifiisisitttttisititttniitttttttmrirrtserenerr nrmnervertsit where a guard of honor watches at the bier. Members of the government representatives of party and trade| a I} us union organizations, as well as of it various institutions and army units, relieve one another in standing guard. | gyn iNtnniitttn TOR At noon time meetings were held in the factories, after which the workers marched to the Trade Union House with fiying banners to pay their last | respects to their dead leader. Count- less columns of marchers filled the surrounding streets so that traffic had to be suspended in this section of the city. | Memorial meetings are being held all over the Soviet Union. Delegations | of workers are already arriving in Moscow from other cities to pay him | honor. Special trains have had to be | run on many railway lines to take care of the numerous delegations, A large number of factory organiza- tions have decided to donate money Will Include: “Fumigating the Amer- ican Revolution” BY \EUGENE LYONS. A splendid article on Coolidge’s July 4th oration showing up the empti- ness, bombast and hypocrisy of pres- ent-day capitalism. The first appearance of this capaDle * young writer in the New Magasine | Supplement. 4 to the fund for homeless children in- stead of buying wreaths. Workers Must Work Under Miserable Conditions in Lowell (By a Worker Correspondent) I am writing this for the benefit of those who do not know the conditions in the Lowell Silk Mills as they are today. The windows are always clos- ed. We have no sanitary place to eat our lunch. We have to sit on the floor and eat. Many a time the mice run Past us as we are sitting there ana eating our cold lunch. They have no way for us to heat our cold lunch. The windows in the toilet are nailed down. After we clean our greasy looms there is no hot water for us to wash the grease (very black and dirty grease) off our hands. The tempera ture in the mill is so high that most of the time we find it hard to work. % “The Same Old Dis- armament Conte BY MICHAEL GOLD, A satirical ,little play on the so ca¥led peace efforts of the great pow- ers. With illustrations by Jerger and Vose, “Felix Dzerzhinsky” BY K. GEBERT. A story tof the life of the head of! the famous# Cheka, With first: photographs of the funeral in the Red Square At one time it was so great that our aprons and clothes were wet thru ana thru with prespiration. We sent word to Mr. Gallant, the agent of the mill to let him know that it was too warm for us to work ana that he would like to go home for the afternoon. He refused to let us go. Many mornings when we come to work we find our wraps. cut in two or three places by the mice. The wraps are so bad at times that it is very hard to earn over $15 a week. We have no rest room in the mill. are tired or fatigued we rest in the toilet. was being sent from the fundé held by the General Council of the Trade Unions in Moscow. As the money came into Moscow from the union locals in the outlaying districts new advances would be sent to the English workers, At one of the meetings I attended, which donated money for the British miners, the Robotchcom (Workers Committee) of the union explained the new developments in England and a resolution was passed commending the miners for holding out in the struggle despite the betrayal of the General Council of tie’ British unions and giving promise of their utmost material support. Americans Aid, A feature of these meetings were the Americans, members of the Russ- jan Reconstruction Farm who are operating a farm of 15,000 acres near Maslov Kut, in partnership with Soviet government who took part. In fact George Iverson, a North Dakota wheat farmer and Otto Anstrom, who are already known to readers of The DAILY WORKER, were on the pres- idium of the meetings, A recent dispatch in the English Imprecor from Moscow states: “The population of the village are also tak- ing part dn the solidarity action. in Moscow, “Life and Struggles in Ireland” T. J. O'FLAHERTY. Another of those splendid articles When we} by this sparkling writer “The Patrolman” A story of the police by, Alex Jackinson, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, Another Lesson on | WHAT AND HOW TO READ in the unusual series BY ARTHUR W. CALHOUN, And Other Features, Including Poems Movie Reviews Book Reviews and Cartoons BY A. JERGER, VOSE From the course of the meetings and/and a page of drawings on the the decisions adopted there is to be seen a great political development which the Russian peasantry has passed thru in recent years.” Old Peasants Support Strike, This I have found true from my personal experiences in the North Caucuses, which region it will be re- membered, was particularly ravaged by the civil war. At the meeting which I attended not only young farm workers, in some cases members of the Comsomols, but also old bearded peasants, made speeches declaring their solidarity with the British work- ers, The newspapers of the Soviet Union give a large proportion of space each day to the English strike. In Maslov| Cartoons by Fred Ellis and Kut bulletins are posted up at the] Minor, Ks Ispolcom (The local Soviet Political Committee) building giving latest events of the week by HAY BALES Order a Bundle Now! SUBSCRIBE! { eee Get an autographed copy of SEND IN YOUR SUB TO THR DAILY, WORKER \