The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard fora Workers’ and Fariners’ Government e ~ Vol. Ill. No. 180. Subscri, 4 oO bd By THOMAS J. O’FLAHERTY . 26 er a a eb ta PANGALOS of Greece was smacking his lips after ne- OVER THE LEFT gotiating a slice of baklava when a | subject stood up, at his teble and French Approve, While drawing a revolver proceeded to sail duce the population of Greece by one) dictator. | thusian devotee and the food supply, | | the gunthan was cut short in the mid- | (Special to The Daily Worker) | dle of his act and Pangalos called for | PARIS, Aug. 10.—When the senate | & cup of Turkish coffee. A dictator's jand the chamber of deputies, meeting | job in Burope is almost as hazardous jointly as the national assembly at as that of a bootlegger in Chicago, A Vergailies, convened today, the Com- few weeks ago the Spanish dictator munists and socialists sought to block was receiving the cheers of the multi-|the Poincare government's program of tude when a sharp dagger flew by his a financial dictatorship advanced un- ear and stuck in his automobile. What der cover of establishing a sinking happened to Mussolini’s nose is a fund for redemption of national de-| matter af recent history, Oh yes, those fense bonds, by introducing a measure | lads are popular—with sharpshooting | limiting the powers of the senate. | citizens. | M. Deselves, presiding officer and | | president of the senate who supports HE future of Great Britain as a|the Poincare government, put the’ capitalist power is shrouded in| question, involving a ruling that only | gloom according to several capitalist |the government program be discussed, | writets. Some believe that Britain’s|The vote supporting Poincare’s cab- | Star is waning. They point to her|inet was 691 to 175 against. large unemployed army and to her RG ard dwindling foreign market. Dr. Alfred Deputies Applaud “Tiger.” Pearce Dennis, Vice Chairman of the) PARIS, Aug. 10.—The letter of United States Tariff Commission gives |Georges Clemenceau to Coolidge in his views on the subject in a recent|Which the “Tiger,” so-called, attacks issue of the New York Times, (the financial imperialist policy of the deta a United States as “out-Shylocking Shy- |lock,” was enthusiastically received RITAIN produces less" tood todsy jin the lobbies of the chember of. dept than at any time since the Nor-ities’ One hundred deputies of the man conquest. Cheap food for the) union republican parties held a spe- workingman rather than a decent liv- | cial meeting to adopt a resolution com- ing for the farmer is the basis of |plimenting Clemenceau. British economy in this century Says} former Finance Minister Louis the doctor. But an English working- | ~oncheur said: man who happens to read the Doc’s | article will wonder where he bought, his food while in England. Food is rrench public opinion. . It is absolute anything but cheap in England today. 'jy representative of France.” | Native grown grain once fed 24,000,000 | “A former member of the cabinet Britons; now it. nourishes only remarked: i 8,000,000, Britain spends over $600,-| «The only chance of ratifying the ete ce Echoes Opinion. “Clemenceau’s letter is an echo of 000,000 yearly on imported foodstuffs, vo, by mail, ago, by Unfortunately. for the Mal: | Cal Condemns, “Tiger” h" an increase of $50,000,000 during the last two years. Washington debt agreement now is to| | dissolve the chamber and hold a gen- ‘eral election. And then the new cham- | |ber would be just as opposed to rati-| HIS sounds bad but the worst is fication as this one.” ‘ yet to come. Exports of cotton | rhe "py bieee goods have shrunk ‘from seven | If Coolidge Won't, Borah. WII, billion square yards in 1913 to less| Perse og Aug. 305 raeaibe four and half billion yards in| administration undeci¢ as to ee ne saatad government hay im- | Whether to give “thé ‘Tétter of Clemen- posed a higher fon the import | ceau “silent treatment” or refer it of cotton goods ! is setting about |to the treasury for reply, it is indi- organizing its: own|industry by the |cated in a wire from Senator Borah's | purchase of textfle tiachinery. The |!daho home, that Borah, at least, will Orientals in the past have been the |have something to say. best customers of British cotton goods; Borah has been a vigorous opponent | but instead of an annual three-shirt lof the administration on: the settle-| ration they are now getting along on! ment of debts, particularly; the remis- | two. In addition ;to this new eco-|sion of 75 per cent of Italy's debt and | nomie policy other factors detrimen- a reduction of about 50 per cent of | tal to British trade are, the loss ofthat of France. This likelihood. of markets in Russia, Central Europe and | Borah’s intended reply, may put the Turkey and the high price of raw cot- | Coolidge administration fn ‘the post-| ton fibre. \tion of being forced to answer before | 'Borah may give an unofficial broad- | HE coal! industry on which the su-|side that French opinion ‘will take as | o) ee Entered at’ T $8.00 per year. mall, $6.00 per year. G. T. U. (United General C tical support of the striking miners of Great Britain. English tabor leaders present thei coal mine strike. James Robson. Pond-class matter September Zi, 194a a eee ee ee HURSDAY, A British Miners § French Coal Miners Aid British Strike LILLE, France, Aug. 10,—-Around 4,000 organized coal miners of Northern France have downed tools in answer to the call of the C. ederation of Labor), issued as prac- ° appeal to YorksMire; South Wales; pees ont BRITISH AND U.S. ENVOYS IN MEXICO CONFER Plans for Concerted Ac- tion Discussed - ° (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 10. — Con- premacy of British industrialism j official in the absence of ‘any other, | was reared is now in a bad state.| Seeks No Revision, Says Embassy. °e"ted action between Great Britain Coal exports have declined in the The French embassy waves the let- | and the United States over the repub- last decade from 80 millions to 52|ter aside with the statement that |/'¢’s petroleum and alien laws andthe million tons. Those were the figures in 1925. Since then a strike of coal miners has taken place and is still on without any prospect of immediate settlement. This means a terrific loss to British industry. In addition to all those calamities there is the problem of facing European and American com- petition. The British chemist is no match for the German laboratory says Doctor Dennis, Well, this a good time to pop the question for the umpteenth time: “Who won the war?” owe N the production of steel, France, Germany and the United States are now leading England, the U. 8S. pro- ducing five or six times as much as Britain. The giant Franco-German steel trust recently formed puts the finishing touch to Britain’s former pyemiership in this Industry, Britain is obliged to import 5,000,000 tons of foreign ore annually.’ The continental trust has iron and coal in close prox- imity. Despite this dark picture Dr. Dennis is not hopeless of England's re- covery, But the empire is. on tha Wane. George Harvey, former ambas- sador to the court of St. James de- clared that England was a splendid corpse and worthy of a tear, [Clemenceau doesn’t represent the French government, which, the em- bassy says is not going to @uk any revision of the agreement, ere Coolidge Incensed, PAUL SMITH'’S, N. Y., Aug. 10.— President Coolidge showed by his “un- official” utterances that he is highly incensed at Clemenceau’s letter. More unofficial threats of “ruin of French credit” enamated from interviewers. Coolidge is particularly angry at Clemenceau’s comparing the separate peace treaty made with Germany by the United States, to the action of Soviet Russia when Germany's gen- erals on the eastern front compelled the Russians to sign the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Coolidge feels that this is an “insult.” What he will do about it is yet undecided; Secretary Kellogg is coming to. the. president's summer home soon, and this and the Mexi- can situation are to receive attention, Dies of Mine Injuries, TAYLORSVILLE, lL, Aug. 10. — Ross Ivy, 28 died here today follow- ing injuries received in Peabody Mine at Langley last night. He resided in Hillsboro, Ml, and is survived by a wife and two children, MEXICAN LABOR CHIEF FLAYS CHURCH; BLAMES CATHOLICS FOR BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE FLOP (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, August 10.—Charging that the catholic church has been the principal ey of oppression of vast, Secretary of Industry and Labor Mexican laboring classes for centuries Luis N. Morones made a bitter attack upon the catholic church, during a debate upon the merits of the present ‘eligious controversy. Secretary Morones severely censured the Knights of Columbus for their resolution, enacted in the, Philadelphia conference, demanding that President Coolidge intervene inthe Mexican gious crisis. Morones charged that the catholics were partially responsible for the ‘rustration of the recent general strike in England, Cardinal Bourne de- nouncing the strikers as. rebels and traitors to god and the king. |religious struggle, is considered the |reason for the conference between James R. Sheffield, American ambas- sador and Edmund Oyey, British min- | ister, held here a few days ago. The latter has already made a protest to Calles.. Sheffield is_a bitter enemy of the Mexican government and has given every possible aid and comfort to the reactionary clericals and foreign ex- ploiters, He is considered mainly re- sponsible for the lurid tales of Amer- ican violent deaths in Mexico. Mex- icans observe that if foreign countries were to make representations to the United States government over every one of their nationals killed in the states the Washington administration would have its hands full, They Backed De La Huerta, The same elements that formed the backbone of the De La Huerta up rising are now busy among the most backward sections of the peasantry spurring them on to open revolt against the government. Assured that the United States will intervene in their behalf and confident of the as- sistance of the, powerful catholic or- ganizations in the United States, the Mexican hierarchy has thrown caution to the winds and is now openly prop- agandizing violent resistance to law even in Mexico. City. The people are urged to withdraw their money from the banks and refuse to accept paper currency. How long the government can afford to allow this conduct to go unpunished remain to be seen. The kind of propaganda spread in the villages by the priests beggars (Continued on page 2) bandment of the Macedonian com have been accused of making raids across the ‘Serbian border, A demand for the extradition of the Slavia and, compensation for depe recent raids. also is made. Jugo-Slavia in Demands on Bulgaria BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, August 10,—Jugo-Slavi ernment organ, Wreme, has demanded of Bulgaria the complete dis- d Delegation to America Post Office at Chicago, Ulingis, under the Act of March 3, 187%. - UGUST 12, 1926 Ergon 200 Publi Daily tt Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. thd W. Washington, Bivd., Ctucago, TL NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents Attack on Soviet Union Masks New War Preparations By JOHN PEPPER. (Sepelal Cable to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. S.S. R., August 10.—The information broad- casted by the world eapitalist and social-democratic press of in- |surrections within the Union of Soviet Republics, of the arrests and attempted assassinations of Soviet leaders, is pure invention. The false news reports, which have been broadcasted the jast few days, have, however, an important political significance, They are intended to draw public attention away from new schemes of imperialist adventures on the part of the capitalist powers. Riss : : Poland, with the support of Great Britain, is engaged in anti- Lithuanian preparations, and Roumania is concentrating troops in Bessarabia. Thus the capitalist powers are preparing for a new war, which they are seeking to hide under the screen of ridiculous and malicious news reports regarding non-existent risings within the Soviet Union. Allis quiet and peaceful within the Soviet Union and the workers and peasants everywhere, more energetically than ever, are proceeding with their tasks of reconstructing and building industry and agriculture, in which tremendous progress has al- ready been made. SOVIET FOREIGN OFFICE DENOUNCES TALES AS “RIDICULOUSLY FALSE” Note-—The International News Service (Hearst) after several days’ debauch in spreading wild tales about “disorders” within the Soviet Union, today (August 10) sent out the following dispatch under a Moscow date line: ee te, S MOSCOW, Aug. 10—Reports of widespread disturbances thruout Russia were condemned as “ridiculously f ” in a statement issued by the Soviet foreign office today. “The tales that a military rebellion has broken out in Kronstadt, Lenin- grad, Ukraine,” the statement declared, “that Trotsky was fleeing, or leading in army on Mosco' hat Zinovievy has been exiled In Siberia, or is leading an army to attack the Kremlin; that Dzerzhinsky was poisoned or committed suicide; that Dzerzhinzky’s house was searched and much hidden treasure rican workers at first hand, for The delegation, left to right: Joseph Jones, | General Council member; Oliver Harris, ald In carrying on the British James Robson, Durham; BULLETIN. LONDON, Aug. 10.—The British coal strike seemed farther than ever from settlement today, when the executive of the Miners’ Federation announced that the district councils had voted to reject the ecclesiastics’ proposals for settlement. The ecclesiastics’ proposals provided for a compromise settlement, and had been favorably received by a delegate con- ference of the miners. The present vote shows the rank and file of the miners will not permit any compromise. DEFENSE CLOSES ITS GASE BEFORE HORTHY COURT Prosecution to Present Its Witnesses BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 20—(By Imprecorr)—The examination of the members of the socialist labor party was brot to an end. The. following defendants were examined: Dr. Heinrich Hajdu, Michael Szabo, Georg Toth, Emil Brecska, Johann Kriesl, Paul Vander, Ladislaus Schon- mann, Josef Beres, Alexander Stein- lenn and Josef Papi, All the defendants stated that the socialist labor-party does not belong to the Third International. The party sent delegates to the International Congress of the Second International in Marseilles, where. affiliation of the party to the Second International was applied for. The party demanded that those social democratic leaders,, who ment with the Count Bethlen govern- ment, be expeglad from the Second In- ternational, -The party was also con- scious of the fact that it stood at the extreme left wing of the Second In- ternational, “However that by no means signifies that the socialist la- bor party is a Communist party. The jJefendants assert that they steadfast- ly adhere to the uncompromising class struggle, and that they in the future (Continued on page 2) tassel ete ceneenenteesasencheenetetaasantet says the gov- itadjis, or irregula » who recently iT ‘6 of the irregulars to Jugo- indents of the @endarmes killed in had con@iuded ‘the disgraceful agree- | GIRARD STEEL MILL WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE Ask $13 a Ton; Need _ Union But Denied It (Special to The Daily Worker) hundred steel workers at the Bryers mill.are on strike, among them some members of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel affd Tin Work- ers’ Union. They say they have been ; Sold out, They demanded $15 a ton. | At the Atlantic City conference be- |tween the companies and the union | representatives, both agreed to refer jthe scale matter to the local lodges. | The lodges decided to hold out for $13. | But the company. officials and the un- |ion accepted the 1925 -scale— a@ “slid- ing scale” of $11.38. Say it's “Outlaw” The men say the union officials were not authorized to accept this. Most of the strikers are unorganized, |but were willing to stick with the organized for $13." When the whole 300 struck, the Amalgamated called it an “outlaw” strike, The steel trust earned record profits | in 1925; $48,000,000 in the last quarter alone. The union has done nothing for the strikers, When the men went out, the | union representative, McGinley, came jto town, but not to see the strikers. He went to see the company—and then left town! Progressives Have Program, A few progressives am@ng the strik- ers are trying to spread the strike, to get support from all steel workers, and to hold-the organization they have during the strike as a permanent basis for compelling the Amalgamated to accept them into,the union, where as a left wing algng with other such progressives, they Cah make the union what it ought t8"He fhstead of what it is, an obstacle’ to the ‘organization of the unorganized, Ben Tillet,| : va # Ellen Wilkingon, M. P.; Paul McKanna, Scotland, and Mrs. | 2Y their unscrupulous mendacity. DOWN COMPROMISE found—all these are ridiculously false sto: . “All of them, recently broadcast from Riga, Reval, Warsaw, and Buch- | arest, indicate that their authors possess imaginative capacities equalled only “These campaigns of malicious misstatements have a habit of appearing ‘at moments when the Soviet Union is mafting progress unpalatable to its enemies.” |PILSUDSKI COHORTS THREATEN POLAND WITH DICTATORSHIP KIELCE, Poland, August 10—Threats of carrying the May revolution to ‘its final goal of establishing a dictatorship in Poland with Marshal Josef }Pilsudski at its head were made by aver 25,000-followers of Pilsudski in the ‘demonstrations of the Strielczi (a nationalist Tiflemen’s club) here. When the sejm meets on September 15 it is decfared that either the thembers must quit peaceably or suffer the forcible dissolution that they | were spared during the May revolu-+ | tion. | | -Pilsudski’s dream of forming a Bal-| OY E tic states federation to be used as a! buffer state against the Soviet Union; GIRARD, Ohio, Aug. 10. — Three | viet Union declared it would | treaties with the individual nations but not with an alliance. Pilsudski’s| proposed conference to effect this |block has been indefinitely postponed. | |Lithuania has been Poland’s stumb-| | ling block towards the formation of this anti-Soviet block. Lithuania has not yet forgotten the | taking of Vilna and other important | Lithuanian centers. She still has; hopes of regaining the territory seized by Poland. Pilsudski is now seeking |to effect an alliance with Germany |thru which she hopes to force Lithu- jania to enter the Baltic states federa- tion and forget the Vilna incident. Druses Attack French. LONDON, Aug. 10, — The Druses have made a successful attack upon ja French column between Sueida and |Shaiba, killing and wounding 1,600 French, according. to reports from Jerusalem to the Central News, CIRCULATE PETITION DEMANDING COOLIDGE FREE NEGRO SOLDIERS (Special to The Daily Worker) *NEWARK, N, J., Aug. 10.—A na- tion-wide petition is being circulated thru the nation by the National Equal Rights League demanding that President Calvin Coolidge free the remaining soldiers of the 24th Infantry serving prison terms at Leavenworth. The Lithuanian offici Poles Ready to Drive on Lithuania KOVNO, Lithuania, August 10.—The Lithuanian government has a report that the Poles have concentrated three regiments of Polish Shock troops in the vicinity of Svanzani, Lynziana, and Koltoviani, hear that the Poles are actively preparing to stage a new coup d'etat to annex Lithuania to Poland. state of war has existed between these countries since Gen. Zeligowskl wrested the Vilna corridor from Lithuania’in 1920. was given a hard blow when the So-| FEARED LABOR sign} 5 SAYS KERENSKY Reveals Interesting Epi- sode of 1917 (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Aug. 10. In 1917 following the March revolution in Russia, Alex- ander Kerensky, then head of the pro- ‘visional government sent two urgent messages to Lioyd George, then premier of Great Britain, requesting an English battleship to transport the Czar and-his family to England for their protection. Lloyd George answer- ed: “I deeply regret, but | am unwill- ing to provoke deplorable action or reprisal from British labor, There- fore | must refuse to concede your request.” This. belated, but none the less in- teresting, bit of historical information was given today by Kerensky himself in an interview with newspaper men who asked him for his views on the recent wild reports being circulated about reyelts and assassinations in the Soviet Union, Wish, Father To Thot. The interviewers found the counter- revolutionary leader in his modest Paris garret and in what seemed to be a mixed speculative and reminis- cent mood. In view of later dispatches that have laid low the frantic announ- cements from Bucharest and Riga of a national Russian crisis that promised to upset the Soviet power, the follow- ing statement of the exiled Kerensky (Continued on page 2) An unofficial