The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1926, Page 3

—— . The British Strike—Its | . THE DALY WORKER NATIONAL PART SWEEPING NORTH TO FREE CHINA Feng ‘Aids Drive; Wu and Chang Falling (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, Aug. 30, — All signs point to the coming victory of the combined national liberation armies over the reactionary alliance of Wu- Peifu and Chang Tso-lin. General Feng Yu-shiang returned to Urga, in Mongolia, from his visit to the Soviet Union, is preparing to take command of his old forces, the Kuominchun army, now in safety and good condil- tion at Kalgan, to launch an attack on Wu in combination with the Can- tonese marching northward in victo- rious array against Wu’s stronghold at Hankow on the Yangtze, Joins Kuomintang, Feng has been made a member of the national committee of the Kuo- mintang, “of Chinese national libera- tion party controlling the Canton gdv- ernment, ie ‘Wu, dangerously. pressed by the Cantonese, now driving his troops be- fore them at Hsienning, is trying to rush troops southward on the Peking- Hankow railroad. An evidence of the power of the liberation movement be- hind Wu's lines is seen in the dyna- miting of a railway bridge twelve miles north of Hankow, preventing ‘Wu's getting reinforcements into Handow from the north while the Can- tonese are attacking. Forcing Respect from Sun. Another indication of the wide up rising against the reactionary tools of foreign imperialism is seen in the an- nouncement, wholly unexpected, of General Sun Chuan-fang, who controls five provinces on the lower Yangtze river, that he will not permit ‘his troops to attack the Cantonese in aid of Wu Pei-fu unless the Canntonese “Invade” his claimed jurisdiction. Chang Saving Himself, In addition, Chang Tso-lin, the Man- churian dictator, who is supposed to be aiding Wu, is actually doing noth- ing for his ally, and is in financial straits, having had his puppet Peking government levy an internal loan against the desires of the powers sup- porting him, and seizing the Chinese astern railway properties, which is owned by the Soviet government, as well as looting and robbing right and left. ‘This last action of Chang, it is ex- pected, may bring down more trouble than the reactionary dictator can get even with the support of the imperialist nowers, chiefix Ianan. une which Chang relies for backing against both the liberation movement and the Soviet Union. GRDBADADOAALODDAGDOALAALAD x, ON THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE The General Strike and the General Betrayal By John Pepper. A brilliant and most com- plete book on the great British strike, its back- ground and history. An in- teresting and important publication. 25 Cents Background, Its Lessons By Wm. F. Dunne. A brief record of the strike and the events lead- ing to it—informative and — but splendidly writ- 10 Cents British Labor Bids for Power By Scott Nearing. A record of the historic Scarborough Conference preceding the general strike. An excellent book- let. c i 10 Cents Americans Visit the Soviet Union, Coming Away Well Impressed MOSCOW, Aug. 80. — A group of American visitors which spent three weeks in the Soviet Union, is now leaving with a highly favorable im- Pression of the progress made by the workers’ and peasants’ government, Members of the party have been al- lowed to go where they wished, see what they wanted, use their own in- terpreters and ask questions of any- one they liked without restriction, They have been received by Soviet Officials and one has interviewed Stalin, the outstahditig figure in So- viet affairs, The visitors feel that the Soviet Union is eager to open satis- factory trade relations with the United States, U.S, AGTS AS COLLECTOR OF CHINA'S DEBT Demands China Issue No Internal Loan WASHINGTON, Aug. 80.—The Am- erican government is cending @ sharp note to the Chinese government at Peking, demanding that it cease its Project to raise $25,000,000 by an in- ternal loan using the Chinese import duties as security, on the grounds that China owés a number of Ameri- can firms and banks considerable money. A Collection Agency. The Coolidge government makes no disguise of its action as a collection agency for American bankers and business concerns, Its note to the Peking government, sent in the name of the American legation, says in part: “In these circumstances the lega- tion finds it necessary to remind the Chinese authorities once again of the unfulfilled liabilities in respect of the arrears of service of the Chinese gov- ernmental obligations due to Ameri- can citizens and companies. The list is long and should be well known, in< cludes the American share in the Hu Kuang Railway loan; elso loans made by the Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank, the Pacific Development Corporation, the Riggs _ {Ltd Ault and National Bank and the Munsey Trust Company. Wants Corporations Pald. “Other enanmsn in arrears are also due tte entirely’ ing American creditors: International Corporation, American, American, Locomotive Company, American Met; | als Company, American Trading Com- pany, Anderson Mayer and Company, Wiborg China Com- Locomotive Works, China-American Trading Company, China Electric Company, Fearson Daniels Company, Fowler and Com- pany, W. W. Fraser and Company, General American Car Company, Rob- ert Dollar Company, United States Steel Products Company, Wilkinson and Company. “These creditors whose claims are long past due have all either supplied materials to various departments of the Chinese government or made ad- vances to them. China Has “No Right.” “The American legation therefore insists that the Chineses authorities have no right to utilize as the se- curity for new domestic financing the amount of approximately $11,100,000 per annum to become available upon the extinction of the ninth year do- mestic loan.” pany, Baldwin Protest Against the Klan’s Capital March WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. — A pro- test against a parade of the ku klux klam: scheduled for; Washington on Sept, 13 has been filed with the com- missioners of the District of Columbia by Nevel H. Thomas, secretary of the local branch of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People. Refusal of the authorities at Phila- delphia to permit the parade there was cited in the communication, The size of The DAILY WORKER depends on you, Send a sub, Where you will meet every active militant Left Wing. trade unionist in Chicago. Sun., Sept. 5th. Where you can hear the organizer for Passaic strikers’ relief. Rebecca Grecht When you can enjoy ‘yourself as you never have before, T. U. E. L. Picnic Tickets are 50 cents, and you can get them at The DAILY WORKER office or T. U. BE. L. office, 156 } .. West Washington. Send «fifty and we'll mail you one. |Wall Street Envoy to Mexico Returns To Report to Secretary of State Kellogg New York Federation of Labor Gives $400 to British Strikers Niagara Falls, N. Y—(8.P.)—Ex- pressing their sympathy with the 17 weeks’ fight of the British miners, the 600 delegates to the New York state federation of labor contributed over $400 in a collection taken after Ben Tillett, British Dockers secretary, ad- dressed them. Tillett told them that the miners were dependent upon out: side ald in their strike against wage cuts and pxoposed longer working hours. Tillett, as a member of the delegation of British wuntonists to America to get aid for the miners, is on his way to Pittsburg and Cleve- land. FRENCH WINES Left above Is Ambassador to Mexico, James R, Sheffield, who has been called back from his post by Secretary of State Kellogg, right, to report on the struggle between church and state in Mexico, Sheffield has been reported to favor Immediate Intervention and the state department would no doubt feel the same If an adequate excuse could be found. NOT ONE MORO FAVORS BACON BILL DIVISION QUEZON HINTS AT DEFECTION BY COLLEAGUE Want U. S. Because It|Opposes Subservience in Permits Polygamy (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, P. I. Aug, 30. — Colonel Carmi Thompson, Coolidge’s personal investigator of the Philippine Islands, is now in Moroland in the heart of Mindanao, At Dansalan a grand re- ception was given and in the course of the demonstration, apparently ar- Tanged by two contending forces, one thing was clear: The Moros are op- posed to the separation of their islands from the rest of the Philip- pines, Not One for Bacon Bill. , ‘There were speakers both for and against independence from the United hot one speaker lifted his voice in ehVor of the Bacon bill now before pprerese in Washington, which aims 0 cut Mindanao and the Moros off from the rest of the islands and keep it under an autocratic American ad- ministration for the benefit of the United States rubber trust. The Fili- pino law restricts the size of land holdings, The Moro “datus,” or chiefs, all spoke, Not one was in favor of sepa- ration from the other islands. Some who spoke against general Philippine independence from the United States were accused by others of being the appointees of Governor General Leon- ard Wood, Want U. S. and Polygamy. It develops that the Mohammedan Moros are against independence from the United States because they fear that the christian Filipinos will pre- vent the Mohammedan custom of polygamy. Colonel Thompson is somewhat sur- prised to learn that General Wood is touring on his own yacht one or two days in advance of the investigation party fixing up things, Drug Traffic Compels New Prison for Women ALDERSON, W, Va., Aug. 30. — A federal prison is to be constructed here entirely for women prisoners, most of them convicted under the Nar- cotic Drugs Act. The number of such convictions has increased rapidly dur- ing recent years, On a 500-acre tract will be erected $2,000,000 worth of buildings, All per- sons in executive positions will be women, and as much as possible of the work will be done by women, The chief workshop will be for sewing and knitting, the products going to other federal institutions and putting out of employment a certain number of textile and garment workers now em- ployed, It has been stated that the Federal Industrial Institution for Women, as the new prison is called, will have no walls. Greek Factions Here Suing Each Other BROOKLYN, New York, Aug. 30.— The clashing military cliques respon- sible for frequent changes of dicta- tors in the old country have their re- flection in the Greek colony in Amer!- ca, Several months ago the editors of the Greek Sunday National Herald here sued Cleanthes Vassardakis, for- mer Greek consul to San Francisco and Commissioner General to the Pan- ama Pacific exposition because he de- clared that the newspaper grafted on the funds collected thru it for the 8 refugees, Now the former oc nyt retaliats with a suit against thi per for uncomplimentary refer- ences‘to his ability and for. calling him @ : Any Disguise (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, Aug. 80.—Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate, has issued a statement that is interpreted as a challenge to his ‘colleague and erstwhile political opponent, Senator Sergio Osmena. The statement was prompted by what is regarded in home quarters as a veiled insinuation against the coali- tion party, composed of the National- ista and Collectivista parties, in Os- mena’s speech at Cebu, in which he said Presidpnt Coolidge had told him it was the President’s desire to return the islands io the Filipinos eventually, .but that thi ipinos must co-operaty, conditions Ayat would make this oA sible. In 4,3 statement Mr. Quezon said: No Subservience. “I created the coalition with the Support of my party and any one who opposes it,\I care not who he is, I'll fight. I am not in a position to say, whether Sepator Osmena has been cor- rectly quoted. If by co-operation with the Americén people Senator Osmena maens working in friendliness with them for the betterment of the Philip- pines, then T also am co-operating. But if co-operation means subservience and agreement with everything Amer- ican in the Philippines I am against it, as I always shall be.” Quezon is president of the collec- tivistas, while Osmena heads the na- tionalistas,: They fused against the democrats, Quezon taking the presi- dency and Osmena the vice-presidency of the coalition, Jewish Theater Group Is Coming from Russia The Moscow Theatre, a group of fifty players who interpret dramatic plays with the aid of music will be in the United States the coming sea- son. The language used will be an- cient Hebrew. The Habima troupe has just finish- ed a Paris season and will play in London and Berlin before coming to New York in the fall. The Ameri- can engagement, by special permis- CHEER MELLON ‘ON VACATION’ Empty Bottles Bring Im- perialist Plans (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Aug. 80. — At the summer watering place of Evian Les Bains there is water, but there is also wine. And around the tables of the Hotel Royal these days, gather three great American financiers partaking of the aforesaid wines and the best of French dishes, along with a discussion of what is to be done to rivet American financial control more firmly upon Europe. These Americans are Andrew Mel- lon, secretary of the U. S. treasury, Benjamin Strong, governor of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of New York, and S. Parker Gilbert, commissioner gen- eral of reparations, Strong has been in conversations with Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and Hjalmar Schacht of the German Reichsbank. Of course this | Was done while all parties were “mere- ly on a vacation” as Secretary Mellon also protests, But it is now learned from Count Volpi, minister of finance of Italy, that Mr. Mellon’s visit to Mus- solini was not merely plat, but that | the entire financial scheme of fascism was discussed. The same for these wine parties at Evian Les Bains, Strong is due to go to Paris and arrange a later meeting between Mellon and Poincare or some high official of the French cabinet. But it is all a “mere vacation” on the surface, and the wine is excellent. Go On Strike to Save Their Ancient Guild! (Special to The Dally Worker) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 30. — A strike of Kurdish porters here has prevented ships from unloading and has tied up traffic in parts of the city which depend on the time honored method of carting freight on the backs of men. The strike resulted from the attempt of employers to break up the centuries old guild of the “hammals” or hand porters, The guild had certain regula- tions as to prices, prevented theft, and guaranteed a distribution of work among its members, as well as distri- buting all the profit there was, and wages were good because of the one hundred percent organization. A limited liability company took over the contracts, and hired the porters, The latter found they were not making as much money as before and declared a strike. About 4,000 are out. Esperanto Congress Held in Leningrad LENINGRAD, Aug. 9. —(By Mail)— The International Workers’ Esperanto Congress was solemnly opened here today. 400 delegates from 25 countries are participating in the congress. They were greeted by representatives sion of the Soviet Government, is for}of the Academy of Science and other eight weeks only. institutions. r ange =. ———__—_—_ Co: ac ) ple Wuras—+pérs FASCISTS TO LOOT WHILE GOING IS GOOD Women Workers Feel the Iron Heel (Speclal to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Ang. 80, — Revela- tions of conditions in Italy under the fascist dictatorship are made in a re- cent issue of “Labor,” by its corre- spondent in Italy. “The big business men, who own the fascist party,” he | writes from Rome, “are out for get: | rich-quick profits, 60, having de- | Ayn, Arthntd.piranatingen stroyed unions, outlawed strikes and | forced wages to the lowest- level, un- | der $1 a day, they are getting down | to the brass tacks of lengthening | hours. ‘Skim the cream thick, while | Mussolini disappears from the stage.” Limits Newspapers, made the following decree laws: lim- prohibiting new bars, and restaurants, permitting no new house building, and permitting em- ployers immediately to add one hour to the working day. He summarizes quiet comments of the Italians on the above decrees—“nobody talks out loud in Italy,” he says—as follows: The Loot Divided. “Fascists who want bars, or cook- shops, or fascists who want villas, will get the licenses, or permits, the same as before, others need not apply. Newspapers are only six pages any- way, the gesture will enable the gov- ernment to get rid of some of the costly subsidized fascist press. But the ninth hour—that will be enforced, immediately.” There Were Strikes. The fascist press proudly asserted: “There will be no strikes about the extra hour,” but soon the papers con- tained this item: pastry shops jute works went on strike today. Fascist militia forces of 600 occupied the factory. Seven women leaders were arrested.” Later followed the story of what happened to the women leaders. They were sent to prison for from eight to ten months, with fines added which practically ruined their families. Women First Victims. “It is significant,” says Labor's cor- respondent, “that women workers were the first victims of the dictator's new laws.” The anti-strike decrees provide prison terms up to one year with fines po and iniprisemnres Pup “Ww strike | years with fines up to 10,000 lire for strike leaders. “Meanwhile,” writes the correspond- ent, “despite the grand American debt settlement, cancelling 75 per cent of the debt, the exchange value of the lire steadily slumps, slumps. High Living Costs. “Also in the report of the Rome chamber of commerce are buried the the skimming is good’—that is, before | The fascist government has recently |! {ting newspapers to six pages daily, | | “Genoa—The 900 employes of the | and written Page Threa NEXT SATURDAY In The New Magazine Supplement “THE STORY OF LABOR By THURBER LEWIS A splendid feature of the spectat LABOR DAY ISSUE OF THE DAILY WORKER with decorative illustrations by O’ZIM Other Features: ART AND LABOR by the famous French novelist PIERRE HAMP THE PASSAIC STRIKERS by the noted American novelist and writer MARY HEATON VORSE with photographs ae IN THE HELL OF YROER An introduction to a series of articles on the Balkan States be- ginning in a forthcoming issue by the famous French author of “Under Fire.” HENRY BARBUSSE with original illustration by the German artist, figures showing the rising, rising cost of living, an index figure of 151 this month as compared with 141 last year, and 100 for 1920. “Also it is shown that bread is a cent a pound costlier, and sugar 20 cents a pound dearer, than last year since the taxes put on last autumn.” Referring to the wholesale worsen- ing of the workers’ conditions under the fascist tyranny, which is obvious to all, he says: Gunmen Stalk Streets. “But you say little of that in Italy. The belted and pistoled and be- clubbed militiamen stalk the streets. The cafes have signs “Swearing and politics forbidden.” “Two persons near me, having a do- mestic argument in a restaurant, one, a woman, happened to say, ‘Why, no one can speak to me like that, not even Mussolini,’ “Immediately the proprietor stepped over and very quietly suggested it was better not to talk that way.” Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regularly to take to your trade union meeting? 3. The Work of the “Defensive.” HE “Defensive” (secret political po- lice) works according to a detailed and strict/system against the revolu- tionary workers and peasants. By employing’ the “reliable” elements of the former czarist “Ochrana” and of the socialist party of Poland (PPS), a staff of trained and expertenced spe- clalists for the fight against the work- ers was formed. To the brutal meth- ods of the police (wholesale arrests, tortures, suppression of the trade un- fons, the proletarian cultural organ- izations and the labor press), is added a system of dexterous and splendidly organized provocation, To decompose the labor movement by provocateurs, to infect it is the plan of the “Defensive.” Like this it hopes to demoralize the labor move- ment, to sow mistrusts between the workers and among the workers against their leaders, to break the courage and the bellef in victory. The financially’ and ¢conomically ruined Polish state always finds sufficient means to maintaln an expensive ap- paratus of provocation, Military Takes Half Budget, ILITARY and police, the The material gathered in this series of ght articles on the barbarous white terror In Poland is sent to The DAILY WORKER from a committee composed of workers’ organizations in that militaristlo and blood-stained land. The suppression of trade unions, the shooting down of un- employed, the torture of Im- prisoned workers told In this ac- count Is enough to rouse the In- dignation of even those unsym- pathetic to the workers’ cause, $Y class, demand almost half of the Po- lish state budget, as one can see from the etat of the year 1926 very clearly: Zloty Total budget for 1926. +982,000,000 Ministry of War .. » 648,000,000 Ministry of the Interior... 189,000,000 (Police) Ministry of Labor and Public Welfare vme 18,326,000 Not quite one percent of the total Polish state budget ts used to miti- gate the terrible masa poverty in oe Herr eee a Poland--The Land of Systematic White Terror TT is clear that the workers defend + themselves against the disease of provocation by all means. Thus in a number of cases notorious provoca- teurs were killed by . young, brave workers, The Polish courts had the courage which never yet showed the courts of a civilized state, they de- fended the provocateurs, praised them as heroes of patriotism and were mer- ciless against those who had dared to raise the hands against this vermin. A number of death sentences and exe- cutions was the result. Thus the youngest heroes of the Polish working class died: Comrade Engel fur killing the pro- vocateur Luezak, Comrades Hiebner, Knievski and Rutkoski for an unsuccessful attempt against the criminal Cechnovski, Comrade Botvin for killing Oech- novski, Comrade Kozlovski for killing the Provocateur Maximtchuk. Comrade Hayczyk and Pilarczyk were suffocated by poison gas when they were besieged in their house by the police and refused to submit, for the killing of the provocateur Kamin- ski, a nent VALENTIN BISSIG oF American Imperialism in Uruguay By HOMER PEGROT Third installment of the unusual series The History of the Catholic Church in Mexico By Manuel Gomez - “A Factory Incident” A story by MAX GELTMAN POEMS, MOVIE RE« VIEWS, CARTOONS By K. A. SUVANTO, O'ZIM and that unusual weekly feature “The Week in Cartoons,” By M. P. BALES NOTE: In a forthcoming issue, the! third article on “Labor and Lis terature,” by f V, F. CALVERTON COMING SOON! “The Life of Karl By PAUL LAFARGUE Famous French Social- ist son-in-law and close col- laborator of Marx. With Photographs and illustrations;