The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1926, Page 3

2arxs oo WAR LOOMS IN PAGIFIG, SAYS U.S, ADMIRAL Fears Influence of Soviet Union WILLIAMSTOWN, Mai Aug. 31. —Rear Admiral William V. Pratt, president of the Naval War College, Newport, In a lecture at the Institute of Police, warned the country of an impending war In the Pacific, and ex- pressed the hope that American diplo- macy would 80 maneuver that the onus of starting the row would rest on the shoulders of some other nation. It was clear that the admiral was hinting at Japan, Sitting on Volcano, The world sits today on a martial voleano which is liable to begin erupt- ing at any moment. While the danger of war is not as immediate as it was in 1914, he looked with alarm at the unrest that was prevalent all over the Orient and among the colonial posses- sions of all the powers, including the American possessions in the Pacific. Fear Soviet Union. Admiral Pratt regarded the Soviet Union a menace to world peace be- cause the government of the union would endeavor to turn a local war into a world conflagration. This would be extremely embarrassing to the imperialists, the admiral admitted, as they fear that another world war would mean the end of their happy days, Slovak Children to Go on Outing This Sunday A children’s outing will be given by the Jefferson Slovak youngsters next Sunday et Schnell Forest Preserve. There will be a speaker from the Young Workers’ League; dancing, music and various amusements. Take any street car to Crawford Ave., then west to Chciago River. THE DAILY WORKER VANDERBILT’S WIFE THROWS PARTY IN FRANCE THAT MAKES EVEN GRAND DUKES GASP; HOW ABOUT IT, WORKERS? While millions of American work- ers are finding it difficult to make ends meet on their meager wages when employed, our parasite class, gone crazy with affluence is showing the faded aristocracy of Europe what can be done in the way of riotous spending. The following story by Bertelli, a correspondent of the Hearst newspapers is reproduced to give our readers an idea of what is happening to the profits that are wrung out of their bone and sinew: es BLARRITZ, France, Aug. 31. — As an entertainer of royalty, princes and grand dukes, Mrs. Reginald Vander- bilt has set the pace in Europe this summer with her beautiful and lav- ish entertainments at Biarritz, the continent's most fashionable resort. Her latest party, held last week, while the gambling crowd rushed to Deau- ville for the Grand Prix, had all the distinction for whieh the “Silver Coast” has been famous ever since former Ambassador Moore began his unrivaled entertainment for Burope’s royalty. The Love Chamber. The Vanderbilt villa, “Chambre d’Amour” (or Love Chamber), is per- haps the loveliest to be! found any- where, except in southern California. Last week it was the scene of a “Louls XVI Night Fete,” with the details of that gay court faithfully reproduced in all its details. Blue and white: velvets trimmed with gold, satins and silken ribbons hung everywhere, while the guests promenaded in white powdered wigs redolent of perfumes manufactured by the bourgeois, but retailed to Amer!- cans in the fashionable dress-making shops at 5,000 francs a bottle. As each prince or grand duke ar- rived his party was escorted up a long avenue with all the traditional ceremony of 200 years ago. Princess Wigless, Grand Duke Boris and Grand Duke Alexander were among the early ar- By C. CHRISTIE. The downfall of the Pangalogs dic-]oning the class conscious workers tatorship in Greece did not surprise us. It was inevitable. Any dictator ship, no matter what its economic basis, ff it has not sufficient strength to assert itself against its enemies, is evidently near its end. And the Pan- galos dictatorship, especially in the last few weeks, was showing a great deal of hesitation in dealing with its political enemies of the bourgeois par- ties. One day it would arrest and send to exile certain bourgeois politi- cal leaders for treason against the State and the next day would free them, in order to arrest: again the day after. A dictatorship will stay in power only so long as it has the ability and the required strength to enforce its will and to crush ruthlessly all op- ponents, This being so, one seeing the conduct of Pangalos lately, should easily come to the conclusion that his regime had failed and predict his downfall as very near. Milltary Coup. However, we are not at all enthused after the manner in which this end came, i.e, by a military coup and a merry chase of the fallen dictator over the blue seas, The only proper way to overthrow this abominable tyranny would have been a sweeping Tevolt of the masses, drawing in its wake the whole system, which is no longer able to govern the country in any other way but by a succession of dictators in power. The working class of Greece, in- ~ dustrial workers as well as the peas- ants and refugees, will not fare any better under the present dictator Kondylis, than they fared under Pan- galos. Both serve the same interests, (with some internal variations— which {s of not much concern to the workers) the Greek capitalists and foreign imperialism, Workers Can Gain Nothing. The working classes of the country have nothing to gain from this change of government, and, besides, Kondylis is too well known to the Greek pro- letariat from the time, when ag a mil- itary dictator and minister of the in- terior he inaugurated his fascist poli- 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. B. L, office, 156 West Washington. Send fifty and we'll mail you one, Sgporienaia-« The “Revolution” in Greece }) destruction the. whole robbing crew cy, arresting, persecuting and impris- by the dozen every day. ‘ One of the things the fallen Pan- galos 1s accused of by the victors, is that he did not keep his promises to the ““people”—those promises being the re-establishment of the “rights and liberties” of the citizenry, But as a matter of fact Pangalos could not. be held responsible personally for failure to carry out his promises any more than Kondylis, who makes these same Promises now, and is sura not to keep them. For that matter, no one can make such promises to-day in Greece and fulfill them, Parliamentarism is a thing of the past in Greece now, it has served its purpose and out- grown its usefulness. No man is able, will as he may, to bring it back to life and make it function as a political machine Sham Parliament. Even if they succeed somehow to have parliamentary elections, it is go- ing to be a sham parliament;’a la Italy, and nothing even remotely ap- proaching the parliament Greece has known before the war, when industry was very small and big capital al- most negligible. Dictatorship more or less open, more rather than less, will hereafter be the only form of gov- ernment able to function in that coun- try a bourgeois dictatorship, until the time when the masses will arise to overthrow it and establish their own proletarian dictatorship, There is no political group, among the bourgeois parties, backed by an economic group, or groups, strong enough to dominate the rest of them. And besides the internal differences of the bourgeois parties, there are also foreign influences, that undoubtedly play a decisive role in the politics of the country Even in the prewar period, and es- pecially during and after the war, changes of government took place be- cause of foreign interferénce, Any one who undertakes the government of the country undertakes also certain obligations to the foreign interests that he must fulfill, failing which his Polit- ical lite is doomed. There never was and never can be as long as imperial- ism rules, such a thing as “pure” Greek polities. Politics in Greece were al- ways conducted either by the English, French or Russian “finger,” as the various foreign influences were di- rected upon Greek journalists and politicians, Deviated From Line, In the present situation, it is not at all improbable that Pangalos’ down- fall is, to a very great extent, due to his deviation from the line drawn for him by British capital, Is is not a mere coincidence, that the crisis came right after the conclusion of the Gre- co-Serbian treaty, However, as we stated above, the present political change will hardly bring any chango in the life of the workers of, Greece, unless Konéylis will carry on more vigorously fascist measures which he had initiated into Greek politics and Pangalos tried in vain to imitate. In this caso Greece either will become a little Italy—4t Kondylis succeeds—or the {re and indignation of the working masses will burst out, carrying to of fascists, Monarchists and “liberal rivals with Princess Nikita, Princess Hohenlohe of Woldenburg was late because the dressmaker had failed to deliver her wig on time. The Count and Countess de Olovera, the Marquise de San Carlos de Pe- drosco, Countess Robilant, the Mar- quise de Casa Montalvo, the Duke del Argo, the Marquis Orellana and a host of other titled guests dined heartily on the grounds, mingling with the several Americans present, including Mr, and Mrs, Roy MacWil- ams, Miss Mary Leary, Miss Rosa- lie Edwards, Mrs, Wolfe Burton, Mrs. S. Mortimer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutton and Miss Kitty Bache. TEUT ARCHIVES EDITOR HAILS SOVIET TREATY of Denounces Stories Secret Agreement WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 31. —Dr. A. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, one of the editors of the German foreign archives, addressing the Institute of Politics, protested against what he said was the way in which every move for better commercial relations and a closer friendship between Germany and Russia had been “misinterpreted and suspected in certain quarters.” An Open Agreement. The treaty of Berlin Between Rus- sia and Germany, according to him, was @ straight and open agreement for friendly co-operation and equal jus- tice for Germans and Russians in Ger- many, and concerned itself with the arbitration of disputes and friendly neutrality in the event of war in which neither was implicated. The story of a secret treaty be- tween Berlin and Moscow he declared a “downright lie from beginning to end, invented to cover and neutralize the fact that suspicions were afloat in Germany and Russia against France, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia.” Struck New Note, The speaker pointed out that the French, Polish and Czecho-Slovakian treaties were concluded before the treaty of Berlin, and that if the Ger- mans and Russians had copied the terms of the other treaties neither France, Poland nor Czecho-Slovakia would have had any right to protest. But, he maintained, the treaty of Ber- lin did not follow their example. FOREIGN TRADE OF U.S. REACHES NINE BILLIONS Producers Still Wait for Their Share WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. — United States commerce with all the rest of the world will reach the $9,000,000,000 mark for the year 1926, it was estt- mated at the department of commerce. In the world market American agri- culture and industry have fiung $2,- 576,041,000 in exports during the first seven months of the year, the depart- ment announced, while buying $2,640,- 265,000 of foreign goods in the same time. If this rate is maintained for the next five, months America’s foreign trade for the year will total about $4,- 450,000,000, in exports and $4,550,000,- 600 in impor{s, leaving an unfavorable trade balance of $100,000, A World Market. “Thirty-four countries from Canada to Australia @re in the American mar- ket to purchase agricultural imple- ments, automotive products, chemi- cals, electric appliances, foodstuffs, iron, steel, hardware, machinery, pe- troleum products, shoes, textiles and specialties,” the department an- nounced. Manufactured Exports Increased. “The fiscal year just closed,” Dr. Julius Klein, director of the bureau, added, “brought once more into strik- ing relief the rapid growth in Ameri- can exports of manufactured goods and the immense importance of for- eign sales in this class as a stabilizer in our foreign trade as well as in our domestic industry.” Klein pointed out that manufactured exports had in- creased 16 per cent over the preceding fiscal year, Farmers’ Exports Heavy. American farmers exported $36,- 230,000 worth of grains in July alone, as compared to $25,427,000 worth in July, 1926, Cotton farmers exported $36,635,065 worth of raw cotton, including linters, in July, @ gain of $8,700,000 over the Same month last year. Mine Owners Get Fat. Besides grain. tremendous amounts of other raw products have been shipped abroad. The coal exports in July totaled $20,617,206, as compared to $12,788,683 in July, 1925. ‘The greater part of this increase was due to the miners’ strike in England. Petroleum, crude oil, gasoline and their by-products formed another phase of the export trade, the total amounting to $85,985,000 in July, a gain of $18,000,000 in the trade over July, 1925,” One Dead, Four Are Wounded in Car Barn Battle During Holdup One bandit is dead, and his pal and four other persons are being treated in hospitals for gunshot wounds here today following an unsuccessful at- tempt to rob a Chicago Surface LAnes car barn of $6,000 in cash receipts, The bandit party consisted of three men and two girls. The girls were posted as “lookouts” as the men enter- ed the car barn, Street car officials had been tipped off, however, and de- tectives were posted about the bufld- ing. When the bandits entered, the of- ficers opened fire. One bandit was killed, another wounded and captured while the third escaped, Three de- tectives were slightly wounded, as was Robert J. McKinney, superintendent of the barns, One of the girls was captured, but | she refused to give her name, or those ot her companions. Police are search- ing for the other girl and bandit. RISING GORGE MARKS BADGER STATE FIGHT Politicians Say Nasty Things to Each Other | MILWAUKHB, Wis., Aug. 81.—The battle between John J. Blaine, gov- ernor of the Badger State and Irvine L. Lenroot, U. S. senator for the sen- atorial nomination, is waxing hot and wrathy. The boys have gotten down to calling each other names and that kind of thing. Lenroot challenged Blaine to debate the world court issue with him and Blaine was too busy. Whereupon one of Blaine’s admirers offered to take the senator on. Lenroot replied that he didn’t want to debate with a scared opponent's messenger boy. Beer and Court Issues. Blaine against the world court and for light wines and beers. Lenroot is for the court and prohibition, The senator is supported by the anti-saloon league and christian temperance leagues without number, but it is believed the voters will not vote for him. There are rumors that Victor Ber- ger, socialist of Milwaukee, does not care who licks Blaine. Berger is sore because the governor has not given the socialists a corner of “Fighting Bob’s” mantle, Having deserted so- cialism, the socialists leaders are now in the sorry position of being without principles or followers. Poland--The Land of Systematic White Terror In the Polish prisons there are at present six thousand political prison- ers, revolutionary workers and peas- ants. Only a small number of them ‘ave been tried. The greatest pro- portion of them are in prison on re- ward which lasts for them two, two and a half and in a number of cases even three years. The Polish courts have made it their custom to deduct the time on reward from the sen- tence, so that there happens frequent- ly cases that the sentence is six months and that the prisoner, who has passed three years in prison on reward, must serve three and a half years instead. The number of the prisoners on re- ward increases with every year, be- cause on the one hand the courts cannot comply with the great number of political trials and on the other hand in many cases where proofs ere not sufficient for the trial, the trial cannot take place, but the prisoner in nevertheless not released. One is therefore endeavoring to facilitate the tasks of the courts in another way— by letting the prisoners die, Horrible Conditions in the Prisons The conditions in most of the Po- lish prisons are such that a longer stay there means death for the major- ity of the prisoners. In this respect the “Prison of the Holy Cross” and the Vronke Prison are most famous, The first is situated on a hill almost 2500 feet high and is always surrounded by mists. As the food and the heating are com- pletely insufficient and the wetness of the building has a terrible effect on the health, on the average of 150 prisoners die there every year of the 400 prisoners who are imprisoned there (the prison is built for not more than 300). In Czarist times only pris- oners with a sentence of less than three years were taken to this prison because one knew that nobody could a U. S. Must Pay Export Tax. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 31.—Twenty thousand head of cattle belonging to the United States war finance corpo- ration can only be returned to the United States upon the payment of an export tax upon them, the foreign office today notified the United States embassy. American Charge Lane protested the decision, | Ashland Blvd. Auditorium, Ash- id and Van Buren—Monday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m. On Labor Day demand release of labor prison- ere! WY ee ee The material gathered in this series of eight articles on the barbarous white terror In Poland is sent to The DAILY WORKER from a committee composed of workers’ organizations in that militaristic and blood-stained land. The suppression of trade unions, the shooting down of un- employed, the torture of im- prisoned workers told In thie ao- count is enough to rouse the in- dignation of even those unsym- Pathetic to the workers’ cause, _ live there more than that. At present, however, the prison is for those with life sentence in order to kill them as quickly as possible. In the Vronke Prison the prison- ers are tortured in such a way by solitary confinement and the brutal regime, that suicides and insanity are datly results. Only in the courts of the last few months three victims can be mentioned: Kalusha, Gorki, Meisler. Official Confession of the Prison Horrors The Polish prisons have already gained # sad notoriety in the whole world, Already in 1924 progressive bourgeois politicians and radical wri- ters of France protested against these conditions. (The Pplish parliament was compelled to appoint a committee of investigation (Thugutt) whose ac- al task wag to clear Poland before the eyes of the foreign states. However, ‘after having visited a number of prisons, the committee col- leeted such &n amount of material, that it did mot dare to present it to the public. ‘Only after two years of work in secret sessions (the members of the committee had promised not to speak al their work to anybody outside) the committee has composed a report for the parliament which was published in March 1926, Let us mention here some extracts from the official report which certain- ly rathers tries to veil than to exag- gerate the terrible conditions: “Many prisons are very much overcrowded. In Cracow every prisoner had only an average of 2 ebm, air. The overcrowding in Lods is colossal. In Rovno there come On one prisoner only 1.9 or even 1.86 chm, alr... The prisoners sleep on the floor, under the plank- beds; one sack of straw always serves for two prisoners, the straw in the sacks» however, is old. and rubbed into ‘chaff, There are even too few blankéts; bed linen ts quite out of the jon, The cells ate 0 ee ae ge prisoners on reward live worse than the hard labor prisoners... The “Holy Cross Prison” should be quickly liquidated. .. In the Galic- ian prisons the conditions are worse. In the prison of Sambor, which has @ quite modern building, the cen- tral heating and the canalization are out of order already for several years. Even the prison hospital is not heated, since several years. The mutiny of the prisoners which took place there and led to the death of one prisoner, is therefore understandable, Also the prisons in Cracow are not heated. In Bia- lystok during the hunger strike of the prisoners the mouths of the strikers were opened by iron tongs in order to feed them. In this way the death of several prisoners was brought about....” (Continued Tomorrow) Fall River Laborers Want 50c an Hour Fall River, Mass.—(F.P.)—Laborers employed by Lathrop & Shea Con- struction Co. in excavating for the $250,000 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad engine house are striking for 10 cents more an hour. The workers want the same rate paid in other New England cities, 50 cents an hour, The New Haven is expected to increase its shop facilities at Fall River and concentrate most of its work in this depressed textile town, Page Threw IRISH FAMILY OF FIVE LIVE OUT IN DITCH Evicted from Lodging When Funds Went DUBLIN, Aug. 31--In Dublin at present there is a family of five, hus- band, wife and three children, ving in @ ditch at the Pin Mill, Cross Guns Bridge. The husband, as a member of the Workers’ Union of Ireland, was out during the coal lockout, Like the rest of the coal workers when the fight collapsed, he had to make the best of a bad job and was forced to join the I. T. & G. W. U, to get any work at all. He managed to get some work every week for a time, but when the miners’ strike came he was again thrown out and has been out of work since. They were ejected from their lodg- ings and what furniture they had has been pawned to get bread. relief has been refused as they had not an address, a home. The woman went into the union, but the condi tions were so bad she could not stick to it. This is only one of many cases in Dublin, and the same applies all over the country. Just recently our organizers found a case in Delvin, West Meath, of a family of five sleeping in the ditch quite near to Delvin and Clonyn Cas- tle, which has dozens of rooms, not one of which is occupied. All over Dublin and the country there are plenty of mansions and villas that are either empty or only partly occupied. These must be commandeered and the homeless and overcrowded work- ers put into them. Wealth in Abundance at Horse Show. Contrast theso hellish conditions un- der which the workers are living with the lavish expenditure and riotous liv- ing of the bosses and the sweaters from all parts of the world during horse show week in Dublin. Tin Healy and Willie Cosgrave have been entertaining on a scale that would pro- vide food for every unemployed family in Dublin for a week. But it is all for the foreign sweaters and the lords, dukes and sirs with their fine ladies and retinues of ser- vants. The papers are full of pictures of Maharajahs and other blood suck- ers all doing themselves well at the expense of the workers, Every night there have been special receptions and dances for these gen- try to sport their figures, while the starving workers hang around the doors of the swell restaurants and dance halls feasting on the smell of the rich dishes being prepared for the Darasites. Everywhere the children of these moneybags are trotting around with their prize-winning ponies while the children of the poor are hunting for crusts in the gutter. The blatant dis- play of high living that has gone on all week is enough to cause the 80,000 unemployed men and women and young persons to do desperate deeds of violence. Not one in 30 of these is receiving the dole or any kind of relief. and their forbearance in the circumstances is really remarkable. In fact, it is cowardly. They must learn not to be so docile and ready to starve while there is plenty of food in the country, They have been well betrayed, no work, no relief of any kind, but plenty of feasting and riotous living for the bosses and their. families. The workers must rouse themselves from their apathy and while prepar- ing to take all steps to overthrow such a system of class privilege, at the same time organize to demand their immediate needs of work or mainten- ance at full trade union rates—Ham- mer and Plough, Musicians Win Wage Raise in Chicago Musicians playing in the Schubert theaters have a new two-year agree- ment raising their pay from $72.50 a week of nine performances to $79. Chicago theaters in the agreement in- clude the Olympic, Apollo, Princess, Garrick, La Salle, Four Cohans and the Auditorium. Next week James C. Petrillo, president of the Chicago Fed- eration of Musicians, will try and ne- gotiate a new scale for members of his union who play in movie houses. FAIRY TALES FOR WORKERS’ CHILDREN By Hermina Zur Muhlen A delightful book of children’s stories with over twenty black and white illustrations and four color plates and cover designs, by LYDIA GIBSON 75e Duroflex Covers $1.26 Cloth Bound Outdoor | SexKceEKccrsccosseseess NEXT SATURDAY In The New Magazine Supplement THE STORY OF LABOR By THURBER LEWIS A splendid feature of the speclat 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 ‘PS SkCES 3 IN THE HELL OF EUROPE . By A. LANDY An introduction to a series of articles on the Balkan States be- ginning in a forthcoming issue and written by the famous French author of “Under Fire.” HENRY BARBUSSE with original illustration by the German artist. VALENTIN BISSIG 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 “A Factory Incident” A story by MAX GELTMAN POEMS, MOVIE VIEWS, CART By K. A. SUVANTO, O'ZI that unusual weekly “The Week in Cartoons By M. P. BALES NOTE: In a _ forthcoming issue, ni third article on “Labor and Le terature,” by Vv. F. CALVERTON COMING “The Life of Marx” By PAUL LAFAR: Famous French § ist son-in-law and ¢