The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1926, Page 3

Workers of Ecuador RAID ROOMS OF PEASANT MEMBER OF POLISH SEJM Is, Blow at Amnesty Work of Committee (Special Cable to Polish Section Inter national Labor Defense.) By STANISLAW BALLIN, Deputy WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 13—The police invaded the apartment of Dep uty Ballin, president of the inter-party committee for amnesty for political prisoners {n Poland and, after con- fiscating documents and records of the committee found in the rooms, ar rested seven persons who were there quite by accident, having no connec: tion with the committee, ‘Protest Parllament. Deputies of the Independent Peas- ants’ Party immediately protested in the Sejm that the raids on Deputy Ballin’s quarters had been mada without the consent of the president of the Sejm and therefore violated the law of parliamentary immunity. The evident purpose of the raids 1s to make impossible the work of the inter-party committee which is an al- lance of the left parties in an effort to release the hundreds of political prisoners now in Polish prisons. The committee asks the workers of the world to protest against the most re- cent excesses of the reantionary Polish government. : 6,000 Political Prisoners, There are some 6,000 political prisoners in Poland. The Pilsudski government, which came into’ power thru a military coup in May this year refused to grant amnesty to these prisoners. This act raised a protest thruout the country that resulted in the formation of an inter-party com- mittee in the Polish Sejm. Deputy Ballin, a member of the Independent Peasant’s Party is the chairman of the committee, ELECTION IN SPAIN A ONE- SIDED AFFAIR You Vote for Dictator or Not at All (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Sept. 13.—A so-called plebis- _ elte is going on in Spain, with the ob- fect of giving the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera some semblance of Popular support. The rules ef the election prove how ridiculous it would be to expect anything else, in view of the fact that the catholic church, here a part of the state, is using its full influence to see that Rivera gets the support of its members, A One-Way Vote. There is only one vote allowed. You must vote for endorsement of the gov- ernment. You cannot vote against it. Naturally, the result will be over whelmingly for the dictator. The capitalist news services, which state that Rivera is “doing everything pos- sible to obtain a free expression of the people,” are simply lying. The methods of the election show how little it can be a “free expres- sion.” The government is posting troops at all election booths to see that no opposition votes are cast. The catholic church has thrown its whole strength ‘behind the dictator. The women, allowed to vote for the first time, and most thoroughly controlled by the church of any section of the people, are under instructions to go to the polls and vote for the govern- ment. Church Instruction to Aid Monarchy. One of Primo de Rivera’s officials proves this by remarking: “Today is not the real day of the voting. The people are still unaware that they should vote. The priests will see to it to morrow morning, for from every pulpit the public will be summoned to go to the polls and vote for king and country.” By this maneuver it is hoped to strengthen the monarchy, since the vote for Rivera will be taken as a vote for King Alfonso, against whom there is rising a strong sentiment of republicanism, Slaves of Wall Street GUAYAQUIL, Sept. 13.—In a mani- festo published in the socialist weekly, El Faro, the Labor Confederation of Guayas, Ecuador, explains to the work- ers of this republic how they are be- ing enslaved by the Wall Street banks thru a process of money inflation, Controlling the monetary system of Ecuador, the Wall Street bankers. says the Labor Confederation, have been able to inflate the currency and then force loan after loan upon the government. In return for these cred- its the foreigners have received val- uable concessions, The government recently put in office has been restricting these opera- ‘tions, and a pantie has followed, with almost daily bank failures, The so- clalist members of the Guaymas town council, elected by the workers, have determined that a sub-committee of the council be created to watch over price manipulations that have robbed the workers of the purchasing power of tifelr wages, (We DAILY WORKER Pangalos Under Arrest; Machine Guns on Guard At the right Is a ploture of former Premier Pangalos belng landed at Athens following his arrest by the new dictator Con- dyils. Above Is a machine-gun detachment of troops whose loyalty to this or that military chief dependa on promises of higherupe. The so-called “revo- lution” In Greece simply means that one fascist dictator has been substituted for another, To Uphold New Dictator of Greek Raling Classes | Who Helps the British Miners? (Continued from page 1) wavered, the majority of the strikers turned down the bishops’ memoran- dum. Thereby the miners of Britain have given us all to understand that they will remain in their old posi- tions: “Not a penny off the Pay, not & second on the day! National agree- ments only!” Ro despite the furious attack of the entire British bourgeoisie, vic- tory would be secured for the miners were the trade union movement of Britain and the whole world to ac- tively support the strikers. Yet in this direction we are witnessing a treachery and open sabotage on the Part of the General Council, the Am- sterdam International and its affiliated body, 1. e., on the part of organizations designed to defend the interests of the working class that is incredible in the history of the trade union movement. No one any longer doubts but that the General Council broke the general strike at the very peak of that move- ment. No matter what excuses the General Council may make to the working class thruout the world, it cannot hide the fact that from the very beginning inside the Genera] Council they were against the general strike and against the miners. It was only under tremendous pressure” from the masses that the General Council adopted the miners’ program of de- mands, By 3 soon as it became plain that the carrying out of that program of demands would require a deter- mined and daring struggle along the whole front of the labor movement the General Council shamefully sold the working class by taking their stand with the bourgeoisie, and pro- posed to the miners that they agree to the notorious Samuel memorandum, which at bottom stood for the salva- tion of capitalism at the expense of the working class, at the expense of wage reductions for the miners, By turning down that memorandum the mass of the mine workers con- demned the General Council leaders, In order to escape being just con- demned, the General Council, by means of hypocritical promises to help the miners, moved that the Miners’ Federation postpone the conference of executives appointed for June 25, Hay- ing got their way in this matter, the General Council forthwith turned front against the miners, iad the name of the General Council, Bromley published an article in which he tried to prove that for all the General Council's treachery the people to blame were the miners, and that the General Council had neven made any promise to support the min- ers’ program of demands. A still more manifest instance of the General Council's treachery we see in the last meeting of the Anglo- Russian committee in Paris. As the resolution adopted here by the Soviet Central Council of ‘Trade Unions’ Plenum states, the British delegation “refused to go into the question of the miners,” Av a moment when an army of work. ers over @ million strong were holding out against the incredible in ate tha alia emojorer spite of all threats, at a moment when distress among the three millions of the mine working masses had reached its highest point, the General Council refused to consider the quéstion of helping the heroic fighters in Britain. Such a step is to be found nowhere in the history of the working classes’ strike struggles. No less treacherous is the behavior of the Amsterdam International and its affiliated bodies. Like the General Council, it, too, immediately put a stop to the assistance for the strikers that had been begun as soon as it knew the general strike had been called off. Like the General Council, the Amsterdam International isolated itself from the miners and tried to iso- late the latter from the rest of the working class. But the miners’ strike continued and the need for help grew. And it is from this need that the Am- sterdam International and its affiliat- ing organizations want to extract the maximum material advantages, Amsterdam “nobly” proposed giv- ing a loan, but demanded certain material securities for this loan from the miners. The Dutch Trade Union Federation, headed by the “radical” Stenhuls, is demanding 4 Per cent for the loan, whilst the General Federation of German Trade Unions, headed by Leipart and Sassenbach, whose business acumen is higher, Is demanding 11 per cent, That is the way Amsterdam and its henchmen want to secure the pros- Derity of their funds by drawing on the blood of the miners out on strike, their funds being dearer to them than the interests of the British miners, than the interests of the spearhead of the working class, Th majority of the international trade secretariats have shown them- selves no better in this strike. The miners’ international has most outra- geously sabotaged all support what- joever of the miners. Huseman, the president of the German miners, the most powerful section of the miners’ international, has concluded an agreement with the German mine owners, Britain's chief coal competitors on the contl- nent, with a view to making the most out of the British strike. From Germany more than four and one-half million tons of coal have been imported into Britain. The British transport workers and railway men, as well as those on the continent, are transporting scab coal into the Buro- pean ports and bringing it over for British industry, HE striking miners are thus sur- rounded by a close cordon consist- ing of the sabotage of the General Council and the Amsterdam Interna- tional and its affiliated organizations, on the one hand, while on the other jolid front of the nd bourgeoisie of Britain and the whole world, Only those sections affiliated to the Red International of Labor Unions have fully carried out to the ond thelr duty of International clase solidarity. With unexampled enthu. slasm, the revolutionary unlone of the Ljnion of Soolallet Soviet Re- ea responded to the British miners’ struggle by sending them a large measure of assistance to the amount of over four and one-half million roubles. The revolutionary unions of France and Czecho-Slovakia and the revolu- tionary working masses of other coun- tries -have?given what they can of their scanty resources to help the strikers. It is only from the Red In- ternational of Labor Union§, its at- filiated bodies, and all honest workers that the British miners have met with moral and material support. That support they will have right to the end, HE executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions ap- peals to all its organizations and to the whole international proletariat steadily continue the collection of funds Tiq, Baitish miners are fighting in the forward positions of the working class, The economic significance bg- hind this tremendous struggle is that of struggle against the feudal organi zation of industry. From the general class point of view the British miners’ struggle represents a reflection of the pressure of capital which {is threaten- ing to go over to the general offensive not only in Britain but tlruout the whole world, And any such offensive will mean not only a worsening of working conditions but also efforts to smash the entire trade union move- ment, will signify a strengthening of the reaction and a threat of fresh wars. With thelr blood and with thelr need the British miners are advooat- Ing and defending tne Interests of the world proletariat. One and all, help the striking miners! EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF THE RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS," ° Aged Civil Service Employes Complain Pensions Withheld WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. —(FP)— Bitter complaint by aged civil service employes, because they have not yet received thé increase in their pensions allowed by congress five months ago, has been echoed in the local press, In response, Secretary Work has issued a stateméht claiming that already 1,126 indi¥iduals have received their increased pensions, There remain 1,331 other pensioners whose claims Have not been adjusted, while Work admits that several hun- dred more are part-way thru thé red- tape process, and, many are still wait- ing to be taken up. The increased pension rate applies only from July 1, and affects 10,000 federal employes who have already retired, Five Workers Hurt Here, Five workmen were boing treated at hospitals for injuries sustained when the balcony of the old Ashland Theater, ‘now abandoned, crashed down upon them, Three of the men suffered skull fractures and may dis, We will send sample copies of The. DAILY WORK DUCE RATTLES FASCIST SWORD IN ROME TALK Threatens France in a Speech ROMBP, Sept. 18.—Using as his text the unsuccessful attempt made to as-| sassinate him with a bomb by an in-| | dividual terrorist who had come from France, Premier Mussolini delivered a speech from the balcony of the Chigi Palace, in which he used very un-/ diplomatic langwage in speaking of the | neighboring republic. | Another Threat, | “We must put a stop to certain | culpable tiresome conditions which we tolerate outside our own frontiers,” | }said the Duce. “We would advise |responsible governments to take note of this, because otherwise their friendly relations with the Italian |people might become compromised.” Meant France, This referred directly to France, a fact which none of the thousands of fascists who heard his speech over- |looked. There is even talk in the press of Italy demanding of France the right to extradite all anti-fascist Italians |lving in France. This speech of Mussolini can only} jbe considered another sword-rattling | |demonstration to raise the nationalist | |pitch of the fascist followers. There |can certainly be no desire on the part | of Mussolini for war with France at} jthis time. All other things equal, the| |French army could over-run Italy in {short order. International complica-| |tions would, however, make this a de- |cidedly untactful thing for France to! jdo. Knowing this, Mussolini makes his arrogant threats and boosts his |stock among Italian militarists free of | charge. Reactionary Chinese General Accused of Suppressing Unionism | PEKING, Sept. 13.—The People’s | Tribune, organ of the Chinese national- ist movement, which is supported by .the radical government in Canton and the Feng forces northwest of Peking, has protested to Marshal Sun Chuan- fang, military commander in Shanghai, against his suppression of trade unions. Sun has been a lieutenant of Marshall Wu Pei-fu, one of the two militarist dictators who control cen- tral and northern China, and who are favored by the American, British, French and Japanese, “Recently,” says the Tribune, “there has been in Shanghai and other places a reactionary suppression of popular rights. Public organizations, particu larly labor organizations, have been closed down and public expression sup- pressed. In this the usual pretext of the reactionary is employed, that it is done in the interest of public order. “In acting in this manner Marshal Sun is acting contrary to the best in- terests of China, Public organizations and particularly labor unions are schools of democracy for the masses. Foreigners here may refer contemptu- ously to the ignorance of the Chinese of the art of democratic government, and at the same time rage against the “dictatorship of the mob” expressed in | the action of labor unions, “They forget that the masses in other, democratic, countr’es acquired their knowledge of public administra- tion precisely thru their trade unions and benefit societies, the right for ex- istence of which they had to fight for as bitterly as the Chinese workers are fighting today.” French Labor Chiles Find They Must Fight the Western Electric PARKS, Sept. 13.—Vigorous protest has been made to the French public by the General Confederation of La- bor of France against the proposal that the publicly owned telephone service should be taken over by the International Western Wiectric Uorpo- ration, which is backed by the Mor- gan banking group and is the Euro- pean end of the General Electric trust. The bankers’ plan was that the French treasury should get a cash loan in Wall Street, in security for which a French telephone monopoly would be offered, The International Western Electric would organize two |corporations—the International Tele- graph and Telephone and the Interna- | tional Standard Electric—to handle the operating and the manufacturing ends of the bustness, Western Blectric has begun a wide- spread propaganda in France in sup- port of this scheme. The national trade union center denounces it as dishonorable and dangerous to the na- tion that so essential a service should be taken from the hands of the gov- ernment, Spanish Officer Gets Life in Court-Martial | MADRID, Sept. 13. — The court-/ martial of officers of the artillery | corps who participated in the recent | uprising against the Spanish govern- ment opened at Coruna today, The prosecutor demanded life {m- prisonment with ball and chain for ol, Francisco Corenzo, one of the artillery leaders, Three months sus: | pension without pay was asked for soldiers of the artillery arrested, Never! We say this without a single qualification— Never! Hi ALL the best days of the Communist press has the Communist press been so GOOD! Never it has given to its readers such interest- Ing and so valuable material. Never has Whe DAILY WORKER been so good a source of ‘not only day-to-day most necessary information, but also—never has it given as good a weekly source of Inspiration—interest and pleasure asithere Js now contained In every Issue of t $ we Aunlmot + THE DAILY WORKER. The Contents *. F 3 of the next Issue, to appear Saturday,)September (18: bs HENRI BARBUSSE * 2 the great French: novelstpauthor & of the famous work “Under Fire,” j : writes the second of, an unusual 7 series of articles on/the Bafkans., 4 His recent trip to investigate theys) extent of White Terror caused a 7; violent attack on his perwon and'/, centered world attention on.com Aj ditions existing}in “The, Hell Burope.” MICHAEL GOLD author of “The Damned Agitator and Other Stories,” has written “The Young Prole- taire” @ brillant story for both child- Ten and grown-ups. With illus- V. F. CALVERTIONS? j author of “The Newer Spirit™, /) contributes another of his um usual articles on literature tm /_ the valuable weekky section fot} * “What and How toyRead7, &§ ROSE PASTOR STOKES# } trations by the noted proletarian writes ee & artist FRED ELLIS. “JENNIE” { @ /' “Ethyl Is Back” A beautiful story jon , the Woman's Page—about’ women ’/ and illustrated by this (talented / author herself who is also a; splendid artist. The concluding article of this splendid contribution in the next issue. Beginning Satarday +h | “The Theatre Season in Moscow’’</ By RUTH KENNELL. / This feature is one every worker will enjoy. 7 The author, now living in Moscow, pictures the F great work being done on the Russian stage—work that is the source of inspiration for the theatrical world. WITH PHOTOGRAPHS. & MANUEL GOMEZ concludes in the next issue a B. K. GEBERT editor of the American Polish Communist paper “Trybuna Ro botnicza”, writes: “American Capital Conquering Poland” With original photographs and illustrations, series of articles great attention on “The History of the Catholic Church in Mexico” attracting The Leading American Artists and we also say this “without qualification”, are regular contributors. In the next issue M. P. (Hay) BALES FRED ELLIS again gives us that delightful VOSE feature, “A Week in Cartoons.” A. JERGER And Others, Never— we say this without a single qualification— Never— has The DAILY WORKER been so good. And never was the time so good to subscribe! Coming! The great popularity of the Magazine Supplement—the many subscriptions—the requests for bundle orders are bringing into life “something new in labor journalism”. You'll get it if you subscribe right now to The DAILY WORKER—