The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 3

BIG COLONIAL MEET SLATED FOR BRUSSELS Congress Will Organize United Struggle (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Sept. 16.—A gigantic step Is about to be taken In the world-wide upsurge of the colonial peoples. This is the first world congress against the suppression of colonial and semi- colonial peoples which will meet at Brussels, Belgium, about the middle of next November, The call for the congress is issued by the International League Against Colonial Suppression, with headquar ters at Proruszentrale, Berlin, Ger- many. The provisional committee for the congress. includes Henri Bar- busse (France), Martin Anderson Nexo (Denmark), George Ledebour (Germany) and Prof. Koo Meng Yu (China). This committee asks all na- tionalist and anti-imperialist organi- zations as well as those determined to stamp out colonial cruelties and suppression in general, to send dele gates to the forthcoming congress. Cables announcing participation have already been received from the Kuo- mintang party of China, the Korean nationalist party, the young India movement and the independence movement of Java, Dutch East Indies, Lansbury and Fimmen Attend, The congress at Brussels will take up all of the problems of imperialism, considering in detail specific cases of brutalities in the colonies and sup- pression of liberties. It will also con- sider the question of emancipation of the colonies and semi-colonies from imperialist rule. Special reports un- der this latter head will be made by George Lansbury, M. P. of Great Brit- ain, and Edo Fimmen, general secre- tary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation. Following is the communication in full sent out by the International League Against Colonial Suppression, announcing the agenda of the con- gress: Dear Sirs: The organizing committee for the congress “Against Colonial Suppres- sion” has received in the course of the last months a large number of im- portant endorsements from leading or- ganizations of the colonial and semi- colonial countries. During the last week. we have received many tele- grams requesting that the conference take place in this year. Acting upon these requests, the commits facid that the conference should be held in the middle of November. The place is Brussels and the exact date, etc., will be communicated in due time. On the basis of the propositions, motions, etc., received up to date the organizing committee has decided upon the following tentative agenda: 1. Report on Imperialist Suppres- sion in the Colonies. Speakers will be representatives of the different countries. 2. Emancipation Movements in the Colonial and Semi-Colonial Countries and Support by the Labor Movements of Imperialist Countries. Provisional speakers, Edo Fimmen, general sec- retary of the Transport Workers’ Fed- eration; George Lansbury, M. P., Great Britain. 3. The Co-ordination of the Na- tional Emancipation Movements with the Social Struggles in the Colonial Countries. i 4. Development of the League Against Suppression to a Great In- ternational Organization for the Sup- port of the Emancipation Movements in the Colonial and Sem!-Colonial Countries. The provisional committee asks you: (a) To communicate to us imme- diately the size of the delegation you intend to send to the congress In Brus- sels. Costs of the delegation must be. covered by your organization. (b) To submit to us your proposi- tions for the agenda and to communi- cate to us the names of your repre- sentatives and the points of the agenda under which they intend to speak, (c) To send us a written report, in- forming us about your organization. This should be sent not later than the middle of September, in order to en- able us to translate and mimeograph it for the congress, Trusting you will be in agreement with the date selected for the con- gress and that you will transmit to us the requested information at your ear- Nest convenience, we remain, dear sirs, Yours very truly, International League Against Colonial Suppression, J, Brach, Secretary, Aid Flood-Stricken Cities, KANSAS CITY, Kans., Sept. 16. — Kansas today was taking care of flood sufferers while the crest of yester- day’s wall of water spread thru no: eastern. Oklahoma, after claiming eight lives. This city, Topeka and larger cities of Kansas were collecting funds and sending aid to Burlington, Neosho Falls and Madison which were almost wrecked by high waters from the Neosho, Cottonwood and Verdiort rivers, The damage estimated at from »£6,000,000 to $7,000,000. CHINESE BOSSES TRY COMPANY UNION PLAN; LABOR KILLS ATTEMPT CANTON, China— (FP) — That China is becoming rapldly clvilized and modernized In the American sense Is seen again In the organiza- tion In the Industrial centers of up- to-date company unlons on approved western lines, After a strike by the genuine shoe workers’ unlons In Canton In 1924 which failed to win higher wages the company orgaritZed the Shoe Trade Capital & Labor unlon, com- posed of strikebreakers, stoolplgeons and bosses which Introduced the open shop and beat up members of the bona fide union. The revolutionary Canton govern- ment, through Its labor department, ordered the fake unlon to dissolve, whereupon It adopted another Amer- lean dodge and reorganized as the Shoemakers unlon. This is now un- der scrutiny by the authorities, CHINESE LABOR FIGHTS TO BETTER ITS CONDITIONS Strikes Taking Place All Over Country By GEOFFREY C. CHEN. PEKIN, China—(FP)—There is a direct relation between industrial strikes and industrial development; where you find cities industrially and commercially more developed, there you find more strikes. During the last eight years 9 Chinese cities have had more strikes than all the rest: Shan- ghai 270, Hankow 37, Soochow 29, Pekin 20, Chinkiang 18, Canton 17, Wusih 10, Tsingtau 6, Hongkong 6. Three important causes can be defi- nitely traced: economic. pressure, mal- treatment, and mass movement, Dur- ing the last 8 years, aside from the May 1925 strikes at Shanghai and else- where, there have been 536 industrial strikes, Of these about 330 have been caused by economic pressure; 58.61% of the total. Counting the May 30 strikes, there have been 698 strikes, 331 of which have been caused by eco- nomic pressure, 47.42%. In all the 8 years, strikes protesting maltreat- ment numbered 110, 19.54%. Forty- four strikes originated from mass movement or popular demonstration, 7.81% of the total. Only 58 times dur- ing the 8 years have strikes been set- tled. by simple: and short negotiations between the employers and the work- ers. There have been two usual ways of settlement; settlement by the rep- resentatives of both parties and set- tlement by the intervention of a third party. In all the.8 years, 85 have been settled by the first method. The in- tervention takes various forms: 75 by the local government, 49 by guilds and unions, 33 by individuals, Gf we exclude the May 30 strikes, we can count successful strikes 50.27% of the total strikes each year; semi- successful strikes 6.39%, unsuccess- ful 7.11%; and doubtful 36.23%. Only since 1921 have there been de- mands for the right to organize or for the right to strike. Each strike on the average has involved 3,612.22 workers. During the last 8 years, the most numerous strikes occurred in the in- dustries directly or indirectly con- nected with clothing. Next in num- ber are the strikes of communication workers. The factory which has had the most numerous strikes during the last 8 years 1s the Japanese cotton factory of Shanghai where 16 strikes have taken place. The anti-Japanese sentiment of the workers, the compar- atively strong organization among them, and the growth of class consci- ousness have contributed towards the real causes of strikes in this factory. wa Buplinent + THE { Re PUE DAILY WORKER Page Three Ready for Army Tour of South America Planning the army's South American flight, an observation trip whose martial purposes are not concealed and that la openly paraded as an Imperialist expedition, a group of officers gather at Bolling Field, Washington. Left to right Is Trubee Davison, former member of the House of Morgan and air secretary of the army; Gen, Patrick, chlef of army aviation; Major Dargue who Is to command the South American venture; Baker, one of the pilots, Issue of Saturday, September 18: Watch. for Next Week's Announcements of a Ae ay WorKER PROGRESSIVES CHEER RESIGNATION OF HAMILTON FYFE AS EDITOR OF THE LONDON DAILY HERALD By Our Own Correspondent. LONDON — (By Mail) — Hamilton Fyfe has resigned as editor of the Lon- don Dally Herald, Labor's dally news- paper, and the progressives In the trade union movement are glad. The British workers are sincerely sorry that Fyfe ever left the Daily Mail and they hope he will never return to help the employers on a labor paper. A day or two before Fyfe quit the Herald he was compelled to receive an unwelcome visit from the miners’ delegates who were exasperated over an attack on the miners in the pre- vious day’s issue of the Herald.- At first Fyfe refused to see the miners but the latter did not stand on cere- mony but passed all opposition and bearded the gentleman in his sanctum. Fyfe Was Indignant. M. Fyfe told the miners that he did not give a damn for what they said or thot as he was leaving the Herald for good in a few days. No doubt Mr. Fyfe like many other disappointed bour- geois saviors of the workingclass who step down from above to free the masses will feel that his sacrifices have not been fully appreciated. It seems imcomprehensible but true that Fyfe published an advertisement from the coal operators in labor's offi- cial daily while the same paper carried vicious attacks on Cook and Smith, leaders of an organization that was helping to subsidize the Herald. Why The Silence. The editorial attack which angered the miners was in reply to an inquiry | from a railroad worker who was an- xious to know why the T. U. C. lead- ers were silent on the reasons for calling off the general strike. This worker who was a railroad employe for 32 years declared that he and his fellow workers were regarded as “blacklegs” by the miners for desert- ing. them and hauling “black coal.” Hamilton Fyfe took it on himself to reply in behalf of the T. U, C. and blamed the miners for not accepting the Samuel memorandum which was not accepted by either the government or the operators. Did Not Touch Vital Part, The dishonesty of Mr, Fyfe’s reply HENRI BARBUSSE the great French novelist, author of the famous work “Under Fire,” writes the second of an unusual series of articles on the Balkans. His recent trip to investigate the extent of White Terror caused a violent attack on his person and centered world attention on con- ditions existing in “The Hell of Europe.” 4 ol to the railroad workers can be seen by his refusal to answer the vital part of the letter. Here is an excerpt from the railworker’s query, which should receive attention from trade unionists everywhere who are helping to break the miners’ strike by shipping scab coal. “We are given to understand that the miners in other countries would not send any coal to England, but these miners are sending it. The transport takes it to the docks, it is loaded on the ships by the dockers, brought across by the seamen, un- loaded on this side by the English dockers and then we railwaymen cart it away to destinations and we are blamed for handling coal after it has passed thtu the hands of men belong- ing to other unions.” Faker’s Old War Horse. Fyfe begins his reply to the letter by opening a broadside on the Minor- and of ity Movement Conference course on the Communists. This is the old gag when caught politically disrobed before the workers. The ex- Daily Mail scribe rang the changes on the “dictation from Moscow” stuff that “was breaking up the labor move- ment,” The T. U. C, called off the strike because the miners refused to accept the Samuel memorandum! A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation opened fire on the Herald editorial in a scathing indictment and before the smoke of battle cleared Fyfe was on his way. Here is what Cook has to say: Cook Was Surprised. “I am surprised that Labor’s paper should join in the chorus of the cap- italist press to attack the miners and their leaders with an editorial that is absolutely contrary to the truth. “The article says that the general council of the Trades Union Congress ended the strike because it believed that the Samuel memorandum offered the best chance of settling the coal dispute which the miners were likely to get, and that if the miners’ repre- sentatives had agreed to accept that memorandum no man would have got less than 50s. a week. “My reply is: (1) That the Samuel memorandum was never accepted by the government-or the colliery own- ers, and, therefore, work could not be resumed on it; (2) we never had a guarantee of 60s. a week. “All we were ever offered was that wages should not be reduced to less than 7s. 6d. a day and all wages below that were still to remain the same, No weekly guarantee has ever been given at all. “It is silly and absurd,” Mr. Cook proceeded,” to suggest that we could instruct jour men to return to work without the owners, who own the pits and employ the men, allowing them to do so. Being locked out, we could only secure a resumption of work on terms upon which the owners would agree o open t eir pits. Gouncil Was Anxious. “It is Quite evident that the editorial in question is written to discredit the miners and their leaders before the British public, “The truth is that the general coun- cil of the Trades Union Congress was so anxious to call off the strike that is was prepared to accept something in the form of a settlement which did not exist, and was prepared to trust Mr, Baldwin and the colliery owners to give it existence at some future ‘The miners’ executive was not so prepared, and the fact that Mr. Bald- win hag since repudiated the Samuel um proves that the miners . Our duty was clear to the who had given us a man- date.” euip THE DAILY WITH A sys “ ¥: Y \ General Fechet; TWO FASCISTS ARE KILLED BY THEIR OWN BOMB Premature Explosion of Bomb Gets Blackshirts NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Prominent anti-fascists in New York charge that an explosion that wrecked an auto- mobile and killed two men on 116th street and First avenue was the result of the premature detonation of a bomb that the fascists were about to throw at an anti-Mussolini meeting on the corner. Two Fascists Killed. The two men were members of fas- jcist organizations, Alfredo di Nardo was secretary of the Harlem and Bronx branch of the fascist league of {North America, Frank Esposito, the second man who perished, was also a Fascist organization member. Police Seek to “Cover Up.” The police department says the car was wrecked by an explosion of its gasoline tank, but the anti-fascists point out the absence of fire and the spread sidewards and downwards of the explosion. They charge the police are attempting to conceal the causes and protect the fascists. Threaten Speakers. Carlo Tresca, an eye-witness of the explosion, tells a remarkable story. The night before the meeting a voice over the telephone said: “You people tried to kill Mussolini. We're going to get our revenge tonight.” Tresca and his friends went on with the meeting plans despite the threats and despite the fact that a meeting on the same spot three weeks before was broken up by the police who sided with fascist hoodlums that had started stoning the speakers. Third May Die. The meeting began the night after Tresca received the warning. Luigi Puintilliano was speaking, when there was a terrific explosion in an automo- bile in the street a short distance away. Quintilliano was hurled from his open air platform and the audi- ence was tossed about. The car was wrecked; ove man was dead, another dying, and a third, Joseph Pacciocco, so badly injured that his life is still despaired of. ‘The anti-fascists are convinced that @ bomb, carried by the men in the car,.went off for some reason before it could be pitched at the platform. Capt. MONTREAL — (FP) — Applications for substantial pay increases on the two Canadian railway systems made by conductors, baggage men and brakemen are being considered by a board of conciliation. Conductors in the passenger service, who now re- ceive $6.40 per day, or $192 a month, ‘e asking $7.75 a day, or $232.50 a month, HAZELHURST, Miss. — (FP) — Hazelhurst is experiencing another la- bor exodus as scores of Negroes leave for the Delta, where $1.35 per hundred is promised for picking cotton, with free transportation and board, Wages for farm labor im this section are very low, Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular ly to take to your trade union meeting? Slovak or Czech worker? aed Subscription rates: By mail, $6.00 RED INTERNATIONAL AIDS STRIKE OF THE FRENCH METAL UNION MOSCOW, Aug. 28th.—(By Mall) —The Russian International Labor Union has directed a telegram to the Unitary Metal Workers’ Fed- eration In Paris In which It sends Its fraternal greetings to the strik- ers In Chateau Renaud who have already been fighting a_ heroic struggle for five months. The Rus- sian International Labor Union sends also $500 to a continue thelr struggle. MINE STRIKE NEEDS URGENT, SAYS PURCELL Quick Aid Vital; World Labor Must Assist (Continued from page 1) or even for each separate mine. The finish would, be that each factory would have its own agreement, The support which the international proletariat can give the fighting min- ers is, above all, financial assistance. Here I must mention that the assist- ance of the Russian comrades is the greatest proof of international solt- darity in the history of the proletariat, and the British miners recognize this completely. The methods of the Rus- sian comrades, who form women’s committees to lead the collections, should be copied in all other countries. As far as the international aid is concerned, the British miners are of the opinion that much more could be done. It is hoped that with the send- ing of miners’ delegations to the con- tinent and to the United States cer- tain difficulties which have previously showed themselves will be overcome. With regard to the support of the British miners by a general prohibi- tion of coal transport, this prohibition can only be effected if the miners’ unions in the various countries see to it that the production of coal is not increased. If no more coal is produced than usual then no more can be trans- ported to Great Britain. The International Miners’ Federa- tion has not yet seen its way clear to issue such a prohibition to prevent the increase of production, and with regard to the prohibition of coal trans. ports, the International Transport Workers’ Federation and the Interna- tional Miners’ Federation have not yet come to any agreement, altho the lead- ers of the British minors have sug- gested this a number of times. Few Miners Return. The reports of the bourgeois press that there is a mass return to work must not be believed. Even if all the reports upon the return to work which the bourgeois press spreads were true, then there would still be something 1ike 900,000 mifiers out. One must not forget that from those strikebreakers who have returned to work not all of them are coal hewers, but many of them are mechanics and other workers who work upon the sur- face. For instance, it was recorded some time ago that 900 men had re- turned to work in one mine. Of these 900, however, only 42 were hewers. The tremendous volume of imported coal to Great Britain is shown by a report of the Daily Mail that last week a million tons of coal were imported to Great Britain. This report is nat- urally to be accepted with great res- ervation. Refutes Socialist Lies. The statement of various social democratic papers that the Russians are stabbing the British miners in the back by exporting naphtha to Great Ist them to WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR AT HOME, at work, in the mine, In the shop, on the farm, or anywhere? Is he a Have him, or her, subscribe to the only Czechoslovak working class daily paper in the U. 8. THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 1510 W, 18th St., Chicago, Jil. Britain and that they are trying to persuade the British capitalists to re- place coal by oil fuel, is absolute non sense. On the contrary, we have proofs that the Russians are seeing to it that no more naphtha is sent to Great Brit- ain than usual. I must also remark that naphtha has not the faintest in- fluence upon the coal market, because it is quite impossible within so short a space of time to adapt the machines to use oil fuel instead of coal. German Unions Charge Interest. To the question what attitude did he take with regard to the loan of the German Trade Union Federation (A. D. G. B.) and its interest, Purcell made the following remark: “The British trade unions, which were badly hit from the financial point of view by the general strike, were compelled to take a loan from the A. D. G. B., in order to fulfill their duties towards thelr members. Altho the British trad ions would rather have seen the A. D, G. B, grant this loan free of interest, as this is the case in Great Britain when one trade union lends another trade union money, they were nevertheless compelled to ac- cept the condition of the A. D. G. B. in preference to taking a still more expensive loan from a bank. The A. D, G. B, demanded, after a higher de- mand had been rejected, 4% per cent. The amount of the loan was 10,000 pounds.” a year, for Chicago $8.00 a year. FILIPINO PROF OPPOSES ISLAND INDEPENDENCE Compromiser Hailed by U. S. imperialists (Special to The Dally Worker) MANILA, Sept. 16-—-The movement for demanding that the United States keep its promise to grant the Philip- pines complete independence is find- ing some compromisers among the fol- lowers of Senator Osmena, the most recent one coming forward being Dean Maximo M. Kalaw of the University of the Philippines, Kalaw has issued a statement in which he shows what he means by the “concessions” offered by the Osmena group. He says: Careful of U. S. “Intereste.” “The Filipinos must concede, first, that in considering the independence question, the United States is bound to take into account her own economic needs; second, that the American gov ernment has rendered a tremendous amount of good to the country, for, which the people should be, as they; are, grateful, and third, that in the po-! lution of the independence problem the present international situation and | American interests in the islands must! also be taken into consideration.” ‘ This is regarded as propaganda complete independence, proia-; y some sort of an overlordship-as~” the United States has over Cuba, It is to be noted that Kalaw makes con-« cessions agreeable to the American rubber trust and other impertalist in- terests, and infers that America needs the Philippines as a base of warfare in the Far Hast, in connection with the “international situation.” Imperialist Halls Compromise, Kalaw’s statement is being hafied ; joyfully by the owner of the Manfila Times, an American who quite frankly boasts that he is an imperialist, This, imperialist says Kalaw’s statement is. “a constructive suggestion made in the right spirit.” Aguinaldo, who has completely re- covered from his insurgency of 25 years ago, has also issued a statement supporting General Wood and oppos- ing any sort of independence. 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