The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1926, Page 3

——— CATHOLICS ARE VANQUISHED IN MEXICO FIGHT Nothing Else to Do But “ Say Prayers MBXICO CITY, Sept. 28.—The cath- olic: issue in congress is as dead as the shinbone of Saint Anne, The op position of a majority of the congress to the proposal to consider the pett- tion presented by the Mexican epis- copate has caused catholics to realize that there is no hope of obtaining any Modification of the present anti-reli- Blous regulations, In spite of the good ‘will toward the eatholic clergy manifested by certain congressmen, a large majority of the congress, obeying the desires of the government, decided not to accept the catholic petition in any form. The government is determined not to change the constitutional clatises nor regulations and congress is backing th® policy of President Calles to the full. At End of Rope. Now that the petition has been touched upon and the general senti- ment of the congress made known, the catholics admit that they Have met with defeat and that there is nothing else they can do under the present regime to lessen the rigors of the pres- ent regulations. While the boycott is effective, catholics admit that the poorer classes, who are strictly main- taining this boycott, are suffering and that there are’signs that they are get- ting. tired of suffering for a cause which is now being generally consid- ered as lost. It is clear that the boy- cott, while it has been a strong arm, is slowly losing its effectiveness, and in a short time the boycott, which has caused a decided slump in general business will be a thing of the past. They Didn’t Do It. ‘The only hope of the church to suc- ceed in forcing amendments to the penal regulations was the influence of foreign countries, which were expect- ed to indicate their displeasure to the Calles government. The stand taken by President Coolidge, that the church question was purely an internal affair of Mexico, was disappointing to the church, as the leading prelates be- Heved that the United States as the champion of religious liberty would use pressure upon Mexico to have the religious laws changed. If the United States had adopted that attitude, other foreign countries would also have used pressure, and the prelates be- Meved that the government would hasten to modity ita policy toward the church. The catholics are downhearted and at a loss to know what measures may be used to bring about a change in con- ditions, What attitude the catholics will pdopt in the future 1s not known, -Send us the name and address of a pRogressive worker to whom we can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKER, 4 RUSSIAN UNIONS USE OPEN AIR. GARDENS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND SPORT ACTIVITIES IN SUMMER MOSCOW, (By Matl) During the summer the educational activities of the trade unions in the U. 8, 8, R, are shifted trom the clubs into the open air, the so-called garden olubs, ‘The best gardens in the cittes and industrial towns have been turned over to the trade unions, These gardens have various sport‘fields (football, tennis, eto.), libraries, theaters, cinemas, open stages, etc. In the large cities the garden clubs have amphitheaters for many thousands of people from which the trade unionists watch the various games and matches. Summer Activities. During the summer theatricals, con- certs, sports, mass excursions and pic- nics are held, great crowds of trade unionists participating in them, To give an idea of the character and scope of summer educational ac- tivities we shall cite some of the fig- ures contained in 28 reports for 1925 which deal with the activities of trade unions embracing some 48 per cent of the trade union membership in the U.S. 8. R. Nearly 7,000,000 Visit Gardens. These organizations controlled 264 gardens with a total area of 4,422,600 square meters or an average of 1.7 hectaré per garden. ‘There were 683,000 rubles spent in 1926 in equip- ping 189 gardens. During the sum- merethe gardens were visited by 6,- 932,000 people. : There were 634 sport fields, the equipment of which cost 489,000 ru- bles. In the course of three months the sport’ fields were attended by 1,614,000 persons. In addition there were 385 shooting galleries, ‘which were attended by 23,000 people. "Thousands of Excursions. During the summer of 1925, 4,209 excursions were held in which 817,000 people participated. Many of the unions have. water sport stations (swimming, rowing, water polo, etc.). A total of 80,000 people passed thru these, As has already been mentioned above, these figures cover less than half of the trade union organizations. They give a sufficient indication, how- ever, of the scope of the educational summer work performed by the trade unions in Soviet Russia. It should be added that this year the activities have developed on an even larger scale, y Much of Damage Claim by Americans Against - Mexico May Be False WASHINGTON, Sept, 28—(FP) — American claims against Mexico due to civil war destruction are sald to to- tal over 3600,00,000, The joint claims commission of 1868 dealt with claims to the total of $470,000,000 and found $4,125,000 justified, Gaines To Hang. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 28.— Con- victed of slaying his daughter, Sylvia, 22-year-old Smith College graduate, last June, Wallace C, Gaines, disabled war veteran, will be hanged at Walla- Walla state prison, Dee, 11, FILIPINOS ARE FOR COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE Nothing Else Will Do, Says Commission (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 28.—In an official statement issued by the press bureau of the Philippine Com- mission of Independenck the charge is made that the statement of Dean Maximo Kalaw of the University of THE DAILY WORKER Page Three CHAO’S SPEECH | CAUSES CRISIS AT LEAGUE MEET Delegate Echoes Words of Radical Leaflet , (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Sept. 28. — As Lord Robert Cecil was making his way to the league of nations assembly to deliver a speech in favor of the Slavery Convention, he met a group of Chinese students from Paris die- tributing leaflets outside the Salle de la Reformation. The noble ‘lord instructed his fiun- key to accept one of-the leaflets and tell him what it contained. “A vile attack on His Majesty's gov- ernment, sir,” advised the flunkey after perusing the circular. “Dash the blighters” grunted Cecil “those infernal Bolsheviki are every- where.” * The Lord Was Amazed. VISITORS TO SOVIET UNION URGE COOLIDGE TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 28.— A group of Americans that has just completed a stay of several wéeks In the Sovtet Union has signed a letter to President Coolidge urging that the United States open conver- satlons with the Soviet, government with a view to bringing about rec- ognition, The group signing the letter, _ headed by Sherwood Eddy, publicist and Y. M, C. A. lecturer, says that a mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached. Among the group are editors, business men and social workers, a “wholly unofficial group endeavoring to make an objective study of actual conditions in Rus- sla,” their letter states. POINCARE IN However he paid no more attention to the matter as the students were quite unofficial, But what was the the Philippines is being interpreted to mean that the Filipinos are prepared to accept a settlement of the question that would fall short of independence. This interpretation is entirely wrong, says the press bureau, and quotes the following cable from its Manila office: “Before any step can be taken to- wards a satisfactory solution of the Philippine problem three things must be considered by the American people. “First, the independence pledge is morally binding on the United States. “Second, Filipino desires and aspi- rations must be interpreted by their own leaders in the light of their elec- tions, and not by any American visitor or official, and “Third, no relationship with the United States can be satisfactory un- less it rests on the mutual consent of two peoples, “The only settlement that will com- pletely satisfy the Filipino people is the granting of immediate, complete and absolute independence, and if a solution other than this 1s arrived at it will not be because the Filjpinos abandoned that goal, but because it is the: very best they can get out of a situation over which they have no control,” Disarmament Committee Continues to Deny U. S. Technical Arm Demands ; GENEVA, Sept, 28—The disarma- ment commission today refused ° to grant the demand of Hugh Gibson, American delegate, that it issue new instructions to the military sub-com- ‘mission, ordering that body to con- fine itself to technical considerations, and decided only to ask the experts to’ hasten their work, The commis- sion then adjourned, probably until February, Meanwhile the experts continue their work, The Railway Strike in Portuguese East Africa By JAMES SHIELDS (Johannesburg). For the past four’ months or so a stoppage of railway workers in Lou- renco Marques has claimed)the at- tention of the whole of South Africa, In this Portuguese colony affairs have been conducted in rather chaotic fash- ion since the great war, and continual changes of administration have only served to intensify matters further, High commissioner has followed high commissioner and still the faulty administration has continued until practically the whole colony has been reduced to a veritable state of ‘bank- Tuptey.. Within the past couple of years the cost of living has increased by over 100 per cent while- the. na- tional and provincial currency has steadily depreciated in value, This development nominally shows a reduction by almost, half of the pur- chasing power of. wages, so that the lot of the workers become exceedingly “Shard, On the 11th of November one- unird of the total railway staff downed tools in opposition to the loss of all CHARLES CLINE For 13 years @ prisoner in a Texas jail for his fight for labor, will speak Sunday, October 3 6:30 P. M, at the. ; CONCERT DANCE given by the Russian branch - of the L. Le Dy Ht WALSH' HALL, Cor. Mil- waukee and Noble, Russian Singing Soclety—Man- dolin Orchestra and other features, ‘ __ Tickets in advance 50c, at the ‘ door75¢, privileges coming on top of thig fall in wages. This was followed by a gen- eral strike on November 19 as a pro- test against the cost of living, depre- ciated currency, ‘etc, With the excep tion of shipping houses (which carried on business behind closed doors) and goyernment departments, practically all business was at 4 standstill for about a fortnight, This was followed by @ lightning strike in sympathy with the striking railwaymen or, more cor- rectly, as a protest against the meth- ods adopted by the government, . White Terror Rules. . The new railway reform regulations stated that from the Ist of December certain privileges hitherto enjoyed by the railway workers would cease, while 200 men woulfl bo discharged from the railways, In addition to this an extra four hours was to be tacked on to the usual working weok, and all medicine and fraternity rights were to be abolished, In the face of thiS attack strike ao- tion was the railwaymen’s only alter- native, and this they made use of. Right from the com: ent of the struggle the strikers opposed by @ vicious reign of white terror, Al) sorts of unscrupulous methods have been employed against them, to the of forging copies of their strike bull urging a return to work, of imprisonment, deportation and torture. Many have been imprisoned, others have been forced to hide in the bush while soldiers seour the country look- ing for more victims, Raoul Ferreira, @ staunch trade unionist, was murdered in the public streets, An accident occurred to a seab train run by blacklegs and ever since imprisoned strikers have been taken and placed as hostages in open trucks tn front of the engine, exposed to the burning rays of the African sun and the piercing cold of the bush veldt, Imprisoned strikers have also been subjected to the lash in an en- deavor to force them to confess that the rail accident was an episode of strike sabotage, A number of strik- ors have been deported, while most have had thefr homes tion of all working class elements, The Loureneo Marques Typograph workers refused to assist in producing the “O’Portugal,” a violent anti-strike paper, and the South African workers sent £300 as donations towards the strike relief fund, Portuguese Solidarity, Attempts to procure blacklegs from Portugal have ended in failure, and the nine deportees from Mosambique were enthusiastically welcomed in Lisbon by a demonstration of workers 12,000 strong. A further batch of de- portees still remain in the province owing to the sailors refusing to trans- port them to Portugal, The strikers’ wives formed themselves into a com- mando and in spite of being fired on by the military carried on demonstra- tions and collected funds for strike relief, The ‘whole strike has been a re: markable evidence of working class solidarity, and all the more so when it is recognized that the men have had only the flimsiest trade union organi- zation, The confident tong of the gov: ernment officials at the outset has now given way, to an outlook of gloomy anxiety, Si kept press has come out with vili attacks against the “South African Worker,” the organ of the South African Communist Party, be- cause of its whole-hearted support and encouragement of the strikers’ cause. So great has been the dislocation of ousiness in Lourenco Marques that the rallway administration has agreed to continue the granting of all privi- leges if the men only return to work with the exception of the 200 due for retrenchment, These, they say, will be repatriated at government expense. The strikers, however, have replied that all men must be reinstated or none at all, and go the fight goes on, The issue of the struggle seems doubtful at the moment, for while the government has perceptibly weak- ened in its attitude the gaunt spectre of hunger and want has made its ap- pearance among the strikers, Never- tholess, no matter what the outcome 4s, a flerce and bitter hatred against t xploiting class has been sown x lord’s. amazement on the following day when Chao-Hsin-chu, the official Chinese delegate at the league, tho he only represents Peking, delivered a hot speech in which he threw the hooks into. Great Britain, as if he had deyowred the circulars distributed by the students and was coughing it up before the August assembly. The British made such a fuss over Chao’s speech that the president of the assembly announced that in the future no member would be given the floor unless he first informed the president what he was going to talk about and how he was going to say it, Here in brief is what got -the assembly’s goat: “What a. deception for us young Chinese to know that the most im- portant member of the league of na- tions, Great Britain, delivered and still is delivering, brutal, barbarous assaults on the Chinese people. Landed In Canton. “On the-fourth of September British forces landed in Canton and dragged cannon to the center of the town which was picketed by strikers who were aroused by the words of the English govergor of Hong Kong call- ing them bandits and pirates. This was not only violating international law but was material and moral ag- gression which was intended without doubt, first, to prepare for new Eng- lish massacres, following those of Shanghai and Shameen in 1925, and, secondly, to create a situation which would prevent the national govern- ment. fromepursuing a victorious cam- paign which would have freed China. Wu Pel-fu, as everybody knows, is backed by the British fn order to pro- tect their political and economic in- terests.” Protest Savagory. After stating the group's version of the Wanhsien bombardment the tract says: “Is {t not a shame that such savagery exists dn the twentieth cen- tury? Shame to those who lent them- selves to cowardly butchery! Shame to those who looked on with arms folded} “Mister delegates, if the league con- tinues to permit England to do what she wishes—if nobody interferes in such cases—#he is responsible for the war which ig breeding in the Far East. We and future generations are ready to give our blood to save our dignity and national liberty, They Hate To Do It, But it is a great sorrow to us, con- firmed pacifists, to be forced to take recourse to arms, We wish to find means to bring Britain to reason with- out drawing the sword, “ven in the national defense. For that reason we turn to the league, which is charged to maintain peace, Tool of Big Powers. “No protestation has been heard here, If thé league of nations is only a machine of the great powers, which make it do what they please; if others are impotent yis-A-vis those great pewers; if those high words, justice and equality, are just masks hiding the faces of the great powers; if the league is only that, then it has no reasen for being, “It the league is an instrument of peace, then we ought to see it acting energetically, against Great Britain's savagery and violation of internation- al Taw," Travelling in When * Spain Don’t Accept a . : Buggy Ride from King SAN SHBASTIAN, Spain, Sept. 28. —American tourists traveling in this country are advised not \to take a ride in Alfonso’s car, Not that they may have to walk home, but because of the still more serious possibility of being carried home, Cicero bootleggers may operate in automobiles that look suspiciously lke police fliyvers and get away with it, But this is Spain ‘where men are expert sharpshooters, — Japan's Envoy Fired On, The above advice was handed out gratis by the Japanese ambassador to Spain, a jovial soul, after he had been fired on while nearing the Spanish border on his return from France, His car looked jike the king’s and some pre dh subjects threw a the SUBTLE BLOW AT NEW PACT Rift With Briand May Come Over Germany PARIS, Sept. 28.—Profiting by the occasion, Raymond Poincare, Fratice’s premier, took advantage of his speech before the disabled war veterans at the Paris suburb of St. Germain, to warn Germany that France regarded the Germans as responsible for the world war, and by this means Poin- care undoubtedly also atmed_ his words at Foreign Minister Briand, with whom he is at political outs. Left Handed Attack on Briand. Altho Briand, following his recent secret meeting with Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany, announced @ new rapprochement between France and Germany and hailed the dawn of peace between the two nations, Poin- care took an entirely different course. “You cannot forget,” said Poincare, “that the warfare carried on on our soil, thru violation of a neutral state and by orders of the imperial staff, was conducted with cruelty.” Opposes New Accord. “If the Germany of today would openly disavow certain procedures of the Germany of yesterday, it would be easier for us to turn our eyes away from the scars and extend out hands to the authors of your wounds,” This is unquestionably in opposi- tion to the accord reached by Briand |of deputies of Uruguay. This resigna- jout of parliamént was severely con- URUGUAYAN 6. P. FORCES DEPUTY OUT OF CHAMBER Opportunist Errors Parliament Punished in (Special to The Daily Worker) MONTEVIDEO, * Uruguay — (By Mail) — The Communist deputy, Mi- belli, has resigned from the chamber tion is the result of the decision of the enlarged executive committee taken in the last days of July when Mibelli’s attitude and activity in and demned. He was declared unfit to represent the Communist Party in par- liament and was instructed to resign. Mibelli was accused of opportunism in the following instances: Defends an Error. 1. When Mibelli proposed an in- + crease of salary for the teachers of Uruguay he wrote that this Som mu- nist project will definitely solve the economic problem of these public servants and the social problem of il- literacy.” When the executive. committee pointed out the grave error of such a statement and the mistake in attrib- uting to a bourgeois parliament the capacity of solving fundamental s0- cial problems, he persisted and de- fended his statement. Wrong Headed on Franco, 2. When the Spanish military avi- ator Franco arrived in his fiight from Spain to South America, Mibelli pro- posed in parliament, on his own ini- tiative, in the name of the Commu- nist Party, to grant Franco honorary Uruguayan citizenship, He was told that Franco had fought against the Riff and had declared that he is going to return again to Morrocco—and that Mibelli’s motion would help the chauvinist and militar- ist campaign. But Mibelli could not see that he was compromising the prestige of the Communist Party with the workers and tried to justify him- |self by comparing his motion with {the fact that the soviet govetnment hailed the North Pole aviators of the Norge. Party Interested Only in Workers. 3. MibeHi supported in parliament a project according to which all depu- ties failing of re-election should be pensioned. He did not recognize, that Communist deputies have to defend only the interests of the workers and not of bourgeois deputies. For all these reasons Mibelli was declared unfit to represent the party and Stresemann, Stresemann mean- While having ‘refused to ackiowledge that Germany alone was responsible for the war. Soviet Chess Players Join International of Chess; Win Berlin Game MOSCOW, (By Mail) — There is @ very large umber of chess players in the trade unions of the U. S. S, R. On Dec. 1, 1925, the chess sections of the trade union clubs had a member- ship of 45,000. The various trade unfon chess sections are headed by the chess section of the Central Coun- ell of Trade Unions. At the-end of last year the chess section received a formal invitation to join the Labor Chess International. On Dee. 3, 1925, the question of affilia- tion to the Chess International was officially discussed by the Central Council Presidium and the basic prin- ciples of affiliation were decided upon. After the visit of the Russian trade union chess delegation to Germany (where the Chess International head- quarters are located, and where, it may be mentioned in passing, the So- viet chess players won a brilliant vic- tory over the German labor chess players) a complete understanding was reached, and the Central Council Presidium sanctioned the affiliation of the chess section to the International, appointing comrades Levman and Griasnov as representatives of the Russian section in the Chess Interna- tional Bureau, Porto Rico Labor Leader Protests U. S. Plantation Regime WASHINGTON — (FP) — Importa- tion of Porto Rican workers {nto the cotton fields of Arizona is an indict ment of the colonial system that has been fastened on Porto Rico, Santia- go Iglesias points out in a statement protesting against the indifference of the Washington government to the economic misery of his people, Igle- sias is head of the working class eco- nomic and political movements in the island, and in vain has sought enforce- ment of the law limiting land holdings to small tracts, Huge plantations are in parliament. He was, however, not expelled from the party as he submit- ced ‘to thé decision of the executive. British-Italian Pact Against Thoiry Accord Belies Locarno Peace PARIS, Sept. 28. — The “peace of Locarno” may be all right, but for Great Britain there is altogether too much peace since France and Ger- many got together in the persons of Briand and Stresemann at the Swiss village of Thdiry and formed a bloc which looks bad for John Bull. As a result, Great Britain has sud- denly become very friendly with Italy, and aims to create an English-Italian entente to include Spain ultimately, to’ balance up against the Franco-German rapprochement, Sir Austin Chamberlain's visits and dickerings with Mussolini in the past months have laid the basis for this entente and may build a Mediterra- nean league with France left out, thus causing France to reinforce its naval power—of ‘course to carry out the “peace of Locarno.” Mexico Orders Gold Ore Exports Banned To Strengthen Coin MEXICO CITY, Sept, 28~To stop the drainage of gold from Mexico and thus strengthen the Mexican ex- change and poost the price of silver, a presidential decree has been issued by the Calles government providing that gold ore which {s exported from Mexico must be replaced by {ts equiva- lent value in gold deposited in the Bank of Mexico. ,All gold ore of value over two grains per ton shall be manifested before leaving the country by assay- ers. After exportation, the exporting company is given a month to replace the equivalent in gold coin of any na- tion or gold bullion in the Mexican bank. ~ If this ts not done, the government will levy a fine of 10 per cent on the exported gold. To Fight State Constabulary ST, LOUIS—-(FP)—The Missouri now run by American companies, and |State Federation of Labor received the Porto Rican people are driven|many new affillations when it became from the land, Wages are 60 to 70/known that a determined drive will cents a day and three-fourths of the|be made in the next legislature to wealth produced is exported, 14,000 “Slum Houses” in Glasgow pass a state police bill, GLASGOW, Sept. 28—Authorities of this city, after investigation into the housing conditions, have There are 14,000 “slum houses” in th revealed some shocking disclosures. 6 city, accommodating 50,000 persons. » Some of these:are hever penetrated by the sun, gas being kept burning all summer and winter, Nearly 1,000 houses have been declared unfit fer Eden [lagoater SATURDAY OCTOBER 2 e Wm. Z. Foster -writes on the problems and prob able outcome of the convention. With photograph, A Trade Unionist of Detroit describes the pre-com- vention attitude of Detroit labor. With photograph. Facts and Figures on the organization of the unorgan- ized, in a splendid article by THURBER LEWIS. Photograph of the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. F Other Features: BIG SPENCER— A story by Kurt Klaeber. tion by Adolph Dehn, Tilustra- THE JEWISH THEATRE IN MOSCOW— By‘ Ruth Kennel. EDUCATING YOUNG WORKERS— By John Williamson, HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH— By Manuel Gomez. Cartoons by Ellis, Jerger, Voss, Hay Bales and others, ———¥ SATURDAY, OCT. 16 The First Issue of The FIRST appearance of the Magazine supplement asq@ ~ separate publication WITH MANY NEW AND UNUSUAL FEATURES - 4 SUBSCRIPTIONS For 20 Weeks for $1.00 SUBSCRIBE NOW and gnter the Slogan Contest $100.00 worth of prizes awarded — for the best slogans for the — Sunday Worker sub-— mitted before NOVEMBER 1: ,