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GERMANY TRYING ~ KAISER RETURN Treason to Republic Rife ° in Government BERLIN, Oct, 20.—Prussia’s grant Of property and enormous compensa- ‘ tion to the kaiser’s family has aroused fepublican sentiment all over Ger- Many, and other signs of monarchism fire being exposed daily. It is discoy- ered that under German law the kaiser will no longer be barred from Ger- many after July 1 next. Government Aids Royalists. A boycott is béing started against the postage stamp bearing the por: trait of Frederickthe Great. Why the government, supposedly republican, Should have used this picture, which fs used habitually by the monarchists in propaganda, is not explained. Von Hindenburg, tho president of ® republic, visited the funeral of Gen- eral von Heeringen last week dressed in full regalia and colors of the old empire, while he sat next to Prince Oscar, the kalser’s son. Oscar re- cently delivered a speech at a Nurem- burg royalist celebration attacking the republic, Princess a Thief. The former crown princess, Ce- cilia, is also accused of having stolen Hobbema picture with 300,000 marks from one of the old royal residences of Potsdam. The picture was the property of the Prussian government, but was sold by Cecilia to a wine dealer for2,000 marks, Little Red Box of ~, Secret Documents Enters Klan Case INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct, 19—A litte red box, said to contain some of D. C, Stephenson’s “secret” documents, has been taken into the Marion county Shortly after Miss Mildred Meade, pretty former stenographer of the ex- dragon, ‘appeared before the id jury probing ‘alleged political et in Indiana;“sho left the grand jury room in the company of \Prosecuting Attorney ‘William , H. ‘Remy, The pair went ‘to the Indiana Na- tional’ Bank and returned in a few minutes with a red safety deposit box sald to have belonged to Stephenson. for Old: MEXICO CITY; Oct.~20.— Mexico's widely heralded labor bill, vitally af- fecting the interests of all employers Wn the republic, will be taken up by ‘the senate next week and will be en- jacted promptly, providing old age pen- sions largely at the expense of the employers. Senator Salesdo’s declaration is re- led as assuring early enactment of 16 law, since he speaks both as chair- man of the labor committee and as one of the leaders in the Labor Party. | | | The size of The DAILY WORKER depends on you. Send a sub. Wall Street and the Franco-German Pact One of the most important develop- ments since the inauguration of the Dawes plan—the FrancoGerman com- bination—has deeply stirred the finan cial lords of the United States. A frantic London dispatch to the Chicago Tribune said: “It is almost openly admitted here that it (the Franco- German ) is the first step toward an orga) revolt against the finan- cial hegemony of New York and, Lon- don.” : ? i” | The New York Times indicated edt- i torfally that the proposal to have Ger- many set the financial house of France in ordgr by floating part of the German railway securities, amounting to $500,- 000,000, meant ultimately that the loan ’ would have to be raised in the United ‘States; and a news headline declared that New York bankers “Do Not Be- lieve $500,000,000 Issue of Railway Se- curities Can Be Absorbed.” Nevertheless, the steps taken fol- jowing the Thoiry conversations of Priand and Stresemann have clearly indicated the growing consolide- tion of the opposition by Buropean bankers and industrials to the per- sistent and increasing American finan- cial hegemony. And Wall Street realizes the sig- nificance of this development also. It is known that Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon, upon his return’ to Wash- ‘ngton trom his European trip, spoke to Coolidge upon the dangers of this development and secured virtual agree- ‘mont against premitting any part of {the German railways securities to be floated in the United States for the purpose of stabilizing the franc, at least until France had agreed to rat the Mellon-Berenger debt agreement. Poincare, whose differences with Briand on the relations of France to Germany have been all but public, pat beyond « doubt, playing the game for more stakes thhn that of Wall Streot, e . . —_————————EEEE MONARCHISTS OF |?° HANDS BY LA Stn me By J. NEVAR (Secretary Porto Rican Section, All- SAN JUAN, P. R., (By Mail.)—Regarding the Porto Rican workers stranded in Phoenix, Arizona, after find’ tion had misrepresented wages and co: homes to go to Aridona, Santiago Islesias is Quoted from Washington as saying that the U. S. Department of Labor cannot stop immigrants. The Free Federation of Workmen, + completely controlled by an A. F, of L, offcialdom headéd by Santiago Igle- sias, did nothing whatever beforehand to warn these workers of the fraud or expose the cotton growers’ trick, al- tho it was known. * Fake Radical Helped. Fraud. One of these offiicals, who is fond of parading as a leftist and radical, Lino Padron Rivera, gave his public endorsement of the project. Now, be- cause of pressure from workers here and in Arizona, Iglesias is beginning to admit things, and his tool, Rafael Alonso, is forced to cable inquiries to Washington, Porto Rican Workers Trapped. The Porto Rican section of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League is the only organization which beforehand had exposed this emigration fraud and warned the workers it could reach against it, But there is another interesting point, Wanted More Backward Workers. Shortly after the Porto Rican work- ers left their native isle under the impression that they were superfluous population in their country, all Porto Rico was aroused with indignation by the discovery that, the Guanica Cen- tral, the largest: sugar mill in Porto Rico, is proposing to bring in Negro workers from the Virgin Islands who have not as yet grasped the idea of labor organization as have the Porto Rican workers. Aimee’s Trial Still on While Kenneth Is Among the Missing LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.—Miss Bernice Morris, secretary to R. A. Mc- Kinley, a blind attorney who was al- leged to have negotiated with Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson to find a man and woman to pose as her kid- napers, today emphatically stated that her statements furnished to the district attorney's office were not made under duress, Miss Morris occupied the witness stand practically all day yesterday. She testified that Mrs, McPherson of- -hor $500-4¢ she. would. carry on Plans of McKinley after the latter had been killed in an automobile accident. The witness also said that Mrs. Mc- Pherson had offered $1,500 if McKin- ley could find a shack similar to the one that @he eaid ahe had been held captive in. - Kenneth Missing. Kenneth Ormiston, the radio*op erator who got Aimee into most of this trouble, tho with Almee'’s consent, is still at large. > There are still some. people in Los Angeles, crazy for salvation, who be- Tieve that Aimee is a second virgin. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ooo ummm RTO RICAN WORKERS TRAPPED INTO ARIZONA COTTON GROWERS’ BOR OFFICIAL’S AID ES SAGER. American Antl-Imperialist League.) ing that the Cotton Growers’ Associa- nditions under which they left their AMERICAN CAPITALISTS INVEST THREE BILLION IN CANADIAN INDUSTRY (Special to The Daily Worker) QUEBEC, Oct, 20.—American cap- italists have invested more than $2,- 500,000,000 in Canadian industry, E. W. Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific railway, told the convention of the Investment Bankers’ Associa- tion of America at its concluding ses- sion of the annual convention here. American investments represent 53 per cent of the total foreign in- vestments In Canada, he pointed out with great pride, declaring that thir- teen years ago, the United States THE DAILY WORKER cases involving the Standard belief in the imperialist league the court of St. James. elsewhere over the globe. money men had only 17 per cent. Beatty glowed when he told the . bankers of the great profits made by his railroad, He said that its gross earnings had increased from $29,000,000 In 1899 to $183,000,000 in 1925, and Its net earnings had in- creased from $12,000,000 to $40,000,- 000. K. OF C. FOMENTED MEXICAN REVOLT SOLONS CHARGE Evidence Shows Plotting of U. S. Catholics MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20.—That the revolt of the Yaqui Indians in Sonora was founded by de la Huerta, former president, Felix Diaz, son of the late President Diaz,the Catholic bishop of Sonora, with the aid of the American Knights of Columbus was the charge made in congress hy Deputy Ganzalo Santos. Is Authentic, Many influential members of con- gress vouched for the authenticity of the charges, declaring that they have evidence to show that the K. of C, raised $4,000,000 to aid in attempting to overthrow the Calles government. Certain ofl interests aided the or- ganization in raising the money, it was said, being particularly interested in having the part in the constitution affecting oil ownership changed. Will Wipe Out Reaction. Senator Santo declared that if the groups mentioned provoked a new rev- olution, the oki revolutionists who fought for their ideals would rise again and wipe them out. “The homes of the reactionaries will be crapeless,” he said, “because there will be none left to attend to the crape hanging. We intend to wipe them all out.” STILL SEARCH FOR B, OF L, E. BANK SWINDLER Brotherhood Officers’ Bail Raised (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20—The search for Charles E, Knapp, missing bond salesman an@ central figure in the Brotherhood Savings and Trust Com- pany swindle, was extended today to Maryland, The bond salesman is known to have left Pittsburgh.immediately after get- ting possession of a bag containing: $320,000 turned Oved to him by R. A. McCrady, president of the labor’ bank, with the understanding that Knapp Would take the bonds to McCrady’s office at once, $50,000 Bond. McCrady, who with two other bank officials, was arrested as soon as it was learned that $102,000 of the $320,000 im the, missing bag belonged to the bank, has posted $50,000 addi- tional bond on embezzlement charges, filed late yesterday by the state bank- ing department, which has charge of the bank's affairs, Similar charges were filed against John 4. Nelsin, treasurer, and Wil- tiam Keily, vice-president of the bank, who are in jail in default of heavy bond... Frank: Guimario, alleged asso- ciate of Knapp, also is being held. Counsel forthe bank officials, in an effort to reduce bail, petitioned Judge Ambrose Reid in common pleas court for @ writ of habeas corpus. A hear- ing on the petition will be held: today. Ford Road Has Hearing. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The ex- cess net railway operating income of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Rail- road, owned by, Henry Ford, will be the subject of a hearing before the interstate commerce commission on January 3, it was announced today. Page Threa Oil company, the Harriman railroads and the United States Steel corporation. In the settlement of the world war, Kellogg declared his of nations. When the workers and farmers of Minnesota, therefore, turned Kellogg into the street, his Wall Street friends came to his protection and sent him to London as ambassador to 't was after an education received, close to the reigning dynasties of Europe that remained after the world war, that Kellogg retlirned to the United States and became secretary of state in Coolidge's cabinet. services rendered the predatory interests that he has become known, for instance, as “Standard Oil” Kellogg because of support given Rockefeller aggressions in the Near East and So loyal has he been in During» his regime the gates of the United States have been thrown’ open to- every parasite royal nincompoop in Europe that chose to come this way. The Prince of Wales, the Swedish prince and others of their ilk, and now the Queen of Roumania, most revolting of them all, the American toe-kissing plutocracy. The gates have been thrown open to them all. The doors of the dollar-worshipping United States have-been closed in gets the homage of Who Is Secretary of State Kellogg? (Continued from page 1) aire, Kellogg voted to seat Newberry. Kellogg brought to the senate the experience gained in the faces of the wife of Michael Kalinin, the president of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, who wanted to come here two years ago on behalf of the children of Soviet Russia; of Shapurji Saklatvala, the Communist member of the British parliament, excluded last year, and more recently Katherine Karolyi, wife of Michael Karolyi former president of the Hun- garian republic, who gave way to the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic. ‘Proceedings were also instituted against Mary McSwiney when she came to this country to launch her attack on British rule in Ireland. All tnese have suffered under the Kellogg ban. This is the same Kellogg who waits for an opportunity to strike another blow, on behalf of American imperialism, against Mexico, across the Rio Grande, and who holds the club of dollar diplomacy over the financial colonies of the United States in Latin and South America. This is the Kellogg who admits to the United States, Countess Vera Cathcart, British honor guest at the “bathtub of wine party” given by Earl Carroll at his New York theater, with one of his chorus girls as an undraped offering to give joy and delight to those present. It is thru Secretary of State Kellogg, scavenger for the worst dregs of the disappearing European aristocracy, who has ordered the postal department to proceed against The DAILY WORKER. Let him proceed. The DAILY WORKER is ready for him and promises him the worst of it before the masses of America’s workers and farmers. USE OF LABEL ON GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE IS FORGERY, NO UNION CONDITIONS EXIST IN INDUSTRY. Use of the union label on furniture products made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is forgery, the Grand Rapids district council of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, warns all unions in the United States in a circular letter just issued. Rapids furniture bears the label, such the council. The letter follows: ‘* To the District Councils of U. B. of C. and J. of America, Greetings:—As you know, Grand Rapids is the furniture city of the United States and Canade. We have been informed that some of our pro- ducts are sold all over the country carrying the union labe] and if this is so, it is a forgery. In fact, neither furniture, interior woodwork, show- cases, school seats, nor refrigerators made in Grand Rapids should carry a union label as union conditions do not exist in any of our shops. We are having a hard fight to exist, but we are doing our best to organize our workers, both carpenters and mill- men. Will you assist us by asking for the label on furniture, interior material and everything that is made and used by the U. B. of C, and J. and communicate with your trade and labor council so that the delegates may take it to their locals, and kindly noti- fy tif the union laber ixgfound on any Grand Rapids furniture, Help us and in so doing you are helping our brotherhood and your selves. Hoping you will co-operate with us in this respect, we are, Fraternally yours, Grand Rapids District Council, Grand Rapids, Michigan. C. Hansen, Secretary, 861 First St., N. W. * We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends—send us name and ad- dresa, ‘The council asks that if any Grand forgery be brought to the attention of KUOMINTANG DECLARES ITS FOREIGN POLICY; TO UNIFY THE NATION PEKING, Sept. 28—(By Mail)— The kuomintang party has published a manifesto concerning the national policy which declares that the par- ty will uge ail means in its power to bring peace and unity to the country. This, however, can only be brought about after a victorious conclusion of the northern expedi- tion of the Canton troops. The kuomintang regards the call- ing of the national assembly as the basis for transformation. of the country. A transitional period is, however, necessary in which the masses must learn their national duties. Gary Nucleus Plans Daily Worker Drive Affair October 31 GARY, Indiana, Oct. 20.—-An affair to raise funds for the KEEP THE DAILY WORKER campaign of the Gary nucleus is planned for October 31, It will be held at the hall at 215 West Eighteenth street. A com- mittee is appointed and is working on plans for the evening. The first issue of the Gary Living Newspaper will appear, under the aus- pices of the Gary Workers Corre- spondence School that is being organ- ized. “Weekly International Review: . ’ His proposal is to ratify the debt fund- ing arrangement, without any change In the text, but with the addition of a preamble whith amounts to a virtual reservation. Poincare desires to in- clude somewhere a proviso for French payments to the United States in ac- cordance with German payments to France, or @lse to leave this point to the decision of the chamber and have them adopt or reject the pact. Such a reservation would be mean- ingless if the Germans were enabled to raise the $500,000,000 to rehabill- tate French finances, and to secure for France the possibility of regular pay- ments to Wall Street, and co-operation with Germany on the basis of equality instead of Dawes-vassalage to the United States. ¢ That is why the question of a FrancoGerman alliance is so inti- mately bound up with the questions of America’s financial and political rela- tions with both Germany and.France. ‘This situation illuminates the sharp opposition in financial (and. govern- mental) circles in this country to the floatation of the two billion marks loan on German railway securitios, It is surely the cream of the jest to find the despised and downtrodden Ger- many, brutally occupied by Poincare's France in 1928, now offering to take the place of the rich and rapacious Uncle Sam as the good Samaritan that brings heajth and order to the de crepit finances of France and Pel- gium! Irrespectiveyof the outcome of this immediate struggle over the German securities, the line of development be- comes increasingly clear. The Com- munist prediction concerning the Dawes plan is materializing in every respect: The stabilization in Germany is being accomplished at the expense ot the working class (three million unemployed and five million working part time); America has stabilized Germany, only to find in the revived patient a lusty rival; the intensity of the conflict between debtor nations of Europe and the creditor Wall Street has been sharpened, and becomes con- stantly more insoluble within the framework of imperialist society. American financial penetration into Europe is being met with an ever- broader united opposition and there are more and more signs to show that its stranglehold upon European indus- try and finance is being slowly but very consciously and appreciably weakened, The ridiculing and besmirching of all things American, from tourists to toys, in Europe, especially in France, is a manifestation of the far pro- founder economic changes that have taken place in the last couple of years and which are proceeding with has- tened tempo at this very moment. Renwed Anglo-Italian Co-operation , It is clear that the basis for Anglo- Italian co-operation worked out by Chamberlain and Mussolini at Rapallo, which resulted in the division of Abys- siniia between the two powers and the sharpening of Italy's demands in the Mediterranean, was interruped only temporarily by the support Mussolini gavo to Spain’s Tangiers proposal—an act which aroused the swift and un- mistakable opposition of British im- perialism, , The recent vistt of Chamberlain to Mussolini, aboard the English yacht Dolphin, enthusiastically greeted by the impertalist press of both countries, followed isignificantly after the con- versations'of Briand and Stresemann at Photrys’ Tt was acclaimed im both ‘ ‘ countries as the achievement of an Anglo-Italian entente, a joy which found its counterpart in the alarmed observations made by the French and German press. The Anglo-Italian rapprochement is Britain’s reply to the Franco-German steel trust and the conversations at Thoiry, The sharpening of the antag- onisms between Britain and France happen to fall in quite well with Mus- solini’s lack of Jove for his northern neighbor. Nor dées the growing en- mity between Germany and Fngland fail to jibe with Mussolini's tyrannical rule over southern Tyrol. This recasting, of alliances—eco- nomie and political—which have char acterized the developments in Europe for the last period,are strongly remin- iscent of the years immediately pre- ceding August, 1914, The events preceding and following the ChamberlaimMussolini conversa tions up to the moment have been: (1) The virtual organdzation of an all-Buropean steej,trust thru the re- cently formed alliance of France-Ger- many-Luxemburg-Saar-Belgium and the more recently formed Central Huro- pean steel trustyalsd’ dominated by Germany, by means of the controlling influence held by the West German steel trust over the Alpine Mining Company, which in turn dominates the Austrian industry. The trust is all- European only in the sense that all of the steel industry, with the exception of the Italian and the British (of course, also, the steel trust of the Soviet Union) is included. The ex- ceptions are highly significant, Italy and Britain will enter the bloc only when competition becomes too sharp, or for the purpose of forming a united front against the omnipresent Ameri- can steel trust. (The market price for German iron @hd steol has jus, (2) The dramatic appearance of Mussolini on the Chinese scene with the demand for the broadening of Ital- jan influence in the provinces of Shensi and Kansu, the territory ap- proximately between the Humboldt and Great Khinghan mountains, weet of and equi-distant from Peking and Hankow. This land is very rich in minerals, ‘one of Italy's great weak- nesses, a lack (of coal, in particular) which has obliged her to adopt first Germany‘s, then France’s and now England's patronage. This demand of Mussolini in China comes significantly on the eve of the getermination of Great Britain to intervene with armed forces in China to prevent the ulti- mate victory of the nationalist troops who are already marching on Shang- hai. Italian Intrigues The race for the honor of the Grand Double Cross is undoubtedly finding Italy well towards the fore. While it is conducting the most friehdly nego- tiations with England, axd Mussolini swears undying fealty to Britiania against French, Germans and the So- viet Unidn, Italy continues to play its own little game. First, after jointly committing a plece of grand larceny in the division of Abyssinia, Italy in- cited Spain to make demands for Tan- giers, twisting the tail of the British lion with a vengeance, for Tangiers menaces Gibraltar, which dominates the western end of the road to India and China for Britain. Now, at the same time that the two prime ministers are so cordially and confidentially discussing interna- tional affairs aud prospects for amity on a yacht in the Ligurian sea, it is announced that Muesolint has con- cluded a pact between Ititly and Ye. men, a south Arabian principality. vs Yeman (in Asia) controls, from the northeast, the eastern tail of the Brit- ish route to India, j, e., the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden; the Italian colony of Eritea (in Africa) controls the strait from the southwest. Alto- gether not a pleasant prospect for the British admiralty! War Looms in the Baltic The return of Danzig to Germany and a Polish-Lithuanian conflict which we predicted last week is assuming more definite form. The official Pol- ish Telegraphic Agency reports from Paris that in considering the question of Eupen and Malmedy, former Ger- man territory now belonging to Bel- gium, the Teuton delegates declared their main interest to lie more in an easterly direction, England expressed no opposition to Poland’s return of Danzig to Germany, an opinion echoed by France, with the proviso that. Po- land be compensated, It appears that no other signatory to the Versailles pact will oppose such a step, which will mean a virtual. re-establishment of Germany's former eastern frontier. In return for this Germany will un- doubtedly support the bandit aims of Pilsudski against the Soviet Union and Lithuania. It is not without basis that the Lithunian envoy of Paris, Klimas, says “that the rumors of an exchange of Denzig for Meme! have ceased to be mere rumors.” Such a proposal fad already been made months before by the prophet of Franco-German co-operation, Arnold Rechberg, a German industrialist, A number of incidents give weight to this impending event: The vote of Germany to grant Po- land a semi-permanent seat in the league of nations’ counetl, % NEW BEDFORD MILL WORKERS CALL STRIKE Fight Wage Cuts And Owners’ Despotism (Special to The Daily Worker? NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct, 90— Workers of the Dartmouth mill, New Bedford, are ordered to strike to fight for maintenance ofthe wage and working condition standards prevail ing inthis mill city. The New Bed- ford Textile Council yoted the walk out of all Dartmouth workers, Nor- mally the mill employs 2,000, but has been running with less. The emergency board of the Ameri- can Federation of Textile Operatives, an independent union in control of New Bedford mill unionists, approves the strike and other organizations in: volved and associated with the A, F. T, O. in the Federated Textile Unions of America are expected to follow suit. ° Dartmouth weavers have long com- plained of the fining system, cutting of weaving prices and arbitrary treat- ment of workers subordinate mill officials. Loomfixers complain that general standards are not kept up. Dartmouth's “last «strike was in 1926 and was chiefly on loomfixers’ griev- ances. Engineers and firemen at the mill struck in 1919. The loomfixers’ fight became citywide. The other Strikes at this mill were in 1912, over fining, and 1906 on mopping. Two Workers Badly Burned, COLDWATER, Mich., Oct. 20.—Two men were so badly burned they are not expected to recover and two loco- motives and several freight cars, were destroyed in a fire following col- lision in the local railroad yards today. BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB. ‘The negotiations for a German-Pol- ish trade treaty and the general fiirta- tions between Stresemann and Pil- sudski, The redisposition of Polish troops, the lengthening of the armed forces in Vilna, military preparations of Po- land on the Lithuanian border, and the intensification of Polish espionage in Lithuanian, indicate that the attack of the bandit Polish General Zelio- gowski on Vilna a few years ago may soon be repeated in an attack by Pil- sudski on _Memel—this time with ac- tive German support. The Polish press continues to main- tain a steady stream off violent at- tacks on the Soviet Union for the Russo - Lithuanian non - aggression treaty recently signed, which, unlike the treaties of the imperialist scay- engers, is intended for the securing of peace and co-operation in the Baltic. In the meantime, the internal situa- tion is not such as will tend to in- crease the feeling of security of the Polish blusterer and sword-rattler, Pil- sudski, The Riff Fights On! That all is not as quiet in Moroceo as the censors would have us believe is indicated by the news: which man- ages to seep thru to the press, The Capaz column has retreated and the Spanish troops were defeated near Chechaouen, French authorities at Morocco are considerably perturbed and are considering what action to take in collaboration with the Spanish, who have already evacuated the terri- tory of Beni-Ahmed lt is apparent that the Ruff tribesmen are in con- stant revolt against French and Span- ish imperialism, and that the surren- der of Abd-el Krim resilted only in a temporary cessation of hostilities. A few weeks ago we reported that a new chieftain had been chosen to re- place Abdel Krim. Reports from northwest Africa indicate that numer- ous tribes, hitherto said to be passive or submissive, have once more joined the standard of revolt, Y — Max Shaohtman.

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