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: , SOVIETBOOMS, : "REPORTS HEAD OF AMTORG C0, ‘Russia Preparing to Buy Much Machinery NBDW YORK, Oct. 21.—Paul J. Ziev, ) president of the Amtorg Trading Cor- ; poration, representing im this country the leading Soviet commercial and in- f@ustrial organizations, returned last ; week after a six months’ absence in bsourope, having spent most of the {time in Moscow and other important “eenters In the Soviet Union, where he was busy in establishing firmer con- tacts and making new arrangements fTor the further development -of the business relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, Gets Orders. As a result of his activities during his stay in the Soviet Union, Ziev ‘brought back with him a number of Ebusiness offers involving the placing fin this country of large orders for ‘various machinery and equipment. "Whether these offers will material- ‘ize in the placing of orders will de- pend largely on the terms of payment which the interested Soviet Union concerns will be able to obtain from American manufacturers, Industry Growing. The foremost problem engaging the attention of economic organizations ‘in the Soviet Union at present, it was explained by Ziev is that of industrial- “Gzation, The prosperity of the great | peasant population of Soviet Russia hhas increased materially during recent years, and. with it has increased the demand for industrial products. increase Production. During the fiscal year 1925-26, just ended, industrial production was more than 40 per cent above the previous year 1924-25. The combined imtlustrial output during this year was brought iup to 95 per cent of the pre-war period.. The plans for the new eco- mwomic year 1926-27 call for a minimum ‘Sncrease of 20 per cent over the out- “put of the year 1925-26, which will ‘lace Soviet industries above the pre- war, level, Need Machinery. Owing to this, extensive, construc- j#ion of new industrial plants is being warried on in all parts of thecountry fand there is, therefore, a large de- jg@mand for industrial equipment and fmachinery, a considerable part of which must be,imported from abroad. Only recently a commission repre- senting the Soviet. metallurgical in- flustries placed orders for equipment amounting to over $20, aGer- many, where credits for terms up to five years have been obtained. Large orders for mining equipment, of] well supplies, textile machinery, electric power equipment, étc., have been Placed in Germany and other Euro- pean countries.. Many of these orders 4eould have been easily diverted to the ‘Wnited States if credit terms similar fo those offered by European manu- faeturers could be obtained: ~'U. $. Businessmen in Russia. Everywhere in the Soviet Union Mr, Zievy met a pronounced interest in American made machinery and a ten- dency to introduce American tech- nical methods and equipment in the new industrial construction. On the other hand, American businessmen and manufacturers are more alive to the possibilities of the Soviet market than appears*en the surface, “During his) sojourn in the Soviet Union Ziev met many Americans representing large industrial concerns in this country studying the situation on the spot. Soviet’ Watching ~ Turkey in Move » Toward League “RIGA, Oct. 21-—-Moscow. is watch- ing’ the Turkish government in its apparent moves toward joining the league of nations. If Turkey becomes affiliated with Great Britain and the other powers, she will lose her pollti- cal independence, -it is believed here by the press. “Angora stands at the crossroads of her political destinies and must make # definite choice soon,” it is claimed. BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB. - WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR AT HOME, at work, in the mine, in the shop, on the farm, or anywhere? Is Ire a Slovak or Czech worker? Have him, or her) subscribe to the only » Czechoslovak working class daily paper in the U. 8. THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 3 1510 W. 18th St., Chicago, Ili, Subscription rates: By mail, $6.00 a year, for Chicago $8.00 a year. ~ROGER. _ Director Civil EUGENE VICTOR DEBS, ——__. CONFERENCE T0 SAVE CHAMORRO U.S; MANEUVER Eugene V. Debs Dies After. Long [IIness; Led A. R. U. Strike | (Continued from page 1) rich Debs. He was educated in the common schools of that city and after working at various trades, became a Attack on. Mexico is|tocomotive fireman on the Terre Staged by U. S. Envoy Haute and Indianapolis 1871, His first venture into politics was Yailway in CORINTO, Nicaragua, 'Oit. 21—The | in 1879’ when ‘he became city clerk of maneuver of United States imperial-| Terre Haute! & position which he held ism to save its tool Chamorro, self- elected president of Nicaragua, from the liberal revolution, and-to replace him by another equally’ bad under the..guise. cof gettingsithe iliberals to “compromise,” is’ being "staged here on no other place than the U. S, war- ship Denver. Helps Chamorro. The S. charge @’affairs, Law- rence Delinis, is acting as chairman, and nothing is omitted ‘to aid the re- actionary Chamorro,” delegate to the so-called conference, engineered by the ‘United States tovhelp: Chamorro escape when the revolution was.on the point of -winning. As part of the maneuver, the Cham- orto delegates were *all allowed to make violent speeches against a nation friendly to the United States, the Mexican republic, and all sorts of “documents,” forged and otherwise, are being admitted by the .U. 8. envoy, to show that the Mexican goy- ernment and Calles himself is aiding the liberal revolution. U. S. Planned Attack on Mexico. Because of this attitude, it is seen that-the desire,of the United States in calling the conference was not to arrive at an amicable understanding, but to attack Mexico and cripple the revolution against Chamorro. So the conference is liable to break up, as the United States expected it to do. The liberals want their leader Sa- casa to take the. presidency .tempor- arily. The Chamorro, or conservative party, wants one of Chamorro’s chief Meutenants, Adolfo Diaz. This reac- tionary Diaz is also the choice of the United States. Passenger Plane Down, LONDON, .Oct,.21——An aeroplane, operated “by the Imperial Airways, Ltd., bound from Croydon to Paris, fell into the English channel this at- ternoon some twelve miles off Folke- stone, A. fishing boat rescued the pilot, mechanic and ten pasgengers. % released in 1921, unti] 1883. “I'wd years later, he was elected to the Indiana legislature; and in the same Year, 1885, he was mar- | THE DAILY WORKER & Page Thres POWER MRUST FOR “EUROPE - NOW FORMING Huge Mergers Built up in All Industries PARIS, Oct, 21.—Business circles here are interesting themselves in what they believe to be American preparations for an international trust of the electrical industries, beginning with those in the United States and Canada. F The prime movers are understood to be Dunn & Loewenstin, The latter is connected with a number of. Cana- dian and South American electrical businesses and js now preparing, it is asserted, an organization to be known as the Hydro-electric Securities Cor- poration, A loan of $24,000,000 to the Siemens- Schuckert group in Germany is under- stood to be the preface to the pro- posed movement, which eventually will include the. whole of Europe. Aluminum Trust. The German, Viag concern, which includes the chief aluminum produc- ers of Germany, denies that negotia- tions are being held for the formation of a trust, but gt is believed here that it will be formed eventually. Trade magazines in France point out the growing importance of the trust movement and expect that it will be continued until it includes all the important industries of Europe, It had a beginning with the steel trust and the temporary pig iron agreement in France, Germany and other countries, The forecast.is now made that the coal industry will probably be organ- ized internationally, but probably not until the British coal strike is settled. More Mergers Coming. Next in line ‘come the tube and rail trusts, and negotiations have been started for wire’ and cast iron cartels. The wire trust is expected to include the manufacturers of rods, nails, fences and otlier finished goods made of wire. The takers of plates, shapes and bars are how negotiating. A further development announced as cértain here will organize the builders of locomotives, ‘freight cars, machin- ery and machine tools along interna- tional lines. * Until now the British were repre- sented only in the railmakers trust, but Continental industrialists expect them to join the other organizations later, because of the difficulty of com- peting with the combined industries ried to Ktherine’Metzel, who survives It was his work as a locomotive fireman, Which turned his attention to the workingclass movement and he soon became very active in early rail- road labor organizations, He was grand secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen from 1880 to°1893 and from that year until 1897 was president of the Amer- ican Railway Union. A. R. U. Strike. His leadership of the famous Amer- ican Railway Union strike of 1894, called against the Pullman Company and later spreading to many impor- tant railway lines won him a place in the yery forefront of the militant workingclass movement of the nine- ties, In that year he was charged with conspiracy and later sentenced to six months in Woodstock jail for violation of an injunction; “Nominated for President. In 1897 he became chairman of the national executive committee of the social-democratic party, which later became the socialist party. In 1900 he was nominated for president on the socialist ticket and made the first of four campajgns for the -presidenty. In 1904, 1908 and 1912 he was again socialist candidate for president, Found Gullty, When the United States entered the war in 1917 Debs took a deflaite stand against it. During the war, in 1918, he was arrested while making a speech in Bohemian Gardens, Canton, O., and charged with obstructing the draft. He was found guilty and sen- tenced to 10 years imprisonment by Federal Judge Westenhaver. The de- cision wag sustained by the supreme court and Debs entered Moundayille penitentiary, W. Va. on April 13, 1919, Later he was transferred to Atlanta penitentiary in ern and For many years Debs had suffered a heart weakness and was not in good health. entered prison, that he would not sur- It was thot, when he vive his term. He was released from Atlanta penitentiary in a very weak- ened condition and, there is no doubt that his prison experience hastened his death, SPEAKERS—BISHOP of the rest of Europe. It {8 algo reported that the Scandi- navians are likely to draw closer to the other countries, as they, too, will find it necessdry to defend their in- dustries, Hold Employe For Crime of Master in Chinese Rule FOOCHOW, ‘China, Oct. 21. — Otto Heinsohn, young German, has been jailed here for the delinquencies of his employer. Heinsohn was arrested when his master, William Pteng, charged with illegal traffic in arms, fled, in application of an ancient Chi- nese principle that each family shall bear the responsibility of each of its members. The young German has no family connection with his employer, and be- ing only recently employed, no part of the crime is aseribed to him. How- ever, he was held and there is no ap- peal, as Germany has lost her extra- territorial rights. Second Communist in Chilean Senate; Wins by Recount of Votes NEW YORK, Oct. 21. — The final count of the senatorial elections in the Chilean nitrate districts of Tara- paca (former Peruvian territory) and Antofagasta (former Bolivian territo- ry) gave the legal majority to the Com- munist, Juan Luis Carmona, who con- sequently takes the seat in the sen- ate with Manuel Hidalgo as the sec- ond Commurnst senator of Chile. Even the bourgeois majority of the parliamentary commission had to ad- mit the ‘extraordinary practices of fraud used to prévent the election of Carmona, More ‘votes were counted in the first scrutiny re there are electors in the Whole district. A re- count established”'the claim of Car’ mona to’ the seat ‘In the senate, Carmona has beén active for many WORKERS OF SPAIN CRUSHED UNDER TYRANNY OF PRIMO DE RIVERA WHO IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY UNION (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MADRID, Oct. 21—In almost all of his public speeches, Primo de Rivera repeats that the military dictatorship hag succeeded in solving the social problem; strikes and working struggles are ended. But he, naturally, does not say this peaceful “order” of things means the most frightful economic penury of the working class, This présent crisis of the Spanish proletariat is the biggest one endured since the beginning of the century, and this is what Primo de Rivera means when he points out that on August 1,4¢——— 1919, 219 strikes were declared and only 11 in 1926, The working conditions are at pres- ent really very bad, owing partly to Primo’s, persecutions and mostly to the treachery of the socialists. The number of unemployed all thru Spain is enormous and as this working army’s reserve does not re- ceive any help. from the state, the capitalists can, in cases of competi- tion, very easily reduce wages. No Eight-Hour Day. As the eight-hour working day hardly exists in Spain, the govern- ment has not given any decree to abol- ish it.” Notwithstanding, Primo de Rivera has declared on various occa- sions that the eight-hour work day must cease. And since, some months ago, the financial press is carrying out this campaign. The weekly Espana Economica afid Financiera (Economic and Financial Spain) was diligently defending the increasing of the daily working hours. The Barcelona’s association, the Fo- mento Nacional Del Trabajo, the most powerful owner's organization in Spain, is asking Primo de Rivera’s government for @ decree that “will in- tensify the worker’s production.” Organize Bandits. The Sindicatos Libres (Free Trade Unions) were organized in Barcelona by General Martinez Anido in order to have a force strong enough to re- press the revolutionary syndicalist movement, The Sindicatos Libres were formed with bandits used by the police to freighten workmen affiliated to revolutionary organizations. Prom- inent revolutionary militants were murdered in Barcelona’s streets by members of the Sindicatos Libres. Attempt to Destroy Unions. At present those sindicatos are at work in Madrid, where they had no influence until now, protected by Mar- tinez Anido, minister of interior, the sindicatos intend to destroy Madrid’s trade unions, as there are the only ones not affected by the present dis- order of the working movement, as they are headed by socialists, they have followed a neutral attitude to- ward the directory, The Sindicatos Libres is more noticed on those occa- sions where Communist influence is strongest, U. G. T, Bribed, To face this penury condition of the Spanish working class the reformist central organization, General Union of Workers, is not adopting any policy of militancy. The leaders in connec- tion with the government are enjoying good office position. In the mean- while the working class is starving from hunger. Largo Caballero, the secretary of the General Union of Workers is state counsellor, To end this serious working crisis the Communist Party and the minority movement have on various occasions proposed to workers’ organizations and parties to form a united front in order to defend the rights of the un- employed. These appeals have never been listened to. Neither socialists nor anarchists have ever manifested any desire to really work for the working class, Rivera Has Easy Time. And this is exactly why the govern- ment can practically push thru all workers’ aims.. No opposition will be awakened by the leading elements of the workers’ organizations, The only ones who opposed a serious resistance to Primo de Rivera's government have been the Communists, who have been ordered dissolved and their leaders imprisoned. Communiste Working. In spite of the government's perse- cutions, the campaign for trade union movement's unity, undertaken by the Communist Party, tho very slowly, is gaining the workers’ favor, Da Antorcha, the Communist or- gan, is weekly publishing a new jst of adhesions to trade union unity. If this campaign does not have an open success it is because of the im- possibility of public propaganda, but in working sections it has gained num- erous partisans. » MEXICAN UNIONS MAY USE GENERAL STRIKE ON INJUNCTION JUDGE MEXICO CITY, Oct. 21. — The Confederacion Regional Obrera Mex- icana, or Mexican Federation of La- bor, Is arranging a great parade in this clty to dramatize its demand for the removal of District Court Judge Conto, who has granted sev- eral Injunctions and declared strikes illegal. If the demonsttation does not do the work, the unlons will consider calling a general strike In Mexico City -te enforce the injunction Williams Defeated at Labor Party Congress; ‘Miners on War Basis LONDON, Oct, 21.—While the right wing of MacDonald and company still ruled the Labor Party conference, the left wing showed a strong front against the policy of truckling to cap- italist forms and put up a bitter fight against the enemies of the miners in labor's ranks. One unexpected result was the de- feat of Robert Williams, chairman, for re-election, and his defeat is charged to his presidential address in which he advocated reactionary views and attacked the striking miners. The miners’ executive now calls it- self the “council of war” and is tak- ing action tp put into effect the meas- ures adopted to intensify the strike, particularly by calling out the safety men, GEORGE V CONTINUES MARTIAL LAW AGAINST COAL MINERS’ STRIKE LONDON, Oct. .21—The king to- day issued a proclamation continu- ing the state of, emergency for an- years in the nitrate district as active inion organizer and agitator. There wre six Communist deputies in the ower house, BERT Director Wi OLFE " School other month, due to the coal strike, Parliament has been summoned to meet October 256 to approve the proclamation. Symposium on the British Miners’ Strike and Its Relati ~ October 25th 8:15 P.M. ¥ Herriot’s Party to Follow Poincare on Stabilization Plan BORDEAUX, France, October 21— Edouard Herriot, for many years head of the so-called “radical” party, has re- signed from that post and Maurice Sarraut has been elected in his place by the party conference, The conference, however, decided to go along with Herriot on supporting the Poincare cabinet on questions im- mediately affecting stabilization of the franc and his reactionary economic Program of laying the heaviest bdur- den of taxation on the working class. The conference approved the ratifi- cation of the Mellon-Berenger debt agreement, but with reservations re- specting safeguard and transfer clauses. New York Engineers Engaged by Soviet For Donetz Mines MOSCOW, Oct. 21.—Announcement is made that the Soviet government has appointed a New York engineer to take charge of the Donetz coal mines and reorganize them on Amer- ican standards. The engineer is Charles E. Stuart of the firm of Stuart, Hames, and Cook. Stuart is confident that he will be able to convince the government to install American machinery in the mines, which will mean an expendit- ure of between $50,000,000 and $76,000,000 ultimately, 2,000,000 Workers in Mexican Federation of Labor, Trevino States MEXICO CITY.—(FP)—The Mex- ican Federation of Labor, according to Secretary Ricardo Trevino, has 2,000,- 000 industrial and farm members, or- ganized into 2,200 industrial and 2,700 rural branches, Trevino, who is also a labor mem- ber of the Mexican congr was one of the fraternal delegates to the re- cent Detroit convention of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. 67th LEWIS S, GANNETT Associate Editor of the Nation Auspices: Local New York International Workers’ Aid | ALASKAN FILTH LAID TO CAL'S JUDGES THERE WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — Basil M. Manly, in the current issue of The People’s Business, digs up again the story of judicial rottenness in Alaska as disclosed in the he: ngs last win- ter on the renomination of Federal Judges Reid and Ritchie and District Attorney Shoup, The lames were finally withdrawn by President Coolidge when the senate judiciary committee refused to ap- prove them. The salmon packing trust is the big financial interest to which these officals cater, and Coolidge stil! keeps them in power despite the fact that they were condemned last spring, Alaska Is Vice Center. Methodist clergy and social worké ers in all parts of the country report to their central board in Washington, but of all the reports coming to Clar- ence True Wilson,’general secretary of the Methodist be he testified be- fore the senate committee, none com- pare in horror with the reports ot vice in Alaska. Not even in China or Afri- ca, he testified, are conditions so bad as there. “Gentlemen,” he concluded, “there is no place that you will ever put your finger on that needs a moral cleansing like they do up in Alaska, and & can- not be done with the present judges, marshals and neys.” Cheap Asiatic labor is brought to the fishing waters by the salmon trust fleet. Venereal disease is unchecked, and the local grand jury at Valdez declared that this condition gravely menaces the food supply handled by the men, Drug addicts and drug ped- diarg are reported by the grand jury to “find their way up to the canneries and the fishing grounds through the cannery help. In many instances, foremen of Chinese cre handle nar- cotics and dispense them.” United States attor- Representati traham of Illinois, republican, now a federal judge, in a report on the rotten salmon furnished the soldiers in 1917-18, said: “The can- ners who packed it knowing that it was intended to be eaten by our sol- diers should have peen brought before 4 firing squad; that would have been on tothe World Labor Movement Central Opera House WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROW iT. & 3rd AVE. a niild way of dealing with them. But the war department, knowing the fact, did not even ask that they be pros- ecuted under the available criminal jaws.” WHITHER RUSSIA— Toward Capitalism or Sociatlem— by Leon Trotsky An extraordinarily timely discussion of the tendencies in Russia's internal and international policy ‘as affecting its economic development. 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