The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1926, Page 3

MINISTER URGES RECOGNITION OF |: SOVIET REPUBLIC Tells How Opposition Was Transformed By SID BUSH (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS. ANGELES, Cal., Oct, 25.—Rev. Oxnam, one of the American delega- tion of 24 who have just returned from Soviet Russia, spoke at the open forum of the Civil Liberties Union at Music Arts Hall to a large audience, After reciting what he shad seen in that immense country he urged that the American government recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics. Thunderous applause greeted Mr, Oxnam’s statement that the en- tire American delegation unanimously recommends that Soviet Russia be recognized by the United States. ~ Opposed ‘Themselves, The American delegation, which ‘was composed of persons of varied fdeas, opinions and interests, but unanimous on one point, that is: all were and are opposed to the Oom- munist movement, went to. Soviet \Russia to ascertain the exact condi- tions obtaining in that country. And with all the propaganda against Soviet Russia thruout the world, with the staunch opposition of the dele- gates themselves against the Soviets, the facts, the actual conditions’ exist- ing in contradistinction to the les spread the world over, convinced the American delegation to unanimously recommend to the president and con- gress of the United States to recog- mjze Soviet Russia. Many Angles. Rev, Oxnam’s speech dealth with re- Yigion, foreign policy, education and the practical program in operation at the present time in Soviet Russia. Such statements as “priests are con- sidered parasites and are therefore disfranchised,” and “tho there is ab- solute religious freedom in Soviet Russia yet there are no young people in the churches,” were greeted with enthusiastic applause, “The foreign policy of Soviet Rus- ia is most interesting and most in- jetructive to the whole world,” said ‘Mr. Oxnam. “It is a policy. which is welding together 140,000,000 of Rus- wBians with 400,000,000 Chinese, hun- reds of million of British East In- @ians and Japanese. The imperialist gations must either fall in line with Russia's foreign policy or face a com- ‘ination of Russia, China, Japan and ast India.” What Kirby Page Found. In an article that appeared in'The}~ @pen Forum, a weekly issued by the ‘American, Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Mr. Kirby Page, nother delegate ofthe group of 24, states that: “During the three weeks ef our stay in Russia we moved about with complete freedom and at no time felt_a sense of insecurity. . We visited factories, laboratories, stores, hospitals, rest homes, churches, libra- ries, kindergartens, schools, prisons, museums, art galleries and numerous other places of interest. . . . My frst impression is one of amazement at the magnitude of the economic anf industrial achievement of the Bolshe- vihs during the past five years. Both in industry and in agriculture, the pre-war level of production is now being approached, if not actually equalled, and present tendencies are upward. . . . Wherever one goes in Russia there is striking evidence of the releasing of life on a vast scale. _Myiltitudes of people who formerly were driven like dumb cattle by tyran- nous government officials and grasp- ing industrialists and landlords now feel a new sense of freedom and pos- sess new vitality.” BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB. A Splendid New Book— THE PEASANT WAR IN GERMANY— By Friedrich Engels ' Translation by MOISSAYE OLGIN ERD is a splendid work that is now available to American readers, A study of the peasant revolts and their relation to the reformation, The contrasting fig- ures of Thomas Muenzer, rebel leader and Martin Luther. Here is history written by a great writer and thinker presented in most interesting form for every worker, . ‘ Just Off The Press Cloth $1.50 Read Also These New Publications LEFT WING UNIONISM— By D, J, Saposs Cloth $1.60 SELECTED ESSAYS— By Karl Marx Cloth $1.76 MARXIAN ECONOMIC ‘Cloth $3.28 ra mmr a PN TI OUR AUSTRALIAN LABOR LETTER By J. RYAN-SYDNEY. HE Commonwealth Arbitration Court, which is to decide whether the| workers of the whole of Australia shall work 44 or 48 hours per week, hae shifted from Melbourne to Sydney. The court has already been sitting for one month, yet the employers’ representatives have not finished giving their evidence, They are attempting to prove that the workers will do more work in 44 hours than they do in 48, -| If our representatives can prove that, it is presumed that the class conscious (£3000 @ year) judges will accede to the request, Industrial Union the Need. The Communists are pointing out that the best evidence to use in the arbitration court is a well-organized industrial union with a kick in it. However, the case is likely to go on until Christmas before any finality is reached, The Queensland, South Australian, Western Australian and N, S. W. gov- ernments are supporting the applica- tion for the 44-hour week. The Tas- manian government is very half-heart- ed. All of the above are labor govern. ments, yet only the Queensland and N. 8S, W. governments have made the 44-hour week law in their own states. A Break In Labor Party. Much interest has been caused by the Tradés and Labor Council in Bria- bane calling a conference of unions for the purpose of fotming an indus- trial labor party. They say that the labor party in Queensland is develop ing more and more into a middle-class party, and it no longer represents the true interests of the trade union move- ment, (As a matter of fact, it never did.) The last straw was when the Quéensland politicians raised their own salaries £5 per week, and their nominees on the board of trade re- fused to raise the basic wage of the workers from £4 5s to £4 15s per week, is Economists Oppose. The Communist Party is not sup- porting the breakaway move. It be- lieves that if there is any splitting to be done in the movement it should be the reactionary politicians who are spli e2.and driven into the camp of the boss, where they would be now, only that the boss finds them more serviceable where they are. There is a ballot in progress for the MARIE TALKS TURKEY WITH STEEL BOSSES Her ‘Golddigging’ Has} Started in Earnest (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Light on the real reason that Queen Marie is in America was reflected, it is believed here, from the fact that she is spend- ing so much of her time with Ameri- can capitalists, especially those of steel and oil. There is much speculation as to what occurred at a “private party” at the home of Elbert H. Gary, steel magnate, which was staged for the queen. No newspaper reporters were allowed at this meeting. It is be lieved that more was discussed there than the queen’s “passionate love for you Americans.” Makes Plenty of Hints. At the banquet of the steel mag- nates Friday Marie made some pretty pertinent hints as to her real mission here. In stréssing her desire that “a great friendship should exist between Roumania and the United States” she was” very careful to state that “my country is weak, and that you Ameri- cans have much money,” In a feeble effort to cover up, she said: “As a woman I cannot talk money, business, and steel. My mis; sion Is peace. But what I can do for my country is to make poe know that it exists.” Marie is not ohly on a “gold-dig- ging” tour for her “beloved” country, but she is also digging for herself. It is reported that she received fat sums from the Radio Corporation of America for broadcasting, and trom a New York ice company for talking over radio under its auspices. She has received many gifts, including $3,000 from the Equitable Trust Com- pany for “expenses,” a typewriter, gold wrist watch, etc. “ee Minneapolis Won't Bow, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 25.—An effort to make the city fathers here bow down to the queen of Roumania when she comes here failed when members of the city counoll refused to pass & resolution providing for a “royal welcome,” “The queen is nothing but an inter- national gold-digger, She has sold her rights to say what she has to say to a newspaper syndicate, She has sold her name to manufacturers of cold cream and other greasing, and she is bumming her way across the country,” Illinois Plutes Join in Bowing to Monarch NEW YORK, Oot, 26,—Mrs, Arthur EE official positions in the Seamen's Union, The final figures are not avail- able yet, but it looks like Johnson winning the general secretaryship and *Valsh the general presidency, Should this occur there is bound to be more disruption in the union. Walsh and Johnson openly hate each other, and lose no opportunity of blackening each other’s character, The Communists support~ Johnson because Walsh has developed into a hopeless reactionary and opportunist, and so has his wife, who used to be Adela Pankhurst, but we do wish that Jacob Johnson was not such a thick- headed sectarian, He imagines that everyone not in the Seamen’s Union is a scab. By taking up that attitude he antagonizes the other transport unions and so causes disruptions, Building Unions Amaigamate. The craft unions in the building in- dustry are pulling together fairly well in Sydney, also in Brisbane. There seems to be a definite move towards one union in that industry, A ballot on the question of one union in the building industry was carried in the affirmative in Brisbane recently, and the Sydney unigns have employed an organizer to organize the contry building workers on industrial lines. The referendum proposals that I mentioned some time ago were hope- lessly defeated. These proposals were very complicated and were not very well understood by the people, but they voted them out, probably because of distrust for the Brice government. The Labor Council in Sydney is alive to the importance of the situa- tion in China, and has issued several thousand leaflets supporting the na- tional revolution against imperialism. IIR Si = PRILY WORKER FIREWORKS ARE EXPECTED AT EMPIRE MEET Ireland, Binih Attica Ex- pected to Explode (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Oct. 25.—In a three-hour speech Sir Austen Chamberlain, for- eign secretary, gave the delegates to the imperial donterence a bird’s eye view of the diplomatic maneuvers and intrigues that the British govern- ment is engaged in with other coun- tries, or at least as much as the sec- retary thot the delegates should know. Sir Austen insisted that Great Brit- ain must keep the most complete con- trol in Egypt, India, and of the Medit- erranean, in view of the Italian ambi- tion to make the Mediterranean an Italian lake. Bruce Replies to Hertzog. At a dinner given to the dominion premiers. by ythe Empire Press Union tonight, Premier Bruce of Australia spoke of acts, which might lead to the disintegration, of the British Empire in a way that made it impossible not to sense a. veiled reply to General Hertzog’s claim for “independent ne- tionhood” for South Africa, “If any man,” with great emphasis, “is going to sug- ges that we-should now take some action which might lead to the disin- tegration of the empire, then for Aus- tralia we say we are going to have nothing to do with it. When it comes to the question of the empire and the British people against any other na- tion in the world we are determined we are going to be one,” Irish Bombshell, More disturbing than Gen, Hert- zog's declaration is the bombshell that the Irish delegation has in store. I understand a'complaint will be made by President Cosgrave in secret ses- sion that when Ireland tried to get a seat in the»council of the league of nations at Geneva recently her effort By MARK STARR, (Special to The Daily Worker) LENINGRAD.—Among the four hundred delegates in attendance at the sixth congress of Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (3, A. T.) held re- cently here there was diversity in everything but speech. Shaven heads were in contrast with flowing locks; unshaven chins and flowing beards; tall men wearing sandals argued with short men wearing shiny boots—in all, one hundred and sixty-four work- ing men and women from -fourteen outside countries met the two hundred and fifty representatives of the far- said Premier Bruce} flung areas of the U. S, S. R.; and conversed freely without the help of interpreters, The contrast between the Old and the New Russia was most noticeable in the reception given to the dele- gates at this Workers’ Esperantist international, The czarist government, in 1895, suppressed the first Esperanto journal in Russia, but the Soviet gov- ernment has issued a special com- memoration postage stamp. Lunacharski, as honorary president of "the congress, sent a message of greeting in which he recognized Hs- peranto to be “extending with irre- the most serious phenomena in pre- sent-day public life.” This message, with many others from scientific, ed- ucational, and industrial bodies, was read in the Uritsky Palace—where the |Duma once sat and the Comintern |was founded. Here the S. A, T, con- gress was formally opened with | bands and banners and speeches of | welcome. Day by day, during the con- |gress, the Leningrad “Pravda” issued a special Esperanto section, and re- printed the letter written by A. J. Cook to thank the Soviet workers for their support. Incidentally, the same letter was broadcasted at Leningrad, Moscow, and Kharkov, . In the Labor Palace of the Lenin- grad trade unions the congress settled down to its work of harnessing Es- peranto in the service of the working- class, Queen Rolls in Luxury in New York ae Above is shown the Queen of Roumania being shown around the city by plugged hat members of her “recep- tlon committee,” while below is a view of her costly nty-six room suite in the Ambassador Hotel, Manhattan's finest of which every room Is furnished In the mos “expensive antique furniture. The bed in which the queen sleeps Ie. worth $50,000 while the table on which the foyal party dines is valued at $30,000, These two sums alone would feed an entire province of starving Bessarabian peasants. KAISER CONFIDENT HE GAN RETURN TO CASTLE; CATHOLICS SUPPORT HIM (Special to The Dally Worker) RLIN, Oct, 28.—The former kaleer Ig confident that he will be able to return to Germany despite protests of most of the citizens, it Ie sald, as his pofitical agents an- nounce a joop-hole has been found In the lawe barring him, The law barring him expires on June 1, 1927, and cannot be re-enhoted except by epeolal decision of the national counel| and the relohsta The monarch has many agents working here exploiting the expiray tlon of the law, In an effort to bring about favorable opinion. The demo- orate arid socialists insist that the ‘be ‘removed In order that he ‘ebthe back, but the catholic le leaning toward the monarohists, and their support Is necessary, “ “ \ ‘ was blocked by Sir Austen Chamber- lain and the seat given to Czecho- Slovakia by a'@eal between Chamber- lain and Foreign Minister Briand of France, uit The Irish allege that the Bnglish foreign secretaty told M, Briand the Irish claim was" not endorsed by the British delegation, whereupon M, Briand explained {t would be difficult to avold electing Ireland for one year as she asked, since no important power would consent to take a one- year seat, Keeping Irish Out of League. M, Brland, ac ing to the Irish, then persuaded Slr Austen to back the Ozeqh delegate, Dr, Benes, to keep tro. land offthe counell and to avold the scandal of the Britlsh Empire having two seats, The result was another French ally got om the council) in ad dition to Poland, Roumanta and Bel- glum, “The pen’ la cmightler “than the sword,” provided know how to use it, Come down and learn how In the worker correspondent’s classes, Nicaraguan Dictator Forces Road Workers to Slave Without Pay WASHINGTON, Oct, 26,—General Emiliano Chamorro, military dictator of Nicaragua, has established in that country the system of forced unpaid labor on public roads known as the corvee, He has caused his congre: to enact a law which requires all m inhabitants of 18 years or over to con- tribute to the construction and main- tenance of highways, Since very few can pay in money, the great majority are forced to work out the “tax” under military guard, This system was established tn Heuador two years ago, and from time to time has been employed by dicta- tors in Peru, Venezuola, Haiti and other Latin-American countries, We will send sample. copies of The DAILY WORKBR to your friendsa—send us nome and ad- y [orem Esperantist Congréss in Leningrad sistible force” and becoming “one 0: An increasing circulation of the weekly “Sennactulo” was re- ported, and a number of important literary and scientific works have been issued during the year including a small useful guide to Soviet Russia. In view of the extensive use of Esperanto by worker correspondents of labor journals, steps were taken to set up a regular press service. The propaganda and instruction of the international language in schools and workers’ clubs and its application to radio were profitably discussed. Lec- tures were given on the economic position of the U. S. 8S. R. and its social institutions, and the oultural work of the Red Army in the villages tully explained. Visits to workers’ clubs, rest houses, and children’s colo- fiies and excursions to factories and workers’ sports festivals filled up the program, The delegates enjoyed a special presentation of the film “Po- temkin.” . The British delegates were over- whelmed by queries concerning the miners’ struggle, which revealed the keen interest taken, and the little brass lamps on sale became souven- irs of solidarity to be carried back into the distant home countries of the delegates. More and more Hs- peranto is passing into practical use as an important aid to working class unity, and 8, A. T. and its successful congress demonstrated its advance in that direction. Jimmie’s Wife Queen in Germany. HAMBURG, Oct. 25.—Mrs. James J, Walker, wife of New York’s mayor, gave a champagne shower bath to a dozen of Germany’s leading citizens when she christened the Hamburg American liner which has just been completed here. Mrs, Walker swung the precious bottle lustily, it cracked with a bang against the steel side of the ship, and the surrounding high silk hats were drenched with the spray, Your nefghbor will appreciate the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. NEW ARRESTS OF TOILERS IN LAND OF QUEEN MARIE Roumanian Police Make Drive on Trade Unions BUCHAREST, Oct. 25—The Buchar- est police arrested the workers, Neuu- mann, Taube and Nerzekovici, who distributed legal leaflets of the trade unions. Neumann was deported from Roumania, Taube was released from prison after three days of tortures and Herzekovicl was given to the mili- tary court after serious maltreatment, in which also an employer partici- pated. Similar arbitrary acts are cago from Poeshani, Ploesti, Galatz other towns. In Aarad the Siguranza arrested forty workers who were candidates on the list of the workers’ and peasants’ bloc. The workers were arrested only after the election had taken place, Shooting in the Jilava Prison. CONSTANZA, Roumania, Oct. 25.— The political prisoners of Jilava have addressed a request to the second army corps demanding that the shoot- ing in the prison is ceased. The com- mander answered: “It concerns no- body when shooting takes place inside the prison.” Boris Stefanov is still imprisoned in Jilava. He is in soli- tary confinement and r treated with great cruelty, . Oe Brutal Police Officials, DRENNA, Oct. 25.—The Roumanian press reports the beastly action of a Dolice agent, Petru Achim, who was instructed to find out the thieves in a small case. On the market place he arrested three women, took them to a remote place and raped them one after the other. The oldest of the women ‘is 52 years old and mother of three children, The women have taken proceedings. The police agent was arrested, but there is not much hope that anything will happen to him, Le ed KLAUSENBURG, Roumania, Oct, 26. —The congress of the Unitarian Tim- ber Workers’ Union, which was called to Klausenburg, had been allowed by the authorities, Numerous delegates from all parts of Roumania have ar- ved in Klausenburg, However, in the last moment the police changed its mind, prohibited the congress and deported all delegates who had ar- rived as representatives of foreign trade unions, KING I8 PEEVED AT RAZZING OF MARIE, TELL@ HER TO RETURN, (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct, 25.—King Ferdi- nand of Roumania, taking excep- tlons to American criticisms of Queen Marie's tour, has cabled to her suggesting that she return home Immediately, according to a Vienna dispatch received here. Reports of the queen’s Iilness are connected here with the cablegram. The king declares the “dignity of the dynasty” le threatened by the exposure of the queen to oritiolem. Page Three TROTSKY RIGHT ABOUT ENGLAND, NEARING THINKS Estinention in: “Whither England” Correct By SCOTT NEARING, Fed. Press. Leon Trotsky recently wrote a book to prove an argum: nt which ran some- thing like this: “ ain cannot make the transition from capitalism to so- cialism by constitutional moans; her labor leaders are h lessly constitu- tional; therefore a new labor leader. ship is imperatively needed,” When the book (Whither England?) appeared MacDonald and other re sponsible leaders of the British labor movement punched it full ef logical holes. But in the meantime a'greater than MacDonald arose in the form of the general s ke. What MacDonald and his followers denied as @ matter of logic the general strike and its following events demonstrated as a matter of experience. Nowhere has this demonstration been more evident than in the trade union movement. Pres. Pugh came to the Bourne- mouth Trades Union congress Sept. 6, 1926, with the assertion that the supreme lesson of the strike was its demonstration of the faith of the Brit- ish workers in the methods of democ- racy. “When the unions combined: their forces last May,” Pugh asserted, “they were not invoking any new prihectple of industrial ‘action, but simply ae- serting more effectively on a larger scdle the traditional trado union re- fusal to accept dictated terms of em- ployment whether from the employers or the government.” This was the attitude Pugh sezumed throughout the Trades Union con- gress sessions, at Bournemouth. It was the official attitude of the mem- bers of the goneral counctl. Demoe- racy, trade unionism, to them “was, is and shall be.’ Massos of British workers are tn a quite different frame of mind. If they learnod anything during the general strike and the miners’ lockout, it was tho lesson of dictatorship. No sooner was tho strike seriously threatening than the government called into being the emorgency powers act; declared a dictatorship over the economic and Political life of the country; suspend- ed all the ordinary guarantecs of free speech and free press, and used the police, the army and the navy in its efforts at strikebreaking, The general strike was the signal for the government and the employers to combine to crush the organizations of the labor. movement: Pres. Pugh said this in his presi. dential address, but when it came to the interpretation of the event ho in- sisted that the supreme lesson of the strike was the lesson in democrate methods. But Trotsky was plainly right. Brit- ain will not proceed to the social transformation through the channels of democratic action. , During the crisis just passed she had a dictator- ship. Sho will have other dictator- ships for the crises that impend. Meanwhile her labor leaders, refus- ing to build on experience, continue to repeat the phrases thoy learned in the days before the world war, rience into a program of successful leaving it to a new generation of fight- ers to convert the recent labor expe- labor action, American Ogre Casts Evil Eye on Canada By C. McKAY, Federated Press. MONTREAL — (FP) — Numerous Amerjcan exploring parties have been traversing the wilds of Canada this summer, and more numerous parties of American engineors and technicians havo been utilizing tourist trips to look over the industries and opportn- nities in the more settled parts, This gives rise to the belief in some quar- ters that Americans are preparing an accelerated flood of capital into Can- ada when the American investor be- omes wary of investment in Europe. During the war and for some years after American capital invaded Can- ada in great stream, but sin¢e the funding of the British war debt and the Dawes plan gavo the international bankers opportunity to invite Ameri- can investments in Europe there has been a decline in the influx to Canada, Since the war 5 or 6 billions of Amer- ican capital have been loaned in Europe, in addition to, loans of 10 billions on account of the war. Euro- pean payments to the United States have been practically confined to the British payments on war debt, some- thing over $100,000,000. Already_an American economist has practically declared that Europo has been playing the Americans for the biggest suckers in history, and warned that in the not unlikely event of an- other European war or Communist revolutions it will be impossible for America to collect the principal of government or private loans, The time may not be distant when Ameri- cans are likely to become shy of risking money in Europe. Them the American capitalists will turn their eyes to Canada, for it will be difficult to find in their’ own country employ- ment for the new capital generated every year. Why not @ small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regulan ly to take fo your trade ynieg nsgting? oe