The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1926, Page 3

\ | EE CANTONESE SYMPATHIZERS STORM SHANGHAI CONSTABULARY STATION SHANGHAI, Oct. 27-—Dally the Canton sympathizers in Shanghal are organizing to wregt the city from the reactionaries before reinforcements un Chuan-fang’s adherents hope to get from the north, may arrive to contest “the coming advance of the regular Canton armies, Sunday about a thousand Canton sympathizers, including 100 women, at- tempted to capture the West Gate constabulary station by storm. They were driven off only after herolc fighting, in which the bravery of the’ Cantonese was demonstrated in their facing of the excessive brutality of the con- Phe foreign settlement and the native city is being guarded and all authorities merciless shooting. The boundary betweenstabulary, who retaliated with tre alarmed. ie BALDWIN DEPENDS ON STARVATION 10 WHIP COAL MINE STRIKERS LONDON, Oct. 27—The British govérnment has no roposals to make at this time for the. settle- ment of the coal strike, Premier Baldwin deolared in the house of commons this evening, after J. R. Clynes, labor leader, and David Lloyd George, liberal leader, had pleaded that the government Inter- vene to end the strike. “The leadership of the miners hag been lamentably Incompetent,” said the premier In-reply. “The govern- ment proposals have been rejected and we have no further proposals to make,” This indicates that the govern- ment backs the mine owners in an attempt to starve the miners into surrender. Vienna Pathologist Says White Plague Germ Is Immunized DANVILLE, Ul, Oe. 27.—Bringing good news to battlers against tubercu- losis, Dr. Ernest Lowenstein, ‘noted pathologist of Vienna, Austria, was the outstanding speaker at the seven- teenth annual convention of the IIli- nois Tuberculosis and Public Health Association here today. He declared that the dreaded white plague now was virtually immunized. We will send sample copies of The, DAILY WORKER to your friends— send us name and address. ‘Weekly International Review-- a GE BANKERS, THE DEBT AND THE TARIFF. HE manifesto of the bankers of the world, headed by J.. P. Morgan, Montagu Norman of England and Hjal- mar Schacht of Germany, calling for the breaking down of the tariff walls of all nations, is one of the most sig- nificant documents and events since the ending of the world war, and another step towards the liquidation of the Versailles treaty. The statement which has stirred up stich a hornets’ nest and which has not, of course, any immediate pros- pects of adoption by the governments of the world, is an attempt primarily ot Anglo-Saxon, and chiefly American, financiers to establish more widely and certainly their hegemony over the countries of Burope and to secure the payment of the debts which, with the impending collapse of the Dawes plan, is becoming more and more remote, HE proposals of the manifesto, it adopted, would have far greater results than are hoped for by the American bankers who signed them, If carried to their logical conclusion, these proposals would lead towards a strong basis for a United States of ' Europe, having its beginning in a cus- toms union, which would be directed not only against the colonial peoples and the Soviet Union, but also against the United States as a creditor nation, They -would lead inevitably towards the lowering of American tariff walls, which must result in throwing Ameri- can ‘industry into direct competition with European industry, with the con- comitant low wages, long hours, and “guper-efficiency” system upon which German industry, for example, is be- ing rehabilitated for participation in “the world market. The revolutionary ‘implications of such a development especially for the American picmianaaek class, are almost incalculable, U hope daring proposals made by the international bankers are based on 4 critical situation which they are fac- ing in Europe, x ie consider Germany—since around Germany now revolve the financia) an@ political fortunes of other Euro- pein powers, Gernfan industry has, in the past couple of Dawes years, made an almost’ phenomenal comeback, at the expense of terrific hardships which the workers had to endwe thru the rationalization, sowalled, of industry, ‘The rigid application of economy in _ production, intensification of exploita- | ' ton, have enabled Germany once more to take her place among the other great nations. Given a number of fa- vorable conditions and circumstances, sho has even risen to the position of being the first among steel it half of 926, as position of seventh “age | A Spanish Dictator for Lower Tariff to Help Manufacturing Trade MADRID, Oct. 27.—Dictator Primo de Rivera, who is now at Barcelona, fas announced that he favors a change in the tariff so that Spanish heavy machinery industry, which can- not compete with similar foreign ma- chinery, will no longer get tariff pro- tection, His idea is that cheap foreign ma- chinery will enable other industries of Spain to obtain an advantage in cheap- ened products, particularly the textile industry of Barcelona. This industry is now in a deep crisis and de Rivera hopes to gain political support from ythe usually enemica] Catalonians, be- cause of his proposal, On the other hand, he is due for a serious quarrel with the manufactur- ers of the heavy metal industry. ‘Peaches’ Was Cruel to Him, ‘Sweet Papa’ Declares in Suit POUGHKEEPSIE, N. ¥., Oct. 27— Five days after they were married last April, his girl-bride “Peaches” re- fused to live with him as man and wife, Edward W. Browning, million- aire realtor, charged in the complaint in the action for a separation which he has brought against her. The complaint was filed today in the Putnam’s county clerk's office and also served on “Peaches”. In his complaint, Browning also charged that “Peaches” treated him in a “cruel and inhuman manner.” Counsel for “Peaches” have 18 days in which to answer the complaint. showed an export surplus of over 544,- 000.000 marks. Surely a bright’ ‘pic- ‘ture which augurs well for the regular remittance of the Dawes payments! But there is another side to the pic- ture. A great deal of the export sur- plus is attributable to the British coal strike, during which Germany has shipped millions of tons to Britain, reaching an unprecedentedly high point. Furthermore, imports have de- clined owing to a certain stagnation of manufacturing which left the home market saturated with foreign raw and half-finished materials. The monthly review of the Guaranty Trust Company predicts a passive balance of trade for the last half of 1926. i hoa bourgeois economist, John May- nard Keynes, shows, in addition, that Germany has borrowed on the in- ternational loan market between Sep- tember 1, 1924, and June 30,/1926, a total of $844,500,000, including the $200,000,000 of the Dawes loan. Dur- ing the same period the transfer com- mission has transferred, in one way or another, some $485,000,000, If the discounts, the expenses of issue, the repayments made on foreign indebted- ness of previous periods are taken from the $844,500,000 it will be found that the loans have about equalled the payments in the period mentioned, This means that only figures have been exchanged on paper, but that lit- tle real money has been transferred and that the interest on foreign loans, averaging 7% per cent, must still be paid. And the interest on the debts incurred by Germany in the past two years comes to about $50,000,000 dol- lars per annum, B Splse this staggering burden must be borne by a nation which has man- aged by a purely accidental combina- tion of circymstances to secure an active balance of trade which will, however, soon become a passive bal- ance of trade. It is obvious that if '|Germany is to pay her debts and the interest upon them to the bankers of America and Great Britain (the first six months of 1926 have seen Ameri- can loans to German cprporations, lone amounting to $107,420,000) her reign trade must be tremendously increased. And upon an active export balance for Germany also depends a ate deal of the debt-paying ability of ce, Belgium and England. As the bankers’ appeal says: “There can be no recovery in Europe till poll- ticlans in all territories, old and new, realize that trade fs not war but a process of exchange that in time of peace our neighbors are our custom: ers and that their property is a con- dition of our own well being, check their dealings, their power to pay their debts diminishes and their Dower to purchase our goods is re- duced,” is In consideration of such & con- —_—_—_—[~DCLK§}§$;<KXE:?— ES MEXICO HAS NOT |omeni INTERFERED IN NICARAGUA FIGHT Chamorro Resigns, Puts in Reactionary The Mexican government has taken no steps to interfere with the situa- tion in Nicaragua, it was stated at the Chicago Mexican ‘consulate Tuesday, in reply to charges of the United States department of state that the government was giving aid to the revolutionists, Vice-Consul Amador here declared that his office was in receipt of a bul- letin declaring the Mexican govern- ment had nothing to do with the Nic- araguan affair, Kellogg Threatens. “pros T terprets the manifesto as primarily addressed to the United States, which ‘the creditor of the rest of the worli Secretary of State Kellogg, accord- ing to press dispatches, had sent a note to the American minister.at Gua- temala, asking kim to inform Senor Sacasa, liberal leader, that “the Uni- ted States will not stand for him to accept aid from Mexico in his rebel- lion,” The Washington government, he was informed, is determined to pre- vent any outside interference in Cen- tral American affairs. s+ 8 CCORINTO, Nicaragua, Oct. 27, — President Chamorro is scheduled to resign the presidency this week, and will appoint Adolfo Diaz chief execu- tive, His last acts are to prepare military plans in a last attempt to wipe out the liberals. The constitutional convention is to be held soon, after which the presiden- tial election will be held, At the peace conference between the Mberals-and the Chamorroites the liberals walked out, demanding that Sacasa be appointed president? There is no sign of the liberals weakening in their opposition to the administra- tion of Chamorro, Editor Injured, DANVILLE, Ill, Oct 27.—Believed j of that country. to be injured internally, Thomas A. Clifton, editor of the Covington Re- publican, Covington, Ind., isein a hos- pital here as the result of a plunge down the elevator shaft of the Repub- Mean office. His right arm was broken, graphic map in the Bank of England showing that the height of tariffs in Great Britain was 6 per cent, in Por- tugal 8 per cent, in France 13 per cent, in Austria 16 per cent, in Czecho- Slovakia 21 per cent, in Hungary 27 per cent, and in Spain 35 per cent. HIS movement for the abolition of at least high tariffs is no mere bankers’ dream, for it has already taken some shape. The second meet ing of the central European traffic conference, of which a number of the signatories to the manifesto are mem- bers, met in Vienna a few weeks ago and was opened by Richard Reisch, president of the Australian National Bank. The representatives of Aus- trian, Polish, Italian, Hungarian, Czecho-Slovakian, Jugo-Slavian and Roumanian state and private under- takings who were present condemned high tariffs and urged a uniformity of interstate railway regulations. The council of the international chamber of commerce meeting in Paris voted intg consideration as a policy of the I, C. C. the abolition, or at least the reduction of tariff bar riers, And there is no gainsaying the fact that the movement for a Pan- Europa, a United States of Europe, is becoming more popular eevry day, de- spite the weakness of the Pan-Eyro- pean congress held in Vienna two months ago under the direction of the indefatigable Count Coudenhove-Ka- lergi. § kes removal of tariff frontiers, it is true, will enable the strong, indus- trially developed powers to increase their domination of the smaller na- tions of Europe. It will undoubtedly increase the determined spread of ‘Wall Street’s hegemony in Europe, its deeper financial penetration. But the inexorable logic of events and actions will also sharpen the contradictions which aré tearing the vitals of world imperialism, and it will affect even the proud and apparently secure American imperialist bourgeoisie more profoundly perhaps than any other event since the world war. Senator Borah is undoubtedly cor- rect when he says that the bankers’ proposal “to repeal all tariff laws . . . would , , . augment the value of foreign investments,” would place the nine billions of private investments first on the agenda’ of Europe before the eleven millions which Europe owes the U, S. government, but he tells only half of the story. The call for the abotition of tariff walls is di- rected not alone to Europe, but also to America, despite all the denials which fools and hypocrites may make. ‘The denials that: America is involved merely affords a formal basis for Coo- lidge and Mellon to make a volte face in their opposition by declaring that “we” are not included among the na- tions whose high tariff walls menace ity, rehabilitation and peace,” 1-official French Temps in- 1s protectionist par excellence, and Ww can Europe's debts: be THE DAILY WORKER OF WORLD STILL NEED TO" FIGHT FOR RIGHTS, OLD TIMER IN SUFFRAGE WARS SAYS IN CHICAGO (By Federated Press.) Women still have far to go to achieve equal opportunity and equal legal standing with men, says Alice Park, old-time suffrage worker and sex equali- tarian of California. She stopped in Chicago on the last lap of atrip around | the world. She did not visit Russia where women are freer and better cared | for by socia] legislation than anywhere else in the world, but she did observe F the level of her sex in Japan, China, the Shik asia Burma and west | ern Europe. + + “In every country I visited,” Park | under 30 years are similarly deprived | | declares, “the people who live there |in England, a Lpdenlry toward equal righte! «4 survey of my findings leads to | or women “and report also the great|the conclusion that progress is being | need of ‘immediate: further progress. | made, My ‘colleagues and I-in the’| In Japan the national organizations of women’s: pa re trying to speed it Women working for suffrage, temper-/11) in the United States, as are our | ance, detention homes for girls and globe.” | elimination of prostitution are ‘co- operating, using the same building in ‘Tokio for their national headquarters. On the other hand, many Japanese women are still bound by'the old cus- toms of seclusion,” The civil war in China prevented her from getting into the interior, “In Shanghai I found a woman man- ager of a woman’s bank. She is doing a lot of fefminist work,” Park contin- ued, the peasant class is still practically housebound, too timid to go on the street. When she knows that she will find a friendly person of her sex in the bank it stimulates her to venture forth, Filipinos Can’t Vote. “Filipino women represent . all stages of feminist progress, On some of the islands they are still the beasts of burden of the dark ages, but! in Manila and elsewhere there are women college graduates, healthy, ac- tive and happy. Women cannnot vote in the Philippines, but the suffrage cause is making considerable progress with’ prominent men pledged to its support, Birma Good, “India is full of beggars of both sexes. The belief is widespread that girls and women are no good except for breeding purposes. Sex protection for gifls is advancing in many parts Birma gives its women more freedom than any other oriental country. “I found women gamblers in Monte Carlo.” There are a few women on the staff of the league of nations in Genéva. All women are deprived of the yote in France and all women paid, argues the Temps. unless ‘reer .ecess is given to Huropean goods into he United States? The New York Times, witich faith- ‘ully reflects Wall Street opinion, says editorially: ‘i “There is, . a delightful as- sumption that we in this country have a set of economic laws and rules of trade purely our own. . . . We are quife ready to lay down a set of principles which ought to be religiously followed by all foreign nations, but when they ask us if we mean to act*on them ourselves we blandly smile and say, ‘We have changed all that in America.’ The statements “which our bankers signed have to do with the very questions of ‘maintaining our com- merce across the seas,*and receiv- ing payments on the war debts, which are uppermost in all discus- sions of American polfcy and Amer- ican public finance. To say that this country is exempt from the eco- nomic laws operative everywhere is very much like saying that the law of gravitation does not function in the U, S.” HE American tariff of September, 1922, the victory of heavy, produc- ing-for-the-home-market industry, and the farmers over the banks and expect capital, raised huge walls against European imports. In 1921 there had to Burope over European exports to America @f $1,600,000,000, and the sit- uation was aggravated by an increase of from 10 to,40 per cent in customs duties and the granting of power to the president.to increase or decrease customs duties, This made it impossi- ble for Europe to make a payment every year of @ billion dollars for in- terest on government débts and al- most two billion dollars for the excess of American exports and for the in- crest on private debts. HE memories or the German infla- tion crisis, the occupation of the Ruhr, followed by the Dawes plan, are still fresh, , The situation has changed quanti- atively, but not in quality. The inter- jonal financt hope to save the sit- uation by permitting unhampered and oxtended export possibilities even into the United States, The American in- lustrialists cannot emulate the Eng- land of early 1815 which Engels de- scribes ag having “supplanted the pro- tection she practiced at home by the free trade she forced upon her pos- sible customers abroad,” There is -a developing antagonism of interests be- (ween the capital-exporting bankers, who want some way out of the blind alley of nom-payment of European debts, and the home industrialists who cannot—given the standard of living of American workers—compete suc- cessfully with Buropean industry, es peclally the highly trustified, nation- ally and interti@tionally, European in dustry. This shown in the ac: Hon taken by il Miles, American commissioner © ‘the international chamber of commerce, when it en- preparations, is “ i | The Chinese wife outside of |launching of a cruiser, attacking the | {finance minister, who is backed by }$1,999,000,000. heen an excess of American exports, friends elsewhere‘on the Navy Cut, Bringing a Split in the Cabinet | Bisa \4 Budget ne Japanese TOKIO, Oct. 27. Japanese cabinet indicated by the ter of war at the | speech of the minis‘ -That a split in the exists over, war the premier, for cutting the naval bud- get $60,000,000 below the amount | asked by the war ministry. Even at this, the navy $230,000,000 from this year’s budget to expend on a five-year building pro- gram. The whole budget amounts to The liberal press ob- gets jects to the even with the the government is schools by taking so much from the budget for the navy. The war minister “Germany's defeat was due to an eco- nomic blockade,” “and declared Japan's trade was menaced by weak- ening the nation’s fighting equipment. S amount given the navy, reduction, saying that injuring the declared that He also stated that aircraft are useless unless protected by warships. “Planes are unable to take off into action unless they are carried by war- ships within 100 miles of the shore.” He said that America could not ap- proach Japan with airships not por- tected in this manner. Therefore, they must be met by Japanese war- ships. \ Get a copy of tne American Worker Correspondent. It’s only 5 cents, European international cartels. Miles received a cablegram from Washing ton, presumably inspired by the U; S. 3 chamber of commerce, instructing him |, to reserve American opinion upon the question “until U. S, interests had fur- ther time for consideration,” | T was saown again in the recent in vestigation of German “dumping” of steel rails to the Boston and Maine R. R. at a price considerably lower than the prevailing American price, said to be about $32 a ton, or $10 under the American market price. which, taking transportation costs and duty into consideration, means about 30 per cent less than the German do mestic price. American steel men as- serted that since they pay higher |4¢ wages than the Germans they cannot possibly compete with so drastic a cut. Officials at Washington acknowledge that this manifesto will be an“issue in the election tampaign. The probabil ity that the next congress will revise the American tarlff downward is not to be excluded from an anal, of the question, Such a downward re vision of’ American customs duties would have. the following results: 1. A temporary spurt in Euro- Pean industry, with the probability of favorable export balances and strengthened ability to pay the Euro- | pean debts to Anglo-Saxon bankers and a lengthened period of stabili- zation in Europe. 2. Entry of American industry into more direct and sharper competi- tion with European industry, in- crease in the rate of exploitation of American labor, intensified wage- slashing campaign, lengthening of work day, anti-union drive, with an increase in tempo of the radicaliza- tion of the American working class. 3. Intensification of imperialist conflicts in the scramble for new export markets and increased resist- ance in Europe to American finan- cial pressure and attempts to broad- en the American sphere of hege- mony in Europe; increased exploi- tation of small agricultural coun- tries by strong Industrialized Euro- pean powers, If the next congress, and the coun: tries of Europe; do not take steps to wards the removal of tariff barriers, the ‘results may be even more disas- | trous, World imperialism is in that hope Jess quandary which comes when the bourgeoisie attempts to solve a prob- lem which Can be solved only by its own overthrow. How desperate is their condition can be realized by the self-destructive measures they propose for a way out, for, as Marx said al most eighty years ago in bis address to the Democratic Association of | Brussels: | “ . , the free trade system works | destructively. 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