The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 3

| isin prema oe SE ; | | | | 1 } | epeasway vVe¥ THE=DAITLY WORKER Page Three HURRY TO GET RID OF ALIEN PROPERTY NOW Investigation Causes Change in Mind WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, —-(FP)— “Why so sudden?” was Sen. Borah’s saustic inquiry when told of Speaker Longworth’s post;election announce- ment that the first thing the regular Yepublican organization in congress will do is to pass a bill restoring all property taken from Germany or Ger- man citizens during the war, Borah has been urging for the past six years that this property be given back to its owners, but Longworth and Coolidge and their organization seem- ed unwilling to let go the rich per- quisities of the allen property custo- dian's office, Senate Investigates ‘When Borah was asked whether he méant to imply that the administra- tion wa now in a hurry to wind. up the business because Borah’s special fenate committee is about to investi- gate the graft in the alien property custodian’s office, he smiled and said he did not. But Longworth’s discovery of the need for haste comes just after the “marrow escape of his friends Harry Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller from conviction in the federal court in New York on charges of conspiracy In one alien property case. And it comes rather soon after a visit by Miller to powerful friends in the administration, It does not tech- nically interfere with the federal pro- ‘secution promised for Daugherty and Miller on their second trial, nor with the promised prosecution of A. Mit- shell Palmer and Hornblower and ‘Weeks and others in the case of the Bosch Magneto Co.. whose assets were sold for about $5,000,000 less than they were worth. But it does raise a ques- tion of motive. If the administration is ready to leave the well-picked bones of this property, someone must be afraid of the coming investigation. Street-Car Employes in Worcester Strike for Union Standing WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 10—Wor- The British Empire Conference 1s diMoult to get any detailed and anthoritative news from the British empire conference which is being held behind closed doors in London, but it ean be said with certainty that even Jess than the previous conference of (2928 will it result in a strengthening sof the empire hammered out by Dis- \Faoll and Joseph Chamberlain. So wlear is this that it has become a ommonplace to hear of the disinte- of the mighty British theiy own land, Tho faet that Aus- looks to London to the extent it does is due to the fear of Japan- FPPTLTtE Hee Hil # i 5 gz 5 3 | mental aid to emigrants te the domin- -|1934 British exports had fallen 40 per cent, while American exports had ounting finish te ty teste, ev COMMUNISTS MAKE GAINS IN GREEK ELECTIONS, REPORJS HERE INDICATE Information recelved from Athens by Empros, Greek proletarian news- Paper here, Indicates that the Com- munists made great gains In the Voule, Grecian parilament, elections held Monday. Full returns have not been re- celved, but It ts belleved that at least 20 Communists were elected to the Vaule. In the last election three Communists were elected. The party Is especially strong In northern Greece, Thesally, Mace-~ donia, and Pelraeus, the Information indicates, Fy SPANISH UNREST IS GREAT WORRY FOR GOVERNMENT Reds Arrested, Army Officers Ousted (Speclai to The Dally Worker) MADRID, Nov. 10,—Persistent ru- mors of unrest thruout the country, especially in the ranks of the army, is driving the government almost hys- terical, About 75 arrests were made in Madrid, principally of Communists, by police under orders of the govern- ment, altho no charges havé been placed against them except “suspi- elon.” Army officers Ousted. Seventeen army officers have been demoted and placed in remote sta- tions as precaution, it Js announced, against possible mutiny. Resentment In the army is being expressed be- cause of the government's delay in granting amnesty to those involved in the September “plot.” Army officials no longer trust their own subordi- nates, attaching suspicion upon every- one, Censor Everything. Everything 1s being censored thru- out Spain. Innocent telegrams are held up for days while the intelli- gence department inspects their con- tents. Telephone conversations be- tween Spanish cities and France is almost impossible because the lines are tapped and government censors are continually interrupting. i Police in every city have been re- inforced by army rifles for patrol duty. Elizabeth Will Have : Great Celebration on. Sunday, November’ 14 BLIZABETH, N. J., Nov. 10.—This industrial town‘! will celebrate, the ninth anniversary of the Russian Rev- olution Sunday, 7:30 p. m., November 14, at Labor Lyceum, 517 Court St. with elaborate program, _ «Weekly International Review- IGAPITALISTS CHANGE MINDS ABOUT BENITO Disclosures Justify All Labor’s Charges WASHINGTON, Noy, 10 —(FP) — Disclosure ‘of the shameful treachery of Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson of the Italian Ifberator, to the million Italtan exiles in France whom he had pre- tended to lead, and the realization that Mussolini has drawn perilously near to @ break with France .by hfs plot- tings on French soll, has brought home to Washington the meaning of fascism, Highly Praised, .Jnudge Gary had praised Mussolini; returning diplomats had proudly re- lated their acquaintance with the dic- tator; Dawes was envious of his power, Suddenly he was revealed as an international criminal, who bribed the leaders of the liberal refugees abroad to foment plots against him- self and to deliver the plotters into his pitiless hands. Labor Justified. At the same instant Mussolini justi- fies the worst fears expressed by or- ganized labor as to his purpose of enslaving the Italian nation, Having made strikes a crime and regular la- bor unions illegal, he decrees death or long terms of imprisonment for any- one who seeks to impair his iron rule, directly or indirectly. To Discuss Plans for Better Trans-Europe Transportation Soon MOSCOW, Nov. 10—The People’s Commissariat for Ways of Communi- cations intends to call in Moscow a conference for establishing a thru pas- sengers’ and goods’ traffic between the U. 8. 8. R., Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria and Italy, via Poland. This conference will be in fact a continuation of the conference which took place lately in Warsaw. It will have to consider and approve a project of tariffs prepared by the Comissa- riat as well as rules on settling ac- counts between these countries, The tariffs will be calculated in terms of American dollars paid in lo- eal currency at the rate of exchange of the day. ——__+-—+- Held for Murder, NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—Because he answers the general’ description of {one of three bandits who killed a Chicago policeman during a payroll holdup there July 18, 1924, George Dempsey, of Union City, N. J., was held at police headquarters here to- day. ‘ Dempsey, who said he was a real &state man, admitted being a resident of Chicago at the time of the holdup but denied any knowledge of the roh- bery or murder. the attempt to bufid up the British yfrom 20 per cent to 17.2 per cent, base at Singapore (a point of security or Australia and New Zealand)—have not resulted in increased love of Aus- tralia for the motherland. Canada, which is honeycombed with American capital investments, in which the victory of MeKenzie-King over Meighan was a blow against the empire and towards an orientation to the United States, has demanded and been granted @ diplomatic representa- tive in Washington, The antt- sentiment is growing steadily in Can ada, 5 These are not the blackest pictures. In the other colonies of British im- perialism, not the “white ones,” the antiimperialist movement jg sharper and more, decisive, Indie, Hgypt and Irak are cauldrons of rebellion, Abys- sinja, recently divided between the two bandits, Chamberlain and Musso- lint, burns with hatred, In China Brit- ain has no friend but the treacherous ones whom it purchases, None of these “colored colonies” have even a yoice at the empire conference, Not one of the decisions arrived at by the 1923 empire conference have materialized, The hope of the British to liquidate the omnipresent unem- ployment situation by giving govern: iong and colontes has practically van- ished, None of the dominions wants 4 greater population in that manner, for it will aggravate their own labor prob lem, Despite the state-subsidised emi- gration movement, fewer persons are qmigrating from England today than did in 1918, without a government sub- sidy, . ‘The other 1923 conference deeiston, to increase the British market poss! bilities in the colonies and. dominions, has not only fatled of realization, but has suffered a decisive setback, * By increased by 20 per cent, without products, And coun- 9 decay of Britain's imj ‘strength Is shown by the gain of American capital over itain—and in Britain's own territo- feeling of strength, only with pain, The headed by such gentiemen as the sec- retary of state for India, Lord Birkon- head; the first lord of the admiralty, while American exports to Canada in the same period rose from 65 per cent to 67.8 per cent. In the same period British exports to Australia declined from 52.4 per cent to 45.2 per cent; American exports rose from 139 to 26.4 per cent. In the same period, British exports to New Zealand dropped from 61.5 to 47.8 per cent; American exports increased from 9.5 to 12,9 per cent, Even in India, while British exports fell from 64.2 to 60.2 per cent in that ten-year period, Amer- fean exports went up from 2.6 to- 5.6 Der cent, (Figures given are percent- ages, of total imports of respective countries,) Nor {is this the whole story, for since 1924 the situation has become worse for Hingiand, and in in- yerse proportion, better for the United States, Even in the far-off Union of South Africa, American investments in enterprises ere constantly increasing. A couple of months ago the organi zation of the first large American com- pany in British South Africa, the Bant- jes New Reef Company, with a regis- tered capital of $1,250,000, marked the beginning of the process of financia! infiltration which has reached its highest point in Canada, This is only a part of the story of the disintegration of a once powerful empire, The British lion still rears, but no jonger with triumph and the empire conference only marks the pub- lie opening of all the gaping wounds. New British Attacks on ‘the Soviet Union One concrete result of the British imperial conference, according to a special report in the Chicago Tribune, has poen the formation of a committee to organize anti-Soviet propaganda in sueh countries as China, Afghanistan. Persia and Turkey, Zhe committee is Millions of working class lives were F; ilipinos Bury Their Scores of Dead; Storm, Tidal Wave Victims (Special to The Dally Worker) MANILA, -P. 1, Nov. 10.—Batangas was burying.its dead today, victims of the typhoon and tidal wave. Headed by municipal officials and teachers in the province, schools, natives were clearing the debris of the storm and burying the 136 identified victims of the storm. Sixty-five persons were still listed among the missing. It is estimated today that 3,000 houses had -been ‘destroyed in the typhoon belt. ‘ Attempt to Withhold” Evidence in Case of Lake Diversion F ails | WASHINGTON, Noy. 10. — An at- tempt, by ‘the defense to confine the Chicago-Great Lakes Diversion case to narrow limits failed today. Special Master Charles E. Hughes, who is taking evidence for the su- Preme court, ruled that all official Ground Into dollars In the last wan British Mission to — Investigate Labor in America Arrives Here Tho special mission of the. British government to investigate indsutrial conditions th the United States ar- rived in Chicago Monday. A visit was made to the plants of Swift and Co., Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and Goss Printing Press company by the delegation. The purpose of the mission is said to be to study the reasons for high wages paid American workers in com- parison with the workers in Burope. Members of the commission include: W. W. MacKenzie, chairman, Ernest Bevin, general secretary of the Trans- port and General Workers’ Union; J. Kaylor, member of the executive council of the Amalgamated Engineer- ing Union, F. W. Leggett of the min+ istry of labor; Haig Mitchell, con- ciliation officer of the ministry of la- bor; €. Randolph Smith, director of Barclay, Gurie and Co., shipbuilders, and H. C. Emerson, secretary, Bevin arrived in Chicago Sunday and addressed the meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor. documents bearing on the effect of the water diversion on the level of the Great Lakes and the Illinois ~wat- erway system would be received in evidence. ticed by the Soviet Union has served to-increase the influence of the work- ers’ republic at the expense of the British, especially in the Near and Far East, England has done its utmost to destroy this influence, and in ac- cordance with the best imperialist tra- ditions, no means have been too scoun- drely to be utilized, The Moscow Izvestia recently exposed the plot against the shah of Persia planned by the formed deputies of the Medijilis (parliament), Serkechik, Zade and Haim, well-known British imperialist tools. The British had aided in the eleation of Riza Kahn, but the shah inclined towards co-operation with tie U, 8, 8, R, The oonsptracy was ini- tlated by the British to “dissuade” him from these inelinations, It is no geeret, furthermore, that Piisudski’s ambitions to conquer new worlds, now directed towards ‘picking a fight with Russia, are inspired from the general direction of 10 Downing street, If’this “socialist” bloodhound would only siop to read the story of the fate that attended similar at- iempts by Juden{eh, Denikin, Wrangel, Kolehak, Mahikno and, their kin, his well-sibeidized ardor might be consid- erably dampened, i The Ramek Regime Falls in Austria LLOWING upon the tank scan- dais in Austria and the demands of the government employes, the Ra- mek cabinet has resigned and the catholic Msgr, Seipel, the delegate from Austria to the recent Buch istie congress, hes formed a new gov- ernment, The bank seandai investigation dis- closed the shkmeless corruption that existed in the ehristian-socialist party of Ramek, The Zentralbank had ad- vanced miHions of crowns to other banks controlled by members of the christian-soclalist party, without any guarantees. There followed the loss ‘\y those banks of millions of crowns to @ sum’the total of which was more than the capital of tho Zentralbank. ‘Ta cover up ti¥xe shady transactions, Ramek, who deon responsible for ’ ‘ . |lated a program with the ptobability Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular FASCIST DEPUTIES PASS BILL EXPELLING MEMBERS OF OPPOSITION PARTIES (Special te The Dally Worker) ROME, Nov. 10.—The_ Italian chamber of deputies today voted a measure which In effect will mean the expulsion of some 130 opposi- tion members. The motion declares all members of the Aventine opposition and Communist deputies who absent themselves from the chamber shall be expelled. Leavenworth Warden Suddenly Resigns, LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov, 10.— Warden W. J. Biddle, of the federal penitentiary here, has resigned. The prison official sald today he had learned his resignation, which he sub- mitted to the department of justice last July 17, had been accepted, His retirement will come probably No- vember 15, Biddle said. It 4s understood Deputy Warden Thomas White, who has been here some time from Atlanta, will be act- ing warden pending appointment of @& successor, Biddle refused to discuss his resig- nation. Say. Nicaragua Will Elect Diaz President MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Noy, 10.— The Nicaraguan congress meets on Wednesday and the reactionaries are preparing to elect Adolfo Diaz, fol- lower of Chamorro and backed by the United States capitalists, as president. It {a reliably reported that Diaz will be recognized immediately by Secre- tary of State Kellogg, who will couple the recognition with the landing of American marines in Nicaragua. U. 8. Marines to Land. Diaz will ask that American mili- tarists take complete charge of the country in order to crush the liberals. Reconstruction of the national guard and increase in its numbers will be urged on the United States, it f¢ an- nounced. The present national guard is im command of Brooks Carter, for- mer major of the Philadelphia Boy Scouts. Other officers are Americans, With the conservatives preparing for the election. the rebels, mean- while, are making military gains. They are now approaching Matagalpa. Matagalpa is a center of American coffee planters, all of them wealthy. The Americans, it is reported, are troops and have appealed to the United States consul to ask the rebels to refrain from “bombarding” the city. Charge d’Affaire Dennis has complied, and sent a note to Gen. Moncada declaring “he would be held personally responsible to the United ly to take to your trade union meeting? ure of the Zentralbank, had the na- tional bank turn over to the former feome billions of crowns, also without guarantees, Combined with this and the fever of speculation that exists today in Aus- tra were the demands of the har- rassed and miserable government em- ployes. |To meet the inexorable de- mands of the league of nations finan- «Jai dictator,/Zimmerman, so as to stay off the Anglo-Saxon bankers, the wages of these employes have been cut to the bone, literally, Their union decided upon a strike unless their demand for a 28 per cent increase in wages was granted, Ramek attempted to compromise at an 11 per cent in- crease, which the,union bureaucrats dared not accept, A strike was inev- {table and might have become general, The Ramek cabinet fell. Setpel, who had been minister in 1924 and whose cabinet had fallen under similar. cir- cumstancés (after the railway strike) formed the new cabinet, Seipel is the “strong” man of Austria; his strength is directed chiefly against the work- ers of the country, The hopeless conditions of Austria, with ite housing ¢érisis, its unemploy- ment problem, ig all the sharper when it 1s considered that the international bankers will not permit tt to accom. pilsh the ethnic unity of Germany and Austria, demands for which in- crease With every recurring crisis, Yor all his “strength,” Seipel will not be able to liquidate the crisis. Neither will the Austrian social-democracy, which at its recent congress formu- of formmg the next Austrian govern- ment in view. The social-democracy of Austria, in particular, which favors revolution in any way excopt by lead- ing a struggle against the, Austrian bourgeoisie, is led by too accommo- dating and joliclious (for the estab lished system) leaders t6°be able to solve the Austrian problem, whieh ean be solved only by revolution and unity with the U, 8, 8, R, A New Phenomenon in Czecho-Stovakia TPPHE latest devel ent of the sltua- ea ia. oe tt. States for any lives taken.” bolized by the new government of the Svehla cabinet. For the first time the Czech bourgeoisie has united with the German bourgeoisie into one gov- ernment. The German bourgeoisie, in the face of the growth of the revolu- tionary forces, has repudiated the struggle of the national German mi- nority, Two members of the German party are included in the Svehla gov- ernment, A temporary unity of the bourgeoisie has been accomplished tn the vain hope of finding a solution for the Osech crisis. Czecho-Slovakia has been “stabil- ized” with a vengeance, It has gone thru an intensified pertod of industrial- ization, but has conquered no foreign markets, and {t cannot compete with Germany, The result has been a pas- sive balance of trade, The home mar- ket has been badly cut into because of the decreased buying capacity of the workers and the peasants, The high taxes on the latter, the mass un- employment and lowered wages (wages aggravated this condition, The tax- ation policy of the government, which threw the burden of the budget onto the shoulders of the workers and the pessantry, and the constanily mount ing unemployment have brought the masses of workers into the streets in tremendous demonstratiéns against the government, Tn addition, the steady growth of the Communist Party—which not only leads the struggle of the workers and peasants, but also of the oppressed Hungarian, Slovak and German na- tional minorities—-has put the fear of revolution inte the hearts of the bour. geoisic, The last election showed that the Cuevho-Slovak Communist Party was the pipengest single party in the whole country, and its influence has been increased by the inability of the bourgeoisie to find a way eut ef the crisis of “stabilisation,” The unity of the formerly “irreconcilable” German and Czech bourgeoisie ig the answer of the black forces of the eountry to the growing revolutionary movement, ‘The social democrats of Czecho-Blo- vakla, never distinguished. by any op- position to the bo: ; have al- ready. greated the en panicky over the approach of the rebel | have fallen 40 to 60 per cent) have, {10 KILLED WHEN SCHOOL BUILDING IS HIT BY WIND Homes Also Denioliahed Near Washington WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—A terrific wind and electrical storm struck Charles county, Maryland, this after- noon, demolishing a county school- house and a number of residenceg at La Plata, the county seat. The roof of the frame school house, a two story structure, collapsed on more than 50 pupils, burying some of them in the wreckage and causing Reasons Not Given | numerous injuries. At 4:15 o'clock, a physician at. the scene reported that at least three children had been killed inthe crash. Frantic efforts were being made to remove the debris covering some of the children A Feport to the Red Cross at 4:30 said that between ‘four and ten chfl- dren were kiHed. Fear was expressed that other persons may have died in the buildings and homes which were demolished in the town. The wind attained a velocity of be tween 50 « 60 miles and hour, ao cordirig to telephonic reports from La Plata. The crash of the school house was heard over the village above the roar of the storm, and fra : parents were soon on the scene. Some of the chil- dren emerged unscathed, but others Were not so fc nate. So much con- fusion attended the parents’ efforts to extricate their children from the wreckage that the iocal authorities had difficulty in obtaining an accurate check on the injured. Reports Show Some Candidates Comply with Spending Law WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. — A new batch ol campaign expenditure réports were filed with the secretary of state today showdng candidates in six dift- ferent states had complied with the $10,000 slush fund limit Senator George EH. William, repufls lican of Missouri, reported that he spent $5,600, of which $500 was con- tributed. In Wisconsin, Thomas M. Kearney, democrat, reported he spent $3,859.02. while Charles W. Ross (Independent progressive) told of spending $3,144, 19, with unpaid hills amounting to $1,387.85. Extradite McConnell. COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 10—Governor | Donahey today honored a requisition from the governor of Lllizois ‘asking for the return to St. Clair county, that state, of Brice McConnell, now held at Akron. McConnell, according to the requis{tion, is wanted for “rob- bery while armed with dangerous weapons.” thusiasm. The German social demo crats in Cecho-Slovakia will follow suit and it is expected that a com- mon basis of unity between the two will soon be found. Like master, like man, rs M.Vandervelde and the Chinese Revolution T a time when the Chinese revolm tionary forces are on the point ef assuming control of all the southern Chinese provinces, and are on the verge of taking Shanghat; when the revolutionary feelings and pressure of the masses is such that even the Peking government is obliged to make @ protest at the league of nations aes sions against the British massacre at Wanhsien; when the British & rialists are seeking to unite all of powers for a concerted {nterventioniat | move—there comes to their aid and comfort none other than his Belgtan majesty’s most loyal minister, M. Yam dervelde, the soctalist minister of fom elgn affairs, In a conference with Belgian business men with interests in China—conferences quite after the fashion of his imperial, Non-“{f ist” neighbors—Vandervelde'ty, ,, on the Sino-Belgian trade treaty, « gotiated’ in 1865(!)' was approved The Peking government declares that this treaty (negotiated with numerous others in the early days of Buropean Imperialism) expired on October 27, 1926. Phe proposals of the Chinese minister, according to Vandervelde, would mean that Belgian nationals ne siding in China* would be subject to, Chinese courts, Vandervele, tike a) good social demecrat and lover of free dom and equality, is horrified at such: & prospect, ‘That would be like hay ng Frenchmen, or Britistiers or Amer. ieans, who live in Belgium, be eub_ ject to Belgian courts ,,, It ‘would not be amiss to: suggest that, in the event that Britain securer sufficient support to launch tts coun ter-revolutionary forces it - the Chinese rebels, Comrade Va I, who is quite influential fn the International, sail in a Belgian wat chip to China with his comrades, Mac_ Donald, Breiischeid, Bauer, Renaudel Abrameviteh and a few picked anc trusty warriora as a volunteer mii tary eémpany to help bring christiar freedom and enlightenment to tim stubborn heathen Chinese, r et ee rR a tk Nm ee