The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1926, Page 3

(0 oR 0 RE ETRE = —__—_—————————————— eee | 4 KILLED, 400 ARRESTED IN JAVA RISING Movement Growing Among the Javans LONDON, Nov. 30-—Only scanty news is to hand as yet of the native rising led by the Communist Party at the end of last week in western Java, . It is known that four Communists have been killed and over 400 arrested, and that “the situation is well in hand” from. the imperialist point of view, That isto say, the natives have been crushed by the powerful armed forces which are kept in constant readiness at every point of the Dutch Hast Indies, Marks Awakening. But the fact that the rising has taken place marks a further stage in| the awakening of the east. Java is the heart of the Dutch Hast Indies colonies—it is more densely populated than England, or even Bel- gium, and provides the bulk of the ex- ports which put about £70,000,000 a year into the pockets of Dutch and British planters, shippers, merchants and bankers. Sold with Land. Until the beginning of this century most of the 34,000,000 native inhabi- ants of this island were living as serfs on the large government or privately owner estates. They were compelled to do one day’s free labor in every seven, and when the land on which they lived was sold they were sold _ with it. The rapid industrialization of Java —the growers on the big coffee, sugar and rubber plantations, the develop- ment of the railways (there are 6,000 miles of railway), and the exploitation of vegetable oils and of petroleum— ve hastened the transformation of serf into a proletarian, No longer does the Javanese native give the day’s forced labor a week to his landlord. In exchange for an in- ‘greased poll tax he is now “free” to work all the seven days in the week for a boss—and to try to get a living out of it, Last Year’s Rising. As a result, class consciousness has ‘rapidly developed, Communism !s un- derstood, and the government perse- wution of the working class has be- ome intensified. Last summer, as the result of an abortive rising in Samarang (we have few detallg™bout it) 500 “revolution- ists” were reported to have been im- prisoned and, of their two. chief lead- ers, one died in banishment and the other—the president of the railway men’s union—died in jail. One of the objectives of the rising last week was an attack on the prison in which many of the comrades are still con- fined. , The revolt may have failed to achieve its immediate end, but its result will be to intensify the struggle of the Javanese workers, Britain Affected. And that struggle is one which deeply affects British imperialism—for ‘the Dutch colonies are merely a sub- sidiary company of the British empire. The Javanese, moreover, are a Ma- layan race, and near by, in the Malay peninsular, the working class popula- ‘tion under British rule is growing at ‘the rate of 100,000 a year, and were reported by the attorney-general of Singapore a few “months ago to be seriously affected by “Communist propaganda.” The onward march of the Kuomin- ‘chang in China is followed and under- gtood by all the workers in the East. SAVE COMMUNIST PARTY élections in 1920 which for the first Men over 21 years voted, the social democrats won considerable successes, It won tens of thousands of votes away from the bourgeois parties and ob- tained majorities in hundreds of indus- trial niunicipalities. Immediately at- a clerical liberal coalition government was formed. The social democrats re- mained in the opposition, naturally his majesty’s loyal opposition. Coalitions Formed. The period of 1921 to 1925 was |marked by a continual intensification of the economic situation, by a con- tinual increase in the cost of living, by the depreciation of the franc and by new taxes, The dissatisfaction of the masses led in the parliamentary elections in April, 1925 to a great suo- cess for the social democracy and to the formation of a social democratic- when the coalition socialists wei faced with the brutal necessity of care rying on a struggle against the bour-| geoisie, they abandoned the whole pro- gram of immediate demands for the working masses. Forget Promises, After the shameful flight of the Poullet-Vandervelde government be- fore the attacks of Ifigh finance and after the formation of the bankers’ government with the support and par- ticipation of the social democratic leaders, many of the ijlusions which had been awakened by reformism, be- gan to disappear. Instead of a capital levy on the rich, instead of a reduc- tion of the state debts, instead of new taxes upon unearned increment, in- stead of reductions in indirect taxes, there came a 50 per cent increase of the taxes hitting the masses, a con- siderable increase of the state debt by the recognition of the war debts to America, the handing over of the rail- ways to a private company together with a tremendous increase of its tar- iff, the widening of the privileges of the Banque Nationale. Conditions Worse. But all these measures did not pre- vent a further fall in the Belgian franc. In side half a year the franc has fallen from 105 to 175 and oc- sterling, a continued increase in the cost of living and an increase in the misery of the masses. These were the circumstances under which the municipal elections were. fought. Tried to Confuse Issues. The reformist leaders did everything possible to keep the, general political questions as far apart as. possible from Havana Mayor Held for Embezzlement - of Municipal Funds (Special to The Dally Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 30, — Jose Maria Cuesta, mayor of Havana who was defeated for re-election on Nov. 1st by a son of former President Gomez, was arrested at the wharf to- day as he was about to sail for the United States, The arrest was made on charges that Cuesta was connected with an alleged shortage of several hundred thousand dollars of municipal funds. $1.50! Buy your ticket Now for . NEW MASSES Workers’ and Peasants’ Costume Ball Next Friday Eve ning, December 3 WEBSTER HALL—119 East 11th Street, New York City. Tickets now $1.50 By mail from NEW MASSES, 3 ‘9 West 8th Street, New York City, (Tel, Stuyvesant 4445), or Jimmie Higgins Book Store, 127 University Place; Rand School, 7 Hast 16th St.; Freiheit, 30 Union Square. BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market IN THE SERVICE O Restaurant iF THE coneuman: a Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH 4301 8th Avenue CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, in (Workers organized as consumers) Brooklyn, N. Y. franchise in which both men and wo-+ ter the parliamentary elections in 1921 | clerical coalition government, cag ror the. casionally to. ever 20¢ to. the pound |must finally be stannad.” MAKES IMPORTANT GAINS IN BELGIUM ELECTIONS; VOTE POLLED ALARMS REFORMIST PARTIES By JACQUEMOTTE. BRUSSELS (By Mail).—The oustanding features of the municipal elec- tions of October 10 in Belgium were the advance of the clericals, losses of the social-democrats and the great gains of the Communists. In Belgium municipal elections take place every six years. In the last time were on the basis of a general the municipal elections. But their at- tempts to Iimit the character of the elections to purely narrow local ques- tions, were foiled thanks to an ener getic campaign on the part of the |Communist Party which*for the first time put forward candidates in sixty- three from ‘the 2600 Belgian municipal- ities, including candid: in the most important districts. Communists Gain, On the eve of the elections all the jether parties both the bourgeols and the socal democrats declared that the |Communistg “play no role in the elec- jtions.” Nevertheless the energetic jeampaign which was carried on by thé |Communist Party induced the social democrats to print and spread a leaflet |{m hundreds of thousands of copies di |rected exclusively against the Com- munist Party and against the Russian ~-For the first time our small Belgian |section of the Communist Interna- tional has taken part in the municipal elections. As is known it has approx- imately 1,000 members, however, we won 70,000 votes and 26 candidates. In Brussels and in the larger muni- cipalities the Communist votes varied between 25 and 30 per cent of the s0- cial democratic votes. In Serang we received votes amounting to 61 per cent of the social democratic votes and 28.63 per cent of all the valid votes cast. Even in the reformist stronghold of Ghent we. achieved a splendid result. In the parliamentary election in April, 1925 we received 962 votes, At this election we received 5,044 votes! pra Uneasy. The Tr ist leaders are naturally attempting to minimize the impor- tance of our electoral successes. They are, however, unable to conceal their uneasiness in the face of such favor- able results for the Communists. Their press is sounding the alarm. The “Vooruit” in Ghent writes that the re- formists have underestimated the Communist propaganda and that now they must really seriously deal with the Communists. “Le Peuple,” Brus- sels, writes that now the “work of the Communist nuclej in the trade unions _ The hour. geois press which is enthusiastic about the progress of the clericals, remarks that nevertheless it would be danger- ous to close one’s eyes to the advance of the Communists. Everything must be done, it writes, to counteract the agitation of the Communists which has made such serious progress as shown in the elections. DE RIVERA TO GO AHEAD WITH ILLEGAL ASSEMBLY AS MILITARY IS FIXED (Special to The Daily Worker) MADRID, Nov, 30—With the re- bellion In the army apparently crushed, Primo de Rivera is now preparing to go ahead with his plans of the hand-picked assembly to meet to pass legislation desired by the dictator. While leaders in the army were openly opposing him, de Rivera hesitated calling the “assembly contrary to law. But now he feels that he will have full mili- ’ tary support, sufficlent to coerce all opposition to his unconstitutional action Into acceptance. De Rivera forced the king to promise to sign the decree provid- Ing for the assembly by threaten- Ing to withhold amnesty to the in- surrectionists. The king has prom- lsed amnesty and was forced to compromise on that account. India Ink Figure Cured by ‘Something’ MOLINE, Ill, — The Rev, Frank Day in the First Congressional Church here last Sunday delivered a sermon using the india ink cartoon character ya Chicago Tribune Little Orphan his topic, According to the strip cartoon Annie had met with an accident, broken her legs and after much’ trouble was finally cured, The pious’ Rev, Day pointed out in his sermon that what the doctor could not do for Annie’ ccompfished by that unexplainable something (no doubt meaning god); WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 p, me—Chloago Federation of La- bor Hour, Lintie soe Wi Roggeed dane The Decetitber issue of the Amer o f lean Worke: apondent will be baler oe a \ UNION LEADERS IN COUNCIL OF Fight Holaday Exile and Fingerprint Bill NEW YORK, Nov. 80. Some lead- ing trade unionists are connected with the Council for the Protection of For- eign-Born Workers, which opened its national headquarters at 41 Union Square on Thanksgiving week Timothy Healy, international pre dent of the Firemen’s and Oile Union, leads the executive committ The Names next in line are Max 8. Hayes, organizer for the Typographi- cal Union; (James Maurer, presdient wa oe Federation of Labor; William Kohn, international president of the Uyholsterers’ Union; Fred Suiter, intefnational secretary of the Quarry rkers’ Union; Percy Thomas, sident District 16, Com- mercial Tejegraphers’ Union; J. L. Studdard, piesident District 31, United Mine Workjrs. Joseph Dean of the Moving Picjure Operators’ Union is president ofthe council. Hits Holaday Bill. The new frganization is intended to arouse semiment against legislation r the registration, finger- just deporting of foreign- In an opening state- le council’s purpose Secre- r Nina Somorodin hits partioularlj at the Holaday bill. She says: “In view of the fact that the Hola- day bill, Hy, R. 12444, has already been passed by the house and is to be taken up by the sehate within a few weeks, we feel that there is immediate need of bringing this matter of discrimina- tion against the foreign-born directly before the people of the United States, “The Holaday bill would permit the deportation of any foreign-born resi« dent of this country, whether or not he is a natiralized citizen, if during | the period of eight years he has served a year’s settence for any cause what- soever. It also would allow the de- if he had knowledge of the illegal en- trance of anyone into the United States. The especial injustice of this latter clause can be appreciated when you realize that in order to escape sands of political exiles in this coun- try now from Italy and other Buro- pean countries. Of course the consti- tution pro’ that the United States ehell give but the Holaday bill would nullify this.” Naturalization bureaus will be estab- lished in hundreds of smaller cities thruout the country, said Miss Somo- rodin. At thése local bureaus foreign- born workers arriving from other lands will be instructed in their legal rights, re rcs German Government Gets By One Crisis ' But Faces Another (Speaial to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 30. — Foreign minis- ter Stresemann’s policies in his deal- ings with France were upheld by the riechstag after a prolonged debate, but only after secret compromises had been effected with all parties ex- cept the Communists, The nationalists were in favor of voting noconfidence, but were delt-| berately restrained from registering any vote by the leader, Count West- arp. ' A measure to provide for national and state censorship of all publica tions in Germany is expected to bring. &@ more serious crisis for the govern-| ment to face. The measure has arous- ed the almost unanimous opposition ot German writers and artists, and) even has little support in the gov- “a coalition. Target Practice of Army S Scares Fish MANILA, P, i — The people of Laguna and ‘Rizal who are living on the shores of Laguna de Bay has ap- pealed to thé governor general against the holding of a target practice and military maneuvers by the United States army ‘in the bay on November 15. Those people, mostly fishermen declared that the maneuver and target practice will paralyze their business during the of 80 days in which the evert ts going to last. It waf pointe out that the noise of the ah airplanes woul scare the fish away from the shore. The fisherman of 30 towns are effected. Bank Embezzlers in | Russia Given Death | KUZBTSZ, Sthoria, Nov. 30—Sev- en bank employes who were convict ed of embezzlement of the people's funds, have been condemned to death. ‘The sentence jy in line with the Sov- fet Union’s determination to eliminate graft in all forms Poe FOREIGN-BORN portation of any foreign-born resident prosecution and death there are thou-| to political exiles, | {ment under question was granted on |too had no control over the biologic PEGS APT ENON PSE a. Page Three NATIONS WOULD SPEND MORE MONEY BUFFALA, N, Y., Nov. 30.—Cancelli States would only pave the way for a the peace of the world, Representative of the American funding commission foreign policy association here. Assailing expenditures of European nations for military purposes, the Ohio congressman asserted that the military budgets of the leading debt- or nations are many times their an- nual payments to the United States. Cites Britain’s Militarism. Great Britain spends $682,000,000 annually for military purposes and is paying the United States but $161,- 000,000 a year, he said. British mili- tary expenses now are $200,000,000 a year more than in 1913-14. France Spends $160,000,000. France, he said, is spending not less than $160,000,000 a year on her mili- tary establishment. The Berenger de- partment pact requires a maximum annual payment to the United States of $35,000,000 a year. ‘ + FOR ARMAMENTS IF WAR DEBTS WERE CANCELLED BY U. S., AVERS BURTON ation of European debts by the United new race in armaments and endanger Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, member declared in an address before the CLERK OF HOUSE TELLS WHAT WORLD WAR SET US BAGK IN COLD CASH WASHINGTON, | Nov. 30.—What the world war cost this country In cold figures comes out In a state- ment prepared by William Tyler Page, clerk of the house of repre- ‘sentatives. “Our net expenditures were $22,- 600,000,000," he said. “We advanc- ed $11,000,000,000 to our allies. We Jost 116,492 of our fine American boys and out of 4,000,000 men there were 289,000 casualties. American merchant vessels totaling 394,658 The same situation is found in oth- er debtor countries, Burton said. rope and military ambitions,” he de- clared, “if debts should be cancelled, | there ‘would inevitably be an increase thus @ constant Threat to the peace of the world would be created.” To answer the European charge of “Shylocking,” Burton went, into de tailed figures to show that the United States had virtually settled Europ ean debts at 60 cents on the dollar. French Militarists Get Money But Men Dodge Enlistment PARIS— French militarism was jright on the spot when it came to voting on the war budget in the cham- ber of deputies, the premier receiving a vote of 355 to 200 in support of an appropriation of $212,204,400 for mili- tary expenses of 1927, ah increase over 1926 of $47,060,000. It was dis- closed in the report that the budget for this year has been exceeded by proposed expenditures are to maintain |France’s army of 656,000 men. A disconcerting note was heard from Deputy Jean Fabry, who said: “We, cannot get regular army officers now. obtained only 66,000, and this. year fewer than 63,000. Enlistments have greatly decreased, while reinlistments have dropped alarmingly low.” Police Hold Two in Death of Boy from Poisonous Liquor Mrs. Pilazea Lukazewski, 52, and her son-in-law, Charles Pokloackay, are held without bail in connection | with the death Sunday of John Piep' wocka, 16-year-old schoolboy who, it} fs charged, candy store. Piepiwocka died in a state of de- Yrium tremors after he had drunk the liquor; Chicago police said. Holy Rota Makes Its Action Clear as Mud ROME—The row which Bishop Manning of the Episcopal diocese of New York started over the annullment of the marriage of Consuelo Vander- bilt and the Duke of Marlborough by the Tribunal Rot of Rome, has caused a repercussion here inasmuch as the Rota is now on the defensive. To the charge that it favors the rich who wish to get rid of inconvenient |matrimonal bonds, it claims that the bought liquor in their |expenses of the court are small and that when the poor are unable to meet them, they are remitted, and than in some cases the diocese has paid the traveling expenses of poor applicants to and from the court. With respect to the status of the children of a marirage which Rome has declared never existed, the Rota explains affably that the Vatican as- sumes the marriage was entered into in good faith and that no Catholic would consider the children born of @ unfon'which was later annulled as lying under a stigma by reason of events over which they have no con- trol. This may be lucid to an ecclesias- tical mind, but the layman may be so Profane as to suggest that the annull- grounds of coersion, which bars out good faith, and that so-called illegiti- mate children might plead that they consequences of the actions of their natural parents. The case is now perfectly clear. The Vanderbilt-Mariborough marriage never existed at all, but the children born of the union, which was non-exist- ent, were born in lawfyl wedlock. The Catholic church has annulled a mar- riage porformed by the episcopal church, but is in no way interfering with the rights of that church since only to those interested in their rela- out this wWetk, Get a copy, sub- tions to the Catholic church, Tt is now all as “Me att “In view of the antagonisms in Bu: | jover sixteen millions because of the| |Moroccan and Syrian campaigns. The | In 1924 we needed 68,000 andj the decision of the Rota is applicable | | tons were destroyed. Private con- | tributions to war rellef were $625,- 000,000." The figures covering the cost of | lodging, boarding and guarding po- litical prisoners and conscientious cluded, nor the wear and tear on clergymen’s consciences. Thousands of Tenant Farmers of Illinois Homeless from Flood BEARDSTOWN, Ill, Nov. 30.—Two thousand five hundred families, driven from their homes near here by the disastrous floods last month, are wards of the Red Cross, homeless, penniless, and hungry. 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The appeal protests against the al- teration of the coalition law in Latvia \in order to prevent the Lettish work- jing class sport association from ac: cepting youths under 21 years old and thus to force the latter into the bour- geois sport associations. This action of the Lettish boar | geoisie is no isolated case. In the Bal- kans, in Esthonia and in Italy the | working clase sport organizations have }been destroyed and in other coum tries they are subject to persecutions. The members of the workers’ sport organizations must decisively parry the attack of the capitalists. The at |tack of the Lettish fascists must be ‘of naval and militaty armaments,and | objectors do not appear to be in- |beaten off by a broad protest move ment. Passaic Strike Film Big Success in Newark NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 30.—The mo tion picture of the Passaic strike was shown here to an enthusiasti¢ crowd that filled to capacity the large Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 South 14th street. 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