The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 3

wher. Se GERMANY T0 BE FREE OF FRENCH CONTROL FEB. 1 Briand Forces: Hand of Poincare Cabinet (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Dec, 14.—Military control @f Germany by France and England, which has been exercised since .the @rmistice, will cease on February 1, as the result of a settlement. reached by the league of nations council: fol- lowing a hectic session. The control ef Germany on that date will pass from the inter-allied commission to the league of nations, Briand Forces Poincaire, The. settlement is a partial victory for Stresemann of Germany over France, the latter nation’s government having balked at’ relinquishing con- trol of the Rhine, ‘ The ‘settlement also marked a victory. for Premier Briand over tle Poincaire ‘cabinet. Poincaire ordergd ‘Briand to refrain from making the settlement, but Briand forced Poincaire to agree. Germany Makes Concessions, Germany did not win her demand without having to make’ cohcessions, however.’ Stresemann agreed to’ sub- mit the question of eastern boundary fortifications and,,the exporting of arms and munitions®%6, arbitration. The council of ambassadors’ will act &s arbitrating board, and should no relief be given by it in case of dis- pute, the league will again have. the question before it, Briand was the only delegate who 41d not vote for the arbitration agree- ment, altho he personally favors It, His hands were tied on this by the French cabinet, He intimated that should his government not agree he would resign as foreign minister. Crisis German: Cabinet Faces to Be Postpo med Until After: Christmas BERLIN, Deo. Wee tibinet sit. "ation in regard to-its)rélation with the social democrats ‘and nationalists, which is moving speedly toward a @risis, will not be allowed to come to ® head until after the Christmas holi- ays, it is reported. Leader's do ‘not wish to have a political eruption mar Whe holiday celebrations, The government is at present way- ‘ring between the democrats and the Mationalists, but will soon be forced “fo make a decision. A bone of contention now is the method of recruiting for the reichs- ‘The democrats demand that ‘wecruiting be subjected’ to supervision of a parliamentary commission, con- tending that the army is being filled ‘with anti-republican men and officers, Wants Dry Referendum. SCRANTON, Pa., Dee. 14.—Repre- sentative Martin Memelo, of the Sixth District, will sponsor a joint resolu- tion at the next sessidn ofthe Penn- sylvania legislature in 1927 calling for a state-wide referendum on the swet and dry issue, he announced. The following is a stenographic report of the speech of Sze Toa Chan commissioner of education in the Canton city government and Mow on an educational mission in the United States for the Kuomin- tang central government. The speech was delivered at, Northwest Hall to a large and enthusiastic meeting arranged by the All-Amér- lea Antl-Imperialist League. Sze was greeted on behalf of the league by its American secretary. William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER greeted the Canton envoy in the name of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the commission- er was also welcomed by a spokes- man for the American Negro Labor Congress, The first part of the speech appeared in yesterday's DAILY WORKER, The rest con- tinues here, The report THE HUB OF THE STATE i ef NEW -LIFE FOR JEWS IN FARM. COLONIES “UNDER SOVIET AID (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Dr, Joseph A, Rosen has sailed for Naples, en route to Russia, to resume direction of the agricultural work of the American-Jéwish . joint distribution committee, by whose help thousands of Jewish families have begun a ARRAS revolutionary drive. drive against the militarists, is dif \|fors that’ control so. they could get money and\supplies and power, the purpose of the Kuominchun army is not to get control of the province, but to-emanctpate the Chinese people. In other words, army is fighting in the interests and for the interests of the Chinese people, year, army had started its northern drive, and when I read the newspapers in Tokio, I found ‘out that the revolu- new life as farmerson land which has been granted them by the So- viet, “The permanence of the colonies and of this new: Jewish life under the Soviets is today established be- yond a doubt,”. Dr, Rosen said. “There are now over 100 of these settlements in all, and some of them have been going for two and three years.” Chilean Transport Takes 67 of Crew .to Deaths in Sea BUENOS A{RES, Dec, 14.—Report has reached here of the loss of 67 men of ,the.crew of the Chilean trans- port, Arauco; when it sank at Lota, Chili, Twenty-nine. of the crew were saved, by Harry Gannes from the very able Interpretation of Mr. Tao Ting Chi. cee During the Chinese liberation strug- gle, the workers hélpéd the revolu- tionary army by goitg on strike. There are thrée ‘railréads ‘in Caxton, and while the “army and ammunition and supplies ofthe militarists were being put on the train, and were ready to be transported, the workers simply went qn Btrike and they were not able to move the ammunition, | That iste way in which’ they help-' ed the Kuomintang army to succeed. Last August ‘the people of Kwang- | tung province: were emancipated, but | im the north, in the larger part of China, the militarists. Wu ‘Pei Fu, Chang Tso’ Lin,end Sun Chuang Fang are still oppressing the Chinese peo- ple, It; is withthe purpose of fight- ing those militarists, it is with the purpose of emancipating the large majority,.or, I should say, the whole body of the Chinese people, that the People's . Gpyernment.. started the ~~: . Different Than Before. "This time the northern drive, the ferent from the ordinary Chinese war. The Chinesomwar lords usually fought forthe control of a specific province, But the revolutionary I left Canton on July 13th of this At that time the Kuominchun 1 wae t HE abot SE WORKER SE ARTMENT S WHIRLIGIG (From the Chicago Post) Department of State Denies U. S. Negroes Are Denied Passports WASHINGTON, Da Dec, 14.—Charges published in The Messenger, progreg- sive Negro magazine, that Negro citi- zens of the United States are excluded from certain countries, are met with denial of specific knowledge, at the ‘state department. Officials in various bureaus of the ‘department, when asked whether it is trie that American citizens, if Negroes, are excluded from Brazil, Pahama, South Afriga or other coun- tries; said they knew nothing of it. They declared that no case of such exeliision on, grounds of Negro blood had been reported to the department, Pas8ports are issued to Negro citi- zehis Of this country, and if visas to jenter certain countries in Latin-Amer- icaor Africa have been refused by the representatives of those countries, that’ fact has not been brought to the attention of the American govern. ment, % Czechoslovakia Wants In. PARIS—Members of the European irom and steel trust, recently formed by industrialists of France, Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium, are meeting here;.to decide whether to admit Czechoslovakia into the international combination, Czechoslovakia produces 1,500,000 tons of iron and steel a year, tionary army already occupied Hoon- an, From Japan to the United States it does not take many days and from Tokio to Seattle, and from Seattle to San Francisco it takes only about a month; but the Kuominchun army has succeeded surprisingly during that short time. From the time I left San Francisco up-to this time of my ar- rival in Chicago, it took only about one month, but the revolutionary army has already conquered and is now in control of several provinces such as Hupel, Fukien and Chiang- Ki, Wu Pei Fu, a few months ago ohe of the greatest war lords of China, has now passed into oblivion. Sun Chuang Fang, who at one time con- trolled five provinces, now controls three. The great city, the chief strength of Sun Chuang Fang, was Shanghai, and that is going to fall into the hands of the Kuominchun army within a very short time, Reason for Success, Why has the revolutionary army succeeded so rapidly? The first rea- son 1g that the Kuominchun army has worked and cooperated with the People. The great majority of the Chin People are workers; and the workers {n comparison with all other classes of people are most suited for revolution, During our campaign in Canton, as I told you, the workers as well as the peasants, helped and contributed a great part towards our success, Also, in Shanghai, in the Present struggle for the control of Shanghai, the Shanghai workers are Playing a great role, With this large majority of the Chihese people. co- operating with the revolutionary army, there is every reason for suo- cess and no reason for failure, The second cause for our rapid suc- cess 1s that all of the revolutionists, melte) PRISO RENO, Kirby, derelict, found dead in a cheap lodging house here, is now believed to have made his exit thru the use of cyanide, instead of from natural causes, Kirby was a “two-time loser” in the Nevada state prison, where he had considerable reputation as a banjoist, and where, it is said, he composed a popular song which was pirated from him by an unscrupuloug publisher. While in prison he was implicated in the sensational escape of Leo Tyma, Kirby, who was a prison cook at the time, greased Tyma’s body with FOREIGN MINISTERS AT GENEVA AS LEAGUE WILL JUGGLE GERMAN PROBLEM GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec, 14.— The league of nations council meet- ‘ing has opened and faces the prob- lem of considering the demands and counter-demands of France and Ger- many in connection with allied evac- uation cf the Rhine. Every other problem will be subordinated to this issue. Future relations between Germany and France will depend on the decision of the league council, it is believed, Germany demands that the allied roops be removed from her terri- tory, and that armament control of Germany be transferred imme- diately from the inter-allied commis- sion to the league. France fears that Germany is arming against her, and is reluctant to lose control, The following ministers have ar- rived for the meeting: Stresemann, Germany; Briand, France; Cham- berlain, England; Vandervelde, Be!- gium; Zaleski, Poland; Benes, Czecho-Slovakia, and Karnebeek, Holland, 60. Drown in Transport. SANTIAGO, Chili, Dec. 14.—Sixty lives were: lost when the transport vessel Arango was sunk at Lota, it has been learned. Briand Will Expend Prize Money on Farm PARIS, Dee, 14.—Foreign Minister Briand will: have $11,000 left of half of the Nobel peace prize after paying the income tax on the gift. It is reported that this will be spent in building a new wing on his country house at Cochere] and in the purchase | of sheep and pigs. Before entgring the ministry he was earning from$10,000 to $20,000 a year as a corporation lawyer, and is said to be very,tomfortably fixed finan- cially, so tilat he can carry out his plan of spending his declining years on his estate.and indulge his favorite sport of fishing. This should interest the poverty-stricken cripples of the last war, in, which Briand was safe far behind the firing line. Why don’t. you write It up? It may be interesting to other workers, N DERELICT PAWNS BANJO, AND ENDS TROUBLES BY CYANIDE ROUTE Pte, Deo, 14-“Jomes 4: (1 lard and butter, enabling him, in a state of nature, to crawl thru a win- dow 9 by 11 inches in dimensions. As Tyma streaked thru the prison yard, the guard withheld his fire, thinking that the fleeing object, all in white, was a ghost. The day before his death, Kirby, who lived at Sparks, pawned his be loved banjo, the solace of two prison terms, for $6 and paid several small loans. It is then believed he used the balance of the money to come to Reno and rent a cheap lodging. Here, jin his room, he drank coffee into which he had put the poison, Reduces Sentence of American Deserter in French Foreign Legion PARIS, Dec. 14.—President Doumer- gue has reduced the sentence of Ben- nett Doty of Memphis, Tenn., from eight to five years, on charges of de- sertion from the foreign legion, it | was learned today. Doty who enlisted in the foreign le- | gion under the name of Gilbert Clare, | was convicted of having deserted | while serving with the foreign legion in Syria in Druse tribesmen. Intercession on behalf of Doty was made by prominent Americans and the understood to have made represent- ations in his behalf. Recall Slowing. | SEATTLE.—The recall movement launched against Governor Hartley is |slowing down, it is reported. It is jnecessary to get 80,000 names signed |to a petition for his recall and the get- jting of names is proceeding slowly. | Hartley's ousting is favored by organ- | ized labor here, thru the state federa- tion. Hartley is charged with missing the president of the state uni- versity on personal grounds. BRITISH INVESTIGATOR SURPRISES HIMSELF AND US BY WHAT HE LEARNS LONDON, Dec. 14.—J, T. Kay, who was a member of the rigged-up trades union mission which recently visited the United States, made at least one’ interesting © discovery while there. He has told the Institute of Brit- ish Foundrymen in Birmingham how he went to call unexpectedly on a Pittsburgh moulder. He was ad- mitted to a fine home by a maid, found the moulder'and his family dining in evening ‘clothes, and was tater taken to his hotel in his host’s | 80-horsepower motor, On the way he learned that the moulder had paid $17,000 for his house and had $10,000 in the bank. Kay, and thru him the British pub- lie, now knows how American work- ingmen live. The story carries with it a hint that prohibition is not strictly enforced in the United States, especially in Pittsburgh, operations against the} United States government: is also | dis: | Page Three cr eemrncnmn seer onset ei nectar sone Nanna mame CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) tween the United States and Mexico He wired frantic orders to all his | agents who may have any scrap of information dealing with the question to hurry it on to Washington. Coinci- dent with this announcement is the statement by the New York represen- tative of the Mexican petroleum in- terests that a majority of the oil com- panies doing business in Mexico have agreed to abide by the petroleum de- crees of the government. «* * HE Gaelic American, an Irish na- tionalist weekly that has devoted its life to advocating Irish independ- ence, joins the Wall Street howl against Mexieo, and alleges that the Mexican government is a tool of the British government. It charges Mex- ico with carrying out British instruc- tions by interfering in Nicaragua. The Gaelic American, by taking this position, proves the hollowness of its pretensions of concern for the dom of small nations. It simply t advantage of the Irish prejudice against England to give the imperial- ists of the United States a lift. ans IR . NORMAN THOMAS can hardly | contain himself, so pleased is he jover the fact that he is in agreement with Matthew Woll on something or other, something that does not closely concern the working class. The so- cialists are never happier than when they find a convenient excuse for agreeing with the enemies of labor. Now that the New York Times has tionaries in the needle trades unions, We may expect Thomas to throw a few bouquets at Ochs. se 8 'T is becoming fashionable nowadays to appeal to the Rota, the catholic church tribunal in Rome, for assist- ance in sundering matrimonial ties that become too galling. |nubial infelicity who wishes to undo her conjugal relations with the fa- mous comedian thru the method ren- dered popular by a Vanderbilt. At the rate the divorce courts are work- ing, it might not be a bad idea for his holiness to hire a few good press agents on a commission basis to bring the merits of this spiritual divorce court to the attention of squeamish catholics who hate their husbands only a little less than they fear hell and papal displeasure. It would be a good way of making an honest penny. i a HE capitalist papers are carrying pages of stuff advising their read- ers to shop early. The advertising sections of the sheet pay for the news space wasted. Once in a while we do a little advertising in this column. This is one of the occasions, The} | Daily Worker Publishing company has. prepared a suitable Christmas present | for the working class in the form of packages of books, that sell from 25 cents to $1. We suggest that one or more of these packages is a suitable become the official organ of the reac: | Lita Grey j Chaplin is the latest victim of con- | SCANDINAVIANS PROTEST QUOTA ON IMMIGRANTS Claim the “Race Origin” Clause Is Unfair (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Repeal of the Reed amendment to the immigra- tion quota law, which provides that after next June the quota shall be based on the “racial origin” of the ex- isting Amer: population, is de- manded by ous § dinavian or- ganizations, in petitions filed in the senate by Senator Shipstead of Min- nesota. The Danish Brotherhood of | America, the Sons of Norway and, the Augustan: nod, Evangelical Luth- eran church, presented arguments against this clause in the statute. Quota Cut, “When the first immigration law the close of the went into effect r,” says the Au dish quota grants per year, and the D: h 5 ent oper 561, 5 gllowed ‘Denmark ational origin 11 of the act of o operation July 1, , be reduced on th Sec But under | basis, | | | mark’s to. 9 5 per year. | Charge Discrimination, The petition goes on to say that jthese three Scandinavian countries will thus lose annually two-thirds of | their quotas in favor of England, Hun- | gary austria, F and Italy, “whose quotas will be almost doubled and in pees cases almost trebled.” |May Deny. Citizensliiie to Hindus for Alleged ; Plot Against England WASHINGTON, of plots to Dec. ssinate 14.—Charges |of England and to inspire against British rule in India were aired today before the senate imm- gration committee at a hearing en the Reed resolution proposing to con fer American citizenship on 69 Hin- dus. The alleged plots were revealed thru reading of confidential docu ments from the files of the labor and justice departn Will Merge Hudson Valley Utility Groups ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 14,—Public Ser- vice Com oner William A. Pren- dergast has heard an application to consolidate six public utilities which serve the entire Hudson Valley, {u- cluding the counties of Greene, Ul- ster and Albany on the west bank of the river, and Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam on the east. Service in light, heat and power is involved. The con- solidation will be effected by exchange of stock and the issuing of $8,000,000 jgift and one that will have a lasting | effect, particularly the workers, thoroughly understand what they are fighting for. In other words, they understand the purpose of their work and because of that they_can fight very efficiently. South China Controi Complete. South China is completely control- led by the People’s Government, and away up in the north we have 100,000 in the Kuominchun army as a part and parcel of the Kuomintang; there- fore, with the People’s Government controlling exactly 13 provinces in the south, and with the 100,000 Kuomin tang army in the north, you see it is not difficult to recognize that suc- cess is not far distant. Almost every Chinese hates milftarists; and everywhere the mili- | tarists go, if they can not hold the place by force, they are bound to sut- fer. On the Other hand it is different with the Tevolutionists, Wherever the revolutionary army appeared they | were welcomed by the Chinese, by all the people in the locality, With the people all welcoming the Kuominchun army, I can safely say to you that within a very short time the People’s Government is going to contro] all China, and then China will be one. Financially Strong. The Peopld’s Government is the Kuomintang government and Kuomi tang’s government or the People’s Government, ‘as you might say, Is financially very strong, We have no internal financial difficulties; and be- sides the members of the People’s Government do not have any great attachment to money, so they are not corrupted, Chang Tso Lin controls just the three provinces in the north of China, but the currency of Chang Tso Lin government’ is not stable; it is al- the | stable. There is no question about the paper money of the Canton gov- ernment at all, Just Beginning. The work of the People’s Govern- ment is just at its beginning; but |there are many illustrations of the ;constructive nature of the work thoroughly done, , For instance, I will speak about education because I am most inter- ested in that. The Canton city govern- ment has launched a plan for com- |pulsory education, and I am now on a trip to investigate the educational | system of the United States of Amer- ica, There is a university in the city of | Canton, the University of the People's |Government. Formerly it was called | the Canton University; but now it is called the Sun Yat Sen University. | All People Welcome. This institution is devoted to the specific purpose of training people, highly educated people, to fit them for the. work of the revolutipn—not only Chinese, but every member of an op- pressed people in the world is wel- comed there. Erroneous reports appeared in cer- tain American papers and I wag great- \y surprised when I arrived at San Francisco, because the papers say the Canton government is antt-for- eign. I was greatly surprised because there fs no such thing in China, no such thing as anti-foreign. Have Prosperity. With the People’s Government in control of the city of Canton, there i4 prosperity. Even the foreign mer- chants, the foreign business men, have prosperity because there is a In spite of these erroneous reports I must say the People’s Government does not refuse to invite foreign capital that will help the Chinese na- | tion to build its own industry; and/ We want people who genuinely want to help China; we want foreign tech- nicians, foreign capitalists to help us | build up our industries. | “Bolshevik” Charge, The newspapers also say that the Canton government is “Red,” it is “Bolshevik,” it is “Communist.” They also say that the Canton government is in the hands of Russians and not the Chinese. I do not understand | what they mean by “Bolshevik.” Any- way, I do not think those reports are | correct. The Chinese People’s Gov- ernment weleomes every assistance | by every other people who are op- pressed, and we in turn want to help | the oppressed, : i} The Kuomintang cooperates with | the Communists, but I should say that | these press reports are not exactly | correct. | Doctrines of Sun Yat Sen. | It is also reported that-in schools of the People’s Government, Bolshey- ism was preached, | am a student of education and I do not understand what they mean by “Bolshevism,” but | I do know that in ali Chinese schools, no matter what they mean by Bol shevism, the ‘doctrines of Sun Yat Sen, are. taught, ‘These untrue reports are from Shan. #hai. There is no doubt that it is a! conspiracy between the militarist and the imperialists to try to dis credit the People’s Government, | To tell you frankly, in comparison with all other imperialistic powers, ebance for busin in an orderly country; and yet they say that the ways in danger, while the currency of the Canton government is very °Shaig SATURDAY in Chicago : mages act’ People’s Government {s anti-foreign. T can not understand why, Ay saad eRe TR Sto A QI cy Nea Pate apes amt atc MB ba direst & A Russian super HAINS’ |: mance, revolution the Chinese people, as a whole, are | more friendly to the American people | in general, because Americans have comparatively not been oppressing | at Ash jed; |the Russian and the |living in ; work of the © worth of bonds, ao Chan Tells of Chinese Liberation Movement China as the other powers did. For instance, you returned the Boxer fi- demnity, and many other things you have done in China. We feel that in comparison with all the other powerg, the United States has not done so much against us as the others, Abolished Treaties, We are now chiefly concerned with the abolition of unequal treaties, Our unequal treaties with czarist Russia, and with Germany have been abolish- and L.dare say, at the present.time German people Ch live in safety and there is no trouble at all. The World Revolution, As I said at the very beginning, the nese revolution is two- fold, We are almost on the ve of succeeding in the first part of; our work, Our chief concern now is the world revolution of which the Chinese revolution is only a part, I hope, as Dr, Sun Yat Sem has said, all the people who treated the Chinese people as equals will work together | with the Chinese people, and we will fight shoulder to shoulder in the cause of the world revolution. Grateful. To-day I am very grateful to the various organizations that have par ticipated in welcoming me here, I am grateful to the American Workers Party and The DAILY WORKER and the All-America Anti-Imperialist | League, and to the American Negro Labor Congress, and I can only ex press my gratitude to you by hoping that because of this sentiment you have expressed, you gave me much more confidence in the success of thé | world’ revolution, Il am very grateful again for your hearty welcome this evening, and with hope for the succoss of the world re volution, I wit dhexbss ASHLAND AUDITORIUM land and Van Buren Two showings—at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m >