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

a 4 BRITAIN ADOPTS NEW POLICY IN CHINA DEALINGS Urges Decreasing of For- eign Control LONDON, Dec, 27.—Great Britain is betng forced to adopt a new policy toward China, it is! indicated by a memoranda made public by the Brit- ish foreign office. The statement de- clares that control of China by’ for- eign powers should be decreased rather than increased and calls on the other powers to adopt this policy. Should Be Neutral. Great Britain believes now that the correct policy to pursue is to refrain from becoming associated with any , Particular faction in the. struggle now going on in China, and that the.pow- ets should be “neutral.” It, however, points out that “failure to meet with sympathy and understanding the powerful nationalist movement which has emerged would not respond to the real intentions of the powers to- ward China, Realize Aspirations of China. “His majesty’s government proposes that the powers should make it clear that In their constructive policy they desire to go as far as possible to- wards meeting the legitimate aspira- tions of the Chinese nation,” says the Gocument. Abandonment of the idea that the development of China can only be ob- tained by intervention of the western nations is urged by Great Britain. The statement says: “The powers should abandon the idea that eco- nomic and political development of China can only be secured under for- eign tutelage and should declare her right to the enjoyment of a tariff autonomy as soon as she herself has ,Settled and promulgated a new na- tional tariff. They should expressly disclaim any intention of forcing for- eign control upon an unwilling China.” See Realities, The statement calls on other pow- ets to consider and realize the “reali- ties” in the Chinese situation. Steps toward revision of treaties ex- isting between China and the powers should be taken immediately, the statement says. It says that altho Britain believes treaties should be . lived up to, in the case of China they should be adjusted to meet present conditions. Treaty revision should be made when a government is set up with power to negotiate, it says, ee (Special to The Daily Worker) HANKOW,> Dec. °27“Over 150 Ia- bor, peasant and merchant organiza- tions met in Hanyang, across the Han River from Hankow and prepared a program of resistance to the northern militarists and an offensive against the British imperialists, Anti-British and anti-militarist propaganda corps were formed. Validate Currency. The Kuomintang government has announced the validation of the cur- rency in the Yangtze provinces under its control, Bank notes to the amount of $15,000,000 have been issued to take the place of the old currency, Labor unions are being rapidly formed thruout the entire valley and strikers against foreigners. continue frequently in the various cities. The British and other foreign concessions in Hankow are heavily manned with marines and the defending forces of the foreign settlements are becoming larger. What If They Work 100 Years? LONDON, Dec. 27.—A new scale for women bank clerks goes into effect with the new year. It provides a starting salary of $450 a year; to be increased to $1,000 after 11 years of service, Those affected by the scale ‘enraged because it places them in an inferior position to a shorthand typist. Mexican Consul-General Replies to . Editor, DAILY .WORKPR:—As »> the catholic hierarchy in the United *. States, led by Cardinal Hayes, have “ween fit to issue a statement thru “the press to the people of the .. United States, in which they de- nounce Mexico as the foe of free % , dom, I feel sure that you will give me space to answer this statement of the hierarchy. My answer is en- closed.—Arturo M, Elias, Consul- General of Mexico in the United States. see Sy ergembi HAYES is reported in the press as saying, in giving out his statement, that “President Calles entered the Americon forum in an at- tempt to justify the position of his government.” The cardinal js certain- ly misinformed as to this. The record shows that President Oalles has never fasued a special pleading of any sort in reference to the church question in Mexico, When etatements were spread thruout the United States and the world regarding the church issue, which, in the president’s opinion, were ‘totally at variance with the facts in ‘the case, he sought to place these facts the people of all civilized na- || U.S. OI CONCERNS FORCED TO GOMPLY WITH MEXICO'S LAND LAWS, SEEK PERMIT MEXICO CITY, Dec, 27.—Three large American oll companies op- erating in Mexico have signified their compliance with the oll and | land acts of the Mexican govern- ment by applying for concession rights on the land they now “own,” according to provisions of the laws of 1917. The three companies include the Penn-Mex Fuel company, Marland Oil company and Richmond Petro- leum company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil company of California. Various. other companies are ap- plying for concession permits for the use of land in Mexico under the new laws, The oil and land laws provide that if applications for concessions are not made the land will be given to the ones the government sees fit, according to best interests of the nation, regardless of previous con- trol. PLAN CONTINUING NAVY CONTROL OF VIRGIN ISLANDS Inhabitants’ Hope for Freedom Glimmer WASHINGTON, Dec, 27. —(FP)— Steps to throw into the scrapbasket legislation designed to give the Virgin Islands a form of government that will assume the supremacy of the civilian branch of the government and to sub- stitute for it a bill designed to con- tinue the present policy of having the navy Officials administer the affairs of the islands were taken when the house committee on foreign affairs listened to proposals to amend bills already passed by the house. Sen, Bingham, of Connecticut, and Martin E. Trench, naval governor of the islands, testifying before the com- mittee, stated that it was the con- census of opinion of the inhabitants of the islands that the present civil government under the supervision of the department of the navy should be continued. The proposed transfer of the administration of the islands’ at- fairs to the bureau of insular affairs was opposed, Admits Qissatisfaction. Bingham admitted that there was evidence of dissatisfattion*among the natives with the present government, which he was defending, but claimed that the dissatisfaction was due to the depression which prevails there, for which he said the government was not responsible, Representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union are attending the hearings with a view to opposing the proposal to continue the adminis- tration of the naval officials, and to insist on the*adoption of the bill as it passed the house last April, IN 1927 WE SHALL BE WELL SHAKEN BEFORE ECONOMICALLY TAKEN ROME, Dec. 27—According to Ben- dani, of the Faenza Observatory, there will be many seismic disturb- ances over the world in 1927. Earth- quaites are predicted in southern Europe, South America, the Philip- pine Islands and parts of Alaska. Another volcanic eruption is prom- ised for Japan, These disturbances, it is predicted, will begin by the middle of January and will continue till the close of the year, when Trans-Caucasus and Armenia will come in for their share, Cardinal Hayes’ ipastoral letter, sign- ed by two archbishops and two bishops as representatives of the catholic clergy in the United States, asks that the position of the Mexican govern- ment “be judged by American stand- ards.” While it should be obvious that Mexico being a different country, and one in which different conditions ob- tain, it might be wholly unapprépri- ate and misleading to judge conditions there by “American standards,” the Mexican government is very happy in- deed to have this particular issue— the issue of the catholic church in Mexico versus the Mexican people— judged by “American standards.” More than that. We should be de- sirous of having the catholic church in Mexico judged by the standards ap- plied by the vatholic church and to the catholic church in the United States, The fundamental tenot of the Amer- ican people in regard to religion is, as the bishops’ pastoral letter points out, religious freedom—tglerance, This means the right of every person of every creed to worship freely ag he|f sees fit. Many of the early settlers in Amer- fea fled from the old world to escape religious persecution, Among those who were conspicuous in planting on the soil of the mew world the eved SS PR se ee Pee ee ne en cts as ere ARR ORS” sens Pt dc A RE selenite Se. Pee i Elbe tat it Sere OO Lan tT U. S. Rubber Barons Would Give ‘Liberty’ to Moros for Rubber WASHINGTON, Dec, 27.—Students of Filipino problems, commenting on the introduction of a bill by Represen- tative Bacon, of New York, providing for the removal of the Moro provinces from the jurisdiction of the, Filipino legislature, declared that the primary object of the proposed measures was to remove the most valuable rubber plantations to a place where Ameri- can interests can deal with them more conveniently’ than while jurisdiction rests with the Philippine legislature. Sproul Defends Vare in Expenditures, Says Ousting Revolutionary NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—“To deny William S, Vare a seat in the senate would be revolutionary and an attack on the constitutional. rights of the states,” declared William ©. Sproul, former governor of Pennsylvania in a speech before the Pennsylvania so- ciety here. Such action would be “dangerous in the extreme,” he said. “If 49 men in the United States may determine the qualifications outside of constitutional provisions as to the eligibility, of 47 other men who have been duly return- ed by the sovereign states, as their associates, then we shall have an example of tyranny of the majority which would surely be fatal to our democracy,” he declared. Sproul said there was nothing wrong with Vare spending such huge sums to be elected. “He saw his op portunity and took it,” he added. Stop Work on Mexican Roads. GUAYMAS, Sonora, Mex., Dec, 27.— The Southern Pacific, in suspending work on the line between Tepic and Guardalajara, has thrown 10,000 men out of work, The stockholders of the railroad are unwilling to furnish addi- tional funds for construction, and the railroad offifficials claim that the Mex- ican government is unable to continue the subsidy, owing to the cost it is under in suppressing the Yaqui’s up- rising. of tolerance were the Roman catholics under Lord Baltimore. By the time the colonists were ready to form a nation, their love of religious liberty and their detestation for the imposition of any kind of control or compulsion in the matter of religious belief were so thoroly established that the first amendment to the constitu- tion adopted in 1791 declared: “Congress should make no law respecting the establishment of re- ligion or prohibiting the free exer- cise thereof; or abridging the free- dom of speech or press.” * This has been the policy of the United States ever since and it is one that every liberty-loving individual must and does applaud. Now, what was the situation in Mexico? It was nearly half a century later (from 1810-1820) when the Mexican people sought to establish their inde- pendence against a tyranny and op-! pression far greater than that which the American colonists had rightly considered intolerable. The Mexicans fought, likewise, against far greater obstacles. The holy inquisition still existed, and 80 dominant was the catholic hier- that it was able to write into sed x4 THE DAILY WORKER — EAR COMRADE: D OUR FIRST CHALLENGE ANSWERED! Denver, Colo., Deo. 25, 1926. In response to your challenge-which appeared in The DAILY WORKER you will remember sometime ago you sent us a letter of congratulations on the splendid showing we made here quota, in raising a large percentage of our We concentrated on this drive when the appeal first went out and sent in a good deal of money at once and made collections later. This ts why you have not seen any donations listed recently, because we have now just about made up what has been sent in. However even before your challenge appeared we had not forgotten The DAILY WORKER as you will find by inclosed notice and we hope by this affair to raise enough so that Denver with District No. 10 can go over the top with its quota. 1 am enclosing a $5.00 personal donation and $2.00 donated by D. Bauer. 1 gave $5.00 previously. | trust that those districts which are far behind will wake up and do as well as Denver and Kansas City—WILLIAM DIETRICH. WCFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCF Leis on the air with regular programs. It broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. onstitution not merely that the catholle Feligion would be the state |imilian, bh | lal a aig TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m=Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour. 6:30—The Brevoort Concert Trio; Little Joe Warner, Charlie White, John Miller, Harry Dre Da Davis. 10:00—Alamo C: Orch 11:00—Alamo Entertain religion but that NONE OTHER WOULD BE TOLERATED, Of course, freedom of ‘the press wag not permit- ted, nor freédom of assembly, nor free dom of thought. In ‘1815 the holy inquisition had “re- laxed to the secular arm” for execu- tion the great patriot and statesman Jose Maria Morelos, himself a priest, for the “heresy” of supporting inde- pendence. ‘Then began, and is still in process after over a hundred years of blood and anguish, the struggle to at- tain what the American people achieved at the time of their inde- pendence but which was dened: the Mexicans. The Mexican people thought they had achieved it in the middle of the last century when our great leader, Benito Juarez, and a group of liberty- loving individuals—all of them pious and devout catholics, incidentally— having long realized that religion was one thing and political and economic control another, managed legally to separate church and state, But they reckoned without their foe. ‘The hi- erarchy precipitated a bloody three- year civil for the retention of their special privileges and when fingl- ly defeated brought about a foreign interventi which imposed: as em- peror the psburg Archduke oh AMERICAN ADVENTURER DECLARES ADVANCE WAR ON CANTON GOVERNMENT PARIS—Co!. Sweeny, an Ameri- can adventurer, is threatening to declare war on China, He was or- ganizer of the American Escadrille which fought in Morocco and is again becoming restive and snort- ing fire. He is trying to recruit American flyers to make China safe for imperialism, the clergy were not beaten, however, and altho the reform laws remained on the statute books they were nulli- fied in practice and in fact. Religious liberty and tolerance, in- deed! I refer the eminent cardinal] and bishops of the United States to any and every pastoral issued by their coMeagues, the archbishdps and bishops of Mexico at that time so that they may note and ponder the in- variable references to religious free- dom and tolerance as “impious,” “sacrilegious,” “un-catholic” and ‘in- famous.” They have not changed, Yes, it was quite different in the United States where in the words of that eminent cardinal, Gibbons of Baltimore, under the American sys- tem of tolerance catholicism could and did “blossom like the rose.” Let the cardinal and catholic bishops of the United States ask any of the protestant missionaries who are now in Mexico to relate the early ex- periences of many who were beaten, set upon, and how some lost their lives, martyrs to their religious faith; and of othere who narrowly escaped death for the crime of being “pro- testants.” It were not the peaceful Mexican Indians who 6; RUSSIA BUILDING | SHIPS 10 HANDLE | INCREASED TRADE Soviet Spends Millions on Commerce Vessels pa MOSCOW, Dec —At the begin- ning of the navigation season of 1926 the following Soviet steamship lines were in operation: Archangel-Mur- mansk-Vardo, one trip every fort- night; Leningrad-London, a rapid line | with two sailings weekly; Leningrad- Hamburg, a rapid line with two sail- |ings weekly; Odessa-Near East, one sailing in two wee Odessa-Vladi- vostok, five trips every year, and Vlad- ivostok-Shanghai-Canton. Open New Line. In addition to this, the Soviet mer- chant marine has opened the Black Sea-Baltic Line, a rapid line alongside the European coast, which will con- | nect Leningrad with the Black and | Azov Sea ports, | The proportién of Soviet export and jimport trade carried in 1925 on ves- sels of the Soviet merchant marine was 8.5 per cent of the total. As compared with 1924, 9.2 per cent This percentage represents a certain reduction in spite of the fact that in 1925 the freight turnover increased by 32 per cent as compared with 1924, and also in spite of the improvements effected and the increase of its ton- nage from 151,000 register tons iy 1924 to 185,000 register tons in 1925. Bullding 31 Ships. At the present time all ships have been repaired. In the Soviet ship- building plant 31 ships are now being built, their total value amounting to 34,000,000 gold rubles. Buy Ships Also, Orders have been placed in other countries for the construction of four vessels for coast shipping with a total tonnage of about 5,000 tons, and for four tankers for the oil syndicate with a total tonnage of about 86,400 tons. Since the spring, 1925, freight trans- port was reorganized along new lines the entire freight transport being sub- mitted to the supervision of the Peo- ple’s Commissariat for Trade, Railroad Men to Try Board of Mediation WASHINGTON. — Following the grant of a seven and one-half per cent wage increase to employes on eastern railroads, 50,000 conductors and train- men on roads of the Southeast have made a similar demand. The rail- roads have countered with a demand for modification of some of the work- ing rules. Unable to agree, the disputants have taken the matter before the Mediation Board erected under the Watson-Parker Act. Baltimore Conference Plans Passaic Bazaar BALTIMORE, Dec. 27.—A bazaar for the benefit of the Passaic textile | strikers will be held here on Friday, | Jan, 28, and Saturday, Jan. 29, by the | Baltimore Conference for the Relief of Passaic Strikers. Contributions to the bazaar can be sent to the Fretheit office, 1147 East Balttmore street. Tickets can also be purchased there. Admission is 15/ cents. Anyone who has contributions to make is asked to inform the confer- ence and they will be sent for. To Bulld Lenin Hospital. MOSCOW, Dec, 27.—Peasants i Novosibirsk district started collecting funds to build a hospital which will be named after Lenin, as he lived here in the village of Shushenskoie, being exiled by the former czarist govern- ment, knives shouting, “Mueran los Pro- testantes” (death to the protestants). Liberty, tolerance, indeed! When the word “Protestante” is today used by the Mexican catholic hierarchy and unfortunately by many Mexicans who have been under their sway, it is as an epithet of contempt! Tolerance! Liberty! Where else in the world do catholics now celebrate Holy Saturday by burn- ing Judas in effigy and where else does the word “Judio” (Jew) rival “Pro- testante” as a label of infamy? Who was it that taught the Mexican people that? Freedom! The Mexicans want free- dom with the passion of a people to whom it has been denied. They want education, they want to go to those schools, those civil schools against which the catholic hierarchy in Mexico have always conducted and are now conducting an intransigent warfare denouncing them as “godless” and “atheistic” merely because they are public schools, Do the catholic clergy in the United States condone that? This is but & small part of the story. The task of setting down the full truth about the catholic hierarchy as it is in Mexico is revolting. What evidence do the oatholic now being made in Mexico by fegal means to limit the further perpetue- tion of among the Mexican masses. tory tells fully, convincingly, pathetic. ally, why these laws have been fous necessary. United States and could never because in America there has tolerance and religious liberty, their spiritual duties then the religious question—which iy religious question at Page Three ACCIDENT IN ROME; BLACK SHIRT BRUISES “APPLE OF OUR” EYE (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME.—Thé right to control the €ducation of youth is the main iseue raised in the Pope’s recent allocution, according to the Italian government, The Pope regards the Fascist organl- zations for youth as a menace to the Catholic Action Organization, which the Pope in his allocution referred to as “the apple of our eye.” The Fascist state objects te ‘the Catholic organizations because they are international in tendency and are in some cases allied with the anti- Fascist groups. The Pope abhore the Fascist organizations for youth be- cause they are irreligious, Mussolini will attempt to allay the fears of the Holy See—while sticking strictly to his plans to organize youth and train them in the doctrines and discipline of the “black shirt.” Radio Legisiaies Hits Snag Over Who Will Wield Power WASHINGTON, Dec, 27. —(FP)-— Conferences of the house and senate, each determined that their respective radio bills shall be adopted, report that no agreement had been reached as yet as to the report they are to make. Senator Dill, of Washington, author of the bill which is designed to deny to the secretary of the interior full contro] of the air, announced that the disagreement between the representa- tives of the two houses was on the question of how much power shall be vested in the commission his D{ll creates. House conferees insist on giving it as little power as possible, and the rest of the power to Secretary Hoover, while the senate conferees in- sist on reversing the position, Lord Mussolini Grabs Thunder of Pius XI pe ee ROME, Dec, 27.—By decree @ new fascist calendar has been established, dating from Oct. 28, 1922, when the black shirts marched on Rome, In the future.all official documents will bear two dates, the ordinary date, in the year of our lord, and the other tm the year of our MusSolini, No one has yet suggested another, to date from the occasion when the cackling of geese saved Rome. Horthy Pardons Ten----— Communist Prisoners BUDAPEST.—Ten who were con- victed for their participation in the Communist regime were among the 70 who received Christmas pardons from Admiral Horthy. Two who were sen- tenced under the gag-law against the press were also included, and nine for plundering during the revolution of 1918. BOLIVIA CATHOLICS DO NOT WANT ADVENTISTS 10 CONDUGT SCHOOLS LA PAZ, Bolivia—La Union, a Catholic organ, is protesting vigor- ously at the action of the minister of instruction in granting permis- sion to the Adventist sect to estab- lish schools and colleges in two provinces of Bolivia. The paper de- clares it is “the means used by the Adventists to disseminate thelr er. roneous and perverse ideas against the true church of Christ.” A League for Religious Freedom, such as the Catholics have started in Mexico to further their own ende, finds no duplicate here. The shee is on the other foot. Catholic Hierarchy but to compare what they have done coming as an insignifi¢ant minority te & protestant country and building @ church which is strong, growing, ae tive in its support of the government, which prides itself in being patriotie and loyal, and the position of the cathe olic church in Mexico which had an unchallenged monopoly for three and a half centuries and which has left desert of ignorance, misery and euper- stition which is apparent to even the most casual visitor? It lg true that there exist now fa Mexico restrictions to limit the politi cal activities of the clergy which do not exist in the United States, It is true that there is an attempt superstition and ignorance Our baw, Such conditions do not exist in | th If the Roman catholic Mexico would confine hg wp weer vores