The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 3

} Lis 4 PEKING LOSES CHEKIANG; WILL JOIN IN REVOLT U.S, France, Japan Disturbed by British (Speotal to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, Jan. 2, — Cheklang province, south of here, has declared ts Independence from the Peking government. In officially severing Its connection with the reactionary and now rapidly crumbling regime in Pek- Ing, the position of the Canton revolu- tionary government is now consider. ably strengthened. Cheklang’s affilla- tlon with the Cantonese revolution- aries |s expected momentarily. Capture of Shangha! by the South- erners shortly is now practically as- sured. People With Canton. The northerners have amassed @ome 100,000 troops m this district, ‘but losses by desertion to the revolu- tionists and hostility of the people toward the warlords, who are im- bued with great pro-Cantonese senti- ment, are having their effect, Fighting is still going on Hangchow, capital of Chekiang. se * Washington Silent. WASHINGTON, January 2. — The Washington government is silent on the memorandum of the British gov ernment issued last week in which Great Britain declared the powers should adopt a more liberal policy in the Chinese situation. Great Britain declared it favored revision of the tariff and customs policies pursued by the powers, to allow the Chinese more autonomy. Great Britain asked the other powers to make a statement as to what policies they intend to follow towards China. Washington’s silence is adding to the international compli- cation surrounding Chinese affairs. England also urged for recognition of the growing nationalistic spirit in China and the adoption of a “hands off” policy, providing for future rec- cognition of any faction dn China that showed itself capable of self-govern- ment. near U. &. Piabbergasted. That the U. S. Department of State ‘was much disturbed over Great Brit- ain’s stand is indicated. The United States has attempted to play the role of being China's “‘friend;,” the while pointing to Great Britain as the “evil foreign power.” Great Britain is now seen as turning the tables and the United States visibly “doesn’t like it.” No Alternative. The United States now has no al- ternative but to move along with Great Britain, acoording to observers here. Coolidge and Kellogg have had several lengthy conferences on the matter since the receipt of the Brit- ish memorandum, and altho refusing to divulge their reactions, indicated that a “favorable reply” would be mate soon, The state department has refuted to make any statements until the British answer is framed. French May. The French reaction to the British proposals is virtually the same as that of the United States. The French cabinet is reported to be “wary” of the motives behind the Downing | street action, and is preparing to adopt ja “watchful waiting’ policy to see what develops. Japan, the other power greatly in- terested in China, is openly against the British proposals for 4 change in the fiscal policy of the powers, if the opinions of the leading Japanese | mewspapers are criterion. Big busi- ‘England in Valley of Humiliation,’ Says Canterbury Archbishop in 1927 Message (Opectal to Tho Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan, &-~Tho nglish peo coms s Fy i gests bitter and profitiess RIGHT WING ATTEMPTS BLACKMAIL OF NEW YORK PAPERBOX STRIKERS NEW YORK,’ (By Mail.)—A. I. Ship- lasoff, who has been selected as Chief Executioner of Communists by the so-called “Preserve the Unions” (in reality Destroy the Unions) confer- ence held at “Beethoven Hall, has made an attack upon the Paper Box Makers’ Union and its leadership in the Jewish Daily (Socialist) Forward. In his statement he expresses dissat- isfaction with the leadership of the union, including Fred Cailloa, the manager who came into office after a revolt of the rank and file against the last manager, Waldman, who was backed by the Socialist Party bureau- cracy in the labor unions and who was guilty of graft, gangsterism and corruption which had brot the union to ruin. Shiplacoff declares that relief will be given to the Paper Box Makers’ Union only on condition that those who control the union at the present time get out of the situation. More than this, he admits that he has as- surances that ’the strike can be set- tled. It is well to ask a few questions of this new hero of the right wing bu- reaucracy: You are dissatisfied with the leadership of Cafolla and his as- sociates, who are not Communists but plain, honest, trade unionsts, who have cleaned out the corruption and the mess left by the Waldman clique. Whom do you wish to lead the Paper Box Makers’ Union and their strike? Do. you wish the return of Mr. Wald- man and Company, whom you sup ported when the rank and file kicked him out. of office? You.state that the strike can be settled. What special information haye you? The. attorney for the Pa- per Box Makers’ Union is Mr. Will- jam Karlin, a prominent official of the Socialist Party, one of your own sort, who is very closely allied with you in the present witch-burning com- paign against the Communists. Why has Mr. Karlin not succeeded in get- ting a settlement with the bosses ear- lier? Are you indeed on more inti- mate terms with the bosses than is Mr. Karlin or the union? Mr. Sig- man, your hero in the cloakmakers’ strike, worked with the bosses before and during, the strike. Do you get this information from Mr. Karlin, or have both of you been keeping cer- tain information from the union and from the workers? This strike of the Paper Box Mak- ers’ Union has.been fought by the un- jon against the. most miserable con- ditions prevailing in any industry. It has been fought with very little re- sources at its command. The pres- ent leadership has had to overcome not only the oppésition of the po- lice, of gangsters, and the resistance of the bosses, but has had to over- come the ruin and wreckage left by the Waldman administration when it was kicked out of office in July of last year. Strikers Demand Support. Tt is plain that such a union, in so diffcult an industry, cannot win its strike without support of the labor movement. It has shown great cour- age and fighting spirit in maintaining workers whose loyalty to the union has been many times challenged by the betrayals of the Waldmans and similar reactionaries who associate today with Mr. Shiplacoff. These workers have a right to de- mand of all trade unions that they come to their support. Placing con- ditions upon the support of these workers is nothing more nor less than blackmail. You say you will give relief on the condition that the present leadership gets out. Do you really think that the work- ers, who have learned their lessons with the Waldmans will sell them- selves for the return of Waldman, who had ruined their union and had discredited unionism, and who had used the Paper Box Makers’ Union as a pawn for their own aggrandize- ment and shameful purposes? The Paper Box Makers’ Union will give the proper answer to sucit blackmail- ing methods. : Hit at Shylock Methods. ‘We should like to ask one more question of Mr. Shiplacoff. Why such an interest in the Paper Box Makers’ Union? Why this meddling and in- terference with workers out on strike? You are supposed to be against in- terference ‘in labor unions—you who were only yesterday the Hxecutive Secretary of the Socialist Party of CHICAGO “PROF” FLAYS FOOTBALL AS YOUTH MENACE “Hinders Education and Promotes Gambling” (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—A sweeping denouncement of college football was made by Prof, E, H. Wilkins, of the University, of Chicago, in a debate with Dr, S, V. Sanford, of the Uni- versity pf, Georgia, president of the Southern Conference, at the annual meeting, of the National Collegiate Athletic, Association, Prof, , Wilkins pointed out that twenty years ago football faced an in- dictment on the grounds it endan- gered the health of students, that this accusation, had been remedied only to have the, game face a far more serious indictment. Is Education Hindrance, Prof, Wilkins said that for the 2 per cent of collegians who plan and benefit frdm football “intercollegiate football ag presently conducted inter- feres to an intolerable degree with the education of the other 98 per cent.” » The Indictments. Five salient faults in modern col- lege football were named by Professor Wilkins:; ;1. Over-excitement during the football season, which caused neg- lect of academic work. 2. Distortion of normal scale of values in which the student believed that success in foot- ball was@he only success worth while. 3, Intensifies the “drinking era.” 4. New York are really against Commu- nist and so-called “outside” interfer- ence in labor unions. Why this inter- ference? Why the Shylock terms to workers demanding relief? In your actions in the Paper Box Makers’ situation, you believe all of your high-sounding phrases about “no politics in the unions” and-show that behind these phrases is the gross in- tention to utilize the union in order to clean out men and women wo have been fighting a hard battle against the bosses and their agents, with the hope of putting in your own ugly group of reactionaries who will throttle the will of the rank and file and maintain itself by gangsterism and terrorism. The Paper Box Mak- ers have a right to say to you—the new little hero of the reactionaries— “Keep your hands off the Paper Box Makers’ Strike.” The workers and members of your own union and al) unions will give relief, not because of but despite you, in the imterests of solidarity and unity and for victory against the bosses. Political Strife Is What Japan Calls Conditions in Korea TOKIO, Jan. 2. — Hurling bombs and using revolvers, @ group of natiyes entered two business offices in Seoul, Korea, killing two men and wounding seven others, according to word recelyed here today. The motive for the outrage is unknown, but it is belfeved to have been inspired by pol- {tical strife. U Britioh In China Uneasy. SHANGHAI—British nationals here feel uneasy over the British govern- ments’ memorandum regarding China, Their fear of being ultimately de prived of their privileged positions is, however, being masked dy their decla- rations that the paper shows a liberal attitude on the part of their govern- ment and refutes the charges of im- Derialistic designs, GERMAN FIRMS REFUSE LETTERS WITH STAMP OF FREDERICK GREAT ‘Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN—Many German firme are refusing to receive letters bear Ing the new ten pfonnig stamp with a likeness of Frederick the Great, as a protest against what they charge je monarchist propaganda, The ploture of Frederick le silpped In by the minister of posts, not a former king of Prussia, but in a series of stamps ploturing Ilustrious literary mon, with whom It pleased tho monarchiste to In clude the patron of Voltaire, "We do not feel that we are stand Ing upon the height, but in » valley, Cites Bunyan, “We are disappointed, even trumfl jated, Humiliation} ‘The word sug: UNEMPLOYMENT ACUTE IN FRANCE AND CABINET IS CALLED 10 DISCUSS IT (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS.—Unemployment has be- come 80 acute as to receive the at- tention of a cabinet meeting. The situation Ie aggravated by the rise of the frano In value. Furniture manufacturers reported 48 per cent of unemployment and predicted a complete stoppage of the industry unless there was sudden Improvement. The silk and metal in- dustries are hard hit. The minister of public works told the cabinet that they were planning In a crisie to take care of as many manuel workers In public enter- prises as possible. Some cities, such as Lyons, Lille, and others, are al- ready taking suoh action, Scandal in Sale of French Decorations (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS The arrest of M. Ruotte will lead, {t is believed, to his laying bare a tremendous scandal in connec E has in hig list one man ‘was given the honor because of years in the direction of he was but 32 years who received it altho.he record of having trat- the enemy in the late } and still another who was deoor- ated altho he had served a prison term for bankruptcy, Two More Yank Actors Get Parisian Divorce PARIS, Jon, f, -~ Mary Caldwell, known on the American stage as Mary Hay, and Richard Bartheimess, motion ploture star, have been granted a di- voroe by the Paris courts, Mary Hay admitted that the divorce had been granted a week ago and that the decree had been officially Tecerded, altho not made public in ao gordance with the useage of the French divorce courts, ggEEEES sf = TOKIO - Emperor Hirohito, at his Sponsors gambling. 5. Induces im- proper financial background for play- ers, Static Message from Mars? One Scientist Says Yes, Two Say No CHICAGO, Jan, 2. — Radio static is not a message from Mars or any other planet, according to two University of Chicago’ professors. Their state- ments were given in response to one issued by ‘prof. Michael I, Pupin of Columbia University, Professor Pupin ‘stated static and interference are mes- sages from Mars. “Anyone*can speculate,” Dr. Hawley B, Lemon of the Ryerson physical lab- oratory of the University of Chicago declared, ‘but research shows almost definitely that all radio disturbances are caused by electrical phenomena some fifty“iniles above the surface of the earth.” State’s Attorneys Take Few Shots at Clabaugh ‘States’ attorneys from all parts of Illinois have @turned to their re- spective bailiwicks, many of them chuckling openly over their tilt with Hinton G, Blabagh, head of the state board of pardons and paroles, as a re- sult of the annual convention of the States’ Attorneys’ Association. The cause of the chuckles was a set of resolutiong introduced by a committee, of which Prosecutor Roy Cline of Champaign was the head, in which Mr, Clabaugh was described as a dictator, a spoiled child at a birth- day party, a publicity seeker, and a person of political ambitions. Mayor and Federation in Truce on Trustees Mayor Dever and his spokesman on the council’s school committee, Jacob M, Arvey, have agreed not to push the matter of confirming the mayor's four appointments to the school board, pending ;the completion of an investi- gation which the Chicago Federation of Labor, has been making into their qualifications, The mayor took this action after conference with John Fitzpatrick and Edward J, Nookels of the Federation, Mother of Poet Die GALESBURG, Ill, Jan, 2,—- Mrs. Clara Sandburg, 76, mother of Car Sandburg, Chicago poet, died today of pneumouja. Seven children survive. CHINESE EDUCATOR TO MARRY WHITE WOMAN WHO 1S GIVEN DIVORCE SAN FRANCISCO, — The East has met the West—and the East ie victorious, Naming Herbert Bing Moy, grad- uate of Stanford University and now Instructor In the Hooper Foundation for Medica| Research at the Uni- versity of Oaliforn co-respond- ent, Edward G, Geiger, a clerk, wae granted a divorce from hie pretty blonde wife, Mra, Marcella White Geiger, 24, a graduate nuree, Dr, Moy, of striking appearance, his poise unshaken, admitted his love for the white woman, “| loved Marcella jong befo: husband knew her,” he said, her ind | drat bia eagerly “oat er ot in which he stressed the usual " pf the imperialist oveplords for peace.” shall marry her—if she consents,” Mrs," Geiger also professed her love for the handsome Chinese edu- cator,” F “whén the divorce final, 4 shall marry,” she We- | ( oo THE’ DAILY WORKER aM SOME EXAMPLES OF ‘PROSPERITY’ ON U. §. FARMS Tillers Get Nothing But Debts from Labor By STANLEY J. CLARK On Dec, 3 W. M. Allison brought into Tuttle, Oklahoma, a load of seed cotton. After waiting until noon the cotton was converted into lint. The bale weighed 530 pounds and sold for six cents per pound, the price for the bale beihg $31.08. After paying pick- ing, ginning and wrapping Allison had 80 cents for which to pay himself for plowing the ground, buying the seed, cultivating the land and hauling the cotton to town, Another farmer received 70 cents, and another only received forty cents for the same efforts put forth above. Thousands of acres of cotton have not been touched by the hands of pick- ers, The tenant farmer finds himself in a position where he can get pay for gathering all crops but his own, If he gathers his own crop the landlord or banker gets it and refuses to allow the tenant one penny for gathering. The tenant moves away, abandons his crop. for his creditors to gather, and hires himself to some small landlord and thereby gets pay enough to keep from starving. In lowa. Iowa farmers are mortgaged more that $1,000,000,000, The interest on this debt at five per cent’ is $65,000.- 000 annually, the public debt born by the farmers in the same state is $73,- 464,000, the interest on this debt makes another amount of interest $3,- 678,200. In addition to the two items mentionéd above is the visit of the tax collector, In 1925 the total in taxes from farmers was $67,800,000. The total debt per acre on Iowa farmers averages four dollars and five cents per acre annually. The figures are from the Iowa Farm Bureau Mes- sanger, ese United States steel cut a melon of $200,000,000. By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press) If President Coolidge tried to get unearned income and stock dividends out of farm investments instead of |from his cozy block of U. 8. Steel (Corp. shares he might be ag eager to help the farmer as he is to help the }steel and other industries. This startling slant on the motives possibly underlying the federal policy against agriculture was broadcast over the air by State Senator M. L. Bow- man of Iowa, speaking over WCFL, the Chicago Federation of Labor radio station, in an address on the at- titude of the Farmers’ Union toward organized labor, “The farmers,” said Bowman, “do not question the honesty, the integrity, or the Christian character of our president of the United States when he shares in the $200,000,000 melon of U. S. steel by virtue of being one of the stockholders. However, our mid- west farmers are beginning to believe that if our president, who seems to feel that the farmer should work out his own salvation, found it necessary to provide for his family by the profit in farm operation it might be very “Labor and the farmer should realize that thetr interests are mutual, that the worker must have a good wage to pay @ good price for farm products and farming must be on a profitable basis if the wheels of industry are to continue to run so that labor can be employed, The Iowa State Federation of Labor has joined hands with the farmer, That harmonious cooperation Claims Lake Diversion by Chicago Has Little Effect on Water Level Diversion of Jake water by Chicago accounts for but a small fraction of |the lowering of Great Lakes’ levels, | Representative Newton, of Missourt, | told the Chicago Association of Com- merce, | Newton sald the divereion assured a |navigable waterway thru the “heart | ot the nation” and ought to be con- tinued, "It has been demonstrated,” he said, | | “that we can have @ waterway con- | necting the guif and the lakey without injury to lake commerce, The differ- ence in lake levels caused by diver- sion could be made up by compensat- becomes | ins works coating but $18,400,000." “SUBSCRIBE | | | | | The Farmers’ Section will appear regularly In morning’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for :t. Political Program | from the evfis of the ealamane and tenantry evil thru the Adoption, of a land tenure system Which will secure the land to the users. 2, ‘The nationalization of the rail roads, the meat packing plants, graln reevator combines and the control ani management of these ing or- ganizations by the organizations of ith vorking farmers in co-operation Ww {hes oreanizations of city industrial workers who are employed in these industries. 3. The control and operagion of the farm credit system by thPorganiza- tions of working farmers, In place of thru capitalist banking institutions which now use this, the farm credit system, for their enrichment. 4. Relief for the farmers from the excessive burden of taxation thru levying higher income taxes, and In- heritance taxes on the swollen for- tunes of great capitalist exploiters and higher taxes on the profits of the railroads and great industrial com- bines. 5. Against the expenditures for @ big army and navy, which serve no other purpose than to support the im- perialist. adventures of the great financial houses of Wall Street in other countries. 6. Fight against Wall Street . Dol- lar Diplomacy” and expenditure of the wealth produced by the farmers and industrial wokers to support the capitalist exploiters in their effort to make profits out of the people of Cubu, the South American countries, China and the Philippin for the Philippines. Self- tion for Porto Rico, drawal of all American soldiers and marines from the Central and South American countries. No intervention in China, 7. Against the plan, which the American banking houses are securing control of European in- dustries and paving the way for a new war. 8. Close co-operation with the farmers of other countries and partic- ularly the farmers of Russia, who are Dawes thru so important a factor In the world market. The recognition and estab- lishment of economic relations with the first workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment—the Union of Socialist Sov- fet Kepublics. 9 The alliance of the working farmers and city Industrial workers to establish a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment of the United States. Only a united struggle of all working farm- ers, together with the city industrial workers, in support of this program will win relief for the farmers from the conditions under which they now suffer. Optimistic on Rubber, PARIS — Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., sees the American rubber market free of all foreign domination inside of ten years, he said while in this city, He is en route home from Liberia, where the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has just obtained a concession of 1,000,000 acres suitable to the growing of rub- ber. every Monday UNITED FARMERS OF ALBERTA WILL ‘MEET THIS MONTH Fight on Wheat Export Duty Scheduled CALGARY, Alberta, Jan, 2. — The nineteenth annual convention of the United Farmers of Alberta’ and the United Farm Women of Alberta, farm- er co-operative organizations of Can- ada, will be held at Edmonton, start- jing Jan. 18. The convention will laet | three days during which the délegates | will deliberate on the important issues facing the Canadian farmer. Fight Export Duty. One of the principal issues te be brought before the convention {s that of the proposed export tax on Can- adian whee This tax is being urged | by millers of ada. A resolution has already been submitted for action providing for the unqualified oppost- j tion of the U. F, A. to such a duty, The resolution says: “Whereas, 4t 1s evident that efforts are, being made |! to place an export tax on wheat, and! whereas, we believe it will work # hardship on our wheat producers, We ask our provincial government to Ie sist this movement at any time, in any way.” $ Teach Co-operation in Schools, Ar tion has also been intro duced for the teaching of co-operative principles in the public schools of ¢he province. € This resolution, which may be most important at the conventié says: “Whereas, co-operation is Be coming more and more an importamt factor in our industrial system, amd whereas, there have been many fail ures in our co-operative effort due @ lack of understanding of coo} principles, we ask the provincial gov-| ernment to appoint a committees rep resentative ‘of the various groups fi volved to draw up a course of studies on the principles of co-operation Sor use in our public schools.” Resolutions have also been ~intr duced dealing with various local issues, IOWA FARM SPEAKER THINKS CAL COOLIDGE, STEEL TRUST PROFITEER, STILL HAS “CHRISTIAN CHARACTER” between the Iowa Farmers’ Union and ‘abor in Iowa should be a lesson to each and every state in this union.” posstble that the farmers of this coun- try couki have more serious consider-| ation upon the part of those in authori- ty to do for agriculture what they have willingly done for industry.” Cal’s 50 steel shares grew overnight to 70, enabling him to sweat $490 a year out of the steel workers in un- earned income instead of $350. Hitting at the chain of middlemen who grab their profit at each point in the procession of food from farm to city home, Bowman said, “There is a long road between the producer and the consumer, The farmer receives less than 40% of what the consumer pays for the produtts of the farm on an average. WANT TO TRADE NEW WHEEL BARROW FOR OLD || SGEPTER OR GOROMET? | (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK — Having sold the crown jewels 44 consecutive times, according to the United Press and | 45 in the computation of the Asso- | ciated Press, the Soviets are about to sell, trade, exchange, or barter them once more, if we may credit reports coming from those authen- tic sources of Soviet information, Riga and Helsingfors. A collection worth $250,000,000 are now to be disposed of. Aircady have been sold to British and Amer- ican buyers, and more have been sent to Berlin for sale or exchange. The Soviets will take farm machin ery in trade. The best way—sudscribe today. Average Value of Farm Property Falls Off 30 Percent Since High Point of 1920 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — The average value of farm acraege stands te» day at $76.47 as compared with $107. 89 In 1920, representing a lowering of values by 30%. This.Is the finding of the department of agriculture. The most severe decline is found in the grain and livestock raising states of the middle weet. ’ The report does not assert that the bottom has as yet been reached, but contents itself with elting that the rate of decline Is New York, Sunday, January The Internationa Hungarian Chorus. “The Voice of Labor” Living Pictures, PPPs PAR’ Feature Dances. a) Recondita Armonia from “T. oe Hungarian Folk Dances. Mass Recitation “Strike”. x Workers’ Orchestra and Chorus. ere DAILY WORKER ANNIVERSARY CONCERT With Co-operation of UJ ELORE b) Voiga Boatmen’s Song... ickening. Attention! 9, 1927, at 2:30 YORKVILLE CASINO, 86th Street and Third Avenue ADMISSION FIFTY CENTS. 4 PROGRAM: PART I »Mandolin Orchestra “Lyra” so Rebecea Grecht TO ‘osca”—Puccini. Emile Bujacieh