The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1927, Page 3

EVERYONE HAPPY AND CONTENTED IN | PHILIPPINES, WOOD General . Doesn’t Like Thompson Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—General Wood, military governor of the Phil- ippine Islands, has attacked the Thompson report on the situation in the islands, in a statement made pub- lic here. Wood declared that the Filipinos should not be given any , more autonomy than they now have, ’ hitting the Thompson statement that the Filipinos should be given more Tocal governmént discretion, He also declared that Thompson was “all wrong” in reporting there was a uni- versal demand in the islands for inde- pendence, “Have Enough Government.” Speaking on autonomy, Wood re- marks: “Indeed the autonomy grant- ed, as represented by Filipino partici- pation in the government, is so great that American participation in the government has been reduced to the lowest point consistent with the main- tenance of that decree of authority that is necessary to discharge effect- ively the obligations and responsibili- ties of sovereignty.” He did not ex- plain’ just what “obligations and re- sponsibilities of sovereignty” en- tatled. “All Happy and Contented.” “The people are contented and happy. I know of no people who are more 80,” said Wood in answer to Thompson’s statement that there was widespread demand for independence. “There has been little or no political “ agitation outside of Manila,” says the ry governor in painting a rosy picture of \ satisfied and contented Filipinos, : “Unselfish United States.” “The unselfish policy of the United States government in the Philippines is being better understood by the peo- ple,” Wood declared, Wood blames the “radicals” for the impression that the Filipinos are dis- contented. “There have been no re- sponses on the part of the people to the efforts of the radicals,” he said. “That they have not responded is highly creditable to their good sense and loyalty and is indicative of their contentment and satisfaction with the existing government,” he says. “Had they not been Joyal and contented the efforts of these agitators might have caused some trouble,” the general philosophized. Wood waxed angry with the “radi- ’"éals,”” who he says, attack the charac- ter of the Filipinos who do not agree with them, “charge them with being disloyal to their own people and at- tempt thus to destroy their standing in the communities in which they live.” Germany Wants French | Soldiers Disarmed ‘to Stop Civilian Attacks BERLIN, Jan, 3—The Rhineland commission has ‘been requested by the German government to prevent French soldiers who are stationed in the occupied territory from carrying guns while dressed in civilian clothes and off duty. The request is one of those made in negotiations that have started to obtain better relations be- tween German citizens and the allies’ soldiers. A recent incident, when a French | officer, who was off duty, killed one | German and wounded another, in a i brawl, prompted negotiations. | By ANTHONY BIMBA. ; " Pate Tuesday a cable brought the news from Moscow that four of our comrades, leaders of the Commun- ist Party of Lithuania as well as lead- ers of the awakened labor movement . of the country, were shot down in cold blood by the newly established fas- cist! government of Lithuania. Their names are K. Pozela, Greifenberg, Chorny and K, Giedris. The news of the same day also informed us that about 500 class conscious workers and poor peasants were hunted down and placed in dungeons, One hundred and fifty “Jews,” that is Communists, are being court-martialled and no doubt, many of them will have to face the firing squad. Every newspaper op- Posed to the bloody fascisti has been closed, their headquarters ransacked and burned, trade unions have been disbanded and their leaders arrested. Working class and peasant co-oper- atives have been destroyed, clubs and societies closed. These are some of the deeds of the | new regime which Has been establishd only a few days ago, to be concrete— on December 17, 1926, Who are these fascisti? How did they come into power? ; ‘IL May, 1926, the clerical regime anian Republic, nine years ago. wag the most reactionary, the most | » bloody regime known in the history of the human race. It was established the help of German machine guns 4 ° yaa 1 Some weeks ago a seven-year-old mourned him as dead or kidnaped. Frances and their nurses, Helen R By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Corporation profits for 1926 may reach $12,000,000,000 William P. Helm estimates in the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Out of this, he figures that the corporations have handed the stockholders more than $6,000,000,000 in cash and stock dividends, Never be- fore has there been such a jubilee for the rich. “In addition to dividends,” says Helm, “American corporations paid out nearly $3,500,000,000 in interest, mainly ‘on ‘their funded debt. Thus the total payments to American stock and bond holders in 1926 run to. more than $9,000,000,000. No other year of which there is a record shows so large a distribution generally of the re- ‘wards of: business.” The aggregate cash dividends dis- tributed in 1926 by the corporate groups were: In Millions Mining and quarrying. Construction ..... 50 Tobacco and food product: 300 Textiles ...... 100 Leather and ‘products Rubber goods ... Lumber and products Paper, pulp and products. 60 Printing and publishing.. 80 OM: <3 550 Stone, clay, glasi 55 Other manufacturing Transport and utilities. Trade ... Miscellaneous The largest stream of dividends to the owning class flows from transport- ation and public utilites, that is, from railroads, telegraph and telephone companies, rapid transit, lighting and power corporations. These furnish nearly one-fourth of all the dividends. England and America. It ruled the country ruthlessly, A real bloody in- quisition of the middle ages was brought into life in that little coun- try, With the exception of the op- portunistic social-democrstic party of Lithuania, none of the labor organiza- tions, sincerely, fighting for the in- terests of the working class, were al- lowed to exist legally. No working class newspaper was allowed to be published. Priests, bankers and kulaks were the masters of the country. Hun- ‘dreds of workers were thrown into prison and tortured .in the most dastardly manner, Many of the lead- ers of the Communist movement were murdered, Many of them went insane from the tortures in the prisons. Economically the” countty became absolutely disorganized. Even those industries that were in existence dur- ing the time when Lithuania wag ruled by the Russian czar were now ruined, Thousands of ‘Workers could not find employment. Peasants were over- burdened with taxation, they could not make the ends meet. Only the masters were fattening. HEN came the elections of the new parliament or seimas. It was in May, 1926. There were many different parties participating in these elections, On the side of the clericals there were three main groups—the christian de ocratic party; the federation of “labor,” and the farmers’ party composed of kulaks,. ‘Then followed the populist party representing mainly the middle Class farmers, then the social-demo- cratic party, and the nationalist party compoxed of avowed supporters of the Boy Mourned as. Dead’Found by Girl street with an artery of his right foot severed. an operation saved his life, but he could not identify himself. party in the children’s dispensary at the hospital the boy was wheeled thru a neighboring ward, where Frances Trobato, 7, recovering from pneumonia, recognized the boy. as. her playmate, ewan boy was found lying in a New York ‘Taken to Flower hospital, During a Nicholas Ritzo. His parents had Photo shows young Nicholas with and Frances Maguire. Disbursements in Dividends and Interest in 1926 Almost Equal to Total Wages Paid Factory Workers If we could ascertain the dividends on equipment for railroads and other utilities we would probably find that at least a third of all dividends ori- ginated in this group of services. The $9,000,000,000 paid in 1926 to the owners of the country’s corpora- tions was nearly equal to all the wages paid to real producers in the country’s factories. But the wages went to people who spent them almost immediately for the necessaries of life. Dividend and interest payments on the other hand, went to individ- uals with such large incomes that only a small part could be spent for the necessaries and comforts of life. The remainder went to provide the rich with unnecessary menial services or to increase the insecurity of: the wage earner’s life by over-expand- ing the country’s productive power. BANK PRESIDENT DROPS DEAD IN PLACE WHICH HIS EMPLOYEES LOOTED MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 3—A bank president dropped head here after most of his subordinates had looted the institution. First Rush Parke, bookkeeper, dis- appeared and was found to be $105,000 short in ‘his accounts. The ant cashier fired a bullet into ead, and an investigation dis- closed that he had taken about $300,000 of the bank’s money. Two weeks ago the bank closed what there was left to close, Then Harry Cohn, the president of the looted bank, the American Savings Bank and Trust Co., whjle in the building, dropped dead at the age of 78. owners of large estates. The leaders of the Jast mentioned party are Smetona and Voldemaras, the present leaders of the bloody fascisti. There were also national minority parties, which took part in the elections, The Communists could not take part in the elections under their own name, but they tried to take part under as- sumed names. This made it a very dif- ficult job and they could take part only to a very limited extent, The clerical regime used the most coercive measures to win the elec- tions. The priests of the catholic church told the faithful that if they voted for the opposition parties, they will go directly to hell. Nevertheless, the clerical regime became so corrupt, 80 oppressive, so bloody, that the work- ers, the peasants and the middle class farmers were about ready to get rid of them and in spite of the terror they cast their votes for the opposition par- ties. The results of the elections were ag follows: The clerical bloc elected 30 representatives to the seimas out of a total number of 85. The social- democratic party, 16 representatives; the populist party, 22; the nationalist party, 8. The national minorities sided with the social-dmeocrats and pop- ullsts, Also, the nationalist party with Voldemaras and Smetona swung to the side of populists and soctal- di its. Therefore, the opposition parties had a majority to the newly elected seimas and they formed a oo- alition government, The dlericals be- came the opposition party. the time of the elections taere was Py question whether the clert- THE DAIt¥Y WORKER ENGL AT NEW FRENCH- GERMAN ENTENTE Sees France Breaking Away from Britain LONDON, Jan. 8.—What appears to be great friendship now between the French and German foreign depart- ments ig looked upon with disfavor by Downing street. That France is growing farther away from Great Brit- ain and clos@r to Germany is exempli- fled, it is itldfeated, by the present Chinese situation, in which France re- fused to agree with even a part of Great Britain's memorandum, Fraficé Independent, France is mow feeling more inde- pendent from both England and the United States, it is indicai>d here, as the result of increasing “{riendship” with Germany, England had hoped to draw Ger- many into the British group in the league of nations, since Germany’s admittance, but the exact opposite is occurring, it is felt, and this is caus- ing England some chagrin. Briand Makes Promises. It is understood that M. Briand, French foreign minister, has promised Stresemann that he will not invoke the authority of the league on Ger- man disarmament within the next two years, and as a further gesture of good feeling said that he would bring up the matter of complete evacuation of the Rhine in six months, provided there were no complications with Po- land during that period. Italy with England, Italy’s acceptance, of the British Chinese proposals is said to be prompted, not so much by Italy’s agreement with the British policy as because Italy is anxious to ally with Great Britain against France, Fascist Italy Is Hard Hit in Boosting Lira ROME.—Haying to choose between inflation and the seizure of short- term treasury bonds, Mussolini com- pelled Count Volpi to take the latter course in boosting up the value of the lira. As a result many manufactur- ers are short’ of working capital, since exports are falling off. The big Ffat automobile concern closed down for 15 days at Christmas. ‘The “Italia”! works have closed inde- finitely. the vice that when the director of the* Viscosa artificial silk works thredtened to close, Mussolini told him he Would be arrested if he did. When he replied: “Then I'll be arrested,” Mussolini backed water and sent him hore with 300,000,000 lira to carry on with Count Volpis said to be virtually a prisoner, sinéé the Duce will not per- mit him to résign in disgust. Predictions “are that if there is no inflation to“keep the mills and fac-) jis issuing to English-speaking sea- In that event, it) is expected that the government will| take over industry. The middle class-| tories running, spring will see whole- sale unemployment. es are especially hard hit and have been strippedsas well of all civic re- sponsibility, since the fascists now rule where formerly the middle class had charge of local government. Back to Ghandi. GAUHATI, India. — “Back to Ghan- di” is the slogan of the recent ses- sions of the Indian National Confer- ence. It favors a return to the policy of non-co-operation with England and the boycott of foreign-made cloth. cals would give up the government to the social-democrats and populists. It was thought that they would use force to maintain the power, but it seems that they welghed the situation and too.}found that the ogcasion was not op- portune at that moment to maintain power by force. They saw that the masses are against them. They could not trust the Mnks of the army, there- fore, they decided to submit to the results of the,elections and allow the social-democri and populists to establish a new government. The coalition government began to work by allowing a little more free- dom for the (masses. The workers were permitted to openly organize into trade unions,."amnesty was declared for political prisoners, That is about all. The Communist Party of Lithu- ania, of course, was still forbidden to function, nevertheless, the released Communists found ways and means to get into contact with the masses of the workers. Now, a struggle began for the con- trol of the trade unions between the Communists and the social-democrats, The Communists saw danger in the splitting of the trade unions and, there- fore, worked very hard to save them from disruption, They saw that the reactionaries, tho defeated in the elec- tions, were rallying their forces and were preparing.to make an onslaught upon the workers at the first oppor- tunity, Therefore, the Communists again and again proposed to the so- clal-democrats to form a united front against the, geactionaries, but of baie the godialiemoerats becoraie D UNEASY |¢ OOK, OF BRITISH MINERS, FAVORS LIQUIDATING MINERS’ INTERNATIONAL (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—The old Miners’ Inter- national is far too rotten ever to be eorganized, in the opinion of A, J. ‘ook, the general secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, who is here on a visit, Cook favors the liquidation of the old international and the formation of an’ Anglo-Rus- sian Miners’ Committee as the basis of a new international. He again charges the General Coun- ol of the British Trades Unions with having liquidated the general strike During the strike, he said, the Brit ish miners received financial support of 19,000,000 rubles, of which over 11,000,000 came from the workers in the Soviet Union, U. $. CATHOLICS BACKING VILLISTAS IN NEW ATTACK ON MEXICAN GOVERNMENT DURANGO, Mexica, Jan. 3-——Two former Villa lleutenants are attempt- ing to foment religious feeling here against the Mexican government. They are Juan Galindo and Nicholas Fernandez, who have joined hands to lead a proposed rebellion on religious grounds. They are backed by American and Mexican semi- religious organizations, reliable re- ports assert, FASCIST GOVERNMENT IN LITHUANIA ATTACKS JEWS, GERMANS IN NEW TERRORS (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 3.—Fresh terrors committed “by the fascist Lithuanian government, this time against Jews and German nationals in the country, are reported. More than 150 Jews have been arrested on orders of the new reactionary government and cpurt martialed. All Germans who are acting as of- ficials in the city of Memel have been ordered to leave the country by Jan, 1. Workers and peasant organiza- tions have been ordered to disband on the same date. Newspapers un- favorable to the goveenment have been suppressed, These actions followed the murder of leaders of the Communist Party in Lithuania last week and the gen- eral reign of terror against prole- tarian leaders thruout the country. Italy Tightens Grip, by Pact, on Near East GENEVA—It has leaked out here thru an Arab paper published in this city that a treaty was signed on Sept. 2 between Italy and: Yemen, on the Red Sea, By this treaty Italy will widen her policy of ‘penetration in the Near East and encircle Abyssinia. The move is watched with anxiety by both France and England. Yemen has a population of ten millions and could easily put into the field an army of 200,000 men. Hamburg Port Bureau Offers Its Facilities HAMBURG, —"Stay away from all missions, churches and such places, and leave the capitalist press to ship owners and their petty slaves,” reads a card, printed in English, which the International port bureau of this city men, The card invites them to make use of the bureau's reading and con- versation rooms, where they are a6- sured of finding working-class papers and a library in various languages. Polish Magnate Plans Trust. | WARSAW.— M. Keidron, the steel magnate of Upper Silesia, is plan- ning a big merger. He is now tour- ing thru Austria, Hungary, and Cze- cho-Slovakia to complete negotiations for a merger, which he hopes later to unite to the great steel trust of France, Germany, Belgium, and Lux- emburg. even listen to this proposition. In view of the fact that the latter were now in the government they could use? police forces to fight the Communists, Trade unions which sided with the Communists were suppressed in many places, but in spite of this new per- secution of reyolutionary workers, the influence of the Communists increased by leaps and bounds. In the meantime the coalition gov- ernment turned its face from Warsaw to Moscow and sought peace with the Soviet Union. The result was the signing of the non-aggression treaty with the Soviet government, ‘OW let us come to the clericals or the reactionaries. They became the most militant and the most active element in the country, They worked day and night, openly and secretly, to capture the power of the government. Tho they were in secret alliance with the Polish fascisti, they raised the cry that the coalition government is work-. ing in the interest of the Poles by giv- U. S. Refuses to Sell Planes to Mexico, Will Build Own As (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 3.—Refusal of the United States government to al- low the Mexican government to pur- chase airplanes made in that country | has prompted the Mexican govern- ment to negotiate with Buropean firms for machinery with which to build its own planes, Planes were wanted by the gov- ernment to be used to crush the re- bellion of the Yaqui Indians, which | was started several months ago by catholics, The Indians are out in mountain passes, which make attacks by ordinary means unavailing. } An airplane factory existed here several years ago, butit was discon- tinued because the government be lieved it could purchase United States planes more cheaply. The United States embargo caused it to decide to reopen the factory with the latest equipment—bought in Europe, Pilsudski Would Put Strong Gag on Press WARSAW—Editors of all shades of opinions and politics have united to protest against a new press decree, more drastic that the recent one which was killed in parliament. They charge Pilsudski himself of being the author of the new repressive measure, This he denies. Under the new decree, which is not yet in effect, any paper offending the government may not only be sup- pressed but suspended, its printing plant dismantled, and its editor barred from editing any other paper. France Imports From U. S. PARIS—The chief source of French imports for the first nine months of 1926 was the United States. The gain was chiefly in oils, copper, cot- ton, motors, fruits, and paint. There was a falling off in cereals and to- bacco. Island People Starving MANILA. — Several hundred per- sons, the sole inhabitants of the Ba- tanes istands, the most northern of the Philippine group, are starving, as practically no food is left them. So {far the authorities have failed to find a ship to go to them with succor. No Sote War Guilt. BERLIN.—Senator Borah in a New Year's message to the German peo- ple, whieh the Tagebdiatt printed, says: “There is no sole guilt for the war.” And adds: “It is to nobody's advantage to maintain a false bene- The Bloody Fascisti Are the Masters of Lithua reactionaries. The students also join- ed hands with the reactionartes. What did the coalition government do? It simply allowed the clericals and the fascisti to organize openly and it did not take a step to save its own skin. It even did not do anything to weed out the clericals or reactionaries from the army. The social-democrats and the populists had the cabinet, but the army was in the hands of the clericals. It was as clear as daylight that the reactionaries are about ready to smash the coalition government and takg over the power once more. Now they began to make open maneuvers against the government. N November 21 a demonstration of the students of the University of Kovyno was organized with the slogan for the overthrow of the government. The police of Kovno tried to suppress the demonstration. The tascisti led by the former clerical ministers, fought the police with sticks and knives. Still the coalition government did not make ing them freedom in the country and that St is selling the country to Rus- sia by signing the non-aggression treaty and allowing the trade unions to function in the country, which are falling into the hands of the Com- munists. Their press became the most violent opponent of the government, openly propagating the necessity of the overthrow of the government. They revived the organization of the so-called “volunteers,” which in 1920 slaughtered the rebellious workers of Lithuania, The association of “Shau- Mal,” composed of the,sons,of the kulaks,, was effectively used by the a step to suppress the fascisti move- ment. On the other hand, the clericals or the fascisti raised a cry all over the country that the police of the coali- tion government smashed the heads of the “patriots” who are ready to “die” for the country, Then came the fateful day of Decem- ber 16. The seimas opened. The re- actionaries openly declared that they are ready to smash the government. To the great consternation of the so- cial-democrats and populists, the lead- ers of the nationalist party, Smetona and Voldemaras, appeared on the side of the reactionaries and said that they Result | holding | Page Three LEAGUE MAY 60 INTO U. S. LATIN AMERICA CRISIS |Treaty With Panama Is Especially Under Fire PARIS, Jan, 3.—Possibility that the United States’ policjes in Latin Amer- ica would be made the subject of dis- cussion at the league of nations, espe- cially its present invasion of Nicara- gua and the treaty with Panama, is being voiced in diplomatic circles, Members to Protest, It is highly probable, it is said, that prote will be made by Latin-Ameri- members of the league. This |would definitely bring the United |States before the league of nations “bar.” But even if no protest is made the subject is likely to come up, as Panama is a member of the league, Panama Under Fire, The treaty that Panama signed with jthe United States, by which she vir- tually surrenders her sovereignty and makes herself a colony of the United States, violated a number of her obli- g ong a member of the league, it is pointed out, There is perhaps more protest in jinternational law discussions against {the Panama treaty than the Nieara- ju in affair, Denounces Imperialism, Pertimax in the Echo de Paris says that if the world accepted the arrange- j}ment between the United States and Panama it will be difficult to say amy= |thing tomorrow if Germany makes ® similar arrangement with Austria, ~ “The absorp ion of Panama proves, not matter what one says,” he writes, “that American It differs from Huropean efforts at hegemony only by the weakness of the obstacles that it meets,” Yankee-Turkish Pact NEW YORK.—John W., Davis, who ran as democratic nominee for presi- posed the American-Turkish treaty ne ratification, He cites that at least 27 “other na tions have made treaties with Turkey on no more favorable terms than are offered us, and says “it is not strength, but vanity, to utterly ignore the con- |sidered judgment of other sovereign powers,” NEW JAPANESE MIKA STRIVE FOR SAME ‘GREAT AIMS’ AS ANCESTORS, SAYS TOKIO, Japan, Jan, 3—Th new emperor of Japan, in a statement to the people on his ascension to the throne, has declared that he will follow the same policies that his “illustrious ancestors” laid out. “It is our resolve to observe the fundamental rules of state, culti- vate our Inherited virtue and main- tain Intact the glorious tradition set by our ancestors,” he said. He said he would “unite the ef- forts of the whole empire in pro- moting the solidarity of the nation, in strengthening still further the foundation of the national existence and securing forever the prospertty of our people to the end that the brilliant work of the imperial resto- ration may shed fresh luster.” . The empire must progrees and improve, he declared, . 3 rare also ready to smash the coalition government. By the way, it is im- portant to note here that the right wing of the populists also, especially after the fascisti demonstration of November 21, were openly sympathiz- ing with the reactionaries. It seems that they even had secret dealings with the clericals on the question of the overthrow of the coalition govern- ment. The discussion in the seimas drag- ged on all day with the ministers pleading and apologizing against the attack of the reactionaries, Night came and the session still dragged on. Three o'clock in the morning and the seimas was still in session. About this time Voldemaras and Smetona appeared at the door of the hall with a group of armed officers and declared that they are the masters of the situation, that the coalition government exists no more, that the seimas is dissolved and the army is taking over the reigns of the government. The work of the re- actionaries is completed and the bloody fascisti dictatorship is estab- lished. The Yabor movement: is smashed. The revolutionary workers are being jailed and shot down, How Jong the Lithuanians will toler- ate this bloody regime, we cannot say now. The future alone will answer this question, against fascism, which is @ one country after another in Burope. Its poison is being spread in this coun- also among the workers, ly the foreign-born, “ bia Ls imperialism existe, A Davis Would Ratify jdent in 1924 on a platform that op ~— gotiated at Lousanne, now favors its ~ In the meantime, it is | the duty of the labor movement of. this country to intensify ite