The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, YORK, M ‘DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927 Page Three GOOLIDGE BOOSTS FIRESTONE MOVE IN WEST AFRICA Rubber Magriate Ex- pects Big Loan Seon WASHINGTON, Feb, 20. — The grip of the British rubber monopoly whick has roused the ire of Ameri- can tire manufacturers will be brok- en in five to ,ten years, Harvey S. Firestone, tire magnate, predicted to- night after a conference with Presi- dent Coolidge. From $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 will be poured into the pioneer fire- stone plantation in Liberia in. ten years, Firestone said. The million- acre development now under way, he estimated, will employ 330,000 men. Coolidge Interested. i “Pyesident Coolidge is very muh in- terested in the rubber situation,” said Firestone, “He has given us every assistance possible.” Firestone lunched with the presi- dent, Later he outlined his rubber | plans to Secretary of Conimerce Hooyer. ‘ These plans will be amplified when Firestone and his son, Harvey, Jr.,; who returned recently from the new plantation; meet their Liberian man- ager at Miami, Fla. Firestone left | for that city tonight, planning to} meet Thomas A. Edison, inventor, on| the train. Henry Ford is to join them in Florida later. “We are actually shipping to Akron | 100,000 pounds of rubber a month from an earlier plantation we took! over from a_ Liberian company,” Virestone said. “This comes from a} 2,000 arce tract. | “We have 10,000 acres cleared now, and 5,000 acres already planted. We have a 99-year concession for a mil- lion acrés, under lease. “Our aim is to get 20,000 acres) Central Pre The U. S. Navy is always attempt- ing long distance aeroplane flights over to some Latin American or Pa- cific territories—of course for the friendliest of all possible purposes, merely to get the lay of the land. But the planes, because of governmental incompetence have frequently fallen in the ocean, and left the, plane crew ing in tropic sunlight for day: This little auxiliary radio set has just been inyented to call aid in such cir- cumstances, U. 8, 18 HEADED FOR VIOLATION OF WASHINGTON PACT Flaunts Independence Of Chinese Nation planted this year, and then to in- crease this as fast as conditions per- | mit.” | “We get about 100 pounds more | rubber per acre in Liberia than other | piantations produce, We get this at| eleven cents .. pound, which means} that we ean put it down in Akron for | fourteen cents a pound, against a| present price of thirty eieht cents | and the peak last year of $1.23,” | A new private American loan for | Liberiay of about $5,000,000, will be) floated this year, Firestone predicted. He denied his company was interest- | ed in this loan. | School Girl Posing - | \ | As Russian Countess | Kids Uppah Classes | siege | NEWARK, N. J., Feb,-20.—“Coun- | tess Irene Marie Ladjeff, of Rus a, whose sophisticated manner and abil- | ity to speak French won attention | and respect at the St. Francis Hotel | here, where she enjoyed a brief stay, | admitted reluctantly that she i> Irene Anska, 13 years old, of 384 Chestnut’ Street, Kearny, N. J., ay pupil in the eighth grade at gram-| mar school there. Her parents had} reported to the police that she dis- eppeared from home on Feb. 9, tak- ing $80 with her. When she was taken home by her) parents today, Irene smiled know- | ingly, but would say nothing about | her experience. She arrived at the hotel several days ago, and regis- tered as the “Countess Irene Marie Ladjeff, of Russia.” ‘ She met and talked with guests at the hotel, discussing her life in Russia, her flight to Austria to “es- | cape the Bolsheviki,” and her final decision to come to the United States. s | She expfessed compassion for | members of the Russian nobility re- | duced to the necessity of finding-jobs WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (FP).— Navy department chiefs announce that the 1,300 marines now crossing the Pacific on the transport Chau- mont will be sent direct to Shanghai since the Nationalist armies are threatening to take that richest port of China. If American marines follow the British in landing in Shanghai, under pretext of “protecting American lives and property”, they will do so in di- rect violation of the Washington treaty of February 1922 which was signed by the representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Holland and Portugal, and by the Chinese. It is the so-call- ed guaranty of Chinese territory. Article I of the treaty reads: “The Contracting Powers, other than China agree— ‘ “(1) To respect the sovereignity, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China. “(2) To provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself. an effective and stable gov- ernment. “(3) To use their influence for the purpose ef effectually establishing and maintaining the principle of equality of opportunity for the com- merce and industry of all nations! throughout the territory of China. “(4) To refrain from taking ad- vantage of conditions in China in or- der to seek special rights or privi- leges which would abridge the rights of subjects or citizens of friendly states, and from countenancing ac-| tion inimical to the security of such states.” . The British have already torn up this treaty by landing troops in Shanghai—thereby violating ther pledge to “respect the sovereignty’ | of China at that port. President Coolidge appears on the way to il- low their example. Foreseeing this, the Chinese delegation at Geneva has protested to the League of Nations COOLIDGE AND KELLOGG MEET ~ WORST DEFEATS Collapse of Diplomacy Causes Use of Force WASHINGTON.—Disappointed and annoyed by the failure of all parties to the Chinese civil war to reply to his proposal to exclude them from military occupation of-the interna- tional settlement in Shanghai, and re- jected as savior of Nicaragua, Presi- dent Coolidge has met a third and erushing rebuff from, France. Pres- tige of his state department is at the lowest ebb in its history. Secre- tary Kellogg is angry. The adminis- tration gives signs that it may try to save its face by seizing the whole of Nicaragua. Kellogg refuses to comment on these rumors of occu- pation; he pointedly fails to deny them. Proceed With Guns. This is the situation as the Coolidge proposals for a naval limitation con- ence in Geneva are blown up by ‘ance, and as the nationalist force: in China again threaten to tak |Shanghai. The only direction in which Coolidge diplomacy can. pre- tend to. make progress is in Nicara- gua, under the muzzles of American | guns. | Cal Shocked. That Coolidge was shocked by the French refusal to attend a five- nov parley on limitation of light cruisers and submarines, which would |have been to ‘the advantage of the | Anglo-Fascist combination in the Mediterranean, is not disguised at ‘he White House. . The administration was prepared for French reluctance to sign a treaty reducing her naval armament, but Coolidge and Mellon and Kelloeg had been led to believe ‘hat the French would at least enter the conference and spend half the summer in talking it over. That would have given the administration a lot of advertising as a peace agency, at the moment when it might be po- licing Central America and threaten- ing Mexico. Now the French have coolly told Washington that they stand for the discussion of all world problems through the league of na- tions. Coolidge realizes that’ Paris has turned a smart political trick. Tt has taken away from America the Woodrow Wilson phrases, and has put Washington in the role of big political bully as well as that of in- ternational Shylock. District 5 Celebration Of Young Workers Is For Victery in Drive PITTSBURG, Feb. 20.—-The Young Workers (Communist) League of Dis- trict 5 invites all workers to join it in celebrating the closing of the Young Worker subscription drive in which it won every prize offered by the Young Worker. We feel proud ot our achievement in helping up the | Communist press of the youth and we | want you to join us in making it a real celebration. The banner given to the district seeuring the highest percentage of | subscriptions will be presented at this celebration, held Sunday, Feb, 27, at Sen Katayama and Smeral Send Their | Greetings to Daily MOSCOW (By mail), — From Red Moscow I greet heartily the third anniversary of The DAILY Worker! The heroic struggle and fight against oppressive capitalism and imperialism for the cause of the proletarian movement and social revolution that The DAILY WORKER -has been carrying on are the best proof of the growing influence and power among the masses. Long livé The DAILY WORK- ER! Long live the Comintern and American revolutionary movement! SEN KATAYAMA. a To the third anniversary of The DAILY WORKER I send proletar- ian. revolutionary greetings!— SMERAL (P. C. of the Tschechosl). U. S. Trebles Forces In Invaded Republic (Continued from Page One) contributions made by the Wall Street directors of the Nicaraguan railroad and bank to political cam- paign funds in the United States, and that this coercion is expected to lead to a dispute with Mexico which may lead to a pretext for vy Titles to Land. American inestments in Mexico are not worth such a war of conquest of that, country as would be required. But if Mexico were to be invaded,, thé Calles government, and a puppet government set, as has been done in Nicaragua and Haiti, the American corporations might be granted title to billions in land, minerals, forests, power sites and other wealth of the nation. What Porfirio Diaz did in a small way, when Americans had not discovered the riches of Mexico, might be done wholesale by a pliant successor. That, is the stake in the game for overthrow of Calles and the Mexican constitution of 1917. Military occu- United States would encourage every attempt to pull down the Calles re- gime. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One} troduced Aimee to her guests and when the evangelist was departing asked the guests to “giye the li’l girl a hand. An itinerant salesman hold- ing forth in a store on 42nd and Broadway was using Aimee to good success could be attributed to her se: appeal. Same for Douglas Fair- banks. He was selling something. + * *& F. Calverton and Upton Sinclair are locked in battle over the mo- mentous question: “Is monogamy de- sirable?” Whether it is or not, it is more of less inevitable as the Sul- tan of Turkey found out. No doubt the debate will attract more atten- tion than an intellectual combat be- tween those two more or less famous writers, let us say, on the question of: “Socialism versus Communism.” But all that both have to say on the question is not worth a Latvian lit to the American working class. It’s }8 p.m. at Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Street. Hl “a futile discussion.” ‘THIRD DEGREE TESTIMONY ENTIRELY UNRELIABLE, SAYS SCIENTIST WHO STUDIES SLEEPLESSNESS PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 20.—That the third degree is absolutely a failure |as a method of getting confessions of any value from suspected criminals, and that the common form of third degree, k |eonstant nagging is the most unreliable way btainting information from special investigator of the phenomenon poe cdl lee te EEE RE LOS BAI | him, is the conclusion of Dr. Johnson, | of ‘sleep and sleeplessness. ing the suspect awake with pation of Central America by the| advantage in his business by telling the assembled yokels that Aimee’s |Tottering Relic of [ George Washington | N. J. Bus Drivers Like Daily Worker; Ask Us To Send Sub-Cetter | | 4 | (Special to the DAILY WORKER) | Jersey City, N. J., Feb. The business agent and executive council of the Bus Drivers’ Union, that ended a successful thirteen- day strike yesterday, have ex- pressed their appreciation of the part The DAILY WORKER played in giving their point of view honest publicity. They expressed a desire that a representative of the circulation de- partment of ‘The DAILY WORKER be present at their next meet March 1, and secure subscription: from the members present. KUOMINTANG OF PHILA, PROTESTS SENDING TROOPS Chinese May Declare first president of the United States caught cold and fell into a fatal Boycott on U. S. Goods illness while planting thirteen trees, c. in honor of the thirteen colonics PHILADE Kou Min Ta delphia add which became states. This is a photo of the last one alive, just after tree surgeons had filled it with a ton and! raphie pro- F test against of war ja half of concrete, to preserve it 4) ships Oe gah Feiss tong Senator Borah, chairman of the committee. tes re Sm BEN | ate foreign relatio | | The tele that the COOLIDGE SAYS | United State: rnment is dis- | patching troc nd battleships to a as if a e of war existed ween the two countries. NOTHING ABOUT ‘Appreciating that you have made | great efforts in the congress in cham | pioning a Chinese policy on the ba | Y of equality and reciprocity, the pro- | rt test continues, “we, on behalf of the | ‘ | Kuomintang at Philadelphia, beg to | asa |inform you that we absolutely pro- |Hears Green Explain It | test against the action of the U. S. | bss BBs government, in sending marines and | Deoesn’t n Much gunboats to China, and that it will WASHINGT”). — President | be ultimately resented in the form of |Coolidge, after talking, over with boycotting American goods on the | President Green and Secretary Mor- | Part of our people. Therefore we \tison of the American Federation of | Sincerely wish that in order to keep | Labor the question of the five-day | UP the friendship between the two week in industry, has decided OE croetgs yqu will OSES. .yOue Spars | evade any statement on that subject. | ment to immediately bape bo: | That is why his mythical spokes-| ™rines and gunboats from ‘ina. | man, when asked where he stands, re-| Your prompt action to this effect | plied that Coolidge has “not studied” | will be highly appreciated. \it enough to give a worth-while opin- | We are sending * dey telegram to. lion as to its effect oh the welfare. of} Representatives L. M. Black, S. G. | working people. | Porter and A. T. Smith. Sherman Chang, P. H. Ho, K, M. al Liu, executive members of the Kuo- | He will, he says, be interestéd to Se eee oat ns that cha| mintang at Phila, 828 Race St., Phil- | adelphia, Pa, plants, although he realizes that the |Ford industry is peculiarly cireum- | stanced, and that any results obtained | A Sa game oR |for the shortet work-week in Ford Girl Slayer to Die. factories may be no guide for other! Charles Albreht, “the man with- | industries. | out a heart”, was sentenced yester- | In short, Coolidge will not commit|day to die in the electric chair at himself, in a time of industrial calm,| Sing Sing for the murder of 7 year {to a proposal that may become the| old Veronica Dempsey. |erux of a strike six months or a year peices | Read The Daily Worker Every Day VANDERBILT, HEIR OF RAIL MILLIONS NOW CHAMPION IDLER OF MANHATTAN By HARRY FREEMAN. We've had champ gum-chewers, coffee drinkers, channel swimmers and marathon dancers. We have with us today New York’s champion clubman. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr., has the dubious distinction of belonging to more classy ¢lubs than any other bird whose income is drawn from rent, interest and profit, Cornelius belongs to seventeen organizations—and the Workers Party isn’t one of them. Vanderbilt's forebears raked in shekels from railroad building and real estate. They robbed and they pillaged—and they sweated, piling up the tennis and riding, The interests of Cornelius, Sr., are indicated by the seventeen organ- izations of which he is a member. Thé Larchmont Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, New York Yacht, Turf and Fiéld, Yale, Seawanhaka Yacht, and 20,— | huge Vanderbilt fortune. Now, Cornelius, Sr., is interested in yachting, | ‘GREEN LIMITS | | ~ PAN-AMERICAN ~— CONGRESS TALK |To Discuss Only ‘Proper | Subjects’ at Meet | te) | WASHIN Answering skep- | tical inqui from ‘Latin American | labor orga’ ons as to whether the laggressions of the United States against Mexico, Nicaragua and Haiti > to be b d from discussion at in Washington in | July next, American Federa- tion cf Labor has again explained its | It cuvtes the declarations of its | president, William Green, and the | fundamental principles set forth when the federation was first organ- | ized. “Only Labor Problems.” in the call for the coming i We feel confident Gr meet that their efforts on tions that prop- erly belong to a labor congress.” He 1 said the dispute with Mexico yuld be arbitrated. This may be interpreted as indi- the Pan-. i ill not be allowe that 1 interfere with riean con s in Latin Amer- Such aggre ons will be termed d to “questions belong to a labor | ¢ DodSed Issue Before. Green’s management, the Netroit convention of the American | Federation of Labor permitted speak- Jers from Latin American unions, but so hedged them around with restrie- | tions that their addresses were large- ly perfunctory. No solution of the Mexican problem was made there. |Federal Workers Union Ask Coolidge to Pass Bill Abolishing “Pull” WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (FP).—In a letter ‘signed by its president, Luther C,. Steward, and its secretary- treasurer, Gertrude M. McNally, the | Natl. Federation of Federal Employes -has given President Coolidge a clear- {cut statement of the immediate need |for amendment of the civil service | classification law. This law was enacted in 1923 to standardize on the basis of duties per- formed the payment of federal em- ployes outside the postal service. | Postal employes were already classi- | fied. The law applied directly to jobs in the District of Celewkia; tik pre= vided for a survey of positions in the |field services in order that fair | Standard rates of pay for those jobs | might later be enacted by congress. | “No Survey.” | “Almost four years have elapsed,” | says the letter. “No survey has been made and no steps are being taken by the administering agency, the Per- }sonnel Classification Board, to carry lout the will of congress in this re- |spect. The result is'that at the.~~-+. jent time the different governmenv.. |establishments pay different salaries for the same kind of work performed under like conditions in the same com- j munity, often in the same federal building. . . . In the absence of classification, salary standardization jand publicity there is no device to check the operation of sinister forces | such as improper political, social, or religious influence. Favorites per- forming simple duties are advanced in salary above those doing the real work of the government or they are assigned to duties they are not quali- fied to perform efficiently.” The president is asked to recom- mend to congress the prompt passage of the pending bill abolishing the Personnel Classification Board and will concentrate ~ in restaurants and night clubs. lagainst the British action. It men-| Se Seay Corinthian Yacht Clubs are some of the organizations to which Vanderbilt | transferring its functions to the U.S. | careers meee i nsom to relieve it. His behavior may be- | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS | All Workers but particularly Irish workers will want to read “Jim Connolly and the Irish Rising of 1926,” by G. Schuller with an intro- duction by T. J. O’Flaher- ty. “Connolly,” name of the military leader of the Easter Week Rébel- lion, is a magic name to every Irish worker who has within him a single _ spark of the divine fire of revolt. PRICE 10 CENTS. Phe Daily Worker 33 First Street New York City pe: | Art. 10 of the League Protocol. That! * tiois Hee We W sat theion srvare end Johnson is Senior Fellow in the come as frantic as that of a dope article requires that when one nation brings armed forces itto the territory of a League nation against the will of the. latter, all other League na- tions shall, ipso facto, be ac war with the invader. In other words, all League nations are now bound to be at war with Great Britain. ' What China is showing at Geneva is that the League pledges are as hypocritical and worthless as are the treaty pledges of the United States or Britain, when the big empires want to overawe .a_ revolutionary movement of “backward” cheap-labor peoples. Hilles Scouts for Cal. Charles D. Hilles, vice chairman of the republican national committee starts today for a tour of the United States to see what chance Cal has of renomination. Niolin and Viola Lessons Given by expert teacher, For reasonable rates, write to JOHN WEINROTH 6156 LARCHWOOD AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA, PA, READ THE | Simmons Foundation for the study of | |sleep, at the Mellon Institute. At} the head of a large staff of assist-' ants, he has been studying for sever- al years the activities and reactions of numerous subjects who permit him to experiment on them. | Part of his work is in relation to the most comfortable sort .of bed, the length of time a person should sleep tor maximum efficiency, ete, But he has also had to invesuugate tue e.- fects of lack of sleep on the mind processes, and finds that after being deprived of sleep for a certain length of time; the subject becomes as 11- responsible as though drunken or in- sane, and very liable to suggestion. In this condition it is easy to get him to sign confessions of dny crime, _ however, revolting. “One method of extortion often used in the third degree,” says Dr. Johnson, “is the continual nagging of the suspect for many hours and some- times for days. ,Threats or personal abuse are not essential; the prisoner |is simply not let alone at any, time, not given a hance for sleep or rest. By this means he is quickly brought to the verge of physical exhaustion— | a state in which delirium, the loss of | a sense e responsibility, and a dis-' regard of consequences are us nent as they are in a state of alco- holie intoxication or other forms ut narcosis, Loses Character. “Deprivation of rest is, in fact, one of the most severe forms of torture. If continued | ugh the victim {will resort to almost any end in order addict deprived of his drug. He will do anything, sign anything, and say almost anything that promises a chance to sleep. Confessions obtained under such circumstances should be regarded as obtained by torture, Dur- ing the Middle Ages prisoners who were actually innocent confessed the crimes charged to,.them to gain re- moval from the rack, although con- fession brought death by hanging, | burning or breaking on the wheel. Dread The Test. “In the recent experiments on de- privation of sleep at the University of Chicago subjects whose scientific and academic honor demanded their co-operation would try to slip away, under subterfuges, and steai a tew moments of sleep. A colleague of | mine who has undergone. many long periods of experimental insomnia tes- tifies that the discomforts he then suffers are almost indeseribable any that his dread of future such experi- ments exceeds his dread of any other form of physical pain. In several battles during the civil war the com- manding generals were uniit vw con- duct operations because of their men- tal impairment resulting from fa- tigue and loss of sleep, Become Insane, “Our own observations indicate that after sufficient deprivation of sleep and rest a person is, at least at times, neither mentally nor morally responsible. Facts and confessions obtained under such circumstances should be given their proper values by the courts before which they are presented.” ’ belongs. Alexander Smith Cochran, Clarence Mackay, Harry Payne Whitney, J. Pierpont Morgan, Anthony Drexel Biddle and Vincent Astor are runners-up for the New York title. | | | Give all you can! 799 BROADWAY Get 10¢ Coupons and sell the Strikers’ Children. PASSAIC STRIKE STILL ON! WE'VE WON IN FOUR MILLS! HELP US REAT THE REST! > GIVE MONEY PLEASE! For Coal for the Strikers’ Homes! For Bread for theit families! They have made a hard fight! Now they are winning! Now yot must kelp more than ever! 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