The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, , MARCH 7, 1927 American Economic Life By WALLPROL, WALL ST. GLOMS SURPLUS GASH IS CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) |Legion and former alien property custodian, even tho both are patriots. But, without a little financial lubri- MARINES POSTED |eation, patriotism groans like a rheu- matic septuagenarian. WITHIN § aut | HANGHAI CCORING to statistics dug up by | REPORT ON THE MINORITIES. OF U.S.S.R. GIVEN Equal Rights for All Nationalities Policy CLOAKMAKERS THEY SENT TO PRISON |Heroic Victims of International Expose Dirty | Tricks of Gang; Stand Firm for Joint Board New Ruling by Kellogg ERNIE UENO Disproves Neutrality the New York World the alleged suicide epidemic among students tha made the front pages recently was only alleged after all. As a matter of fact we are informed that the year Sigman agents, past masters of cor- ; When we will be able to tell all cloak- ruption, not content with the havoc | makers what sort of thieves and ro they have played with the needle |bers the leaders of the Jomt Boa: MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (By Mail).— ea kiag ie pias ae te icin +e By LAURENCE TODD workers’ unions, are now trying to|/are and that we were mislead by Veuturdgs hig thind ‘websion -6F the | weunn Giceel tn pat Ney ah ara 4 “A (Federated Press). cre the ved aide i they sent | them, beeing a else. Y ; g H j i i WAS GTO) ta ‘0 prison. Joseph Perlman, of the} When these Sigmanists, these fas- Central Executive Committee of the | the merey of the particular liar who WASHINGTON, (FP). Admiral Ladies! Gasmaht Workers’. spe Sitsailtrraaicl ts ev ¥ Soviet Union was opened in the Krem- lin in Moscow. In his opening speech one of the chairmen of the Central Executive Committee, Comrade Mus- sabekov, the chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Republie Aserbeidjan, pointed to the fact that the national economy of the Soviet Unién has already reached the pre-war standard. The workers cultural department and peasants of the Soviet Union have now placed into the foreground the problems of the industrialization of the country and of the cultural de- velopment of broad masses of the peo- ple. The heroism, the enthusiasm and the creative energy of the toiling masses of the Soviet Union guaran- tee the successful solution of this yerv important problem. The sum of 1,100 million roubles for investment purposes in the state budget proves that the toiling masses are able to carry through themselves the industrialization of the Soviet Union. Adamovitch Reports. The chairman of the Council of Peo- ple’s Commissars of the Socialist So- viet Revublic of White Russia, Com- rade Adamovitch, gave a detailed re- port on the activity of the White Rus- sian Soviet government, stressing that the solution of the national problem in the Soviet Union on the basis of equal rights for all nations, showed still more clearly the suppression of the national minorities in the bour- geois states. In no single bourgeois state a leading speech of a represen- tative of a non-ruling nationality in | CALHOUN SEVERS parliament was possible. If some neighbor states of the So- viet Union would permit such speech- es, they would consist in loud pro- tests of the oppressed and outlawed masses against their bourgeois op- pressors. The situation of the White Russians in the Soviet Union and the situation of the White Russians in Poland show most clearly the correct- ness of the Soviet policy of national peace as opposed to national hostil- ity, which rules in the bourgeois states, Equal Rights. Comrade Adamovitch further quo- ted a number of figures showing the cultural and economic. construction of the White Russian Soviet Republic since the end of the Polish occupa- tion, and he stressed the completely equal rights of all nationalities in the White Russian Soviet Republic, in particular the considerable improve- ment of the situation of the Jews and their development to agriculture. Buiiding Trade Workers In Solid Front Against New Open Shop Drive PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 6.—The persistent refusal of the Building Trades Employers’ Assn. to accept anything short of the 1926 scale is responsible for the continuance af the strike, begun last Tuesday, of the three building trades unions—iron workers, steam fitters, and cement finishers. Increase in pay ranging to $2 a day, and a five-day week are the principal demands of the strikers. The strue- tural iron workers are admitted to be in a strategic position in their effort to gain victory. Three “commissioners of concilia- tion” have been in the city for the past week, but they have been unable to shake the deadlock between the bosses and the workers. —— _ Read The Daily Worker Every Day All Workers but particularly Trish workers will want to read “Jim jolly and the does the figuring. Still we are in- clined to agree with the World that this epidemic was not unusual. Just something to fill space and justify headlines in the intervals between a Peaches-Browning trial and another biting scandal, with Harry Thaw playing the role of villian. * * * 6 Reveste are thousands of perfectly logical reasons why students should commit suicide, particularly those that expect to become lawyers, editors or business managers. Those who rush in with a theory to cover every phenomena from a miscarriage to a cyclone immediately hopped to the front with an explanation of this particular fake. The students looked into a social void and jumped into it. This was the explanation. Here’s hoping that the automat theorists pursue their theories and the missing |. students. an Sea HERE was a time when an inter- view with the ex-kaiser of Ger- many could not be purchased with a ten thousand dollar bill, But today Wilhelm peddles his views as anx- iously and almost as successfully as Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., the young fellow who started at the top of the newspaper business and went to the bottom leaving about $3,000,000 on the way. Wilhelm should be thank- ful that the socialists saved the capi- talist system in Germany, otherwise he might now be pushing up the! lilies, instead of signing his name to interviews, | CONNECTION WITH PIONEER YOUTH Refuses to Support the Red Baiting Campaign Arthur W. Calhoun, fhstructor at the Brookwood Labor College and) well known lecturer and author, has severed his connection with the Pio- neer Youth, a semi-socialist organi- zation. . With red baiting becoming a regu- lar part of the procedure of the so- cialists and their allies in the trade unions, they have now carried it over into other organizations, the Pioneer Youth being one of them. Calhoun not being desirous of hav- ing any connection with those who |hai is beginning to follow the twist {of American action | where military occupation and virtual Williams, éommanding the American | armed forces at Shanghai, has been | authorized by the Weshington gov- ernment to use his own discretion, after consulting with Consul General Gauss on the spot, as to the shall make of the marines, bliej and fleet at his disposal. Grew Admits New Poliey. This change in state department policy has been disclosed by Acting Secretary Grew, following Secretary Kellogg’s departure on vacation. It was announced when Grew was asked to affirm or deny the statement cabled by Sokolsky. of the Japan Adver- tiser, to the New York Evening Post, that the regiment of American ma- rines would be posted in the work- ing class quarter of the native i at Shanghai, where revolutionary | strikes could-be antieipated. | Has Power to Kill Strike. | The devartment still maintains that | it is seeking merely to “protect Amer- | ican lives and property,” but it now explains that it does not pretend to know what Admiral Williams may de- | cide to do, to give this protection. | s Whether, for instance, he will seek | to crush a strike that is intended as | a political drive in favor of the Can- tonese working class revolutionary government, is up to Admiral Wil- | Niams. The stote. department no} longer emphatically declares itself neutral as betwéen factions. It is not sure that it may not learn that the marines have stopped a pro-Canton- | ese movement, on the plea of pro-| tecting American lives and property. | Shanghai Replica of Nicaragua. Thus the turn of events at Shang- | in Nicaragua, corraling of the constitutional govern- ment forces was carricd out without bringing proof that any American property or lives had-at any time been | endangered. Answering 2 house reso- lution, offered" by Rep. Black of New York, Grew said that American ac- tion at Shanghai was independent of that of any other foreign power, and | was directed solely to protecting | American lives and property that “may be” endangered. This “niay be” instead of “is,” opens the way to oc- eupation of Chinese cities where re- volutionary strikes might aid the na-| tionalist cause. Chinese Are On Guard. | Experts on Chinese affairs, how- ever, point out that American inter- vention cannot fail, in China, to pro- | voke the Chinese to further national- ist sentiment, and to bring down to ruin the reputation of the Washing- ton government as a sympathizer with Chinese hopes of national independ- ence. The use of American marines to Jers of the I. L. G. W for a. group of class war p now in Sing Sing due to the of the reactionary Interna ities | 1 lead- s in al crowd | soners. agents | letter the efforts of the to free them | if they turn against the Joint! Joard officers who have loyally car- | ried out the wishes of the rank and file, His letter follows: | My dear Comrade Hy Cloakmakers: We have received your letters and telegrams. It certai ve us great encouragement, and ts know of your devoticn d activities | for our great cause. There is no| need to be thankful to us, because we | all are doing our duties. Perhaps you know al tricks of Sigma: Wonting to tak sufferings for their own devilsh pur- e they propose help to us through forces. Those who by means of meful provocation caused our m fortune are now coming to us offer- ing their help providi sign a letter which th pared for us. This letter to be written to and sent t our name, that we f et our previous doings, and n ask them | to help us to be freed. We are to say | that we are waiting for the moment y have p supposed them in we agree to | forces, meful propositions, we turned our back to them. We made them under. stand that not all who suffer for an ideal and principle of pure democracy, will aceept such al offers from these autocrati titutes and those ho sold their soi to auto- s for a few pennies. We ask no help or merey from any of those kind. We only do our duty as workers, we all know that the history of the 1 movement which is full of bretrayers and martyrs, that for one inch of ese and\our wives and children. Comrades, all struggles require their victims. We are now fighting for a great cause, and there is noth- that can seare us from fighting a pure democratic union for the work- ers and not for business bureaucrats. We want a union of our own, where we can elect our own representatives, our own leaders. We must fight like vantage of our | brave soldiers on the battie field and| with the rest on mar; |never lay @own our arms until we ing jmake a thorough cleaning out of all| wouldn’t rotten cliques which hold themselves in power with the support of gang- sters, provoactions and all other dark We must not rest until we a union that will be led by the ers and for the workers. With Comradely, greetings and good wishes, We remain yours, JOSEPH PERLMAN, Ledger No. ,79448. ELECTION GRAFT TO BE ELECTION | ISSUE THIS YEAR Filibuster ~ Ruins Cal’s|Natienalists Would Free Economy Camouflage WASHINGTON, March 6.—The| national issue of election corruption CHINESE SPEAKER TELLS IRISH OF COUNTRY’S AIMS All Oppressed Samuel Sha, member of edi- torial staff of the Chinese Nationalist | will be carried to the American peo- | Daily told an audience of Irish work- BIG SPECULATIONS 100% Profits Quick if You Know How ers. Poor dumb work If only they'd quit their badly pa despised labor in shop, mill and factory and listen LATIN AMERICA .With Marine-Backing, Capital Is Confident This year seen espouse decline in American investments in Europe with a consequent increase in the to the advice of The Financial World, | flow of gold and capital to Latin how much better off they’d be.| América. The Equitable Trust, for Listen— example, in its latest security list in- Tf you had followed that paper’s| Vites yeu to invest in no less than advice in October last year, you’d| five current Latin American securi- be sitting pretty now with a profit’ ties. of more than 100 per cent. And that; The Argentine Nation’s 6% gold on borrowed money. bonds are recommended because that For example— country is “considered the best | Say you’d thrown a mere $2,400/ credit risk in South America.” Sta- into Wheeling-Lake E Of that/ bility, law’n’order, and that sort of jonly $1,200 need have been in cash represent- gamble that the stock flop. You could have leleared out on February for $6,500, leaving a pretty little cle; up of $4,100 or as much as you might {make by hard work in two years. Only you didn’t have sense enough to follow Financial World's advice— {or the money either. ‘ Some Predicting is Easy. your The financial quacks are cleaning} up plenty of money nowadays by this | thing, you know. The Caja de Credito Hypotecaria, which is merely the Mortgage Bank of Chile, also wants to peddle some 6% gold notes, yielding 6.30%. In+ |asmuch as they bear the “uncondi- tional guarantee as to principal, in- |terest and sinking fund by indorse- ment of the Republic of Chile,” the blood-thir: y outfit which has been Communists to lonely Islands, workers needn't hemselves about investing in this sort of thing. On the other hand, you'll have to sort of “prediction.” In a rising mar-/pyy your Bolivian gold bonds on ket, characteristic of Coolidge-Mel- | faith, hope and credit. They are 8% lon administration of the government | old ‘notes, a highly speculative re- in behalf of Wall Street since 192%,!tum. “These bonds,” declares the mest of the stocks are bound to go Equitable in a tactf way, “are up. Thus it can be seen that the! suitable for an investor who has predicter’s job isn’t a terribly hard one. Where prediction becomes | tor , is in foreseeing the crash |which is bound to come. Stocks that | jrun up the clock hickory dock, must |come a-running down too, some day, And just when will “the day” ar- rive? The best minds don’t know, and the bestest of them admit it. Of tourse old Judge Gary will keep on squawking “prosperity” until he kicks off and the National Bureau jof Economic Research will continue ple this summer and forced into the|ers last Friday eyening in Bryant | dividing 90 billions. of dollars annual 1928 presidential campaign, it was | Hall, that the Chinese revolutionary | learned today, by the activities of the| forces would sound the death knell | Reed Campaign Fund Committee and | of British and all other imperialisms | a democratic-insurgent alliance. jin China and that the freedom of all| The sixty-ninth congress, which! subject and oppressed peoples was} died at the end of a filibusterers’/as dear to the hearts of the Chinese | noose, bequeathed this issue to the | revolutionists as the freedom of China| two major parties. The fact that the | itself. senate refused to settle the problem) Mr, Sha, the principal speaker, was | itself only enhanced the importance | greeted with cheers by the audience, | of the issue. |He told those present that the Brit-) Impound Ballots. jish government forced the opium drug | The Reed committee definitely|on the Chinese at the point of the! committed itself to a campaign of ac- | gun, that all imperialist powers were | national income among 44,500,000 ac- tively employed persons and striking an “average income” which doesn’t exist. Ask the coal miner, the tex- tile worker, the steel worker just how much “prosperity” he sees at home. Big Slump in Coai Certain as Surplus Stocks Accumulate overawe the sweated toilers in the fac- tory district of Shanghai, at the mo- ment when their militarist overlords’ power is dissolving, will obviously are carrying on that campaign, sent the following letter to Joshua Lieb- erman, secretary of the Pioneer Youth, 3 West 16th St,, New York: Katonah, N. Y., March 8, 1927. My dear Josh: I'll have to ask you to drop me from the list of supporters of Pio- neer Youth. Last night’s perform- ance was too much. You tell us that the object is to save the youth from! the Chamber of Commerce and the | | Communists. To Fight Volstead Act. | Curtis implies that in addition to| teaching 100% Americanism, it is/ necessary to fight the Volstead Act | and preserye our liberty to come| home at 4 a. m. with a load of wet | goods. The big typo conjures with) the sacred memory of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy (gloating thus in being an infatu- ‘ated tool of predatory capitalism) and requires evidence that the Pio- neer Youth is 99 44-100% pure. © Refers’ to Class Collaboration. The ear man damns the railroad brotherhoods as no better than com- pany unions and in the next breath expresses the hope that in the labor negotiations of the future the boss and the business agent may embrace over memories of the time when they were boys in the Pioneer Youth \natio strengthen the radical element in the | list government, which has pre- | die! that all the imperialist powers | would act alike in the crisis. j MEXICAN ENVOY QUITS POSITION IN WASHINGTON | WASIIINGTON, D. C.. March 6.— | Fear that Coolidge intends to increase the tension between the United States and Mexieo durin: the congressional recess was strentthened when it was learned that Manuel M. ©. Tellez, the Mexican ambassador to the United States was recalled and was already on his way to report to President Calles. Ambassador Tellez refused to re- veal the reasons for his departure but it is reported that it is due to a re- quest for his recall by the state de- partment for alleged propaganda in favor of his government. The am- tivity by ordering the impounding of | ballots in four additional counties of | Pennsylvania,’ Delaware, Schuylkill, | Luzerne and Lackawanna. Senator} Reed (D) of Missouri, chairman, an- | nounced the step was taken at the request of William B. Wilson, demo- erat, who has contested the election | of Senator William S. Vare (R) of} Pennsylvania. The decision to seize the ballots, he added, was unanimous, being approved by three republican members of the committee. There are rumors that the commit- tee may investigate the wholesale barring of the Negroes from the polls in the southern states. Financial Confusion. The fact that congress spent its last days in a series of filibusters re- sulted in a failure to pass the $93,- 716,000 deficiency bill. The cabinet} of “Economical Cal” has as a matter of policy budgeted on a deficiency basis. This gives opportunity for! the administration to claim great sav- | ings of the taxpayers’ money, and! then later, quietly slip through a “de- ficieney bill” to make up the amounts desired.. This time the trick failed, and ehaos is the result. The Innocent Suffer.’ / Five hundred thousand veterans of | early wars, widows ant children, will | be denied about $37,000,000 in pen- sion payments during May and June. These suspended payments will be out to rob the people of that country | and thatthe government of the Soviet Union alone was the true friend of the Chinese people. Promise Of Support. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Irish Workers Repub- liean Alliance. Joseph O'Byrne, sec- retary of the organization read let- ters from Irish radical groups in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco Pledging support of the ob- jects of the alliance, which are sup- port of the movement for freedom for the workers in Ireland ahd for a pro- gressive political and industrial policy for the workers in the United States. Other speakers were William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER, Pat Devine and T. J. O’Flaherty. The I. W. R. A. is planning to hold a meeting at an early date with Pro- fessor Scott Nearing as the speaker on the “Decline of the British Em- pire.” Comrades and Fellow Workers: After a year’s heroic struggle of the Passaic textile workers, the mill barons were forced to submit to a uniow in the textile industry of Pas- saic. They are however putting ob- stacles in the way of maintaining With stocks on the ground between 60,000,000 and 70,000,000 tons, the coal trade is slumping in anticipation | of prolonged shutdowns this spring | and summer. The union mines will} be shut down some time in event of | a strike, and very probably will shut | down if there is none, because of the falling off in domestic consumption while the industries use up the huge) accumulated surplus, gathered for! the strike. | To the miner it looks like a choice | \between Scylla and Charybdis, or | more plainly, between the devil and the deep sea. This is the situation with Lewis leadership, but under vi- tal progressive leadership, the com- plexion of the coal strike could be changed overnight by pulling out West Virginia. Labor foes are count- ing on West Virginia staying at work under the Lewis regime. With a non- union. production of 7,000,000 tons |weekly against needs of 10,000,000, | supplied from the big surplus, anti-! | laborites see the strike as a farce. If! | West Virginia comes out, there wili! be a really serious drama on the} boards, ' One lesson emerges from the wreck! engineefed by Lewis and his crowd) |of union-wreckers, The United Mine | | Workers cannot exist in any effec- faith in the possibilities and the fu- ture of our South American neigh- bors.” Herbie Hoover’s Department of Commerce is much more realistic about the whole Latin American af- fair than the State Department, ac- cording to the Wall Street Journal. Says that paper: “Commerce De- | partment studies of trade relations | between the United States and Latin | Ameriea bring to light more clearly the practical basis for American con- |cern over affai in Nicaragua and ‘Mexico than have the expressions of policy emanating from the State De partment.” In a report entitled “Latin Ameri- \can Trade” which you can get free, |gratis and for nothing from Depart- |ment of Commerce, Washington, D. |C., Dr, Jalius Klein, director of the | bureau of foreign and domestic com- | merce, analyzes the growth of trade |relations between the Americas and its relation to Europe. Follow Latin | America carefully, in season and out. The intelligent worker with some | spare time will even learn to read, if not to speak, Spanish. With loans | more than $300,000,000 last year and trade over thé billion mark, our re- lations with Latin American are go- ing to be more and more interesting as the years go on. John Farmer Buying Machinery Which Is Robbing Him of Work That the machine is kicking the farmer in the pants and off the farm is no news to DAILY WORKER readers. But there is humor in the Wall Street. Journal’s analysis that as a result, the “farmer is making progress.” In 1925 there were 500, 000 tractors on farms and today there are probably 600,000, Not only does McNary-Haugenism look foolish to the WSJ, but also pro- posals for diversification of crops, more co-operation and better meth- ods, It is not a question of the cot- ton grower cutting down his cotton crop 0 raise more mea He can raise more meat and more cotton at the same time, With one billion dollars in machin- ery purchased in the last three years, the farmers are facing much the ig Youth is to be the vehicle of a nar- row and ty. “Connolly,” name of the military leader of “the Easter Week Rebel- 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. The Daily Worker partisanship com- nasty bined with a broad and sprawling sentimentalism, That’s enough. Yours truly, ARTHUR W. CALHOUN,, ‘Tellez will confer with President resentative, Nothing to Say. Questioned re: ing the answer of the recent United States note given to Mexico, the contents of which are being kept ret, Mr. Tellez said he had absolutely nothing to say, nor would he comment on whether Mexico plans to answer. It is believed in diplomatic cirelés that Ambassador Calles with regard to this note. Asked as to the rumored lifting of the embargo on arms, which, were it to take place, would plunge Mexico into civil war, Tellez merely shook his head. “I refuse to answer any and all tion certificates, although the loans must be deferred until April 1. In- surance funds will be diverted to this use up to the amount available. Army Preserved. =~ Threatened discharge of 82,144 of- ficers and men from the army .will be averted by readjusting other war department funds and ineurring de- ficits. Army housing projects and certain other plans will be deferred. Development work on four western reclamation projects will be delayed until appropriati ean be obtained from the next congress, Free seed distribution in drought stricken regions of the middle north- children are hungry. There are many families whose sole supporters were sent to jail for long periods because of their activities in the strike. You must come to their rescue. Relief must go on with full speed! The General Relief Committee; who is maintaining a few food stores in Passaic, appeals to all those who have taken milk coupons to send in their money as soon as possible, no matter how much you have collected. Send the money immediately to the Gen- etal Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 225, also ask for more coupons to sell. The office is open from 9 a. m. to * ization. Alth |tive way with the industry half-| same problem as the industrial work- Trish gz of 1926,” by camp. Then you get off some arro- aacitns Ut aden De ay made in July from the next fiscal (sheike ip Disbat was, they shy ee cing imnion must conquer Wesi Virgina,/er with the exception that the city gant and sneering stuff about the year’s appropriation. junion must conquor West Virginia,| worker is not himself buying the G. Schuller with an intro- Communists. Metis oder gig sine cks |" ‘Thousands of world war veterans beg baie gre rege ui neg ve jor it will go out of business in Ohio, | machinery that puts him out of worl but hitherto this n considered »| the resul a ousands of families ‘ iJ , 4 duction by T. J. O’Flaher- Thus it appears that the Pioneer one of the functions of a Mexican rep- deed ion a ps ehh evia |are without means of existence. Their | Indiana and Western Pennsylvania]! And what is the Journal's solu- within a few years, Namby pamby | tion? The good old one of dog eat New York liberals, forward-thinkers| dog. Those who cannot survive must and best-wishers who stayed on the! get out and look for a livelihood fence in the recent effort of John|elsewhere. Just where, the Journal Brophy and the rank and file to save | knows not, but hopes that some the union from catastrophe, are) way will. be found eventually. A beginning to see the light, As usual | good many millions have starved the liberals woke up too late, |to death waiting for “eventually.” But America’s coal miners, under | pan aOR WAN poe i jfirm militant leadership, will work) Suicide Craze Hits England, their way out of the mess Lewis has) LONDON, Mahch 6.—Agitation for plunged them into, whether erstwhile | q government inquiry into the causes liberals and coal programmers bestir of rapidly increasing suicide in. Eng- themselves or not. A good strong | land has gained impetus by the suicide trade union movement is in the | of Rees Davis, 20, an undergraduate ecards, the tired, depressed and dis-| at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge couraged liberals to the contrary not- | University. west, hit by the failure of an $8,600,- withstanding. And the workers and/ ith the suicide rate increasing so questions concerning official mat-|000 appropriation, will be carried out |7 p.'m. daily. the intellectual elements which| rapidly that it has now reached one sgl paca tors," said Tellex, “So many rumors| with other money's of the department| GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE| choose to fight with them will win|ouy of sinty-five in the deatha ot = New York City have been set afloat by the newspa-lof agriculture. the day. males over twenty in England and f‘ ners, and #0 been made up, BUY THE DAILY WORKER ————_ Wales, the house of rego Ny that I have say.” _ tRead The Daily Worker Every Day AT THE NEWSSTANDS Read The Daily Worker Every Day| given some attention to the atter.