The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 3

ILY WORKER, NEW YOR LEDEBOUR AT BRUSSELS CONGRESS DESCRIDES FIGHT ON COLONIALISM The article printed below delegate of the All-America Ant sells Congr congress was made up of delege : part of a series, written, by the i-Imnperialist League to the Brus- 3s Ayainst Colonial Oppression and Imperialism. The} utes from anti-imperialist organ- zations, peqce societies and labor unions in the European, Ameri- can and other imperialist nations, from labor bodies and nation- 7 alist organizations in, the colonia races even in countries with full sove Important resolutions were l countries, and fram subjugated eignty. passed, for the practical carrying on of the work of freeing conquered peoples from their slavery. A survey of the work of the congress and the personalities attend- ing, which have made it one of be found in these articles. By MANUEL GOMEZ, BRUSSELS, Feb, 12 (By mail, de- layed)—Byifliant speeches by George Ledebour, one of the famous “old men” of the German socialist move- ment, and Harry Pollitt, leader of the minority; movement in the Bvrit- ish trade unibns, featured the second day of the World congress against imperialism. he Senegalese Negro, Lamine Senghor, representative of the committeeg for the defense of the black race, agfo contributed valuable information jg a colorful, graphic picture of 4M" crimes of French im- perialism Central Africa, on Imperialism and its for the Colonial and ial Peoples, Ledebour an- ertain charges that the con- as Communist. He declared had fought against imperial- f Germany when ft was at its it, before and during the war, Lebedour Tells of Stuttgart Conference. “Twenty years ago at Stuttgart,” e said, “we discussed much the ame things as we are discussing now. There were two opinions rep- resented among the leaders of the Second International assembled there. One was that we could ela- borate a socialist imperial policy. Then there were also revolutionists who put forward much the same ideas as we have here. The Revision- ists, who held the imperial view, were led by a well-known Dutch leader. I reported for the opposi- tion. After a bitter struggle we suc- ceeded in convineing the majority (127 to 108) that socialism and colon- ial policy have nothing more to do with each other than fire and water. Afterwards all national sections ex- cept the Dutch voted for us, MacDonald’s Imperialist Debut. “One on the English side who voted against our amendment was J. Ramsay MacDonald. But he lifted his hand later in favor of the gen- eral resolution against colonial pol- iey. I fee! like asking now: Ramsay MacDonald, have you forgetien. your vote of 1907? MacDonald had a splendid chance to apply the social- ist position but he completely failed. “At Stuttgart only one delegate from the Far East was present. He was Katayama, from Japan, an im- perialist country. Katayama has fought Japanese imperialism consist- ently from that day to this, and I say to you that as a man of charac- ter, as a socialist, as a fighter, he is far superior to MacDonald. the British working class.” He fald PIM of the unemployment ard other Oppressed Nations’ Delegates in | suits of capitelist-imperialigsm in Majority. Britain. “Imperialism today,” he “Here at Brussels the delegates’ went on, “has its basis in capitalism. | from the oppressed nations are in the majority. This represents a tre- ‘wendous advance, Only by the closest co-operation of all elements ean our ends be attained. We are for independence of all countries, in- cluding independence from ‘man- dates,’ old and new. (This last refers to Germany’s bid for a League of Nations Mandate). But it is not enough t% pass resolutions. We must act. “f was to have heard Brock- way’s ros steno I hope they express the present attitude of the Independent Labor party, and I hope also that the ‘egtire British Labor party can be woi§for it. Transport Workers in Struggle, “I am glad tha’ we have in jour midst, Edo Fimmen, the most im- portant figure of the International | Federation of Transport’ Workers— for the transport workers are a vital point in the struggle against impe- rialism. We must popularize the idea of strikes ugainst imperialist aggressions. We must prepare to go forward with them. The resolution whieh I shali present to you later asks the congress to approve of the genera] strike against imperialism, “In England great strides have been made in the workers’ actions against imperialism. The American workers cannot be expected to do) very much at the present stage, Eu-| the great events of this era, will \ 72 \German Firm Forces Women Workers to Bob Si * a et Hair; Too Expensive BERLIN, Mareh tricity works of gia, have ordere 00 women employes to bob their hair imme- or lock for another job, management says that long is unsafe in a factory, where it be caught in the. machinery. however, is believed to be the first case on yecord where dismissal is threatened, not for bobbing but for not bobbing. The employes claim that the acqui- sition of the bob and its upkeep is too expensive for them. They threat- en to strike if the order is enforced. .—The elec- a, Thue ‘fe Dies From Injuries Alfred Ward, 79, of 19 North First eet, Jamaica, Queens, died last ight in the Jamaica Hospital, of a actured ull received Saturday when he ‘was struck by a trolley car of the R vay Branch of. the Jam- FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 'Priest Admits Church ‘Follows After Mammon ‘Can’t Tell What To Do PEORIA, Ill, March 10.—Admit- ting that the church today is tied Central Railroad Company at ‘" : f vw York and Locust avenues, | i and ent by, the socials; The car was bound for. Rockaway, /0' the world, Rev. Father Lu and Ward wasi walking on the track, Reed of Westport, Conn., who is at according to the police. th, Andrew’s church here for a Demand Alternate. He id that “the fault of the NEWARK, N..J., March 10,—Con-!chureh is an economic one, it is in tinued illness of Mayor Thomas L.| bondage because the church owns Raymond, of Newark, who has been| property and it can keep up this/a confined to his home since early in October, has, resulted in a demand on the part of some, citizens and a New- ark newspaper that he delegate his duties to someone else. LHADERS IN THE WORLD STRUGGLE OF THE OPPRESSED Left to right: Manuel Gomez (United States); Chen Kuen (China); Harry Pollitt (England) ; Comrade from French Indo-China; Sen Katayana (Japan); Lamine Senghor (Senegal); Prof. Barakatula (India); Codovilla (Ar- _wentina); Tuiyano (Venezuela); Mella (Mexico); Holli (Holland); Comrade from Dutch East Indies. of the congress is broad enough, its roots are deep enough, and its strik- CURRENT EVENTS in, jower impressive enough for us cios aes about our serious vines cén- (Continued from. Page One) ‘fident of what wé are doing,” tance into the packed hall, but, this Hafiz Rammadan Bey, member of| fact did not call for the use of po- the Egyptian Parliament and presi-| lice dubs. The incident only goes to ‘dent of the Egyptian Nationalist | show that the police are the servants party, who followed Ledebour, said|of the capitalists who own and con- that he believed more in evolution | trol the political groups that handle than ‘in revolution, but that some joint action |sary. He pointed out that altho Egypt is nominally an independent country the British army of occupa- tion is still there. He put. forward ,the idea of the internationalization of the Suez canal, a measure, which, | he said, would eripple the British em- pire in its Indian policy. Scores French Imperialism. Senghor declared that we gannot make war with phrases. “French -imperialism,” he said, “as we know it in Afriea, recognizes no argu- ments but might. I am ‘sure that be- fore we leave this congress we shall work out a concrete program of op- erations.” Pollitt told the eongress that “all that we have heard here of oppres- sion in the colonies is also true of The British workers are beginning to realize this more and more. Must Fight British Imperialism. “We cannot, however, be satisfied with declarations that when labor is again in power it will treat India ,@ifferently than in the past. right of India—and any other Brit- ish ecolony—to separate from the em- |pire at will, and we must help all struggles in the colonies to that pur- pose. Hyde Park demonstrations against the sending of British troops to China, excellent enough as those demonstrations are. We must take steps to prevent the sending of, But! troops. We tay not succeed. our, fight will have important con- | sequences.” ly interrupted by applause, then pre- sented a concrete program of work for Great Britain. It is embodied in a resolution which, it is understood, | will be presented to the congres: jointly by the British, Chinese and indian delegations. Powder Manufacturer Calls for More Boys _ To Prepare for Wars NEW YORK (FP.).—Gun powder is nevertheless neces- | We} must come out four-square for the | We cannot be satisfied with | Pollitt, whose speech was frequent-. ‘the governmental machinery. The police gre not the servants of “all the people.” They are the jailers of the many and the servants of the few. * = s HE fascist government is making whatever use it can of “holy wa- ter." A papal representative re- cently “blessed” public hacks and of- ficial cars reeently organized into.a fascist syndicate. All the cars were ordered to carry an effigy of St. Francis, asthe patron of automo. biles. Customers would probably pre- fer an up-to-date meter. Mussolini may line up the hurdy-gurdy opera- | tors next. The pope would have a devil of a time getting his deity’s ear if the organ grinders set up a rival chorus simultaneously. * €- &* SENERAL ALVARO OBREGON. former president of Mexico, spurned a decération conferred on him by the Italian government because of the difference in the ideals of t fascist and Mexican — revolutions. Good for Obregon, but feetly, good decoration be lost to the western hemisphere we suggest that Mussolini order one of his fhinkeys to mail it to either Matthew Woll or Harry M. Daugherty. Either one could wear it without the use of a | gas mask. * RUMMING up circulation is » constant source of worry to all cireulation managers ‘those at the throttle of publications that depend on advertising for rey- enue. Walking along Second avenue vesterday 1 spied a headline in the Mirror reminiscent of the Peaches- Browning-Honking-Woof-Woof days. Two words were displayed in heroic if vulgar type. They-were: “Ford... Jews.” In all probability there was no story. Just a 2nd Avenue edition ‘to gain a few thousand extra readers tor Hearst, consequently higher ad- vertising rates and perhaps a May aise for the circulation manager. { * * * IF “neutrality” of the United } States in Nicaragua was graphi- eally portrayed in a recent issue of the New York Tribune. Lawrence lest a per-| particularly | cher (Germany); Nejedly (€zechoslovakia); Roland-Holst CHINESE UNION LEADER IN U.S. TO SEE DANGERS. Regards Company Un-| ionas Horrible Example CHICAGO (FP. Ma Cheu Jung, founder and president of a Chinese trade union of 300,000 workers with locals in Canton, Shanghai, Pekin jand many other’ cities, is traveling |through the United States to dis- cover the condition of labor under mass production. He wishes to dis- | cover how labor organizations are | fighting the mass exploitation jcaused by speeding-up, company’! }unions, company welfare work and! other methods that have been brought .to greatest perfecti in | America. Ma foresees a spread of mass production from Shanghai, its present nucleus, to the rest of China, His union is part of the Chinese N. tionalist or Kuomintang movem bent on ending the usurpation of f. .- ;eign imperialism. Sitting in the Federation Press of- fice with Shiulai Eng, president of} the Chicago Kuomintang, who acted |as interpreter, Ma spoke vigorously about labor’s program in China. |“When you have chased out the for- eign exploiters, what then?” he was} asked. “Then we must end exploi- tation by Chinese. The Chinese is ,just as bad, sometimes worse than ‘the foreign exploiter.” Ma’s union is an organization of {machinists and allied crafts, inelud- jing electrical workers, iron-workers, | \stationavy engineers, sheet-metal | |workers, firemen and oilers, wood- | workers and machinery movers, 10) |departments in all, united as the’ Mechanical Workers’ union. Condi-| tions are best in Canton and worst) jin Pekin of the big cities, he said. | | He sketched an interesting correla-! tion between high wages, short hours ‘and union literacy. | Big Headquarters. | His union holds an aynual national | ‘convention and more frequent dis- trict meetings. Its headquarters in| | Canton is a three-story building cost- ‘ing $200,000, “as big as the Y, M. Ovi Ba” proudly said. There is k’s revival mectings, could no real solution for the problem |propesty only by making conces. sior thereby it serving is two peaker said that the clergy joffen! anyone. The rich man must jnot be offended for fear he will cut jort support of the church, he jadmitted. He declared a solution of the problem’ was beyond him. The his hi affair had gone too far for him to| ‘ollow. LAST PALM BEACH BANK CLOSES UP: SIXTH SINCE JUNE Real Estate Gambling Important Cause PALM BEACH, Fia., March 10.— The sixth bank to close in Palm |Beach since June, and the last in the |town, has shut “its doors. The business day opened, and the First Bank and Trust Co.,.of Palm | Beach did not. Its failure to do so cut off the wealthy residents here ‘from all banking facilities. Nearby, jin the town of West Palm® Beach, ;two banks were also defunct, and |heavy runs were taking place on the |two left. ; } Loans Fail. ach the gospel so as not to} Page Three ‘Co-operative League Opens Worker Classes In Important Cities FORGING CHAIN T TIE NIGARAGUA TO WALL STREET Plan for Financial and Political Control NEW YORK (FP.).—Two train- ing schools for co-operative workers are due to open April 18, the Co-op- ve League announces, One will be in Brooklyn, N. Y., the other at Minneapolis, and each will be” open for six wee In each city a special feature of the work will be visits to th: i v numerous ¢o-op- erative enterprises in the vicinity. (Continued from Page One) e going oh looking toward a treaty that will provide for trol of Nicaragua's fi for American-of: ary Tt has been de: tions committee, which details the American con-|&tilling received by Stokely W. Mor 1 affa Kan, representing Secretary Kellogg ca anaes . of the state department. Senator Borah, Reed of Missouri, Johnson of California and Swanson an. tely ascertained \that the marine w in Nicaragua /¢' in the general attack on the Cool- will not be withdrawn until the con-|'48* Policy in Nicaragua, and especi- stabulary contracted for in the pro-|#!ly that phase which resulted in the sending of the British cruiser, Colom- bo. posed protec “I do not want England in- Nica- | Fagua,” said Reed, | BLUEF 10.—United oneenenietcemenipinl liberal soldiers at El Baqueron Rail- road Station, eighteen miles west soe bis Drivers Managua, last F y rding to} ejyec Mi anagua, 1s a8 j ong Ww ork Day jreports received | ports do not state whether there were} BOSTON (FP.-.—Boston truck any casualties ers of Local 25, Teamsters? General Moncada has been offici have voted that nine hours ally advised that Matagalpa is now’ shall constitute their day’ work for a neutral zone and he has gi i da: 8% hours Saturday in the interview " ng this aetion. Sta hours Saturdays in June, uly and August. fate board of conciliation m a nine-hour day ick Owners’ As- tes for | Occupation Is Completed, | The United States t sociation insisted on maintaining occupation of Nicaragua, Admiral 10-hour day. |Julian Latimer, commander of the naval forces there, navy department, Every marine has been put ashore from the transport Henderson and the large supply of ammunition and food; EVANSTON, II, placed in warehouses at Corinto, from | bert Frick, 22, was still allve shortly where it will be distributed. |after noon today, 98 hours after his A Regular Stay. lungs refused to function and artifi- From now on the marines will set-|¢ial respiration was begun. tle down to the regulgr routine of, Physicians reported Frick had policing the republic and remain there taken a short nap and seemed rested as long as there is-any danger of the despite the tremendous strain in- Nicaraguans trying to install their Volved in having volunteers cease- reported to the/F rick Still Lives by Artificial Breathing March 10.—Al- |largely due also to speculation, as SEEEELE EE LEDS rt | Dennis, retiring secretary of the | no color or sex discrimination and a | American Legation in Nicaragua is number of white electrical workers {shown handing a dollar bill to an jn Canton are members, he said. rope offers better possibilities. Here vs. face powder, and a free speech we have a long tradition of working against free speech mixed on the air class political education under the! when the Government Club’s alarm- ‘cleyen-year-old native boy with a rifle on his shoulder and looking exceedingly uncomfortable under the | weight of it. The eleven-year-ol | All the outstanding trade union leaders in China have been trained by the Kuomintang and practically | all support its revolutionary pro- i Seeond International, whose secre- nt company. ill Fight Alongside Communists, ‘Now you know that I am not a Communist,—but I say that I shall side by side with the Commun- ists whenever and wherever they take up revolutionary work, We can all be prepared to have labels put upon us. It does not matter. No one can afford to ignore the power- ful groups represented here. No one, least of all the imperialists, can af- ford to dismiss this congress as of importance for the liberation of humanity. The basis list evening was broadcast, Free tary, Friedrich Adler, unfortunately speech in public schools was called | for bravery we are told. Of course | ttacks this congress as ‘Communist,’ a menace because it might bring at- he is attached to the conservative | or ean only answer that T am sorry tacks on the existing social order, amy. There is only one more war- | 0 see you, Friedrich Asler, in your including the unequal position of rior visible, Perhaps the other 50 ‘capital and labor. William E. C, Mayer gave this blast. Major A, P. Simmonds called for Qu Pont gun-powder instead of Coty face powder for modern youth, com- plaining that feminism was develop- ing and that military training in schools and colleges would help re- store virility. “Dangerous legish | tive tendencies” listed by Frank L. Pe khov, as an extra on the program included a number of measures ad- | susaued by organized labor. Read ‘The Daily Worker Every Day marvel has been on the firing liné gram, he explained. The unions have three times and has been decorated | attempted to maintain daily newspa-, pers but failed because of the lack! advertising revenue and'the inabil- ity to raise enough money otherwise. | But there are many weekly labor |journals. The language difficulty ‘owing to the difference in Chinese ‘Wealthy Brothers in \dialects is speedily overcome by the “re | Cantonese, Ma declared. A Canton- _ Court Fight Over Wife. i 0 “i | per cent of Diaz’s army! ee ee oe ese can become fluent in the Shang-| / \hai tongue in two months, 'he said, | NEW YORK, March 10.—Hostili-/ and similarly elsewhere. ‘ties between Colonel Edward Cod- “How about recognition of the Na- ington Carrington, wealthy pub- tionalist government by the United) \lisher of Chicago, and his brother, States,” he was asked, “If the Uni- ‘Campbell, New York attorney, were ted States wants to recognize us—~| transferred to Supreme Court today | very well,” Ma replied. “We shall) with the filing of a $1,000,000 suit| welcome it, though we do not seek against Campbell for alienation of} it. We can exist without recogni- Mrs. Carrington’s affections, tion.” |own president. Primarily the marines expect to crush the army of Dr. Juan Sacasa, Three banks have closed here within the last two days, in spite of loans from rich men visiting here, who raised money in an effort to Ve pairs nockg Pacis eras a save them. Crowds in front of rom a military and po tand- ont of the) oint, officials declared. This will be buildings were so large that police broke them up. The chief injury to the Palm Beach banks came from the wild land speculations, resulting in in- flated values, on which money was lent, and to the wreckage caused by} last summer’s gale and tidal wave, done, it was stated, regardless of ac- tion upon the treaty which is being ne- gotiated with this country to estab- lish a protectorate for 100 years. Anti-Liberal. distribution of marines, it was reported, completely shuts off General Moneada, Dr. S ’s leader the heaviest loss was suffered by im the field, from any further military hastily built structures, put up of operations against the forces of cheap materials to sell at a h | Adolfo Diaz, president of Nicaragua price, , under the protection of the United States. Faker Gets Sentenced Officials ot sata department M: JECK. N.Y ae have expressed themselves as aston- Bros nag mv eethbolay pr sen ished at the feeling of resentment the to be an internationally-known swind- | terms of the treaty proposed with ler, was sentenced to six months in| Diaz have aroused in America, and jail today ‘by Justice William B.| are now endeavoring to quiet the Leeds in police court here. Caccavaro,|Storm by prophesying that “the according to the police, carried on a| United States will not accept the pro- wholesale swindling game in the dis-| Position of Diaz that a protectorate guise of a priest be established.” te aa Get What They Want. Block 300% Salary Raise It is also pointed out that all the ALBANY, N. 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