The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1927, Page 2

4 Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927 KUOMINTANG GENERAL PROMISES THE BRUSSELS CONGRESS. HIS LOYALTY THE RED FRONT FIGHTERS By MANUEL GOMEZ. FRANKFORT, Germany.—Delegates to the world congres against im- perialism who were invited to address meetings in Germany following the close of the sessions af Brussels, are impressed by the uniformed, well-drilled proletarian batallions which stand guard at reyolutiopary working class gath- erings thriout the country. These are the Red Front Fighters (“Rote Front Kaempfer”), 100,000 strong, formed to protect the labor movement from tascism and other forms of reaction on the heels of the setbacks of Oc- tober, 1923. ‘ Made up principally of non-party workers, left wing Social Democrats and Communists, the Red Front Fighters have earned the respect of all class- conscious workers. They are organized upon military lines, altho they are of course without weapons. Their discipline and pride of organization are the envy of the fast-waning reactionary detachments. It is admitted on all sides that the Red Front Fighters may be destined to play an important role in the future Struggles of the German working class. Welcome Delegations. A demonstration led by Red Front Fighters met Chung Ling Fu, of the general staff of the Cantonese army; B, Gumede, of the South African Na- tional Negro Congress, and m f upon our arrival at Frankfort. The huge crowds at our meetings here, and in Hannau, Berlin and Dresden, are in- dieative of the tremendous interest which the Brussels congress has awak- ened. The European press, with the exception of the English press (which apparently has its own reasons), devotes considerable space to the affairs of the congress—even today, nearly two weeks after the sessions are closed. " Altogether I have addressed seven meetings in Germany—-together with Gumede, Chung and others, including General Lin, second in command under eng Yu Hsiang in north China; El Bakri, outstanding chief of the fighting nationalists in Syria; Matta, of the Riffian nationalists, and Daniel Colraine, vice. president of the Trade Union Congress of South Africa. Other delegates have taken part in meetings at Hamburg, Cologne and other cities of north- eastern Germany. “The article printed below is part of a series written by the delegate of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League to the Brus- sels Congress Against Colonial Oppression.and Imperialism. The congress was made up of delegates from anti-imperialist organ-| izations, peace societies and labor unions in the European, Ameri- can and other imperialist nations, from labor bodies and nation- clist organizations in the colonial countries, and from subjugated races even in countries with full sovereignty. Important resolutions were passed, for the practical carrying | cn of the work of freeing conquered peoples from their slavery. 4 survey of the work of the congress and the personalities attend- ing, which have made it one of the great events of this era, will be found in these articles. Grain Fraud Charged To Armour Company Being Investigated CHICAGO, March 11, — The board of trade today completed preparations for the opéning of | the investigation tomorrow the Armour Grain Company, held have been guilty of “fraud and cor- ruption” in its dealing with the defunct Grain Marketing Com- pany. The investigation by a commit- tee was expected to require several weeks. It will go into all details of the asserted “deliberate” chang- ing of sanples to indicate a higher quality of wheat was in the Ar- mour elevator than was actually on hand, preliminary to the merger | with the $200,000,000 cooperative organization, into | by Arbitrator Edward B. Brown to | SINCLAIR CLAIMS HAD RIGHT TO BE SILENT IN QUIZ Senate Committees | WASHINGTON, March 11—The| |defense counsel of Harry F, Sinclair, | oil operator on trial for contempt be-| cause he refused to answer questions asked in connection with the frauds charged in the Teapot Dome oil lease, is trying to set up the principle that senate investigation committees can-| not compel answers to “non-pertinent” queries, The inquisitorial authority of con- gressional committees is attacked in the principal contention of the de-} fense—that no witness summoned be-)| Would Upset Powers of |ing the revenue laws by placing | mulative surpluses for the purpose | | | Treasury Investigates ||Charge Big Companies | | Violating Revenue Law | WASHINGTON, March 11.—An investigation has been started by the treasury to determine whether or not big corporations are violat- | unauthorized funds in their accu- | | of defrauding the government. So far’a number of cases have heen discovered that “approached the danger’ line of law violation” it was said at the tréasury today. Secretary Mellon takes the pos tion that the law does not mean | that corporations shall distribute | ali of their earnings, but that some funds may be placed for the credit | of surplus, ¢ vided in the revenue laws against A fifty percent penalty is pro- | | corporations which place money in | American | Economic Life \ H TH By WALLPROL. |West Virginia Gains 57,000,000 Tons Since COAL MINED IS 00.00 | 1923; Still Increasin FAR AHEAD OF One millions tons of coal a ek is an immense figure. That is four |times as much as all New England USUAL DEMANDS wink aly ou |consumes each | states produce that much or more, 100,000,000 Tons More Than Last 12 Months than in the corresponding week of 1923. Look at the respective fig- But West Virginia has increased Coal production keeps galloping | yyeg: |that much in the last four years, | Actually, West Virginia produced |last week 1,150,000 more\tons of coal surplus funds for the purpose of i jahead of al! reasonable demand.| evading the income tax. | Despite just middling industrial ac. j } ate winter months, production is | Pp DE IVERA | still the highest on record in the last | | se n years, ‘tivity and very mild weather for the! Production last week | | was 2,000,000 tons over the similar |week of 1926, Nevertheless there is, “U1 ja slow and steady decline from 18,- |600,000 tons in the mid-February | 97 | weele to 12,750,000 last week. The! CENTRAL AMERICA |nervous line on the Bureau of Mines | chart will sag down badly within a} few. more weeks as the situation| ; ahead of the industry becomes clear- Stop Spanish People to |r. ae ‘ | Production in the coal year March! Speak for Nicaragua |1, 1926, to February 28, 1927, is 110,-| . | 000,000 tons ahead of the similar pe-| (Continued from Page One) | riod for the previous twelfthmonth, | to other countries. The actual mili-| This surplus represents in good) tary government, therefore imperial-| measure the extra coal dug to help! \ist, has been since 1923 favoring King | break the British strike and to lay | Alfonso’s wishes. The Directory has concentrated its international policy in one direction— |up reserves against the prospective | American strike. To visualize the| figures, here they are for the “coal! years” ending with February, as ex-) plained above: America Union. Major Franco's raid) across the Atlantic (Palos to Buenos} Net tons 1923 + «1,780,000 tons 1927... - 2,940,000tons ‘That means 57,000,000 tons a year increase, or one tenth of the entire annual production of the United States. Compare West Virginia with the other three million ton a week states, in average February weekly production: 1923 1927 Pennsylvania ...3,000,000 3,375,000 West. Virginia <.1,780,000 3,150,000 Illinois -1,975,000 2,000,000 Kentucky + 775,000 1,400,000 Pennsylvania, half /union and half non-union, has increased but little, considering the heavy national pro- duction figures. West Virginia, en- tirely non-union, has leaped ahead 1,370,000+a week in four years, or 70 per cent. Illinois has barely held her own, while non-union Kentucky has almost doubled production, What an indictment in these fig- ures of the union-wrecker Lewis and the corrupt officialdom of the United M-ue Workers! Andy Says Its O. K. Ill. Real Warriors There. * BRUSSELS, Feb. 13.—That the Brussels congress is no mere gath- ering of talkers was dramatically ex- pressed yesterday with the arrival of two revolutionary nationalist leaders who have been facing the armies of imperialism on the field of battle. These are General Lu Chung Lin, who commanded the Kuo- | minchun forces of the north during Feng Yu Hsiang’s absence in Rus- sia, and Mazhar Bey El-Bakri of Sy- r’a, foremost chief of the Syrian Na- fonzl Assembly. Both will return Sat for Coupons ~ Immediately Thousands of Children of the Passaic Textile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE | scope of the legislative question be- TRAPS FOR TEN Trial His Excuse. | Dome leasing negotiations with for- \ defense argument, by the fact that courts when he last appeared before | WASHINGTON, March 11.—A}swered questions, the defense con-| |nually has been launched by Secre- j under way. 000,000,000 and imports of about/a decisive victory in the ruling of Jus-| of an expansion program to further | nection with the unanswered questions | | New Posts Abroad. ‘rather than one of fact, to be deter- j of the congress. cities: |ous applause,, immediately took the} zuela, and Wellington, N. Z. }spoke without oratory ‘and almost folk, Va., Wilmington, Del., Mobile, Europe has ever heard from the lips | Hoover’s Net Work. | are gathered here a war is going on|Latine America and Europe, now un- | | fore a senate or house committee may | H |be compelled to testify relative to |matters he deems to be beyond the fore the investigating body. | | |- Sinclair’s refusal to answer seven |questions centered upon the Teapot BILL 10 N TRADE |mer secretary of the interior, Albert |B. Fall, in 1922, are justified, in the { %“ i the Sinclair leases already were un- Gov ernment Establishes der fire in- the Wyoming federal | Network of Agents a the senate committee. The unan- | drive to boost American foreign trade | tends, involved matters directly con-| over the $10,000,000,000 mark an-|cerned in the-court proceedings then tary of Commerce Hoover. ‘ Jury Not To Decide. ’ Forecasting exports of close to $5,-| The government won a major if not} |'$4,400,000,000 in’ 1927, the commerce | tice William Hitz, presiding, that the department today announced details |issue of “pertinence arising in con- | stimulate both foreign. and domestic | Was one of law, to be decided by the | business, {court in his instructions to the jury, ai a | New foreign trade posts were an- | mined by the jurors themselves from} |to the battle-front at the conclusion | nounced tentatively in the een | Remarkable Soldier. Oslo, Norway, Berne, Switzerland, | General Lu, greeted with tumultu-| Winnipeg, Canada, Caracas, Vene- |floor. He talked in slow, measured! New domestic district offices will | | tones for about fifteen minutes. He be established in Los Angeles, Nor- | without gestures, but his speech was| Ala, Jacksonville, Fla., and Kansas | the most remarkable address that! cj | of a soldier. With establishment of the new | “Comrades,” he began, “while you | posts and others in the Far East, | in China which involves the whole|der consideration, the United States | future of the human race. , Peace is) will have a network of foreign trade | {a great thing. I hate war. I am/}offices extending to virtually every | fighting to make it impossible. But|quarter of the globe. These “out-| it is childish to assume that there| posts of trade” are charged with | ean be any peace under imperialism. | keeping American manufacturers I am a soldier and must remain one. | and exporters i touch with the de- I shall remain faithful to my concep-| mands of every market, thus fur- tion of the tasks of a soldier, which| nishing outlets for surplus goods to is to fight against imperialist op-|form a general prosperity stabilizer. |pression, to combat militarism and) In addition to the new posts the to defend at all times and against | department plans antincrease in the| all enemies, the interests of the| commercial staffs in the important workers and poor peasants. |offices at London, Berlin, Rome,| “Military leaders have been the|Buenos Aires and other capitals. | sustaining foree of reaction. But I! Where the posts are located in na-| | pledge my word here that, altho €/ tional ‘capitals the appointees will | soldier, I shall never sell myself to|rank as commercial attaches; other- |the enemy of the workers and peas-| wise as trade commissioners. jants, nor lend myself to the schemes} | of the imperialists. You are my | leaders, you here in this congress, I jendorse, without qualification, all |the actions you have taken. I shall | try to carry out your decisions in the future.” After tracing the progress of the Chinese revolution, addressing spe- |cial words of greeting to the work- |ing class representativés from the imperialist countries, to the other na- tionalist movements, and to the | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, he concluded with the words: “Long \live the world revolution!” |, Yesterday’s arrivals included W. |J. Brown, secretary of the (Amster- ;dam) International Federation of | Trade Unions, who addressed HELP US FEED THEM Help Build a Strong Union! Take Some More To Sell | uniow—of.alt=the forces of tabor | a@@inst“iiperialism and capitalism. | The British delegation was enlarged | by the addition of Ellen Wilkinson, |M. P., John Beckett, M. P., Helen | Crawford of the International Work- \ers’ Relief, and John Williams of the | Young Communist League. George | Lansbury, vice-president of the Brit- | ish Labor party, will be here tomor- ‘ee ; Edo Fimmen led the dizcussion on the fourth point of the agenda. Fim- {International Federation of Trans- | port Workers, has a credential from | the Mexican Federation of Labor (Cc. R. O. M.). He called attention to the fact, revealed in the special jtrade union committee of the con- | gress, that seventeen trade union or- | ganizations with 7,962,000 members | of all races are officially represented {and participating here. | These include such organizations |as the Unitarian General Confedera- jtion .of Labor of France (C. G. T. |J.), the Minority Movement of Mreat Britain, the South African | Trade Union Congress, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the Office open from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. ic. R. O. M, of Mexico. daily General Relief Committee 799 BROADWAY ROOM 225 NEW YORK cITy Stuyvesant 2343 of the C. G. T. U,; Daniel Colraine, vice-president of the South African {Trade Union Congress; Chen Kuen, jof the Chinese Canton-Hongkong | strike committee; Mohammed Hatta, ‘of the Dutch East Indies, and Manuel | Anti-Imperialist League [States Section). (United the | | congress in his own name, urging the | |men, besides being the leader of the | | Fimmen was followed by Herclet, | | Gomez, secretary of the All-America | Read The Daily Worker Every Day) Anti-Militarist Out | Of Jail After Fast Of Thirty-eight Days LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Karl Robinson, jailed for selling peace literature in a Los Angeles park in vidlation of a city ordinance when he discovered that the army was us- ing the park for “tilitaristie propa- ganda,” has been released.. He is now recovering in a Hollywood sani- | tarium from his 88 days of fasting. | The Southern California Commit- | tee of the Civil Liberti¢s Union pro- | tested against the application of the, law and demanded either the right to sell peace pamphlets in the park or the removal of the army recruit- ing station. The Park Commission has informed the union that the per- mit for the recruiting station ex- pires April 1 and will not be re- newed. General Combines Red- \Baiting Speech With a Plea for Larger Army WASHINGTON (FP.) March 11. —Maj.-Gen, Douglas MacArthur, fcommanding the third corps area, has delivered a “red scare” talk to the high school cadets in the national \eapital, where school talks by paci- | fists have been frequently protested |by the American Legion and D. A.| R. groups, MacArthur told the school boys \that “With the red menace in Russia | jand turmoil and disorder in other parts of the world, there is little doubt that some day our streets will onee more be filled with marching | men.” Therefore he urged the.boys to be-| ware of “heretical teachings” of need for disarming the nation. He said it was as wrong to propose getting | along without the army and navy, as to propose getting along without the police and fire departments. | : piers When replying to these advertises ments mention The DAILY WORKER, a a | Borges and his three companion avia- | lice regulations against picketing of the evidence. This question has never before been determined in the federal | courts, It was the foundation stone} of the Sinclair defense. Nips lnitiaae Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Seriously Hl at Home Of Friends in Portland The DAILY WORKER has re- ceived word from Portland, Oregon, | that Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, cham- | pion of the cause of the workers for | the past twenty-one years, has been | seriously ill at the home of’ friends there, | Although ske is not well enough | to answer the letters of her friends, she is anxious to know what is going | on in the movement in New York, according to the word received. Let-| ters should be addressed to her in {held in Madrid. In spite of the scien- | new Ueague of Nations with Spain. The Aeronautic Congress. Some weeks ago a Spanish-Latin- America Aeronautic Conference was, ic and industrial purposes that were scussed, the conference had only po- | litical aims. This, was one more step in Primo de Rivera’s policy of influ- encing Latin-America; and in this in-| stanee it consisted in the Aeronautic | Conference establishing the basis for an international organization includ- ing Spain and Latin-American coun- | tries, to work against C. I. N. A. The plans of Alfonso XIII and Primo de Rivera failed because Urugu- | care of Dr. Marie D. Equi, Lafayette Building, Portland, Oregon. | Moors “Friendly” To | Spain; Won’t Release Airmen Unless Paid CAPE JUBY, March 11.—Negotia- tions were proceeding slowly but sat- isfactorily today between the Spanish authorities and the friendly Moorish tribe which rescued Major Larre- } tors for the ransoming of the Urugu- ayan fliers. The Uruguayans have been in the custody of the Moorish tribesmen since their hydroplane fell into the sea more than a week ago while attempting a trans-Atlantic flight. Bill to End Capital Punishment Beaten In Mass. Legislature BOSTON, March 11.—Capital pun- ishment will continue in Massachu- setts. On a voice vote the house of rep- resentatives today refused to sub- stitute a bill calling for abolition of that mode of punishment for an ad- verse report by the legislative judi- ciary committee, The adverse committee report was then accepted by the house without a record vote. Picket Loses Appeal To Appellate Court | would not sign any proposal contrary | to the resolutions established by the | |C. I. N. A. of Paris. Uruguay’s at- | | countries, was caused by the influence | ay’s delegation said its government titude followed immediately by other | of some European diplomats. | Another fact that shows the Span- ish government’s policy toward La- tin-America, is the protection given to the coming Spanish-American expo- | sition in Sevilla. Still another indica- tion, is the big official subscription raised to help the victims of Cuba’s| last catastrophe. King Alfonso XIIT| wants to be popular in all Latin- American countries. Agairfst Mexico. Spanish Catholics, helped by ‘the! government, have started an active! campaign against the Mexican govern- ment. Catholic priests expelled from | Mexico have come to Spain, and they | are very active in giving lectures and | publishing pamphlets in which they | relate the “Communistic horrors” of the Calles government. Money is be- ing collected everywhere to help their comrades still living in Mexico. All this propaganda has of course brought protests from all over Spain. But Primo de Rivera has immediately found a way to keep this quiet. Cen- | sorship does not allow the press to. publish any articles approving the | Calles government, nor even to cen- sure Spanish catholics for campain- | ing against Mexico. | Last Shnday a group of intellectuals | organized and secretly issued 2 mani- | festo, which as an expression of sym- | pathy toward Mexico they took to the | Mexican embassy in Madrid. The po- | lice were mobilized, and the professors! and students who had organized this move were sent to prison, notwith- | standing the fact that thousands of | | | | WASHINGTON (FP.) March 11. ~—Dorothy Ferguson, convicted two years ago in police court for picket- ing a clothing store which was fight- ing the retail clerks’ union, has lost her case in the appellate court of the District of Columbia. ae The appellate judges held that po- stores were not nullified by the Clayton law. | The American Federation of La-| bor assisted in the defense, » ‘er Mrs. Ferguson had been senter ved in the police court to pay a fine, Governor Orders Bets Off. TALLAHASSEE,. Fla, March 11. —Ordering every sheriff in Florida | to stop any and all forms of gamb- ling at any race track that may be open, either dog or horse, Governor John W, Martin today said that he janything against the United States people were present to watch the pro-| ceedings at the embassy. Sympathy for Nicaragua. ; The greatest part of Spanish pub. | lie opinion watches with enormous in- | terest President Coolidge’s policy of attack upon Nicaragua. The Spanish government is against Nicaragua, side | by side with Wall Street. | No Spaniard is allowed to publish | intervention in Nicaragua. The United States ambassador in Madrid has sue- ceeded in convincing Primo de Rivera. and he will not permit any criticism of the Coolidge policy. Primo de Ri- vera is developing on this question a, policy simigar to the one followed with Mussolini. King Alfonso XIII and Primo de Rivera, whose aims are to establish a Latin-American Union, join with the United States when it is crushing would see that the State Supreme Court decision in reference to race | tracks was strictly enforced. t countries struggling against imperial- ism and for political and economic in| Aires) was only carried out in order | 1919-20... 444,568,000 to start propaganda to enhance the/| 1920-21 ., prestige. of Spain in Latin Ameriia. 1921-22 When King Alfonso went to Huelva to 1923-24 | welcome the airmen on their return to 1924-25 . | Spain, he said in his speech that La- 1925-26 + + -480,387,00 tin-American republics should form a 1926-27 . - -540,000,000 | WASHINGTON, March 11.—The |treasury’s plan to exchange five-year three and one-half per cent bonds for second Liberties bearing 4 1-4 per | cent interest has met a favorable “re- j ception,” Secretary of the Treasury | Mellon said today. * LECTURES and FORUMS THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE At Cooper Union (8 St, & Astor PL.) at 8 o'clock Admission Free Sunday, Mar. 13—Krnest Boyd: “Comments on Ten Literatures.” 1b—Dr. Frankwood “Possibilities of neoerced,” Friday, Mar, 18—teverett Dean Mar- tim: What Is th a Modern Point Thought.” AT MANHATTAN TRADE sCTtooL Lex. Av. & 22d St, at 8 o'clock. Single Admission, 25 cents. Reduction for Course Tickets, Monday, Mar. 14—Dr, Morris R. m + American. Philosophy,— jes a8 to Social Uplift.” ar. 16-—-Dr. Louis Casa- How the Scientist Works, Nervous tem.” Thurs, “Yar, 17-8. G. Spaulding: Questiohs People Expect a Philos- opher to Answer.—"“Are there any Antinomies?” Sat. Mar. 19—Mortimer J. Modern Adler: é Four HARLEM OPEN FORUM Sunday, March 13, 8 P. M. || MARY ADAMS (Noted Negro Lecturer) | “The Negro and the Labor | Movement” at \|| Harlem Workers’ Center 81 E. 110th Street. Ss es eeenbetoneeetebeteed INGERSOLE FORUM = antireNgious center of N, Y, CHAMBER MUSIC HALL, CARNEGIE HALL 4 | \ | | i} F, FLOYD DELL ys. Y. F.CALVERTON / Psychological Relativity: Geometries of the So Privacy of the Microcosm.” i | | —"The || { 8 o'clock | Rey, Clarence J. Harris 1s will speak on |S “WHAT I BELIEVE” ) Questions and Speeches from floor, | $Aamission tree, All welcome, | Pebtetecreetneteteteteteefetet Back To Work EVANSTON, Iil., March l1—Fifty; | Seven tight-lipped men were back on | the job at the Illinois Public Service company today—the tragedy in their hearts written on every face. Alfred | Friek, their buddy, the man for whom each had given his full time and en- ergy since last Sunday in an effort to save his life, will sit among them no more. The tense human drama | closed with death the victor, SUNDAY evening, MARCH ug Seber prr rire LABOR TEMPLE 14th Street and second Avenue THIS SUNDAY 5 P. M.—Contemporary Authors. PROF. H. W. L. DANA i: “. “Pirandello” | ADMISSION 25 CENTS | 7:15 P. M— EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “The Search for the Answer— The Drama of Evolution” ADMISSION “FREE 8:30 P. M— JUDGE FLORENCE ALLEN “Our Heritage” ADMISSION FREE sp egsarabt ais |Read The Dally Worker Every Day t Debate Famous Novelist and Essayist Noted Critic and Lecturer 4 : ? SUBJECT : IS MONOGAMY DESIRABLE? Floyd Dell, Says YES Gahan Vv. ‘¥B Calverton, Says NO : CHARLES W. WOOD. Tonight, March 12, 1927, at 8:15 P. M. COMMUNITY CHURCH AUDITORIUM 3 34th Street and Park Avenue TOkets: eta. oc hea chic rs. « obs a's ahve. yt $1.10 and 75 cents. For’ Sale at Jimmy Higgin’s Bookshop, 127 “University Pl. NOW. THE EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM of the Churvh of All Nations 9 Second Avenue, near Houston St., SUNDAY, MARCH 13th, at §:30 Pat., CLINTON GOLDEN will speak “on The Brookwood Labor College and Workers’ Education, TOMORROW NIGHT, 8 P.M. Louis Fischer Russian correspondent of Nation will speak on © “Oil and Imperialism” The author of"Oil Lmperiatism" traces the relationship. between the two, i At 6 The Workers School Forum 108 Fant 14th Street, NENT SUNDAY J, Mindel will ak on “The Role of Co-operatives Under Capitalism, ADMISSION 250, _ the To Reduce Budget MEXICO. CITY, March 11—The treasury department announces that in the interests of general economy the Mexican budget bill will be re- duced by 2,500,000 pesos in the forth- caning eal ate SO o