The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1927, Page 3

\ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1927 Page Three ANTLIMPERIALIST DELEGATES | FORM PERMAN ENT ORGANIZATION 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 Imperiolism. 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-, alist organizations in the colonia l countries, and from subjugated , races even in countries with full sovereignty. Important resolutions were 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 KELLOGG WARNS SENATOR NOT TO 60 INTO HAYTI Hypocritical Maneuver To Hide Oppression . WASHINGTON, March 15. Senator Wm. H. King (D) of Utah, attempts to enter Haiti, despite h @ vlusion by President Borno, he do so entirely upon his own respon- sibility and can expect no aid from the-state department, it was stated by department officials. today. : King, now in Porto Rico, is reported in press dispatches as intending to’ try to enter the country despite the exclusion order against him. Borno U. S. Hireling. President Borno of Haiti and his foreign minister, Leon, issued a warn- ing to King not to come near the place, after the American senator had exposed them as mere pawns of the American marines. The government of Haiti is notoriously under the con- trol of American sugar, tobacco, and financial corporations, with the U navy actually running it in the inter- ests of American exploiters. Borno’s action, therefore, and the U. S. state department’s unwilling- ness to interfere, are alike branded by observers here as a mere hypo- critical slap by the Coolidge adminis- tration at its critics. Will Enter Back Door. King’s plan to enter the country, it is understood, will take him thru Santo Domingo, overland into Haiti. The only way to get him out then, should, Santo Domingo refuse to tak him back, is by carrying him thru to the coast, and deporting him from Port au Prince, Santo Domingo was also recently under the domination of the U. 5S. even as Haiti is today, and it is feared hy state department officials in Wash- ington that his trip will encourage the people to a more independent spirit. FRANCE DECIDES ON “OBSERVING” ARMS PARLEY PARIS, March 15.—The cabinet, meeting today under the chairmanship of President Doumergue, decided te send a French observer to the pro-, posed Tri-Partite Naval Disarmament Conference between the United States, Great Britain and Japan. The formai note announcing this decision will not be drafted until the cabinet meeting on Saturday. It is common talk here in financial circles that American Wall bankers, who now have much influ- ence in France, will force some con- cessions from the government to save the reputation of the Coolidge admin- The decision to send an ver was foretold in from Washington some dispatches days ago, which stated that Coolidge | expected such action from France. Socialist Leads In Movement to Militarize The French Republic PARIS, March 15.—France wants to “arm the nation so that she can breathe the air of peace without thought of danger.” ‘M. Paul Boncour, sociaiist deputy and ardent advocate of peace, thus explained in an interview today the \yeasons behind the new military or- gh ization bill which the chamber ties is now discussing. This hich aims at commandeering all nation’s man power and re- in time of war has been criticized by some as incongruous with French participation in the Disarma-- ment conference at Geneva. arthquake In Spain. MATARO, Spain, March 15.—The population of Mataro was thrown into panic today by two earthquake shocks, "The first shock,’ which was slight, alarmed the populace, causing the people to flee their houses. The see- ond shock, several hours later, was much more severe and caused the greatest alarm. No casualties or serious damage have been reported. read THe taily warket Heit | tine Street | the great events of this era, will! | be found in these articles. * * . MANUEL GOMEZ ARTICLE VI Brussels, Feb, 15. (By Mail, De- layed)—With the delegates of all nations and races singing, stamping and clasping hands, the first world congress against imperialism came to an end at 1:30 this morning. The congress leayes behind it a perman- ent organization embracing groups jin 40 different countries, which will immediately proceed to take up the ical work of carrying out the ons of the congress for the co- ation and active prosecution of int struggle against world im- m. Historical Fact. What direct consequences this con- gress will have for the liberation of oppressed people—how great a force s heen created here at Brussels— too early to say, but that, as Edo Fimmen remarked before laying down his gavel, “this congress al- veady belongs to history, cannot be doubted.” The “League Against Im- perialism and Colonial Rule, and for | National Independence,” which is the ‘official name of the new organiza-| tion, has on its general council repre- sentatives of the most important na- tional-revolutionary organizations thruout the globe. » Has Active Committee. Its active directing committee con- sists of J. Nehru (Indian National Congress); Liao (Kuomintang par- ty of China); Mohammed Hatta; (Saraket Rayat, Dutch East Indies); Lamine Senghor (Committee for the Defense of the Black Race, Central Africa); Manuel Ugarte (Argentine Republic); George Lansbury (Inde- pendent Labor Party of Great Bri- tain); Edo Fimmen (International Federation of Transport Workers); ; H. Marteaux (Belgium), and Willi Munzenberger (Germany). Lansbury will be chairman, and Fimmen vice chairman, The headquarters of the, league will be in Paris, Alternates for the small directing By committee are: Henri Barbusse (France); Roger Baldwin (United States); Robert Bridgeman (Eng- land) -and H. Gibarti (Hungary). High spots in the last day: ses-| sions were Munzenberg’s detailed re- port on organization and Lansbury’s ‘speech against Great Britain’s pre- sent war moves in China. Other speakers at the closing session in- cluded Moore and Baldwin of the United States, and Ernst Toller, the ‘well-known German poet and play- wright. For American Negro. Moore pointed out that the Negroes in the United Statés represent a peo- ple, more than one-tenth of the total population, living in conditions of group-subjection comparable to those of many colonies and semi-colonies. He declares that, as a Negro, he was bound to consider that the fate of the Negro race was to a considerable extent bound up with the world struggle for the emancipation of all nations, races and classes. Baldwin spoke very briefly, giving little-known facts regarding . §. imperialist rule in Samoa, Guam and the Virgin Islands. He! seconded the resolution introduced |by the Latin-American delegation, {calling for uninterrupted struggle jagainst American imperialism. | No less than 160 messages of\ greeting were received during the! ourse of the congress. It was im- | possible to read more than three or four of them, } | (The End) ! Comrades ‘and " Fellow Workers: After a yeer’s heroic struggle of ‘the Passaic textile workers, the mill | ‘barons were forced to submit to ay ‘union in the textile industry of Pas- | saic, They are however putting ob- \stacles in the way of maintaining ‘such an -erganization, Although the strike is almost over, they are taking ‘the workers back very slowly, with jthe result that thousands of families are without means of existence. Their 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 intaining a few food stores in Passaic, appeals to all those who have taken milk ¢oupons to send in their money as soon as possible, no matter how much you have collected. Send the money immediately to the Gen- eral Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, Lape 226, also ask for more coupons to sell. The « is open from 9 a. m, to f ea tte iin coitiittinn | | | the Mussolini's Puppets Inflict Savage Jail ROME, March 15, — Thirty-six Italian Communists have been sen- tenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to fifteen years with the additional imposition of heavy fines. Their only crime is opposition to the labor-smashing tacties of Mus- solini. They were arrested in the notorious red raids in September, 1925, and the summer of 1926, and were not sentenced until yester- day, when vicious sentences were imposed upon them by the special military defense court recently created. The technical charges lodged against them were “conspiracy against the safety of the state, formentation of class hatred, sub- version of the powers of the state and offences against Premier Mus- ini. ITALIAN ACTION ON BESSARABIA HOSTILE ACT Japan Doesn’t Contem- plate Similar Action MOSCOW, March 15,--Pravda points out that the ratification of Bessarabian Protocol by Italy cannot be estimated otherwise than an act indicating Italy’s entering anti-Soviet coalition. At the same time, how- ever, this step is directed against France whom Italian diplomacy is striving to drive out from the Bal- kans. ean By, a, TOKIO, March 15.—Contrary to the statement of Rumainian Foreign Minister proposed re the ratification of Bessarabian Protocoi vapan, Japanese semi-official agency reports from most authoritative sources that Japan actually does not contemplate such a step. BALTA (Moldavian Capital), Mareh 15.—Voronovich, Chairman Moldavian Central Executive Com- mittee, in a press interview stated that ratification by Italy of Rumanian robbery will rally still closer the toilers of Bessarabia for struggle for the emancipation from the royal yoke. “We, the population of Moldavia, are witnesses of the ever-increasing pass- ing of Bessarabians on our side of the frontier. Poor of All Colors, United by a Common Misery in California By JOHN H. OWENS. (Special to the Daily Worker.) RIPLEY, Calif., March 15.—There is widespread unemployment among the agricultural workers and migra-} tory laborers in the California cotton belt, the Imperial, Palo Verde and San Joaquin valleys. The slump in cotton and agrieul- tural prices forced many tenants and share-croppers into bankruptcy, thus hurling them into the hanks of the agricultural workers and inereas- ing the ranks of the unemployed. Forced to a ala Many small proprietors have been forced to relinquish their holdings for the accumulated taxes and ex- cessively high water rates, The local banks and chambers of commerce are taking advantage of situation and organizing the ranchers for the purpose of lower- ing the already pitiful wages. Were it not for the fact that rural grocers are extending eredit to many, actual starvation would face a great num- ber. The highways are crowded with ‘the landless and the dispossessed; ‘they travel in Fords, on horseback, in wagons, burro packs and many are walking, carrying their bedrolls on their backs~men, women and child- ren,—Mexicans, whites and Negroes, There is equality and fraternity in misery. They are milling about with no definite objective in view. The alifornia land barons have the workers just where they want them. Kitchen Revolution In Lake Forest College LAKE FOREST, Ill, March 15.—- The dean of Lake Forest College is on probation, placed there by the stu- dents. At the end of a week, if the dean does not change his tactics from those of previous wevke, students will go on strike. The students contend that the dean is taking too much authority. “He is even attempting to regulate the diet of the co-eds,” Earl Le Roy, the presi- | dent of the student council said. Springfield Fears Flood. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 15. With the Connecticut River rising at the rate of two feet in 24 hours, the city prepared today to start pumps to | prevent water from backing up sewers into cellars in the north end. Flood conditions were expected witht hours aa t e 10 feet al woe ates eai’® FRENCH EDITOR DONS OVERALLS FOR U. $, TOUR Labor Journalist to Study Conditions By ART SHIE H. du Bruie'! Federated Press, editor of the official Federation, has come to tour our industrial center: er, That means that he overalls and will go from job to job, from Philadelphia to Detroit and other large cities, studying condi- tions from the vantage point of a lathe. “That is the way to get the facts,” says the French observer, It never occurred to him, apparently, to travel through the factories with a Cham- ber of Commerce guide at his elbow, like the London Daily Mail labor mission to.the United States some time ago, De Bruiel will .write his obs tions if his magazine Le Peupl says the daily newspapers of France are filled with propaganda for the American Plan. They tell rosy stor- ies of the high wages and high speed in American factories. So du Bruiel has come to see for himself, and he will give a year of his life to the job. Some of the things he will see in the Yankee plants will not seem so strange. For instance, the welfare schemes in vogue in our big open shop plants ince the war the French indu: ing the union many of the company ho and nurse- pany sports. “It is becoming fashionable for high society to thke welfare posts in the factories,” said du Bruiel, “In one big steel mil! there is an authen- tic countess on the job.” “Meaning that not all are authentic?” terviewer. The Frenchman's eyes twinkled as- sent. Nor will the automatic, straight- line production systems of Henry Ford and his rivals’ seem altogether strange. Thousands of conveyors have been installed in French plants in the last years, and “standardiza- tion,” “efficiency” and other terms of the later machine age have been taken bodily into the French lan- guage. Bitter times are the lot of the worker in Europe today, said the labor editor. ‘hey have a saying in France that before the war. the French worker got little and that to- day he is gétting nothing. The hope of the workers is in unity, he con- | cluded. De Bruiel is visiting at Brookwood ‘Labor College on the outskirts of Katonah, before starting his tour of the jobs, alists who are fight- have been borrowing devices. There is ing, company hospital ting service, and com- countess: interrupted the in- |\Kelloge’s Crowd Is In Panic As Denis Sails (Continued from Page One) ing it a forgery, manufactured by the Mexicans, they do not explain how a forgery got into the locked diplo- matie pouch. Nor do they explain why the Amer- ican minister to Guatemala received a cablegram—copy of which exists in Washington official files—instrue- ting him to obtain Guatemala’s re- cognition of Diaz, Minister Geisslé¥ did secure prompt Tecognition of Diaz by Guatemala, since his instructions had included a hint that unless it were granted the United States might refuse to recog- nize the newly elected president of , Guatemala. Dennis May Talk, What the administration fears is that Dennis will show his instruc- tions regarding Diaz to Chairman Borah of the foreign relations com- mittee, and will offer testimony prov- ing what the American public aiready understands—that Diaz is a puppet of Kellogg, set up in order to de- ‘liver Nicaragua to exploitation by American bankers and in order to check the growth of Mexican influ- ence, which has favored a higher wage level for the workers in Latin America and a throwing-off of im- perialist domination. Petty Favoritis: What the, “Millionaires side the department fears is that Dennis will prove his charge that wealth and social position are today controlling factors in the promotion ub” in- ‘of men in the American foreign ser- vice. | Dennis may analyze, for instance, ithe significance of the sending of ‘young Bruce, son-in-lay of Andrew then the Mellon and son of the reactionary 4labama millionaire Senator Bruce of Mary- | land, to a soft berth in Rome immedi- jately upon his graduation from the training school of the department. That was a gesture of endorsement of Mussolini by Mellon and Kellogg jon the one hand, and a discrimin- ation against poor men long in the} service, on the other. The less for- tunate graduates are sent to the mosquito belt in the tropies, or to isolated factory towns | countries, | hat BUY THE DAILY WorKER At tit NEWSSTANDBS By WALI IMPERIALISTS IN BIG CONCLAVE AT IN SUGAR SHOWN DETROIT IN MAY Foreign Trade Council To Discuss Expansion | “Hey, ho!,” cries James A. Farrell, | president of the Steel Trust, “for the Detroit convention of the National Foreign Trade Council.” Leading American imperialists in China, Nicaragua, Mexico, Cuba and other “queer” pl will gather in Michi- gan on M 26 and to con- sider more pert wi to saturate the world with “Made in U. S. A.” goods. No wonder the note of cherriness in Farrell’s “Hey, ho!” and the cordial concluding paragraph of his letter to Wallprol: “I shall be at the Detroit conven- tion, and hope to see you there.” Julius H, Barnes of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce will be there too, to deliver the opening address on The World's Trade Today—and Tomorrow, followed by more of the same on Foreign Uses for American Capital. Everybody who is any- body in American imperialism wi be on hand also.. For example, rep- resentatives of the: tifie Steamship Co. Guaranty Trust American International Corp. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Pullman Standard Oil of N. Y. Worthington Pump and Machinery Coal, Iron and Railroad sston Robert Do! Bloedel-Donovan Lumber United Fruit International Acceptance Bank Grasselli Chemical International Harvester Chase National Bank General Motors Export Anaconda Copper Mining Remington Typewriter American Car & Foundry American Radiator and many, many more. Readers of The DAILY WORKER who plan to attend may reserve par- lor, bed-room and bath at the Book- Cadillac for $14—18 a day. Readers interested in following the activities of the National Foreign Trade Council may address Secre- tary O. K. Da India House, Han- over Square, New York City. ‘Harvard Economists See Good Year Ahead After Panicky Start. After panicky misgivings early in| the year, duly reported by Wallprol in reproductions from the Annalist, the speculative community down) , around Wall and Broad Sts., have de. ded it’s going to be a good ye: after all. Yhe Harvard Economic Service, sponsored by the George F, Baker-financied school of business, sums it up this way: “We believe that the hesitancy re-| cently displayed by business has about terminated and that business will proceed actively during the re- mainder of the year.” Certainly there’s no doubt that pickings are brisk for the engineers in charge of the profit making machine. With the exception of 1923, new stock and bond issues in January this year were the largest ever reported for that month. Dur-! ing February they continued abnor- | mally heavy, with profit takers try- ing hard to reinvest the part of the swag they couldn’t swallow or put on their backs. Harvey Fick & Sons, doing busi- ness at 120 Broadway, hope to tell you’ it’s going to be‘a swell year. They breath with relief as the price} fevel seems to have quit dropping | and is now showing “firmness,” in, other words, “coffee and” are going to cost more. New England Loses In Cotton Spinning Race With Dixieland Let the Bureau of the Census tell you its own story of the decline of New England in cotton spinning. Spindles Active.in! State inPlace January 1,500,000 1,450,000 Connecticut 1,200,000 1,000,000 Georgia 3,000,000 2,850,000 Maine 1,180,000 930,000 Massachusetts 11,250,000 _ 8,425,000! New Hampshire 1,420,000 1,000,000 North Carolina 6,100,000 5,920,000 | Rhode Island 2,500,000 2,080,000 ; South Carolina 5,360,000 5,330,000 Notice the southern mills working | almost to the limit of capacity; notice the New England mills from! in distant 20 to 80 per cent idle. | iF lf The cotton growing states hadj| 7,500,000 spindles busy out of 8,000,000 while New England had/ MRS ABO biigy out of 17,660,000, | | American Economic Life -PROL, ‘beckons to you . | Succ declares the PROFITS, MISERY BY CUBAN EDICT Cut Crop to Boost Price In United States It’s sabotage if you cut down on your output. The criminal syndical- ism law’ll get you. Or worse yet, in the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, under the reign of Beckerman, you'll be kicked out of your job. But give an ear to what the American sugar producers do in Cuba. The Cuban government, servant of the American sugar interests, has passed a law fixing officially the quotas for all sugar mills. These quotas for 1927 are far below 1926, in order to cut down the amount of sugar American workers will con- sume. By creating the artificial shortage, the sugar interests will boost the price of their product from the present unsatisfactory level of 3 cents a pound up to 5 cents, which means about 10 cents wholesale. Thus Central Aguirre with a $6 dividend last year, Fapardo with $10, National Sugar Refining with $7, vannah Sugar, preferred with $7 can boost those rates on watered stock to 10, 15 and 25 per cent. After they get through with it, the sugar in your morning coffee will mean cruel exploitation of the Cuban plantation workers, driven under the bosses’ lash and terrorized by the reactionary Machado regime; low wages and long hours for the men on the West Indies cargo boats; a neat sum out of the consumer's pocket to pay the tariff levied to “protect” the Louisiana cane sugar and western beet sugar interests; big dividends for the producing com- panies, bigger ones for the refiners, and still bigger ones for the Wall Street gamblers in sugar. And that’s only part of the story of the robbery of Cuban and Ameri- can workers through the owners of | sugar. Gambling Basis for Wealth Foundation, | Brookmire Asserts | Brookmire Economic Service, 57! Seventh Ave., New York, is one of! the more respectable prophets in se- curity gambling. And here’s their blurb, on fancy rotogravure paper: “The Path of Succéss is: open to You! A comfortable carefree future And on and on with a picture of Florida palms, patios and beach loungers at the bottom. Turn the page and you find Karl Marx irre- futably confounded in these words: “The foundation of all wealth is ful investing.” To drive home the point, they of- fer the following interesting little | table, which you might save to pon-} der over at leisure: North American: $5,400 in 4 years} became worth $64,000.00. | Woolworth: $5,400 in 4 years be- came worth $33,000.00. Associated Dry Goods: $5,400 in 5} years became worth $22,000.00, Maxwell: $5,000 in 1 year became worth $40,000.00. American Can: $5,000 in 5 years became worth $75,000.00. Southern Railway: $5,000 years became worth $32,500.00, American Water Works: $5,000 in 4 years became worth $195,000.00. National Biscuit: $5,000 in 6 years became worth $35,000.00. General Electric: $5,000 in 4 years became worth $80,000.00. Kresge: $5,500 in 4 years became worth $44,000.00. U. S. Cast iron Pipe, $5,000 in 3| years became worth $57,500.00, | Continental Insurance: $5,000 in 10 years became worth $27,000.00. in 4 Expert Liars Tell How Much You Save | Annual new savings total nearly four billions, declares the usually un- reliable National Industrial Confer- ence Board, New savings per capita are $31 each year. These represent impressive gains over pre-war years, Board in its weekly gurgling over prosperity. | This data is respectfully referred for confirmation to coal miners, tex- tile mill workers and other toilers who somehow never quite squeeze in- to the “per capita” statistics of the bright young men who dish out the Industrial Board’s figgers. Fewer New York Jobs Than in Year Before! Hooray! Employment in New York factories gained 1 (one) per) cent in February over the preceed- ing month. But just a minute. The February inde 1 i 05, contested ith 102 9 Feb. 108 PGES LEGS “SHARPER THAN WORD “More Effective Than Argument” 4 Q By A. JERGER. 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