The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1927, Page 3

COMMUNISTS OF GERMANY HOLD (ITH CONGRESS: Discuss Year's Work; | Plan Future Action ESSEN, Germany (By Mail). — The second session of the XI Con- | gress of the German Communist Party was opened on the morning of the 2nd of March with the election of the congress chairman. The fol- | lowing comrades were elected: Ges- | chke, Pieck antl Becker (Essen). The following comrades were elected as honorary members of the presidiuin of the congress:. ‘Stalin, Bucharin, Ry Tomski and Tehen Dno Sio (Chairman of the Communist Party of China). r The Party Congress. honored the memory of Comrade McManus by the delegates rising in their seats and stdnding a moment or so in silence. | After the acceptance of the agenda whieh grants the most important op- | positional group a lengthened speak- | ing time, telegrams of greetings were read amidst great applause from the EKKI, and the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union, Norway and Aus- | tralia. | Comrade Pieck then honored in a few brief words the memory of the | proletarian victims in the mine catas- | trophes in Great Britain and in the Ruhr district, who were, he said, the | latest victims of capitalist rationaliza- | tion. | A unanimous decision of the con-| gress sent its revolutionary greet: | ings to all proletarian class-war_pris- | oners in the jails of capitalism. Representatives of the Red Front} Fighters League and of the Red Wo) men and Girls League then addressed | the congress. | Comrade Dengel then delivered the | report upon ghe work of the party) since the X party congress: The| party he said had altered the wrong | non-bolshevist relation between the | German C. P. and the Comintern |* established by Ruth Fischer and Mas- lov and established really fraternal relations with the brother parties. | The opposition talked very much in| great meetings about internal party democracy, but the party had estab- lished democracy in all the nuclei} where 30 to 40% of the ‘membership were p2tive in solving the political | problems facing the party. | The recruiting work of the party was not sufficiently systematic, the | cause of this was to be found in the | weakness of the work of the nuclei. | 3 Where the work of the nuclei was good, the membership has been great- ly increased. The greatest energy would have to be directed in the future to the large | factories where the. party was still | very weak. The party would syrtemaiionily | remedy its weaknesses. The main | cause of the existing weakness and defects was that the party leader-| \* ship was compelled to concentrate | the greatest part of its energy on} countering the work of those disrup- | tors within the party. This party| congrtss would create the guarantees | for a real unity in the party and thus make it possible to overcome the | ‘ weaknesses and errors. The third session was taken | with a speech of Comrade Thaelmann} upon the political situation and the, » tasks of the party, whieh lasted three | hours; : The fascist coup d’etat in Lithuan- i - " r ja, the Chinese revolution, ‘the attack BUDAPEST, March 16, — F ranz of the United States of America ™028Y @ young worker from Kapso-| against Nicaragua and Mexico, the, ‘*" Eis Teed Bigs: yom. jbeltind iby | formation of a bourgeois block gov- the detectives escorting him “whilst ernment-in Germany and the note of | tempting to escape”. He is dead. | Yesterday the Budapest police re- Chamberlain to the Soviet Union are! F all signs of a derious intensification | Potted that whilst being escorted to forces in Shanghai, China, agitators. tioner, accompanying a group of body found distributing literature den City serying as a background. of the national and social contradiec- | tions and constitute a threat to the whole capitalist stabilization which is relative and only a temporary episode in the epoch of the world revolution, The Chinese revolution is advanc- ing from victory to victory. It is tne opening of the coming revolution of the oppressed Eastern ‘peoples against imperialism. for the cinss struggle of the Euro- pean proletariat and a part of the world revolution. The greatest counter-factor to the stabilization of * the capitalist. world is the Soviet, Union with its advancing socialist constructive work, The capitalist stabilization is also internally threat- ened by the intensification of the class struggle of the European prole- tariat. It is a great support! Veuie Decision Final, Says Borno, Puppet of ‘s. Sugar Interests | eh RICO, H Hayti, March 16.— President Borno, puppet of the Na- tional City Bank and the American sugar interests, declared that “his” decisions to exclude Senator William, H. King from Hayti was irrevocable. Althodgh the state department re- fuses to, intercede, it is believed by those acquainted with the facts that Senator King was excluded at the re- quest of American High Commission- ce John HH, Russell, aed of the administration and virtual dictator of Hayti. ; BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS |Budapest he wrested himself from his guards and leaped froin the train | in the neighborhood of the capital and escaped. Under the pretence of accompanying him to the toilet the , detective shot him down in the corri- dor of the train. The police are now attempting to construct an “attempt to escape”, Pincers, and Whips. ¢ ‘The prisoners in the buildings of the Budapest police headquarters are being subjected to fearful tortures. Alexander Szerenyi was tortured witha pair of pincers, both nostrils being torn away from the flesh ot the face. Franz Normai was stripped aces thrashed with a whip. During the torture the detectives tried to force him to tell them the whereabouts of | certain. alleged dollars. Elizabeth Bruck, a 19 year old) irl, was stripped naked and the ex- jamining detectives were only pre- | vented from violating her by a time- ly -interruption. Finally the unfor- tunate girl was “only” thrashed | | with a whip. Break Arms. A young worker called Rubin, , twenty years old, was so manhandled | that both arms were broken. His) | whole body is céveréd with burns. | | Johann Koesis an invalid larid- worker who lost a leg fighting for) the Hungarian Soviet Republic was_ arrestéd, forced to unscrew his arti-| ficial linib and to hop about on one! leg. When he was so exhausted that he could jump no longer he was heaten with’ the artificial limb. The hair of a young 19 year old worker ite was torn a en ENaC eet \ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU Closeup view of one of the executioner soldiers of the northern The knife in his hand is made especially for lopping off heads. According to reports from China, the northera military defenders of Shanghai created syinpathy for the on-tarcb- ing Cantonese by decapitating w ithout trial strikers and student Students’ heads were suspended on fences and telephone poles and some were carried through the streets on pikes. ‘The execu- soldiers, quickly dispatched any- or fomenting a strike. Gen. Li Pau-Chen bd said to have given the orders for the wholesale exccutions, BUDAPEST POLICE STRIP GIRL PRISONER NAKED THEN BEAT HER; MANY WORKERS TORTURED Piatakoff Barred From U. S; Harmful to “Best Interests,” Is the Excuse WASHINGTON, March refusing a visa to George Piatakoff, 16.—In | DAY, MARCH 17, 1927 ANTI- IMPERIALISTIC MEETING IN PEKING Copyright Donald C. Thompson An unasual smipshot of a mass meeting in progress in Peking, China, with the wall of the Forbid- The mecting was in protest against the activities of foreigners with- in China and against the control of China's finances by foreign governments. ABUSE SHE aa! BEAEADER (GERMAN ELECTION SHOWS INCREASED COMMUNIST VOTE ‘Great Gain Since 1924 Presidential Election JENA, German . March (By Mail). | |The general February election in | the state of Thurengia was a great | victory for the Communist Party. A! total of 113,470 votes were cast for the Communist ticket, an increase of 37,264 since the first presidential | jelection, and a great gain over the | election held on December 7, 1924. The state of Thurengia was at one time, together with Saxony, the stronghold of the Workers’ Parlia- } ment, until in 1924, President Ebert | sent General Haase into this state |and, with the help of military forces, |crushed the Workers’ forces. Oppression Brings Revolt. Three years of reaction and op- pression by the democrats and the nationalists brought about a state of revolt and found its expression in the February elections. These elections were originally to have taken place in December, but were postponed be- cause certain laws were pending to re- duce the number of members of par- liament. This move was actively supported by the social democratic | leaders. | United Reattionaries. The italist class had organized tits pol 1 forces in one block, a united front of all reactionaries, the centrist included, against the workers and farmers. The Communist Party, in order to protect the votes of the | workers, suggested to the social demo- crats to unite the isolated votes of the villages. The socialists refused, elaiming that they could not work to- gether with the Communists. Their, ‘plans were to join with the reaction- ary forces. However, the results of the last election shows that the working class refuses to continue its blind support | to reactionary leadership. The lead now given by the Communists in this | State is bound to encourage the work- | ‘ers all over the country and will con- tribute to wrestle the contro] from the ‘present rulers and to establish a workers’ and farmers’ government in Germany. who was designated three months | agé as head of the Soviet Trading Corporation in New York, the state department has held that Comimyn- ist aliens are automatically “in- jurious to the best interests of the Anterican government.” What the best American government are the state department fails to mention. Piata- koff hopes that the state depart- ment may have a change of heart and that he will be permitted to enter the United Siates. A number of prominent New York firms have endorsed his application for) a | visa. flung over him and his body burnt} with a red hot iron. The infamous publie prosecutor Al- | ‘bert Vary has demanded that the ar-, ‘rested be placed before an exceptional interests of the | ‘ ‘House of Commons in _ Sportive ‘Mood Over Jerusalem: Rum Sales. LONDON, March 16.—Jerusalem the golden, Scotch whiskey, and the ; forthcoming American tourist inva- ‘sion were mingled in a pot-pourri of nonsense in the House of Commons ,to the high glee of the members whose parliamentary dignity became somewhat diluted. James Barr, labor member of par. |liament, raised the question of the | inereased number, of licenses _ for \saloons in Jerusalem, citing the fact that the number of licensed premises in Jerusalem’ had been ~ increased | from 35 to 300. RIVERA REGIME | NOW CONTROLS © | LABOR UNIONS New Corporation Law Is Inspired by Mussolini MADRID, Spain, March (By Mail). The outstanding features in the Spanish labor movement during the past year are the economic crisis In the textile industry, which has de- | creased production from 40 to 50 per {cent and the closing down of mines in Biscaye and elsewhere. causing a great unemployment. This is reflect- jed of course in the labor movement. The only organization able to retain \its numerical strength (213,000 mem- | hers) was the National Federation of | Spanish Workers. This was due to its collaboration with the military dic- |tatorship, It should be noted that the federation recruits its members }from non-industrial centers. In tied dustrial districts like Catalona, federation has practically ence, The trade unions, which previously formed section of the federation, have been persecuted by the Rivera: re-| gime so that today they sare prac- tically destroyed. The autonomous trade unions, the majority of whom were with the R. I. L. U., have also | been reduced to inactivity as a re- sult of continuous persecution. The | Loses Battle of Muymuy CENTS ci ulation of the Communist publica- tion La Antorchia reached 10,000 dur- | ing the last year. Another paper, | published by the R. I. L. U. sup- ae iy La Bagtalia, was suppressed by the government. Maurin, Ilario and Arlandis, lead- ers of the left wing unions, have been | imprisoned. Comrade Arlandis, who | was imprisoned without trial during | 11924, was released last summer, but | after a few weeks was again im- prisoned. As far as Comrade Maurin is concerned, he was acquitted by a} inilitary court after having been con- fined for two years, but is still in prison at the disposition of the secret police department. It is noteworthy that the gover | ment has adopted a new law on cor- porations. ‘The outstanding features of the law are the following: A cor- poration is established in each branch of industry, which is to serve as the government organ, having representa- tives of both the employer and the} employe. It embraces four types of organization: parity committees, mixed commissions, council of co-op- erations and delegates commissions, serving as the final consultative body under the ministry of labor, The | president and vice-president of these organizations are appointed by the , fovernment. The author of this law, Minister | of Labor Aynos, openly confessed that he was influenced by the Italian fas- cisti and their labor laws adopted last April. It is acknowledged that it may require the calling of troops to en- foree this control over labor unions, but the measure nevertheless has the | |aetive support of the social demo-| crats. The Spanish working class has suf- fered much thru the disruption of the trade unions and understand the nec- essity of forming strong industrial unions, affiliated with workers of all | parties and organizations. Only by | rallying their total forces together will the working class be able to earry | on the fight against the dictatorship | in particular and capitalism as a | whole. BUY THE DAILY WORKER H AT THE NEWSSTANDS | being 5,000 More Jews Given Land by Soviet Russia; | Establish Special Bank MOSCOW, March 16, More than 6.000 Jewish families will set- tle new land set aside for them by the Soviet authorities. The apportionment of 110,000 hectares in Ukraine, Crimea and White Russia, a credit of 1,500,000 rubles of th People’s Commis- sariat of Finance and the advance of credit by a number of other banks are forms of assistance granted by Soviet Russia to Jewish workers, With the view of establishing a more regular system of financing land settlements by Jews, there is organized at the’ initiative of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Land Settling, a special bank in Moscow, called the Agro- Kust-Bank. i: LIBERALS BEAT U. S. HELPS HIM Wall Street's Hireling MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 16. —The Diaz forces were defeated to- | day in a terrifie battle, lasting six hours, near San Jeronimo. This ends, temporarily at least, the much advertised drive of .the Diaz forces against the Muymuy position of the army of General Moncada who | is supporting the constitutional gov-| }ernment of Juan Sacasa. Important Conflict. 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