The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1927, Page 3

POWERS WORKING FOR ANTI - SOVIET BLOC — “PRAVDA" Britain Trying to Draw Germany Into Plot MOSCOW, March 9th. (By Mail) —The “Pravda” writes: “The Geneva negotiations have as) their purpose to enforce the direct andéactive participation of Germany | in the anti-Soviet. coalition, This business, however, could not be! carried out because the British diplo- macy wanted to pay with money from | a strange pocket. French diplomacy | has not shown itself particularly} ready to consider the participation | of Germany in the anti-Soviet block as due compensation for the evacu- ation of the Rhineland. tthe German government, on its part, is not ready to burn all bridges that lead to vhe East and be bound up finally with the purposes of Bri- | [Fascism Plans Curb on Press, Stage, Art; Most THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1927 Page Three COMMUNISTS OF GERMANY MEET IN SIX-DAY SESSION ‘Dawes Plan Resulted in Longer Work Day By MANUEL GOMEZ Strict Laws in World ROME, March 24.—The strictest censorship laws in the world are be- ing considered by the Italian Chamb- er of Deputies in order to prevent criticism of the Fascist dictatorship. Penalties varying from light fines to imprisonment for three years and fines of 50,000 lire are provided by the measures, The Minister of the Interior and the prefects of provinces will supervise all books, periodicals, plays, photographs, works of ‘art, mssmEN, Germany, March 8. (By! moving picture films, advertising fail) —With a huge open-air dem- copy, theatrical manuscripts and gnstration, in which 60,000 of the phonograph records, if the proposed measures become laws. The measures wil] guarantee moral as well as “political purity.” SHARP CLASH ON DISARMAMENT BY half-a-million inhabitants of Essen speeches of Thaelman, Ewert, Pieck and Eberlein, the eleventh national convention of the German Commun- is closed here yesterday. The convention lasted six days. It con- sidered as its main political task the struggle against Dawes-Plan “ration- | alization,” which has lengthened the working day, lowered wages and in- | many. The convention was orsement of the policies of the braved the pouring rain to hear the | creased unemployment thruout Ger- | an emphatic NOBLEMAN WEDS AN ACTRESS FASCISTS ARE HELD IN HIGH BAIL BY COURT Seven Blackshirts As saulted Workers WHITE PLAINS, March 24 seven members. of the New Y branch of the Fascist League foll m vho were a tempt to break up called hy the of North America in Sunday, were held today Ame: chi , $10,000 bail each The prisoners grena cists, About 50 Fascists came chester by and by Sunday wit up the spe: t ition of ea Scrmenti I ing. Thi pre to Port- eded by numerous Jugo-Slavs to Request World to Investigate Mussolini's Ultimatum iRADE, March BE Jugo: ing 24.—The vian government is prepar- reular note to the powers t at Italy is making war- rations which are mean- acing Jugo-Slavia, according to the semi-official newspaper Vreme. Suge ia will demand a full The inquiry, the newspaper states. ‘ork eranenes _ bg Commits Suicide. OW» 6 eck is Samuel millionaire mat | ETOO aler, commit- ted de home today by hanging. | found strung » cellar by his » to a beam four-year-old grar and | Carlo Tresca, and stopping the meet- BRITAIN, FRANCE ‘French Once Amain Ask Wealth Be Figured GENEVA, March 24,—The League Nations Preparatory Disarma- committee, whose resolutions | t on the order of busi- ied almost unanimously. |threats that they would “break up Lord Ashley, son and heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury just after his|Prcig e Traneed by the. anti marriage to Sylvia Hawkes, an actress. In spite of their plea for blue blood, | i iniwec di: Sow: taeoloba dene the aristocrats ean never be satisfied with the homely women of their own “ Ne fir sg earth class. They often fall for the more sophisticated lesser stars of the stage, “Mester and the immediate vicinity, So do American millionaires. and the local blackshirts: depend for assistance on the New York organi- zation. tish diplomacy. Therefore, the plan 1 as a whole has not been successful, it was not given up finally, how- ever, but only postponed. For the moment it has only been hinted to Germany that the question of the evacuation of the Rhineland will be ness was ¢ W kers Delegations A feature of the cqnvention was the | great number of communications and | delegations received from shop, mill | in ot and mine committees different ay ae raised in the next session of the Lea-| mont Commission had before it to- | | Sadie G8 8 age ah les) SR eets Lnsyie iS parts of the country y of these | | Pc A vl gl es ath Paedaa ain gue of Nations if Germany. will ab. |day the difficult task of striving to! were from workers hav pubs cane | 4 mate a ate Sed, Panay a i P: 1 1 - stain in the course of the next months! ydjust the British and French theses | jeading the fight against the cohorts amph ets by nection with the Communist party. A delegation of Social Democratic work- | of Mussolini through the Anti-Fascist | Alliance. To Celebrate Birthday from granting loans or credits to the/ of disarmament. Soviet Union. This is an attempt to| M. Paul Boncour, French delegate, | org appeared at the convention to ask | prepare the financial boycott of the|has submitted the French thesis,|the Communists to take np a strug- M A LTR E ATE D IN | EX PQ § E § U. a Soviet Union and illustrated merely) which is in opposition in almost all! gle against the right-wing leadership | Of the Young Worker the ‘peaceful’ policy of British diplo-| points to that submitted by Viscount | in the trade unions. All members of HUNGARIAN CELLS IM P i R | A LI SM : | The Young Worker, the only work. | macy, Ceeil on behalf of the, British. | the delegation were expelled from the | | ing class youth paper in the country, The British thesis provides for the | Social Democratic party the day fol- Building Resounds With Says Wall Street Sends | will celebrate its fourth anniversary vegulation of war-making bodies, lowing. | /on April 9th, with a dance and en-! the Bessarabian protocol by Italy, the| Whereas the French thesis provides! gnecial interest attaches to, the! Groans of Tortured Ultimatum to Mexico (iio Pinent ‘at the Harlem Casing ‘Pravda’ reminds of Churehill’s visit | for the regulation of all potential Essen convention because it was the ms Ae '116th street and Lenox avenue. C. E. RUTHENBERG fHR WORKERS COMMUN. Ist PARTY—What It Stands For—Why Workers Should Toin CENTS FROM THE THIRD THRU PHE FOURTH CONVENTION, —10 CENTS rHE FARMER-LABOR UNIT- ED FRONT. —10 CENTS Anti-Soviet Frame-up. “Dealing with the ratification of jn Italy, which preceeded this act,,”@t-making bodies. first one-for the German Communist and points out that the ratification! Would Limit Air Craft. | party since receipt of the now famous | proved ‘in accordance with Italy’s in-| The French thesis suggests a per-| open letter from the executive com- LONDON, March otice of ‘ . j A ‘ : . ‘ . VIENNA, March 9th, (By Mail)— . ps » a terests’ just in that moment when/|tnanent board of inquiry and it pro- | inittee of the Communist Internation- | ,. ? athe ‘ fyi + the United States of; he Young Worker in its four i ecg in Geneva all means were used in| vides for the limitation of not only al, . That letter declared the chief in-| The Socialist, and, Communist BE ieee iny with Medco detienea Yeats of (existence ‘han’ consiatéatly c a eee order to yeach at’ least some anti-/ fen actively in vy bah ie tea er ternal enemy of party progress in being most brutally tortured by the! ‘to prevent smuggling” is described |¢XPressed the needs and the prob- Soviet agreement. {but of men in the gendarmerie, cus-| Germany to be ultra-leftisr i i the Times as “without exaggera-| lems of the working youth of Amer- to Although the results of the secret;toms guards and all others capable| under the Ruth Fischer-Maslow re- aro lender. of the Socialist Work! tion an ultimatum.” Betterment of the conditions of STRATEGY. OF Tee Some etivity ized ‘pacifi rs’ of being mobilize] for war purposes. | gime resulted in a suicidal policy to- dst Falla baahtalaeairresp heh sicher ova : ae works 4 nee MUNISTS—( er of the C. ey sled AE alll nel omg Aerial disarmament, as Teoneand cea the trade unions oar towards |@TS Party, Stafan Vagi, and Zoltan | Reterring slso. to od aNicard guar) PEN e Pont ape oppo sy to the Mexican Comm Seine may not decrease the by the French, would inelude not only the united front in general. Szarto, were terribly beaten. When policy eres Lbagneliay + | plan in the platform of ie voane oer. vd Pg ate slitar: m3 “ ot Be : riveted ons a | y prote: the police s said “If the men who count for mos’ anks t n BORA : watchfulness of the world proletariat, "aval and military aerial forces but | Ultra-Left Weak they protested, the police agents said he formulation(of the ‘policy have | Worker. THE SECOND YEAR of the The attempts to hinder the peaceful would be based on the total cubic} Of the 182 delegates at Essen, rep- | to them with scorn: “Be glad that Sea must} Workers, (Commu Party , the Caribbean volume of all airships owned by the | resenting the 130,000 members of the |.We don’t beat you to death; in Bul- (1924), economic growth of the Soviet Union will continue, The working class of! Western Europe must realize whose hands are working without interrup. tion for the preparations of new in ternational conflicts.” contracting nations. | The French would base naval dis- | armament on global tonnage, and they would also place restrictions | pon budgets during the period of the disarmament treaty. Britain, U. S. Use Wealth. | Great Britain -and the United | States are in opposition to the gen- |eral thesis of the French plan, which Co-operative Delegations. MOSCOW, March 9th (By Mail)— The Central Union of the co-oper- atives of the Soviet Union send an you are im- German Communist party, the ultra- | 47a such criminals as left was at no time able to muster | mediately done away with.” more than 12 in support of its pro-| The young workers Loevi and S: nosals, These twelve votes by no{¢nyi had to be taken to the hospit means represent a single homogene-|@fter three days of tortures.) When ous group. The ultra-left opposition | they were taken back to the prisons, | was divided into the Weddingers, the | they had to be supported by the ac- Leipsig-Chemnitz opposition and the |companying policemen, because they Urbahns group. The three delegates }could notewalk-alone. of the latter group (Bartels, Slecht| Young working girls, Ilona Vamos invitation to the English, Scottish, | is the limitation of civil as well as|and Grillowitz) openly declared their| and Marie Matta had their heads a : " . military power. “solidarity with Ruth Fischer, Maslow, Swedish, German, “French, | Czecho- | Viscount Cecil has already warned | Urbahns and all other expelled eom- Slovakfun, Belgian, Austrian and the correspondents here not to ex-/rades who stand upon the common American co-operative organizations | pect too much of the conference, and | political platform.” The .convention to send delegations to the Soviet | the task of the delegates today | thereupon removed them from all po- Union next summer, FN RT NRE ‘one unless the French wi!l withdraw | period of one year and ordered them Legislature Adjourns To Day. | their plan. Meanwhile Germany is de- to immediately give up their seats in ALBANY, March 24. —- With the|manding immediate disarmament and! Reichstag and Landtag. members cheering and applauding, | Italy has announced she must be on, Message To Workers Party the senate today adopted a resolu-/an equal footing with all other con-| The new central committee, elected tion calling for final adjournment of | tinental powers, practically as proposed by Comrade the 1927 session of the legislature at seemed to be a decidedly complicated | sitions of party ‘responsibility for a} punched several times against the | wall, till they fainted. | The young worker Rubin is lying jin his cell like a dead man. | The teacher Hugo Kiss has broken! down after the tortures and looks like an old man, ‘The inhabitants of the houses in the surroundings of the police build-| | ing cannot sleep during the night on | account of the noise that comes from | the police building. noon tomorrow. Read The Daily Worker Every De? Thaelman in the name of the retiring! The police even place sniall child-: committee, represents a step toward | ren in its service, who are instructed consolidation of the party leadership ‘on a broader basis than heretofore. Elements formerly in the opposition were included with a view to win- ning them for the party line of policy. U.S, CENSORS SPANISH-AMERICAN NEWS, WORKER JOURNALISTS HEAR . a cablegram was read announcing the death of Comrade Ruthenberg. The ‘entire convention rose in respect as South American countries suffer,only by infrequent boat; so each of My y)ade Remmele described Ruthen- from U. S. news imperialism just| the principal seacost cities had to joro’s contributions to the movement. as they do from economic and finan-| have its own paper. Old men and: pojjowing a short address by the fra- cial imperialism of Uncle Sam, Ar-| women, boys and children put to- {ermal delegate of the Workers (Com- nold Roller told the advanced labor! gether these daily papers by hand, | yyynist) part of America, it was de- journalism class of the Workers’ Roller said, sometimes with the aid! cided to send a special message to School. Roller’s subject was the of the engine of an abandoned auto/+he American party. Latin-American press. truck in running the press. \ Conceal Facts. Argentine has the most labor, News is sold to South American| papers and the largest, including a newspapers by Associated and United | daily Communist paper published at Press services, Each South Ameri-| Buenos Aires. Labor sports are fea- can papers sends its new in to the! tured by the South American labor New York office of the respective as-, papers, Roller stated. sociation. From New York then the! Gomez Allows No News. which an influenza epidemic has been news of one’ Latin American country) Venezuela under dictator Gomez causing alarm, arrived today but did is filtered—and censored—before it has no news and no editorials in its jot dock immediately as had been is sent back into another country of | press and no labor press at all. The oxpected. A quarantine boat met the the southern continent, the labor, papers that do exist ave full of gov- chip in mid-stream anda conference writer explained, |ernment announcements and adver- | poard followed Readers in the United States knew | tising. There have been four deaths among about protests in various South| Cuba is seeing the first copies of a! soldiers aboard and there are said American countries over the marines | new paper called “Accion Sogeialista,”) to pe about thirty cases of “flu.” in Nicaragua long before the pro-| which Roller predicted would soon be Thirteen members of Congress are testers knew what was going on in urging support of President Machado aboard but according to wireless re- their sister countries. for re-election. A so-called socialist ports have not been affected by the Six Communist Dailies. party has been formed and the new’ epidemic. How Chile came to have six daily | paper is called its organ. Machado _ * Boston Cleaners Will Army Transport Brings Influenza Into Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, March 24.—The mmunist papers before dictator |is encouraging the government’s nez came to power a few months | fascist policy toward trade unions—. was related by the speaker,;even to the murdering of several; hundred union workers. | i - Ky “| BOSTON, Mass., March 24-—-A t | mass meeting of all the Boston clean- ers and dyehouse workers will be held ‘Priday, March 25, 1927, atthe ‘Tre- |mont Temple, 82 Tremont street, Bos- ton, Mass. | .Local and out of town speakers will address the meeting. TIRES ON TIME Miller Tires—factory equipment on many | | of Amerie: nest cars. Only a small down "payment puts one or a set on your car. Pay the balance in convenient payments. Buy them now while prices are low. Electrify Your With ‘é r vhileo A and B Eliminators ' ‘erms as Low as $10.00 Down Wallraff & Co., Inc. Lumber Companies Run Ram, * BUFFALO, N. Y., March 24, — Customs officials in Niagara Falls today seized 300 barrels of ale valued at $20,000, which will be thrown into the river immediately. It was con- signed as hemlock lumber by the On the third day of the convention, army transport Chateau Thierry on) Hold Meeting Tonight to observe the workers houses. : The “Neue Freie Presse” has printed an interview with the chief of the Budapest police, Hetenyi, in which he admits that the Budapest | police use spies. He appeals to the, police authorities of all big towns of | Europe to co-operate in the fight! against Bolshevism and intends to | call a conference to Budapest in April | for this purpose { * : * -” Enthusiasm Over Election. MOSCOW, March 9th (By Mail).— The eighth day of the elections to! the Moscow Soviet, which coincided | with the International Women’s Day, | passed in great enthusiasm and with li vely participation of the population. |The square before the Soviet was! | crowded till late in the evening with many thousands of demonstrators. In the Big Theatre a meeting of | | celebration took place on the oe-| }easion of the International Women’s! | Day, in which representatives of the |E. K, K. 1, of the International Wo-, men’s Secretariat, of the Moscow! Committee of the C P, of the Soviet | Union and working women from the! shops made speeches to the masses. A speech of a woman representative of China lead to great ovations, * ‘ | Fascist Acquitted. RIGA, March 9th (By Mail).—The court martial acquitted Lieutenant | Olin, who had attempted to organize a fascist insurrection in Wolmar, * * *. The Soviet Elections, MINSK, March 9th (By Mail). —| The Soviet elections in White Russia | are ended. Of the elected 19,000 jmembers of the Soviet over 906. are White Russians, the others are Jews, | Russians, Poles and Latvians, The i | jnew Soviets has increased by two. | Builder’s Co-operative To Meet Sunday at Two operative, recently organized to go to. Formerly 8. 0, Bodkin Tira Co, Robert Stewart Lumber Company of 494 Central Avenue, ag Map ae | Brantford, Ont. to the J. C. John-|2 o'clock at 143 E. 103rd St, All os Catll «oe ston Lumber Company of Jersey. those interested in this co-qperative | si City, Nod. L are invited to this meeting. i will be Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt. iwi | the courtesy of The New Playwrights | A meeting of the Builders’ Co. | Thea Soviet Russia, will be held Sunday at 75 cents. | henceforth be considered as a United | States lake. his is no longe ent; it is an axio. After giving the details of the dis- carded agreement with Mexico the paper adds: Prepared Against Revolution. “The financial situation of the Calles government is admittedly pre- carious. There is louder talk every day of its downfall by revolution and unless it does something to placate Washington it must perhaps be pre-| pared to find the forces of discontent | armed with American rifles and fir- ing American bullets. | “There will be an immediate vio-} lent criticism of the Coolidge admin-| istration in some quarters but con-| gress is no longer in Washington to} pass resolutions in favor of arbitra-; tion. | Business Rules Supreme, “Senator Heflin can no longer use the capitol as a great sounding board to denounce any overt act against Mexico as a papal plot and Senator Borah—with his ‘God made us neigh- bors, let justice make us friends’—is a mere argu- | just now an itinerant preacher and no more. “There will be little for some! |months to come unless public opin- ion should be moved to retard the process which if continued would make Mexico an economic dependency lof the United States. “In the meantime it would perhaps be well to. take President Coolidge’s objection to the treaties with Nicar- agua suggested by Senor Don Adolfo Diaz with a grain of salt. z Well Tamed, “Diaz is ready to hand over his country and all of its activities to the United States for protection and tute- lage not caring whether this conflicts or not with the Central American treaties of 1923, “The United States government will hardly be so careless but what is undesirable in law may be and is being accomplished in fact. “This is being done with Mexico which hasn’t only threatened the great oil interests but interfered in Nicaragua and is now being disciplin- ed”, |Anti-Horthy Concert Arranged for Sunday At the Carnegie Hall The recently formed Anti-Horthy League will hold a grand concert of American and Hungarian artists this coming Sunday, March 27, 8 p. m., at Carnegie Hall, 57th St,, and Seventh Ave. The artists include, Lajor Serley, | percentage of the Communists in the composer; David Burnett, baritone; Gizella Neu, violinist and Ferench| Zslolt, baritone. A special feature Members of the cast of “Earth”, il sing Negro spirituals through | Admission will be: $1.26, $1,00 and | BUY THE DAILY WORKER | At THE NEWSSTANDS | 4 Rich Brothers Fight Over Woman. CHICAGO, March on divorce ca’ Campbell Ca: York, whom his wealthy brother Edward accus tions with M rington, was today set for hea April 6th. 24.—The Fifth Freiheit Jubilee SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 2nd, 1927 in MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49th Street & 8th Averue Freiheit Gesangs Verein accompanied by New York Symphony Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution TWELVE written by Alexander Block, Music and Conducted by JACOB SCHAFER, JACQMO RIMINI and SERGEI RODOMSKY in a special program, The well-known soprano ROSA RAISA in a special program. This will be her first recital in New York within the last 2 years. ALL SEATS RESERVED. Tickets: 81, $1.50 and 32 at Freiheit, 30 Union Square, Car- , involving re- ington of New of improper rela-| . Anna Walsh Car-} Col. } ring | With introduction by V. F. CALVERTON, Over seventy drawings and cartoons by ROBERT MINOR ART YOUNG FRED BELLIS WM. GROPPER MAURICE BECKER HUGO GELLERT ADOLPH DEHN ‘ $ 1 .00 and eight others, FREE WITH A YEAR’S SUB To the A BRONZE MEDALLION LENIN A beautiful tribute to our great Jeader— For your home or ¢club- rooms—— Size 5x5 inches —~ sent postpaid to all parts of the country for $1.00 Daily Worker Pub. Co. 33 First Street NEW YORK