The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1927, Page 3

4, THE DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1927 Page Three ONO A Ss ne ns “Eyile ot Homeless-Children” : Slander on U.S.S.R. (Continued from Page One) famine proved a boomerang and won sympathy from these same masses instead of blame. Distortion of inner differences of opinion in the government and rul-) ing party were dished up so often that they were no longer good “news” even in a capitalist sense. Of late the opposition’s pessimistic onslaught | ut its effect- by earlier ex- The pris- revived this subject, iveness was weakene aggeration of this theme. on atrocity yarns have already been | mentioned, and: now the “bezpres- horni”! To Dim The Sight. One after another these gas screens were thrown up to prevent, seeing what is, the workers from really being accomplished in Soviet Russia. One after another these screens are blown away by the re- ports of the workers’ delegations and by the many thousands of visitors,— Social-Democrats, Liberals, and even reactionaries—to say nothing of Communists who after helping for a time in the building of Socialism in Russia return to their homelands to/ bring home to their fellowworkers the truth about the workers’ repub- lie and the necessity and method of duplicating its achievements through- out the world, To Stop Recognition, Coming at this time this campaign represents nothing else than an at-| tempt to fight the rapidly approach- ing Russian recognition by the U.'S. A., an attempt undertaken in the ser-, vice of the most reactionary elaments “st America, front has been built up on this battle- line—the most hardshell of the capi- talists, the lowest of the venal capi- talist. press~plus the Right wing of | the A. I. of L. bureaucracy and the | Social Democrats! This is precisely as it is throughout Europe, and while | it proves that the S, P. has quite come of age, we can be sure that its efforts to hold back the workers will help very little. One of the features of the fairy- tale campaign now going on in Amer- ican newspapers and other avenues of publicity deals with an ‘alleged «proposal to exile delinquent waifs to an Arctic island north of Murmansk. This story originates from a dispatch by H. N. Knickerbocker some time last autumn, and it has been going, the rounds of American newspapers: and lecture platforms ever since, The’ alleged source being given I. in- quired as to the truth of the story’ and here is the reply from Comrade Egorox, chief of the Administrative ®& Department of the Leningrad Soviet: “ Egorox Answers! Dear Mr, Kruse: n reply to your inquiry concern- stories spread by the American agency “International Nevks,” which emanate from the Mos-| cow forrespondent of the said agency, and Which deal with the situation of the homeless children in the U. S, S. R., 1 ‘gonsider the following should be said: | First, in the dispatch it is stated: “Comrade Egorov, Chief of the Ad- ministrative Department of the Len- ingrad Soviet, proposed to that body that the more vicious of the homeless children should be shipped off to the uninhabited island of Kilbin, in the Arctic Ocean, whence they could not escape. . . . lowed the mutiny in Children’s Home ‘0, 67, in which one of the woman attendants was killed, and another educator had his skull fractured.” CUR Te et A significant united | This suggestion fol-| (pennrnt of the “International News,” which he has evidently sent to his | paper for the purpose of discredit- ling the organs of the Soviet Govern- ment. in the first place neither I nor any other administrative worker raised the question of banishing homeless children to the Island of Kilbin, in the Aretic Ocean. A pro- posal for exile to Kilbin—as one of the measures against vicious hooli- ganism, applied to adults, of course, to denisons of the criminal world, was discussed. And this was the sense of whatever appeared in the Soviet press on this question. Children Respected. No conerete decision has as yet been made on this matter, no one has been sent to Kilbin, let. alone home- less children. While the Soviet Gov- ernment adopts repressive measures against incorrigible hooligans, it em- ploys altogether different means in combatting child vagrancy, viz., the improvement of the material condi- ‘tions of these children, their distribu-_ tion to children’s homes, ete. As for the “mutiny in the Child- jxen’s Home No, 67,” here the “Inter- | national News” correspondent has al- lowed his phantasy to run really too far. A special investigation has been conducted invo this matter, and it has established the fact that there was /no sort of mutiny in the children’s home. No Murder At All. The depositions of the Director of this Children’s Home, F. M. Lapin, and the employees: Vladimirov, Bek- htereva, Vologdina and Micheyeva, established that a small group of about 12 subnormal children who had broken the rules proved recalcitrant and threw bread-crust and pebbles at the teachers. The incident had no serious significance whatever, and was at once liquidated by purely pedagogical measures. There was no such thing as murder or injury of teachers either, and’ the story sent ‘out by the American newspaper cor- respondents is. an absolute false- : hood, Thus the reports spread by the ‘American telegraph agency, and sent in by the “International News” cor- ever | respondent, are simply a series of wholesale distortions of things to- ‘tally unrelated to one another, Sincerely yours, EGOROV (Signed) Princess Helps Lie. It would appear that the reaction- ary forces in America intend to ex- ploit this tale to the limit before the truth explodes it as fully as that other famous canard, the nationaliza- | civilians in the district were murdered | tion of women, was exploded. The press tells of “Princess” Can- ‘tacuzene telling the students at Cor- nell the same yarns. Everyone who has been to Soviet Russia will bear witness to the fact that nowhere in the world are children treated as | well, nowhere do they enjoy the free- \dom and protection that they do in the Soviet Union. If every worker ‘could see these things for himself as | | against workers and Jews, causing | of law,” branded the fake mem HUNGARIAN WORKERS ASSEMBLE TO EXPOSE HORTHY KOSSUTH SWINDLE Vigorous denunciations of the re- actionary Horthy government in Hungary are contained in resolutions unanimously adopted by 3,000 Hun- garians at a concert at Carnegie Hall Sunday night, sponsored by the Anti- Horthy League. The campaign now being made by New York sympathizers of the Horthy regime to erect a monument to the political leader, Kossuth, was also} branded in the resolutions as a text to bring 50 agents of the White purposes. Horthy Continues Murders Declaring that the present reaction- |ary Hungarian government, “in spite | of protests of all civilized people still maintains an attitude of atrocity them to flee the country and distress and to be executed without process ria! | for Kossuth was branded as “illicit | and sinister.” The resolution that a movement be started to enilghten | the people of the United, States on | the true situation, and to request the | American government to refuse ad- | mission to the Horthy representatives | who, while attending the dedication | of the Kossuth monument and preach- jing liberty in America, will at the |same time making progroms on | workers and Jews in Hungary.” | On the musical program were Can- |tor Joseph Rosenblatt; Orkhs Hel- |prin, violinist; George Hercog, | pianist; Agnes Lumbard and Rom-| |ney Brent, of the New Playwrights’ | Theater; and Ferenc Zsolt, baritone. . * . CLEVELAND, March 28.—More than 8,000 persons, representing 42 $$ roy to this city for PEPRENQEIst Hungarian workers’ orga’ tions of Ohio and Michigan, joined in indig- nant protest against the court- mar ing of the 53 Hungarian Communists who are at present threatened with death by the Horthy white-terror regime. their im- Resolution demanding mediate rele: were adopted, and cables we: Jered sent to the Hun- garian am dor at Washington, and to Bethlen, foreign minister of Hungary. The following cable was also sent to the London Daily Herald and the International Transport Workers’ Federation, at Amsterdam: Cleveland Workers Speak “Porty-two Hungarian workers’ or- g 2 with 8,000 workers as- sembled in Cleve d beg you to get acti by Labor Party and Trade Union Congress on behalf of the 53 Hungarian workers falsely accused of Communist conspiracy against the government to be tried by Budapest court-martial within the next eight days. “In the name of humanity, will | Labor Party bring pressure through Parliament and Trade Union Con- gress, petitioning the Hungarian gevernment directly to give these workers a civil trial, and that final decision be reserved until dis-! tinguished three attorneys from America can reach Hungary to in- ‘vestigate the case, and see that these workers obtain justice. Albert Coyle, editor of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers Journal, has an- nounced that these Americans will go at once.” \Shanghai Chinese Denounce Killings (Continued from Page One) the city. The sporadic outbursts of vio- | lence, for which the Shantungese were responsible have ceased. The great- est violence oecurred in the Chapei district, where Shantungese soldiers | looted and’ burned houses, until work ers in the district organized a militia and fire brigades. More than forty by the troops of the war lords, who | escaped the Nationalist troops by* | finding refuge in the International | Settlement. ! Labor unions in many quarters or- ganized public courts in which trait- ors and provoeateurs were judged in the presence of large crowds. ® * * Plan Further Intervention WASHINGTON, “March 28,—-De- kio today states that the Japanese government has sent a_ protest amounting to an ultimatum to the Nationalist Government on receipt of a report that two Japanese had been: | killed at Nanking. That Japan may be forced into large-scale intervention along side of the United States and Great Britain is likely. The American and British } ambassadors are reported to be hold- ing daily meetings with Japanese For- eign officials in Tokio, *“ ¢ * More French Colonials PARIS, March 28.—Six hundred colonial troops are en route to Ton- kin and Annam to reinfoxce the! French forees at Shankhai, Universal Service learned tonight. At the Quai D’Orsay, it was said | that the reinforcements had been or- | dered two weeks ago, and that the of the last few days. French forces defending the French | 'I have seen them, the fine schools, sipte the report by Consul General |concession in Shanghai have been | dormitories, labor-schools and colon-' Gauss that nearly one hundred addi- placed under the control of Major- jies, this silly campaign could not get tional refugees from Nanking had ar- | General ifar. Since that is impossible we should bring about the greatest possible cir- Teulation of our press, which mirrors : the day to day progress of the Soviet Union on all fields, and which is therefore the best antidote to such false, poison propaganda. The reports of the various workers’ delegations, and of the various dele- | gations of women and working youth, ‘should be spread as far as possible. | No more effective reply than this ‘ean be given—a trip through Russia as seen With the eyes of ordinary ‘workingmen and women, non-Com- munists most of them, who have come ‘right out of the factories in capitalist countries and who there- fore have a good basis of compari- » son from which they can judge. The denial of this tale by Comrade Ego- rov is absolute and should settle the matter. I need only add that it ecor- responds with my personal observa- {tion in large numbers of institutions |for children, most of them war and famine orphans. Nowhere in the {world are working class children ' treated as they are in the Soviet | Union—they are the “smena,” the coming citizenry of this workers’ re- public, and nothing is too good for | them, (To Be Continued.) RAILROAD DINING CAR COOKS STRUGGLE FOR By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press) | \ Regional standards of wages and leonditions are being sought by the Brotherhood of Dining Car Employes, states President Rienzi B, Lemus. The organization wants to make its ‘agreements on railroads in each terri- tory as uniform as possible, + In the nine years of the brother- hood’s life it has doubled pay rates | for railroad dining car cooks, waiters ‘and dishwashers as well as shorten- ing hours. Scales ‘for fourth cooks and dishwashers begin now at the | $80 which was top pay for,chefs of 15 years’ service befote 1918, Chefs’ wages begin at $135 to $140 for first year men and go up to $165, | But the men who serve the food, balancing trays perilously as the train swings along, are still chiefly depending on tips, Although the majority of its 3,000 members and its officers are colored men, the Brotherhood of Dining Car Employes has in its ratiks over 60 white cooks running out of Cinein- tam on the Southern Railway. The BAe REGIONAL STANDARDS OF WAGES, CONDITIONS dependently organized because the national brotherhood will not admit promoted to the rank of engineers. There are over 6,000 dining car employes on eastern roads and about the same number on western road« which have not yet been organized. The brotherhood’s main office is in Washington, D. C, \Jobless, Commits Suicide In Jersey JERSEY CITY, March 28,—Guy Rutherford, 43, married and father of two children, committed suicide here because he was unable to find a job. He drank a poisonous disin- | fectant while visiting his mother, | |. Theatre Polk “Punished.” | William Francis Dugan, author of ‘The Virgin Man,” one of the three | Broadway sex plays raided by police and Mack Cohen and Jacob Krom- berg, co-producers, where yesterday sentenced .to ten days in the work- house and fined $260 each or the al- ternative of thirty days more by Jus- tices Divenso, Murphy and Voorhes Hin special sessions court yesterday. |rived at Shanghai, the administration pis making further plans for large | seale intervention in China. } Seven troop trains carrying the sixth regiment of marines enroute to | China will leave the eastern seaboard tomorrow and Wedsesday, while ‘troops in the Phillippines and Hawaii are held in readiness for service in China. There are now more than 20,000 | foreign land and sea forces in Shang- | hai and the force is likely to be in- creased to about 30,000 within the }next week or two. | . * * | Chamberlain Refuses to Legislate | LONDON, March 28.—The aggres- | sive die-hard attitude of the British | imperialist government was clearly expressed by Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons this afternoon. “There can be no further surrender of British rights in China until the Chinese authorities, “whatever they may be, can preserve order,” he de- clared. . Regarding the Shanghai situation, he said: “That can only be deter- mined in consultation with the other powers. No negotiations are in pro- gress at the moment nor is it possible to negotiate fruitfully in the present anarchical condition of the country.” Report Sharp Note to Chiang A special cabinet meeting was sum- moned today to discuss the Chinese situation. Austen Chamberlain is ru- mored to have sent a sharp note to Chiang Kai Shek, declaring that Great Britain would enter into no further negotiations with the Nationalists un- til “steps are taken to protect foreign lives.” * * * Jap Ultimatum Rumored SHANGHAI, March 28.—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from To- Duncan, the British forces. Marines In Special Train PHILADELPHIA, March 28,—Ar-/ rangements to rush more marines to| China moved forward apace today, beginning tomorrow the troops mak-- ing up the Sixth regiment, 1,500 strong, will begin to move to San} Diego by rail. They will travel in seven special trains. The transport | Henderson, which is to take them to |Shaaghai, is now speeding to San | Diego from Corinto, Nicaragua, and expeets to arrive there Sunday. The) marines will have arrived by then | and will immediately go aboard. The Henderson will re-fuel and take on stores and sail Monday. * *. * commanding i} 1 Americans Decide to Stay AMOY, March 28—American are beginning to arrive at Amoy and so far no loss of life has been reported. The Cgnsul General at Amoy reported | that a party of 21 Americans who were proceeding to Foochow left the! ship and decided to remain in Amoy. | Five of them, however, including | Bishop Brown, decided to proceed,| against the advice of the consul. 60 Miners Are Killed In Japanese | Explosion | TOKIO, March 28.—Volunteers | were working desperately today to rescue 59 miners who were entombed by an explosion which killed 60 men | in the Iwaki coal mine in Fukushima | prefecture. ! WASHINGTON, March 28, — W.) Darling, former department of jus- tice agent, today was appointed to succeed A. Bruce Bielaski as chief | prohibition investigator in New York) City, | money for Return Sen 799 Broadway you have sold. money order, postal stamps or checks or call at the office. 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