The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1927, Page 3

tc naan Oo t + _ Whole country from capitalist oppres- SYRIA FOR ITS WOOL AND COTTON | PARIS, (By Mail).—France_ is try- | ing to convert Syria into one of its! colonies, Syria is to be a screw in the colonial machinery of France, the source of raw wool, cotton and other industrial products for the home country, The French manufacturers aré ruining the national industry of Syria; first the customs’ privileges which they enjoy make it possible for them to compete successfully with the goods produced by native indus-' tries, Then ‘the system of French tax-| ation in Syria forces the whole popu- lation to surrender the lion’s share of | their earnings. Finally, compulsory ; French currency has been introduced in order to wrest the gold reserves from the population. The numbers emigrating from Syria bear eloquent witness to the ptesent situation in the country: in 1926 86,000 people were forced to emigrate. Syria Broken Up. From the time of the occupation of the country in 1919 the French au-| thorities under the protection of the occupational army of 70,000 have been exercising a severe colonial re-! gimé, Syria was bicken up into a seriés of tiny states: This enabled | France to maintain internecine strife | and religiotis dissension among the) native ‘population to keep back the} économie development of the country. | According to a decree of 1920 Great | Livan was declared an autonomous / state. Desiring to win the support | of the christian population in Syria, France artificially increased the in-| fluence of christian Livan by enlarg-} ing its frontiers and adding to it purely Musulman territory, Spread Thru Country. This regimé of French democracy | evoked in Syria a wide protest. The | revolutionary movement is expand-| ing. The Syrian nation has now been | struggling several years for its in-| dependence. The last eruption of the | fhational movement occurred in 1925 | in the form of a local rising in the} Djhebel-Druze mountains, which de-| spite the barriers set up by the | French government, spread to the} other parts of Syria. During 1926) the uprising spread from the south! (Kladderadatsch, Berlin) China+I begin to feel it myself. {Some Sections American | | Press Realize Grabbing | Has Killed China Trade | CHICAGO, March 2.-—Realiza- tion that the profit grabbers of western Europe and Ametica have gone too far in China and ruined their future is evident not only in Chinese publications in America | | bat even in the western mouthpiece of American imperialism, the Chi- cago Tribune. Tribune admits t “Certainly the common man in China has had a wretched life, judged at least by our standards, and the roseate promises of communism might well capture him.” The Chinese Guide in America, speaking for the Kuomintang, says: “The masses of tht people of China see that the Union of Socialist | Soviet Republics has abolished all | unequal treaties with China, given up the old ezarist concessions and extraterritorial rights, while on the other hand those ations which dominate China are supporting the northern warlords and refuse to abrogate the unequal treaties and other forms of imperialist domina- tion.” The Chinese Guide is a useful publication for labor editors. It is published at Stanford University, Cal. Box 2765 and is distributed free on request. H. T. Tsiang is the editor. Australian Workers Are United Against Sending In an editorial the | THE DAILY WORKER AUSTRALIAN BOSS ENSLAVES WOMEN IN NEW GUINE: ‘Govt. “Protects” Morals But Wrecks Lives | | By W. FRANCIS AHERN | SYDNEY, Australis (FP) (By/ | Mail)--Frank Anstey, députy leader ‘of the Labor Party in the Australian ‘federal parliament, who has just re- turned from ew Guinea, formerly owned by Ge and now mandated to Australia, 4 ghastly story of female slavery in that country, Said y: ' Women slavery is the ghastly! spectacle we have right before us. We hear constant talk of the black | |races being the sacred trust of civili- zation, but in official circles and ad-| | ministrative circles there is never a| | single mention of the native women who are the real ‘slaves in thé terri- ory. | “I have seen them climbing and! plodding over mountains and down valleys—their eyes dull, their faces! strained and worn, their manner_sul- jlen, and their whole bearing one of | | stupefaction—carrying burdens of up | to 120 pounds on their weary tortured | bodies. They never smile for there is nothing to induce mirth. Théy are regarded as nothing but machines to! | work. Many of them give birth to jchildren by the roadsides and die in| the muck of the beaten tracks.” | Deaths Double Births | The enforced slavery of the female natives is causing the deteriora-| {tion of the race, said Enstey, for the| | women could not pioduce healthy | children under such conditions. In one village alone last year there were twice as many deaths as births. There was @ suspicion that the gov- }ernment connived at this slavery of |the women. When A native girl} reached the age of 12 she became a | slave, and the burdens which she was | ebliged to carry were graded in ac-! jcordance with the increase in her! | Strength. | With a meticulous regard for the | {morality of the natives, the govern- {ment prohibited certain wood carv- }ings and dances, of the natives held | to be obscene. Yet the enslaving of | | the native women was allowed to eon- | to the north, The French occupa-| Aymed Forces to China ‘°° unchecked. tion forces used all means for sup- pressing the rising. In the summer) of 1926 the whole world rang with} the bafbarous cruelties of the French authorities. To the repeated peace) proposals made ‘by the Syrians the | valiant French commissars replied by | bombarding peaceful towns, firifig on | the peaceful populations, ruining, whole quarters in towns, smashing up | whole villages. The French policy) evoked the hatred and denunciation | ofthe whole Musulman world. The Syrian war had a toll of 15,Q00 killed and the losses caused to the popu- lation are reckoned at 5,000,000 lire, | the war costing France 3 milliard| franes and 11,000 killed (including | 10,000 colored soldiers). But repres-| sion was quite powerless to suppress | the national movement. More and} more sections of the Syrian popu-| lation had been drawn into the fight | against French imperialism. This} movement is also participated in by the toiling masses, who, for the first ‘time in the history of Syria, appear- ed upon the arena of the social strug: | gle. | Together with the peasantry thé workérs bear the full brunt of imper- ialist oppression, Great Strike Wave. The regime of terror, the abrupt | fall of the currency in 1926 and the, rise of the cost of living éarsed a} great strike wave to sweep over) Syria. In the summer of 1926 the tramway workers in the town of Bei- rut went on strike. The movement sptead to the workers in other branchés of labor: the printing indus- try, the woodworking, the tobacco and others. The movement then be- gan to spread to other towns. Two thousand textile workers downed tools in Damascus. Here a committee for organizing the trade unions was formed. It appealed to the workers of other cities to support the strikers, Strikes are also proceeding in Homs, Aleppo and elsewhere. The move- ment is everywhere accompanied by a campaign for the organization of | trade unions. Together with econ-| omie demands, the freedom to form unions is being demanded. | The labor movement is being born! jin the throes of the struggle. The ‘rench authorities are attacking this sccond front of the labor movement, which goes shoulder to shoulder with the\\nattonal-emancipatory movement. By rder of the high commissioner many active workers are being placed under\ trial and deported. The police keeping an eagle eye on the move- ment,’ and participating in all con- flicts,} is desintegrating its forces, But the French military clique will be powerless to stem the historical course of events: The Sytian work- ers and peasants already understand their problems, forming a united front with the nationalist movement, the workers and peasants of Syria will fight to their bitterest end in order to free themselves and tht era ¥, : By J. RYAN. SYDNEY, Australia (By Mail) — | The working class movement in Syd- ney is fully alive to the possibilities of the position in China. For months, we have been explaining: to the rank and file the happenings in that coun- try from day to day. On Thursday, February 4th, the Labor Council of N.S. W. held a special session to dis cuss the question of China. Repre- sentatives of the Communist Party. I, W. W., Socialist Labor Party, and the Trade Union Educational League were present, as well as delegates from all over N. S. W. At this sés- sion a “Hands off China” ‘committee was elected, and the enclosed mani- festo adopted. Since then a gigantic demonsirn- tion was held on the Sydney Domain. and a further demonstration was held at the Sydney Town Hall. Move ments of a similar character are de- veloping in other states, and it is un likely that many soldiers will be sent to China from Australia, The ques- tion of a delegation to Canton will be decided at the N. S. W. Congress next Saturda Sapiro Claims Sen. Reed Aided Him Boost Prices (Continued from Page One) Senator James A. Reed (of Missouri) and hé did something. As a result, the growets were allowed to séll their tomatoes at the open market price.” Reed entered a formal, objection to the answer before howing to the wit- hess, “T wadn’t being used as a gentile front,” the senator added in a growl, Organized by Commodity Sapiro testified that his contribu- tion to the science of cooperation was the idea of organizing on a com- | modity basis instead of on a locality! basis. He spoke of remitting the contracts of the berry growers, and of speaking operation, Subpoena Books The interest of the jury and court- room fans alike was aroused when Sapiro went into an explanation of the “million-dollar” fees received by him and his associates. “Ave you prepared to state the gross and net income of your fitm during this period?” Gallagher asked, after Sapiro said he had “kept ” The ‘court allowed Sapiro to answer and the “cooperative king” said “No.” Reed then filed a motion to sub- poena Sapiro’s books and accounts. Libel suit fans are speculating as te whether the Ford defense did or did not seek today to save Henry the ignominy of exposing himself on the witness stand by substituting a double, At least a double did appear, in the person of James &. Goodrich, and was seated at the Ford counsel table, Afterwards, it was explained As 8 joke. EW YORK, WEDNESDA Coolidge and: Co. See | Chinese Nationalism As ' Blow To Profiteering | WASHINGTON (FP). — Chair- man Borah of the Senate Foreign ations Committee, told a dinner audience, ineluding politicians and diplomats, that he thanked god that “Nationalism has marched in- to Shanghai,” and he hoped it would stay there. This sentiment, uttered on the night after publication of accounts of the attack on Americans and other foreigners in Nanking, was applauded by at least a majority of the listeners. But at the White House, the state department, and the busy of- fices of the war and navy depart- ments, the Chinese revolution was not seen as a Nationalist move- ment so much as a working class revolt, highly dangerotts to for- eigners who have been making big Money in the Orient. In most of the dispatches from consuls and diplomats were references to “radi- cal libor” elements, or to “radical forces,” and to strikes and strike perils that have kept the foreigners anxious. Not Nationalism but imperialism is the picture as the American gov- ernment sees it. For Shorter Hours. BRISBANE, Queensland (By MARCH 30, 1927 { HUNGARYTYRANTS SILENTLY ADMIT TORTURE CHARGES Do Not Take Trouble To Deny Outrages In July 1926 I was in Budapest at the occasion. of the trial against Ra- kosi. I had the opportunity to inter- view the police president Hetenyi, In the presence of an English journalist I asked him whether it was true that the political prisoners were maltreat- ed in the Budapest police presidium. In the course of a longer conversation Mr. Hetenyi affirms solemnly and with his word of honor that prisoners had. never been maltreated in the Budapest police presidium. The Eng- ish witness of this conversation is able at any time to verify my state- meot. In the course of the last few weeks the Berlin and Vienese press again reported terrible facts about many (Continued from Page One) ritory under his control, tho he does not say that the explanation of this phenomenn lies in the fact that trade unions are illegal and strikes punish- able by the death of the leaders. Cie sea } T is quite apparent that the British and United States governments are prepared for intervention on a large scale. The massacre of Nanking perpetrated by the British and Amer- ican naval officers when their guns opened fire on the unarmed and peaceful inhabitants is one of the most horrible deeds in the annals of history. Yet the hireling corres- pondents and government officials of both countries hail the chief murder- ers as heroes. All the imperialist propaganda mud guns that were rusting in the cellars since the end of the World War are now squirting their offal at the Nationalists. Soon the United States may be treated to another crusade to save civ tion from the Chinese. The German “Menace” is now safely harnassed to the Dawes Plan. * * ‘ Boh of the clumsiest attempts to get out from under ever attempt- ed by a secretary of state: canght politically undressed is the effort of Mr. Kellogg to make the public be- lieve that his incendiary instruétions to his agents in Mexico, instructing them to work for the overthrow of the Calles government, were forger- jes perpetrated by elements that fa- vored a rupture of relations between Mexico and the United States. Whe those elements are we are not told, How they secured decuments which are admittedly in part state depart- ment documents is a mystery. Mr. Kellogg should have.loaned the ex- pert forgers from Scotland Yard that forged the famous “Zinovier” letter that helped the conservative party into office in 1923, NDER president Harding the cab- inet was composed of a mixture | of crooks, grafters, and uncaught im- perialist tools. Coolidge inherited those who were too clever to be ap- prehended. Most of his acquisitions quit before their finger prints were taken. But Kellogg remained too long. The current issue of Colliers cases of maltreatement of arrested } EW YORK movie houses are now | weekly predicts that “Nervous Nel- /Communists and socialists in the Budapest police presidium. On the llth of this month I therefore sent /a telegram to Mr. Hetenyi in Buda- pest, pointing to the strong rumors about new serious cases of maltreat- ment in the Budapest. police presi-% dium, I reminded him in my tele- showing pictures of German mil- itary reviews and the goose-stepping soldiers are cheered as they march past the monarchist president of Germany. The American ambassa- dor shown accompanying the re- viewing officers to the parade grounds. This is the nation that had Mail) (FP).—Building trades work-| tam of my conversation with him in to be crushed in 1917-18 if civiliza- ers in Queensland have put their 40- July of last year and urged him to tion was to survive. Now it is hour week into operation. In some inform me by wire whether there was China, our ally in that crusade. cases men have been dismissed for not working the 44 hours, but the! time three days have passed. various unions are standing ‘solid for Hetenyi has kept silent. any truth in the rumors. Since that Mr. This is the, the shorter working week and say clearest and most convincing admis- their members do not intend to work | sion that the reports on the shameful 44 hours any longer. It is expected| tortures against prisoners in Buda- that the 40-hour week will soon be- pest are true. The heads of the Hun- | coffe general for all workers engaged. garian police do not even consider in the building trades in Queensland. Iron Workers On Strike. SYDNEY, Australia (By Mail) (FP).—Iron workers at mills at Lithgow, near Sydney are,;—Atthur Rosenberg. on strike against a new agreement which demands they shall wotk three shifts daily, also overtime. object to this, particularly the over- time as many others are out of work. They say they ‘will not resume until the objectionable features of the new agreement are removed. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS THE PEACE FAKERS Representatives of oppressed colonial peoples come to congratulate Chamberlain and Briand on having won the Nobel peace prize. (Continued from Page One) vlaims that at present there are be- | tween 90,000,000 and 100,000,000 tons ‘ef soft coal stored above ground, the | greatest reserve supply in history. | Plutes Like Policy } The Chamber of Commerce makes a special point in favor of the oper- ators in a coal strike next mouth, of the Lewis program of signing con- ‘tracts in outlying districts. It says in its special report yesterday: “T™ addition to the non-union pro- |duetion, there will be some produc- tion from what are termed ‘outlying’ | unionized districts, an important one ‘being Central Pennsylvania. The out- lying districts are distinguished from | the unionized central competitive field which Comprises the large producing ‘regions of Ilinois, Indiana, Ohio, and | Western Pennsylvania. At present \anion officials have agreed to permit jto the Texas state legislature on ¢o- outlying territories to continue op- | «vations at the present wage scale, | ‘with the understanding that the oper: ators shall have the option to termin- ; ate the existing agreement at any | time.” Ohio Loek-Out | Reports arrive from Martins Ferry, Ohio, that the lock-out is already be- ginning, some 500 machine miners in Fastern Ohio having done their’ last work yesterday, with the plan of the | bosses tmnderstood to be the closing down of all machines by today. There | ave 1,000 machine men in the Rast- ern Ohio field, and about 14,000 other miners. | + (ie * Evila of Low Wage HARRISBURG. (FP) — “Lower wages in the bituminous industry Will not bring steadier work or greater production,” said Thos. Kennedy, Sec- retary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking at the Middle AUantic regional meeting the Catholic Conference on Probtoms, in Harrisburg oh March 28, “PLAN SEPARATE MINERS’ CONTRACTS “Lower wageés,” he co: inued, “will not guarantee one hour's work more than now. The bituminous industry is a victim of over development, and low wages is not the cure, Collective Contract Desired “We have tried nearly every indus- trial theory. and have become con- vineed that the only plan that pro- tects us and saves our liberties is free and voluntary trade unionism and the collective contract. Back in the years between the disastrous sirike of 1887 and the rise of the U. M. W. A. at the close 9 st century and the first we tried company un- ionism and the so-called ‘Divine Right Baer's Plan.’ We have tried a fc of profit sharing. We have worked uhder government control durin war time. We have tried arbitration. ‘Direct action’ organizations were even | experimented with in tho industry, Cooperative mining, too, has been | All these have falled. .. .| tried ont, Biames Financiers “We have strikes, we encounter dit- ficulties in the anthracite industry land to a great extent also in. the | despondent bituminous industry because of the intrusion of bankers and outside fi- nanciers in the wage policies of the coal fields. ‘The practical mining ex- ceutives have nothing to say, They ave for us; the absent bankers have been against us and their word would have stood were it not that our union |has steadily resisted being ‘deflated’ at their command and to their profit, In the anthracite industry the First National Bank of New York and the Stotesbury interest’ of Philadelphia have attempted to rule.” Kennedy declared that members of all races brought into the mines by the employers have become union men. He added that “our organiza- tion has done more (o restore freedom to the community and bring peace and focial welfare than any other or- ganization in the state.” : it necessary to deny, but manifest with cynical openness that they tor- ture imprisoned workers. The rulers of Hungary wish to prove at any the steel, Price their loyalty to Chamberlain. (Berlin, March 14.) ‘vce ‘STUTTERING AL’ MAY LORD IT OVER AUSTRALIA Son of Royal Souse Is_ Not In High Favor SYDNEY, Australia (By Mail)! (FP).—The coming visit of the Duke of York to Australia and New Zealand may have a much deeper! imperialistic significance than was! , originally supposed. At the present | time suggestions are being made, no, ‘doubt, with the object of testing: Australian feeling. The latest is that the Duke’s trip may have an im-| portant political bearing “in view of the new organization of the empire, now that governor-generals are no! longer political appointees.” In some quarters it is hinted that the duke may be the future governor-general | of Australin. This hinted-at arrange- ment would be exceedingly gratify- | ting to the imperialists, but just what! the unsyneophatic portion of Aus-! , tralians would think of it is rather a different matter. | Owing to an impediment in his) |speecth, the duke is known amongst! |the proletariat as “Stuttering Al- | bert.” while bis only accomplishment lin the way of political stagecraft is | that he plays a passable game of, squash raquets. As is well known his brother, Edward Wales, is Bri- tain’s champion horse-saddle tum- bler. { Blackton Suit Ends. ' | LOS ANGELES, March 29.—The | $25,000 suit brought against J. Stuart Blackton by Gerard de Mervenx,! fencing master, for an alleged horse- whipping, will probably be brought to a close today and placed in the hands inment in Newark, — 7 uch of the Inter- | Laber Defense will held an inment «at the Hungarian enter | Workers’ Homa, 87 16th Avenue, on} gz, April 2. j There will be an elaborate program | of mygie and genera) entertainment, | sé | | Saturday evenir liam O'Keefe yoars old, committed suicide by inhaling gas here today, jaccording to the police he had been! over worry for his son, James, said to be a hopeless consump- tive. The younger O'Keefe has eight children, Announcement to Our Readers, ; In the advertisement which | appeared in The DAILY WORK. ER announcing the moving pic- ture Michael Strogoff and Lenin | was given to us under conditions | which gave us a false idea of the character of this showing. The DAILY WORKER has! taken steps to prevént a recur- reni¢e of this unfortunate occur- renee, ‘ {ly” is about to duck out. 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