The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1927, Page 3

ht as ee ee oe Se ae eee ee THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927 Page Three RD NAC lao GAMO Ae Astin Bip as | ONE OF THE MURDER SHIPS “AMERICAN IMPERIALISM LIKE A HYENA” SAYS PRAVDA ARTICLE (Special Cable to The Daily Worker.) |in yqur face: ‘Criminals, rascals, MOSCOW, March 31.-—Pravda pub-|henchmen,’ and will take measures lishes the following article by Edward | against further bombardments both Dunean entitled: “America In Anti-|in China and in other countries. Chinese Imperialistic Front.” | “Know ye ‘civilized’ low band that | “The participation of the naval|ten million organized Soviet prole- forces of American imperialism which | tarians send you maledictions. Know were the first to fire in the criminal|ye that the blood in the veins of bombardment of Nanking will serve | every Soviet worker, is boiling with, aS a new lesson for those layers of | indignation at the news of the Nan- the Chinesé people which cherished|king firing. Still more firmly the illusions regarding the policy of .the| workers of the Soviet Union shake United States of America towards|hands with the suffering Chinese China, will stimulate fresh manifesta- | workers. tion of the heroism of the millions of | Chinese workers and peasants and the national revolutionary army. In World Pillory. “The imperialists burnt Nanking, the imperialists outraged the Chinese Shows True Face. people which is striving for the goal “For the first time the most dan-|of liberty. gerous enemy of the Chinese people, | “The toilers of the world put the strongest among the rival rob-| them in the world pillory and send, bers, shows its true face. Until now | warm greeting to the toilers of Nan- the United States government tried/ king, martyrs of the Chinese liber- to cover its real aims with the leaf of | ative movement. Louder than ever hypoeri must sound the war cry of the world “The English bourgeois press writes | proletariat. ‘Hands off China! Long that America understood “too late” liye the great Chinese Ber on | the Chinese “danger.” However, this reminds one of,the entrance into the world war when American imperial- | | MEET ism, even though late did its criminal | deed. American imperialism is among other depredators more like a hyena) i WILL NOT HAVE - “The imperialist war in China is being “Americanized.” American mil- itarists are dealing with the Chinese | workers as they deal in their own} country, with their own workers as . in Ludlow, Colorado and other cities. frovocatory methods in the massacre | . M4 " at Nanking reminds us of the notori- iC ap goad Has It Owe p ous provocations in regard to Amer- | ican revolutionary leaders. | Drive Out the Imperialists. | WASHINGTON (FP) March 31—| “More than ever must the Chinese |[n the American delegation to the workers and peasants exert all their! feonomic Conference at Geneva, just efforts to drive out the imperialists} announced by President Coolidge, from China, The Communist parties | wage-workers and farmers will have must+do everything to explain to the | no representation. Requests by or- workers in all countries the interna- | ganized labor and the progressive or-| tional importance of the appalling | ganizations of farmers that they each crime at Nanking. The given a spokesman on this body “Through the infamous Nanking | were ignored. Of the five delegates, massacre and shooting, international | pig business gets three and Herbert imperialism forever puts itself in a| Hoover takes the other two. pillory. | Some months ago the suggestion “The Nanking massacre make the | was made by William Green, presi- situation clear, ghastly clear. Even| dent of the American Federation of the blind shall now see the real, true|Tabor, to President Coolidge. that! substance of the imperialist policy in | organized labor wanted to have rec-| China. The oppressors have now | gnition in the form of appointment | thrown off their masks and act with | o¢ it. representatives on federdl com-| lifted helmets. Now it is clear that | missions and delegations dealing with | their policy is a policy of blood and| economic and industrial matters. | iron. “They acted through the bible | When Coolidge decided to send five and with missionaries baited the Chi- | delegates to Geneva to the economic nese people with religious stunts just | oongerence called by the League of as merchants baited them with opium. | Nations, the test of Coolidge’s atti- They acted through dollars and capi- léude choke 7 | tal. But now they are acting through | Coolidge Bert tie the appalling means of machine Secretary of Labor Davis was ap- sah and incendiary shells, destroy- | proached by a third party, who show- | Te WS City ONG ERAEUOMES TTT that it would-be to Coolidge’s of Chinese allegedly because some i= | credit if a trade union official and a perialistic agents were wounded, | Z < ee | GRuck tsp igile thr ioden canni..| leader of the organized farmers were | The U. S.'S. | | “William B, Preston,” one of the American and British war vessels that, bombarded Nanking, China, has stood by in the Yangtze river with her guns trained on “salient military points.” A FLOATING FOE OF FREEDOM The speedy U. S. Scout Cruiser “Richmond,” together with the cruisers “Marblehead” and “Cincinnati,” has BORNO BOUNCED IF MARINES 60, STATES RAINEY Declares Barring King Prevented Revolt WASHIN N, March 81.—Riots and bloodshed would have occurred in Haiti if Senator King (D) of Utah, had been permitted to land in that country, Rep. Henry T. Rainey (D) of Illinois, declared on his- return here today from a visit to Haiti, Rainey went on-to explain that “if the American marines were with- drawn there would be a revolution in Haiti within twenty-four hours.” He made it he did not consider the presence of the marines in Haiti, thwarting the plain will of the people to rid them-| ’s protege, pres- , selves of Wall stre ident Borno, as anything but good. Haitians dissatisfied with the Bor- no regime and American. occupation clear in his speech that | | been rushed from Honolulu to Chinese waters. had to be placed around his palace to | protect him from possible harm,” | said Rainey. “I was told that threats to poison Borno had been made by so-called | patriots after senator King’s speech.” |Polish Textile Labor Gets 312 Cent Increase; | Earn 38 Cents Per Day WARSAW, March 31.—To end a | strike involving nearly two hundred thousand textile workers, a court of tile workers, now drawing from 70 to |90 cents day, a per cent wage increase. Employes receiving only 35 cents a day were granted a 12 per \cent wage increase. j ven with the in y of textile worke earn much less than the eighty cents a day, {which is considered the minimum ex- istence wage for an income. | The court of ‘arbitration ganized by Vice Premier jend the strike. se th major- was or- Bartel to Hospital Has New York Office. Announcement has just been made | that the new office of the National arbitration has awarded skilled tex- | ADVISES GANAL IN NIGARAGUA. [Ready To Make More! Use of Latest Colony | — 1 WASHINGTON, March 31.—To! expedite ocean traffic between the Atlantic and the Pacific Sengtor Edge (R) of New Jersey today urged |the building of a new lock in the Panama Canal or the construction of | ‘a canal through Nicaragua for which America already has the! rights. He discussed the proposals with} President Coolidge, who agreed to| submit them to government engineers | for study. Edge said he would bring} the matter to the attention of con- | geess next winter. “Within ten years the Panama} Canal will have reached the capa-| city,” Edge declared. “It would cost! |about $125,000,000 to build the lock} | ing schemes for world dominat | by Pforzheimer & Co. composing the old Standard Oil group paid cash dividends for 1926 totaling $200,319,594. STANDARD OIL BROKERS REPORT QUARTER BILLION PROFITS FROM JOHN D. GROUP By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press). How oil workers and consumers of petroleum products are providing the Rockefeller Standard Oil dynasty These The 1926 dividends exceed by about 1 $47,000,000 or 30% the dividends paid in 1925 which at that time were a record, the dividends paid in 1914. about twice the capitalization of the old Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Practically all the subsequent capitali- zation of the Standard Oil group has They are more than 3 times They are been accomplished through stock divi- dends, Always More. Standard Oil cash dividends for the rst quarter of 1927 were $f 3,056, quarter of 1926. This exceeds any first quarter since 1918. At that time nor- mal dividends were swollen to $655,- i by a special disbursement of than $39,000,000 Standard Oil . J. on repayment of loans from former subsidiaries. It suggests that 1927 will exceed the extraordinary 1926 record in generosity to the wealthy owners. The steadily increasing flow of cash dividends to Standard Oil owners, as compiled by Pforzheimer, is shown in the following table: Standard Oil Cash dividends 1912.... $51,686,634 1913 07,795,361 1914 + 62,692,884 1915 - 62,401,204 + 98,627,875 + 99,957,923 - 108,480,916 + 105,901,477 115,776,793 115,294,292 + 129,089,865 +138,423,296. - 150,388,555 153,506,099 200,819,594 by Standard Oil since 1911, the year of dissolution, have totaled tandard $1,826,967,168. In addi- | with the income to carry out its far-reach- wn in a report on dividends compiled Oil brokers report that companies tion there have been stock dividends 'to a total of nearly $1,500,000,000. The towners, primarily such families as {the Rockefellers, Pratts and Mellons, jhave taken about $3,300,000,000 on a capitalization which in 1912 hdd a par value of less than $300,000,000. Their wealth has multiplied at least 11 times over at the expemse of workers and consumers. Stock Dividends. The dividends declared by some of the constituent companies were extraordinary. Standard of In- stouk |compared with $40,580,817 the first |diana loads with stoke et 1912, 150% in 1920 and |100% in 1922. The aggregate addition | to the holdings of the owners by these dividends was more than 14,000%, In the case of other companies the aggre- gate stock dividends have been: Cop- |tinental Oil 1100%; Standard Oil of |New York 600%; Atlantic Refining '900%; Ohio Oil 433%; Standerd of 'New Jersey 400%; Prairie Oil 860%: jand Vacuum Oil 800%. Standard Oil is a leading example of the tendency to inflate the claims of ownership in order to sustain nopoly profits at the expense of \ers and consumers, Sinclair Earnestly ‘AL Work to Avoid Prison WASHINGTON, March $1—Harry F. Sinclair's fight to avoid jefl was resumed in the District ,Court today with the beginning of arguments on the wealthy oil mag- |nate’s motion for a new trial in the recently concluded contempt proveede (ing. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS re) The HOW of the Sustaining bats. | appointed as two of the five dele-| igates. Davis professed to be “all for| Would have been encouraged by a Exposes United States. \ “The Nanking massacre made the it” He talked with A. F. of L. head- | Visit of their champion, senator King, | situation clear also because it thor- | quesness about the plan. Labor and| oughly exposed the position of the |2azmer headquarters gained the im United States. The latter had for a | Pression that Coolidge was waiting | long time posed as a liberal ‘well-| wisher’ of the Chinese revolution, now to start trouble, according to Rainey. | “After senator King made h speech in the senate last winter, call- after everyone sees the Anglo-Ameri- | can bloc in action it is easy to under- | stand that America was but a wolf in| sheep’s skins which she noty throws | off in such a disgusting action. The | country of George Washington and} the declaration. of independence is | standing today before China in the shape of the rascal Williams who in! torrents of blood drowns the indepen- dence of the Chinese people. China Appeals to All. “Nanking is loudly crying, not only | to China but to all the world. Imper- | falist civilization reeks with the| plague. Anglo-American warships | bombard Nanking, but does that meaty that they bombard the undermined | faith in trashy civilization which the | imperialists boast of before the mass- | es? ‘Where is the capitalistic “cul- | ture”? “It is not materialized in de | stroying buildings in Nanking and in} incendiary shel!s. Where is eapitalis- | tic ‘humanity’? Tt is covered with/| blood of the Chinese women and child- , ren. Where is the famed ‘parliamen- tarism’, of England, of the famed democracy of America? They are| entirely in the wild beastly exploits | |national Labor Office, is chairman of | for these elements to name their men.|ing Borno a usurper, extra guards‘! Read The Daily Worker Every Day | clared, | Word went to Davis that the A. F. of | ; d |L. was ready to nominate a repre- sentative. No response. Davis seems | to have failed to convince Coolidge. | Possibly he failed even to try. Henry N. Robinson,*a Los Angeles | bank president, who was. on the! American delegation to the labor- capital government conference in Paris at the close of the war which framed the constitution for the Inter- PRINCIPAL the mew delegation. He likewise | served on the American commission | on war reparations which framed the Dawes Plan. | Norman H. Davis, who was assist- | ant secretary of the treasury and al- so assistant secretary of state, and is now in Wall street, is the second delega’ John W. O'Leary of Chicago, pres- ident of the U. S. Chamber of Com-| merce and an extreme anti-labor| pra@pagandist, is the third. | Alonzo A. Taylor, of Stanford University, former right-hand man to Hoover in relief administration in| Europe, is the fourth. | For Big Business. Dr, Julius Klein, director of the} | Jewish Hospital of Denver will be lo-| which would expedite traffic.” | cated at Room 903, 119 West 57th St.| jre placed the cost of the Nicara-| The hospital is a free, national, and! guan canal at between $500,000,000 non-sectarian institution devoted to and $1,000,000,000. the cure of tuberculosis. The Panama Canal is paying 67) per cent on the investment, he -de- STREET OF BOMBARDED NANKING The appeal for the establishment of the — Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund is meeting with an organized and en- / thusiastic response. Workers’ organizations, labor and fraternal organizations, and Work- © ers Party units are taking up seriously the task of laying the financial basis for the © growth of a national labor organ. This uf "| how it is done. One comrade is selected ‘by the organiza- tion to be the go-getter for the fund, The | DAILY WORKER Agent, call him what you | will. Each comrade makes out a pledge to | pay a certain amount every week, according — to his resources. In addition the organiza. tion, if it has a treasury of its own, should i pass a motion to contribute a certain amount every month. The DAILY WORKER agent is the comrade responsible for the regular | collection of this fund. In this manner a broad subsidy is bt «dom. of Anglo-American officers, in the | bureau of, foreign and domestic com- orders of the rascal Williams, in the|merce in the Department of Com- wild orgies of death, of the bloodly| merce, is the last delegate. Like firing on infants from warships. |Taylor, he reflects the yiews and Kill 7,000. ‘hopes of Hoover as to American big) “Where is the policy of ‘non-inter- | business’ struggle for the world mar- | ference’ with internal affairs of | ket. | China? Is it in shooting to death | This conference will deal chiefly peaceful Nanking citizens? 7,000' with trade barriers between nations. Ghinese killed, such is the appalling | That means that it will try to reach | result of the imperialist ‘non-interrér-|an agreement for lowering tariff! ence.’ | Walls so that the nationalism which | “You henchmen of Chinese free-; has run amuck in Europe since the! However hard you try you} war shall not be allowed to paralyze | Cannot bring it down. You shot to|}commerce and lead to new wars as) de’ thousands, hut against you will a means of economic relief. The bur- | rist®, still firmer legions of millions,/den of these tariffs is borne by the, hundreds of millions of Chinese, The | workers and farmers in all countries. Chinese revolution will conguer even |The A. F. of L. wanted representa- | if i were to sow its path with heaps |tion on the American delegation in. of corpses. You ‘bearers of culture.’ {order that it might have a hand in Your infamous game will not remain jrestoxing economic sanity to the con-| hidden from the eyes of the interna-|tinent. To the degree that prosper-| tinal \proletariat. It will rise to de-|ity returns to Europe, American | fend those, whom you burn alive, and | economic conditions will be bettered, | will brand your crimes at Nanking, | since American efficiency calls for| your record of atrocity, and will not | wider foreign markets. forget your Nanking shame. | Principal thoroughfare of Nanking, € ina, scene of imperialist crime. population. Fascist Papers Enter | On New Row With Pope Baw! Out Paris Nuncio ROME, Mareh 81.—The papal nun- cio of Paris was severely criticised in the newspaper Tevere today. He was accused not only of sup- porting masonic and socialistic plot- ters against Italy but also of indors- ing, by implication, the. bitter attack of Leon Blum, French socialist, upon Mussolini and fascism, Blum had’ accused Mussolini of fomenting war in the Balkans, 7 The Tevere article has created a) practically | char; t as | inspired by high church authorities, |'Phe tone of the article indicates the |tling with rage, Wayne B. Wheeler, | sensation in Rome.” It charges that the nuncio’s policy Nanking has approximately 400,000 | Moscow Soviet Adopts Appeal té Workers of || All Lands to Stop War MOSCOW, March 31.—The first session of the newly elected Mos- cow soviet adopted an appeal to the international proletariat to fight against the growing danger of a new world war being prepared by the imperialists who are striv- ing to establish a united front against the Soviet Union and the | Chinese revolution. 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A big- ger and better DAILY WORKER is the best assurance that the work which Comr ade | Ruthen- berg has so ably be- gun, will. be carried forward to success. DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, a New York, N. Y. Inclosed is my contribution of .. dollars . ‘ to the Ruthenberg Susi Fund for a stronger an be better DAILY WORKER, | will pay the same amount — regularly every \ _ Socialist Defenders. “International social democracy will try to white-wash your black deed, will try to wash your hands, but every honest proletarian will thrust Coolidge and Hoover appear to | rowing friction that has developed have decided that an economic con-| between the vatican and the Italian ference is beyond the mental depth | sovernment, of labor unionists and farmers, but | that O’Leary of the Chamber of Com-| merce will know what is going on, BUY TAF DAILY WorKER + AT THE NBWSSTANDS igeneral counsel of the Anti-Saloon ‘League, today denied charges b: the | ‘association against the prohibition ‘amendment that his organization had | | paid expenses of the house committee | ~on alcoholic liquor traffic, New York city 25% of all One eee to Dh DAILY WO e Ways mention. 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