The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1927, Page 3

( \ THE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927 Page Three SOCIALIST CHIEF FOR IMPERIALISM IN PORTO RicC Iglesias Is Secretary of | Pan-American F, of L.| By J. NEVARES SAGER. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March 25. —During the session of the Porto tiean senate, held March 22-27, the senate president, Antonio Barcelo, in outlining his intended discourse be- fore the visiting Secretary ‘of War Davis, at the official banquet, sug- gested that he intended, in addition to laying bare the problems of Porto Rico, to condemn the Latin-Ameri policies of the U. initiated by Roosevelt with the rape of Colombia, and pursued at present in relation to Nicaragua, by supporting a hireling, z , against the actual government sustained by the people of Nicaragua. Senator Santiago Iglesias of the Pan-American Federation of Labor hastily intervened, and warned Bar- celo, “You would assume a serious responsibility in confronting the sec-! retary of war regarding the policies which his government may pursue in its relations with Mexico or Q gua. You should confine 3 exclusively to the problems concern- ing Porto Rico and not meddle in in- ternational affairs. Such an act would be interpreted badly by those in whose hands the fate of our as- pirations lie.” Which means the fate of their political ambitions, whose further development can be realized! with the granting of political auton- omy to the islands which would give either of these politicians the oppor- tunity to become the governor of the island. Barcelo with much humility bowed to Iglesias, adding, “True, very true, as colonials it is not our right to vent our feelings and sentiments, I will confine myself as Iglesias suggested.” PALESTINE IS Senator |. INDIA ENTERING — NEW PHASE OF FREEDOM FIGHT Meeting Held to Discuss Question of Leninism BOMBAY, Feb. ( -~Signs have ‘eeently multiplied in India to show that in 1927 we ave entering on a revolutionary phase of the class- conscious political organization of the Indian proletariat and its emer- gence in its role as the leader of the national-revolutionary movement. These signs are the visible fruits of the underground activitics of the In- dian Communist Party, carried on under exceptional hard conditions of imperialist repression. A recent fae- tor w has stimulated the revolu- | tionary orientation of the masses of India is also undoubtedly the cause of events in China. During the last two or three years, the Indian proletariat has gone through a severe training in the school of industrial action in the shape of many hard-fought wtrikes | and it has reached a certain degree of political maturity which was ab- -'sent in the first post-war revolution- ary period of 1921-192: This is evi-| denced by the fact that revolutionary | propaganda which before had to be carried on underground, can now be) made publiely without the British au- thorities attempting to suppress it.! An occasion for this apen propagan- da has been furnished by the present visit to India of Comrade S. Saklat- vala who has addressed a large num-| ber of meetings in the Province of | Bombay in the first week of his ar- rival. A detailed report of his speech- es is being prepared. | Gowers of Endurance. | A foremost place in the revolution- ary prolétarian movement in India is destinéd to be taken by the workers in the industrial areas of Bombay. Because Bombay is* the seat of the oldest capitalist industry in India, namely, the textile industry, engag- ing now about 200,000 workers; and | the Bombay workers have shown very IN THE GRIP OF GLASS STRUGGLE Workers Intend to Bury | Masters in Sepulchre JERUSALEM, March—(By Mail). —The past 1926 year, without any} exaggeration, was an extremely diffi eult year for the working cla Palestine. Despite the hampering of British | imperialism, despite Zionist specula- | tions, Palestine has entered a stage of capitalist development. Neither imperialism nor Zionism find it pos- | sible to, hold up the process of cap-| italist development in this country.! Their influence only makes the devel- opment of capitalism moue protracted | and more difficult and produces pro- founder and severer sufferings for! the peasants and workers. Growth of Trade Unions. Immigration to Palestine proceed- ed at an incredible tempo. During the last six years the number of He- brew workers alone increased almost | by 30,000. The numerical growth of the working class led to an intensive! growth of its i ‘Trade Union Federation—Gistadrut | —which is seen from the following, figures: 1920 4,000 organized work 1922 6,000 organized wor 1926 23,000 organized workers Arab Workers Increase. Together with the growth of the number of the Hebrew workers, there is a parallel growth in the num- ber of Arab workers. Unfortunately, we have no exact numerical data on} the number of Arab workers, but in all probability, this figure reaches 70,000. Just previous to 1925, Gistadrut was not only the single labor organ- ization in the country, but in general the only organization that existed. During recent years and especially during the past year, this situation | sharply changed. A variety of or- ‘anizations have sprung up among | “Gtever strata of the population. | ‘The economic crisis and unemploy- pi coupled with the revolutionary movément in Syria was conducive to! this ehange. | Lower Wages Urged, great powers of combination and en- durance in their strike action. The trade unions of the Bombay province have a record of industrial and pol- itical activities, not equalled by other unions in India. Bombay is appro-| priately the permanent headquarters | of the All-India Trade Union Con-! gress, Discussing Leninism. In Bombay we have had an ex- ample of the new propaganda that is being carried on among the Indian workers. The Congress Labour Par- ty, a left wing organization within the National, Congress held a public meeting of workers to discuss the} significant questions: “Does India| need a Lenin? What did Lenin stand Yor, and what has Russia gained by | adopting his principles? If India! needs a Lenin, with what modifica- tions should his theories be practiceu | } {and with What moderation Should his | concep+ tis be inttoduced into the body poiSie of India?” The meeting was presided over by S. H. Jhabvala, a Vice President of the Bonibay Textile Labor Union. By social origin Jhabvale is of the it-! telligentzia. He has an active record | of work within the Indian trade union movement. According to Jhabvale, the méeting was organized, inter alia, “to pay tribute to Leninism, a Rus- sian movement that h&d revolution- , ized the iodern world and had evol- ved a state of society and govern- ment for which humanity had been yearning for the last half a certury or so.” Jhabvala defined Leninism as |“mass ofganization and the rule of the proletariat,” Under Gandhi Influence. That Jhabvala still remains under the influence of the ideology of Gan- dhi is shown in the following remark of his: “Lenin has done for Russia what Mahatma Gandhi can certainly do for India; only, Indians should imbibe Gandhism as the Russians had assimilated Leninism.” Continuing his remark, Jhabvala said: “Gandhi had contented himself with his ideal- ism while Lenin had a dynamic force of. organization.” f Coming to the needs of the present situation in India, Jhabvala said: | “British imperialism in India was goaded on by economic and ‘commer- , cial motives, it was nothing short of a money grabbing campaign. India was and had long been a prey to econ-| omic exploitation of the oppressed by | tke militarist force of the oppressor. | A general and wholesale revolt | Simultaneously with the growth of | against their organized and democra- | unemployment, the attack of the cap- | tised. vidlence was the need of the italists on labor conditions becomes | diy. In China also, the present com- | increasingly more active, The Brit-| motion was the natural and inevitable ish and Zionist capitalists have long | outcome of the continued and persist- contemplated the lowering of wages|ent efforts of the imperialists to) of the Hebrew workers, In answer, to the memorandum. of the traders | and industrialists, who demanded a! lowering of duties imposed, the Brit- ish customs authorities advised them | to lower wages. | Boston Truck Drivers Win. } BOSTON, April 6. (FP).—Boston | truck drivers of Local 25 have won! a 9-hour day for five days a week; ! 7% hours for winter Saturdays and) 544 hours on Saturdays of three sum-| mer months, RUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS | choke and curb the just aspirations of | a civilized nation.” | For Mass Revolt, | Jhabvala then put forward the slo- gan: “Organize a mass revolt.” Ex-| Haining the slogan, he sald: “Dur-) ing the six years following the over- | throw of Czardom in Russia, the | Russians had progre$sed by leaps and | bounds intellectually and economi- | cally. Whereas, nearly two centur- jes of British rule had left the In- dians illiterate, semi-civilized and in- capable of being entrusted with even | minor responsibilities. We should) also adopt Leninism and organize a thorough mas revolt eainat all) i The peasants and industrial workers of China have united into a mighty force to drive out foreign imperialism. tyranny and oppression whether cap- italistic or imperialistic.” Another speaker at the meeting said: “The picture of the U. S. S. R. painted by the English press was false and mischievous.” ‘The pres- ent regime in Russia,” he explained, “is the dictatorship of the proletar- iat. But it was only a transitory stage which would eventually lead to Communism.” A third speaker said: “The non-Brahmin movement in In- dia of the lower castes against the GENEVA, April 6.—Attempts at a higher castes, was an indication that compromise on the question of naval socialism was gradually but percept-| disarmament were being m&de today ibly creeping into the body politic of | and the League of Nations prepara- India.” tory disarmament conference stood ad- journed to permit compromise econ- ferences between Viscount Cecil, Brit- ish delegate, and M. Boncour, French delegate. : M. Boncour states that France is not able to accept naval disarmament by categories bnt suggests that a ; draft be drawn whereby those na- tions unable to accept disarmament by categories make a detailed state- ; ment of their future naval programs. France Trying to ~ Save Submarines At Geneva American Clergy Protests Against Rowmanian Terror sss": es WASHINGTON, (FP).—Once more| Hugh Gibson, American delegates, appeal of, American clergy and other! who wired the proposal to Washing. leaders of public opinion has been! ton for instructions. voiced in Washington against the; The “peace” struggle at Geneva has white terror maintained in Roumania | settled down to a combat between the against Jews, Saxons and Hungarians | British and the French, over the ques- Meeting } M. Boncour submitted this proposal | by the government in which Queen} tion of whether resérve man power Marie is the dominant figure. should be counted, and whether the This ‘time a petition addressed to | French, with the smaller navy, shall Queen Marie, asking her to use her | be allowed to build submarines enough influence in behalf of mercy toward | for protection against the British these religious and racial minofities| grand fleet. in the annexed territories, has been The British delegate insists that presented to George Cretziano, minis-| the total tonnage alone shall not be ter from Roumania, to bé sent to| cotinted, as this would allow Fraiice Bucharest. The petition was signed|to build submaiines at the expense by more than 30,000 perséns in al!| of other shipping. Britain insists that parts of this country. It was de-| each “category” of ships shall be livered to the Roumanian legation on | limited. April 4 by Roland W. Boyden, for ee merly of the reparatiohs commision; | Fire Textile Unionists. Edgar Y, Mullins, president of the) GARBONDALE, Pa. (FP).—Dis- Baptist World Alliance, and a com- | charge of four textile union mem- mittee of eight other leadefs includ-' bers by the Klots Throwing Co. is! ing Cafdinal O’Connell of Boston, causing strike talk. Louis C. Cornish, vice-president of the American Unitarian Association, and twice chairman of Anglo-American | commisions to Roumania; Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Jas. J. Phelah,} Henry D. Sharpe, Rabbi Stephen S.| Wise, and Christian Herter and R. E.} Danielson, editors of the Indepetident. | Nine university presidents sponsor the petition. | A R “fndividuals belonging to the Bap | § ival to J § tist, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, | i ' Roinan Catholic and Unitarian church- | es,” says the statement issued by the| committee, “are particularly affected, | of Mexico Encourages MEXICO CITY, April 6.—Treaties amity and commerce between Mexi- | it is alleged,” by the Roumanian ter-|co and Great Britain, France, Ger~ ror. AT THE NEWSSTANDS European Commerce ne reaties, it was announced at the foreign office toda Mexican consul and commercial at taches in Europe will meet soon at Geneva to work out a plan to increase commerce between Mexico and Eur- ope, thereby diminishing the trade ex- isting between this republic and the United States, Seven men have been executed in the Guadelajara graveyard, after hav. ing been convicted of the murder ot Edgar Wilkins, American citizen ot Savannah, Ga. U, §, Bankers Aid Fascisti, States Htalian Liberal WASHINGTON (FP).—American bankers who are lending hundreds of millions of dollars to fascist institu- tions and faseist business men Italy, and the To government in Britain, stand as ers to the lib- eration of the Italian people, said Professor Gaetano Salvemini, former professor in the Universi of , in a lecture on fascism, in Floren Yashington. Salvemini charged that Mussolini’s economic reports are distorted to meet the needs of argument, and that in fact Italy has suffered during the past four years a distinct slackening ! of the pace at which she was re- covering—before the march of the Black Shirts on Rome—from the economic disaster of the world war. Loot and murder go unreproved and are often the road to honors in Mus- solini’s regime, he reminded his audience, He named five of his friends in parliament who had been murdered in cold blood, the list be- ginning with Matteoti and Amendola. Resolutions offered by Jas. Egan. editor of the A. F. of L, News Serv- ice, were adopted. They declared | that fascist organizations are at | work in this country to prevent the |natufalization of Italian workers in America; demanded that steps taken by the government to stop this hostile activity, expressed sympathy for the Italian people’s struggle to regain freedom, and declared there can be no compromise of democracy jwith fascist tyranny. He gave repeated and definite warning that the [talian nation, when it throws off fascist despotism, will {not pay any of the debts contracted iby the fascist regime. U. S. BIRDS OF PREY; MARINE CORPS AVIATORS MAY BE USED TO DESTROY CHINESE CITIES United States marine corps’ aviators sent to China are, left to right: Lieutenants C, C, Jerome and W. C, Wallace, Major F. T. Evans, in command; Lieutenants P. B ¢ nery Sergeant C. V. Fritie rad and T. N. White, and Gun- in} be |. It will make | ¢ good this warning, he said, because! |many, Belgium, Denmark and Hol- | foreign capital, and chiefly American |+ land, which expired March 31, have capital, is being poured into the scale |been extended 10 months to enable to lengthen the period of national )the interested powers to negotiate slavery. Striking Printers 3 Silence Imperialist Papers in Hankow HANKOW, April 6 The ur rinters of Hankow have sil reptile press in th publications ago and have not of the s' e to work on ng the most on the Chinese \ » foul li- such al dents as the vicious Frederick Moore, reports of whose at- tacks in the New York Times have just reached here. The foreign communities under the domination of imperialist chambers of commerce, protesting loudly against this action of the strikers They are being properly answered by the organ of ation forces, the Peopke’s Tribun h has beer vived after suppre y the forces of Chang Tso-Lin, and daily prints the facts vegarding the development of the revolution. are re lil re Assails Imperialists. The Tribune expresses the attitude of the Nationalists in the following | statement which appeared in yester- day’s edition: “China is at war. the Berlin, London ~ | abusive ¢| Hartford R. R Coolidge Vetoes Bill Creating Referendum On Philippine Freedom Fili- re- WASHINGTON, April 6 for independence eived a blow today esident Coolidg y pas pino hopes V the by the Philip- ig for a ref- of in se tion . Those inclined action of the of the so-called unfair inex- ners, siness, peech, are ver the days of the > paper printing such t a government ten years a matter of manners against certain 1 is justifiable as of war. been print- it China in China know that if they had printed such | attacks in any western land where they were aliens they would have been told in no g to leave the in the ago could ‘There i in time Those who for yes | ing violent e ter *| country to which they had mistakenly been welcomed. “The r con 2 China cannot much uch offenses. Their s ended in Hankow and is rapidly ng its end in every city of the land.” aliens More For Freighthandlers. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (FP).—Five cents an hour more to all freight em- | ployes on its system is being granted by the New York, New Haven and The increase follows advances by otker eastern railroads. 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