The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1927, Page 6

“Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 Foreign Trade A Survey of The Foreign Trade of The Centrosoyuz in 1925-1926. The Centro on its foreign trade du through its rep: The only exception was, as in pre- vious , the export of grain, which on carried on through the Exportkhleb. turnover of the Cen- 26 amounted re the turn- aver of this year with that of the pre- yer we 1 present here figures: in 5 the turn- mounted to £ 95, and in £5,064,742. The turnover of vious 26 cons of imports to the value of £3. 25 the figure was ports to the (192 and e value of 3). es, the comy son of 1925-6 with 1924-25 show reduction in the exports and an in- ¢erease in the imports. The increase in imports may be ex- plained by the cl: cation of im- ports on the part of t 25 into the so-called “ord ni traordinary” commodities of con- sumption; the decrease in exports may be e ined by the change in the price exported goods both within the . R. and abroad. The Cer 1925-26, the Textiles to Tea Household goods Rice Haberdashery Dried fruits Leather Live st and s Office Fishing nets Yarn Miscellaneous During the soyuz exported following: Furs to the value of £1, Flax " Eggs Caviare and fis Rags Butter Cocoons Miscellaneous 15 fi The principle item of export, as the figures show, was that of fur. Primarily, Siberian, Ural and Far Eastern furs are being exported and sold on three different markets, They are: New York (the United States in general) insofar as the United States is the principal buyer of furs in general (due to better economic condit existing there than in T e¢) and the common quality of Russian furs—squirrel in particular. The second market for furs is Lon- don, which buys partly for home con- sumption and partly for re-exports; most of the sales there are affected through the London fur auction sales. The third market—which has re- cently revealed a tendency of increas- ing its strength—is the Leipzig fair in Germany, which lost its signifi- cance as a result of the general econ- omic decline of the country, and is now regaining it. Fur sales on other foreign mar are insignificant. purchased, mmod : f £918,693 648,717 350,116 418,410 in an > r ne value ig 46,906 and sold aboard the 110, 593 45% of the exported furs were dis- | y' point out of Centrosoyuz { w to dispel the wrong im- |pression about the unfavorable trade balance of *the Centrosoyuz, we m that the Centre through the x the yalue it follows Ceni ported, rain to of £2,306,778. From this the that the export to of amounted plus and 309 As the figur has a favorabl We shall now briefly give an out- | line of the strength of the Centrosyuz on the markets of the various coun- tries, The London branch undoubte lly 2 ) per cent of oes through that office. During the year the London offices sold ex- ported goods to the value of £104,- per cent of the entire ex- d bought to the value of 3 of import goods (17.6 per nt of the entire imports). The Berlin office occupies second re. It sold exported goods to the ue of £205,317 (9 per cent) and bought imported goods to the value of £967,247 (31 per cent of the entire imports). On the whole 21 per cent |of the foreign trade of the Centro- soyuz passed through the Berlin of- fice. Summing up the figures of both offices, it may be stated that 50 per cent of the entire foreign turnover |of the Centrosoyuz passed through the London and Berlin offices. The Shanghai office of the Centro- was organized for the sole of purch ng tea, as has been stated above; per cent of the tea purchased Jast year was bougnt in Shanghai (Hankow). Besides tea (to the value of £627,022), fats oceupies first purchased in Shanghai to the value! of £12,919 to meet the requirement of the Centrosoyuz on the Shanghai of the Centrosoyuz cn the Shanghai me t equals 11.7 per cent of its foreign trade. The Riga, Reval and Harbin offices have been organized chiefly as ¢ {sit stations—Reval and Riga shipped the exported goods of the Centr | soyuz to Western Europe (a1 the \imported goods from Western Europe to the U.S.S.R.); Harbin ships the Siberian and Far’ Eastern furs to America, where our furs are being sold on the New York Market. The } Harbin office, apart from shipping }furs and buying live stock as meat for the Far East, of which we spoke before, is also supplying the Mon- golian co-operatives with commodities from the Chinese market. | The strength of all these offices in | the general trade turnover is insig- |nifieant (their strength lies pri- | marily in their transit and storing | operations); it amounts to: in Riga, 3.1 per cent, Reval 0.1 per cent and |Harbin 1.8 per cent of the entire foreign trade. | The New York Office occupies third place in the foreign trade of the |Centrosoyuz. Exported goods sold | through the New York office amoun- lted to £687,867 (furs and flax pri- i and purchased import goods | to the value of £90,357. | The entire turnover of the New of the Cen- | all foreign trade | posed of on the New York market, | York office comprises 14.1 per rent 47% on the London market and 7.5% {Of the general foreign turnover of in Leipsig. | the Centrosoyuz. Flax is the second large export] The Paris office sold export goods item of | to the value of £226,658 and purchased Centrosoyuz. eat limport goods to the value of £261,- wae ule ‘- ave 952 (textiles, haberdashery), its Doanes, ek thee q| Strength being 8.9 per cent of the en- States s in which the| tire foreign trade. West an American flax inally, there is the office in industry is concentrated. Pe It purchases rice and dried | Apart from that, small parties of | fruits on the Persian market. On the flax were sold in a and Esthonia,| Whole the purchases on the Persian not for their own industries, but for|market amounted to £504,122; the jsales of export goods consisted of sugar and textiles (£55,789). The the various|turnover of the Persian office 35 per cent,;@mounted to 10.2 per cent of the ork, 21 per! general turnover of the Centrosoyuz per cent of the} on the foreign markets. | In this survey of the export and import activities of the Centrosoyuz, |the business rélations of the latter with the foreign co-operatives have not been pointed out. In the next (the purchas shipped at once to | issue of this Bulletin, a survey will those markets) as the Baltic coun-|be given of the relations of the tries do not consume any imported | Centrosoyuz with the co-operatives eggs. ‘abroad. ‘NICARAGUA The Nicaraguan Liberals were fightin’ for their land Against a damn Conservative and cut-throat pirate band When Uncle Sam decided he had better have a hand Decidin’ who would serve his interests well. re-export to the Belgium and Ger- man markets, The specific gravity of flax markets is Paris 30 per cent and Ber! Centrosoyuz rt Eggs were sold primarily in Great Britain and Germany. The eggs that were sold in Riga were actually de- livered to Germany and Great Britain He sent a fleet of warships and an admiral or two To see that things came out as Sammy thought they ought to do, And to the damn Conservatives he sold a mighty slew Of guns and ammunition to raise hell. He heiped the damn Conservatives to win the bloody fight, And his marines were sent from every station day and night To overawe the Liberals afightin’ for the right— And Coolidge said we weren’t makin’ war. Then Sammy told the Liberals that if they didn’t mend Their ways and stop afightin’ he would very quickly send Marines enough to bring their little army to an end— And that, you know, is what marines are for. Three thousand bold marines were sent ashore to act as “cop”. The Liberals’ brave leader told his soldiers then to stop— And so the war was ended with your Uncle Sam on top! —HENRY REICH, JR. In the city of mills, when workers struck found arrayed against them the local press, the CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT IN THE U.S. A. | —Drawn by Wm. Gropper. for a little more than a starvation wage, they churches and police department. Analysis of the order to properly gauge the results and the effects { of the election in the city of Passaic we must get a | | good picture of its inhabitants, the various races that | | live there and the different strata of the population that | play a part in the city life. The great textile strike of last year brought Passaic to the forefront as a town | where the movement to start a campaign to organize the | unorganized would originate from. Since the end of the | | strike and the textile workers have taken upon them- |selves to the job of building up the union, an election | ‘campaign has come and gone. Once again the search- | lights of publicity and public interest thruout’the nation | | have been centered on Passaic. Why is Passaic so im- |portant to the Labor Movement and why is it of great | | value for the Communist Party to get a correct picture | | of the background of Passaic and its influence in organ- | |izing the textile workers and in the election campaign | that just ended? i * * * | | Passaic has a population of approximately 70,000 peo- | ple. The dominant industry is textiles. Sprinkled with | | it are the rubber plants, print Shops, needle trades, build- |ing trades and other isolated trades. Out of the entire | Population of the city over 18,000 registered to cast their ballot on May 109th. And almost 16,500 voted on election |day. This is truly a remarkable record for any city ia |the U. S. One out of every four people in the city used | their franchise as citizens. When we consider the fact | that one out of every four textile workers is permitted {to vote because the others are nct citizens and are for- eign born workers, then the vote cast is all the more remarkable. If we analyze the strata of the population we find that it is composed of many nationalities inelud- jing, the Hungarians, Italians, Russians, Poles, Slavs, | Lithuanians, Jews, Negroes, etc. The Germans and the | American born also represent a big portion of the pop- |ulation. The great mass of the textile workers are dis- franchised. The workers represented in the building trades and the native born population that live in North | Passaic and above Main Ave. by far outnumber the vote of the workers on the Eastside. At one time the vote was divided equally between the population of the East- side and the American population above Main Ave. * * In the May 10th, election every radical, religious, labor and fraternal organization was drawn into the election. | The Comgunists were a dominant factor in the election | thru the slate of Bambach, Smelkinson and Weisbord. | As a matter of fact if their vote was swung to any in- | dividual opposition candidate it would have elected that | candidate. The Labor Ticket conducted an out and out |campaign against Preiskel, McGuire and Go. of the ad- | ministration. The Passaic Trades and Labor Council | organized a Good Government Ass'n to work for the election of Judge Cabell and Captain Turner of the de- | tective bureau. The churches entered the campaign thru |the Ministers’ Ass’n, who organized an investigation | against the gambling houses and the saloons of the city | for the purpose of blacklisting and making political | propaganda against Abram Preiskel, the czar of the. Po- |lice Department. The Slovak Society entered the race | thru the candidacy of Vanacek and Rubacky who received -the endorsement of many Polish and Slovak societies ‘in Passaic. The Jewish section of the city were drawn ‘into the campaign thru Preiskel’s henchmen who brought in the racial issues. The textile strike and industry | were brought into the campaign by the running of Bam- bach and Weisbord for commissioner. So we can readily | see that bosses and their henchmen or tools did not leave a stone unturned to get out the vote and elect their can- didates, As a matter of record the Botany Mills had a * tration. * What is interesting to the progressives and Commun- ists is the fact that the entrance of Albert Weisbord into the cdmpaign was taken seriously. The local political machines and organizations interested in beating Preis- kel, the labor hater, maneuvered many times during the |eampaign for Weisbord’s support. They sent messen- gers to ask him to appear at their rallies. Of course due to hostility of the local politicians and bureaucrats of the Passaic Trades and Labor Council who were work- ing for Cabell and Turner, Weisbord was prevented from getting the endorsement of himself and his running |mates. They also prevented him from speaking to the Good Government Association they organized. However, ‘due to the pressure of the U, T. W. officials, the local textile workers could not endorse and work for the elec- tion of the Labor Candidates, In spite of all this sabo- tage and boycott of the Labor Candidates because they were compelled to run and conduct their campaign straight Communist Campaign, they drew the largest crowds and enthusiasm. Wherever they spoke at other rallies of candidates they were received well. Whether * . é | took the pains to inform its readers that if they approve | of Communism and the doctrines that the Labor Can- | ducted an active campaign, and the politicians, hundred | | bombs, clubbings and strike breaking. | cumstahces this was a very creditable showing. While | vote of the Labor Candidates was so small in comparison, | helped many people in deciding to vote for the opposi- | candidate, Lyons; plus all the others of the old adminis- |. Passaic Election the meetings were held in North Passaic or the Eastside it made no difference. The Daily News carried an edi- torial on the front page ‘about the Walsh Act, and also didates stood for they should vote for them. Thus we | can see that due to the fact that the labor candidates | were a factor in the election and also because they con- | per centers, churches and clergymen, and newspapers | took the pains to inform their clientele that Weisbord ! ete. were Communists and too dangerous to be put in office, when even a child who went to a labor rally | could have seen and understood what the Communists wanted. The issue was plain: either a Workers’ Gov- rmment or a Bosses’ Government representing gas * * * Weisbord polled over a 1,000 votes. His running mates Bambach and Smelkinson around 400, Under the cir- the campaign committee expected a little higher vote they were not disappointed. When taken into considera- tion that all of the population excluding Preiskel’s lick- spittles and suckers who worked for his election were out to beat. Preiskel. then we can understand why the The Communist candidates also had to contend with the psychology that the average voter likes to pick a winner. This fact, coupled with the intensity to beat Preiskel, tion candidates against the machine of Preiskel and Co. When we also consider that all the institutions of the city were lined up against the Labor Candidates and using their power against their getting a small vote and electing reliable (?) business men into office we can visualize the situation from/a better angle. With all these handicaps plus inexperience, lack of forces to con- duct the campaign on the part of the Communists, the results were creditable and effective. Thousands of pieces of literature were distributed. DAILY WORKERS | were delivered to every voter. The entire working class of the city came out to hear and register their approval of the Labor Candidates despite systematic sabotage by the police and city authorities, hall keepers and labor traitors. They came to listen to the message of the La- bor Party. They came to register their approval of the labor campaign. * * * In conclusion the workers learned the necessity of participating in the elections, of becoming citizens, of preparing for the trickery of the politicians (stealing of votes), of building up a powerful political organization for the Labor Party and the necessity of building up their unions and organizations. It is not beyond pre- diction to state that from Passaic and its textile work- ers will come the material to build a powerful Labor Party in New Jersey and from the same source will come the missionaries who will undertake the job of organizing the labor party and the unorganized workers thruout the state. The young workers who were steeled in the great textile strike of 1926 and schooled in the campaign of 1927 bear promise of accomplishing great deeds for the labor movement of state and nation. Time will carve its achievements on the pages of history in New Jersey and in the city of Passaic. Keep your eyes on this small but remarkable textile city, \as advertised by Pease & Elliman, Inc.: |an extremely one-sided, highly biased, ——mee BY EUGENE LYONS SOLVING THE HOUSING PROBLEM.—The housing problem evidently has been grossly exaggerated. A reader of The DAILY WORKER calls at- tention to the real estate advertising sections, which carry ample proof that apartments are not hard to get. Here, for example, is a list of available flats with all modern improvements at a pretty good address on Park Avenue, 9 ROOM DUPLEX.. 10 ROOM DUPLEX 11 ROOM DUPLEX + 45,000 to 76,000 13 ROOM DUPLEX.. Pty +. 69,000 to 90,000 12 TO 16 ROOM ROOF GARDEN TRIPLEX 78,000 to 118,000 5 TO 9 ROOM MAISONETTES 20,000 to 36,000 - -$25,000 to $48,000 + 87,000 to 55,000 The Logic of Liberals.—On the editorial page of the New York Times for August 29, 1925, there appeared a two-column ar- ticle under the caption “Bolshevism in This Country.” It was the kind of squib that would—and did—please Easley of the Civic Federation. Easley couldn’t do much better himself, except that he might have made more effective use of his favorite cuss words. The article gave the inside and the low-down on the damn Com- munists, see? Typical “expose” dope, recounting episodes in the underground period of Communist activities, citing the amounts of gold allegedly received from Moscow, revealing the identity of Communists using pseudonyms, etc. None of that was surprising. It was exactly the kind of dope the Times would buy. The author, being an old hand at free-lance writing, knows his customers. His name is Benjamin Stolberg. If any doubt remained that Stolberg does know his customers it has just been dispelled. Despite his notorious dislike of Com- munists—despite the rancor which he has borne against them for the things they said about this indefensible stunt in the Times— he managed to “sell himself” to The Nation as an “impartial” authority on the needle trades conflict. The result, naturally, is partisan series continuing the “revelations” started in the Times. Stolberg, we understand, considers the Times performance a “mistake.” We prophesy that two years from now he will be ready to consider the Nation performance a “mistake” and busily engaged making a similar one. ~ Success Pointers—Alexander Kerensky is writing a series of articles for the New York “Times.” Nobody believes in Kerensky any longer, it seems, except the “Times” and the American socialists, The articles though should be useful reading for ambitious men, They reveal the secret of true leadership. All you need do to get famous, it appears from this account, is. to station yourself where things are happening, close your eyes, open your mouth, and wait. . That’s about all he did, and presto! he was head of Russia before he was aware of it. Folks came running to get his autograph before he knew that it was worth anything. In sober fact, he was surprised, astonished. He signed and gave orders with a bewildered smile. Not until later did he realize that he had been the Lord’s anointed all these years: a man of destiny. But come to think of it, what’s the good of a destiny which leads but to Abe Cahan and Matthew Woll? What price glory, if it leads but to a banquet under auspices of the right-wing cutters’ local? DUMB BELLES-LETTRES. Dear Lester: Well, honey-boy, here I am again writing to you and awful sorry to delay so long. Fact is I haven’t been feeling so extra and didn’t get much chance to read the papers for you, and am now trying to catch up. But as I think you must be perfectly starved for news I'll do what I can to let you know. So first of all there is a lot in the papers about a fellow Sacco- Vanzetti who got arrested for being an anarchist but when they searched him they found he committed a couple of murders and ran away to Mexiao to dodge the draft. Now everybody’s raising a howl about it, though I can’t see why anarchists shouldn’t burn. Fact the only one that won’t protest is Ramsay Macdonald, which reminds me that the English Parliament is trying to pass a law making general strikes illegal, but my brother Percy who’s an awful kidder says that’ one good general strike would make Parliament illegal, which would be turning the tables, don’t you think. Also you will be glad to know that Hoover is trying to stop the floods in the South, and he has already taken some awful nice pictures of himself in all kinds of postures. What with floods and tornadoes and aviators that get lost there’s going to be a big drop in population soon. Another thing is that peace has been declared in Nicaragua and a few shiploads more marines were sent over to celebrate the fact, and anyhow there’s still a lot of fighting in Mexico and China, In the latter of which there seems to be more reds than yellows, like in Russia, I don’t recall if I told you last time that Uncle Thomas at last got his divorce from Sally, which reminds me that Mrs. Snyder got found guilty with her paramour and they will both burn. All the pa- pers say disappointed-like that they bungled that murder anyhow. Another fellow in New Jersey by the name of Van Sickle also got found guilty for killing a lady’s husband with her assistance. Another by the name of Kelly is being tried for similar crime in Hollywood. As Perey Says, romance aint dead yet. But a lot of husbands is, says I. But he isn’t serious of course. It seems a pity,though what ladies , Will do nowadays and how men don’t hesitate any more to find them guilty, not that they don’t deserve it. Which all goes to show, doesn’t it? Another thing is that there seems to be a mine strike though no- body hears about it much, on account of the leaders keeping it a secret. Also a lot of oil men held a mass meeting in New York to decide what to do with the extra oil which it seems there is too much of. Though if there’s top much I don’t see why they kick so much because they think Mexico will take some oil mines away, do you? One piece in the papers said that the British are trying to capture a lot of oil 4 lands in Persia and Turkey and such places. So why not give them some of the surplus here, only maybe the big boys at the mass meet- ing didn’t see that piece. So long honeyboy, and don’t be mad at me for not writing so: . I really wasn’t feeling extra and besides somehow couldn’t get myself to write. Percy says that with my diction and everything I should take up reporting or literachoor for a living or something but I don’t think it’s a ladylike profession. Tell me what you think of the idea. So long and be good. Lovingly yrs, MYRTLE. From Rome comes the news that the Mussolini regime h ORDERED a VOLUNTARY wage reduction for all workers. * It may tax your credujity, but happens to be true: we have just run into a man who had not yet heard about Mrs. Snyder, and he has been leading a normal working life in New York. i pt vi i * The London police have raided the Arcos House, headquar- ters of the Soviet Union Trade Delegation. Before long we may hear the startling news that the delegation has been in communi- cation with Moscow. It may even have received some Moscow gold. Res The New Leader gives first place in its current issue to a review of Norman Hapgood’s “Professional Patriots.” In a pre- vious issue the same subject is touched upon by Norman Thomas in his own column. In both cases the portions of Hapgood’s book _ dealing with the National Civic Federation are studiously avoided or slurred over. We wonder why. Maybe the fact that St. Matthew Woll is acting chairman of the outfit of super-patriots has something to do with it. * :