The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1927, Page 3

* New Criminal Code, , these foreign materials has been re- N January 1, 1927, a new criminal| Vealed. Laboratory treatment of the code entered into effect in the Rus- | “badan” foot has yielded a dry, chem- sian Sociajist Federated Soviet Re-, i¢ally pure tanning extract. The So- public (R.S.F.S.R.). ‘This code intro- Viet Leather Syndicate has acquired duces a number of changes into the 4 large supply of “badan” for the judicial procedure that has hitherto | Preparation of this new dry extract, | prevailed, | which it will use for tanning hides at | Special importance attaches to) its plants in Moscow and Taganrog. | Article 6 of the new code, which pro-; The “badan” plant grows will and | vides that no criminality is entailed | yields 23 per cent of tannin. The ex- by any act which, although formally, tvaction of tannin from the “badan” appearing to come under some artie!2; root available in Eastern Siberia of the criminal code, is divested of alone would cover the entire tanning | any socially dangerous character hy| material requirements of the Soviet virtue of its triviality and lack of) Union. Moreover, experiments have harmful consequeves. demonstrated the possibility of culti- The penalties have been reduced on) vating this plant jn the European several offenses. Thus, in view of territory of the Union, the fact that the struggle against’ Phe Chief Concessions Committee. bribery has had positive results, it) TH itd! Didkent colpenitt | has been found possible to curtail ve-| nc sag th: taba Pens a 4 sei 5 Fas +. wey | cently confirmed by the Council of pressive measures against this crime! joie : “ : | in the AOW code. pene Conese of the Soviet | In keeping with the general spirit aetae catia hiet hpgeicred td Com- of Soviet criminal jurisprudence the | Mttee consists of the following mem-| iy oh: 4 : sntyy.| bers: Chairman, L. D. Trotsky; Vice code opens with a number of intro-| 7 . "4 eS : aq a. | Chairman, V. N, Ksandrov; Members ductory articles setting forth the re-| . a 3 ia U * =: ‘ Napa |B. 8. Stomoniakov, K. I. Knopinsky, troactive force of the new criminal | 'y A. Joffe, M. S. Reichel iM. 1 code. -In eases in which the con-| Sy obelev. Sera pate ai ech demned was sentenced to a punish>) ~ seg ibs went of greater severity than the) maximum imposed by the new code Since 1921, for the offense in question, the pen- The number of concession contracts | alty is to be reduced to this revised | concluded by the Soviet Government} maximum, since July, 1921, is 144. Of these 18 Concession Contracts Concluded Interutban Telephone. were concluded between July, 1922, Communication. and the end of 1922, 44 in 1928, 25/ Nearly all the most important] in 1924, 30 in 1925, and 27 in 1926} cities of the Soviet Union—Lenin-| until October 1. grad, Kharkov, Kiev, Novorossiysk,; They were distributed as follows | Archangel, Saratov, Kazan, Odessa,| according to the basic branches of Rostov, Minsk, Smolensk, and others| national economy: —have telephdne line connections with Moscow. Work has been started | Trading 36 on the construction of the Moscow- Timber 6 Tiflis telephone line, which will be Agriculture 10 | one of the longest in the Union and Technical Service | will also make it possible to connect Mining | with Baku, Vladikavkaz, Batum,/| Manufacturing | Grozny and perhaps Frivan. Transport and ..The largest portion (60 per cent); Communication ..... 12 of interurban telephone conversa-| Building . tions with the Moscow central station | Other falls to the share of Leningrad. Last} year telephone conversations between | Total Moscow and Leningrad aggregated | about 1,000,000 speaking minutes, as} As regards the nationality of the compared with 324,000 minutes for} concessionaires, Germany stands first the year 1913. ‘with 40 concessions; next comes} The telephone system of Moscow England with 22, the United States) Province was recently completed and! with 15, and France with 5. The re- now all the Township Central Exec-| maining 62 concessions are distribu- utive Committees, factories and mills! ted among various nationalities. {Southern revolutionary armies, hav-| |subordinated to the national revolu-| tact that to them belongs the leading | tion that equals that of the Soviet! | Union. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1927 NEW IRON BATTALIONS OF REVOLUTION Military review in the Red Square, Moscow, before Tomb of Lenin and martyrs of world revolution. In the foreground are new recruits mobilized in reply to provocative attacks against the Soviet Union. Pen pros- titutes like Ernest Marshall, New York Times correspondent in London, write that Russia should be exter- minated because of the execution of the hirelings of imperialism and czarist conspirators: Let the war-mongers and their hirelings contemplate their chances against the workers and peasants of Red Russia. And if the soldiers of the Red Army need more defenders against the Marshalls and their like there are thousands of American workers that will fight for them. ~The Chinese Labor Movement. By L. HELLER. been almost completely destroyed, or Role of Proletariat and Peasantry | that had seriously suffered, began to} in National Movement for Freedom, |¢stablish and strengthen themselves China is once again the center of | 484/n- attention. During a few months the| Organizational” Weakness of Labor | , | Movement. | ing advanced beyond the boundaries| It is not surprising therefore that! of the Kwangtung province, have the Chinese workers, despite they tiondty administration of the Kuo-| idle in the revolutionary, movement, | : 4 havi on stron? mintang, a territory with a popula-| ave becn unable to create stone | unions in an organizational sense. The same proletariat ich has been) able and today is dealing such pow- ; rl tee erful blows against the English, Jap-} sider the victorious advances of the} snese and Ameticay capitalists,| Southerners on the north, through which has drawn to its support the the central industrial region of China, masses of craftsmen, peasants, radi- only from a military point of view.| ca} intelligentsia and even the trad-| The significance of the movement of | ers and shop-keepers—which formed | It would be a great mistake to con- in the Moscow Province have tele- ek hy : phone connections with the Capital. | The- Af Unwin ‘Congress: Ot jeltledee | Tt is planned to connect the Moscow} sae seaeral CORE TEhe: OL eres interurban telephone station with alt | Vhich convéned in the middle of} the villages in the Moscow Province., APtil was attended by 1,517 dele- All the most modern improvements | S4tés, distributed as follows, accord- fn telephone technology have been| ine to the six constituent republics: applied in the Moscow interurban Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Re- station. Multiple telephone |public (R. S. F. S. R.) 1,032 dele-| ap- * | paratus has been installed, rendeting | gates; Ukrainé, 812 delegates; White; , 55 delegates; Transcaucasian | it possible to conduct tw sa. | ves simulteneously over a. sinele| Soviet Federation, 63, the Uzbek Re- tions simultaneously over a_ single wire. In addition to its regular|PUblic, 46, and the Turkoman Re- public, 9 delegates. operations, the Moscow central sta- tion transmits radio programs to Participation of Women in various cities of the Soviet Union. Soviet Elections. Books and Newspapers in 36 Data concerning elections in 80 Languages. | provincial cities show that 69.1 per Satta /S¢ Publishing | Cent of women members of trade ane poteeSortrel ia ce ishing | unions took part in the elections, | roy A . tha | While the corresponding percentage | periodical and other literature for the} of ine obganized i trade pnions was various small nationalities in the 7 tte West and East of the Soviet Union.| OMY 672. As regards the partici.) Books are published in 36 Janguages. | EOL Se Nomen Aa Sevan ace a During the fiscal year 1925-26 more ® SHORT ONE Growen ts 1 De Mave | than 1,000,000 copies of primers alone; i - sores of the last four zeae. | eae tarde oat: n 1929 24 the average number of | Educational. work among thé ja- women in the city Soviets constitu- | tional minorities has been consider- fa Ltd rile yar eee ably facilitated as a result of the yoamer ss Tacomas ie vrata aouenanns | partial adoption of the Latin alphabet ie 80. slab 4g lee a | * by the peoples of Islamic culture. ee ee ee ue | At tha present. time about. 40: per tage of women elected to city Soviets | . : 66.9" mt cent of the instruction texts for the ee ae YORE Avner rene FCT creased {0 24.1. national minorities in the Soviet 4 ‘ Union is printed in the Latin alpha- Limitation of the Sale of Alcoholic bet. Beverages, The Council of People’s Commis- sars of Soviet Russia proper (R.S.F.| _S. R.) has adopted a decision author- Daily and weekly papers in the Ta- g all of its administrative sub- tar, Lettish, Mordvinian, German and/ divisions to prohibit the sale of al- Chuvash languages are also pub-|cohofie beverages on holidays and shed, the total annual issue amount-! after business hours, also in some} ing to about 2,500,000 copies. localities to forbid the sale of these | Monthly magazines are printed in’ drinks on the eve of holidays. This During the fiscal year 1925-26 ai large amount of agricultural litera- ture was issued. the Chuvash, Mari, Tatar, Polish, decision applies to all alcoholic} German atid Yiddish tongues. ‘beverages except beer and light) wines, Expenditures for Poblic Edveation in the U.S. S. R The expenditures for public educa-) tion in the Soviet Union are covered by appropriations from the budgets Standard Oj! Constructs Kerosene Plant in Batum. Equipment of a kerosene treating | plant, to be constructed by, the Stan-! the Southern armies is that new fact| the greatest political power in the: in the history of China that the) country, was childishly weak in or- growing movement is being carried | ganization. The waves of enthusiasm out on the shoulders of the workers} were far too short, being replaced by and peasants. Just in this lies the}comparatively long periods of reac- anti-militarist and revolutionary sig-| tion; the fight was too heavy; it was nifieance of the imposing events now | the working class that had to bear taking place in China, And this is! the brunt of the political fight. The} well understood by the imperialists | Working class was not only the insti-| themselves. jgator, not only the guide, but also| 2 the chief participater in the struggle. | Workers Drive On. Despite the debauch of reaction, The working class, small numeri-; the destruction of the majority of| SACCO and VANZETTI ally and weakly organized, has never-/ labor organizations after the Shan-, tonishing pages in the history of the | ment in the industrial regions under | last five years of the nationalist rev-|the control of international imperial-| olutionary movement. It is sufficient | ism and the Northern military) to remember the heroic strike of the | @Toups, did not weaken for long. Al-| Hongkong sailors, which fundament- | Teady in February and March 1926 | ally roused the whole of China— | pate een sina Mea spring 1922—the' strike of the Chi-| /laving reached great strength dur-| ae viiiwaynien. (Hebehury 1923), | ins the period June-September, the! sean ee > rl totel movement -broke out in mass strikes | general strike in Shamin, (foreign | ;, Shanghai, and spread by the end of quarter of Canton, in July, 1924, the | the year from those provinces freed events in Shanghai in the summer of | ¢,974 reactionary militarists by the 1925, and finally the last Hongkong | Canton armies to the regions of Ut- strike, which lasted 16 months (June chan-Hankow, where in November a 1925-Sept. 1926), to testify to the. general strike of all Chinese workers truth of these words. These| engaged in foreign concessions and. strikes, like nothing else, moved the| enterprises was called. It must be. whole of Chinese public opinion, drew understood that the conditions of the the attention not only of the many| strike movement in the territory held millioned masses of the poorer class-| by the Nationalist Government are | es in the towns, but gradually #ath-| totally different from that of Shan- ered strength among the most pro-| ghai and other regions occupied hy) letarianized strata of the peasantry.) the counter-revolutionary generals. Strikes Always Political. The strike movement of 1926 is Events have so happened in China, | characterized by an almost continual | that every more or less significant} wave of small and average strikes.| economic strike in the foreign enter-|In Shanghai alone during the first) prises unavoidably became anti-mili- | ten months of last year, 164 disputes | tarist, and, with this, became politi-| were registered. 204,109 workers, cal in character, on the other hand,| took part in these disputes. } every sharpening of the fight with) The disputes were distributed over imperialism led and, leads to a widen-| the following months: ! ing of the strike movement, which is | No. of lost | the fagtbr that gives the scope, the! working-days | force and the revolutionary signifi-| January 18,675 cance to the anti-militarist move-| Februai ment. That the peasants have been) March brought into the national revolution-| April . of the si viet Russia proper, in abbreviation Transcaucasia, the Uzbek Republic ‘wd the Turkoman Republic), called) epublican budgets,” and from the 1 budgets of their administrative livisions. (The ‘republican bud- jointly with the federal budget, » Soviet Union.) ble below, the expenditures for ion, both in the republican and oudgets, have been growing con- asly during the last three fiscal’ oH sublican and Local Appropriations in Millions of Roubles "24-25 25-26 '26-27 publican budget..122.1 174.0 204.5 Seal budgets 229.9 294.8 411.4 Total 2.0 468.8 615.9 constituent republics (So-| RSFSR, the Ukraine, White Russia, | As is shown in) dard Oi! Company of New York, has! ary movement, that peasant organi- been received at Batuth, one of the | zations haye been set up in many principal oil ports of the Soviet; provinces bespeaks the great advance Union on the Black Sea. The capacity | made in the development of the Chi- of the plant will be upwards of 150,-' nese revolution. 000 long tons of kerosene per year, The plant is to be bulit in cdnneé-| , tion with a contract signed in London the Lakor Movement. | December 21 last between the Stan- The labor and trade union move- dard Oil Company of New York and! ment in China, more than anywhere the Soviet Oil Syndiente whereby the else, ts vi closely connected with Standard will purchase vp to 500,000) pecent military-political ‘long tons of kerosene in three years.’ Mach time, when the revolution was The contract provides that the! forced to temporarily retreat before Standard is to build the plant and the militar: perialist reaction— ‘immediately turn it over to the So-!as was observed in the beginning cf viet Oil Syndicat®, with the proviso, 1923, at the end of 1925 and carly in ;that the Standard is to operate it wn) 1926-—the labor movement experi- |der lease for thfee years, with an/ enced the ruthless pressure and bit- joption for renewal for another three | terest persecution of the reactionar- _ years, ‘ies. In 1928, for instance, the work- } ‘ers’ movement—-not only _ political | | organizations but Trade Union or- Events on the Develépment of Kili Two Kein Case Defendants. events. | New Source of Tanning Extract | JOLT, Ils. June 13—Two of Found in U.S. S. R. five convicts were killed and one es- The Soviet hide and leather in-|caped in a sensational break for lib- dustry requires considerable quan-| erty from the Will County jail where tities of danning materials, about 70/ they were awaiting a new trial ae per cent of which are imported at a|the murder of Deputy Warden Peter cost of some 10,000,000 rubles a year./ Klein at Stateville penitentiary last Recently the possibility of substitu-|year. The millionaire murderer ting tanning substance extracted | Leopold, was oo ag of planning from the Siberian “badan” root for! the killing of Klein, ganizations too—-was foreed under- ground almost -for two years, The unions and federations that had just heen formed, that had not been able to organize or to strength- en themselves, almost disappeared. With the favorable turn of events in the political situation at the end of 1924 and in the second half of the May, 72,97 June 204,728 | | July 217,361 August 439,866 September 645,099 | ‘The Influence of the Was—Political| October 185,862, | World Tourists; 500 | ie i Sail on July 14 A tourist concession permitting 500 Americans to travel this summer and study social and eultural conditions in Soviet Union has been granted by the Soviet government to the World Tourists, Inc., 41 Union Square. } A party will sail on the steamer “Gripsohlm” of the Swedish Ameri- can line on July 14th direct to Len- ingrad. In the Soviet Russia the tourists will be under the guidance: of the U. S. 8, R. Society for Cultural | Relations. ‘They will furnish the tourists with interpreters and guides who will escort the visitors to all the dublic institutions, to theatres, cine- mas and to all points of interest in} past year, organizations whi¢h had|and near Moscow and Leningrad. Latimer, Who Helped to “Conquer” Nicaragua, Is Soon to be Minus Job WASHINGTO. June 13.—Ad- miral Julian Latimer, who com- manded U. S. marines in crushing Nicaragua, is to be relieved from his post, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur announced yesterday. No reason is given by the of- ficial, but it is understood that Latimer is being “Tet down” be- cause of the wasteful methods used in the war against the Liberal Con- stitutional government and the dis- arming of its troops in order t make certain the control of Diaz, the tool of Wall Street. Advices from Nicaragua report that the “pacification” process ‘is by no means complete, new revolts having broken out. The city of Telpaleca has been captured by Gen, Sandino, it has just become known. |theless written some of the most as-| ghai events of 1925, the strike move-| SH ALL NOT D J E | LINDBERGH ONLY CIVILIAN TOUCH | IN ARMY PARADE STAGED FOR HIM (Continued from Page One) Thousands of novelty hawkers min- pare ao torn bits of waste paper, the; gle in the crowds selling “Lindy” street is littered with it. Girls pret-| buttons, flags, posteards, miniature | tily wave their handkerchiefs. Throughout the line: of | At Twenty-second street a woman ruiting posters are © ¢on- is pushed from her position the spicuously display “Lindy was an }curb into the street-—a policeman sees army man.” army trained |her and jabs her back into line wv join the end of his night-stick, She fervent of militari$th lout an agonized seream, The boy t proper pitch jare marching and patriotism a any olored soldiers | patriotism. 1 by, the che ided for | Patriotic Socony. a moment until a company of white Fifteen minutes, half an hour—one sailor ing into line , | hour, and still they come. Row of ‘swel- jrow of soldiers, battalion after } tering hove into talion. Not a sight of the civilian) sight wonders—there who flew, in a delightful spirit of stood Ch idbergh nodding boyish courage, for thirty-three hours his head answer to the thundering {across the Atlantic. acclamati f the mob. | One band had inscribed on ‘its bass He had ignored the bribe of a com- colonel. He had refused rm of legalized mur- mission to don the w drum “Standard Oil Company of New Jersey”—and why not?—this fs a | patriotic parade. Another blaring band belches forth, “Over There” to remind the cheering | spectators that there are other “¢ |theres” in store for them. | The sun blazes down on a sweat- jing mass of onlookers. The odor is terrifying, the sun is merciless In Battle Array. Overhead dozens of planes der, Without Uniform, He civilian attire, er While millions of people roared and bidding of the howled and did the war-mongers who boy for their sinister ends, this up- right boy re ned aloof and refused to lend approval to this great recruit- ing stunt. circle labove the city in battle formation. He is truly the son of a radical, | At the sight of the low-flying planes anti-war father. In refusing to don | the crowds burst into frenzied cheer-|the uniform Charles A. Jr., gave an- of ¢t other exhibition courage. As usual] the army hogged the show. BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY FACES NEW CRISIS; PROSPECTS FOR STEEL AND IRON ALSO DULL LONDON, June 13.—The Briti jeoal industry, which has brought its joutput up to about 5,000,000 tons per week, is facing a serious decline in export trade, due to the sacrifice of foreign markets during last year’s jeoal strike, and increasing produc- jtion in Germany, France, Belgium and Poland. In 1913, Britain exported 73,000,000 tons of coal, as against a rate of 52,- 000,000 tons per annum at the present time. | It is feared that the glut in the home market, with the consequent fall jin pricés, may mean further wage- cuts, increasing short-time work, and continued strife in the coal fields. |France has added to the general |gloom by placing restrictions on the jimport of British coal. ‘i | The steel and iron indust has | profited somewhat by the downward —— | - | THE WORKERS’ CAMP Camp Nitgedaiget of. Boston Grand Opening June 19, 1927, All information and reservations at Workers’ Bookshop, 32 Leverett St., ing. It will be an easy thing to raise the air appropriations during the next | congress. Lindbergh trend in the price of coal, but selling prices of steel and iron have reached a new low level, and producers are pinning their hopes on the slightly increased activity in the engineering and shipbuilding trades, which, they think, should have a favorable _reac- tion on steel production, Chinese Labor Cables Sympathy to LL.D. in Sacco, Vanzelti Fight CHICAGO, JUNE 13 (FP).—The All-China Labor Federation has cabled the International Labor De~ fense from Shanghai to forward its protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The Chinese federation speaks for 2,500,000 workers, It compares the Sacco sentence with the execution of Chi- nese labor men by the imperialists. ' Patronize Our Advertisers, Boston. Tel. Hay 2271, Directions: Go to Franklin there take Summer ‘amp. NEW YORK - LENINGRAD -MOSCOW The great experiments of the first Work- ers’ Republic—the beauty spots of old Russia, the achievements of young Russia —are waiting for you to visit on a special SIX WEEKS’ TRIP TO RUSSIA starting July 14 By steamer direct to Leningrad; then by rail to Moscow, seeing all nearby places of interest and the sights of both cities. $575 IS THE ENTIRE COST of the tour, including all expenses for steamer and rail fares, meals, rooms, theatre tickets, sight-seeing trips, ete. A RARE OPPORTUNITY Seize it now by writing for further in- formation to the WORLD TOURISTS, Room 803 41 Union Square, New York City STUY. 7251. INC. 4