The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1927, Page 3

eset SSAA MR SER ESTES LEC Y NEOLE LDS EIE ERMINE em Remove 2 Officers From Hall Who Did Not Crush Workers (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 7 Publie curiosity transfer of two commanding officers of the Marine Corps from Haiti be- cause they were too liberal in the treatment of Haitian. workers is caus- ing no end of anxiety in the War Department, Federated Press has learned. Col. Julius S. Turrill, commanding officer of the marines with the rank of brigadier-general and Col. William C. Harllee have been withdrawn from Haiti and ordered to report to the war college while their places have been taken by officers who a ore {m accord with the policy of Brig. John, H, Russell, American high com-| missioner to Haiti. Russell, in effect the dictator of Haiti over President Borno, the puppet ruler put in power by the American state department, has followed a “strong” policy of erushing efforts by Haitian workers to form trade unions and fight for their economic betterment. Fired for Liberalism. Both Turrill and Harllee exercised leniency in carrying out their orde: in charge of Marine Corps activities, to police the Negro republic and pre- serve law and order. Harllee himself was a-delegate to the Cleveland con- vention in 1924 which nominated the late Senator LaFollette for the pres-| idency. The incident, met. at General Lajeune’s office with the court com-| ment that “officers obey orders,” has aroused keen interest among congress- men who have recently visited Haiti. Reports from the island republic in- dicate that the successors of the two officers have followed the Russell pol- icy obsequiously, Plan Hight More Non- Stop Atlantic Flights Eight non-stop trans - Atlantic flights, both from the American and European continents, were in sight today as the fliers, five men and three ‘women, announced plans for the peril- ous crossing. They are: Charles A. Levine, who hopes to ob- tain a French pilot to fly his mono- plane Columbia back from Europe. Lt. Paul Tarascon, who plans to fly in the near future from Paris to Chi- cago, Rene Fonck, who is preparing for a non-stop flight from New York to Paris. Mrs. Grace McClellan, of Austin, Tex., who is making ready for a flight over the route taken by Col. Charles Lindbergh. Lloyd Bertaud, who has agreed to fly from New York to Rome, and re- turn. Mrs. Gladys Roy, who, with Lt. Delmar L. Snyder, is also an entry in the New York to Rome race. Thea Rasche, German girl stunt flier, who plans a “solo” flight across the ocean. Another German, Udet, who hopes to complete the long crossing some time this summer. Several other trans-Atlantic flights are in propect, but their plans have! not yet reached a definite stage. Workers’ Olympic Star Killed. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July 7. —Marie Matejka, 28, of New York, a contestant in the Workers’ Olympic games, was killed today when an automobile overturned. : z (FP). — over the summary, } Bury Ashes of Arthur MacManus in Kremlin | Wall Near Lenin Tomb i (Special Cable te DAILY | WORKER) MOSCOW, July 7—Thousands of workers filled the Kremlin Square yesterday to witness the burial of the ashes of Arthur Mac- Manus, member of the Central Committee of the British Com- munist Party. MacManus’s ashes || were immured in the Kremlin wall near the Lenin Mausoleum. Bukharin and _ representatives of the British Communist Party and the Indian Communist Party were among the speakers. | irst Transeaucasian | Power Station in the Soviet Union Started | TIFLIS, June 26 (By Mail).—The | |Zemo-Avehalsk hydroelectric station | | (ZAGES), the first power station in | Transcaucasia, has started operations. | | The station, whose construction began |in 1922-23, is built on the left bank of | the Kura, 18 kilometers from Tiflis. | Four three-phase alternating cur- lyent turbo-dynamos, 4,000 kilowatt! ,each, have been established at the sta- |tion. The 6,400-volt current generated | by the station is raised to a voltage | | of 37,000 v, and transmitted to Tiflis, | | where it is again decreased to a volt- lage corresponding to the nature of the consumption of electricity. | | The present power capacity of the} | station is 18,000 horsepower, which is| |only one half of the station’s full ca-| pacity, which will be 36,000 HP, The | entire cost of the construction, includ- | ing the line transmitting the electric-| ity, four decreasing substations in the! city and the city high tension network, | amounts to 16 million roubles. | ZAGES supplies electric energy to} |the city of Tiflis and its environs and | jalso serves to electrify the Suram | mountain pass section of the Trans- | caucasian railway. ‘Mexican Labor to Back Morones in Forthcoming Elections, Is the Rumor are ordered to retreat to Manchuria Republics after they were raided Attack on Tr bill in England has served as a sort | of signal for a general attack by the | European capitalists of the trade |unions. The example of democratic | England has been followed by super- | democratic Norway. It goes without | saying that Hindenburg’s, Germany and watch other countries carry off e a a ss j the palm in cutting down the rights MEXICO CITY, July 7.—It is ru- | o¢ the workers’ class organizations. mored, in well-informed circles, that! returned to power if any militarist faction has anything to gain by it. ground. To the lower right, U.S. marines oceupying the legation The reactionary anti-trade union, trade unions strikes are eould not sit by with folded hands | of the capitalist class Upper picture—shops boarded up in expectation of looting by Cheng Tso-lin’s bandit troops when they . Lower left, the “boy emperor” Pu Yi, now deposed, but expecting to be The “boy emperor” is in the left fore- quarters of the Union of Socialist Soviet instigation of Britain and U. Chang Tso-lin’s troops, at the ade Union Rights in Germany failure. The very fact that these de-| conclusion is reached that the yellow cisions have been passed almost} unions might be given the right, on simultaneously in various districts] equal terms with the other trade and aimed at strikes in the textile] unions, to take part in negotiations industry which is at present showing | for Collective Agreements. In com- a very considerable boom, testifies to| menting on this “Expert Opinion” the the systematic nature of the attack! “Kolnische Zeitung,’ the organ of on the in-| heavy industry, writes: ‘““The impor- disputable time-honored rights of the| tance of Kaskell’s Expertise is in- trade unions. One more example will| creased by the fact that both the prove that it is not a matter of isola-| m ry for Labor and the Trade 4 at} The limitation of trade union rights | ted facts, but of a general attack en} Unions have many times recognized the Mexican Labor Party, which will! appeared to Germany the more neces-| principle on the workers’ right by|his authority in matters of Labor doomed to} of the Berlin Professor Kashell, the | hold its convention in September, will enter the lists of ‘the presidential | that he will probably be Luis Mor- ones, Secretary of Industry, Com- jmerce and Labor. The elections are still a year off, |but the various parties are already |girding up their loins for the fight, gun their electioneering campaign. |General Obregon, of the Calles party, who stepped out to make room for |Calles when confronted with the law which forbids the president to serve |for two consecutive terms, hopes now |to keep his party in power by step- | \ping into Calles shoes. He has begun ‘his campaign in the State of Sonora. and at least three candidates have be- | | sary and timely in that the wave of | the capitalists. strikes sweeping over the land is be-| In the beginning of May the great elections with its own candidate, and) ginning to replenish the capitalists’| Communist paper in Chemnitz, “Der ‘all occasions towards the capitalist | after 8 hours continuous work. Such | would be no serious resistance from of Communist Party policy in the | the trade union leaders. struggle for the 8-hour day, are quite Lengthen Hours. normal phenomena. The Chemnitz | The succession of reactionary legis- | Public Prosecutor, however, found it | lative acts directeq against the work-| necessary to institute immediate jing class (acts regarding hours, un- court proceedings against the editor ‘employment insurance, and arbitra- of the paper, on the plea that. the tion courts) already passed have, court sees in such agitation and “irre- however, caused such indignation | sponsible” appeals to strike “criminal among the masses of the workers action.” Thus the Chemnitz Public \that the German capitalists have not) Prosecutor formulated and adopted yet cared to bring a new trade union | the above-mentioned decisions of the takings. The craven spirit of conces-| Kampfer” published an article calling | | sion displayed by the reformists on|on the workers to leave the factories class convinced the latter that there articles, coinciding with the whole | |General Arnulfo Gomez is busy in| bill. Apparently the present co-or-| \Vera Cruz, and General Francisco | dination of class forces will not allow |Serrano’ is opposing Obregon in) of this, and they are forced to resort | | Cuernavaca. | to other means. Without introduc- | | Morons is well known as a tool ing a trade union bill they are. act- \and toady of Wall Street. \ing, with the help of the capitalist; | | courts, as if such a law were actually | | in force. | Report Drew Dying. SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.—The| themselves: It is more than two/ death of John Drew, veteran actor, two months since the breaking out of | only the free, reformist, Christian and|stage, can only be beaten off by is expected within a few hours, ac-|the textile workers’ strike in the} cording to his physician, Dr. Law-| North German Cloth Concern, cover-| rence Hoffman. ~ | Where Will You Be On lof the strike and the endurance of | | the textile workers on strike has al- | ready caused the employers consid-| erable material loss.. Unable to break’ | down the resistance of the workers in’ /an open struggle and unwilling to, satisfy their demands for a shorter| day, the employers applied for assis-| tance to the Hamburg District Court. district Courts, aimed against the Union. Endow Fascist “Unions.” In connection with this undisguised | The revolutionary wing of the work- when Soviet officials are ass: limitation of trade union rights it is of importance to note the attempts of the capitalists to endow the yellow semi-company, semi-fascist “trade wage agreements. Up to the present Hirsch-Bunker (neutrat) trade unions have enjoyed this right. rights. It follows, therefore, that the Minority for Labor cannot affordsto | ignore this Expertise.’ The capital- ist press is making propaganda for | Kaskell’s “Expertise.” Yellow Company Unions. The acknowledgement of the yel- | low trades unions’ rights to conclude | wage agreements is pregnant with | many dangers for the working class. |In the yellow unions the employers {will have their own hirelings acting ‘for them in concluding wage agree- | Poland Won't Reply to USSR Protest on Trial of Voikoff’s Murderer | WARSAW, 1.—t to reports received here, M. oniakov will be appointed a iet minister to Pola Peter Vo f, who w by a Russian white g¢ Poland will the note of the testing against the tri ceda, murderer of Voik ceda was given an extremely light sentence, while the tribunal which || tried him refused to await the ar. rival of M. Rosenholz, Soviet gate who was to have atte $e d to succeed murdered trial. (Continued from Page One) groups ‘for two years, is straddling a dilemm No | which side he favors he is ¢ now in to bring down on his head the wrath of the opposition. * * * | HAT s ashes are taking place all between the t There are ugly scandals leadi ) power- ful fascist publication: tearing at each other with impunity, tho ing to blackshirt decree, nothing permitted to be published that does not jibe with fascist policy. boasted law and order and satisfaction with thing: | posed to) prevail in I condition. The fascist regime is | ting on a voleano and even the news- paper supporters of fascism in the United States are forced to let the }eat out of the bag. IT ERE is no discussion permitted inside the fascist party in Italy. |The rank and file have nothing to do | but obey, or take a chance on prison jor assassination. The few leaders at the top make the decisions and qu rel over the spoils. Compare thi with the procedure in the Comm Party of the U.S.R.R. The program jof the executive committee is sub- mitted for the consideration of the party membership, and as long as blest member in the ranks has a right to express an opinion on the party policy. * . * |THE explanation of the success of | the proletarian dictatorship in the | Soviet Union and its failure in Italy jis to be found in the fact that in the | former, the | the workers and peasants who com- |prise the overwhelming majority of | the population, while in Italy the fas- | cist regime | geoisie, and used as an instrument of oppression against the workers and ments, The employers hope by means | peasants. |of the yellow \the free unio nomic conflicts. | | Although the reformists are doing | | nothing to resist the capitalist attack jon the unions the employers will not | be able to get away with these plans. jing class, following with an eagle leye the manoeuvres of the capitalist | cla, has raised a campaign against attempts to limit trade union rights. We will allow facts to speak for| unions” with the right to conclude |The attack of the capitalists on trade union still in rights, embryo the mobilization of the broad ma of ling over 20,000 workers. The seope| cently published “Expert Opinion” class organizations, Soviet Union Exports Timber to Argentina; Boycotis Tory Market \Jingos Foiled; ‘Defense’ Day Called Off Because Of Wide-Spread Protest WASHINGTON, July 7 (FP), | Thoroughly frightened. by the wide- spread popular outery against Prus- | ms to squeeze out | * * * | and thus free them-| i selves from “importunate” daily eco-/| T TE capitalist papers usually have a plentiful supply of moral indig- ion on tap when the Soviet Gov- e particularly vicious enemy of the workers’ and peasants’ regime. But na }errnment is obliged to execute so | ted there is not a frown of protest or ja tear of sorrow. A female white | guard terrorist and two accomplices failed in an attempt to bomb the headquarters of the G.P.U. in Mos- cow. Had the plot succeeded hun-| | dreds of people would have lost their jlives. This is the kind of thing that In the re-|the workers for the defence of their | the Soviet Government is always up |against. Yet there are liberals who| | pretend to be friendly to the Soviet | | Union who give aid and comfort to| the imperialists by roaring their |dignation every time the Soviet Gov- fernment is forced to punish one or more of those assassins. * * * HAT Great Britain is trying to line| up Japan against the Soviet Union the discussion period lasts, the hum-! government is based on! is based on the bour-| ry 4 e ch bh BS er 2% xo ee’ B34 Er 2 BS 359 1 ae 4 8 Here is the $12,000,000 War Memorial being erected at Indianapolis, Inds It is worth many times $12,000,000 to the capitalist class, thus to stimulate the youth of America to sacrifice itself again in the interests of Wall Street, in a new World War. Those of us, who have learned the lessons of the last World War, demand that we erect a memorial which will insure the workers of America that no more of our youth will be crippled and shot to pieces in any capitalist war. We must erect a memorial which will speak daily and hourly to the workers of |The latter hastened to bring a de- : MOSCOW, June 24 (By Mail).— cision prohibiting the Textile Work-, a s sian military displays in America, the | ‘8 Tevealed by Walter Duranty in a In reference to the rupture of re- War Department will not attempt to | Moscow cable published in Wednes- +474. Y. 4th a i RR RATES ments of the first Workers’ to see all the sights of the new world there—the schools, factories, nurseries, clubs, museums, industrial develop- Some of your fellow-wo: day for the first SIX WEE to SOVIET ers’ Union to give any financial as- | sistance whatever to the Mamburg | Textile Workers on strike. | Courts Smash Strike. rkers will be setting out that that “there are still law courts in| Germany.” The German textile workers’ union issued an appella-' tion against this unprecedented Court, decision. On the 27 of May the Ham- | The Leipzig Court brought a similar | resolution against the Leipzig strik- ers. although under pressure from the well-organized workers in Saxony,) Republic. they were soon forced to withdraw| lations with England, the White- Russian Timber Trust is proceed- ing with the export of faneer to Argentina, which heretofore was hold a “defense day” test this year. | The first test in 1924, with mobiliz tion of the national guard, bellicose | / speeches from admirals and generals Two test parties of oak beams have been sent to the United States. These goods had so far advanced from Armistice Day to July 4 but was a fiasco, as most of the pop- | ulation called it a holiday and left the| cities, | been sold only in the British mar- Hit by Earthquake great that the “defense day” tests di saan ie feated their own purpose, The mi LENINAKAN, June 24 (By Mail). itary display was called off. Despite —Reconstruction work in Leninakan | General Pershing’s warm support for and the adjacent country having suf- ‘holding a test this year, the depart-| day’s New York Times. Japan is de- termined to retain soverignty over Manchuria. neutrality towards Chang’s proposed aet of brigandage. * * * REAT BRITAIN realizes deal with Japan whereby the latter} will retain her foothold in Manchuria, | in return for an anti-Soviet orienta-| tion. The visit of King Fuad to Lon- don is designed to fix things up in Chang-Tso-lin is being, lurged to seize the Chinese Eastern) America, against a new World War in the interests of the | The Labor Press immediately || exported to England. The first | and militarist parades through many | 2#ilway, the property of the Soviet | sounded the alarm, The employers’) consignment was despatched from | cities, aroused a determined opposi-| Umion. Japan and Britain are vo * li | Ks’ TOUR press asseverated with conplacency|| Riga to Bueno res, Won: The wecondsteet, in seen was | BdoRt an attitude of benevolent capita ist class. The DAILY WORKER, with the enlistment ket. Last year the War Department con- war with the Soviet Union is not (burg Court turned down the appella- sidered bar ae i a hs i . * rl ; vit ae: | side the opposition from pacifist | something to be entered lightly into. 2 [ J! \ TA ne as Sia Cage a ga Rebuild Leninakan, | organizations such as the National|So she is jweparing the ground. In of Five Thousand new A ats pean pains ite eh ‘Council for the Prevention of War so | China she will try to consummate a readers will be the best memorial, and the best insurance t it Eng 3 : i iscration ia the| Egypt. No doubt a similar stunt will| j Hs it. The next attack on the right to|fered from the earthquake is being |™ent has decided that discretion is the | wae oa ete § : 4 Why not join the party? The strike was made by the Mainingen) carried on a broad scale, better part of valor, and has indefi- | sa AG un Sta pnmegp s ent a ainst a new world i Court, which prohibited the textile) twenty-two large buildings, hospi- | getlon cues iia Oss. R. for 8 o workers union on pain of arrest of to13 and official institutions have al- | for all expenses—including L Phone Stuy: Tour Costs $575 limited. Time short. Apply immediately to WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. the trade union leaders and fines to give any assistance whatsoever to the Wemhausen spinners on strike. Forced Strike Aid. Such Court decisions signify noth- ing more or Jess than the prohibition of strikes, for without help from the your Russian visé. Party i OF 1927 vesant 7251, || pleting the construction of a big ho- | tel. Sheffield Won't Say Why Lost Job; Must | Consult Coolidge First | RAPID CITY, S$. D., July 7—) James R. Sheffield, American ambas- sador to Mexico, who is a guest of) President Coolidge here, remained in| seclusion today at the summer White | | House, with no statement forthcoming | ready been repaired, and repair work in all the school buildings is to be completed by the beginning of the school year. By autumn all the build- ings left will be repaired and thirty big houses will be built. In the stricken villages there will be con- structed 1,500 houses, Consequently, | by winter the sharp housing crisis will have been outlived. reconstruction of Leninakan is: com- night and immediately was driven to the state game lodge. He refused to} ‘be interviewed before he had talked | ‘to Mr, Coolidge. | Trade-union organizations are building a Palace of Labor. some time yet, but that she is pre-| paring for war, none but the most} naive can doubt. | Floods In South England. | LONDON, July 7.—Southern Eng- land was flood-bound today. Floods were reported in many sec-} tions following an all night rain | storm during which there was more| than a month’s precipitation, It! Crop damage was considerable, There were several landslides and one person was reported killed and several injured. slaughter. Help to build this memorial. Join The DAILY WORKER Aymy in the campaign for Five Thousand $1 Postpaid New streets and squares are being | concerning his antici i i i : ily for thir hours all uar New § | is pated resignation, | rained steadily for thirteen hours al Broom, 808 41 Union Square York City Hed Cartoons Cartoons laid. Besides, the committee on the} The ambassador arrived late last | over South England. new reaters..