The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927 Page Three German-American Trust Oreanized To Foster Trade The steady penetration of American capital into ‘post-war Germany and the Central European States is evi- denced by the announcement today of the proposed organization of the International Germanic Trust Com- pany, under the banking laws of the State of New York, with offices at/ 26 Broadway, on the ground floor of the Standard Oi] Building. According to Mr. Aron, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Or- ganization Committee, “the trust company will have and develop rela- tions both with Americans of German descend throughout this country, and with business and banking institu- tions in Germany. It is the intention of the company to stress particularly the development of its foreign and trust’departments, and to provide an effective fiscal agency in the expected liquidation of German properties and trusts still in Government custody.” Mr. Aron, who expects to go abroad this month to/establish a branch of- fice of the trust company in Betlin, expresses the belief of the organizers of the new bank that “the formation of the International Germanic Trust Company will accomplish much in uniting effectively American and German capital resources in the de- velopment .of financial and com- mercial relations between the two countries.” The authorized eapitalization will consist of 30.000 shares, with a capi- tal of $3,000,000 and a surplus of $2,- 000,000. Anti-Japanese Boycott Spreads. ; Ste lta parr Pro | house in question. An inhabitant Gas meters, regulators and other ests agains e landing of 4 spanese | with an income of from 125’ roubles | 24S equipment valued at nearly | troops in Shantung is: growing. The to 155 roublés a month pays exactly $250,000, ordered in the United} anti-Japanese boycott is gaining | onough to cover amortization and ad-| States, will soon be shippéd to the | strength daily and promises to re- sume the proportions of the anti- Japanese boycott called immediately after the war to protest against the occupation of Shantung by Japanese troops. NEW MASSES duly Issue THIS COCKEYED WORLD—by Wil- liam Gropper. REMINISCENCES—by Michael Gold. VIGNETTES OF THE FLOOD—by Walter White. KARL MARX ANTICIPATED FREUD—by Max Eastman. | ENGLAND RUNS AMOK—by Seott-| Nearing. | BRITISH FASCISM STRIKES HOME —by W. N. Ewer. THE NEW HOLY GRAIL—by Jos- eph Freeman. UNION SQUARE PHILOSOPHY— by Harry Freeman. ARE ARTISTS PEOPLE?—by Stark Young. CLASS WAR IS STILL ON—by Egmont Arens and Mary Reed. SENATOR CORNFILTER ACCEPTS —by Art Young and Howard Bru- baker. 5 Many other articles, and drawings by Wni. Gropper Louis Lozowick William Siegel Otto Soglow Wanda Gag John Dos Passos Jan Matulka Peggy Bacon Paxton Hibben and others. Trial Sub to readers of Daily Worker $1.00 Five Months i} THE NEW MASSES 89 Union Square New York | | t ' Enclosed Cb tur mos. sub, Name .. Street City News from the U.S.S.R. | | | | RENT IN THE U.S.S.R. | The Soviet Government in organiz- jing broad cooperative administration |of the State housing facilities also | established the norms of exploitation |and utilization of the buildings, pro- | tecting thereby the interests of the | toiling people in all buildings, regard- | less as to whether they live, in co- operative houses or in the houses of State institutions or such which be- long directly to the municipal organs, or those which belong to private people. | The most important right secured | | to the working people is to occupy the} | place in which they live, regardless | !as to whether the house administra- | tion or owner agrees to it or not. The inhabitant, if he pays his rent, | cannot under any conditions be put| out of the building. This guarantee | |of the right of the inhabitant, re- | gardless of the desire of the house | administrator or owner, existed also | in the bourgeois countries, but there it was instituted during the war and | only a short period after the war. In | the Soviet Union, however, this right of the toiling inhabitant is a perma- nent right; it is one of the most vital \rights given to the workers in the| |code of laws. | | Another important measure taken} | by the Soviet Government towards | |the protection and improvement of | the living conditions of the toilers is |the system of rent payments. The } payment of rent is regulated by the | Soviet Laws on the following princi- ples: the entire rent system, as ap- plied to the teilers, is based on the | amortization and the administration of the houses; it does not inelude any |house or ground rent, which burdens | the toilers in bourgeois countries. The |Soviet laws provide for a sliding | scale in the payment of rent depend- jent upon the paying capacity of the inhabitant and the conditions of the ministration of the house. Those who | have a higher income pay partly also j interest on thg capital invested in |the building which enables the house | |to cover the deficit formed as a re-| |sult of the low payments of the} poorer inhabitants. In order to cover | this deficit a considerably high rent | is taken from the inhabitants not en- | joyed in product work. The over- whelming majority of the toilers whose income is less than 125 roubles a month, pay an average of 75 per| | cent less than the amortization of the} house requires. The unemployed pay an absolutely insignificant amount; | | they pay altogether 5.5. copecks per) | square metre a month. | Owing to this class principle in | collecting rent, the average worker | with an average income pays for a} | fairly good room four to five roubles {a month, whereas before the revolu- | tion he had to,pay just as much and ‘even more for some corner or only | for the use of a bed. | On an average, the worker spends | jabout 6 to 8 per cent of his budget jon rent, whilst in bourgeois countries | (not including heating, light, water, and cleaning) he spends 10 per cent or more of his budget for rent. But | what is most important is the fact} |that the housing conditions of the | workers, at least in the urban cen- |ters are now much better and more |hygienie than there were before. | It should be observed that owing | to the municipalization of the largest land best houses and the regulation of | poses. | over in the Union and is enlarging its of the Artic Ocean, solving the prob- lem of the export of Siberian tim- ber, grain and other freight shipped in large quantities. The total length of the route, from the mouth of the Sob, a tributary of the Obi, to the Indiga Bay (on the Samoyed coast of the Artie Ocean) will be about 790 miles of which 530 miles will have to be operated by locks, The bulk of the freight will be shipped down stream on the rivers constituting that water system," thus considerably reducing the cost of transport. Thus the delivery of one pood (86 Ibs.) of freight over a dis- tance of 2,600 miles from Omsk and Novosibirsk to the Indiga port will cost not mote than 12 kopecks (6 cents), while the rail transport of grain over the same distance would eost from 27 to 38 kopecks (14 to 19 cents) more. * * * | American Equipment For Soviet Industries. } MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Amtorg| Trading Corporation of New York | has received advices from the Donetz Coal Basin of the Soviet Union of the completion of preliminary work on the two “Amerikanka” (American) mines, to be constructed with the as- sistance of six American mining en-} gineers, Machinery and equipment to the value of $325,000 will be shipped to the Donetz Basin from the United States. Other machinery, already ordered here for the Donetz Basin, will be| tested in the field in comparison with | similar German equipment: A con-| struction department along American | lines has been organized by the Don- ugol Coal Trust. For the Kuznetz coal fields in Si- beria, coal cutters, loaders, conveyers and other equipment will be ordered in the United States. Soviet oil cities, Baku and Grozny. Natural gas is found in abundance in the Soviet oil fields. It is now be-| ginning to be utilized for the first time for household and refining pur- Sewing machines, cloth cutting machines, spare parts and other equipment valued at $220,000 were recently purchased in the United States for clothing factories in Mos- eow, Leningrad and several Ukrain- ian cities. American Mining Engineers In US.S.R. MOSCOW, (By Mail).—John A. Garcia, mining engineers, with five be Sonneeted with the Cheshskaya Bay@associates including his son, have sailed for the Soviet Union, where they will prepare plans for the sink- ing of a number of mine shafts by latest American methods, and for the construction of auxiliary methods, and for the construction of auxiliary buildings, in the coal fields of the Donetz Basin. Mr, Garcia’s firm is the third American firm to sign with the Donugol Coal Trust during the past few months to assist in the modernization of the Donugol mines. Mr. Garcia and associates will spend three months in the Soviet designing, writing specifications and making estimates for a complete mining plant, to be operated by the Donugol Coal Trust. In particular they will design a skiphoist mine of the American type. Ten new coal shafts with a com- bined capacity of 5,000,000 metric tons are being sunk in the Donetz Basin this year and sixteen more will | be put under construction in 1928. * * * The Dnieper Power Plant. MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Preliminary work on the Dnieper river power project, which will be the largest hydro-electric development in Eu- rope, has been started, Seven hun- dred workmen were put to work on construction early in May, and this force will be increased to 3,000 by| midsummer. Col. Hugh L. Cooper, the builder of Muscle Shoals, who is chief consulting engineer for the Dnieper project, is on the ground. Two 1%-yard steam shovels for ex- eavation work in connection with the Dnieper plant have been ordered from | the Marion Steam Shovel Company and will be shipped shortly. Other American orders in prospect include complete equipment for a sawmill, tanker locomotives, cranes and dump cars. * BAe Changes In Soviet Diplomati Service. . MOSCOW, (By Mail).—On April| 5, 1927, Mr. G. L. Piatakov, formerly Assistant Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy of the Soviet Union, was appointed Soviet Trade Delegate in France. On January 14, 1927, Mr. I. S. Ash- kenazi was appointed Trade Delegate of U. S. S. R. in Greece. On Fébruary 22, 1927, Mr. A. I. Belakovsky was appointed Trade Dele- gate of the Soviet Union in Denmark, On March 22, 1927, Mr. B. K. Aus- sem was appointed Trade Delegate to Turkey. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS The consumers’ cooperation covers 41 per gent of the total trade turn- operations from year to year. Dur- ing the last year the cooperative movement increased its turnover by 78 per cent, and in the first half of the current economic year 1926-27 it increased its operations by 41 per cent. The aggregate turnover of the consumers’ cooperative movement reached 1,085 million rubles in 1925- CONSUMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN U.S. S. R. 26, and 968 million rubles in the first half of 1926-27.' The movement’s paid-up capita was 475 million rubles on October ist, 1926, and the loaned capital, 1,218 million rubles. The profits made by the consumer’ cooperation reach 157,616,000 ru- bles. The Government's instructions re lowering prices in detail trade by 10 per cent on June Ist have been carried out in nearly all the country. Bruce, Son-in-Law | rent, the government is able to regu- |late the income of the houses and to} | control the surplus income of some, buildings as well as the income com- ling from commercial enterprises. This surplas income goes to form special capital funds of the town So- viets to subsidise and to finance the repairs of the poorer houses. In general the entire system of Soviet management protects the in- terest of the toiling masses and en- sures the further extension of housing facilities; it prevents any form of housing exploitation which is so tries.—D. Schneinik. ’ * * IE growth of the irrigated cotton area in the Soviet Union is shown by the following figures: Fiscal year 1921-22—1,780,000 dessiatins (4,806,- 000 acres); 1924-25———3,448,000 des- siatins (9,309,600 acres); 1925-26— 8,754,000 dessiatins (10,035,800 acres), 1926-27—3,895,000 “dessiatins (10,- 516,000 acres). The area irrigated ‘in 1914-15 was 4,349,000 dessiatins | (11,745,000 acres). The sums appropriated for this \purpose from the State budget were 4,604,000 rubles ($2,371,000) in 1922- 23; 7,949,000 rubles ($4,093,700) in | 1923-24; 12,482,000 rubles ($6,429,000) in 1924-25; 31,000,000 rubles (about $16,000,000) in 1925-26, and 43,225,- 000 rubles ($22,260,000) in 1926-27. * * * Connection Of White and Caspian Seas. MOSCOW, (By Mail)-—In the re- gion of Kuminskoye Lake surveys j have been started for the digging of ||| the Lacha-Kubinskoye Canal, which will join the river system of the ||| White Sea with the tributaries of the Volga and thus connect the White Sea with the Caspian and Black Seas (via the Marinsk canal system). i *. * * | Waterway from Siberia to Europe. MOSCOW, (By Mail).--Next year the Central Department of Water- ways of the People’s Commissariat of Ways of Communication of the So- viet Union will start investigations with a view to establishing water connection between the rivers Obi, Sob, Usa, Pechora, Sula and Indiga. Western Siberia, the Northern Ural and the Pechora Region would thus Of Andrew Mellon, Gets Another Job WASHINGTON, (FP) July 11— | Government employees should become son-in-laws of Secretary of the Trea- l|sury Mellon in addition to picking |senators for fathers, if they want to get ahead in Uncle Sam’s service, Young David K. E. Bruce did both. | Late in 1925, at the ripe age of 27, he decided to enter government serv- ice. Son of Senator Bruce of Mary- land, a “Coolidge Democrat”, he was able to get into the state department where within a few months he was elevated to one of the ptize berths of the foreign’ service as attache in the Ameriean embassy at Rome. Find- ing the salary of $2,500 insufficient, he formed an alliance with America’s third wealthiest family by marrying Ailsa Mellon last year. Now the youthful dipiomat is to be shot up in the service to the post of secretary of the International Radio- telegraph Conference, to be held in Washington beginning October 4. He has formally asked to be relieved of his Roman post, where his duties have been so light that he has been able to while away most of his time on the Riviera. This summer Bruce will cruise the Mediterranean on Mel- lon’s private yacht. Bruce will transfer his allegiance from Secretary of State Kellogg to Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who is running the International Tele- graph Conference on behalf of Radio Corporation’s fight against European and Latin America ideas that the public and not private monopolies, should control the air. Hoover, who has seized position of governmental overseer of the radio, is chairman of GENEVA, N. Y., July 11.—-Failure of the driver to see the danger time was believed responsible today’ for a crash between a motor truck and a passenger train at a New York Central Railrodd crossing near here which cost three lives. chinese Communists To Leave Wuhan Gov’t. (Continued from Page Ome) nese Communists should intensify their work within the Kuomintang, striving to expose the wavering and treacherous leaders to the masses. Pointing out that the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party have failed in their task of developing the agrarian revolution and have brought to the fore military expeditions against Peking instead of the inter- nal problems of the revolution, Buk- harin declares that the Communist International has found it necessary to call for the election of a new Cen- tral Executive Committee for the Chi- nese Communist Party. Scores Party Opportunists. “The more opportunistic leaders of the Chinese Party advocated that the Party leave the Kuomintang,” Buk- harin says. “On the contrary the Central Committee of the Chinese Union of Communist Youth adhered strictly to the decisions of the Com- munist International and strongly protested against the tactics of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Elect New Executive Committee. “In view of the situation which has been created, the Communist Interna- tional deems it necessary to call an extraordinary conference of the Com- munist Party to.reelect a Central Committee which will conduct an en- ergetic struggle for the revolution, even to the exclusion from the Party of those who consider that the Chi- nese Communist Party must follow the trail of the bourgeois leaders of the Kuomintang. * Rush Mote Japanese Troops. TOKIO, July 11—A company of Japanese “railway telegraph troops” left here today for Tsingtao in Shan- tung Province. Three hundred Japanese marines landed at Tsingtao yesterday, British naval authorities have been informed. PHILADELPHIA, July 11.—Two persons were burned to death and in| three others were reported seriously burned when a b5-alarm fire swept half a block of the J. B. Shoemaker Sons’ Box Factory here today. The | | | | when it was victoriously advancing fro control of two-thirds of the vast cou cialist Soviet Republics. HELD BY PEKING GOVERNMENT Michael Borodin, advisor to the People’s government in China in the days | trying to banish him from his post; some accounts say he has already left. He is seen standing here with his wife, Mme. Borodin, now a prisoner of Chang Tso-lin and on “trial” in Peking for activities against him. seized in violation of neutrality from a vessel belonging to the Union of So- m control of one town in the South to ntry. Right wing elements are now She was Seattle Workers in Demand for Freedom _ For Sacco, Vanzatti SEATTLE, JULY 11.—In spite of} counter attractions in the way of pic- | | nies, with ex-Senator Magnus John- | son of Minnesota as the main feature | |at one of them several hundred peo-| jple took part in the Sacco-Vanzetti| meeting in City Hall Square. J. Ei. Phillips, business agent of Painters Local 300 and delegate to the Central) Labor Council presided. Speakers in- cluded George F. Vandeveer, prom-} inent local attorney; Chi Tai Hsieh, Chinese University of Washington student; J. C. Kennedy, Seattle Labor | College; George Ritchie, Carpenters! Union; Aaron Fislerman, Workers’| Party and J. P. Thompson, Industrial | Workers of the World. | The meeting was held under the} auspices of the Sacco-Vanzetti United Front Conference and is the fourth} large down town gathering held since) the launching of the active campaign | to save the lives of the two Italian workers. | A well attended out door meeting was held recently in the suburb of} Renton. | fae ae | | Expel Salesmen’s Union. Pollowing orders from President Green of the American Federation of Labor, the local Bakery Salesmen’s union has been expelled from the | Central Labor Council here. This action follows a demand of) the Teamsters International Union, ; that the Salesmen should affiliate to| lit. In 1915 at the A. F. of L. con-| |vention in San Francisco the Team-} sters were given jurisdiction over this} craft and Seattle and Tacoma are the} only cities where this ruling had not) been put into effect. | The Salesmen’s union here has! adopted a resolution declaring its in- tention to retain its connection with| |the Bakers International and urging | unions to support its position at the A. F. of L. convention this year at Los Angeles. It is pointed out that they enjoy better conditions than other bakery salesmen due to the fact that their union contract is negotia- ted and signed at the same time as that of the bakers. The advantages of industrial unionism is exemplified in their case. * * * } Local business agents of the Machinists and the Teamsters unions are trying to increase the member- ship of their respective unions at the expense of the Street Railwaymen’s union. The first named organization is trying to enroll the shop employees and the latter is going after the drivers of the municipal auto buses which act as feeders to the city owned street car system. The street car men are protesting at this at- tempted hi-jacking of their members and the workers involved are turn- ing a deaf ear to the proffers made them. * * * Several progressive members of Carpenters Union 131 were rather surprised on the eve of a recent elec- tion to find that though they had been nominated for office their names} had been left off the ballot. These} members are making a point of this unfairness of their officials in an ef- | fort to organize to oust their reac- tionary representatives. TACOMA, July 10.—The strike of the Laundry Workers Union con- tinues with encouraging results, House to house solicitation by the strikers is stopping what little busi- ness the unfair employers had man- aged to secured, The Superior Service Laundries, which has a contract with the union is running to capacity day and night. The Laundry Wagon Drivers which are under the jurisdiction of the Teamsters are kept on the job by their International organizer though MARCEL CACHIN Marcel Cachin, French Communist, | and member of the Chamber of Depu- ties is particularly hated by the impe- | rialists of his nation for his courage- ous stand against their policies. The latest brush he had with them resulted in his being sentenced to six months in prison, tho he is supposed to have | “parliamentary immunity,” like mem-/ bérs of the other partie: Russian Oil Firms — Gut Gasoline Price In English Markets _ By TOM BARKER. LONDON, July 11.— Car owners in Great Britain are on velvet. After} being mulcted for a decade of large | sums by a combine consisting prin- cipally of the subsidiaries of the | Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. and Stan- | {dard Oil Co., a price war has arisen | | by the entrance on the market of the | | Russian Oil Products, Ltd., who are | now sole sellers of Soviet gasoline. | Some time ago the Russians were compelled to sell their oil in bulk to | the two large concerns at prices far | below the prevailing world rate. Royal Dutch“lost much property in| Russia by the nationalization de-| crees, but during the difficult posi- tion of the Bolshevists the company | purchased—at its own price—half a} million tons of oil. This they sold re- | tail at prices verging on 50 cents a} g*lon to British car owners. | Sifice the Russians entered the field | themselves, they have led a price eut- ting war which has practically halved | the price of gas to the consumer. The | combine firms have subsidized the | Rothermere press, especially the | Daily Mail—a paper which outdoes | Hearst in howling for blood and for “clearing out the reds.” This campaign of the Mail does not preclude it at the same time solicit- | ing advertising from Russian oil pro- | ducts. i Two other anti-Soviet oil combines | are the Association of British Credi tors—interested solely in oil-—-and the} Hands Off Britain Campaign led by a fascist demagogue named Locker Lampson. Despite all the noise, Soviet oil | sales have increased 100 per cent within one ye The opposition seems to defeat its purpose, as Rus- sian oil is distinctly better than its| competitors, | Viscount Bearsted, chairman of | Shell directors, at a company mect-| ing in June denounced Soviet gaso-| line as “stolen” oil! The directors of | R. O. P. laugh at his lordship and say | that if it is “stolen” then Vistount | Bearsted’s firm when buying Soviet oil three years ago was an accessory after the fact, in short a “fence.” | Bearsted’s firm paid a little item of dead: David Jones, 58, Bristol, Pa.,|the sentiment is to walk out in sym-|26 per cent dividend for the past year, workman, and a boy of five. pathy with the inside workers. i tax free. | ten thousand Daily Worker sharpshooters for the Class War. We want these / Ten Thousand expert marksmen to strike at the heart of American capitalism. From every factory, mine, mills and farm the deadly bullets of revolutionary propaganda must rain with destructive effect upon the rule of the exploiters, The Daily Worker is the modern rapid fire gun, which will be swung. . * into action by ' thousands of ! sharpshooters of the Daily Worker Army. Every additional reader secured for the Daily Worker will be another telling shot at the domination of the ruling class, Every new reader secured will mean another recruit in the : growing army f= the revolution. In this battle, bystanders are not ~ permitted, “ We call upon every * active soldier of the revolution to participate with all the power at his command. Our objective is the winning of Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker, The winning of this objective means, that we have gained strong reinforcements for the coming struggles. Forward to the goal— : Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker,