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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1927 Page Three ENGDAHL URGES AMERICAN WORKERS ce!22emandea A) AND KELLOGG BLESS RED HUNTS (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail)— “This week is defense week thruout the Union of Soviet Republics, but it should also be made a Defense Week’ by workers here in the United] States,” declared J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, in| speaking on “The New War Danger” at the Labor Lyceum here. “For the new war being planned | against the Soviet Union is not only an attack on the First Workers’ Re-| public,” said Engdah!. “It is also an| attack on the working class in this} country. Any defeat suffered by the workers of the Soviet Union is a de- feat also administered to the workers} of this country, because such a de-| feat will only strengthen American exploiting interests at home in their} oppression of labor here.” Engdahl urged greater activity in the trade unions, and among the workers generally, to overcome the} prejudice against the Soviet Union} spread, not only by the capi- press, but by the reactionary! labor officialdom within the ranks) of the workers. Engdah! declared that much pre- judice could be neutralize by pointing out the achievements of the Rus- sian workers and peasants during the ten years that they had been in power. | “Industry everywhere thruout the| Soviet Union is showing a greater) production than ever before,” said| Engdahl, who has just returned from} the Soviet Union. “Agriculture is witnessing a phenomenal develop- ment.” | “Much material is being published in The DAILY WORKER, from day to day, giving facts and figures,”) continued Engdahl. “This should be spread as widely as possible, in fact, | one of the best supports of the So-| viet Union today is a powerful and} | growing press of the working class/ Petitions demanding the recall | | tionary movement which proposes to | conducting the “red hunts’ jesting cases for a psychologist Piloting Columbia OF PATRIOTEERS That President Coolidge has blessed the Red-baiting campaign of the Daughters of the American Revolution is the statettent made by Mrs. Alfred Brousseau, j,resident-general of that organizatiou:, in an open letter to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The open letter of Mrs. Brousseau is a reply to Mrs. Catt’s criticism of the D. A. R. pamphlet entitled “The Common Enemy,” in which Commun- ism, socialism and liberalism are lumped together as a “world revolu- destroy civilization and christianity.” Mrs, Catt referred to the patrioteers * as inter- Announcing that the D. A. R. would continue its campaign against radical and liberal organizations, Mrs. Brous- in this count; TEXTILE WORKERS AT CHESTER, PA., RECEIVE MESSAGE FROM TEXTIHL (Special to The DAILY WORKER) CHESTER, Pa., (By Mail).—‘One of the most encouraging messages} that the textile workers of the Uni-| ted States can send to the textile] Workers of the Soviet Union is that| they are organizing and building a} powerful union of their industry in| this country,” said J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, in addressing a group of textile work- ers here. i This city, next to Philadelphia, is| the largest textile center in the state, but the workers are not organized. As a result they are victimized by their employers, as has already been poin- E WORKERS OF U.S. S. R. ted out in an article in The DAILY} WORKER by Pat Devine. Engdahl told of his visit-to the So- viet textile center at Ozery, to the south of Moscow, where the Russian textile workers showed a great de- sire t® develop closer contacts with) the textile workers of this county: He said they had been greatly in- terested by the Passaic textile strike. | Engdah! told how the Russian tex- if | tile industry was being developed) of 1926 of Mayor George P. Cryer of Los Angeles have been put into | circulation, Six charges set forth include alleged laxity in en- forcing laws. | United States |seau says, “We have the approval of too many leaders of thought in the including President | Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg.” Maurice Drouhin, noted French aviator, engaged by Charles A. Levine, owner of the transatlantic plane Columbia to make the flight back to New York-with him inthe | Columbia. | the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fvnd? | The Political Situation in France By MICHEL HOLLAY. PARIS, ( weeks past have been’ subjected to violent} oscillations. In the second half the fall of the franc|to successfully by the workers them- | caused the rupture of the Left Bloc selves, pointing out that this should) When their leaders, He an be an example and an inspiration to|leve entered Poincare’s Ministry the workers in all countries in their | “National struggles against their opp’ Ors. Heat Wave Tides Poincare Cabinet to Soviet Mnion on rriot and Pain- Unity,” the Radical. So- cialists veered to the Right. At the ‘Congress of Lyons the Socialist | Party also directed its policy to the pillar of bourgeois society. And while ‘Poincare, the saviour of the france, overwhelmed the French people with new taxes amounting to thousands of millions, Painleve, the Radical Minis- ter of War submitted his imperialis- tie project of armaments, Herrot, the 1 H af) Freemason and Radical Minister of ver | ll ume | ar puris fp | Instruction, fraternised with the bis- PARIS, July 14—The Poincare) Government has literally “weathered” on the Swedish-American liner “Grips- | Thirty-two men and women sailed hops, and the Socialists unanimously voted for the mobilization law of the “Socialist” Paul Boncour. The “national unity of all constitu- the crisis precipitated in the Cham-| holm” this morning for a week’s visit | tional forces” had become a fact. It ber over the question of an increase | in the wages of Government employ- | ees. The vacation period is about to} open: and the statesmen of France are|it will visit the factories, worker’! Soviet Union. champing to get away from the swel-| tering capital to cooler climes. M. Poincare took the bit in his teeth and defied the opposition to vote him down. He received a vote of confidnce 347 to 200—and the Gov- ernment adjourned till October. It is freely prophesied in the Cham- ber that the present cabinet will not hold out very long after the com- mencement of the Fall session. Italian Cannon Practice Brings French Protest LONDON, July 14.—The Matin. re- ports, says Reuter, that the mayor of | Lanslebourg (Savoie) has protested | to the Italian Consul at Chambery against Italian artillery practice, which, he states, is being carried out in violation of the treaty of anneéxa- tion of 1861, on Mont Cenis, near the Franco-Italian frontier. In consequence of the shooting, it} is declared, a number of persons on) the French side have been compelled to leave the chalets and camp out, In spite of the snow, at a height of about 6,000 feet. ABC OF COMMUNISM By BUCHARIN and PREOBRAZHENSKY IN A NEW CLOTH-BOUND AND COMPLETE EDITION Just Received from ENGLAND The authors were commis- sioned by the Russian Com- munist Party to write a com- plete and simple explanation of Communism, The student will find this book’ a gem o Communist teachings, lt is the only edition con- taining the complete text— printed on thin Indm paper to make a most attractive book for your libra®y and for class use, to the Soviet Union. After arriving at Leningrad the | party will go by rail to Moscow, where homes, workers’ rest rooms, schools and colleges. Trips to neighboring cities and villages, including a visit to the mammoth electric power sta- tion at Volkhov-Stroi, are included in the itinerary. Ample time will be given the tow ists to witness the theatrical rennai: sance of the Soviet Union. The tour- ists will be given an opportunity to attend the concerts, movies and plays which make.Moscow, what Lee Simon- son, director of the New York Theatre Guilds, calls the theatrical capital of the world. Those sailing were: City; City; Miss Anna Zweibon, New York was to be strengthened against Com- munism in France as the first and essential step towards opposing the Barthou, Minister of Justice, initiated an elaborately worked-out case of espionage against |the revolutionary workers, which, | however, “rested on far too weak a |basis. Sarraut, Minister of the In- | terior, with the blood of Gallifet in his veins, started a furious persecu- tion of the Communists. The entire |press, from the Royalist “Action | Francaise” to the “Socialist” “Popu- _laire,” is set on attacking Communism |and the Soviet Union. * * * | Only one factor was neglected in | preparing this wholesale reactionary The entire trip will last six weeks. | plan, but it was the most important factor, the French working class. Miss Fannie Horowitz, New York) Poincare’s cruelly oppressive finan- Miss Bessie Kislik, New York cial schedule, the warlike mobiliza- tion and military armament plans of City; Mr. Herman Pinsker, Philadel-| the Socialist Paul Boncour and the Mail)—For several | rance’s home polities | of| tional Bloe maintained the level of | individual elections, : |unmistakably of a vigorous proces: phia, Pa.; Mr. Nathan Skolnik, New| Radical War Minister Painleve, the York City; Mr. Ephriam Soshen, New| simultaneous offensive of the capi- York City; Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pa-| talists against the workers’ wages, pirno, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs.) the rise in the cost of living, and the Bernard Cooperman, New York City;|war-agitation against the Soviet Mr, Jacob Mendelevitz, Brooklyn, N.| Union now threaten to ruin the stabil- Y.; Mr. Joseph Moldaver, Cleveland, ization programme of the bourgeoisie. Ohio; Mr. Francis T. Dwyer, Sacra-| ‘The supplementary elections, a mento, Calif.; Miss Sarah Cohen,} Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. Esther Sos- novsky, and daughter, Ethel Sos- novsky, age 8, Jersey City, N. J.; Mr. Michael Schafberger, New York City; | Mr. Louis Rabinowitz, Passaic, N. J.;) Mr. Herman Brody, Peekskill, N. Y.;! Mr. James Trushinsky, Chicago, Ill. Herman Skopp, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. M. M. Mazmanian, Medford, Mass.; Mrs. Bertha Pikulin, Hamtramuck, Mich.; Mrs. Anna Andres, Dallas, Texas; Mr. Benjamm ‘Scheinfinkel, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mildred Scheinfinkel, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Sydney Scheinfinkel, Brooklyn, N, Y.; Mrs. Evelyn Dubins, | New York City; Mr. B. Schegloff, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. Joseph Rody, | Wauwatosa, Wis.; Mr. Herman Meyer, Olympia, Washington. ie Blehr, Former Premier | of Norway, Dies at 80 LONDON, July 14.---Otto Blehr, former premier of Norway died today according to a central news dispatch from Oslo, The former premier was ktiown as | “The Grand Old Man” by his political friends and for 47 years had been the leader of the Norwegian liberals. | He was 80 years old. Roumanian Politicians to Hide King’s | Death. | BUCHAREST, Roumania, July .14. —Roumanian government has laid down a rigid censorship and news- $1.50 Cloth Bound The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 33 First Street NEW YORK. papers are not permitted to print anything concerning the King’s con. dition,‘ The new parliament meets on July 17th and it is reported that if the King dies before that time, the government intends to keep it a se- cret in order to avoid calling a session of the old Parliament, in which the present Bratiano government was in a minority. ‘ | Union. ‘| office. true barometer of home politics, point to “Red.” In the almost exclusively rural department of Aube, the:slogan which was supported by one and all, from the Fascist Lafont to the So- cialist Renaudel, was as follows: “All! against one! All patriots, good Re- publicans, against the Communists, hose traitors and enemies of civili- zation!” The Communist candidate was not elected. But the result in it- self amounts to a great victory of the Communists in their fight against economic and political reaction, in their struggle for peace. The 9000 Communist voters of 1926 increased in the first election campaign to 15,- 800. In the second campaign, the Communist candidate united 25,000 votes. a majority of only 8000 votes. That cannot be called a victory. The re- action is well aware of the fact, for the outery against the Communist danger has become all the louder and culminates in the demand for the “British panacea.” the rupture of diplomatic relations with the Soviet * * * On the same Sunday two further elections also took place. At Jory, a suburb of Paris, the Communist mayor had been removed from his For the sake of ensuring an election on a broader basis, two other Communist town-councillors likewise demissioned. The candidate put up was the sailor Dumoulin at one time condemned to four years’ arrest fot anti-militarist propaganda on poard| the warship “Courbet” during the Moroécan war. The outcome of ‘the! election was a splendid victory for the Communists and for the amnesty. Ot 7838 registered votes, 4358 fell to- the share of the Communist list. In comparison With the elections of 1925, the Communists gained 700 votes, while the National Bloc lost is that! tuation of the old Left nger the Poin-| y various dications of parent, ch among them the fact that the Parl ment has refused the plan so ener-|} getically defended by Poincare of} handing over the match monopoly to relativ the this criti »” the Com-| Bloe number of | c#re At the Alections in a bourgeofS district of Pa called “Grandes Carri munists doubled their f g from 1798 in 1925 lost e the Socialist: half their former total (registe ane -the | 5544. {the Swedish match trust. What is the purport of these re-| * bd * turns? Though no general conclu-| Meanwhile the reactionary course | sions can be gained from these few) of the Poincare government is be-| they ye pe ing further pursued. The arrest on! May ist of Monmous General of the Unitarian Trade recently been followed by ade Pierre Semard, Gen- ry of thd Communist nce, who was quite il- of radicalization among the French j working population as also of the rally of the French bourgeoisie | around the standard of reaction. j a. * * * They show the tendency of the population of France to collect around two opposite poles, the bourgeois and| FE. C. C. I, the Communist and the tendency to-|no due auth wards gradual dissolution on the) In direct democracy. These elections have | political per caused the greatest consternatio part of the parties of the Left Blo: the parties of bourgeois in the Radi he leader of the Roy cal-Socialist and Socialist! parties. If | ists, to play with them. This Royalist, these two parties desire to save their} condemned to six month’s imprison- present Parliamentary position, they, ment for libel, defied the police by will again have to form a Left Bloc) entrenching himself behind wire 2n- for the general Parliamentary elec- tanglements in the house of the “Ac tions which are to come off in the| tion neaise” wi spring of 1928. But this can only be! Royalists to defend him. That the possble, if the French Socialists veer! police prefect should finally have still more to the Right. For even| ome in person to conduct him in a now the “Quotidien,” the official o-| private car to the prison with the gan of the Radical Party, has formu-| promise of every facility and a speedy lated its conditions to the Socialists. | release for t non-political delin- “Tf an alliance with the Commu-| quent, while at the same time our nists is automatically prescribed (as| comrades are treated so brutally that the Communist candidate is placed at| three anarchists have for the Mast in connection with elections at whic’ (0 days been on hunger-strike to en- the head of the parties of the Left), | force their release is highly-character- any grouping of the Democratic for-|istic of the increasingly reactionary ces is out of the question.” idirectives of the Poincare govern- A further possibility, which depends! ment. Unions, ha that of jeral Se |Party of Fr although the police had y to arrest him. trast to this violent ution of the revolu- . we the French authorities Forged P for U.S. voto te srw ne, Number 1,000: Arab jelovsky, who was sentenced to death on Tuesday on the charge of espion- | age and the fabrication and forgery | Owns i} er 08 of documents against the Soviet | The “National Bloc” won by; here that Mme. Klepikoff, accused of | ey«, the destruction of the laboratorie Union, has been executed. Drujelovsky’s trial brought out evi-| JERUSALEM, Palestine, July 14. dence of his forgery of -docums:is}_Compared with the last severe purporting to show Communist prop- | earthquake of ninety years ago, when aganda in the United States at the| Tiberias and Safed were destroyed time of Senator Borah’s campaign for | and 5,000 persons perished, Monday’s the recognition of Soviet Russia, / disaster in Trans-Jordania and Pal- which were instrumental in turning | estine is greater, because it was more the tide of public opinion against | widespread, although the actual loss recognition. \of life is smaller. Secretary Kelloge has refused to| The modernly-built towns, with comment on the revelation of the | concrete structures, suffered compara- nature of the documents used by the | tively little, hence the casualties were State Department as a basis for re-' more or less confined to the primitive fusal of recognition. No denial has} Arab villages, where the tiny clay been made, official or otherwise. ‘huts were crumpled in the first shock, . 7 * ing the hapless occupants. The Hebrew University in Jeru- Report Mme. Klepikoff. BERLIN, July 14.-—It is reported ~| Soviet boycott, while the USSR is SOVIET INDUSTRY BOOMING RAPIDLY U.S. Firm Gets Right to Develop USSR Oil BERLIN, July 14. Britain is suffering | the result of the Soviet SR is having ama ing credit from other i ticularly the United many and Czechoslovakia. On the heels of the agreemen tween jet Union and Standard and Vaccuum Oil Companies, comes the announcement that c tracts calling for an outlay of $ 000,000 for the development of ¢ mdnes in the Donetz and Moscow basins have been ‘concluded Soviet concessions committee Amerigan firm, S James Cooke of New York Tories Hit Hard. Great Britain, which depended on the Soviet Union for much of its raw material, has been hard hit Great t powers—} tes and Ger the ad an and < porting machinery from Germany and Czechoslovakia That American bankers may extend a huge industrial credit, totalling over $100,000,000, to the Soviet Union is an opinion widely entertained here. A representative of Dillon, Read & Co. is said to have met Tchicherin and Rakovsky at secret meetings held here in June. Reports from Moscow state that American business men who have gone to the Soviet Union from the Chamber of Commerce Conference of Stockholm are showing an increased interest in Soviet trade and industry. FORECAST BENITO WILL FALL THRU legally taken to prison on his return |to Paris from the last meeting of the WASHINGTON, July 14.—Musso- lini’s regime may be cut to shreds witness the| between the two blades of high pricés and low wages, according to reports -| received by the department of com- merce from its agents in various parts of Italy. Smatches of these | dispatches, published in Commerce | Reports, reveal the hectic flush of background of the lowest wages and highest prices in Europe, Italian labor, in fact, is the cheap- est skilled labor in the world, ac- cording to a commercial attache who have taken contracts from under the noses of British and Japanese build- ers. As a result the Fascist regime is building up a large surplus of commodities for export’ trade, the workers at home being unable through low pay to buy back more than a fraction of what they have pro- | duced. Fake Prosperity. With Italian trade booming in the eee at ae |Tatal Quake Vieting Sas }ean, department of commerce agents |report a prosperity built on heavy leredit advances from the United abor of Italian workers. But from anti-Fascist seurces in Washington even the claims of prosperity are de-| nied. Fiat Automobile Co. has re- duced its working force from 21,000 to 10,000; cotton and woolen mills are working three days a week; iron trades and machine shop works have cut their staffs by 25 per cent; more than 30 per cent of the printers are out of work, ¥ Wages, according to the Interna- tional Labor Office at Geneva, are the lowest in Europe, being 48 per! cent of the British and 25 per cent! of the American. Sut prices are higher than in the United States. Re-! cent wage cuts of 10 per cent have brought more misery, despite the an-| nounced cut in prices, which proved to. be paper reductions only. Revolt Smouldering. On the prime question, how long | States and on the forced no-strike | Bt | Jem is among the greatest suffer- aiding her husband, Commander Klep- | ond the resulting i ; ikoff, formerly of the Baltic oi a Me ae eo ee who was recently executed for espion- | age on behalf of Great Britain, has been sentenced to death by a court Avert Epidemic martial at Kronstadt. | Scientists worki : th f | Klepikoff had confessed to giving aj," °NY'StS Working in- the labora- weport to the Beltish Intelligence | jee sh also trapped when the Agent in Finland, containing infor- doors slammed to. Th fon the spot, and so e before the Italian workers revolt, nti-Pascists are uncertain. So com- jlete has been the suppression of ivil rights that it is impossible to guage dissatisfaction etve is the system Mussolini espionage lonely islands off Sicily for fearing their opinions, for further- mation on the condition of the Soviet |‘htough the windov ing ont trade unions and armed forces, particularly the navy. es sith with cholera, for takin rt in strikes. Mn. Klepikoff, according to the tee Pe en foe ae thus prev Wants New Loan. report, had been sentenced to three |'0°, Ceaaly tubes from being smashed Another raid on the American Foal raga and possibly averti r i ie o! years’ imprisonment for complicity, | “"° ? ibly averting an epidemic of but on the failure of tihe Supreme ourt to confirm this sitatence, she | $ Be a | ees brought before a court-martial jally, a shocking thing in this predom-| des teial? linantly religious community. The | Dome of the Rock, the Chapel of the | Ascension, the Basilica in Bethlehem, | the Armenian Church in Jerusatem, | Woman in Trans-Ocean David’s Tower and the Church Mis- sionary Society School were all badly Plane in Trial Flight __ damaged. CHICAGO, July 14.—The trans-|, Pacific hop plane, of Miss Mildred | Doran arrived here at Maywood Field at 1:47 P. M., today after a periloug flight through rain storms and wind. difices suffered especi- | MOSCOW, fuly 14—Mme. Klepi- koff, who admitted that she had co- operated with her husband in spying for the British secret service, has 2000 and the Left Bloc 200. been sentenced to death b; t= Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! martial at Kronstadt. cy money market may be made by Mus- solini this fall, it is admitted by the Bureau of Regional Surveys, Her-| bert Hoover's own confidential foreign information service. The bureau has | been following carefully the Duce's perilous financial tightrope walking) with the lira and have concluded that, the energy given Italian industry by} the $200,000,000 poured into it by) Wall Street has about been spent. America, in the role of subsidizer for European dictatorships, is the hope of Mussolini. If Wall Street will express its sympathy for Fascism by pouring millions more into Italy, ini can hold on to ‘his scepter for a while. |Italian prosperity against an ashen, h several huncred | reports that Italian shipbuilding firms , ithout being, that | | thousands have been sent to the, TORY TRADE HT; ¢<“—“—“—"““——* Red Scouts The Red Army behind the drive for Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker, is enlisting the support of divisions of young Red Scouts in all parts of the country. a a @ a & The Pioneers, who constitute the the scouting section of the Daily Worker Army, will do much to make the drive against the enemy successful. 9 3 @ With their active help, with the aid of their energy and enthusiasm, the drive will go over the top. 338 3g The attractive prizes which are being offered to new readers, the camera, and the book offers, make it a simple matter for these young militants to secure new readers. 33 3 Through ; distributions at factory gates, through sales of the Daily Worker at lunch and elosing hour, through canvasses of the working class residential districts, the Red Scouts will push forward the drive against the army of capitalism. a a] We expect the youngest members of the Daily Worker Red Army to distinguish themselves by their energv and audacity in the drive to win Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Workes, _.