The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1927, Page 3

MARINES BOMB | Hurl Explosives Into} IGARAGUANS: | KILL OVER 50 A N Unarmed Populace MANAGUA, Nicaragua, July 18.— In a desperate effort to smash the | rebellious masses who deeply resent | the imperialist plundering of their country by the United States, a force of American marines, aided by*the| mercenary Nicaraguan constabulary, murdered more than 50 liberals and | wounded more than 400. The attack! was made upon the forces of General! Sandino at Ocotal, who refused to dis-) perse his forces in conformity with the ultimatum of Henry L. Stimson, the Wall Street lackey who was sent | here a few months ago to aid in con-} solidating the fraudulent government of Diaz, who is sworn to defend the interests of American imperialism) against the desires of the masses for} independence. Bombed From Air. The marines and the Nicaraguan constabulary did very little fighting) as they are too cowardly to enter into equal combat with the natives, but) stood at a safe distance while five} marine airplanes dropped high ex- 4 plosives ate liberal forces and the| eal the police bic schad beaten, and fled population of Ocotal. Undoubtedly | A many women and children and non-| Coolidge Board Hands! combatants were murdered, but the rigid censorship prevents any news- paper men entering the devastated | area. | Street scene in Vienna near the Slam to Women Work- ers in Bureau of Print’g Part of U. S. Campaign. i This latest unprovoked and craven massacre is a part of the general cam-| | ee ed et eel and conditions of government work- are trying to disarm the whole popula- |": talks like an open shopper. Curt tion in order to be able to establish | 'Y refusing the appeal of the mrerien gs firmly the rule of the Wall Street | U0? of the bureah of Leptin and puppet president, Diaz, who could not | °M8T@ving for equal pay with men ea get one-hundreth part of the votes of |equal work, the board declares it will the inhabitants of the country in a/ “eal “directly with the employes,” and fair election, | not with “outsiders.” The women have been organized for years in Local 105 The bestiality of the American Ban! yi : troops in this part of the world is such | 0f the National Federation of Federal Employes. that the very name and every symbol y or emblem of the United States is! President Luther Steward of the despised as representing nothing but| National Federation declares that the unbridled tyranny. \board’s decision is a blow to the right Saeko lof collective bargaining. The union, is, he says, will appeal to congress to Big Navy Men Take lee out the board and set up admin-| Heart From Big Fiasco At Geneva Naval Meet jistrative machinery free from con- \trol by Coolidge. WASHINGTON, July 18, (FP).—)| Congressman Loring Black of New York, a leader of the big navy forces, declares congress will approriate funds in the coming session to bring American naval strength up to the British. WASHINGTON, July 18, (FP) — Calvin Coolidge’s personnel classifi- cation board, which adjusts wages Flying School Teacher In Texas. EL PASO, Texas, July 18.—The Hawaii bound plane of Miss Mildred A. Doran, Michigan school-teacher, ) arrived here at 12:10 o’clock today. According to present plans, Miss Doran and Pedlar will take off for the coast at daylight Tuesday morn- “If there is no real disarmament at | "* Esioeensts We cern Geneva,” he asserts, “we big navy Fi illi a ight For Millions. men will undoubtedly develop a great- The interest manifested in the er voting strength in the house for aj climination battle between Jack eruiser and submarine construction program. We will appropriate enough money to complete construction of the authorized cruisers, and the naval affairs committee will undoubtedly come in with a bill authorizing not; only 10 cruisers, as was proposed at the last session, but a number suffi- Sharkey and Jack Dempsey on Thurs- day night was reflected yesterday in the announcement that the advance ticket sale has passed the $900,000 mark. A sell-out on fight-night ap-| peared a certainty, with the probable gate $1,200,000. Some racket! cient to meet the British strength.” |Keep Up the Sustaining Fund Page ‘Three a * 7 WHERE HEAVY FIGHTING TOOK PLACE Department of Justice building. It was on this street that most of the workers were shot by the police. Hartford to Have Field Day and Picnic for Poli- tical Action Conference HARTFORD, July 18.—The Con- necticut conference for Independent Political Action embracing many unions .and workers organizations throughout the state, have arranged the second annual State Labor Field Day and Picnic in Schutzen Park, Hartford, on Sunday July 31st for the purpose of advancing the idea of | Independent Workers Political Ac- tion as the first step to a “United Labor Ticket” in the presidential elec- tions of 1928. William Z. Foster, leader of the Great Steel Strike, and Albert Weis- bord, leader of the Passaic Textile Strike will be the chief speakers, be- sides speakers in Lithuanian, Swedish, Russian and from the Young Workers League. The arrangements committee headed by Dr. Per Nelson of Hartford announces that 12 Swedish Athletic clubs will participate in the games. A chorus of 150 voices ‘will sing revo- | lutionary and Folk songs, A good band will provide music for dancing. Refreshments and good food will be available for all. The workers of New Haven, | Bridgeport, Stamford, Waterbury, Ansonia and the cities around Hart-) ford are arranging to hire busses, and mobilize cars to come out in mass. Thousands of workers are ex- pected to make this Picnic a tremen- dous demonstration for Independent Working Class Political Action. ELK ROPIDS, Mich., July 18. — A kidnapping theory was abandoned to- day after the body of 6-year-old Douglas Fairbanks Holmes, of Elk Rapids, Mich., was found floating in Lake Michigan off the shore of East Grand Traverse Bay. ‘THIRD BLOCK ‘COOPERATIVE ==HOUSES== IN THE WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY | Is Being Constructed eeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEE—E—E—E—Eeeee— Opposite Bronx Park |Socialist Compromise | Betrays Vienna Strike (Continued from Page One) |they ordered back to work employes jin various industries, until finally | about all that were left out were the | | railway, postal, telephone and tele-} |graph workers. Even partial service | was allowed by the socialists in these | industries, and nothing like parades | or demonstrations are allowed. | | No Public Funeral, | | The objects of the strike are con- | stantly stated by socialist leaders to | be merely pressure on the cabinet for |reforms, and not revolution. Thus | when representatives of socialist trade | unions met in Vienna and first decid- |ed to recognize the transport strike, | Otto Bauer, addressing the meeting, | declared, “the strike must be contin- |ued in order to cure the reactionaries lof the illusion that they can misuse their power.” | | This meeting decided to hold the | |funerals of the worker victims on Wednesday, at 2 o’clock and to bury all in a single grave at the expense of the city. Only relatives and party joffieials will be permitted to attend. A memorial will be erected over the | common grave. All work will be sus-! | pended during the hour of the funer- als. The Seipel cabinet has issued a communique in which it states that it | has ten thousand troops from the proy- }inces in the outskirts of the city, and threatens workers with unemployment, | hunger, and perhaps a general lockout | if they do not yield to authority. In re- |turn for submission, and only if there |is no more strike, the government sig- \nifies its willingness to call parliament into session, and if after “debate with- out pressure from labor unions” the |parliamentary majority for Seipel de-| j¢eides on a coalition cabinet with the | |Socialists, there will be such a coali-| | tion. The communique contains many | such phrases as “reorganization of the provement in due time,” ete, | | The socialist leaders and the Seipel| cabinet unite in urging the workers to | maintain order and submit to govern-!| ment rule, and both have issued state- ments blaming the Communists for starting all the trouble. Only the Seipel statement says that “some of | the socialists also implicated.” * * x American Exploiters Cringe. BERLIN, July 18—American visi- |tors, who had descended on prostrate | Austria like harpies durigg the post- war period, to enjoy the cheap living, the liquor, musie and ‘art, and the |pleasure of bossing ar-vnd underpaid | servants were panic str‘eken when the | \fighting began, say refugees from the, foreign colony, who have arrived here. George Sylvester Viereck, editor of | a pro-German paper in the U. S. dur- ing the first years of the world war, has arrived here by automobile and says of those he left behind in Vienna: “Americans in the Hotel Bristol re- |sembled birds before a storm, we were told not to show ourselves before the windows on account of the danger of | |being shot. We had to stay in the! hotel both day and night. Several| Americans ventured forth but rushed | | back in a state of panic at each fresh} | outburst of shooting.” “At the American embassy we were | | received politelyy but we gct no help.| BERR it ve ae Vienna “Department of Justice” Building This building housed the much workers were oppressed. When they they captured and burned it. hated courts and records by which rose in their might for a few hours, FACTORY CONSUMERS’ COOPERATIVES AS A RESERVE OF PRIVATE TRADE OF GERMANY In view of the present efforts of) into the German bourgeoisie to brin being factory fascism, factor operatives assume a ployers are again paying increased attention to the development also of this instrument of attack on the class organizations of the proletariat. In order to win the support of bread circles of society for factory consum- ers’ co-operatives, do not scruple to Speak openly and brutally about the aim of these in- stitutions. ° Thus, the mining sessor von Loewenstein declared at the session of the mine owners of the Ruhr dis- trict that the development o “Socialist and Christian alist consumers’ co-operatives constituted a peril with which middle class com- mercial circles have not yet been able |to cope. The consumers’ co-operftive | of movement constitutes a mighty secret force of the entire Socialist system.” big industrialists the } “As there is risk of the histor- trade orge ng greatly im- paired in th of revolutionary reorganization, it would be more cor- rect for the trade circles interested stain from opposing factory in- | stitutions which are beginning and justly so — to be considered as. an | important link of the private economy and which are after all only a saf | e and financially }sound private trader.” | There is every for the | proletarian consumers’ co-operative | movement to propagate these argu- |ments as widely as possible. They show clearly that the aim of factory consumers’ co-operatives, is not, as jit is alleged, to make workers’ con- ditions of life easier, but that they are on the coptrary important organs italism for the upkeep of the ystem of exploitation in cap gener ‘ON THE EVE OF THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE UNION , DES COOPERATEURS OF FRANCE In July general meetings will be held of the sections and also the delegation meeting of the biggest Paris co-operative “Union des Co- operateurs” which embraces 80,000 members and about 150 sections. The co-operative circles of the “Union des Co-operateurs” are doing energetic preliminary work for these meetings. | On April 24 there was a session of the Central Committee of co-opera- tive circles with the circle secretaries of the indiviiual sections. The agenda | Minister Washburn said if the situa-| tion became worse he would hire| | Americans from Vienna.” included: preparatory election meet-, ings of circle members and meetings des Co-operateurs | The platform of the co-operative |cireles is laid down in a special dec- laration dealing with questions of reformist policy, of drawing work- ers into the leading organs, strug- |gle against taxes, unemployment and war perils. The organ of:the Na- nal Federation of Revolutionary ‘o-operative Ci “Le Co-opera- |teur” published a special number with jfull instructions for the conduct of the campaign. Have Paid Your Contribution to Danube steamers and transport all}of individual sections of the “Union |the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? The trustification system has scored great successes. The turn- over of nine large syndicates has in- creased from 750 million roubles in 1923-24 to 3.5 billion roubles this; year. The relative strength of the} syndicates in the general distribution through the syndicates has increased during that period three or four Vegetable oil costs in private en- costs in the cooperatives 1.5 as much News from the U.S.S.R. RESULTS OF TRUSTIFICATION OF INDUSTRY bers’ activity and increased influence terprises 2.62 times as much as be-|on the part of local party organiza- | fore the war, in the cooperatives it! tions in the work and development costs only 1.61 times as much; salt}of the co-operatives. This is ac- | companied by a steadily growing act- as in 1913, and in private enterprises|jvity of the poor peasantry, and a 2.5. Textile prices in the cooperatives} strengthening of the ‘bloc between | are twice as high as before the war! the poor and the middle peasantry in and the private enterprises 2.6. Metal|their stand against the kulaks or Open daily till 7 P. Come now to the office of the United Workers’ Co-operative Ass'n and select the best apartment. 69 FIFTH AVENUE Telephone: Stuyvesant 6900-6901-6902 by the UNITED WORKERS COOPERATIVE ASSN Now is the best time to obtain light, airy, sunny Apartments of 2-3-4 Spacious Rooms The first block houses is completed and fully occupied; the second block is under construction and rented; the co-operative stores are to be opened soon; plans for the third block houses are completed. M. Saturdays, 2 P. M. at All modern equipments and accommodations, cul- tural as well as social in- stitutions, size of rooms as well as rent—is same as that in the second block of houses, times. The sale of textile goods through the syndicates hs increased 82 per cent; leather goods, 51 per cent; kerosene, 99 per cent; sillicates, 52 per cent; salt, 99 per cent, etc. Investments in the Yogostal. The total capital investments enterprises of the Yugostal (South Steel Trust) this year will amount to 80 million roubles, which is almost) twice as much as last year. Work is now in progress in restor- ing four blast furnaces. Work has! been started in the construction of a) huge blast furnace in the Makeev) plant with a capacity of 10 to 12 in} Mary Martin ovens are being re- stored and their capacity increased | and a new one is in construction, The Yugostal foundries are also restoring the electric motor. power. Work has also been started in en- larging the production of rolled iron and tubes. However, this capital work is in-} sufficient’ considering the growing demands on metal products and the accelerated wear and tear of metal- lurgical plants which are in many eases working at higher pressure than before the war. Aecording to} approximate figures, the shortage of east iron in 1927-28 will be 40 mil- lion poods in spite of the increased output of the Yugostal of 12 to 15 per cent. This will necessitate ecapi- tal investments next year. Sell Cheaper Than Private Trade According to the figures of the People’s Commissariat of Finance, the difference in prices between the State vate enterprises is ex- pressed as follows: | October, 1926, aud Apr commodities are 25 per cent dearer in private enterprises than in co- operatives and sillicate goods almost 30 per cent higher. The cooperative ‘and State enterprises sell all manu- factured products at considerably lower prices than the private trader. Workers Cooperative Contest. Returns are already coming in on the contest for the best cooperative. The Central Workers’ Cooperative has already received a communica- tion from the workers’ cooperative centre of Sormovo, Nizhegorodsk province. The average reduction of prices of that cooperative between | million poods’ of cast iron a year.| January 1 and June 1 is 11 to 15 per- cent. The cutting of prices affected 2,785 items. The financial situation in the Central Workers’ Cooperative is absolutely satisfacory. Between , 1927, the net profit of the cooperative was 103,- 239 roubles. The administration and organizationat expenses have. been reduced from 11.14 per cent to 9.45 per cent of the turnover. The capital of the cooperative has increased 147 per cent in the course of one year.. The turnover is in- creasing every month. During the last two years it has increased six- fold. The number of shareholders has increased during two years from 7,500 to 16,000. Seventy-six per cent «f the turn- over of the Sormoy cooperative falls to articles of primary necessity. The electfon campuign of the agri- cultural co-operatives of the Soviet Union shows, according to statistics in regard to 114 societies of agricultural producers and credit co-aperatives, a considerable development of mem- \ | wealthy. | Members’ attendance at meetings yacillates between 25.6 and 62 per cent., whereas last year there was a .35 per cent average attendance. At- | tendance was even better in the socie- | | ties of special co-operatives — 60 to 80 per Gent of the membership. | Peasants Interested. | | The degree of the general activity |of co-operative members can be seen ; by the number of discussion speak- ers, on an average 17 to every co- operative, It is\also noticeable that the unor- |ganized peasants take an ever-in-! | creased interest in co-operative meet- lings. On an average 60 per cent of | the participants in meetings were peasants who are not yet organized |in any co-operative. Non-members too took an active part in the meet- ings and came forward with practical | proposals and open criticism. | Fifty-eight per cent of the mem- bers of administrative organs were | } re-elected; this implies bilizafion | of the movement. Participation of | Poor and middle peasants in admin- | \istrative organs has risen from 67.5 | per cent last year to 76.4 per cent. Of | | the members of administrative organs | (in 35 societies) 26.4 per cent have no| horses and 52.7 per cent only one} } horse for field work. This cor responds approximately with the so- cial composition of the membership of agricultural co-operatives. The percentage af party members in ad- ministrative organs has risen from 14.8 per cent lgst wear to 21.2 per cent, The Rosa Luxemburg Brigade a oo aremamosaeen carte, The Women’s Brigade, named after their outstanding leader, is one of the prize divisions of the Daily Worker Army. Under the yoke of Capitalism women are meant to serve one purpose only—as breeders of eannon fodder. In the Daily Worker Army our women comrades fill the most important posts and are in fact one of the most dreaded sections of the proletarian forces. The Rosa Luxemburg Brigade of the Daily Worker Army is particularly effective at factory gates. Here their , wonderful persistence and courage has been shown time and again, in factory distribution campaigns and in daily sales of the Daily Worker. At lunch hour and closing hour these picked troops are to be found fighting on the... front lines. ots Permitting the enemy no moment of rest, these tireless warriors utilize the evening hours for the purpose of approaching and winning additional recruits for the growing army of Daily Worker Readers. Victory in the drive for Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker will depend to a large extent upon the courage a activity ofthe ° osa Luxembi 7 Brigade. “a MM wm . i :