The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1927, Page 3

r THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1927 International Co-Operative Day in the Soviet Union | By SHIRLEY REEVE. 0X International Cooperative Day I happened to be in a military camp about 35 miles from Moscow. Here as well as in all parts of the So Union, judging from the rep: in the newspapers, this holiday was cele- brated with the greatest of enthus- | iasm. And not with their theory to practice, the Soviet Rus- sians make use of this day to increase the strength and membership of the cooperatives. Our meeting wound up with the organization of a camp co- | ss soldiers (this | operative. Two Red was a rather small camp) were elect- ed to take charge. This committee will get in touch with the main Red Soldiers’ Cooperative already existing in the vicinity within a few days the Red in this camp will be spending their pin money in their own cooperative | “Lavka.” (booth). * * + ‘HIS, the main speaker ing said, was the fifth celebration of International Cooperative Day in only with enthusiasm, but | famous talent for putting | y and it is expected that | soldiers | at our meet-/ f the English n¢ of the Eng- mole of “neu- d only to lass by tak- owards the ng them ma- . as the co- ré so well fitted to do if they caréd. Cc to this posi- tion, he said the ¢ 3 have as their ¢ i and and Union should {actions of the lead | cooperative | lish coal strike as an trality” which — serv strengthen the capitali i positio erialize. sants’ cooperatives, by | which the real growth and success of | | the cooperative movement can best, be judged, because of the peasant’s ha- tural disinclination to social forms of organization show a_ tremendous growth in the last four years. From a membership of 2,297,000 in 1923 the village cooperatives have grown to the enormous number , of 7,260,000 in 1927. If we take the average family to consist of four individuals, then the village cooperatives embrace over 29 millions persons. The consumption alist | village, as well as for clubs and other cultural work, the cooperative be-| |comes the ‘y heart of the social | life of the village. | | ne teat | { 0 late a campaign for lower prices tas been started and a great num- | {ber of cooperatives have already | } achieved a decrease of 10 per cent in) i their prices. As in all other campaigns | jearried on in the Soviet Union, it is the rank and file worker which is drawn into activity to insure its suc- vess: Revision commissions composed | }of members of the cooperatives are | elected at cooperative membership | meeting to survey the apparatus of the administration, the methods of buying and distribution, etc. These | report to the membership and bring } concrete suggestions for lowering the | cost of production and distribution | and thus the prices. | Thus while the workers and peas- | ants cooperatives in capitalist coun- | tries must aid the workers and all | toilers in their struggle against their | imperialist exploiters, if they are to fulfil their real task, the cooperatives in the Soviet Union have as their task } the Soviet Russia, and an opportune | statisties of these peasant coopera- time for examining the progress of | tives, for 1926, over 27 million roubles, the cooperative movement in the Sov-| show an increase of more than eleven j jet Union and of that in the capitalist | million roubles over the consumption to draw in the millions of workers and | peasants of the union into active par- | ticipation in the building of Socialism | in the First Workers’ Republic. countries. In Russia before the war, the mem- | bership of the cooperative for the year 1915 totalled two million and had a turnover of half a million gold) roubles. the consumers’ cooperatives in the Soviet Union, which covers less ter- ritory than did old Russia, totals ap- | proximately 20 million members which together with their families number | In the Mos- ; 100 million individuals. cow Gubernia (provinee) alone the turnover of the cooperative for the fiscal year 1925-26 was 760,200,000 roubles and five million four thousand roubles has so far,been turned over in the fiscal half year of 1927-28. Eloquent proof of Comrade Lenin’s | viewpoint that only under the dicta-| torship of the proletariat can the co-' operatives really develop free and un- hindered in the interests of all the toilers can be found in the fact that the increase in the cooperative turn- over of the Soviet Union between the Years 1923-25 was 344 per cent, while the increase of cooperative turnover in the capitalist countries ranged from 10 to 15 per cent. * * * N pointing out the dangers of a pol-| neither the profit nor the prémium | about 600,000 persons. The general’ the United States icy of neutrality on the part of the workers’, peasants’ or workers’ and peasants’ cooperatives, he brought the | of 1923 which was 16,105,000 roubles. | * * * "THE village cooperatives hits straight and hits Sard at the Kulak. Not | only has he no place or power in the * * * | MOSCOW, July 2. (By Mail.) i In reference to the International Day} of the co-operation the centres of co-, operative systems have summed up In 1927 the membership of | | cooperatives but he and his brother the results of their work during the | the Nepman are daily losing more and more of the little trade they are now permitted fo do, as they cannot com- | | pete with the nationwide cooperatives. For instance the prices of all pro- | duets of which there are a sufficient quantity to supply the demand, and these are generally natural products, power, | turnover of the consumers’ co-opera- | 7,000 million roubles yearl | the number of shareholders five times, actually reaching 12 are élevén per cent lower in the €0- | ions, | operative stores than in the private Seven Million Homes. | booths and stores. Industrial products | Agricultural co-operation counts 'on the other hand, the quantity of which is generally behind that of the | demand beeause of the continuous fost One third of all the péasant growth of wages and income of the | population of the union. Two thirds | workers and peasants, are sold to the lof the co-operated rural population jensen. by the ooperaiive be POH united in mass agricultural soci- prises at a price 30 per cent lower! cties Out of the 27 thousand odd than that of the private storekeeper tractors opetating in the USSR 80 jin the village. . per cent belongs to the agricultural | Yn addition to this the members of co-operation. cooperatives receive a yearly premium on their purchases from their respec- tive branches as well as a proportion- jate percent of the profits. But since ‘cent of all the handicraft workers, or | 60,000 co-operative societies uniting 7 million peasant homes, which fs al- which is the youngest branch of Sovi- are paid out until a definite percent- (turnover of the home industrial co- age of the profits is alloted to a fund operation is 650 million roubles, while | for aid to the poor peasants in the | the yeatly production amounts to 2,- Attractive Offers tor New Readers of the Daily Worker These valuable premiums, worth | FREE With Every Annual Subscription fo The DAILY WORKER Offer GOODWIN No. 2 (Ansco) CAMERA Regular Price | Not $2.50 Roll | {x3%. This ished and complete y _ detail. Has .tw r Vertic: or Hori; Piloeture Adapted for shot exposu quality Meniscus lens. book of instructions. With 7-15-27 DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Inclosed herewith you will find dollars for a months’ subscription a dollars with my NEWSSTANDS COUPONS. Please send me Offer No. ...... 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The en- tire proceeds will go toward the De- 'fense. Sam Liptzin will be present. All workers in New Jersey State are q urged to attend this affair. These Offers Are Good Only | Until August 31, 1927. ten years of the existence of Soviet) During these ten years the general | tion has grown from 500 million to} while} Since the ending of the cdlorful and turbulent career of King Ferdinand of Roumania by death, it center is Mich: At the very top, the has become evident that the real ruling power of the land is not, of course, the five-year-old grandson of the King who succeeded to the throne as King Michael I, or any other member of the royal family, but Premier Ion Bratiano. Above are pictures of the chief actors in this unusual royal drama, which the world has been observing with intense interest. Ferdinand’s reign. He was the lone Hohenzollern to stand with the Allies in the World War. artist has sketched high spots of In the |. boy king, whose mother is Princess Helen, eldest daughter of the late King Constan- tine of Greece. To his left, the last portrait of the late King Ferdinand hefore his last lingering fatal illness. To the right is Premier Bratiano. Below, left to right, are: Queen Marie, whom Americans know first-hand; Prince Carol, father of Michael, who renounced the throne to go his own way in Paris; Princess [leana, and Prince Nicholas, aunt and uncle of the new monarch, the prince also being one of the three regents named to protect the interests of the throne. ‘Trade Union Education | ‘League Protests Murder | (Continued from Page One) | numbers of workers, members of the | | Nicaraguan Federation of Labor, | peasants and others who refuse to} The home industrial co-operation,| surrender their freedom and national) movement of the United States and independence, who insist upon resist- | et co-operation, actually units 20 per! ing the regime of slavery foisted upon | several hundred natives at Ocotal, is | Nicaragua by the big capitalist of Challenge to American Workers | |__The lives of these three hundred| | Nicaraguan toilers and trade union-| | ists, sacrificed by American capital-| ists to increase their profits, consti-| j tute a challenge to the solidarity, ‘honesty and integrity of every work- ;ingman and working woman in the! | United States. The blood of the | Niearaguan patriots. and fighters for) | their national independence and free- | jdom is erying out to the American workers and their labor movement for the most determined struggle | against the American invasion of Ni-| earagua, against the brutal regime of | | American imperialism. | The Trade Union Educational} | League, speaking for the left wing} and militant workers in the Ameri-| {man labor movement, calls upon you | to raise your voice in the most ener- | getic condemnation of the killers and | |murderers of the Nicaraguan toilers| jand trade unionists. Every trade | union in the country must adopt reso- lutions of protest against the inva- | sion of Nicaragua demanding the im- | mediate withdrawal of all Ameri¢an armed forces and the punishment of | the United States officials guilty for the slaughter. - Support Nicaragua Labor. | The demand of the Nicaraguan! Federation of Labor must be sup-| | ported by the entire organized labor movement in the United States. Delegate De la Selva declared before (the congress of the Pan-American | Federation of Labor now held in Washington, D. C., that the laboring people of Nicaragua will not submit to imperialism, that they will rather die fighting the American marines than become slaves in their own country. The Pan-American Federation of Labor, must condemn in no uncertain terms American imperialism in Ni- caragua. It must give it fullest sup- port to the demands of Nicaraguan Federation of Labor that the Ameri- can imperialists withdraw from and keep their hands off Nicaragua. The half-hearted, insincere and evasive efforts of William Green on behalf of the Nicaraguian toilers must be substituted by energetic and honest struggle of the organized labor move- ment against American imperialism and its bloody agents in Nicaragua. Pass resolutions of \protest and condemnation of the killing of Ni- caraguan toilers and trade unionists by the armed forces of American im- perialism. Stand by and support the demands of the Nicaraguan Federation of La- bor. Demand the punishment and _re- moval from office of the American officials guilty in the Nicaraguan slaughter. and the immediate withdrawal of al! American military forces from Nicaragua. —The National Committee of Trade |rapacious march of American im- jthe South |inery cruiser class. MORE NICARAGUANS IN SIGHT Three hundred workers’ of Nicar- agua have been shot down in cold blood by American aviators. This ruthless murder has created a pro- found stir in the ranks of the labor Latin America, But the killing of not the last blood to flow in the perialism through Latin America, Max Winkler, famous statistician, | of Bertron, Griscom & Co,, Inc. raises | a beckoning finger to American] bankers, and points to greater and more glowing profits, which can be| extorted from the sweat and toil of American workers. He points to the fact that our invest-| ments in these countries have grown from about $100,000,000 before the! war to $1,973,800,000 today, and that| our commerce during that period has! grown correspondingly from $828,-| 000,000 to over $1,000,000,000 annu- ally. Mr. Winkler paints an inviting pi ture for the American imperiali “ Another “war to end war” is being] fought at Geneva, Switzerland, and| it threatens to be just as successful} of its objective as was the war of| 1914-18,—and not more successful. The fight at Geneva seems to be between two former allies—Great Britain and the United States. They are fighting to see who shall have the bigger navy,—as a necessary peace precaution. Britain wants 600,000 tons of sea-fighting mach- Ambassador Gib- son and the other American delegates object. Whereupon Viscount Cecil, a Britisher, loses his temper and hurls a verbal broadside at the Americans in the words “perfect nonsense.” And, of course, if Americans are to be accused of nonsense, they object to being accused of perfect nonsense, —and Lord Cecil is asked by the American Ambassador to retract his charge,—or the “war to end war” will itself be ended. The joke is: When this conference was called, everybody thought it was going to be a fight for advantage he- THE WAR AT GENE showing that as far as natural re- sources are concerned, Argentina has a per capita wealth of $1,442, Uruguay is second with $1,087, fol- lowed by Chile with $832, Brazil with! $530, Peru with $303, Bolivia with $303 and Colombia with 0, Mr. Winkler is of the opinion that loans floated in these countries for | revenue producing purposes should be weleomed by American bankers and investors because they are bound | to result in materially furthering our | foreign trade. The future history of these cou tries will be replete with an ever-in creasing record of American imperial. ist ruthlessness and cruelty, in chase for profit. No less than military “interventions” is the record | to date, covering Cuba, Panama,| Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Hai- | ti, Mexico, Honduras, Costarica, and | Colombia. More will follow as the American bankers eagerly seize upon| Mr. Winkler’s cue, until the workers of North and South American event- | ually join hands in a revolt against their common enem tween Americans and Japanese,—be- | tween white and colored. But, bless/ your soul, the fight has come be-! tween English and American,—the| two biggest “white” powers on the earth. They cannot agree,—exactly, | —for both want the same thing—| naval advantage. The Japanese must! be vastly amused. Our papers say that the action of the British is not’ very “cousinly” to-| ward the Americans. The papers are! wrong: the British action is nore | than cousinly,—it is brotherly; for that is what brothers do—fall out and fuss over the inheritance. The more | ee is to fuss about, the bigger the us. A suggestion to Geneva: perhaps it would be much simpler and easier to decide that nobody should have any navies at all than it is to decide who} shall have the biggest navy. If the Admiralty lords and am- bassadors do not hold their “tem- pers,” somebody will need to step in and put an end to this “wai to end war,” Curren (Continued from Page One) 5 deg British princes and one prime] minister are on their way to the! dominion of Canada, to help keep the natives of our northern neighbor contentedly holding to Mother Eng- land’s apron strings. The empire is| going thru a far reaching crisis now, | and needs the hearty co-operation of all her far flung colonies. Not only| is she preparing for War with the So-| viet Union but her bagmen and those | of Wall Street are growling at each) other. There is always something more than the craving for a hike be- hind the visits of British royalty. | * * . | ANUFACTURERS of airplane | motors were not crazy for noth- ing over the trans-oceanic flights of | t Events wince | a sense. Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Byrd and} others. The Wright Whirlwind | Union Edticational League—W. 2. Foster, Secretary. mot# company has just pocketed a ' , ee nice juicy government contract that speaks to the tune of $1,500,000. Those who held that those flights served to bring the peoples of the world closer together were correct in They will come together al- right if the capitalists have their own way and instead of ng it with flowers, they with bombs. will say i aS ti PORTING fans are still discussing the ways and what nots of the great Dempsey-Sharkey battle, It seems to us that outside of those who bet on the marine the discussion is conducted with a gentlemanly regard | for etiquette. Those sporting writers | who work up so much indignation over rival pugs are in the business} for what they can get out of it and unless they get the fans excited the gate receipts will not be enough to go around among managers, trainer and sports writers. 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