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

rt THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927 Page Three The First Paraffin Works in the tions. Collective agreements as a USSR. |method of regulatimg working con-| The first paraffin works in the| ditions and wages gre continuously USSR has started in Grozno. The|developing and affecting larger first supply of paraffin is already| groups of workers. out. Whereas in January 1926, 6,700,000 With the beginning of the opera-| workers were affected by collective tion of this factory imports of paraf-|agreements, at the end of 1926 the fin have been stopped, number of workers was already 7,- New Collective Agreements. | 872,000. Thus 1,170,000 additional The workers’ and employees’ orga-| workers or an increase of 16 percent were brought within the scope of col- nizatoins conclude collective agree- | ments with the various administra-|lective agreements in the course of i saoaaibehae Wiieaiisamabdnibiliediadaahaiaadaadt iio | one year. | The number of additional workers affected by collective agreements has |inereased both absolutely and rela- The Tragic Case of _ |} increa | In Januar 1926 87 percent of the} SACCO and | workers were affected by collective} ' || agreements, and in 1927 89.7 percent. V N NZETTI | “Collective agreements affected 96.4 | percent of the industrial workers in |1926 and 97.2 percent in 1927. In Special Features in the New September Issue of the The number of collective agree- | ments increased in comparison with | last year by 18,000.. Their total num- | ber on January 31st, 1927 was 89,272. | They affect the various unions in the following manner: Trade Union No. of No.of | agreem. people aff.} {Industrial unions 25 3,014,600 Builders 298,800 da S S e S Transport and Communications 2,084 1,306,500 sepia tliat Office ‘workers 81,026 1,655,500 Agricultural and HEYWOOD BROUN forest workers 10,828 908,200 Construction of Vessels. | \ | The Lloyd Bulletin in reviewing the | World” writes on “The | world situation in shipbuilding, points Case of Sacco and |) out that the, Soviet Union occupies Vanceit ” ‘now the eighth place in shipbuilding. | ore {This is a great accomplishment for | MICHAEL GOLD | the U.S.S.R. as before the revolution, describes the city of | |no merchant ships were built in | Russian yards. Boston during this |) About 100,000 tons of merchant’ most exciting time. JAMES RORTY | The noted columnist |! of “The New York |} |Ships have already been built in the) S.S.R. Only recently 14 merchant vessels were launched in Leningrad. contributes a poem on |It is planned to build another 12. THE FIVE OF THE DEFENDANTS AFTER THIRD DEGREE — District Attorney Wm. W. Kleinman has himself photographed with five of the six workers arrested in the police frame-up of foreign born toilers after the harmless bomb explosion at the Brooklyn city hall. Jesus Silva and Jose Roa The district attorney is at the extreme left, and the wor hristozal. They show evidence of police brutalit: shown, are from left to right: Eugeno Fernandez, Julian de Hoyas, Mario Medrine, a CHINESE STUDENT GONFERENGE PUTS REVOLTONAGENDA Also Invites Browder and Gomez to Address) MADISON, Wisc., Sept. 7. —The | | Mid-Western Section of the Chinese} Students’ Alliance in the U. S. A. opened its Eighteénth Annual Con- ference here today, with as chief ems on its agenda the subjects, The Abrogation of China’s Unequal and the relationship be. Cotton Areas in Fergan. Sacco-Vanzetti. | ART YOUNG , has drawn one of his brilliant cartoons. OTHER FEATURES on varied subjects drawings, cartoons, ar- ticles and stories by noted writers and art- ists. | the Soviet Union put this year ow | average. | more than last year. The Fergan main cotton district of | 22) | 000 dessiatins of soil under cotton;} | this is 15-16 per cent more than last The condition of the crop is almost everywhere above the In as much as forecasts can be|Harl Browder, recently returned from |made from the present conditions|China, sent Secretary Li the follow- | there will be about 14% million poods | ing telegram: | 25¢ a Copy on Newsstands Subscription $2.00 a Year TO DAILY WORKER READERS A special introductory offer of $1.00 for 5 Months uy THE NEW MASSES 39 Union Square NEW YORK, N. Y. Enclosed $ mos. subscription, Name Street .. Horthy's Hangmen | Jail 250 in Raids Torture Workers | BUDAPEST, Sept. 7--In a seul {outburst of white terrorism, the Horthy dictatorship has seized 250; | workers on charges of carrying on |ved propaganda. The arrests are the | result of a series of raids of which the police threaten more. The pris- oners, who have been thrown into ; dungeons and torture chamiers, are! | being submitted to the most fearful punishments in an effort to make them incriminate themselves and others. The complete absence of proof against their victims and the necessity for incriminating evidence in order to make a case has raised the cruelty of the terrorists to an, unheard of fury. The Horthy dicta- torship which, though supported by | the fascist hordes of Mussolini, feels | itself less and less secure after seven| |years of frightful barbarism against the workers, is using every means | to exterminate the progressive ele-| :ments tthe AIF a Anti-Imperialist | League, who has been invited to| address it. Gomez was delegate to| | ments among the Hungarian working | | Treaties,” tween nationalism and Communism in| } China, | In answer to an invitation from the jalliance thru T. C. Li, its secretary of | program. committee, to address their | conference on “any phase of the gen- eral topic, “The Chinese Revolution, | “Please extend the Chinese Stu- jdents’ Alliance my fraternal greet- jings and best wishes for successful | work. I deeply regret that the con-| vention of the Workers (Communist) | Party prevents me from accepting your kind invitation. | “The Chinese revolution today is/ the pivot of world political develop-/ ments. The revolution must proceed | to a drastic solution of its fundamen- | tal problems: particularly the land) must be given to those who work it. “The recent turn of Wuhan policy} towards suppression of mass move-| constitutes a most serious threat against a successful revolution. | The courageous statement of Mme.| Sun Yat-sen denouncing the Wuhan government’s policy as a surrender| to Chiang Kai-shekism points a prop-| er line which has been endorsed by | the central committee of the Kuomin-| tang in America. It is my sincere) hope that this line, supporting the! workers and peasants, which is the policy of Sun Yat-sen, will receive)! the unanimous support of the Chinese | Students’ Alliahce. | “With warmest greetings, EARL} BROWDER.” The conference expects the attend-| ance of Manuel Gomez, secretary of | the Brussels anti-imperialist congress class. 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IL WAR IN NATIONALIST CHINA A dramatic eye-witness’ account of a six months’ stay in China, as a member of the International Workers’ Delegation, during which the author visited over 40 cities and towns, during the period of the Chiang Kai-shek split. With original documents and photographs. 25 CHINA AND AMERICAN IMPERIALIST POLICY By Earl R. Browéer.—A picture of the role of America in the Chinese” ei —05 ($2.00 a hundred in bundlo lots.) CHINA IN REVOLT A discussion on China by outstanding figures in the Com munist International, 1S 1 TEEN The demand for “The Awalia ening ef China” hag brought out a mow attractive edition at hal} price, NOW 50 CENTS DAILY WORKER PUB, Co, 83 First Gtwest, New Fovis The Soviet Union Hears of Sacco-Vanzetti Execution MOSCOW (By Mail).—The protest movement in many towns of the Soviet Union against the execution| been a} mighty demonstration of the interna- | tional solidarity of the proletariat and! of Sacco and Vanzetti has an impressive proclamation of faith- fulness to, the Comintern and_C. P. Meetings were again held in Mos- cow, Leningrad and other cities, at which the speakers denounced the monstrous: treachery of the bourge- ois a@xecutioners, and called upon the workers to join the International Red Aid to work with greater energy in its ranks, and to take part in the efforts for the defence of the Soviet Union. The resolutions passed were given the power of decisions and empha- sized these slogans. Every works and factory found its own words of condemnation for the murderers, and own Words of appeal to the work- s of the whole world to raise a resh storm of protest, to close their ranks beneath the banner of the Com- intern, and to fight against the social traitors of every political shade and tendency who have done nothing to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the clutches of their master: Twenty thousand workers took part in the demonstrations at Lenin- grad. Posters called upon the inter- national proletariat to utter “a unan- imous protest against this vile mur- der, and to join the united front of | Meet-| the proletariat of the world.” ings attended by both crews and of- ficers were held on all the ships, and everywhere in the Baltic fleet. All the ships in the merchant vessel docks at Leningrad have hung their flags at half mast. Pravda Analyses. The “Pravda” writes as follows on the execution of Saeco and Vanzetti: * * * With a sadistic cruelty, possible only to a degenerated clags, Saceo and Vanzetti have been kept in prison for seven years in constant expecta- tion of the torture of the electric chair. archist views. But nothing confutes their theories so completely as their own fate. ment, actually threatening capitalism, culminated neither in an anarchist “non-récognition” of power, nor in individual terror, nor “refusal to have anything ‘to do with the state,” but in an unwearying struggle of the proletariat to gain possession of power. The political significance of the Sacco and Vanzetti affair, and the political import of the struggle of the workers in this special case, will not be recognized by those who fail identify > ution of two American workers with international reaction. with the present period of reactionary offens gainst the pro- letariat, aga 1e first worke: state and against the Chinese revo- lution. The conclusion to be drawn MOSCOW WORKERS GREEF-MME; SUN AND EUGENE CHEN Spokesmen f oe USS: Hail Chinese Masses MOSCOW, S sen and Eu minist jthe protests and rights of the work-j ers of the whole world by capital. Kiev Workers Protest. The resolutions passed by the proletariat of Kiev declare that the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti strikes the first note of the coming inexorable struggle of the working class agai that bourgeoisie which has committed this unheard of crime, this deed of blackest infamy. “We shall never forget the night of the 23 of August.” —Mme. Sun Yat- mer foreign vernment re- ion when hey were k umerous dele- Chinese The Executive Committee of the IRA and the Executive Bureau of the 3 a A : communi rein that the indignation of (RILU publish appeals to the interna- nen Universe prewed eg Suk ian the. jn. | tonal proletariat. The appeal of the! of of the jdatice’. nd k of objectivity” of |RILU points out that whilst the lead-| peop) riat and the American courts of justice. The|°"® <a setoemelem, under, tire rpeaiire | ning : d women, indignation of the proletariat must |°f, the masses, entered protests ping, ng in the be guided into the path of the really | azainst the. execution of Sacco and name of the Chinese Moscow com- proletarian struggle agains ‘he anzetti, this action was not energet-| munity declared: principles of capitalist rule. ie enough, and its actual effect was Denounce Traditions. <7 acco and Vanzetti are not the|‘® binder and hol back the sponta- ... Seep ge aianste +, ma * 2 neous movement against the blood- Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yu-hsiang first mart; in the cause of the and other tra to cover proletariat, nor will they be the last.|‘hirsty Aimerican bourgeoisie, The future will bring us even more | frightful examples of bourgeois ter- ror. | The Executive Bureau of the RILU er of Saceo and Vanzetti, and for calls for a protest against the mur- their ac s of the Sun Yat- eling are sen were Sacco and Vanzetti held an-| The revolutionary move- | in a passive Preparedness for ,the fight against this terror means the, maintenance of the unimpaired unity of the interna- \ tional proletariat on the basis of the struggle ‘against the offensive of capital, against the war danger, and against the treachery of the leaders of the rotting Amsterdam. and Second Internationals. The insolent cruelty of the bourgeoisie cannot be crushed so long as the forces of the interna- | tional proletariat are scattered, and so long as the workers are led by the middlemen and lackeys of the bourgeoisie, who have not taken one ingle definite step towards the re- [leads of Saceo and Vanzetti, but raise a loud lament if the Soviet Union deals a blow at the white guards in self defence. The proletariat of the Soviet Union has vanquished the bourge- oisie in bloody battle, and knows from experience what bourgeois ter- ror is, especially when the bourge- oisie gives way to brute rage. The proletariat of the Soviet Union feels the approach of the tempest of im- perialist war, and it recognizes in this execution one link in the chain of the offensive of international capital, one more insolent derision of preparation for the decisive battle p ¢ Id not dare against the accursed bourgeois order. own adven- The Academy of Science held an extraordinary meeting, at which a protest resolution was passed ex-|§ pressing indignation at the execution, and full agreement with those who are fighting against all elements at- tempting to substitute real freedom by phrases about freedom. with the fi Worke The chairman of the American state in the world. V workers’ delegation at present in! that the Communi: Moscow, Jeassdanrer, declared to Vanguard of t ni represent, es of the press that the! ¢,.. that |delegation, like the millions of work- dae exte ,ers all over the world, is completely oy tas convinced of the innocence ef Sacco wakes which and Vanzetti. Their execution is a the Aeaeid ; crime, a ruthless aet of class venge- ance en the part of the American bourgeoisie. The proletariat of all! countries, and in the first place the « proletariat of America, have received Hite. hav a memorable lesson. And the words hs a scbh of this lesson are: proletarians, or- etelge |ganize yourselves for the for the victory! ghted me r he Union of So- d therefore we realize wh foundly believed i friendship been able to con- 1 and internal revolution Union to the celebrate with t its tenth an- niversary Popov, repr ‘ow Soviet, “The we ive of the Mos- f the Soviet Union en closely following the of the Chinese revolution 3 believe that in spite of the tempora: fight and | defeat the true revolutionists of China will be triumphant.” | The women workers of the Matve- yeva mill greeted the Chinese revolu- | tionary women thru Mme. Sun Yat- sen who are following the path of the BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS “See Russia for Yourself” GREAT RE | Russian women. | Mme. Sen Greets Russian Workers. A Jubilee Tour to witness the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revoiution Eight Weeks OCTOBER 14 TO DECEMBER 15, 1927 London-Helsing A REVELATION TO ALL VISITORS Bpeetal privileges {o representatives of Organt+ RUSSIA ors-Len CEPTION—BEST ACCOMMODATIONS 100 TOURISTS ONLY gationg and Inetitutiong Appiy immediately ta WORLD TOURISTS, Ine, 69 Fifth Avenue New York: Algonquin 6900, “A New World Unfolding” | Sun Yat-sen’s widow published in | the press the following greeting tothe | proletariat of the U.S.S.B.: “The left Kuomintang is a revolu- tionary o tion struggling for the toilers of Ch from the yoke of foreign imper' and internal ex- ploiters. It on behalf of mil- ed masses which from produce a cadres of | true olutiona: fighting for the establishment of the power of the working class in China.” In greeting to the proletariat of | the Soviet Union by Mme. Sun on be- half of the revolutionary masses of res “the bonds uniting slutionaries with our | revolutionary brethren of the U.S.S.R. | are indissoluble.” | Betrayal of Generals, “The betrayals of the generals,” ft continued, der cover of the name lof the Kuom and false leaders jcannot break our fighting union. I am happy onally con- | vey to the fi proletariat }of the we t gratitude of | the Chinese toi and suppor |rendering to the lions of op: our revolution, | “Long liv y union of the pro! R, and the Chinese toiler Three States Claim Roth. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7. — Caml A. | Roth, arrested at the request of Balti- more police on a charge of forgery. | also is wanted in Waltham, Mass., and | Waterbury, Conn., local police were | ndvised today. | Roth*has refused to walve extradi- | tion to return to Baltimore and now promises to becomo the center of a threo state fight for his custody, He in suspected by local police of being a They say, Roth was attempting to make hia Wetaway, to sail for Europe, when the;{ captured him, p mombey of a giant bond swindle ring. °