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

eral mills are being constructed there. (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—Must the badly oppressed textile workers |; of New England and southern mills look to the Soviet Union for the only | exception to their industry’s world- wide record of low wages, long hours and unemployment? The leading article in the eurrent Textile World, authoritative magazine of the indus- try, in a review of cotton raising and weaying in Soyiet Armenia would support such a conclusion. Alfred G. Smaltz, who has just re- i turned from abroad, recounts the re- markable achievement of the indus- try in the small Soviet republie which lies between the Caucasus and Tur- key. Both the raising of cotton and its manufacture into textiles were practically destroyed during the world war. “But in only a little over fiye years since Armenia became a} part of the Soviet Union,” Smaltz writes, “they have set about to re-!| habilitate their little country with so much energy and along such sound economic lines that they have achieved an almost incredible amount of reconstruction. which the Armenian cotton industry is being fostered reads as if it might have been drafted by an Armenian agricultural expert.” Soviet, Armenia Flourishes. The cultivation of cotton, Smaltz! states, almost paralyzed in 1921, was) Improves Industry, : The plan under |; pete cog hat pers ss tease a sae Rooting, rioting and reeling with liquid joy, 1,700 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927 American business men with a few army officers intermiy ae i] d, set forth on the Leviathan from resumed under Soviet control in 1922! New York for Paris, where, despite the contempt of the French population for those who reprgsent the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti, a frozen, with systematic distribution of high! grade seed and practical instructions. | Credit cooperatives were established, | experimental stations were opened.| Mills were established to manufacture cotton by-products. At Leninakan the cotton is made} into textiles in modern mills where nearly 7,500 unionized workers are! employed. Smaller mills are. being set up in Erivan and Karaklis. The industry and the union have supervised the erection of workers’ quarters in the new mill towns. In Leninakan, Erivan and Sadarabad, Smaltz investigated these quarters and found them to be “clean, neat and well equipped with sanitary facilities. More interesting still,” he adds, “were the signs of cultural life within the factories. The club rooms, the Jibrary and the theatre all indicate that at least some of the promises of the new regime have been fulfilled.” Erivan will be the center of the textile industry. A big hydro-electric plant has just been opened, and sevy- Current Events | \ Louemued from rage One) | between the Right and Left. The in- ternal conflict in the British trade union movement is graduating from the kid glove stage, and just as British diplomacy today is a blunder- ing thing compared to what it was} in the heyday of the empire’s might, | a consequence of the progressive de-| cline of British power, so will the | methods of the warring elements in! the trade unions change from the comparatively dignified conduct of! the past to a style of fighting bear- | ing a closer resemblance to rough and tumble combat than to a battle waged under the rule of the Marquis of Queensberry. GET A NEW READER! canned, cut and dried official welcome awaits them from the Poincare cabi The swivel chair soldiers make themselves gaudy with red, pink and white “overseas caps)” best afloat; Germany’s victors have never heen able to build one as good. is the his invasion of Mexico in a vain effort to capture Pancho Villa. net, The steamer herself was stolen from Germany; she Insert is a pifture of “Black Jack” Pershing, first made famous by ~ Our Letter from Australia| Australian Labor Party. ;not desire two labor parties to be in operation to further confuse the After 1 of iations er a great deal of negotiations, ein. and several postponements, the con- ference to bring about unity in the} New South Wales Branch of the Aus-; Tn the Iron Trades. tralian Labor Party was held on the| Friday, July 1st, 1927, was 23rd and 24th of July. There was al letter day Son ihe workers fot Ruse record attendance of delegates. The! tralia because on that day Judge whole of the decisions of the Easter] Beeby. brushed aside all hypocritical Conference were endorsed, and Mr.) humbug and exposed the Federal Ar- age Ne camer year the A. | bitration Court as a weapon for the . #. oftices and hand orer to the| employing-class This was done per Provisional Executive all moneys, | medi of the award. delivered in the property, etc., belonging to the party. engigfeers’ case. The award provides’ piece-work, dilutiom), of labor, ily hiring, and overtime at ordinary Rtes of pay. ‘Although ths ur hour week is granted _— cge and important um i * * ¥ | An effort was made by a number} £ of militant delegates at the ae ence to amend the rules « filiated unions would hay to be represented at Avs. .. a oar ferences by whoever they considered) ¢xempted, ae er most capable of representing them.| ihe Oy ed ace y hg on tne in- This amendment, however, was turn-} ustrial field—-does not by ae ed down by 252 votes to 80; therefore! compensate for the rest of the ward. Communists are not allowed to rep-| The award caused great con#terna- resent their unions on A. L. P. con-| tion among the arbitration ad*ocates ferences because the rules sper :fically | who gave voice to wails about the state that no member of the Com-j unfairness of it; but the more) intelli- munist Party can be a member of|gent section of the working-class, the A. L. P. knowing full well the function of ar- The Communist Party believes that) bitration “courts, Immegiaesiy: gat to a : cht fc |work to organize the workers to yond 4 that had been fought for, gnd won, in agitation among the rank and file of Dh % ps 4 the unionists to rally them around: bee aay They realized that the time this demand, which will again come had arrived for action, and that talk- up for discussion at the next confer-|!78 had proved to’ be worthless; that ence which will be held at Easter, if the iron trades workers were beat- 1998, en th erést of the workers would be ‘ defeated in due course. The Communist Party: is pleased { Nn lt eat ESE EEE I that the faction fight in the A. 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Other speakers were{ I Brauner, chairman of the shop) chairmen’s| ditures in metal industry nce | council; Harry Berlin bf local 10;| | 1922-28 economic year to 1926-27) Oscar Mileaf, Rose Worfis, H. Kore-| | economic year Emounted to 577 tiz, local $5 and Joseph|Boruchowitz | million roubles. manager, local 2. The state of wo connected with construction of new plants and capital reconstruction of old! ones will enable us to start new| works in time stipulated by the} plan. Relief Conference, Los A: gressive. Cloak and Boston; Branch 56, Workmens Circle, | Boston; Unity Committee of the Fur- riers Union; the Chicago Joint Board, | Cloak and Dressmakers union and the Cloak and Dressmakers fof Los An- geles. Test of Resolution. The resolution adopted reads: “Whereas, the cloak dustry of this city ig practically ruined thru the civil wer which has existed in the union for’ the past ten months and as a result we are endur- ing great suffering because of the terrible working conditions; (Federated Press.) And whereas, this chaos is being WASHIN intensified by the continued support to Wall Street fox $4,300,000,000, the of the employers ‘to the right wing! nations of Latin America writhe in ; clique in our union, which is repudia-| dabtors’ toils and their labors to free ted by the membership; themselves from the grip of Yankee “And Whereas, even tho the em-|imperialism tend more and more to By HARVEY O’CONNOR ployers and gangsters hav collabora-| fasten world attention on the score ted to force the workers to register | ¢ more or less independent republics with Sigman, the workers never SUP-! south of the Rio Grande. ported him, and his so-called organi-| Monroe Doctrine Questioned. zation drives have been nothing but Washington fairly snarled when a cloak for forcing registration and | pnrique Villegas of Chile, president the payment of dues) jof the council of the League of Na- Condemn Sigman, |tions declared that there is no good “Therefore, be it resolved, that we|reason why the League should not cloak and dressmakers. assembled in | interest itself in problems arising be- Madison Square Garden on September iween the American governments. 10th, vigorously condemn the action’ Villegas boldly cut through the Mon- of Morris Sigman and his clique who roe Doctrine with that statement be- have broken our union and under- fore the only body in the world rep-{ mined our working conditions; jresenting the joint interests of Amer-| ists claim to see the hand of Ameri- 4| fused. Bibankers. It is ~{eensed at the conyplete failure of its and dress in- LEAGUE IMPERIALISTS GLAD TO PLAY LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AGAINST WALL STREET ON, Sept. 11—In debt | “ Page ‘Three EIGHTH ASSEMBLY OF LEAGUE MAZE OF LOW INTRIGUE just received ship- | et ment of a new edition of |\See Hand of American Imperialism GENEVA, Sept. 11—The cabals jand intrigues going on behind the scenes rift Poland, | We have from England a the Communist ¢ here indicate a definite | between the great powers. f |which discussed with some of the 4 jother nations the general question of * ‘|disarmament withdrew her first pro- | posal and has another ready to sub- i;mit. It is understood that this one i/is more drastic than the first and is : ‘ is said to be absolutely unacceptable A SHORT COURSE - to the other powers. In certain ci f ECONOMIC SCIENCE A. BOGDANOFF cles statesmen and political journal- | an imperialism, which they charge | backing Poland and urging her to make such proposals as will be re- Drastic disarmament propos- | jals will be defeated but that will en- jable the enemies of the league to 4 a Revised and supplemented by jcarry on a world wide campaign to & Me Dvolatiaiky aave fect that it has collapsed. tion with the author. See idence of Worid Fight. Britain has been using the league | |for its own ends during the past two| years and its dominance frequently nterferes with plans of the Ameri, | felt here that the American capitalist government, in- lated by J. Fineberg. }own nayal arms conference which ended so disastrously, is playing cer- {tain small nations against the league | itself. | Vandervelde On the Job. Emil Vandervelde, hero of the so-| jalist international, flunkey of Al- bert the king of the Belgians and | ocial traitor, is there as the foreign | ter of the eapitalist. government | |of his own country and has promised |to support a second proposition of | |the small nations, that of the Holland j delegation which wants to revise the POLITICAL A. Berd- EDUCATION shops he has sent the\ workers back] | sie trilogy of arbitration, security and nikov A. Svetloy. habs 10 to a hours} a fe This | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 25| |disarmament approved at the fifth vEpe i oe ncaa neue afternoon's meeting Is.) start a.cam-) | (py Mail) Tw ndred fifty-| |assembly of the league and known cee mires fp paign, so the workers}can make a! y Mail).—Two hundred fifty e Vander} Cloth, $1.50 as the “Geneva protocol.” jvelde favors a plan whereby the at-/| = jtacked nation will he able to receive | jheavy loans from the big powers to jenable it to purchase the necessary |means with which to carry on war. | |This same plan is also approved by | jthe British tory foreign minister, |Sir Austin Chamberlain. | For the most part the real confer- Jence is concealed from the press and |the dirty work of the secret diplo- jmats proceeds without publicity, be- ‘cause they dare not face the light of \day with their real designs. THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 83 First Street, New York. We Ou METEORS CRORES UR “The Latin Amerigan states,” de- red Paul Boncour, the Frenchman ave only to bring any questions be |fore the council and the council will |be only too glad to interest itself in the amicable settlement of these.” ; |The League of Nations,” added Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain’s for- eign minister, “must become a real- ity, a personality in the eyes of the more distant nations belonging to it.” Commerce Watches Europe. While the state department occu-| |pies itself with counteracting League efforts to steal a march in America, {the commerce department eyes jeal- | ously every move of British and other jtraders and investors in American | markets, Julius Klein, head of the} bureau of foreign and domestic com- |}! merce and Hoover’s right hand man, | i, rt JOSEPH FREEMAN In the flght to save Baceo and Vangetti ihe eart B pearing i ons of is in charge of these activities. Sarton “That we demand that the em- ployers take their hands off the union; “That we call upon all cloak and dressmakers to continue to refrain from paying dues to the Sigman union and we urge them to pay their dues to the Joint Board and thus help bring an-end to the pogrom; ‘ For General Election. “That we demand: 1. The im- mediate reinstatement in the union of all expelled locals and individuals. 2. A referendum vote on the ques- tion of proportional representation. 3. The restoration of union conditions in the shops. 4. An immediate gen- eral election in our union, under the supervision of an impartial commit- tee, thereby guaranteeing us the right to choose our own leaders, “And be it further resolved, that we call upon the leaders of our Joint Board, in view of the present situa- tion.” f Start New Offensive. ‘ 1. “To"Begin’at once the launching of a new offensive against Sigman and his clique. 2. “To organize a mass movement of workers in the shops, in order to put an end to the civil war in our union before the next season begins. - “Down with the pogrom! Down with clique rule! i “Sigman and his hencemen who have ruined our union and our union conditions must go! “Long live a powerful and united union of the Cloak and Dressmakers! “On with the new offensive!” iea’s debtors and probably foreshad- owed the development of the League into the center of anti-American in- fluence both on the American’ conti- nent and in Europe and Asia. In ef- \fect, Villegas, speaking from the presidential desk of the League coun- cil, openly flouted the United States government’s insistence that Euro- it browbeats smaller American coun- tries unable to resist. The Indo-Latins, from ruling busi- ness classes down to the most prop- ertyless peasant, know that British, French, German and Italian imperial- ism is no better than the brand main- tained by Secretary Kellogg, but they do see some hope in setting the com- peting world powers to clashing over Latin American exploitation, That is exactly the contingency which the state department wis! to avoid. It hopes to keep European influence, as represented in the League of Nations, out of Je:in America so that there can be fio possible appeal from the superior force of the dominant Yan- kees. Panama Crushed. A case in point is the treaty the United States is forcing on Panama, tearing away every vestige of inde- pendence from the isthmian republic. Panama threatens to appeal to the League but the state department is sternly forbidding such procedure and insisting that Panama sign on the dotted line or pass into the category of marine-ruled countries like Haiti and Nicaragua. pean nations look the other way while | pages) — Scouting around in Europe for sev-| vary page eral months, Klein brings home the} ~ ma | bad news that Europe will be a more 25 CENTS dangerous competitor ‘than ever in markets to the south of us. Sure that Europe is recovering, he warns that} the possible implications of this re- covery in terms of more intensive | competition should not be overlooked | by American industry. Each of our leading trans-Atlantic rivals is mak-| ing preparations for active drives in| Latin American and Far Eastern markets.” | Wall Street’s Continent, | Development of speedy transporta- | tion and communication service be- feween Europe and South America is ja harbinger of the bitter fight to jcome. The two continents will be but |a few days apart when the proposed \combination air and ship services be-| |tween London, Paris and the Azores | |to Brazil begins, Italy is stationing | trade promotion officers throughout) {Latin America, the Germans are de-| |veloping a Berlin-to-Buenos Aires radiophone service and others are |promoting governmental credit insur- anee schemes, export subsidies, car- |tels and what-not, Klein reports. |The time for watchful, aggressive | initiative for American export is at} hand,” he concludes. | Thus the paramount struggle, dip- lomatic, financial and. commercial, of scaRINAaEA the next generation may be fought} Question Witnesses in Goldstein Case on American soil with Wall Street District Attorney Dodd of Brook« aiming at nothing less than monopoly lyn questioned three more witnesses control of the entire continent. of the drowning of Benjamin Gold-: ——_—_———- stein in Gravesend Bay on Aug, 269 Keep Up the Sustaining Fund | yesterday. 5 Each book has over twenty drawings by Fred Eilis— 1926 of sey enteen 50 with the ¥ artists—6 4 pages The cartoon book which was attacked by the professtonal patriots in the case against The DAILY WORKER. —$L DAILY WORKER PUB. 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