The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1927 KELLOGG SENDS © TARIFF THREAT AGAINST FRANCE “Ally” Doesn’t Bow WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. —France was officially informed today that the United States stands ready, to increase fmport duties on French goods unless the discrimination’ against American products, under the new French tariff - Schedules; is removed. This atitude was revealed in a brief note delivered to the French foreign office in Paris, in reply to the French rejection of the American proposal for a most-favored-nation commercial treaty. ¥t 1s understood here that if the French show a desire to continue nego- tiations over the tariff question, the parleys likely will be in Washington rather than in Paris, as originally contemplated. Only three most-favored-nation treaties have actually been ratifiea and that the modus vivendi arrange- ments with other countries—fourteen in all—can be terminated on very short notice. The three countries with which the United States has most-favored na- tion agreements are Germany, Esth- onia and Hungary. Such treaties with Salvador end Turkey have been signed but not ratified. The countries with which the United States has modus vivendi arrangements are Turkey, Brazil, Poland, Albania, Czechosloy- akia, Dominican Republic, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua and Rumania. The tariff war with France might influence the twelve other countries with which the State Department is now negotiating for most-favored-na- tion treaties. These are Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Yugo- sldvia, Honduras, Brazil, Czechosloy- akia, Poland, Finland, Latvia and Guatemala. It is anticipated that the practical ultimatum .of the state department will catch the French foreign office at a disadvantage, as the artificial welcome of the American Legion, necessary to French capitalists in in- ternal politics has made it difficult for them to immediately whip up resent- ment for U. S. imperialism. They will simply have to pay the price, in the opinion of state department at- taches, Detroit Workers Will Celebrate Annual Party Ball, September 25 DETROIT, Sept. 20—The annual autumn festival and ball arranged for Saturday September 25th at the Workers’ Home 1343 E. Ferry Avenue by the Workers (Communist) Party »vill open the Fall season of workers’ recreation in Detroit. Each year larger crowds attend this annual affair of the Party. The thousands of workers who have ac- cepted the Party leadership in the recent demonstrations and organiza- tion drives will pledge their support to the Workers, Party by their pres- énce at this annual ball. Many enter- taining features are being arranged by the committee, in addition to a union orchestra that will play all evening. Many distinguished guests will be} present among them Earl Browder. | ‘The Ball will be International in, every respect, the workers of every nation will be represented including the workers from most of the op- pressed nations of the world. Ad-} mission of 50 cents is being charged. Ree Pathologists in Kiev Call World Scientists To Stop } New Slaughter MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 20. \|—The Kiev All-Union Congress of pathologists has adopted an appeal! {to the scientifie workers of the | world: protesting against the at-| tempts to draw the U. 8. S. R. and all mankind with it into a new slaughter. The appeal calls upon | all intellectuals thruout the world, | |to protest against the efforts to | destroy the first proletarian state | which has created the best condi- | tions for scientific work. U. S. Capitalists Force| League to Tariff Talk| (Continued from Page One) to convene at Geneva a diplomatic | conference of duly authorized: repre- sentatives of the governments’ mem- bers and non-members of the League of Nations, with a view to the fram- ing of an international convention for the abolition of import and ex- port prohibitions and restrictions. The | invitations to the states will be ac-j| companied by the documents already | prepared by the Economie Convention. | Nov. 14, 1927, is the date provisicn- | ally fixed for this conference.” It has been decided provisionally that the conference should meet on Nov. 14, 1927, but the council may, if circumstances require it, alter this | date at its next session. At the same time the council de- cided to communicate to all the gov- ernments ‘invited to the confereny: the enclosed document (C. I. A. P. 1) drawn up by the Economie Commit- tee to serve as a hasis for the con- ference’s discussions. This document contains a preliminary draft interna- tional agreement for the abolition of import and export prohibitions and 1éstrictions, preceded by a brief his- torical sketch and a summary of the results of the inquiries conducted by the Economic Committee with the governments and the commercial and industrial organizations of the various countries and followed by observa- tions ‘on certain articles of the pre- liminary draft agreement. In the two annexes will be found the amendments proposed and obser- vations submitted by the organiza- tions concerned and by certain gov- ernments concerning the individual articles of the preliminary draft agreement. I should be glad if you would be so good as to let me know whether the United States government is pre- pared to send representatives to this conference, I have the honor to be, sir, Your obedient servant, ERIC DRUMMOND. * * * Secretary Kellogg’s Acceptance. Secretary Kellogg’s reply read: The secretary of state of the United | States of America refers to the note | of the deputy secretary general of the League of Nations, dated April 2, 1927, in which he was good enough to invite the government of the United States of America to attend an in- ternational conference with a view to framing an international convention for abolishing import and export pro- hibitions and restrictions. The gov- ernment of the United States is glad to accept the invitation of the League | of Nations and to participate in this conference, which, it is informed, will eonvene at Geneva on Oct. 17, 1927. The president has appointed Mr. Hugh Wilson, American minister to Switzerland, to attend the conference as the representative of the United States. He will be assisted by one or more advisers whose names will be communicated to you as soon as pos- sible. | with the machin KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSE LUXEMBURG Youth International | By JULIUS ALPARI. (In the previous installment Com- rade Alpari tells of his offer to pre- sent to the Youth Conference the re- port on the economic question if he were allowed to attack the reformist conceptions of Danneburg.) * * * It was not difficult to convince Liebknecht on this point. But I had also to win over de Man, the secre- tary of the international centre. When I had succeeded in this I was able to set about the work, and discussed my report repeatedly with Liebknecht. He agreed that in the first instance we should concentrate on the youth in large-scale industry. The demands of my resolution met with approval. As far as I can remember today he criticized that I had set the limits for compulsory education too low; he in- sisted that the importance of special youth organizations for the economic struggle be more sharply defined. For the rest he merely made some changes in style, especially in the theoretical section’ of. my resolution where he considered many formula- tions too trite. He found fault with the statement that only with the growth of machinery had real exploi- tation of the youth begun. I did not want to give in on this point and urged that the most acute exploita- tion of apprentices took place in small industries as a result of competition We had not decided our dispute prior to the conference. Liebknecht based his argument on manufacture, which already carried on large scale exploitation of children. I quoted Marx’s “capital”: “The work of women and children was the first word in the capitalist applica- tion of machinery. - This powerful substitute of work and workers places the entire working class family under the heel of capital.” Finally, we found a formulation which satisfied ‘all parties. Opposed Workshop. On the economic programme there were no further, differences of opin- ion. Only one point was the cause of a heated discussion, namely, national apprenticeship workshops. Danne- berg wrote a pamphlet on ‘this sub- ject in which he advocates the estab- lishment of apprenticeship workshops as the only means of remedying the exploitation of apprentices. He de- Jubilee Tour » Soviet Russia “The Land of Amazing Achievements” Eight Weeks, Oct. 14 to Dec. 15 An unusual opportunity to participate in the Exten- sive Pageants and GALA FESTIVALS that wiil mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. BEST ACCOMMODATIONS. WORLD TOURISTS, Inc., 69 APPLY IMMBDIATELY TO GREAT RECEPTION, Fifth Ave., New York. Algonquin 6900 ae The Foundation of the manded that this should form a part | of the minimum programme of the | | social democrats and that special cam- | paigns should be carried on to realize \it. The Austrian delegation, support- |ed by the Swiss and one Czech dele- | gate, insisted that this apprenticeship | workshop idea should be adopted in |our economic programme. I opposed | The so-called apprenticeships consti- | tute a very small section of the c | ploited youth. If the capitalist states |should. establish special apprentice- ship centres for these it would. only ‘intensify the split in the ranks of the workers which woule be used in the} struggle against the proletariat. We ‘should not cherish ~any illusions that the exploitation of apprentices can be abolished under capitalism. Our de- mands’ must be: - protection: of appren- tices for the limitation and overthrow of capitalism, for the abolition of ex- ploitation. Finally, my point of view gained the day and it was unanimous- ly decided not to insert the clause on! apprenticeship workshops in our pro- gramme. j The Stuttgart confererice accom-| Page Three { | | | overthrow of the dominations of the bourgeoisie. Just a brief reference to the par- ticipants in the conference. A num- ber of Ri n-comrades were pres- | ent. Their were not mentioned, | I never met the gain. Perhaps as far as they still exist they will report. I entered into a long conversation | with one of them from whom I learn- | RESOLUTION Adopted Unanimously at Memorial Meetings for Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sunday nzetti, Yeomen August 28th, 1927 and at Bridge neco and Square, Minneapolis, Monday Evening, August 29th, 1927. . * + We, the workers and citizens of Minneapol nbled to protest against the judi f eco. and Vanzétti, desi 0 express ves and to those-who have wor! ir 1our of our common bereavement. We pledge ourselves to ¢; wherever and whenever they of fréedom is established everyw blage; free speech and free pr hollow mocke as has ma Vanzetti def We further pledge ours: the measure of freedom which won. We plec our brothers and Chairma Secretar: (Whats What» Washin: 0 By HARV oO’ NNOR. poised also on the brink of d trous reverses. With dizzying rapidity, strokes have been launch lig R ed for- lenged supremacy. Critical Moment. Coming right at the moment when: American domestic production and trade are visibly headed downward, with unemployment jumping ahead at a dangerous pace, the foreign attacks seem to be timed to complete an en- y on the fight a to fight or and until t e@ an acco 1 demon of n S. A. STOCKWELL. y: HARVEY WATTS. sacrosanct | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (FP). workers, | American port ti) right at th of the zenith of its prospe and penet protected indus- |tion into foreign markets, seems) perience what a f nd is on the four dependents in mage than Ambassa- eign business interests against Amer-| dor Pue. suave Argentin- Jican trade, and at tpe same time | 1@n, has e state depart severe assaults have been levelled) ment that the of Sacco and against American foreign policy and|Vanzetti by M is one of the entire fabric of hitherto unchal- the good reasons why American tar- not wanted in his coun- of other rea- h influence es are . There are plenty ns too, including Briti in Argentina, controversies over em- bargoes placed on Argentine goods and the Monroe Doctrine. The spy provision in the tariff act to be deleted in the session. ed that he had been a Bundist. Ba-lsire discomfifure of cocksure indus-| SCS SPies ate charged with ind- labanova represented the Italian|+iiatism which has reigned in New 18 out Production sts 3p ee youth. Comrade Remm took the | york and Washington so confidently COUN es 1° the purpose of keapiig minutes of the conference. Gustav | nce’1921, A quick tumbling of the those very commodities out of thé Moller the Sw: delegate warmly on eT United States. Naturally these com- supported Liebknecht, he became later the minister of the Swedish king. | Zetal Hoglung told me that this same | Moller after the war, is said to have | declared that given the choice “Lieb- knecht or Noske” he would decide for Nos De Man, who, together with Liebknecht, had done most to ring about the conference, has had| an interesting career. He was a mili-| tant Marxist, a bitter opponent of | Vandervelde. He volunteered in the} war, and after the February Revolu-| tion went to Russia with Vandervelde prestige the Coolidge-Mellon- Hoover political machinery and dif- ficult times for the speculators who have run amuck in the New York stock exchange are seen as direct re- sults of the world-wide bombardment, | directed momentarily from France, | Argentina, Panama and Canada and/ aimed at tariff provisions and other trade objectives, | England As Enemy. The Geneva naval arms fiasco, bringing out the British Empire as the main foe of the United States government, may well have started mercial agents are about as welcom* abroad as American naval or diplo= matic spies. Most countries haye ac- cepted them sullenly but in Argen- tina anti-American sentiment is now so strong that they will not be toler- ated at all. California Judge Gives Injunction Against Seceding Iron Workers plished a very important piece of|in order to support Kerensky and his the serious’ slide downward ‘of Amer-| SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 20.— - work. A year previously we had no} idea of youth organizations or of what bactivity they carried on, At that time! |Wwe learned that in the various. coun- tries there are three main types of youth organizatio: anti-militarist | organizations (Belgium and a part of | Seandinavia), educational organiza- | tions (Holland, Switzerland), appren-} ticeship protection organizations | (Austria, Hungary). Now an inter-| national is formed which had devel-, oped a teyolutionary programme of | work for all organizations. i powerful step was thereby made for the inclusion of the proletarian youth | |in the elass conscious struggle for the| i i | A NEGRO ST UDENT, BACK FROM VISIT TO THE U.S. S. R, offensive as a “left.” Finaily, from his impact with Marxism he came*to the conclusion that not he was bad, but Marxism. Before the war we| were close friends, and also during the war I had hoped that he would find | the way to us. I greatly regret his | loss. In April, 1922, I met him at the conference of the three internationals in Berlin where he acted as interpre: ter for the last time for the II. In-} ternational. Exactly 12 years had| elapsed since we had met. De Man} The first recognized me at once, came to me | possibilities in 1928 and the signifi- and exclaimed: “You are of course in the III, International!” “Of course!” | I replied. } ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT FREE EDUCATION THERE BALTIMORE, Sept. 20 (FP).— Students in Negro colleges are read- ing with interest the report brought back from Soviet Russia by Richard | Hurst Hill, senior at Lincoln Uni-{ versity, and published this week as ranked as one of the most influential | race papers in America. | Hill went to the Soviet Union as! the result of a scholarship award from | a New York student group, won} through membership on the Lincoln} debating team which defeated Oxford | last: winter. He was most impres- sed with the pfogress of education | in the Soviet Union. “All education is free in Russia, ineluding colleges and professional schools”, he reports. ‘Not only is tuition free but board, lodging and other expenses of the students are paid by the government. Compulsory education laws are enforced in many} places and even workers in the fac-| tories manage to spend two or three hours a day in study. Ask About’ U. S: Lynchings. “The lowest peasant on Russian farms is better informed about the} economic conditions of this country and of other countries than the aver- age American”, Hill found. ‘“Stand- ing for a few hours on an isolated | _Russian farm talking with a peas- “ant, I was asked, ‘Are they still mis- treating and lynching colored people in the southern part of the: United | States?’ i “I found copies of the Afro-Amer- jiean in Moscow. Stribling’s Birth-/ right’ has been translated’ into Rus-' sian as well as Walter White’s novel | ‘Flight’ and books by William Pickens. | “All industry is owned by the Soviet; government except concessions to foreigners which revert to the gov- ernment in time. The result is that) the poor people of Russia long. op- essed under the Czar are living ppy and peaceful lives for the first time in history. Their pay is fixed by the government. Workers live in government owned houses. The standard of pay is not far below “what we have in America. Social insurance provides fot the workers } the leading article in Afro-American, | . | and their families if for any reason | they are ill or incapacitated for work. | Not Interested In Christianity. | “The average Russian is not only| more intelligent than the average | American, but he is more enthusi- | tic about what he terms ‘our gov-| ernment’. He is more interested in| its success and works more ardently | to bring that about.” i The younger Russians are not very | keen about christianity, Hill di covered. “We want nothing of christi- anity, especially the Amerian brand”, | he quotes them as saying. “Look what it has done for America where Jews and Negroes are hated and mis- treated.” | Disagree Over Paternity. | LOS ANGELRS, Cal., Sept. 20. —| Juanita Montanya, Spanish dancer and | film actress, today was scheduled to appear in the district attorney’s of- The dancer accused Beery of attacking her and named him | as the father of her unborn child. | Beery returned here from a hunting | trip yesterday. He made a complete denial of the assertions contained in | the dancer’s complaint, Churchgoer Hit By Car. BAY SHORE, N. Y., Sept. 20. — Charles Smith, a middle aged em- ployee of the Mrs. George R. Turns- butl estate at West Islip, near Bay Shore, died in South Side Hospital this morning from injuries he re- ceived when struck by an automobile yesterday. Smith while on his way! to church, was hit by a Ford car} which was struck by another car and overturned, { Another Chicago Robbery. CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Six masked bandits armed with shotguns, held up four messengers of the First National Bank of Cicero, a suburb, today and escaped with $95,000, of which $56,- 000 was cash, $19,000 checks, and $20,000 ait Ee bonds, ican prestige, but the Sacco-Vanzetti| Judge Shields of the Superior Court case, the American Legion invasion| has issued an injunction ordering | of Paris and the insolent attitude of} cal union No. 118 and the Western American manufacturers in insisting| District Council, which seceded from on easy access to foreign markets}the International Ironworkers Union; while closing their own home market! to stop using the name of the Inter- are the big factors. }national union and to turn over all Hoover In Decline. | funds to the international. The lead- On the political field, the echoes of|ers of the seceding union, James the sudden decline in prestige, pro-| Sullivan, R. M. Hagerty, C. W. Grit- duction and foreign favor are to be|tenden and George Pillsworth, observed in the trend away from| Coolidge and Hoover as presidential ) | . >C. AMUNIST INTERNATIONAL eel Ong ot he Ease Camminte of te Comins Inarmamen No. 12 OUT NOW! ERY month con- taining a survey of the most important de- velopments affecting the world of Labor. Leading figures in the Commu- nist International are regular contributors. 10 Cents a Copy Issued every two weeks cant statement of Andrew Mellon, boss of the eastern republican party, that he is for Hughes, who has di- voreed himself from the present ad-! ministration. The revolt of the Chi- cago bankers against the Mellon-con- trolled Federal Reserve Board indi- cates further division which comes |, with reverses. In the meantime the state and com- | merce departments fumble about ner-/| vously in an effort to solve the con- tradictions of the Fordney-McCumber | tariff act in international relations France’s action in raising her duties| on American imports to a level with the American tariff on French im-| ports has created havoc in the camp} of the high tariff crowd. Protest are beside the point: Even the Fran- | cophile sentimentalists are a little as- tonished that France should grant favored nation concessions to Ger-| many, the late enemy, while boosting duties on goods from America, the! well known savior. Sacco-Vanzetti Murder. | The high protective tariff is due} for hard knocks in the next congress, as (the result of the new complica-| tions. Workers and farmers will be) joined by exporters, democrats, inter-| $2.00 a year. $1.25 six mos. THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 83 FIRST ST. NEW YORK inetignal bankers and progressives in “GH? 2 Sie” |fice to be questioned regarding her | | $1,000,000 suit against Wallace Beery, | noted film actor. Revive the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund Many comrades have allowed their contributions lag during the summer months. Now is the time of renewed activity. Now is the time to start again with the Sustaining Fund and build it up on a stronger and firmer basis. With a strong Sus- taining Fund, our financial troubles will be things of the past. Do your share in your Workers Party unit, in your union and fraternal organization or club. to Send Your Contributions To the Sustaining Fund DAILY WORKE 33 First Street New York, N.Y, Local Office: 108 E. 14th St.