The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1927 Ten Years of Soviet Rule | Inspires Renewed Campaign) for American Recognition By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, INCREASING attention is being given by the Amer- i ily press to the question of ognition of the | Soviet Republics by the United States gov- | an ¢ e, especially at this time, to lose sight t that the Soviet Power has now ruled suc- | for ten ye: us the New York Telegram, the Scripps-Howard newspaper in New York City, Friday, Sept. 30th, says:) “The point is that by November Russia will have completed ten years under continuous Soviet Rule.” | Similarly, on Sept. 17th, the Telegraph, the Hearst paper in Pittsburgh, had declared: “The wise thing for the United States would be to | recognize the government that has lasted for years, al- | lowing the Russians to manage their country as they | choose while we manage our country as we choose.” * * * | Neither editorial seeks to give any thorough analysis of why recognition is opposed by the government in Washington. Only two arguments are advanced, and an effort made to dispose of them. They are as follows: FIRST: That the Communism advanced by the Union of Soviet Republics is hostile to the capitalism supported by the United States Government. | SECOND: That recognition followed by the coming | of a Soviet Ambassador to Washington would result in “an increased flood of Communist propaganda in the United States.” Both the New York Telegram and the Pittsburgh Telegraph k to deal with these objections. * * * The Telegram views American recognition of various and sundry governments in all sections of the world as follows: “China has been in chaos for some 15 years. One government after another has come and gone at Peking, few having even the slightest claim to legality and most being the rankest sort of usurpation by political bosses backed by pe al armies, } “Yet we have never been without diplomatic represen- tation at Pekin. shington has recognized each gov- ernment thinking, Wa maintain conta explain, ‘z lot of irregularities. | “RUSSIA IS THE LARGEST AND MOST POP- ULOUS COUNTRY IN EUROPE. WE SHOULD MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH HER.” * * * as it bobbed up. And, to our way of ton has acted wisely. ‘We wish to with China,’ state department officials do so we must turn our blind side to a The Telegram cannot discover that the Soviet form vernment is any more obnoxious than “the military hips, called governments, which we wink at in It concludes that the United States is stand- IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN STEEL ROT Mme. De Silva, of London, has perfected a method whereby titaniferous sands are converted to high grade steel in one process. HUNDREDS OF WOMEN WORKERS VICTIMS OF EXPOSURE TO BENZOL POISONING IN THE NEW YORK FACTORIES Benzol, as used in stx factories in)daily inhalation of the fumes occurs, New York State, is declared to pro-|cases of chronic poisoning may be ex- duce chronic poisoning in virtually | pected. Its harmful effect in chronic one out of every three women work-j|cases is due to its direct destructive ers exposed to its fumes, according |action on the blood and blood-form- to the Women’s Bureau of the U. S.]ing organs, though it also acts as a Department of Labor, quoting from|narcotic and a nerve irritant. The a report just made public by the | condition may remain stationary at a New York State Bureau of Women;more or less mild chronic state for in Industry under the title “Chronic years or it may develop suddenly with Benzol Poisoning Among Women In-|great seriousness and perhaps fatal dustrial Workers.” | consequences. The fact that preg- The New York bureau states that| nancy is a particularly predisposing benzol, a distillation of coal tar, pois-|condition makes it of extreme Im- ons through the inhalation of its| portance in the health both of the fumes, which are heavier than air.| working mothers and of their child- Where it is used as a solvent, and the! ren. Current Even is By T. J. OFLAHERTY | we ManUmee Seay see (Continued from Page 1). will be much more rotten than it is if war between the countries was un-| now and more susceptible to tne revo- avoidable. The demands of the So-!lutionary axe of the workers. Union, tho presented with firm- | ig bi = were reasonable and Poland ap. ite danger of war against the So- parently came to the conclusion that viet Union might seem like the her own best interests would not bejcry of “Wolf! Wolf!” in Aesop’s s own light when it withholds recognition from the Soviet Union, especially for such a long period a s that Soviet Rule has been in existence. the argument that has been repeatedly ad- for the past ten years that have seen Ameri recognition of every fascist dictatorship in Europe, in- cluding those in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece and! Hungary, not to mention the other Balkan and Baltic! states. But there has been no change in the American at- titude. The three presidents, Wilson, Harding and Cool- idge have continued in the same hostile attitude. Whe they have made any statement on the question of Rus- sian Recognition it has been to declare that there is “nc change” in the American attitude. The former secre- tary of state, Charles Evans Hughes, who always voiced | bitter hostility to the Soviet Union, was succeeded by | Frank B. Kellogg im 1925, but there was “no change.” * * * During this period, however, postal connections with the Soviet Union have been established; the volume of trade bk veen the two countries has continually grown; there has been an increasing flood of travelers; Amer- ican business has carried on relations with the Soviet Government, notably the recent oil purchases of the Standard Oil Company of New York; American techni- cians and experts have gone to the Soviet Union to aid in the construction of industry along Socialist lines. * * * The state department and the White House would have had a difficult time explaining their hostility to | the Soviet Union, on behalf of Wall Street’s international s, to the American working class, were it not for t given them by the reaction that rules in the n Federation of Labor. There are more out- spoken advocates of recognition in the senate and house of representatives at Washington than there are in the Annual Convention of the A. F. of L. that assembles to- day in Los Angeles. Within recent years even sym- pathizers with the Soviet Union in the A. F. of L. con-| ventions have been silenced by fear. When they have raised their voices, like Tim Healy, of the Stationary Firemen’s Union at Detroit last year, a campaign of extermination has been launched against them. Healy, has now been ousted as president of his organization. * * * American labor may be faced with the spectacle of no | resolutions introduced in the A. F. of L. convention at Los Angeles demanding recognition of the Soviet Union, while at the same time it is certain that such resolutions will be placed before both the United States senate and the house of representatives when congress convenes in December. | When the Hearst press, in 1923, opened a campaign | for Soviet Recognition, supporting the favorable report brought back to this country by Senator King, of Utah, and others, it was the former president of the A. F. of L., Samuel Gompers, who was the spearhead of finance capital in its attack on Hearst. * * * That the American workers are not aroused on the issue of recognition is seen by the fact that a flood of resolutions and telegrams demanding recognition will not pour in on the A. F. of L. delegates, now assembled in Los Angeles. All honest workers, however, on this tenth anniver- sary of the Soviet Union, will immediately begin a care- ful campaign of education among his fellow workers, on the job, in the trade unions, everywhere, to acquaint American labor with the full meaning of the fact’ that a Workers’ Republic has stood for ten years, ruling for the workers and farmers, the producing masses, over all Russia. Nearly four years ago, on December 13, 1923, Repre- sentative James A. Frear, of Wisconsin, speaking in congress, pointed out that 20 capitalist governments in Europe and Asia had been forced to recognize the Work- ers’ Government. The task of the American working class is to get | unity and unanimity in its own ranks on this issue, in| favor of recognition, against the non-recognition at- titude of the officialdom. : This is one way of cementing the solidarity that must develop between the working yoasses of these two lands. served by continuing to be a head-| fable, but the danger is very real in- quarters for gangs of assassins|deed and as inevitable as anything operating against Soviet leaders, but!could be. The main question is: by a more peaceful policy, based on|when will the imperialist powers now mutual commercial interests, led by Great Britain think the time : a ripe for the offensive? The intensifi- HERE is reason to believe that Po-|cation of monarchist-terrorist ac- land’s negotiations with the Soviet | tivities inside Russia speaks for it- Union are not conducted without the|self. Nevertheless a soap-box orator imowledge of the French foreign of-|for the American Labor Party stated French diplomacy is not well) last Saturday night that there was no tisfied with the present political) danger of war, and quoted Marshall tuation on the continent. Italy and| Foch of France, Real Admiral Bliss “ngland are too close for French/ of the United&States and other mili- mfort and Downing Street has been tary celebrities in proof of his con- g with Germany ever since the| tention. A workingclass orator is y st gun was fired in the world war. ngland is trying to bring~Germany nto the anti-Soviet bloe and it is doubtful if this arrangement will prove satisfactory to France. JHE Polish minister to Moscow is now visiting the Ca s where ne will have an opportunity to see he gushing oil wells, for which the aperialist powers would sacrifice ions of lives and the self-deter- ination, of a half a dozen small na- ons. Perhaps Poland may earn a zlotys by acting as a middleman the distribution of this oil! At any rate the last shuffle has not been ven to the diplomatic cards. The oviet Union is willing to go a long to help maintain peace. Given years more of peaceful develop- ment the Soviet Union would be strong» enough to stand off the Im- perialist world, which by that time hard up for props for his premise when he must call on professional \capitalist militarists for assistance. * * Bre speaker informed his audience that he and his party |were against every other working- {class party in existence. This ad- mission would seem _ superfluous, ‘otherwise his party would have no excuse for existence. He wants a Labor Party because we must get all jthe workers into it. But it appears ; that there will be first and second- class citizens in this Labor Party. It |must be run by native sons, for tno jthe foreign workers are alright in their own place the slogan of “Amer- ica for Americans” seems to be the slogan of the American Labor Party, if the soapbox was correctly voicing the opinions of Messrs. Salutsky and ‘Lore, the parents of this 100 per cent (American political miscarriage. |THE same Royal Idlers Will Perpetuate Inheritance To Blood Stained Millions of Leopold Heir to Belgian throne 1s expected 10, Picture shows Princess Astrid, the mother-to-be, and Prince Leopold. If the child is a prince he will be named Albert, Prince of Belgium and Count of Hainant. If pewcomer is in honor of her regal grandmother. rounded with all possible pomp to Leopold and Princess Astrid were mony. * soon, some time between Oct, 1 and a girl she will be named Elizabeth, Christening ceremony will be sur- make populace forget that Prince not married with @ Cathollo cere- ae 4 Bf aie J Pee See ee ae American Delegation to U.S.S.R. Declares Workers Laying Foundation Well AMERICAN WORKERS’ DELEGATION IN THE DONETZ BASIN. | The American workers’ delegation went to the Donetz Basin. During a conversation with representatives of three union organizations, the chairman of the delegation, James H. Maurer said: “Your working class can not only build up its own state, it can also solve questions which will take a long time to solve in bourgeois countries. Our visit to the mines and to a number of works has convinced us that you have laid a sound foundation. In the United States lying statements about conditions in the Soviet Union are widespread.” 30,000 WOMEN MEMBERS OF VILLAGE SOVIETS IN UKRAINE. Preparations are going on in the Ukraine for the All- | Union Congress of working and peasant women mem- |bers of Soviets, which will be held in October. According to latest information there are over 30,000 women Soviet members in the Ukraine, HELP FOR THE PEASANTS OF WEST WHITE RUSSIA. The peasant committees of the WRSSR have collected over 800 roubles, 1,000 poods rye and 200 arshins linen for the peasants of West White Russia (Poland) afflicted by a very bad harvest. All that has been collected has been handed over to the IRA. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. From the beginning of the next school year compul- sory education from the age of 8 will be introduced in Rybnsk and Myshkin, Yaroslav Gubernia, (Central Russia). A “SACCO AND VANZETTI” AEROPLANE. The Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) works have decided to build a “Sacco and Vanzetti” aeroplane in order to strengthen the world revolutionary front. The funds for this are raised by 1% deductions from wages, MILITARIZATION MANEUVERS AND MANEUVERS IN THE U.S. S. R. Mobilization and experimental maneuvers are going on now in the U. S. S. R. In regard to this a section |of the bourgeois press has raised the usual hue and cry |about “Red imperialism,” “Soviet preparations for war,” fete. The only explanation for these frequent alarms jabout the “Bolshevik danger,” is that large sections of |the population abroad see danger to peace not where there is none, but where it really exists. Tt is no secret to anyone that the U. S. S. R. has the |Red Army and does of course its utmost to fit this army for the defense of the frontiers of the Soviet State. Everyone knows that army maneuvers and experimental | mobilization are one of the fundamental means for test- ! ing the fighting capacity of the army. Therefore, as in all armies and all states experimental mobilizations and maneuvers take place in-the U. S. S. R. every year as necessity arises, This is as much in the order of things as the present demobilization of the previous levies in the Red Army. Some of the bourgeois newspapers assert that this year the maneuvers and experimental mobilizations in the U. S. S. R. have somehow a specifically ‘“threaten- ing” character. All this is of course nonsense. It is a well known fact that the U. S. S. R. is not wont to use methods of military threats so very much in use in| bourgeois states. Soviet policy is not founded on alarm-| ism, on rattling the sword, but on business-like defense | of peace. Ps | Maneuvers and mobilization which partly have come to an end and partly still continue in the U. S. S, R. have certainly a characteristic peculiarity. This pecul- iarity consists in the fact that they have shown with particular distinctness the close contact between the pop- ulation and the Red Army, complete understanding by the masses of the necessity to defend the Soviet country and readiness on the part of workers and peasants to come at any moment to the defense of the U. S. S. R. It is quite possible that it is precisely this which had alarmed bourgeois scribes and those who are behind them. The millions strong masses of the Soviet Union know full well that an attack is being prepared on them, on their achievements and their peaceful labor. Eloquent testimony of this is Great Britain’s policy, negotiations behind the scenes in the League of Nations and a whole series of provocative actions against the U. S. S. R. Why this hue and cry about Soviet maneuvers and silence on the maneuvers of the Roumanian, Polish, Esthonian and other armies? The efforts of the bourgeois press to raise a hue and ery in regard to Soviet maneuvers and experimental mobilization is but a rotten attempt to conceal the truly gigantic work done by the imperialists with the object of preparing another intervention in the U. S. S. R. ECONOMIC CONSTRUCTION. | Big Hydro-Electric Station in North Ossetia. The foundation stone of a big hydro-electric station on the Gizel-Don River, North Ossetia, (Caucasus) was laid Sept. 13. The future station’s power will be 22,500 kilowatts. The Gizel-Don station will supply electric power for Vladikavkaz and the district of the Alagir silver-lead enterprises. It will also supply power to the Voskres- ensk oil industry. NEW ELECTRIC STATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA. | A number of electric stations is being built in Central Asia, some of them in very remote districts. It is also| proposed to put up big electric stations in Tashkent, Fergan, Samakan and Ashkhabad with at least 6,000 H.P. each. ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS OF VIENNA EVENTS. | Another group of Austrian and German workers ar-! rived in Leningrad to undergo a cure at the expense of | the IRA in Soviet spas. The group consists of 39 work-| ingmen and women including 18 participants of the July | events in Vienna. Many of them carry their arms in a sling, some of them are seriously injured and are in danger of paralysis of some of their organs. Most of these participants of the Vienna events are Social Democrats (16 Soeial Democrats and 2 Commu- nists). Most of the members of the German group are! also Social Democrats. H On the way from Vienna to Berlin, near Regensburg | the Austrian workers were attacked by the Bavarian po- lice. The invalids could of course offer no resistance. The police who rushed the railway-carriage took away the Red Banner which the Austrian workers were taking . to the U. S. S. R. TESTING OF A POWERFUL TURBINE. The first powerful Soviet steam turbine of a capacity of 10,000 kilowatt has been tried in Leningrad. The expenditure of steam is less than was stipulated by. the millions of movie-goers shall not be ‘impossible in the future. ‘tary cinema service should be or- ‘ganized and kept up. a Section of wing of ill-fated monoplane that sunk in Atlantic with J. D. Hill, Lloyd Bertaud and Philip Payne aboard. Wreck is shown being transferred from steamship Kyle to steamship Silver City for transport'to New York. American flag painted on wing may still be seen plainly. (international Ilustrated Newe) CO-OPERATIVES CONGRESS OF THE BRITISH COOPERATIVE UNION ‘ This congress was held on June 6 and 7, in Cheltenham. It met in an atmosphere of political excitement. The Tory governmént is making a big attack on the labor movement through the anti-trade unions bill and in the sphere of foreign politics, it is mo- bilizing all the forces of the interna- tional bourgeoisie against the first workers’ and peasants’ state and rev- olutionary China. If in spite, or per- haps just because, of the severance of diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the U. S. S. R., the con- gress decided to send greetings by wire to the Soviet cooperatives (by 8,292,000 votes against 955, this was certainly a good omen for the trend of the congress, War Menace. In accordance with the special eco- nomic and political situation three questions loomed big at the congress: the menace of war, the anti-trade unions bill and the. agreeinent between the cooperative and the Labor Party. The. resolution on the question of war, which was adopted unanimously, ! has already been published and criti- cized in the “Coopa inform” No. 8. In his opening speech the chair- man, Jackson of Gloucester, pointed out that the methods of the govern- ment are bound to create bad blood and to cause class strife and that a better connection between the coop- eratives and the trade unions is essen- tial. He reminded the audience that many cooperatives supported the strikers during the general and coal strikes, whereas some trade unions endeavored to cause strikes in coop- eratives. For Joint Meetings. Swales spoke on behalf of the Cen- tral Council of the British Trades Union Congress. He argued that “the joint consultations of representatives of the Cooperative Union and the Gen- eral Council of the Trades Union Con- gress will have to formulate a policy which will be beneficial to both bod- jes in the future. Never was there greater need for these two wings of the working class movement to work in unison.” ‘ “A resolution was adopted in which | the congress affirms its belief that attacks on cooperative societies must, if successful, injure every section of the working class movement in Great Britain, and it therefore welcomes the decision of the Cooperative Union and of the Trades Union Congress to ap- point a joint committee to formulate proposals intended to promote closer harmony between the two movements to prevent the repetition of events which occurred during the general strike of 1926.” It should be added to this resolu- tion that the British cooperatives, are . participating very effectively in the mass demonstrations against the anti- trades union bill, they lend their motor lorries, ete. WILL HAYS TEACHES US A LESSON By ROSE BARON. (international Labor Defense, New York Section) ; wee HAYS is the ezar of movie-; dom. He decides what shail be| shown on the motion picture screens | throughout the country. Ostensibly his job is to see that nothing salaci- ous. or indecent is produced at Holly- ‘wood so that the morals of tens of corrupted. * | Recently, however, Hayes showed his hand as a labor-baiting censor. The “Exhibitor’s Herald,” a motion picture trade journal carried a news item to the effect that all news reels taken of the Sacco-Vanzetti demon- strations etcetera are to be destroyed. This act of deliberate callousness was ordered by the czar himself after a) conference with some leading ex-!| hibitors. Thus all cinema records of this | world-famous case will be lost to the workingclass forever. Not only are’ the prints to be destroyed, but the) negatives have been ordered to be burned also. Those engaged in the motion pic- ture industry are fond of saying that the business is still in its infancy, that it is young and _ will develop | with time, ete., etc. . . . Infant or no} infant, it is financed by Wall Street! and its securities are listed on the: stock exchange. It receives its or-! ders as well as its financing from big /OUS organs of a man’s body he boys down on the street. And if Wall Street knows anything | it knows all about the minute little details of anti-labor propaganda. It. knows that the mere mention of the. names of Sacco and Vanzetti has a_ revolutionary effect on the militant: workers of America. The capitalist | press will see to it that the names of. these two valiant workers is never mentioned again. The motion picture men have now fixed things so that their likenesses will not be seen on) \the screen. { Some day a future labor cinema, producer ‘will want to make a motion picture portraying the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. The present ac- tion of Czar Will Hays will make this’ This latest act of wanton destruc- tion of a public recora should be a_ lesson to workers to be independent of capitalistic news agencies of all kinds. Just as a labor press should: be built and maintained so a volun- This is not as difficult as it might | appear—nor as expensive, Every, city in the country should have its, worker-photographer. All labor agreement. This is the first powerful Soviet turbine which is being exploited. Hitherto turbines not exceed- ing a capacity of 3,000 kilowatts have been inuse, covered and events in his territory should be photographed—strikes, on pickets, police brutality, and mass demonstrations. Moving picture cameras can be se- cured for as low as sixty dollars each. These cameras are easy to operate and can be managed by any intelligent worker with a flair for photography. The creation of a workers’ news reel service should be the answer to Czar Hays. This should be one of the many activities on the part of militant labor in answer to the cal- lous murder of our two comrades, Sacco and Vanzetti. The murderers of Sacco and Van- zetti are most effectively answered by the organization of all workers’ ac- tivities. Build the International La- bor Defense and avenge the death of Sacco and Vanzetti. Medicine-Man Seen as Type of Capitalist’s Quack Social Reformers By ROY E. STEPHENS. (Worker Correspondent.) Thru curiosity a few evenings ago I stopped to listen to a medicine faker selling his ware on a street corner. As I listened to him and observed the crowd watching his every move’ with mouths open, I thought how typi they were of the yokels who believe in the capitalist system. Holding a chart showing the pari- ated that of all life man is the most per- fect, e evidently never studied about insects, some of which far out- class man in perfection and do things instinctively that are far more wonderful than anything: man could hope to do. He also forgets or doesn’t know that the greatest phy- sicians in the world say that we have organs in our body that are not only useless but positively harmful to our well being. But he backs his statement up with the bible, saying, “Isn’t god perfect and didn’t he make man after his own image?” Fakers Cure Anything. Drawing his body and face into various shapes he then goes on to describe those who have been cured _by using his medicine, adding: “After they had taken ‘cure-all’ powder for ‘two weeks they were as well and strong as I. There isn’t any need of having bad health. Look at the Chinaman. He lives long because he uses this plant. Just note this root shaped like a man; that’s why it's valuable, It’s god’s gift to man. And so the show went on. I walked _away in disgust wondering how long people will continue to believe in fake medicine men and fake politicians