The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1927, Page 3

islet THE DAILY WORK EW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1927 NORWEGIAN UNION + DELEGATES WARN OF WAR MENACE. Call on All Workers to Co-operate With USSR. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Oct. 6.—Before it departed from the Soviet Union, | the Norwegian Workers’ Delegation | made a declaration signed by the De- legation’s chairman and _ seecretar Comrades Diedrichson and Voss. The! declaration contained thé © folldéwing | statement: | , | “As we were given full freedom to| | become acquainted with the Soviet system we were able to ascertain that the working class is really en-| joying the fruits of its labour. As to freedom of opinion and the} press, we fully understand that bourgeois and counter-revolutionary elements cannot have their own press | and cannot be allowed any other| means for the development of their} eounter-revolutionary activity. | During our visit to ,various gub-| ernias and districts, we could see for ourselves that the working class is} wholeheartedly on the side of the} Soviet government in the struggle} against imperialist and counter-re- volutionary intervention. | Executions Essential | In regard to the execution of 20) counter-revolutionaries, we are of the opinion that this was necessary for the preservation of the dictator- | ship of the working class. This! execution must be considered as a} preventive measure in regard to fur-| ther terrorist actions. Thereby thousands of workers’ lives have} been saved frcm further assassina- tions on the part of counter-revolu- tionaries. The achievements of the Russian} workers through the proletarian re-| volution and the progress they have made with Socialist construction strerethen the working class of the | world. The workers of all countries must keep in close contact with the work- | ers of the Soviet union to counter act the reactionary policy of capital-| ism and the menace of war. We think it essential to establish a close union between the trade unions of the U.S.S.R., Finland and Nor-} way, to form a Russo-Finnish-Nor- wegian trade union committee whose | task shall be: promotion of the in- ternational unification of the world proletariat and mutual aid in trade anion and social conflicts.” The Event — The Red Bazaar, The Time — October 6-7-8-9. The Place—Madison Sq. Garde Me e Shipper-to China, Fight! Over Duties Reveals Now WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Prohi- bition America is helping to pro- mote the sale of beer and wine in China. This dual position was revealed today by the state department, which has protested to the Nank- ing government against “excessive” duties on liquor and tobacco enter- ing Shanghai. Nanking needs the money to fight the North. The liquor is being shipped from the Philippine Islands, where the Volstead Act is not applicable. Americans there protested that the Chinese tariffs would ruin their liquor business, The state department told Amer- jicans to pay duties provided for only under existing treaties and not | to pay the special levies on liquor. For $10.27 Money Order I will ship to any worker Ibs. best dried Prunes Ibs. Sultana Raisins 5 lbs. Figs 5 Ibs. dried Peaches, All new pack and fine quality. LOUIS BERGOLD Roseburg, Oregon. jlarger supplies. Dry America Is Big Rum {ee | “Post” } ESTHONIAN LABOR DELEGATES RALLY WORKERS TO ‘GUARD U. S. S. R. AGAINST FOREIGN IMPERIALISM MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. |to its departure from the U. § | §.—In the public declaration made prior, | . $. R., the Esthonian Labor Delegation, | | | which has been recently touring the Union, states that the delegation | | obtained all facilities for aw unhampered investigation of all aspects of| | life in the U. 8. 8. R. | Describing their impressions the delegation s: that the thing that struck them most was the unceasing work being carried on for the im-| ‘provement of the condition of life of the people in all spheres. | | Having investigated the political structure of the U. S. S. R., the) | delegation expresses its conviction that the Soviet Union is a genuine! workers’ state in which the workers in alliance with the peasantry are the administrators, and that the form of state of the U. S. S. R. is the | best-form that can be established. Jt is precis such a form of state,| | | says, the delegation, that is necessary for achieving socialism. The U.| 3. S. R. is the only country that is democratic not merely in words, but) in actual fact, and that it has solved the national question in the most} | just manner, | The U. S. S. R. desires peacefully to continue its work of building | up socialism, continues the declaration, we must see to it that it is not | hampered in this task by a single predatory imperialist state. The work-| ne class of Esthenia will fight by all means in its power to prevent the | bourgeoisie froni carrying out their despicable designs. | The declaration is signed in the name of the whole delegation by | Comrade Grimpel. Sir Henry ‘Deterding i British Imperialism’s Prophet By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. \V. é : 1 VI HE HAS } ONE IN BUSI- : eter @ lander | \ rat omen ante ree “i NE The letter and the prediction Sie iL tren ees ae aa hentai! it contained ARE A TRANSPARENT FOR HIS English king, and head of toyal ATTEMPT TO TERRIFY TUE| Dutch Shell, the British controlled ANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY company which is the chief com- petitor of Standard Oil, has set off a new blast against the Soviet Union. The latest denunciation of the So iet government, which Sir Henri characterizes as a “gang of thieves,” and whose early fal! he predicts, as published in tne New ¥ times for October 5, has two purposes. First, it is part of tne general of- fensive against the wWov.cr carried on by British imperialism. Second, it is a blow at Standard Oil which has contracted for large quantities of oil from the Soviet Union and which is negotiating for ings.” WO things are apparent from the above quotation: First, that Sir Henri’s predictions, while they express his wishes, have very little to do with his opinions of the stability of the Soviet Union. Second, Sir Henri’s prophetic ability is not to be taken very seriously since is prophesy of 1926 already a year overdue, UT what is serious is that con- trary to indications of some ten days ago, Royal Dutch Shell backed we Bacal with considerable success its cam- paign against the Soviet Union in France—a campaign which is linked directly with the competition between Soviet oil and the product of Royal Dutch in French territory. INCE the successful conclusion of these negotiations will strengthen the Soviet Union and at the time give the Standard an acc b oil supply with which it can enter in-| o fierce competition with Royal; ‘The attempt to recall Rakovsky, Dutch in many of its m profitable | preliminary to a break with the So- |markets, and probably drive it out of viet Union, behind which is British some of them, Sir Henri makes his! annual discovery that the Soviet! Union is about to collapse. | |WYITHIN one month of the Tenth’ | Anniversary of the establishment | | of the Soviet Government, when thou- | sands of workers are making the trip to Moscow for the revolutionary an- | niversary, Sir Henri repeats ail the! hoary = -and- -diseredited~ jies of a thwarted imperialist. On Page 132 of his “Oil Imperial- \ ist’? Louis Fischer has the following |to say about Sir Henri (This book,’ tish ke |by the way, is to be found on the} on this issue and by making war on |desk of every oil company head in'the Soviet Union first it hopes to the world.) | unite imperialism in a drive on the “ir Henri is intent on preventing | Workers and peasants’ republic and la deal between the Russians and the | for the time press the inner-imperial- Standard. For what other reason did| ist rivalries into the background. he consent to make himself the laugh- iV E see in these rapid developments ing stock of his fellow directors. by| ™* one outstanding fact: It is that | writing a letter to the London “Morn-; the conflict between the imperialist ing Post” in which he prohesied the/| countries is not sufficient to check FALL OF THE SOVIET GOVERN-|the imperialist offensive against the MENT BEFORE THE END OF 1926? | Sovict Union and remove the iminent Deterding knows full well, unless he;danger of open war upon it. is completely out of his wits, that} The latest denunciation of the So- there is not the slightest indication} viet Union by the head of Royal of any weakening of Bolshevik power; Dutch Shell, and even his foolish in Russia. Yet... his letter to the| prophecy, is a sign for the working cannot be accepted as a/jclass that defense of the Soviet Union literary exercise. NOR WAS IT Allis the foremost of its tasks. diplomacy, is gaining headway, and unless checked by immediate future developments will end in a rupture of the relations between the Soviet. Union and France. RITISH imperialism needs the oil reserves of the Soviet Union. It needs them for its navy, its shipping fleet and its industry. Tf it cannot get them on ‘its own {terms it intends to aliow no other ‘imperialist nation to have them—cer- tainly not America, its chief rival. British imperialism will go to war CUBAN WORKERS ARRESTED WHEN THEY TRY | TO CARRY ON UNION ACTIVITIES IN OPEN | A convention of the Confederation the Machado government. |National Obrera de Cuba was held; After having weakened the unions ‘yecently in Havana, Cuba, The con- thru fascist terror this puppet of Wall | vention was called by the City Central Street now allows them to meet in the ‘Labor bodies of Havana, Matanzas, | open again. The proceedings of the |Sagua and Cruzes and was well at-|convention, however, show that the | tended by delegates from the various abor mevement mecting in this con- ‘local unions of Cuba, amongst them | ference was different from the pre- \the railway workers, building trades. | marine workers, shoe, printers, cloth ling, ete, The convention was held after the} unions have been practically driven} underground by the murder of many of the leaders that led the strike of the plantation slaves, by agents of unions lost in numbers the martyrs of the struggle did not die in vain. A more militant, more class-conscious body of workers assembled in this convention. Wall Street Government. It was an anti-imperialist conven- Local Office: 108 E. 14th St. Revive the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund Many comrades have allowed their contributions to 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. 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. ; Send Your . To the Sustaining Fund DAILY WORKE tion. After the experiences of recent years, these delegates learned to un- derstand that this colony of the U. S. A. with its puppet government was but a tyranny set up by Wall Street A committee was elected to formu- late statutes and carry on the work. The government immediately showed its displeasure and arrested the mem- bers of the committee and the general secretary, who are now awaiting trial, This is the kind of democracy work- ers get in territories and dependencies controlled by “our” democracy. Guerilla Bands Kill Serbian General and Government Threatens With a strong Sus- BELGRADE, Oct. 6.—The govern- ment announced today that severe measures will be taken against Ma- eedonian rebels following the murder at Stip, southern Serbia, of the Jugo- slav General Kovacevic. i The general was shot by two un- || known men, believed by officials to have keen Macedonian Komitaiis. Contributions 33 First Street New York, N.Y. TI-BOLSHE- | with which Sir Henri has close deal- | by British government, is carrying on | ceding ones and while some of the} JUDGE LAZANSKY PRAISES JEWISH FREEDOM IN USSR |Tells of Progress in the Workers Republic With special praise for the devel-| opment of Jewish colonies in the |Soviet Union and the establishment | of children’s playgrounds, Judge Ed-| 1 Lazansky has returned from e U. S. S. R. with an optimistic view of the country’s future. “Conditions the are developing rapidly,” he said. “So far as one can , things are normal. There. are sputed signs of recovery.” “Before we went into Russia we were. cautioned. against. the project,” he said. “We were told that to go| would be dangerous, that we would] be assaulted by hoodlums. “With. this state of - mind, we kmew not what to expect. We did} find a peaceful, courteous people, ready to show us everything, ready |to answer all our questions. | Furnished With Guides. “In Moseow there is a Society for| Cultural Relations with Foreign| Countries. This society furnished us {guides who showed us the co-opera- | tives, and who took us everywhere! t in the Kremlin, where they said a convention was in progress. “Wwe ited an art museum and| |saw fully 5,000 persons eager and in-| terested in cultural affairs, We vis-| jited a playground in Moscow where! the children of the employes of the | co-operatives, thousands in number,| studied music, played games, and ap- peared to be very happy. They told) us there were six of these play- grounds accommodating 100,000 and} more children, Jewish Freedom. | | “The Jew, also, has gained in pres- tige and freedom in Russia, Justice} Lazansky said. Before the war’ no Jew could enter Leningrad or Mos-) cow unléss he was a professional.) Today there are 175,000 Jews who! have become farmers, he said. Eco- nomic and political freedom has been granted to the Jews.” Justice Lazansky was particularly interested, as a leader in Jewish charities, in the relief and reconstruc- tion measures, which were proving of | great assistance. During the past three years some 1,500,000 rubles ($750,000) has been expended under) the control of the Agro-Joint Dis-| tribution Society. Three other so- cieties are assisting, the Ort, the Ozet and the Ikor. Raised $15,000,000. These organizations have raised $15,000,000 for relief, and are anx-) ious to increase this amount to $25,-) 000,000. In line with this purpose, | Justice Lazansky is. to attend a con- vention in Chicago on Oct. 22. TEXTILE WORKERS: OF BOHEMIA WILL | DEFEND U.S. S.R. eu 3 Praise Soviet Union in Offer to Die for It | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct, 6.—The | Central Committee of the Textile Workers’ Union of the U. 8. S. R. has| received a letter from the Conference | of the Czecho-Slovak textile workers | which is going on at present in Bo-| hemia (Czecho-Slovakia). The letter contains the following statement: | “Only in your country, where power | is in the hands of the working class, | do workers’ wages increase and is pro- | vision made for their welfare. The! delegates to this conference know that | the capitalist world hates the U. S. S./ R. for these achievements and takes | up a threatening attitude to the So- | viet proletariat. We are ready side) by side with you to defend the U. S. R. from the attacks of its enemi being willing even to lay down our lives. The mass of Czecho-Slov. | textile workers is now more than ever | letermined to back the U. S. S. R. and | Soviet textile workers.” | The General Committee of. the Tex- | tile Workers’ Union of the U.S. S. R.| | wrote to thank the textile workers | | of Bohemia for their letter. | - | |Bootlegger Shoots Wife | ‘He Says Stole $200,000) meer | CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 6. | Climaxing s 1 years of domestic | strife and ation ‘with his. wife, | Mrs. Imogene Holmes Remus, George Remus. who gained nation- \wide notoriety as “king of the boot- \leggers,” pulled her from a taxicab in Eden Park here today, shot and) fatally wounded her. then surrendered to police. Mrs. Remus died at 10.45 a.m. | George Remus, notorious Cincinnati | bootleg. king, long had held this wife responsible for having broken up his profitable game. Remus often told intimates here that the woman he killed today -had “got away” with something like $200,- 000 at a time when that much money was enough to put him on the finan- cial shoals. \ BARBUSSE TELLS ABOUT COLONY IN SOVIET UNION Human Victims of Old Regime Rehabilitated THE Calles government of Mexico | is determined to quell the insur- | rection. Gen Francesco R. Ser- | rano, one of the three candidates | for the presidency in the 1928 elec- | tion, was tried by court-martial | and found guilty in connection with the revolt of the garrison in | Mexico City, and faced a firing squad with thirteen of his follow- ers. Upper left picture shows | President Calles, upper right is Gen. Obregon, against whom re- | volt is aimed; lower photo, Gen. | Serrano, who was executed. | | \Expose Plot of Wall | Street in Mexico | (Continued from page 1) |arrival of the new Wall Street am-| |bassador, Dwight W. Morrow. | ne This | |new government was to claim to be| ithe only stable government and it is| | understood that Morrow was to rec- |ommend that it be recognized. } Serrano to Head Clique. | According to the arrangements | | General Hector Almada, leader of the} |garrison troops of Mexico City that} \revolted and were crushed by loyal! government troops was to seize Presi- | dent Calles and mer president, Al-| varo Obregon, imprson or execute MOSCOW, U. R.,. Oct., 6.—On | them and set up a military govern- | September 15 Henri Barbusse paid a ment with Serrano at its head. The visit to the reformatory labour} of the details was made by colony in Sokolniki for the purpose} of studying conditions there. For several hours the writer visited the work-shops, talked with the inmates on all sorts of ques- | tions of interest to him. After a visit to the club where he was informed about politico-educz tional work of the institution, Bar- busse wrote down the following} statement in the visitors’ book: “In memory of my visit and the} careful study which I made of con-| ditions in the Sokolniki reformatory | I would like to say that Iam full of admiration for the humane and) | | careful treatment of the inmates of this institution. “Basing myself on documentary | evidence I declare to the western) public that the USSR is transform- | ing the prison into a means for| awakening the feelings of citizenship | among the victims of the old regime, | the dire results of which are not yet) eradicated. | “The institution which I visited to- |’ day is not a prison, it is a work-| shop, a labor settlement a “hos- pital”-institute where the former barbarous penal code has been re-| placed by the rational teaching of | collective life which contributes to| the rehabilitation of degraded human | beings. Henri Barbusse, September 15, 1927.” Levine Fell With Plane, On Boot-licking Stunt VIENNA, Oct. 6. — Charles A.} Levine, American trans-Atlantic flyer, who arrived at Klagenfurt today in a passenger-carrying airplane, said that the trans-ocean plane Columbia was so badly damaged in its foreed land- ing near Rome that it could ‘not be repaired. Levine said he was coming to Vienna, and that he would then yeturn to the United States. The Columbia was on the way to Bucharest carrying a Spanish prince as passenger when it was forced to land, crashing into a grass covered pole in a field. Levine was trying to| how of! over home. Junkers Over-sea Plane Forced Down, Uninjured | PESSAU, Germony, Oct. 6. — The Junkers plane which hopped off at Nordernery on a_ tran flight. and which was for tlantie down \40 miles from Lisbon, was compelled | to land by thick fog, but the machine | was not damaged and the occupants the Junkers Works today from Fritz uoose, the pilot. have left Mexico City to avoid arrest. land his companions, who were exe- }euted at Cuernavaca, | Mexico City yesterday. So great was} | Serrano and all but two of the oth-} s Real, of the Mexico City mili-| tary prison. | French | Americans Involved In Plot. * | Another development today came} | when it was learned that Americans across the border in Texas were in- volved in the revolt, Their names are known and will be laid before the American government. It is doubtful whether any action will he taken) against them as they are known to be the most servile tools of bigger men who really financed the attempted in- surrection against the Calles govern-| ment because that government re-| fused to become the vassal of the oil, | mineral and land thieves. It is also reported that large) amounts of arms and munitions were | transported across the border by air-| plane. The dirty game of the American | land for stimulating love of labor| government is more evident in view of the fact that on last January 7th, | President Coolidge placed an embargo | on arms to the Calles government of i thus preventing military | ent being sent into the coun-| rough legal channels, but which | ored the smuggling of arms to} Vall Street military hirelings. | Expell Wall Street Agents. | Twenty-nine members of the lower | chamber of congress have been ex- pelled after exciting debate. They Bury Executed Traitors. The funeral of Francesco Serrano was held at} the crowd that three cemeteries were | choked with people. ers were buried in the French ceme- tery. The two Peralta brothers were | buried in the American cemetery.) There were no disorders. General Alfredo R. Quijano faced a |firing squad in the military prison courtyard today, he was convicted of leading his command, a part of the Mexico City garrison, in Sunday night’s revolt. In Morelos General Vincent Gon- zales, chief of military forces of that state, and thirteen members of the egislate e who were involved in the |Gomez-Serrano plot faced a firing squad. It was here that General Ser- rano and his lieutenants were executed | Tuesday. | The fate of General Arnulfo Gomez |was still in doubt tonight. He is said |to be hemmed in with a small force \in the stave of Vera Cruz. in |The Event — The Red Bazaar. | _|were not injured, said a dispatch to The Time — October 6-7-8-9. The Place—Madison Sq. Garden. | Georst CLEMENCEAU TH! CELEBRATED HIS GGT GI HAM AND PICKLES — scensrenibie: ———— DEVEUNER K TIGER OF FRANCE, feTHOsY BY EATING ~ NEWS ITEM—o. We Never KNEW WHat THey SERVE FREE LUNCH WITH \WINE- | |been dead for years.” ‘British Children Are | Enthusiastic After Their Trip to the Soviet Union LONDON, OCT. 6.—Declaring have returned | pt for their parents, the six | children who left London | et Union | here Extremely | enthusiastic i | ences, they r most about the first Workers public. oviet School system was} ised by Clifford Roberts, | ears old and the son of a} h miner. He said th chool discipline is maintained by pupils’, councils “and not with canes.” “The history of the working class taught the Russian child- jren,’ young Roberts explained. |“Here in England we have a boss history—about kings who have He said \that children in the Soviet schools | | were also taught the principles of | evolution. | The children left England sec-~ | retly last June after the British ;government refused to grant them | | | passports. pea eer ts $ Are You Keeping Busy for the Bazaar? Bors On Soviet For the Tenth Anniversary Celebrations S$ in all parts of the world, A workers {n the United States will be celebrating’ the tenth anniversary Of the establishment of the world's first workers’ gov- ernment. Celebrate this great di in your own way. Read about Ru li to your fellow- worker, Gi im a book or pam- phlet from this list on all phases of Russian life: DON . RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS ik 05 LABOR UNIONS IN N REVOLUTION S$ OF SOVIET RUSSIA Ni —10 . 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