The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1927, Page 3

y ————. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1927 Page Thre A ITT NEARING cheap in Shanghai— an almost any other form Upon the shoulders of the e there are placed in- is—which he carries for a day, living, mean- ler the most degrading con- is food, shelter and r his chifdren. re is the position of the coolie rated than his relation to SCC re; 1 automobile. * * * autos are imported into Some of them are trucks. pleasure cars. These d are used, chiefly, by he foreign residents of Shanghai— the “Whites” as they are frequently called. Export autos are boxed in the Uni- tates. With their packing they 00 or 8800 pounds.’ One ently unloaded 58 of these boxed cars in Shanghai. Down in the hold, these huge weighing nearly two tons, are over to the hatchway by who hook the ropes of their poles under the corners of , raise them up on rollers, and then, by carrying and pushing, get them into position where they can be hoisted ashore. * the box reaches the * * dock, small, heavy truck is slipped under | ite ropes that are attached to this truck, and pull it up a steep incline that leads from the landing stage to the At the top the incline is pitched arply, and the pullers strain every cle, bending double, in their ef- forts to reach the level ground. Once on the dock, the box is slid from the truck, which is taken back} for another auto, Later a motor-truck arrives to take the boxed auto to the show- room of the company importing it.| The floor of the motor truck is three feet above the ,grounds on which the boxed auto is lying. One end of the box is lifted physically by the coolies and placed on the back of the truck. Again it is lifted, and the truck is backed up against the bottom of the box. This process is repeated until about half of the box is on the truck. At this stage a roller is placed under Greetings SOVIET RUSSIA on the Of THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Is the special issues of The DAILY WORKER to be printed on November 1 7, the opportunity to send fH personal greetings to Sov- iet Russia is given to American workers. These names will appear in the special Honor Roll in The DAILY WORKER. To coy- er the expense of printing, 25 cents will be charged for every name. SEND YOUR NAME Send the names of other workers— GREET THE RUSSIAN WORKERS and PEAS- ANTS on the Tenth Anni- THE DAILY WORKER 33 First St., New York I enclose $ for greetings (at 25 cents a name) from the following workers: WRITE PLAINLY. Order your copies of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of The DAILY WORKER now at $1.50 per hundred copies. merican A Shanghai al About eighteen coolies seize the | FIGHT BREWING OVER GOL! utos Enter’ | the box, the back end of it is phys-| ically lifted and the whole 3600} pounds is pushed on to the truck. The} whole operation is done by hand and back, | ae, aes | The amount of human labor en-| pended in this process is grotesque. | Aboard the ship are a dozen cranes. | The motor trucks might be driven | directly alongside and the boxes placed on them as they come from! che hold. On the dock is an idle crane that. might be used to do the loading. But the bosses figure that \it is cheaper to put the two ton boxes | on human backs than on steam and | steel. So the heart-breaking labor joes on, “ The same ship that brought these | 58 American autos, to be carried on coolie shoulders, unloaded 6,000 pigs | — jot lead—200 pounds to the pig. They | 5 eanros PACIFIC Shaded portion shows gold land grant by Republic of Panan pire Builder” Dr. Elliott Elv |each carrying pole, hooked their ropes under two pigs, (400 pounds) at time and walked with them a dis. tance of about 100 yards to the shed| | where the lead was being stored. ee aes As the coolies walked, or rathe: loped, they uttered that peculiar cry, | partly a warning to get out of the " partly an exclamation at the | ight of the burden, which rings in| {the ears for weeks. Where many of | | them are engaged together, this cry raises like a chant, and carries for| jlong distances. At night it sounds | like the wailing of the damned. The coolie in front begins the cry. The coolie behind answers. Another coolie | workers and peasants. takes up the note, and so it swells and | recedes. It is almost musical at /| DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY IN CENTRAL ASIA. times, but it is always terrible. \ In the course of last year, the number of enterprises Some day those burdened backs’ in Central Asia increased from 228 to 390, and the num- will be relieved by steam and elec-|ber of workers employed in industry from 40,000 to tricity and gas. But at present, they | 50,000. jare handling 3800 pound Ameri-| SOCIAL COMPOSITION OF STUDENTS. The social composition of students in the universities | of the U. S. S. R. in 19 was as follows: UNIVERSI- | =.-The monet | TIES: manual worke: 4.4 percent; peasants, 25.9 per- | eent; office workers, 25.9 percent; other occupations. | 9.1 percent; artisans, 1.1 percent; non-labor elements, | 1.8 percent; others, percent. | WORKERS’ FACULTIES: Manual workers, 58.9 per- cent; peasant reent; others, 7.2 percent. | Polytechn al educational rent year. gust, 1926. SETTLING (spe institutions of a | secondary school type): manual workers and their chil- dren, 20.8 percent; peasants, 37.2 percent; office work- | ers, 33.3 percent; others, 8.7 percent. According to preliminary statistics 70 percent of stu- dents admitted to Moscow and Leningrad are manual! Council of Peop LAND ORGANIZATION IN KUBAN. |can pleasure cars by hand. | The plan for land organization in Kuban (Caucasus) Fa aa ae |has been carried out to the full 100 percent. Over 38 Crouch Is Anti-War |percent of the reorganized area has been handed over a |for utilization for crop-rotation of more than three fields. | Speaker at Meeting EDUCATION IN THE BORDER REPUBLICS. a When the Tadzhikestan Republic was established it | (Continued from Page One) {had only three schools and three children’s homes. At Hawaii, will tell of his vivid dramatic | present it has 145 schools of social education, 90 schools |@*perence. |to teach reading and writing and four trade schools. | . Brutal Sentence. | Illiteracy has been practically liquidated in 8 villages At the same time that this sentence |of the Stavropol region and in two big districts—the | was imposed upon Crouch, a com-|Kamenolomsk and October districts (North Caucasus) | panion, Walter ‘Trumbull, was ordere: n the course of three years, over 50,000 adults have jailed for 26 years for working with | been taught to read and write in this region. Crouch in the organization of the ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE U. S. S. R. Young Communist League in the bar-| A review of the national economy of the U. S. S. R. racks. Trumbull is now field organ- jin August, 1927, shows that the gross output of the big jizer of the Young Workers League of | state industry amounted to 352.2 million roubles at pre- America, | war prices, as against 301.5 million roubles in July, 1927, Enlisting in the U, S. army with |an increase of 16 percent. the intention of learning its methods The production of fuel in August current year was | and exposing them to the thousands) as follows: coal—2,433,100 tons, against 2,442,900 tons — of working class youths who form the | in July, 1927, by 25 percent more thanin Aug., 1926. The | bulk of the armies of capitalist im-| output of oil increased by 9 percent, as compared with | perialism, Crouch, a former news-| August, last year, reaching 855,000 tons in August, | paperman and a native of North | 1927. . . tt Carolina, succeeded in building up an| In the metal industry the production of pig-iron energetic organization among scores |amounted to 245,100 tons in August, 1927, against 244,- | of soldiers stationed in Hawaii. Dur- | 200 tons in July current year; as compared with August, ling his imprisonment he was confined | 1926, the increase was 25.9 percent. The production of lat the federal military prison at Al- |Marten steel increased from 281,200 tons in July to |catraz, San Francisco Bay, Califor- {303,400 tons in August, 1927. The production of rolled i ni whi |metals totalied 219,200 tons, against 186,700 tons in laa HEE i gOn nes Meer weleesed 9 duly, current year; compared with the production in | | August, 1926, the increase, this year, was 14.4 percent. | So bitter | The production of cotton yarn reached 23,208 tons in | against pay Pao ‘onan | August, 1927, against 17,140 tons in July. As compared | court martial, and so active was the | with August, last year, the increase was 14.1 percent. | agitational work of the International | The production of unbleached goods in August amounted | Labor Defense that took the lead in Ae 196.8 million metres, while that of finished cloths to | fighting fot their freedom; that the | 276.2 million metr , against 137.1 and 138.2 million | federal authorities were compelled to pes respectively, in July current year. The produc- | iddle.” commute the sentence against the two tion of woolen yarn was 3,278 tons, against 2,407 tons j a riddle. Armenia. year.” gest river. short time ago.~- I. L. D. Led Fight. rarefied air. IN PANAMA’ lj lc? GULF of PANAMA Ge OCEAN Considerable excitement is reported from W habit of regarding Panama as belonging to another empire than the British. going to lose his job in Panama becanse of this and similar recent- events. were hoisted out of the hold about} | ten at a time and dumped on the| fh. | landing stage. Then two coolies, with | = ? ¢ © a ry circul Tion roubles, against 1,488.4 millic The revenue collected in August was 415 million roubles, a roubles in July, 192 In a press interview, referring to Mr, Fri statement in the Council of the League to it being impossible to settle Armenian refugees in| Soviet Armenia, Mr. Ambarshumian, chairman of the following statement: “TI fail to understand Mr. Nansen’s statement. Nansen reached his conclusion as a result of his nego- tiations with the governments of states—members of the League, then he is certainly right, as the capitalistic powers do not actually evince the slightest interest in| moving the question of settling Arme but is also in contradiction to what Mr always said and wrote during four yea ticular, the government of Arr y way to meet Mr. Nansen’s efforts, as well as the Ar- menian refugees’ own desire to enter and settle in Soviet At the present moment we ar in distributing fifteen hundred refugee: ing a plan for receiving new parties of emigrants next AN EXPEDITION TO THE UPPER COURSE OF THE BLUE RIVER. The Geographie Society will within a short time send) a big expedition under the direction of the well-known} traveller and explorer Kozloff to investigate the upper course of the Yangtsekiang (the Blue River), Asia’s big- In this reference, the following statement was made by Mr. Kozloff in a press interview: “The Yangtsekiang has‘not yet been investigated in its upper course and has since long been attracting the attention of the geographers of the whole world. The} sources of the river have just as little been investigated as the North Pole. vestigate the upper tributaries of this river whose sources are outside of China proper, namely on the Tibetan plateau near the Kuen Lun ridge, which like- | wise still remains uninvestigated. have to carry on its work under very trying conditions, | sometimes in mountain passes 5,000 metres high. “These passes have always been an object of anxiety to many explorers not so much because of their st and craggy slopes and the cold winds as because of the The expedition will also study the vegeta- tion and fauna in the valleys of the Blue River near the Eastern border of the Tibet. “The scientists of Western Europe believe in the ex-| s will arise later over Dawes istence there of forests of the richest varieties with plan payments. i trees of enormous dimensions, ferns, bushes, fruit-trees,, S. Parker Gilbert, reparations ete. The animal world of this unexplored region is also | “REVOLT AGAINST FASCIST REGIME Belgian Trale Unions Invite US.S.R. Delegates to Attend Convention ne ooo [N SPAIN LIKELY | sentat: S trade union 4 mov. t of the Soviet a x | have been invited by the * ve Committee of the feders Report Preparations for Belgian work to attend the ade union convention to be held it October 30th. o General Str AN OFFER GOES WITH LATEST UL 8. - TARIFF. WAR NOTE $78,000,000 Hint Sugars “Em- h has been in the The rumor is that somebody is ated by the Washington’s Terms opening on M TaD packed by Rivera. PARIS, Oct. The latest 1 i is ease of 26.9 percent, as compared with|matum to be sent by the V Report Revolt Likel financiers thru the Amer‘ LONDON, Oct. 13 : ceived h from Henda against vain is likely. mil- ion in ment, to the ill remain: rms, which are be sed, are said to mai American government to ne reciprocity tariff arrangement the French. At the same time, note demands that the French accord a most Ameri- Children af USSR _ Enthusiastic Over U.S. Movie Slides One of the results of the visit to | Soviet Russia last summer of the |first group of American T ts or- | ganized by World Tour Inc., of » and 345.7 mil ARMENIAN REFUC SOVIET ARMENIA. the government at once favored nation treatment to can products and allow them the same mums which Germany at present enjoys. | While it is known that there is nothing said in the note concerning | the rumored offer of the American | bankers to permit France to negotiate a consolidation loan for $78,000,000, in return for preferential tariff con- cessions on the part of the French, official approval of the loan has been Commissaries of Armenia, made the If Mr. an refugees from} the dead point. However, if Mr. Nansen believes his| transmitted by the American State {69 Fifth Avenue, New York, is the statement can in any way refer to the Soviet govern-| Department to the French Embassy in| happiness and entertainment of a ment such’ an idea not only runs counter to the facts,) Washington. While officials are in- | large number of childrer the chil- Nansen himself | si or so. In par- nia always went half- ng that the tariff ultimatum and|dren’s village known as offer to negotiate a loan are separate | Selo, formerly the Czar’s palace, near Dyetskye matters and have no connection, it is | Leningrad. obvious that the State Department | Among the institutions is bent on forcing the French to re-| the American group, cede from their tariff stand while | Jack Jampouls’ they bind them up in the toils of a/ Zoria,” which conducts a village ‘of new loan. | schools, hospitals and museums for j children exclus' y. The | jon accorded by the just engaged nd are prepar- Nicaraguan Liberal if Murdered by Marines | visi ing, they decided to presi WASHINGTON Oct. 138, —j/dren with a token in memory American marines killed the liberal | visit. leader Santos Lobos and captured| The announcement of their eight of his band in a skirmish at} tion caused a riot Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua, according | There were manj 1 to a report wirelessed by Rear-Ad- | quests hurled in chorus at the Amer- miral David Sellers, commanding the | i¢ der restored special service squadron, to the navy |“ * vole taken. ne object of their department today. clamor turned out to be an America slide lamp, known as an opidioscope. | When the pa returned to the | ‘Bankers Squabble Over | united states the purchase of the ' U. S. Loan to Prussia | ¢Pitiescove was made, and last week it was started on its y to the chil- BERLIN, Oct. 13. —- Aithough the | dren’s village of oya Zoria” U. S. State Department has approved | through the Amtorg Trading Co. of |the Prussian loan of $30,000,000 | 165 Broadway, New York. The s tour organized by } World Tourists is scheduled to sail | for Soviet Russia October 14th, 1927 }on the Cunard liner “ ia” The expedition’s task will be to in-} The expedition will p| Which probably will be issued next | week, German ‘financial experts to- d essed belief that the trouble companied the loan negotia- indicates that the serious diffi- lay expr agent general, insisted that the loan | should range behind reparations pay- young Communists. | wa sf s Sam Don, district organizer of the | = route Wwostes Havas bes", gpecial Problems Face Karelian Comrades in commenting on tonight’s meeting said: | Tabet on Caan eras “After serving his sentence in a , vile military prison Comrade Crouch renewed with greater vigor the fight against American militarism. He | symbolizes the struggle of youth | against American imperialism. The | mass meetings addressed by Crouch | in numerous cities on his tour were | members elected to office for the firs crowded with enthusiastic working | class audiences. Danger of New War. wiped out but in the back country ‘there is still a tendency to think that Correspondence) ‘a girl does not need schooling so (Continued from Last Issue.) badly, all that is necessary in her ease is for the old man to scrape together Women and Youth Active. ‘ : son ig|a@ respectable sized dowry. The youth The other side of this question isi, bind ‘einelaliy! good “Wore tH 7 increasi ber 0: a ee re the’ large, and increasing. yar | overcoming this hide-bound attitude time, and also the slowly but steadily | 8nd in one. village which we visited, a increasing role played by the women | 9-year old Komsomolka has been land the Foiith; ae Orde soviets, | elected chairman of the village soviet. “With a new war nearer to us than for example, 39 per cent were elected | * ever before, at a time when the im-| to public functions for the first time,; The struggle against religion is not perialist powers are preparing for ain the volost executive committees particularly difficult here. The popu- military invasion of the Soviet Union, 83 per cent were serving the first /Jation had little love for the Greck the demonstration with Grouch as the time, _This constant infusion of neW| Orthodox Church forced upon them principal speaker assumes a very {blood is one of the characteristics of as part of the Czar’s _Russification great significance. It must be turned | workers and peasants soviet govern-' process, and the earlier Lutheran ment. Among these same volost s0-| Church has been out of the way a By WILLIAM F. KRUS: (Special DAILY WORKER ee * | mostly women. | single member, but an active Kom- somol nucleus of 11 members, 3 of Lataa ies tiie ieaaraeaget econ iet deputies one-fourth were under jong time. In Sookash Gora, the vil- sida pine ot ahi hel ar tinattie he earal years of age; in the All Karelian|Jage referred to above, the church aud eee La eet pt a of | Soviet Congress in 1924 two deputies| stands absolutely idle except at American’ Youth. | were under 20 and 59 were less than! Christmas and Easter, when a mon- a EEE Raa 20 years of age, while in 1926 there|astery furnishes an officiant. 'Workers Party Members were 5 under 20 and 62 less than 80 | even a sexton is on guard, but it is |years of age. There is now one mem-| not needed, nobody pays the slightest In Cleveland Arrange ber of se centea! retin Com- | attention to the place. After the H | mittee less than 25 years of age. AS revolution the local priest tried to ‘First Dance of Season to the participation of women in| take on a radical clbeing in order to | governing bodies, there are 7 women’ hold on to his influence a little longer, CLEVELANw, Oct. 13,—The first | among the 47 members of the Central even going to the length of beeing dance in Cleveland given by the| Executive, as compared with 5 in|revolutionary songs. But it did not Workers Party this season will be | 1925 In the Petrosavodsk Town|work. Of the population of 400 not held Saturday, October 15th, at | Soviet the number of women increased more than 10 can be counted to the Pythian Castle, 1624 East 55th St. | last year from 21 to 25, while of the|“Old Guard” of reaction, and they in- Party members an@ their friends are | 2373 deputies to the volost soviets 11) clude the former policeman, mer- all looking forward eagerly to this | per cent are women. affair which will be held in one of) he the prettiest halls in the city. The} ‘This increasing participation of Newman orchestra will furnish the women in Karelian political life is usual peppy music. All those who| of especial importance in that it of- like good music and dancing and a real jolly time should not miss this first of the indoor: affairs, Tickets have been distributed which, if presented at the door, en- title the holder to admission for forty cents. Otherwise the admission is fifty cents. Come one and all, throw off all care for a few hours. Have a good timy “yy 4 meh sll your friends. x fers one more reflection of the dis- lodging of the old life by the new. In old Karelia the view prevailed gen- erally that women were by God and {nature preordained to a subordinate role in life—which still makes itself felt in the very considerable differ- ence between the number of girls and of boys attending the rural schools. In the towns this difference has been them girls, seems quite up to the job jof furnishing political leadership. They have just opened up a general club in a building which formerly be- longed to the rich merchant, and get out a wall newspaper every month in which the whole village generally participates. In the summer the paper is hung out in the open air, in the winter in the club. One article Not} ——|ments, as provided by the Dawes : sy. |plan, and that circulars advertising Roumanian Whites TYY | the loan bonds should say so. | to Extradict Leader In tee | on Trade Uniona Soviet Russia R lati St 1 | German Plane Dewn Again. Bouat "studien evoiutionary struggle pre, Oct. 13—For the second Political successive day the Heinkel hydro- ‘onom: PRAGUE, Sept. 7, 1927 (By Mail).| plane, piloted by Horst Merz, which | Philosophy. Elek Koebloes, one of the pioneers of is attempting a trans-Atlantic flight, Science the revolutionary working class| met with misfortune. Communism movement in Roumania, was arrested | The hydroplane, which took off Fiction by the Czechish authorities a few! yesterday and was forced down near Literature days ago in the Carpathians after he) Hamburg, again took the air today Poetry had suecessfully crossed the Rou-! for Amsterdam, but was forced down Art manian-Czechish frontier illegally.| near Wilhelmshaven, Recently the Roumanian government ei Si has done everything in its power to| Complaint Hits Poland. get Koebloes into its hands in order GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. ti to mete out to him the fate which so| The alleged closing of Lithuanian | many other pioneers of the revolu-| schools and the arrest of school- tionary movement have suffered, i. e.,| masters in Vilna by Polish authori- Tkatchenko, Stefanoff, ete. In Rou-| ties is the subject of a Lithuanian | 33 First Street mania, Koebloes has always been sue-| complaint addressed to the cessful in eluding the Siguranza.| general of the League of Finally the government set a price of | 100,000 Lei upon his head. There is! no doubt about it that if Koebloes is! handed over to the Roumanian au- \thorities he will be murdered. | This fate is certain to be his if the, Revive the |SEND FOR A CATALOGU THE DAILY WORKER BOOK DEPT. New York, N. {chant, and some very old peasants, | Pan A : i | There is no Party | Slovakia is making all possible ef- nucleus in the village, not even a/ forts to secure the right of asylum Daily Worker Sustaining Fund |the Roumanian authorities. The} |Roumanian government is ing strong pressure upon the Czechish authorities in order to secure the ex-| | tradition of Koebloes. Koebloes is in} | immediate and extreme danger all the| 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. 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 imore because he is being held in the| |neighborhood of the frontier and fraternal organization or club. |therefore within reach of the Rou-| |manian hangmen, | The Communist Party of Czecho- for Koebloes. which pointed out that a private shop- | keeper had not lowered his prices in} accord with a drop in wholesale prices | so angered that worthy that he took | a pencil and drew lines through the offending piece. It only served to at-| tract still more attention and hilartty, | and in addition, the merchant had to apologize to the wall-paper commis- sion. (To Be Continued.) Send Your Contributions To the Sustaining Fund DAILY WORKER Local Office: 108 E. 14th St. 33 First Street New York, N.Y,