The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1927, Page 3

a PRICE Of WORLD’ OlL LOWERED AS USSR SALES GROW Force British Monopoly to Cut Prices In the course of a statement to thc Russian press, M. Goldin, Sen Director of the Mining Departr of the Commissariat to Foreign T of the U. S. S. R., pointed out tt so far Sir Henri Deterding’s aut Soviet oil campaign had been a com plete failure, the European cons r had realized that were they to follow Deterding’s ice the Jarge quant- ities of benzine they had alr bought and paid for would be ex- propriated ‘“witheut compensation” not indeed by the Soviets, but by Sir Henri himself. Soviet Oil Cheaper. The importance of Soviet oil to the European consumer was not duc merely to the fact that he could ob tain his oil at lower prices from the Soviets, buf that as a result of Sovie oil being cheaper, the other monopoly oil companies were also forced to re duce the price of their oil to the con sumer. Mr. Goldin caleulates that as a re sult of this reduction of prices the European consumer of oil saves at least £1,000,000 to £1,500,000 yearly. * Gain for Consumers. But this is not all. Were the Soviet oilfields handed over to Sir H. Deterd- ing or other oil magnates to-morrow the price of oil would rise immediately by not less than 15s. per ton which would signify a loss to the consume: of about £12,000,000 and a correspond- ing gain of course to the oil monop- olists. Small wonder, then, that the mono- opolists are so dead set against So- viet oil! Save $60,000,000. This saving of over £12,000,000 to the wide circle of consumers says Mr. Goldin, is undoubtedly greater than the loss suffered by a small group of financiers, as a result of the national- ization of the Soviet oilfields. Mr. Goldin» goes on to point out that Sir H. Deterding can more readily reconcile himself to national- ization that to the growing Soviet competition. According to Soviet estimates, the “Shell” group headed by Deterding had lost some £2,600,000 as a result of the nationalization of their oil properties in Russia. Royal Dutch Shell Hit. But their yearly loss as a result of Soviet competition is more important. The “Shell” imports into Europe about 4,000,000 tons of oil annually, and as a result of the lower prices forced by the competition of Soviet oil obtains some £3,000,000 per year less in profits. “As regards ourselves,” said Mr. Goldin, “I may say that in our negotiations with the Shell and Stan- dard, the main obstacle to an agree- ment has been our insistence to, retain our independent right to supply a -@ French Rush Troops ‘| to Border as Revolt | In Spain Is Reported PARIS, Oct. — Reinforce- ments of French soldiers and police e rushed to the Spanish frontier lay to strengthen the border g It of reports of a t the Reviera regime rigid panish censorship s it difficult to get informa- is known that the Madrid nt placed a large force el atalonia. 'Faseisti Celebrate. Rome Marek Fearing ROME, Oct. 28.—‘‘The culmination f our work is completed with the massing of your armed legions. The ne gathering will be a solemn varning to whosoever harbors the ‘olly of thinking to impede our pro- rress,” declared Mussolini today in a nessage issued for the fifth anni- ersary of the Fascist march on ome. The actual date of the anniversary s tomorrow, but Mussolini has or- vd it postponed until Sunday so t workers might not leave the fac- spies and halt production. Fascist demonstrations will be held m Sunday when detachments of roops will be sent to working class istricts to guard against possible utbreaks, Death Toll on Mafalda May Be 500 (Continued from Page One) observers. Cold, frightened, and hungry, they were massed on the small deck space of the little freighter which was never built to accom- nodate so many. They spent the en- tire trip from the scene of the Mafal- la’s sinking on the deck of the Alhena without places to rest or recuperate from their terrible experiences. Anxious to Talk. : Journalists were forbidden to in- terview arriving survivors, but along- side the ships it was still possible to hear the moans and cries of injured and nerve-exhausted survivors. Some of the survivors were anxious to de- scribe the terrible scenes they had witnessed. They told of a sea of floating humanity, some people fight- ing for their lives as they were tossed about by the waves, whereas others had given up the battle and their bodies, thrown hither and thither, im- peded the efforts of those still alive. Engineer Kills Himself. One report that came from the survivors was that the first engineer had committed suicide as soon as he Revolt ot Workers: learned that the Mafalda was sink- proportion of oil to the European market. Seviet Has Large Sales. “So far, in view of the purchases of oil from us by European Govern- ments and the satisfactory co-opera- tion with us of the national oil selling companies referred to above, we have had no reason to regret the failure of the negotiations for an agreement with the oil monopolists.”—(“Anglo- Russian Parliamentary Committee Bulletin.”) . PROTEST CUBAN TARIFF. HAVANA, Cuba, Oct.. 28.—Nego- tiations for new tariff rates have been begun by various countries as a re- sult of the tariff increases recently decreed by President Machado. ing. Reports of sharks attacking the victims of the disaster, were repeated today by some of the passengers of the ship aboard the arriving rescue boats. One survivor, Senor Cassek, an Ar- gentine Banker, says that the ship surgeon of the Mafalda lost his life after he had been saved and picked up by the Formoso. He states that the surgeon, when he remembered he had left all of his money in his cabin on the sinking ship, left the rescue ship and returned to the Mafalda to get his money and was never seen again. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS ae eee ere keep up the Lowest Send in your package Bazaar “ICOR,” 112 East 19th Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday November 23, 24, 25, 26 165th INFANTRY ARMORY 68 Lexington Ave. 6c IC O k” Bazaar and Fair Help Jewish colonization and help in Soviet Russia COMPLETE DEPARTMENT STORE. “Teor” colony Prices. and greeting for the Journal. Street, New York City, YTHE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927 =e ?age Three USSR Defense Urged Confederation of Labor Congress | By LOSOVSKY. | The Congress of the revolutionary jtrade unions of F took {when the French reactionar {had been carrying on a t | pai, nd insinuatio | Soviet Russia, when all the |been burst open and filthy jagainst the U. S. S. R. }out through the chann pean press. The French workers ka |their own pre and | leade: nd they know th lish paign of slande | paid and that it is oil th }bottom of everything. so know that ; a seing well- The French lish diplomats and that the secret backstairs negotiations of the diplo- mats may end in open intervention. Defends Soviet Union. eration could not, however, pass by in silence the campaign of lies and slan- der going on all over the world, and especially in England and against the U. S. S. R.; they could not do this because the French workers know who are their friends and who are their foes. It is stated in the res- olution passed at the Congress that the war against the U. S. S. R. being prepared under the auspices of Great Britain is a clear demonstration of the class war between the international | bourgeoisie and the international working class. The resolution assigns the respective roles to the bourgeoisie | and the social democrats in the at- tack on the U. S. S. R. as follows: “This class war against the U. S. S. R. is dangerous owing to the nu- merous and combined attacks of all) her foes and opponents, from the re- | actionaries to the social democrats. | Each of these has his own part to play, while the government, supported by the social democrats, increases the armed forces and armaments of France, the reactionaries urge for a break in diplomatic relations with the U. S. S. R. and the reformist leaders wage a campaign of false demagogy on the grounds of so-called “Red Im- perialism” and “the Bolshevik Terror,” preparing public opinion for the “de- struction of Bolshevism.” The central point in the resolution, however, is the characteristic role played by the bourgeoisie in its or- ganized persecution of the U.S. S. R. If only for this point the resolution of the Congress should be read with keen attention by workers in the U. S. S. R., for this is’ the voice of their allies and class brothers. This is what Congress said on behalf of 525,- 000 organized workers of France: “French imperialism has lately been showing leanings to the anti-Soviet policy of Great Britain. Its attacks against the U. S. S. R., its organized intrigue, by means of which it hoped to compromise Soviet Russia, its sys- tematic attacks on the U.S. S. R. rep- resentative in Paris, are all means for influencing public opinion and to pave the way for a break in diplomatic relations, soon. to be followed by an economic war and military attacks. > side and stru The Congress of the Unitary Fed- | France, | | Demand Solidarity. “This serious mands a still gr y from the w rance with the U.S est revolutiona s struggle with war on the U, must come forw res gle for the own imper 2d by the y evoked om the whole The papers great d of the anti-Soviet p poured forth the v on the Congress, which in the ve |moment of persecution dared to jpress the “appalling” idea that th French workers were ready to pro. 'tect the U. S. S. R. against their own bourgeoisie. The feelings of the sworn foes of the Bolsheviks when Herolet made, under thunders of ap plause from all delegates, the follow. jing statement, be better imag- jined than describe | Pledge Defense of U. S. S. R. on which the |* at Unitary vere not for the » blundering voiling every thing, ir di \d be still better. ans have done a lot,” writes t vik organ, “but ie to make the ve up their strug- > of Soviet Russia.” efending” us 1-Democrats. e at any length in which internati reformism has defended and i ing Two e What is the now doing The German Soc I will not dwell h on the h Socialist in the heat of the a viet wave? It has come forward with the lofty declaration: “Don’t j break off with Soviet Russia, she’s | going to pay us our debi: Such is e “defence” in the French’ reformist amp. jis still better. | In the very heat of the anti-Soviet campaign “Vorwaerts” printed a sen- tional communication as to a secret The defence of the German | olleagues of the Russian Mensheviks | lajunction Issued by Toronto Courts Against Building Trades Workers tS INew Attack on Unions |Launched by Machado |. HAVANA, Cuba., {Mail)—A large number |teaders have been arre |number of labor journals |in a new wave of terror by Oct. 18. of ed (By labor and a ppr d 6 NANKING WAR Split in eactionary Camp Now Open War > Seng-cht is re- v of the Nank- 28.—Marshal have again e defeated Chang Gen troops in European Metal | “The U. S. 5. R. must be defended | |and we solemnly warn the imperial- | Workers Meet to | treaty between Soviet Russia and t'2s-|hado, puppet of American sugar and jists that the workers of the whole |¢ist Italy, signed as long ago as 1924. | financial interests. The aim of the| | world will will be on the side of the | This secret agreement implies a mili-| new attack on the Cuban labor move-| Red Army if it is attacked. The dec- |tary offensive and defensive alliance | ment is to smash attempts to create | laration of war on the U.S. S. R. is a deciaration of civil war against the labor movement.” Our foes may say that there ‘is nothing much in these declarations since their author belongs to an or- ganization affiliated to the R. I. L. U. We are certainly not astonished by them, but we should like to know why no such declarations emanated from the French and German social demo- erats with regard to England when MacDonald’s Government was power? For our part we know why but we should like to hear the explan- ations of the leaders of the Second and Amsterdam Internationals. The relations between the members of the reformist Internationals are based up- on the relations between their Goy- ernments and therefore such declara- tions and resolutions could never have emanated from those miserable and debased regions bearing the proud names of the Workers’ Socialist In- ternational and the International Fed- eration of Trade Unions. Social-Democratic Piffle. If, howeyer, the Social Democrats among themselves are guided by the principles of keyrgeois diplomacy and the “Code of International Morals” of the League of Nations, they are never- theless, warm defenders of the U. S. S. R. If anyone disbelieves this, let jhim read the “Socialist Herald.” This ' organ is convinced that international social democracy thinks of nothing but defending the U.S. S. R. It points out that the Mensheviks have always defended the U. S. S. R. “The So- cialist Party, the British Labor Party, | | between the Bolsheviks and the F'as- Jeists. It is of small avail to ask \against whom, for the ‘“Vorwaerts” has already replied with a full “ex-| posure.” The “Voerwaerts” which is | | the enemy of all dictatorships except- | ing Hindenbur | tified Bolshevism with Fascism. | Hence this theory which is intended |to facilitate the French reaction in | making a break with the U. S. S. R., |since any military alliance with Italy {must be directed first and foremost | against France. When this reasoning of the “defenders” of the U. S. S. R. was exploded by TASS “The Social my good sirs, why not publish it? Is the cheap from a White Guards’ slan- | der-factory, turning out endless “ex- | act documents” for the discrediting of the U.S. S. R.? Heroes of Slander. Such are the Menshevist defenders of the U. S. S. R.—heroes of slander and forgery. | The toilers of the U. S. S. R. have nothing to hope for from internation- jal reformism which always has been |and always will be the foe of working class power. On the other hand, they have much to hope for from the rank |and file workers, especially those in touch with the U. S. S. R. through the |Communist International and the on the increase, the consciousness of | the necessity of defending the land of | socialism is ever-growing among the masses, who don’t want war at all, ’s, has long ago iden- | | Democratic | Press Service” declared |vocating class collaboration. that it was in possession of “the exact | workers would have nothing to do] text of the treaty.” But if this is so, | with the organization and it fell thru. | RILU. The Sovietwards tendency is | ) Ukraine. la strong labor federation. | The chairman and tl |the Trades Council of Hav |general secretary of the Trade Union Federation are am | the numerous trade union leaders | have been thrown in jail. ence of the trade unions of Havan | scheduled to have been held on July | 81st could not take place. Workers Boycott Fake Union. The mass arrests followed the fail- }ure of the government scheme to jereate a “trade union federation ad- The With a falling off in the export of not the reason, that it was bought on | cigars, thousands of workers in the} tobacco fields have been thrown out of work. Hide Schwartzbard,Fear White Guard Reprisals PARIS, Oct. 28.—Fearing reprisals by White Guards, friends of Samuel Schwartzbard, acquitted of the charge of murdering General Simon Petlura who terrorized the Ukraine, are keep- ing him in hiding. Schwartzbard was acquitted when witnesses proved that Petlura had been directly responsible for the wholesale massacres of Jews in the Schwartzbard on the stand declared that he had shot Petlura to avenge the massacred Jews. who | f As a result; *" |of the wholesale arrests the confer- Fight New Trust ning of the | int or metal workers in view {the huge interna The delegates from many, Belgian and stitute the committee that will study he problems of international organi- zation. Packers End War With Agreement on World Meat Trade LONDON, Oct. 28.—Representa- tives of the meat packers of the Uni- ted States, England and the Argentine have reached an agreement ending the three years’ war over the per- centage of Argentine meat exported to the United States and Britain. Vesteys & Smithfield and the Ar- gentine Meat Company, both British firms and the Swifts, Armours and Wilsons of America and the San Sineba Company of the Argentine signed the agreement, which amounts to a world combine for regulating the sale of meat products. BUY THE DAILY WORKER } AT THE NEWSSTANDS and German social democracy have all | along defended and are still defending but especially don’t want war against the U. S. S. R. Report Clashes in Rumania in Bloody Scramble for Crown SOFIA, Oct. 28.—Passengers on trains arriving here today from Rou- mania declared that the movement in favor of placing former Prince Carol on the throne now occupied by his son Michael, was growing in strength every day. * ‘ Rumor Clash in Bessarabia. BERLIN, Oct. 28.—Advices from Bucharest today indicated that the Bratianu government had crushed the plot to call former Crown Prince Carol to the throne and that Premier Bratinau’s troops are masters of the situation throughout the kingdom. Minor clashes were reported from Kishneff, Bessarabia, stronghold of the movement in behalf of Carol. Bratianu is understood to be taking strong military measures to prevent a Carolist uprising in Cessarabia. It is now reported that Bratianu is at odds with the Regency Council over the appointment of General Madarescu as Commander-in-Chief of the army. * PARIS, Oct. 28—Prince Carol’s villa at Neuilly has been burglarized and a number of the Prince’s private yaeere stolen, the police reported to- jay. Friends of the Prince attribute the robbery to political enemies. Chamberlin to Attempt Flight to Copenhagen OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me., Oct. 28.—Clarence D. Chamberlin, the in- trepid American airman who carried Charles A. Levine overseas on the epochal long distance flight from New York to Germany, has been drafted for the Old Orchard to Copen- hagen, Denmark hop, it was learned today. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS the National Peasant Party which led | Prices in Soviet Union |; Drop 7 Per Cent in Year |f MOSCOW, Oct. 28.—Retail prices | in the Soviet Union dropped 7 per! cent in the fiscal year which closed | September 30, it was learned yester- |B day. i Nearly two-thirds of the internal loan of 200,000,000 rubles, opened for subscription on October 1 has been raised, it was also learned from official sources. Poincare Financial Coalition on Verge | | PARIS, Oct. 28—The opening gun f | was fired today in an effort to break | § | the national bloc of “left” and right § {factions which united to support Pre- | mier Poincaré’s financial measures in | parliament. | Former Foreign Minister Camille Chautemps, addressing the radical so- | cialist congress, appealed to all mem- | |bers to give party support to the | “left” instead of the right. 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