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

Y Conges of Friefds of Sov = ' ex. THE DAILY WORKER, wacom MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1927 -age Three | der to expose completely the deception (Continued from Page One) practiced by the League of Nations }of the workers of the world in the} \ face of the menace of a new war. iet Union Will Defend Workers’ A SOVIET COURT jthe in State of t The cau ‘ Republics—a country where the pro-|and all organizations supporting it. On Building Socialist Order. letariat rules,—no matter whence the} “We, the representatives of the) The Congress of the Friends of the } attack is directed and by whom sup-! workers, peasants, revolutionary in- Soviet Union unanimou: passed ported, and by what ideological slo-|telligentsia and oppressed nations! | resolution on the ten ye ighting few: ae 1 gans they are disguised. }send out a call for the courageous! and building up of socialism. The dis- sas able. The ecd- War Danger Great. support of the U. S. S. R. and the jeussion of the war danger was open- ae : ee e “The Congress declares the inter-|Chinese Revolution, sa the Friends ed by W agger, representing th u prov ac tenes ° national situation very acute of late.|of the Soviet Union statement, only tributive allied workers / of Great, : Piet): | The post-war policy of the greatest|sympathetic organizational and agi- Bate oecared that) the -real As Bi i of ea impeiralist powers have fully disclos-|tational preparation for action in the | danger of war is proved by facts, in- : : pare ther fee ed the true meaning of their fine/cause of socialism and for the aboli-j cluding es eee aga Obs the armed ahora phraseology for the “defense of the | tion of capitalist wars, can succeed. Eee wel ad of 1913. The €om- id Tovrisley cau fatherland,” “war for freedom, prog-! “The congress calls upon all work- Naas mr ageae os ode eee a Foi he howe yess,” ete, This policy found ex- ers, peasants, all genuine advocates | ara ie Asie) antes States in 1913 Valers Giee | ween HHS pression in the predatory treaties/of peace, and all true supporters of} ones meres sa 2P18 it esas ena nattons, and wotneh aiid CHHReR Emm vs se a A lg e Sorat | to 1,821,000. During the same period nations, and 1 and children will (Brest-Litovsk, Versailles, St. Ger-| culture and civilization to prepare to the naval forces inereased 32 per cent | suffer equally with the men im be main, Trianon, etc.) The same policy| struggle by all means against war/| in Great’ Britain, 3104 SAR he possible to fight | further expressed the increased ex-| preparations directed against the U. Rete sibel’ wdig, sen coke at red, without eae DAGON ero reed cena cBUNOssiOn Orie Site) Ode RIGGED ibe Centre| VOROSHIEOV. Beatles’ Commiesl Onna Gene ald fonese Mehout the sm at the same 7 the colonies in Latin American coun-|the statement, “manual and brain} .., foe Ware i. j orld: dieeinaed 2,000 per cent i its aims to the work- tries, etc., a population which is not, workers join forces in the Megeitt ieee eee eee at Milt ie . only more exploited than before but;against imperialist war, against thet ab Jeet 8 | oh siti e econ ete ne which is ever subjected to the impe-/forces of capitalisiz, and against the} Hee me a most difficult period, and ai @ position of chemical warfare is oe rialists whenever these colonies de-| throttling policy of ‘he imperialists) £0" Which he was sentenced to death; | still more serious, Jagger declared. , in the cS . ie a (i - ea ciae saee Ta | Bela Kun, who organized the first de- | Nothwithstanding the declarations of id, is the fear velop’ politically and endeavor tojin China, against intervention in the ARMIRahh oktee wants ho | CHES Wabtiington ‘cont ‘ d th orking class and throw off the yoke of the oppressors|U. S. S. R., against bloody fascism,|(2®:™ment Of foreign workers who | the Pea cont erence | ati - the hh of the: oiame (E Givin. ‘Motecco. tad ia, With all it the. Conereke ce fought against German occupied | League of Nations never again to use th i th of the glo ie ie eri HO nOC RO) PGE NC EIS, | Wath al Ais Biases che PA ay jy | forces in 1918; and Tehang Go Tas, | poison gas and chemicals in warfare, is controlled by the workers. In order China). ‘ the eviends o8 cle Soveey) een wey | organizing chief of the Chinese peas- |not a single nation ratified that part to conduct a war, he said, the capi- Defend the Oppressed. eerie ie oe ME BBU NED GUC UTe. Fart coutigedtacwhasled many work-|of the Washington pact. Another talists require peace at home. Henee The Congress vigorously denounced tect and defend the U. S. S. R., the | or contingents against the bour-|factor in the war danger, the speaker the present reaction against the these acts of the imperialist govern-! fatherland of all workers as the bul- sie, striving to establish a reve- | declared, was the fact that the capi- workers, particularly in England. The » ments and resolved to defend the op-| Wark of peace, ard the stronghold of /Tutionary united front of the workers |talists have been deprived of the ex- R workers called upon the Brit- pressed peoples, especially the people Socialism. of the t with the workers of the | ploitation of one-sixth of the world. ish workers to resist attempts to be- of China who are fighting heroically | American Workers Friendly. Soviet Union and the whole world. | Jagger also referred to the great jing driven to slaughter and to pre- | against the joint forces of the impe-| The statement of the American) World Workers Helped Revolution, | rivalries between England and Amer- vent the | vialists and the internal feudal bour-| Federation of Labor that the U. S.' Voroshilov, amid impressive silence, | ica, and also the internal European jin the So geois counter-revolutionists who, now| workers do not sympathize with the told ¢ 1,000 deleg: that from | quarrels, thus leading to the possi- When to Stop War. under the banner of the Kuomintang, | working class of the Soviet Union was| the first days ef i stence the | bility of imperialist war. He declared | Tomsky exposed the futility of are exterminating the best fighting! repudiated as untrue by Jack Lever, Soviet Union had always the active | that events in China have intensified those who d re that on an outbreak forces of the national liberation strug-|a machinist from the United States. aid of the international proletariat | the imperialist h: ty against the! of war that the people would oppose gle in China. |Ten years ago, he declared, in a bath and the working masses of the e: Soviet Union, since the latter is the it, pointing out that the people did The Congress declared that this of blood that covered Europe the | During the difficult years of th | friend of all struggling for liberation. not rule and would be powerless to policy of the ruling capitalist states| greatest event in history took place. Re evens w British Inspired Raids. stop a y at that time. He reminded are inevitably causing conflicts among! “The leaders of the A. F. of L, and, repulsed the forei; s The Arcos raid and the raids on Ps - ars cee Gheeeeee : Rent orm the delegates of the action of the so- the capitalist states and fierce strug-|the four railroad brotherhoods claim| White guards, the workers of|the Soviet consuls in Peking and Top, prisoners before the Soviet bar of justice in a Moscow district; aalieeamate at the outbreak of the gle against the workers of the U. S./that the American workers do not! France, Germany, England, Italy and | Shanghai were instigated by British below, jurywomen of women’s court in Aktyubisnk Province. last war. The next war, he said, S. R. It points out that the so-called! sympathize with the Russian work-| Other countries refused to fight | imperialists to provoke Russia to de-._ eahaacuns ee as — | would again be to “defend the father- “League of Nations” has shown it-| ” said Lever. “This is entirely|2gainst the proletarian revolution,| clare war, he said. Declaring that ' eA et 2 jland,” ete. self in its true colors by its militant| false. The records of the conventions | Paising the red flag in spite of bloody |the Russian people must be congratu- | further intervention in China Tae | Just Like 1913. , _Tomsky emphasized the importance alliance with the big predatory cap-|of the international unions represent- | OPPYression. |lated on their policy of peace in the | sible; to prevent the manufacture of Conditions today are identical to! also of combatting opportunism. The italist states,—an alliance directed|ing the workers of the United States| Shook Capitalism. face of such provocation, the speaker | munitions, the tesnspore of troops,|ihose just prior to the world war, social-democrats, he declared,*@o not first and foremost against the U. S./and Canada prove conclusively ihat| Inspired by the glorious deeds of declared that the wisdom of the east |¢t¢, against any country struggling | Barbusse continued. He enumerated) oppose violence against the workers $. R. and in a relentless struggle|they were unanimously in favor of the November ei the work- | is ee to the diplomacy of the | for freedom. | the yar eee of a ish oes but shouted when the Soviet ‘Uifion inst the proletariat and the estab-| the recognition of the Soviet Union by | €”s 1d shook the founda- | west. é Henri Barbusse, noted French rd Soviet sia due to the de-| executed a few counter-revolution- TERT of Sea haae j the U. s. and demanded the immedi-| tions of capitalism, inflictin crush. | The workers must defend the Sov-| thor, gave a pi e of the great/|cline of the British Empire and the s in self defense. History Repeats. {ate resumption of trade relations. The| ing defeats upon the bourgeoisie, Tho | iet Union, he said, and prevent war | achievements of the November Revo-|need for stabilization at the expense| Referring to the disarmament con- cy Sibeahibcd by |Russian labor movement alone has! Separated by national boundaries the|also for their own interests. If the lution, nothwith tanding the hostility |of the colonial workers and home) ference, he declared that the Soyiet j Gis iets story cr te shee le | ean the courage and the ability to; 2¢tion of the revolutionary masses |Chinese Revolution is crushed and | of the rest of the world. He said that | Work France, tho more timid,/ Union would support every radical ot the workers, the Congress declared) take over the government and indus | P¢Vertheless ameliorated the situation | capitalist governments concentrate | the Soviet Union had built u» a monu-|is nevertheless subservient to British proposal for disarmament while. at that just as over a century ago at ane ” ~~ |of the Soviet Union, contributing to | their attack on the Soviet Union they | mental work of peace and human | Policy. The congress must not be con-! the same time seeing in the confer- dawn of the European bourgeois revo-| “inn. Rank and File American Del-| the vietory of the Red Army over|will chain more firmly than ever the | progr Barbusse pointed out the | tent with declarations, concluded Bar-' ence merely an attempt on the part lutions, the government classes OE) patton Wa’ greatly iniprel ed with Numerous enemies. On this anniver-|workers of every country. Every|danger of not realizing the immin- |busse, but must organize against war.! of the imperialists to deceive the : Great Britain was at the head of the se nahievements GE the U. S. S. R,| ‘ary of the victory of the working |delegate present must take a solemn! ence of war. The imperialists, he de | Tomsky Speaks. workers. He enip) zed the neces- counter-revolutionary moves against | ition’ of. woxbeme An “We. United class, declared Voroshilov, is a sou-| pledge to do everything possible, on|clared, are planning a war against; Tomsky, head of the All-Russian | sity of daily propaganda against war ‘ revolutionary France, so today it is States and Ceekake Mood fot the’ sue | VOme oF the international solidarity | return to their respective countries, |ihe Soviet Union because the latter |Trade Union, received a tremendous and for preparing the workers on the at the head of the “sacred union” of | ead off the Soviet Rapublic oF of the proletariat thru years of civil|to stop the preparation for war | threatens the existence of world capi- ion when he arose to speak. He! outbreak of to con the capitalist states against the Work- . Cae Volga Republic war and a token of the fraternal unity j against the Soviet Union and to make {talism. i ared that many failed to realize|perialist war into a cis k ers’ Republic. The break of the con- * ‘ — aoe =H TREE Sst sihcoerabeemmemeeeee = settee . : es a ca neg ——— g seeibens government in its relations, The remarkable achievements of { ; { F 4 with the U. S. S. R., the outrageous | the peasants in the autonomous Ger NDIAN WORKERS im 3 | | executions of the revolutionary heroes ™4" Volga Republic were related to le a : in China; the demand for the recall! the World Congress of the Friends of | in be x isd 4 by the U.S. S. R. its ambassador to | the Soviet Union by Putz, a member F MISERABLY y Np” hs Ue hue fa | | Mranee; the press campaign against |i the fennan Peasant Delegstion.| LIV eave of Absence For oe S| A great deal has been done to im-jreach 5.6. million by October 1st, | : the proletarian state; the terrorist |!specially enthusiastic was he about 0; ws . ae 4 ‘ pci ‘ ] . : the work of the Soviet Union in de- n April 2ist, 1925, the Presidium prove agricultural methods. Towards) 1928. } nloiet gree eat eesetati e arma: | veloping the cultural standards and! jot the All-Union Central Executive | the beginning of 1926, the more than Agricultural Tax. onente poe baheg pe aa & vocational training of the peasantry [ Contes nae an aes le Racers so en een had! The campaign for the collection of| : terrible danger of attack against the|, These impressions were gathered La tisiges) waste wits 4 ppategts or to the war, only 1 Per is proceeding satisfactorily. Accord- By TOM BARKER. by Putz, who together with other ‘are allowed to go home during the cent of the sowing area was cultivated 16 victorious workers. to preliminary information ; i ; LONDON, Noy. 13 (FP).—“It is al- members of the German Peasant Del- N al- summer for field work. Provided they according to this system. ion roubles (over 50 per cent of Th oy ene Be pi pgeretil egation, made an extensive study trip | Most unbelievable that Gada sou se do not commit more offenses during Use More Mackines. annual amount) have already been nie of tHe Sovtet Uinbt and de. (ate the Volga Republic. under such ghastly conditions,” says | their leave of absence, but use it for! an. use of assorted seed is becom-|collected. Many poor and middle| S. Rowntree in an article on. Bom- the right purpose, this period is in- Rebel Artists { # : Gi 4 ‘eae aes ped S$ pai ax even before it igure: Wea cece : z Union With Proletariat. i 3 con Workers |: 2 pe : seon.|ine more and more general, During cee paid the tax even .# pant aly Rita Bly grt geal The speaker described the blossom- | y ee pea oa ee ian ee eG, last year alone, the peasantry were Was due. Worker’ exerted: by the Soviet Government, |M& of new ete Ee BUC THE Leet abewmaninia of ta tchawn nl mas GieAeine. tad deriataly iv ciel ence Die ane a tee Provinces and State Loans. Play aa : .|development of the peasant co-opéra- , af spice ra sate Bae sorted seed. re us ACIGNSEY) sai euneate. abate Tadnen dene i fo. | have taken the sword had it been sub.| Htieal and cultural autonomy of the Lea sae eed ap ip as aren ager Re iecn ery Conoce Cue. tryside. In 1913, 87,000,000 roubles Cape Rcaauge usr wear etl Come and 1 a “ (2oo ccuthuntty Of the Cermall tamens dn | awl cor of one room about 10) summer of 1925. Although these PEO-| vere pert to provide the country- other big centers. Lately, owing to Aa { aoe iene penis atte ie vat {the Volga valley. He declared that/ { by 12ft. with a small window and/ple are perfectly free in their move-| iaa with machinery, and 102,000,000 the growing well-being and cultural ae f s Be abe teal iar eas Poass = -y;; no chimni They open into the side; ments, only 4 per cent did not re-|~ bles in 1927. Five million cooper-| development of the whole population, Yy ism) as perpetrated against the or-/t¢ German Peasant Delegation will) yo4x dirty pa sage, and the whole! turn, [eee gag: uae a tre 41 | the provinces begin to play an impor- = gans of the proletarian state in Lon-| tell the German p nts that the b ilding is MMBido dark, di | : All Return pags Mie ye sles td ie eels aa. holders of aide bonds bet don, Peking, Shanghai, Paris, War-| 2¥SSian peasantry was able to achieve | 2U, "1% 1S ur \agktta bes v 3 credit, that is to say one-fifth of all] Mm’ Tore as ee rs + . i r q Ss y “lose saw. (Voikov’s assassination.) its great successes only by close al- and dirty,—a miserable place to live | During the summer season of 1926 | peasant farnis. is shown by the following table. Cares Away te ‘ i liance with the industrial pidletarint, in, They pay a dollar a month for and 1926, 89.6 per cent of such tem-| Agricultural cooperation is grow- 5% Sat pea- a a * ; : The Congress declares its confidence | Ther closinge wanes feos site a room and usually two families|porarily released prisoners returned ing. At the end of 1926 such coop-|, loan sant 1926 1927 Put Some Passion 7 in the workers’ and peasants’ Red ¢ he viene pita ae ee occupy one room. to the place of their incarceration, | oratives had over 5 million membe Towns 1925 loan loan loan eo 5 Army and in the peaceful aims Oh eked MarR bee aosnes Ma ee Goats, Bogs, Men. ‘9.7 per cent were late, and 0.7. Per! Bast year alone the turnover of co- Moscow 71.9 70.5 And a Sash On! their government. In order to defend thusiasm. ‘Dhaees was an eeeiaee Speaking of other privately owned | cent returned before the expiration of | operatives re -d from 599 million Leningrad 1d 10.8 e % ’ the revolutionary gains it is neteN| ecomon§. when Vexoshiloy Soviet |residential areas he offers a graphic, their leave at the request of the Tocal! youbles to 1,685 million roubles, On| Kharkov 67 4 Tee honew sary to mobilize the workers of the oe: coin Soni thevarders oF the ‘description of the unfortunate cotton | population. the whole, cooperatives are responsi-| Other towns 10.3 7.3 In ‘True UL Si Sane in order to defend itself! War Council of the Sovieh Union tive: |workers of British India. “We pass! Thus, only 7 of the 1,000 temporar-/ bie for 92 per cent of the total col- ee ae ge oe successfully against outside attack. sented the Order of the Red Flag, the |out of a broad thoroughfare into an/ily released prisoners gaye displea-| lection and storage of butter. i 100 100 100 100 | see: open alley and out of this we enter/Sure to the population by their con-! a narrower a littered with filth,;duct. Many of those who were late sunless and stinking; goats are lying|/@ave good reasons for being so an symbol of world social revolution, to fy F \Clara Zetkin, veteran revolutionist, Peace-disarmament platform in con-|who, with Karl Liebknecht and Rosa | thi : i ; nection. with the Disarmament Con- | puxemboute protested the imperial. about and here and there a miserable|this extra time was included into ference convened by the League of list war and stood by the November | dog. their term of imprisonment. Nations, was also expressed by the Revolution from the beginning; Andre! “From this alley we enter a tene- The State of Agriculture. ' beginning of 1927, the sowing area of present conference. _ Tt expresses the! Marty, who led the revolt of tha/ment so dark that at first we can see! Through the November revolution,!the Union was nearly per cent belief that the main object of, this | french, fleet in the Black Sea in 1919! nothing—the atmosphere is full of! 50,000,000 hectares have been added of the pre-war sowing area, the area , conference is a conspiracy of the pow- against intervention; Max Holz, cour- | the smoke of dry cow dung and a little|to the area of peasant land. in the) under seed for technical purposes— ers to arm themselves against the U.}ageous fighter of the German prole- ; wood made into a fire, It emits much, European part of the U. R; :The| so important to the whole national 8. S. R. The Congress therefore calls | tariat, who was imprisoned for many }smoke which escapes furtively thru’ peasants were given land which-ior- economy-—oceupying 160 per cent of f upon all workers and all honest op-| years for attempting to consolidate | half closed ventilato j ‘merly belonged to big landlords and|the pre-war area. ponents of imperialist war to support | the first workers’ republic; Jaques | Do Best They Can. ‘the clergy, and also appanages of} The total production of agriculture \ in avery possible way the peace pol-|Sadoul, captain of the French army} «The walls and floors of cement are Members of the ex-ezarist family, As has reached 99.2 per cent of pr i icy of the Soviet Government in or-; who defended the November Revolu- jdark ‘with smoke and dirt. The in-/@ vesult of the redistribution of land’ production, In the coming » ay TA | hatifbartts sleep on the floor, there is|im the villages themselves, about 50,- cial year, 1927-28 ture will miture. Yet, the bras | 000,000 hectar i Feowtitid:miawines aleudy wtee THE FOLLOWING NEW READERS SEND THEIR GREET: (sinc stuic so atQUct tts Su stay Gah, aay Snags ale 9 Growth of Workers’ ‘Coope In the course of last year, over 10 tebellious Fashion! (million peasants profited by various! forms of propagation of agronomic ' knowledge. Approval of the initiative taken by| the Soviet Government in adopting a Savings Bank Campaign. at the NEW MASSES Anniversary Workers’ posits amount to 5,148,000 roubles. | Peasants’ Costume Ball During the same period, 89,000 rou-| Friday Evening, December 2, 9 o'clock bles worth of loan bonds were sold by! Webster Hall the savings banks. 119 East 11th Street The figures on show that | Tickets: $1.50 in Advance wages increase si y side with the $3.00 at the Door i rae ro sais teapots ee for sale at Jimmie Higgins Book Shop a or rotection in the U.S. S. R. 106 University Place The pneumatic hammer and electr ri 5 weak drill are now applied in the mechan- Rand School, 7 East 15th St. ised mines of the U.S. S. R. Accord- ing to the miners’ union the employ- ment of these instruments is less in- During the Moscow campai 10,- 019 new depositors have been secured) As a result of this, already at the for the savings bank and theiz de-| gn var finan- or by Mail from New Masses 39 Union Square Algonquin 4445. ash clan? jantry. In this manner, poor peasants) Urban workers’ consumers’ cooper Jurious to the health of the workers Viernah Rennate i INGS 10 THE SOVIET UNION ON THE OCCASION OF As for sanitation, “two filthy|Pceived after the November revolu- atives in the U. S. S. R. have eng tan bang deiling 8 sleas dust: gets ea” Ooh agenda ‘i Matrines serve for the people on the! tion 100,000,000 hectares. steadily increasing and developing in| to the workers’ lungs. he : whole floor.” A rubbish shoot passes! But during the imperialist and civil the course of the last few yez The miners’ union therefore pro- | THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION the top Xo the, botian. oe the| Wan and e8G-owiig tba hatweasy,| In 18UGuiT, the munioer Si’ tharb-| posed teins Poonte'e riut of J. Muikin Peter Roucof? Ida Tachinsky building and heaps of rubbish lie high S°Wing areas decreased considerably. holde eased from 4% to over 6| Labor to ineluc in the i Harold Bennett E. Swenson Olive Dargan in a space between two rooms and|To remedy this, help on a large scale million. The number of coc perative | list of trades which entitle employees | Anton Viasok M. Shear ton Maaripn open to the main passage. In one) had to be given to the peasantry in|shops and stores increased by 1,500,| to a longer holida (one month in- W. B. Beier F. Josephson I. V. Panack tenement the rains pours in to the | the form of seed loans, Between 1918! The turnover in 1926-27 amounted to stead Og ftwo weeks) with alt pay L, Csakany -C, Carlgreen Oliver A. Butler ‘attics during the rainy season. ,and 1927, the state supplied the pea-'3,800 million roubles against 2,113, The Peoples oacent ariat of Labor S. A. Nelson Sam Crestin Sylvia Lindgren To get into’ a better room key,8@nt population with 3,147,000 tons| million roubles in 1925-26, opera- | 2ecepted the proposal. 210 New Workers Clubs. Extensive building of new clubs and huge labor palaces has been under- { money of from $15 to $20 must be giv- Seed, over half of which was a gift | tives were responsible for 50 per cent; en the landlord’s agent. How diffi-|a@ud not a loan, Two-thirds of this|of the budget of working class fam-) jeult this will be ean be gauged from)#mount were given to the poorest) ilies. i , & M. Stojewa E. E. Bjercke W. Wisniewski Jacob Cohen Pete Ordanoff Pete Martinovich Arvo Mande! Jack Jarvi A. Feinberg M. Jensen Philip L. Greene Minnie Karasick \the fact that day workers receive $11' Peasant population and the remainder, Control figures for 1927-28 indi-| taken this year in the U. S. t. | F. Orloff Nick Teutul . H. Stone 4 month for 60 hours’ a week, Spin-,t? middle peasants. yeate a 20 per cent increase of tur-| According to incomplete figures 210 H. W. Eklund Esther Weissman David Kinbread ners sometimes make as much as $18) Improve Methods over and a 36 per cent increase in the|new clubs are now under construction. J. Knutzan Joseph Restako J. Rosenstein | a month, | It is entirely due to this assistance |Proportional weight of agricultural! The metal workers built 25 el the R. W. Browder J. C. Patterson S. A. Casper Under such conditions the workers |of the government which made it pos-/produce in the turnover of agricul-| textile workers clubs, the railway | T. Ray Frank Jarrell Steve Staicowf of Bombay are housed. “Truly,’”|sible to reestablish in a comparatively |tural cooperatives. According to con-| workers 28, etc. Anna Burlak Geo, Reader Fred Ksendzow writes Rowntree, “they are housed/short time, the sowing area and to|trol figures, the number of sharehoid- | C. C, Wheeles Martin Saline Zz. EB. Miller | worse than cattle,” strengthen peasant farming. [ers in workers’ cooperatives should; BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! ‘ . “ f \ . | a .