The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1927, Page 3

wt | | | ) \ ; ] \ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, TROTSKY GROUP HIT AT FOREIGN DELEGATES MEET 300 Foreign Communists Endorse Party Action (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Nov. 15.—The three hundred foreign Communists from all parts of the world who are attending the Congress of the friends of the Soviet Union here have gone on rec- ord as endorsing the policies of the Central Committee and of strongly disapproving the actions of the_Oppo- sition. Many of the delegates were| witnesses of the provocative actions} of the Opposition on November 7th. At the proposal of the foreign Communists Bukharin reported on the work of the Opposition, Even before Bnukharin had time to reply to various questions put to him, the British del- egation presented a resolution endors- | ing the policies of the Central Com- mittee, which was subsequently adopt- ed unanimously and with only one abstention. Endorses Central Committee. The Communist who abstained from voting, declared that tho he him- self was personally convineed that the Trotskyist Opposition was fighting against the principles of the Novem- ber revolution, he did not think him- self at liberty to vote on the resolu- tion because the Opposftion had not been discussed in his organization. The meeting was attended by dele- gates, most of them workers, elected by large groups of workers in various parts of the world. They unanimously considered the actions of the Opposi- tion as leading to the formation of a} new party in the Soviet Union, in an effort to bring disorganization into the ranks of the Communist Interna- tional and to undermine the dictator- ship of the proletariat. Text of Resolution. The resolution adopted follows: “The meeting of the Communist members of the various delegations to the Congress of the Friends of the Soviet Union entirely supports the Central Committee of our fraternal All Union Communist Party in its struggle against the Trotskyist Oppo- sition and entirely approves of the measures taken against those who are organizing a second party in the Soy- iet Union. “The meeting brands with shame the efforts of the Trotskyist Opposi- tion, which are directed to the crea- tion of a new Communist International | with the assistance of the renegade and anti-Soviet elements thruout the world. “The meeting is convinced that the Communist Parties affiliated with the Communist International will not! tolerate the actions of the Trotskyist Opposition tending toward the disin- tegration of the proletarian dictator- ship in the Soviet Union and the Com- munist International. “The meeting insists that the se- verest measures be taken immediately against these enemies of the Novem- ber revolution.” Dil Production in The Soviet Union | | | | Sets New Record MOSCOW, Nov. 15. — The produc- tion of oil in the Soviet Union in the fiscal year which ended in October broke all previous records, exceeding pre-war (1913) production by over a million tons and last year’s produc- tion record by more than two million tons. Oil production in the last fiscal’ year’ totalled 10,360,000 tons as compared with 9,215,000 tons in 1913 (an in- crease of 12.4 per cent). Technical improvements which are rapidly being introduced in the Baku region prom- ise to raise the production level still “higher in the coming year. , A good deal was exported to Eng- land, Germany, France and Italy. Ex- ports to England have more than doubled since 1913. Exports to Eng- land were 381,000 tons last year as compared with 178,000 tons in 1913, In Iraq; to Maintain Army and Air Forces LONDON, Nov. 15.—The British government has informed King Feisal today that it deems it more advis- able to maintain a British force in Traq than to maintain an Arabian army. Fearing that an attempt to intro- duce compulsory military service would lead to an open revolt, the gov- ernment “advised” Feisal to relin- quish the idea of a national army and to maintain the present voluntary foree supported by three battalions and a large well-equipped air force. WANTED — MORE READERS! 100,000 GERMAN | CIGARMAKERS IN NATIONAL STRIKE ‘Textile Workers Win | Wage Increase | | BERLIN, Nov. —More than a | hundred thousand cigarmakers thru- | out Germany have gone on strike fol- lowing the rejection of their demand | for a wage increase. The strike | comes on the heels of the settlement | {of the walkout of 55,000 Rhineland | textile workers. The textile workers won a 10% per cent wage increase. | The offer of a number of small | i manufacturing ¢:tablishments | creases of 7 and 9 per cent will | be rejected by the workers, it is be- | | liev The cigarmakers work long | hours at very low wages. Shop con- ditions in the industry are bad. * Acquit Manoilescu Of Plot for Carol BUCHAREST, Nov. 15.—Jubilant at the acquittal of Michael Manoilescu of a charge of high treason, support- ers of former Crown Prince Carol to- day predicted the speedy return of Carol to the throne of Roumania. The acquittal of the former under secretary of state was considered as a serious defeat of Premier Bratianu| * * Increase in Strikes. | Strikes in Germany for the second | quarter of the year totalled 247 in| comparison with the 101 strikes for | the same period last year. | Nation-wide strikes against long | hours, low wages and the speed-up, | that accompanied rationalization | are sweeping Germany. A strike, in-| volving more than 80,000 lignite | miners, took place last month, while strikes threaten major industries faces the firing squad himself thi: government, inspired by Wall Str By MANUEL GOMEZ. (Written especially for the Feature Service of the All-America Anti- The Latest Step NOV. 16, 1927 Page Tiree General Francisco R. Gomez, counter-revolutionary leader, who executed peasant leaders in Vera Cruz, | Gomez led the recent reactionary outbreak against the Calles | is time. eet. in Nicaragua — jdon left today on a ten mile under whose orders Manoilescu was| arrested and tried for complicity in a} plot to place Carol on the throne now! oceupied by his six-year-old son, King | Michael. It was reported that Bratianu, sens- | ing defeat in the verdict of the court- martial which tried Manoilescu, has commissioned Prof. George Mugur to} proceed to Paris and discuss wit Carol conditions under which he woul return to Roumania. Manoilescu was acquitted early this morning. He was arrested recently on h id |the Roumanian frontier and it was charged that he had in his possession | documents and letters from Pri Carol to his adherent: | | Makes Preparations To Receive Miners HUNGERFORD, England, Nov. 15. | —After breakfast consisting of a mug | of tea, half a pound of bread and| an ounce of margarine, the army of | unemployed miners marching to Lon- ike to | Newbury. A. J. Cook, secretary of the British | heer i) Youth Delegates From) |) | Various Countries Meet To Plan Defense of USSR | Special Cable to DAILY WORKER | MOSCOW, Nov. 15. — The con- | ference of the Young Friends of | the Soviet Union opened here yes- like steel and chemicals, Most of the Rhineland textile work- | ers were locked out on November 3rd, | when other workers went on strike. | Imperialist League.) | IMULTANEOUS with fresh reports | | of the killing of Nicaraguan na-| | tionalists by U. S. marines comes the} | news of the appointment of an Amer- iean financial dictator for Nicaragua. | The latest act of outrage should| convince even the slow-witted among| American workers and farmers that | Students Protest: H H the time hes come to call a halt on} | | | Street and Washington in Latin) | organizations in Germany, F America. |! England and other countrie Under the pretext of protecting | participating in the conference. - | jmine, but Wall Street's), United) be 1 States marines were first landed on) truthful a or if en ot too wer- dy with an answer, He has (By mail)—The | the coast of Nicaragua, whence they | ing such questions in Haiti for a long avana has been closed | proceeded to declare “neutral zones” | tim . even while electi there by orders of President Machado on! wherever the liberals were defeating | were being postponed de y by account the repeated “disorde He conservatives. deeree of the U. S. military ¢ mor. caused by students. A military cor Under the pretext of establishing * don has been established around the | peace, Coolidge’s person: represen- The tr at American imperi- Inive building and the police | tative exiled the liberal President alism is settling down for a perman have been instructed “only to use fore! sa, corrupted his commander-in-! ent sta in Nicaragua, and_ that, in extreme cases when all persuasiv | ehiet (General Moncada) and then therefore, it is found nece to| means are of no avail,” unloosed a war of extermination! supplement the military occupation The conflict between the students | against the loyal liberal troops under by financial occupation. The next and Machado is of long standing, The | General Sandino. students repeatedly protested against | the dictatorship and __ particularly | against the laws prolonging the term of Machado’s presidency. Fourteen students are still in jail for such pro- tests and recently students made dem- onstrations for the release of their colleagues. step w be the taking over of all |eustoms houses, to be followed by Under what pretext is Dr. William| “negotiation” of a treaty in which * come a full-fledged U. S. protectorate with the status of Haiti. Characteristically enough the send- jing of a financial dictator to gua is accompanied by a to the effect that Wall Street bank- ers will to the Nicaraguan government. Of | exercise dictatorial powers over Nica- | raguan finances? Until recently Cum- | berland has held a similar position in} | terrorized Haiti and his conduct there |has been such as to make it clear that Destroy Posters. jhe is a dictator who takes the duties The last conflict of the students | °f dictatorship seriously, without any |P. Cumberland now brought in to/the republic of Nicaragua will be-| eventually loan $22,000,000 | Miners Federation, left for London | with the police occurred when a large | distracting regard for the interests to make preparations for the recep- | group of students, after a meeting for | of the Latin-Americans who are ob- tion of the miners. The miners in- jtheir arrested comrades, destroyed jliged to pay his salary. i tend to present parliament with a pe-|posters on the university doors an-| Continuation of United States in- tition calling its attention to the mis-|nouncing that certain improvements | tervention in Nicaragua is supposed on the university buildings were be- ‘BUILD THE DAILY ery and destitution in the coal fields. ling made according to the plans of ' -a>,| Machado. It was the second time in WORKER! |, few weeks that the students tore GET A NEW READER! J oft the name of Machado. By TAMURA. There is probably no branch of in- !starved upon wages even lower than in other factories the women are sub- | jected to systematic wage deductions. P i 2 |The administration will throw a girl, ped mag Se Hits nei apr pi hundreds of miles from her native vil- itions than the textile enterprises. |jaoe, on tp the streets without dis- One reason for this is that about 750,- Laver ‘ioe 000 of the million employed in the | St textile industry are women the over-, In the dormitories not only wer whelming majority of which are com-|the women forbidden to receive thei pletely unorganized. |friends and acquaintances, but they ; ; jenie | Were not even allowed to read the A 12-hour day in appalling hygienic | WeT® P° au et cee conditions, semi-starvation, contempt |P@Pes oF correspond with their rela- and violence from the foremen and | tives. The 13,000 female mill-hands of administration, a few sen remaining | ‘he Hayasi Gumi ager a of th over after deductions for board and | driven to desperation by refusal of the lodging—such is the usual lot of the |2¢™inistration to consider the de- Jai eee mill-hands. They have to | mands made on the 24th of August etna within ihe ecterys premises for improved labor conditions and even in non-working Rouse the om, | Wages declared, supported by 309 to ployers, fearing that they. RAIL Sscan 1400 men wor declared a strik away, keeping them under: lock and | AUS. es Th er Reet Saat key in dormitories surrounded by ing to give in to the strikers, decided high walls and often by barbed wire. | on to shut down all three factories and " + hee {demanded that the mill-girls leave Only es “pl mill. | the dormitories immediately, hands endured this nightmare regime! The strikers, however, despite the almost without a murmur. During threats of the administration and the last two or three years, however, | Police violence refused to accept their strikes and conflicts inthe textile en- | discharge and leave the factory prem- terprises have become the order of |ises. The overwhelming majority of the day, Among the most important | the mill-hands were natives of remote of these was the strike of 1,200 mill. |districts and quite unable to return girls in September last in the three | to their lages on the pittances they i received from the Company. The ad- ministration then closed the dining rooms on the 12th of September hoping thus to break down their re- sistance. On the evening of the same day they locked up the dormitories while the workers were at a meeting. Police with Mills. factories of the Hayssi Gumi Com- pany, in the Negane Okeya province, This strike furnishes yet another ex- ample of the treacherous role being played of late by the Right Japan- ese Federation of Labor—the So- domei. ~ — Mill-Girls Exploited. The labor conditions in the Nagano province textile enterprises are shal ticularly onerous. Nowhere are the] pouring rain without other protection mill-girls so cruelly exploited and op- {than their working clothes. All their pressed as in this big textile district, | appeals to the police and administra- and nowhere was this exploitation so| tion were in vain. The police replied at the locked gates of the mills in ARF YOT GETTING THEM? extreme as in the Hayasi Gimu enter-|to their desperate entreaties at least prises. As wll ce being half jo arrest them with jeers and da. works, | guarding” the 1928 elections in that} junhappy “republic.” But what has |that got to do with financial dictator- | |ship? Dr. Cumberland himself would 12 be due to the necessity of “safe- | this amount $2,000,000 is to be put up immediately by J. & W. Seligman & Co., the old exploiter of Nicara- guan oppression, which made plenty of money during the previous U. S. | | | | {continue the military intervention in- j definitely to guarantee the safety of |the investment. The job of the fin- ancial dictator will be to loot the | treasury, appropriate the customs re- ! ceipt squeeze the Nicaraguan tax- | payers, ete., in order that the huge investment may pay a commensurate interest return. If precedent is fol- lowed, there will be additional profits guaranteed to the bankers in the} ‘shape of Iucratiye concessions and j oth special exploitation privi ba aps Nicaraguan workers | peasants will be conscripted by the} | marine-controlled government to work | on construction projects without pay,| jas in Haiti! | Furthermore, little, if any, of the| |money “loaned” will ever be paid to ;the Nicaraguan government. The} loar will be simple bookkeeping tr money actions, the bankers paying the to themselves, in connection ting claims for damages aragua. This was the pro- cedure during the last period of oc- | cupation—and it is already announced that part of the new loans is to go to settle outstanding claims. It goes without saying that claims of this} kind are to manufacture as excuses for sending the marines, ee Never was it more plain that Amer 2 imperialism is Wall Street imperialism. American workers have no interest in helping J. & W. Selig- {man & Co, extort tribute from Nica- ragua. The interests of the workers }are with the Nicaraguan people, against imperialism and imperialist Sugar Barons in World; Pact to Boost Prices intervention in Nicaragua. é Sar Ps PARIS, Nov. 15.—An agreement to Oitce the money is loaned the U. S | restrict the production and boost the a it necessary to| Price of sugar was signed here today government will find it necessary to by Gabe’ “Germany, Bal bd ae Conditions of Textile Workers in Japan The dormitories and dining jrision, This be-| rooms were not reopened. haviour of the employers provoked | indignation among broadest sections ; | of the populations. Even the bour- geois papers published article: severely condemning the company’s tactics. The administration of the factories jowever, not only threw the workers | they were almost entireiy If some residents harbc the landlor demanded mediate eviction. But for the emer-, gency measu taken by the ldcal .|“Federated Tx Ini ffering the women work erecting hastily constructed shelters, jand the help of the chief of the “Maternity Home,” taking in’ up’ to 400 girls, the position of the women would have been stil! more appalling —-even so it was of course impossible to provide for them al Betrayed By “Leaders.” Absolutely nothing whatever was done for the protection of the work- jers’ interests by the local authorities, }All their attempts to bring about {mediation through the police au- thorities and the local Social Bureau ended in smoke. | Even more shameful, however, than the behaviour of the employers and authorities were the tactics of the Sodomei, which undertook the leader- into the street and left them t: starve, but even used their authority |° to prevent local owners cf house to Czechoslovakia. The treaty is for one year and is |renewable for another. It provides |for an international sugar commit- tee composed of two members from | st upon members of the Sodomei|¢ach of the signatory countries. The being taken back. jeneeby 36 open to any other sugar- At the ‘same time they began to| exporting country. agitate among strikers and workers | in other textile mills against the pro- sal made by the Hycgikai and Redo} CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15. al ominto to eall a conference of fac-| The new Tarkish ambassador to the | tory delegates. Their argument! tinited States, Muktar Bey, left Con- was that the conflict was nothing|..): e Tashi: i a pie i f , | Stantinople today for Washington to much and could be settled without all |/10 up his duties. At first their agitation was | NEW TURKISH ENVOY. | \ dents KELLOGG 1 PAY FINANCIAL CZAR OVER NICARAGUA ” e Officially “Desig 1 a Cumberland for Job ommended” go to “investigate” Ni inances , with a view a née can loan d” for the ate Department which nerican ill take , Which erican ma- Contemplate “Loan.” . announcement of Dr. Cumber- after the land’s appointment comes publication of a report Street bankers contemplate loans to Nicaragua totalling $22,000,- 000 most of which will go to the pay- ment of American claim of the subjugation of the American marines. * country by * perialist tactics in Nicaragua by uel Gomez, Secretary of the Ame section of the All-American Anti-Im- perialist League will be found else- where on this page.) TANG SHEN CHI FLEES TO JAPAN: HANKOW TOTTERS SHANGHAI, Chi Nov. seneral Tang Sen-chi, who fled from Hankow when it was evident the city would fall before the dvancing Nanking troops, left for an today aboard the steamer Shanghai Maru. He arrived last night aboard a Japanese boat and hid during the night with friends in the international settlement. Nanking auth efforts to captr forts were una +e c s made strong ang, but their ef- ing as throughout his flight he remained under the pro- tection of foreign flags. Nanking Negotiates. Hankow, from which Tang fled, has not actually fallen as yet, although its evacuation by the defending Wuhan forces was being continued to- day as negotiations for its surrender were being -carried on by Shien. Meanwhile, the Nanking com- manders are bringing up shiploads of troops and war vessels. iE : ‘Ch MUNIST | uNTERNATIO 2d ee te Kens Come Com aman No. 15 Now Ready FEATURING: An Article by Stalin on The International Situation With other splendid articles 10 CENTS $1.25 Six Mor ’ 1 $2.00 a Year. WORKERS 89 East 125th St. LIBRARY PUBLISHERS New York, N. ¥e Seeing that the strike was | the peasantry ‘ll as among the lab » women workers res population as ions to hold out. Strike § Despite, howe The Collapse of the Labor Banks -and spirit of leaders r 1 On the solved the St vineed the work: of the useles j of the struggle. his the refor +have done two d after ‘the in 3 big and 18 small Oks mill ¢ \of the Hyo; jtory Dele at wi s cided to demand higher wages and | ;shorter hours from their employers fand to embark upon campaign for unemployment relict nd the eg |tablishment of legal woman-and-child jlabor protection. The Sodomei lead ers gave in just when the strugele |was beginning to attract attention from broad sections of the population, and when even the Japanese Home Office was forced to appear to assist |the strikers, instructing local au- of the union A most astoundin, money. and resulted in the loss of from the funds of the railr weeks. collaboration ever written. 25 CEN Wrecking the Labor Banks By WM. Z. FOSTER Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Here is a record of trade union treachery “without equal in American Labor history. crooked leadership: disas- looting of the treasury; rifling insurance and pension events that funds g account of nearly wrecked one of the great American trade unions over twenty million dollars ‘oad worke The story is written from authentic documents and official records of the Engineers’ convention which lasted for seven “Wrecking. the Labor Banks” stands out as one of the most dramatic exposures of the dangers of class Thousands of women workers stood | ship of the strike on the ground that | thorities to attempt to tone down the |some of the workers were its mem- | employe s. Rumor has it that the bers. The Sodomei leaders began! Sodomei leaders got 30,000 yen for their negotiations with the employers | their treachery. Be this as it may by hastening to assure them that they | this strike has once again opened the understood perfectly the difficulties | eves of the Japanese workers as to experienced by them on account of in-| the interests. really served by the dustrial depression and would only in- 4 Sodemei.~ Send one dollar for five copies THE WATSON-PARKER LAW By Wm. Z. Foster ....... 38 ¢ THE WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 East 125th Street New York, N, Y. t NEXT STEP Oster .. see BS | fb