The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1927, Page 3

ee ae if THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1927 Foreign News --- A. J. COOK::— SEE DETERDING IN ANTL-SOVIET FORGERY SCHEME British Oil | Head Works | With White Russians | BERLIN, Noy. 20.-—Sir Henri De- | terding, president of the Royal) Patch Shell (Oil) Company is i velved in the huge international coun- terfeit plot which is being investi- gated here, according to a number of Berlin newspapers. Startling revela- tions are expected to result from the, investigation resulting from the di ‘overy of more than $25,000,000 in| Torged Russian currency manufac- iRrench W orkers Protest tured in Frankfort-on-Main with the | ehject of undermining Soviet finance. Deterding and other prominent of- | ficiais of the Royal Dutch Shell are | helieved to have cooperated with Rus-/ sian monarchists and German fas-} cisti in the plot. International Plot. ‘ Bank notes traced thieraschwili and a consequent inves- jin ling i sortium a_. Georgian | strongly counter-revolutionist. Basilius Sada- | pre: ‘Against Boost in Price ).\, Of Sugar by. New Trust| PARIS, Now the price of of, the several prot which declar x Trade. operators have agreed to ex- |} tigation proved that the forgery was/ port large quantities of © part of an international scheme and jder to boost prices in France. that the forgers had headquarters in both Paris and Madrid as well as Ber- lin. The Georgian Nestor Eristavi, | former secretary to the Monk Ras. | putin, was also discoyered to be. in-! volved in the plot. i {in Ten persons, active in the German | Wireless Development fascist movement, have already been | arrested in connection with the plot. | Rumor Chiang Kai- shek io May Take Nanking Post | tats — General ue SHANGHAI, Nov. 20. Chiang Kai-shek, who betrayed the Chinese Nationalist movement. this spring, will accept a high office in the Nanking © counter-revolutionary government, according to reports. 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Greatly Reduced Prices. rise he sigr Mail).—Broadeast- is developing at a rapid pace in All that was left in from in| of Page ‘’hree ‘MARCHING MINERS IN LONDON AFTER TREK FROM WALES: Cook Calls Attention to) Misery in Coal Fields LONDON, Nov. 20 of more than 170 mil marching miners, headed by Cook, secretary of the British Min- ers, entered London today. Cook will | read the resolution calling “tinalien _; to destitution in th After meeting at Trafalgar Square this afternoon. ~ | Wearing embieras ickle and « hammer and t ig the Red! thed into Lon-| y in the | en fuornine end {hours later. One of the leaders of the marching Fea rs. is gh, former v of the I. W. W. in the United ente Charles | memt |States, and now a member of the 1 | Bei ish Commanist Party. Ashleigh | at! number of strikes in | | and served three | rth Prison for vio- espionage act. Although France is not included Confer at 5:30. international trust, French) The marching miners will be the | speculators are believed to have in-| puests of the Bethnal Green Town | spired it to further their own plans. | Counei during their stay in London. | delegates, headed by | Cook, will confer with Labor members jof Parliament at The mass demonstration at Trafal- |gav Square, which will be held at 2p. m, ¥v {of workers, 2 Miners Dead, Little | Hope for 18 Others, | Jn African Disaster it is expected. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov. 20.—Eighteen native ard one European miner have been entombed 3,000 feet underground in one of the Crown Mines. Two miners were dragged out of the mines dead Fri- day. Little hope is left for the remain- ing eighteen in the mine. Housing Situation USSR Improving MOSCOW, (By Mail).—During the last three years, the state and co-op~ eratives spent about 250 roubles” for the construction of in tion of dwellings. clude building operations in the vil- lages. The housing situation thruout the ok BRITISH SEAMEN PROTEST By CARL HAESSLER, (Federated Press.) | AT SEA, Round for SOUTHAMP- TON, Eng.—(FP.)—The gallant Brit- |ish crew of the crack Cunard liner Aquitania is not entirely devoted to | British institutions. The passenger |service of the merchant marine is in their ¢} a slave vice, aS wages and conditions go. But conditions in, the British Isles often worse, they readily admit. ven the British institution of trade | unionism, to which practically every British worker loyal, has its crities taboard the vessel. All the crew ex- cooks are British subjects and most | of them in the naval reserve. 17-Hour Way. “Seventeen hours a day, str,” says the steward who keeps my little 2- bunk room in the steerage in order, “They work us all the time. Hardest Iboat in the passenger service. I shall change at Christmas. But my wife ha’ another babe and we mustn’t j take any chances now. There’s a | big waiting list in the ports. There’s 'a deal of unemployment ashore. But 17 hours, in that time and never a day off on | board!” These men, working without inter- ruption on the 6-day run, get $41 2 month in wages and their keep while on board, but when the boat is in port | for Qor 3 ‘the men are not allowed to live on \board but must pay their own living ) expenses ashore. This means keeping ‘up not only their home on the Eng- | lish side but finding a bed and buying their meals on the more expensive | American scale in New York. ~ Many Jobless. | The deck steward, in charge of a |dozen or so subordinates, tells of |seores of young acquaintanees,. boys lout of school for 5 or 6 years, who |have never had a job since they left | the classroom, | “Britain is full of these ‘chaps,” he said, “youngsters who ) wanted nothing better than some sort jot a job when their learning days were over. There was nothing for | them. They went on the dole (gov- ‘ernment unemployment allowance), *yping for.an opening but year after a march | , the army of} A. J. mine fields at a} London several | A. J.| ll be attended by thousands | million | houses, while private builders spent | 250 million roubles on the construc- | This does not in-| {cept a couple of French and Italian | sir, and only 1 hour rest, | days before the next voyage | poor | ‘Soviet ‘Union Miners And Oil Workers Get Awarded Wage Increase The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Miners’ Union ‘and the Supreme Council of Na- | tional Economy have signed an | agreement pfoviding for. the dis- tributi of the 7 million rouble | fund assigned for raising the min- | ers’ wages. This agreement provides for | higher wages in coal mining enter- | the total increase aggregat- = | pri be ing 2,785.000 roubles; the increase | | |in oil enterprises totals 2,400,000 | | roubles and in mining enterprises ‘other than coal-—865,000 roubles. Gal Peevish as the Rumors Fly About Ruler of Filipinos | WASHINGTON, Nov, 2! Re- sentment at advice on tHe selection of for a new governor-general the | Philippine Islands was expr d at ;the White House on Noy. 18 on be- York Herald-Tribune had editorially demanded the appointment of Brig.- Gen. Frank MeUoy, and warned Cool- idge that the selection of W. Came- ron Forbes, former governor-general, would be a: betr the late General Leonard Wood. Coolidge claims to have been a friend of Wood, and to be the best judge as to what man should take Wood’s place. He wants a mr who ‘has had experience in the islands, and | who is “sound.” Irked at Stimson. It is said that Henry L. Stimson, recently looked upon as the probable choice, has been back of the anti- Forbes campaign in the imperialist press. the anti-Forbes element. Meanwhile Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena, Filipino political leaders, have come from Manila to Washington, talked with Coolidge, and are now about to return home without having received any encour- | agement for their hopes of Philippine national indepedence. The democrats in congress have shown them slant sympathy, since the democrats are tion for the presidential race of next year. Moreover, the democrats are divided as to the wisdom of the demo- | |eratic administration’s action, years |ago, in promising freedom to the is-— |lands. Southern democrats see no} Soviet Union is being rapidly im- | point in encouraging political inde- | Kellog ' Besenee for a colored race. AGAINST SEVENTEEN- HOUR DAY AND SLAVE CONDITIONS IN “SERVICE” year none came. Do you blame them ,now for being ne’erdowells? It’s the! | government has done it to them. | Nothing else open for them. The colo- nies don’t want them. The home country can’t do anything for them. | There they are. Better Pay Dole. “But Jet me tell you,” seriously, “the government had better pay the dole or there will be trouble. It’s to ward off trouble the ¢ event: iment is paying out this meney. Then I spoke to an old salt on the loxtreme forward deck, where the waves wash o the going gets veugh. He was un- | screwing the heavy bolt hinges on the great iron dons to the interior of the. ship, scraping off the rust* produced hy the salt water as it poured against the door. His moustache was gray. almost white, and he remembered more than 40 years at sea. Hits Labor Fak “The 12-page tabloid dail {on board as the London Daily Atlantic edition, carried a brief wire- less item, from London that morning reading: “The Trades Union Congress sent an ultimatrm to the Nat. Se men’s and Firemen’s Union threaten- | ing to exclude them from affiliation | lif the latter make the promised loan; print ed has | Union. This miner union is a sort of com- | pany union founded by deserters from the Miners’’ Federation of . Great Britain during the big ¢ 1926. It has beer receiving help from | Pwesident Havelock Wilson of the seamen’s union who plays a lone hand against the rest of the labor move- ment and was the solitary exception to labor solidarity when the Trades | Union Congress called the strike in May of last year. “Helps Himself.” I read the item to the old tar as he wielded his knife on the rust and Havelock Wilson's union. “Yes, I believe in unions,” he said with a genial tolerant drawl, “But Havelock is a rotter. Only for him- self, Sacked the secretary who did not want our union to blackleg on the minors. But Wriron won't live for- half of the president, after the New, yal of the poliey of | Hence the boom of McCoy by , now seeking favor from organized | business in this country in prepara- | he said very. in huge floods when | of $500,000 to the Miners’ saosin coal lockout of | general | grease, asking him if he belonged to; WORK ON LATIN AMERICAN MEET To Fight for Mellon’s Oil Interests By LAWRENCE (Federated Press.) TODD. | _ EDITOR’S NOTE: THE DAILY ; WORKER, while publishing the following article for its news value, | does not concur in the po le im- plication that the appointm: Morrow as ambassador to Me is a reversal of the Kellogg police: and indicates a more friendly ap- proach td the solution of the Mexi- can question, On the contrary, altho there are of cour ations and conflicts of interests among the capitalist groups mentioned, neverthe the > presence of Morrow as ambassador and Henry P. Fletcher, one of the Pittsburgh machine dominated by Andrew W. Mellon, as a “Latin American expert” at the coming Havana conference indicates unity of action’ between the House of Morgan and the Mellon and other oil interests, rather than a flict on policy. A study of ico the personnell of the American delega- tion reveals the fact that all terests are well represented, that of the Roman Catholic heir- archy, formerly the largest Jand- holder in Mexico, in the person of Judge Morgan J. O’Brien, whose appointment is not mentioned by Lawrence Todd. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (FP). Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to Italy, former ambassador to Chile and to Mexico, and chairrfan of the American delegation at the Fifth Pan-American Congress held at San- tiago in 1 has been set up in a special office, at the State Depart- ent, to prepare for the work of the th Pan-American Congress in Havana in January. The A ican colonial office, hitherto located in the Carnegie-built palace of the Pan-American Union, is thus moved to~a location under the immediate eye of Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of state, and just a few steps y from President Coolidge} and Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon. For the Pan-American Union is ithe real colonial office of the United States, and its occasional congresses are the occasions when the will of the North American overlord is made | manifest to all the governments and peoples in the Latin Americas. Andy Mellon’s Henchman. Charles Evans Hughes is the chair- man of the American delegation that | wilh go to Havana; but Hughes was Kellogg’s predecessor and hence} jwould not occupy an office under 's domain. Besides, Hughes jis lawyer for groups in Wall Street, while Fletcher {is known as a Pittsburgh product - a henchman of Andy Mellon and an ardent supporter of Mussolini. Administration policy required} that Ambassador Morrow, late of | Morgan & Co., now engaged in paci- ing Mexican public sentiment and | thereby improving the chances of a stable Mexican government which will be able to pay interest on $900,- 000,000 worth of government debt and railroad bonds, should be one of | the delegation to Havana. Mellon vs. Morgan. Morrow is so close to President ; Coolidge that it was at first guessed that Morrow would dominate Ameri-| can policy at the Havana congre But the early retutn of Fletcher to Washington, and his installation in a sereened-off end of the big formal | reception room of the i ign that the Mellon oil n Mexico has not yet yielded to the Morgan bond interests. Mellon’s | oil companies are the fourth in size in- even inter in the Mexican field, and they are hostile to the Calles government | = which Mo cultivating. On th y that Fletcher’s special office adjoining that of Kellogg was fit Thomas W. Co., just 1 up, Morgan & Lamont, of returned from Manchuria, had a long interview with | neHogg, tollowed by talks with Un- dersecretary Olds and with Mellon. 'Laniont was accompanied by Mitchell | of the National City Bank. Fletcher }also was in consultation with Kellogg | and Olds. Whether Lamont and Mitchell discussed Latin-American imperial problems is a matter of speculation Morrow Is Stuck. What is now certain is that Kel- \logg, disliking the prestige given to the suave Morrow and the reversal jof his own policy of threats and in- }trigue and — conquest in Latin | America, interests in his approach to the! Havana meeting. And this in turn will arouse new sform of resent- ment in Latin Americ: ing to make the | Congress a sen freedom of American prot expression of Goes about on crutches now. er 70. We pay in a shilling a ($12 a year); used to be six- pence (86.50 a year).” I asked what alary the union paid its president. “I don't know,” was the seaman’s indulgent reply. “I expect he helps himself.” ever. many of the biggest | Department, | will play up the Mellon oil | which is go-} th Pan-American | jenal struggle for} Latin | By Cable and Mail from Special Correspondents KELLOGG STARTS Reveals Failure Of Conference APPOINT SOVIET DELEGATION FOR DISARM PARLEY s Desire for Peace at Geneve GENEVA, NX 2 The Soviet Union delegat ( Arms Conference Oth, will be rm- val AT A RECENT SESSION of the : prince House of Lords in London Vis- nt. The count Cecil (above) denounced the § Uni will to her series attitude of the British Govern- of r ets as indicative ment at the last Naval Disarma~- ment Meehan ee at GEnEER. ay Saviet Union Will Built aap Modem sve Soviet govern- pate in the of her will inelud Theodore Central Sim- the Ad- tte General A huge s r ill ¢ costing more than preparatory. -commianeae $20.000,000 be constructed atjcf the « mament conference, the | Makieffh Soviet Union, by | i x de re or will t | Percival 120 Broady it lelegation ill go to not because the |was learned yesterday. Fe ned i |cording to the a ‘talking itake to f clu cause it wishes once again _| will be repaid in six years. to str eace-loving policy. The | The plant will employ the most TN ie BEL Gees modern American a of steel ! csc Se E ba ila c od to it. gst The Soviet n will remind Plans for the introduction of more | the asser t govern: modern metheds-in the oil and gold rent ¥ predatory industries are also being contem- ¢jes of ia, will remind plated by the Soviet Union. Early | them of ( the Moscow Disarm- this month the first piece of pipe-line | ament Conference at the end fo 1922, between Baku (large oil-producing | the Economic Conference at Geneva center) and Batoum (sea-port) was} in May, 1927, a whole series of guar- laid. antee pacts and trea of peace, So etc. “All these facts will in sharp ending troops ssly break 1 tions adjusted with | with a great coun velopment of peacef much difficulty prevent the de- political and | f Panama Hit; will Bar ‘Foreign’ Firms =. | and subdue the whole y trade relations with other countries, t states and wish to seas with their fleets srld. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—In spite] eS jo of the protest of Panamanians, the Industry in Leningrad United States will probably prevent ms any foreign commercial aviation Reaches Pre-War Level companies from establishing bases | a in the Panama Canal Zone, it was MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Leningrad indicated yesterday j industry in 1f produced goods The proposal of the Colombian valued ion roubles as com- | Acromaritime Company to establish) pared million roubles for an air line between Colombia and Panama and the application of the Seadra German Aviation Company | pre-war level of production and prom: to establish a commercial base in the | jses to forge rapidly ahe: ad of ite Canal Zone will be among the ques-, @ a ee {tions considered by a sepcial com- ions consid "scat Many Moscow Children | the preceding year. Leningrad has already reached its mittee cor ing of representatives | of State, Navy, War, Post Office and Treasury Departments. The comm |tee, it is believed, will fight any at- tempt to establish an air line in Panama that is not controlled by) | } American capital. Free in All Schools The Moscow Soviet has. assigned 77,625 roubles for the organization | x oe & | BALBOA, Nov. 20.—Referring to ; e Her. breniteata 4 jthe attitude of the United States | Fy oe oreakfasts in Mescow |Government toward aviation promo-j ; 8°700!S- | tion in Panama, a local promoter is | This will make it possible to |reported by newspapers here as ing said: “The United hav-| | provide the children of the poorer States {s| groups of parents with breakfasts jeopardizing the sue’ of flying; . at reduced re and even free of rvice in these parts of the world) charge. The remaining children jby its reluctance to grant flying con-| ; will be provided with breakfasts ions to Latin-American capital-} at cost price. | Lenin Said:- r | “Politics is a science and an art that did not come down from Heaven and is not acquired gratis. If the proletariat wishes to \defeat the bourgeoisie, it must train from among its ranks its own proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior to the bourgeois politicians.” And he proceeded to organize the Bolshevik Party of Russia without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. We must organize a strong party in this country that will be able to organize and lead the masse: The Workers (Communist) Part lin the fight for: | A Labor Party and a United Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections, The defense of the Soviet Union and against capitalist wars. The organization of the unorganized. Making existing unions organize a militant struggle. 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