The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1927, Page 3

eee \ my THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1927 rage Tiree meer enero rer eenremm, Foreign News - AT WHITE HOUSE iSees Coolidge Talks as Latest Blow to Freedom LOS ANGELES, Noy. 21.—That President Coolidge is carrying thru one of the greatest deceptions in the jhistory of U. &. relations with the Philippine Islands, was charged to- day by Pablo Manlapit, noted Filipino jlabor leader and revolutionary na- | tionalist, who recently became a mem- |ber of the All-America anti-Imperial- jist League. Mysterious Journeys. Involved with Coolidge in this de- |ception are, according to Manlapit, |Manuel Quezon, president of the | Philippine senate, and Senator Sergie Osmena, rated as second in impor- Nine Labor Leaders . I fl i T I fi tance to, Quezon in the “official” Filipino independence movement. {Quezon and Osmena left the Philip- 2 pine Islands nearly two months ago’ To acco Strike in the midst of enthusiastie demon- strations. They declared that they had been invited to enter into a series owe stad __'of important conferences with Presi- jectuals | dent Coolidge regarding the future disposition of the Philippines. News- CONSTANTINOPLE, Nine labor leaders and intellectuals have been arrested in connection with WHITE GUARDS AND WAR LORDS In this, one of the first photos received from t he Shantung war front in China, is seen an improvised armored train manned by White Russians, who are co-operating with Sun Chuan-fang in his campaign against Nanking. There are more than 2,000 White Guards, serving as professional soldiers in the army of Sun, who is known as one of the most barbarous of the Chinese war lords. * country. To Aid Soviet Trade | Lenin the strike of tobacco workers who walked out in September when they were ordered to donate a day’s wages to the “patriotic aviation fund.” Two of those arrested were employes of the Constantinople branch of Arcos, the Soviet trading corporation. The government was alarmed by | the tobacco workers’ strike (the to-; bacco industry is a Government mo- | nopoly) and is making an “investiga- tion” of the left wing labor movement. | veal papers in the United States and in the Philippines reported that the Filipino leaders had themselves} sought the invitation from Coolidge, | on the basis that they would like to| have a chance to express an opinion as to the governor-general to be ap- nointed in place of the late General Wood. denied this. They said the press re- ports were false and that sensational matters vital to the cause of Filipino denendence were to be taken up in shingten. Nevertheless, they re2zs what these matter: New Diive Against Bratiany Under Way BUCHAREST, Nov. 21.—-A newj{ movement to drive Premier Bratianu | from power by “boycotting” his gov- ernment is under way today following ! the mass meeting of deputies of the National Peasant Parity here yester- day. Leaders of the National Peasant Party will urge their followers to re- fuse to pay taxes and to prevent their sons from joining the army. They | pledged themselves to oppose any measure introduced in parliament to strengthen Bratianu’s hold upon the Foreign Minister Titulescu is leav- | ing immediately for Geneva by way of Rome. While in Rome he will try | to get Mussolini’s promise of aid for | Roumania when the Transylvania land “confiscation” measure comes up in} the league of nations’ meeting next month. Approve Western-USSR Chamber of Commerce MOSCOW (By Mail). — The coun- cil of Lab6r and Defense has approved statutes of the U, S. R.-Western | Chamber of Commerc | The Chamber pursu< facilitating and promot tions of Soviet con ain p relations be of the Chamb: oration of project and laws necessa foreign trade, the drafting contracts covering export and impo operations, ete. they sailed from Manila declaring that they carried s from ilippine senate. YU ‘adem SUOTPINAYSUL poTwes,, os0yz never been explained to the Filipino | people. } Coolidge Endorses Wood Regime. | Since their arrival in the United | tates, Quezon and Osmena have held veral conferences with President Coolidge, but the subject of their con- | ferences has not been divulged. Last | Wednesday Coolidge reiterated pub- licly endorsement of the Philippine policies -pursued~ by General Wood; whose ferocious assaults upon the na- tional aspirations of the Filipino peo- | ple aroused such animous opposition | that it was no longer possible to pre- tend that the Filipinos did not want What | their immediate, complete and abso- }lute independence from the United States. The next day the Philippine | Press Bureau at Washington, con- trolled by Quezon’s party, issued a lengthy eulogy of President Coolidge. “The conference between Messrs, Osmena and Coolidge is in my opinion,” writes Pablo Manlapit, “to determine the next tool of the im- perialists in the Philippines.” Manlapit Warns of New Blow. Manlapit, whose brave struggles on behalf of the Filipino laborers, on the Arcerican owned sugar plantations of the Hawaiian Islands, have won him a wide following among Filipinos | in all parts of the “American em. re,” especially among Filipino worl indicates that the much-ad- ‘tised conferences were cooked up | x the purpose of softening a-new y against the Philippines. - While i the appearance that President ize really desires to consult the | ons of the Filipino leaders in any | tion to be taken regarding the is- b 0 Manlapit iy prelude to an the United St tand pat on y--which the Philip-} er: a Said:- | “Politics is a science and‘an art that did not come down from Heaven and is not acquired grat defeat the bourgeoisie, it must train from among its ranks its! eral ballots. The workers are no long: own proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior bourgeois politicians.” And he proceeded to organize the Bolshevik without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. | masses. is. If the proletariat wishes to to the Party of Russia We must organize a strong party in this country that will be able to organize and lead the masses. The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join and help in 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. The protection of the foreign born. Application for Membership in Name ....s0 50000 Address .... Workers (Communist) Party (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 HK. 126th St., N. Y, City) S Both Quezon and Osmena| | [Big Increase in Number | Of Unemployed in Great Britain; Wales Hard Hit LONDON, Nov. 21. — The num- | | ber of unemployed in Great Brit- | lain has increased 5,643 this week | bringing the total of jobless to 1,111,700, according to the Labor |Gazette. The total increase in un- | | | | | | | | “QUST BALDWIN,” MINERS DEMAND. AT BIG. MEETING “We Demand Work,” | | | { Revolt Against French Imperialism in Syria Looms, Report Declares JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 | revolt loon ld — A new | sand” to- | ench in| "rench hold | ) has issued a manifesto | »!the 1,250,000 unemployed and to find of the | | Cook Tells Workers | |f, LONDON, No little army of |Coal miners, whic c > |don to demand relief from the Bald- |win government’ for the starving |families of idle miners in the V |eoal fields, has received wide support from the London workers. Cook’s marchers, who paraded Papa's Dough Wins through London to Trafalgar Square ce | Belgian Cabinet OMPIETE FTERUOMT ei anemic’ Falls as Tories laborifes overnight. Meanwhile plans or ene 0 V ver made for the miners to marcl | W i D ill ant more Dri art a new revolt h cease their ef-| a partition between | 1 Druse. employment in the last three weeks | | | was more than 40,000. } | Unemployment is particularly se- | vere in South Wales, Durham and | Northumberland. 2 forts to erect h! | Syria and Jet | is in al ransjordania. to Parliament Building to demand |not only relief for their families, but PARIS, Noy. 21. — Bennett Doty, |the resignation of Premier Baldwin} of Memphis, Tenn,, who was pardoned | and his conservative cabinet. | by the French government after his} “Baldwin Must Go,” is the watch-| BRUS desertion from the Foreign Legion, | word of this demonstration. “These | rh. cali na heen’ inv difticniiies | will be given an official release from | men are a symbol of the misery DY-| over the question of the yO GAN Ad his enlistment on Wednesday. vailing in the coal mining dist »” | pulsory fitaey garcia. The wecinle In connection with Doty’s release, | Cook said, “we did not come to beg Minister of War Painleve said: | bread. We want onl RANG SE eka BY ane Rory. opportunity to bohend a reduction of the term from one year were opposed by army authorities, bis | A resolution offered by Cook and |¢, six months. Opposition parties have release has already been approved on | unanimously carried, demanded that| insisted that the present term of one the grounds of mental affliction. His |the government receive a delegation | your bo continued. Pom |democrats, who compose the majority Justice and the! + the cabinet, have been in favor of y release will be geanted at the latest |of the marchers in order to hear|” im. cabinet which f eee |by Wednesday evening. The final | from them an account of the unbear- | eat tae Wen 38h gree ey papers are now ready and will be pre-|able conditions under which the|*oC® bY 7. one ee " sented at the cabinet meeting Tues-|miners are struggling. A second |2™0M#! ervelde. day with my approval.” resolution called for immediate steps} Political difficult Pier as by the government to remedy the | not been se riou vi Doty was released from prison a| conditions. An energetic campaign |intervention of King Albert has sev- short while ago by his father’s wealth | to fight the goveriment’s unemploy- |eral t rted @ major cris A formal statement of the cabinet’s [resignation was issued at 5:80 o'clock from prominent/ment Dill, while organizing the masses of unemployed, was urged. and by pressure American officials. STRIKE WAVE IN GERMANY By S. PEREVOSNIKOFF. | The conflicts are already losing , mi dem wave of industrial conflicts | their purely economic character and | in wages the revolutionary op-|@ssuming more and more that of | which not long in making its | Political attacks on reaction, the gov- | The beginning of Oc-| ernment bourgeois bloc and the bour- sed a series of open con-| £eoisie as a whole. t workers, wood- | In Ber nd brewery employes went! Jn the beginning of Oc lin alone, and simijar|ployees of the Berlin Undergrov on by the workers in| Railways demand an imme occurred in other/in wages, curtailment of working |hours, longer holidays and so on. |. The strike was declared on the 10th nded an immediate rise shortening of hours, ent 10 to 12 a day. tions between the the latter ion to raise the ch would of cou n the cost of manufac- tured The workers could by no means agree to such a presentation of the question. rs also. Miners Win. ature of the Conflicts. One characteristic feature is com-|f October. Both the Management} On the October 90 per cent mon to all these conflicts; They are:82¢_ the ent arbitration | of the workers in the Middle German | jcourts were placed in an extremely | pitumine did not put in an ‘all arising despite the will of the ‘trade union leaders by the direct in- e of the working class in gen. onerous position by the very fact of | |the strike. The management gave) n on several points agreeing to cur- ail working hours from 221 a month} }to 208 to in e the length of holi- | jdays and increase wages. On the '12th of October the répresentatives | The sti of the transport workers agreed with | ihe mine {the employers’ proposals and the} decided to © strike came to an end. li appear went ¢ the intr the pr ial-dam could ava d front of the r se ended in partial victor The Court of the wor se of 60 pfenni cers der jer to be put off with promises fo: |the future, but are demanding from ‘the unions an immediate struggle for ithe ur the toiling fighting spi jamong the workers that is fore | the trade union bureaucrats to a: 2 ae }to strikes which th Brewery Strike. | ‘endeavor te liquidate at the f The conflict of brewery employees The trade union machinery arose even before that of the Under-| ancial means being in the/ ground Railwaymen. The workers de | hands of the bureauc enables them | manded a 10 mark rise in their wee | to do this in the conflicts of the pres- | pay the employers proposed an ent time. | mediate rise of three Despite this, however, it may con- | Supplemen' ed by another mark from fidently be confirmed that neither | Janvary 1928. During referendum have always sabotaged joint the employers, the government, nor) 5,000 votes were given for a strike | aitacks of workers in various indus the reformists will succeed in sup-|and only 826 for the acceptance of| tries, and there are no ground pressing the vast conflicts imminent in| the employers’ terms. The strike | suppose that they intend to change German industry. These conflicts are | Which lasted two weeks ended in the their tactics now. ‘his makes the the direct consequences of the capi-| decision of the Arbitration Courts, for! tasks confronting the revolutionary talist rationalization, making the al-|@ rise in the weekly wages Trom 5 to! opposition in the trade unions. still ready onerous position of the work-|7 marks. | greater. Depending not only on the ing class still worse. They are the trade unions the opposition must get inevitable reply to the intensification the shop committees capable of play- a day This decis Up to the pres Miners’ Strike. The Berlin strikes seemed to be a of exploitation, the furious aggran- Occupation ... (Enclosed find one dizement of the capitalists and the progressive impoverishment of the masses. sort of signal for greater fights. On the 17th of October the long expected strike of miners in the Central Ger- man bitumine district broke out. The ing an enormous role in the movement actively worlting in order to lead the German workers in the struggle against the capitalists. -- By Cable and Mail from Special Correspondents PABLO MANLAPIT IM ANI APIT DOUBTS: QUEZON'S MOTIVE “REPORT GERMAN TORIES IN ANTI- SOVIET SCHEME Work With Deterding | in Counterfeit Plot : A number of alists as Dutch | Pilsudski Government Arrests 47 Communists | In New Fascist Raids | on a | | | celebrate the t Novembe ved here st Government is alarmed at i rength of the Com- | need by its | 4 in the municipal elec- t Warsaw, Grodno and Lodz, USSR to Colonize | Waste Lands With Landless Peasants = MOSCOW, Nov. 21.—Colonization | of desolate but fertile sections of the} Jy return for Deterding’s aid, the Soviet Union by peasants from crowd: | reports say, Kedia promised to give jed farming regions is part of a far-|him a large oil concession if a success reaching plan for relief of unemploy- |ful counter-revolution could be fo= ment and congestion under considera-| mented in the Caucasus. tion by the Soviet government. If the | Soon after Kedia’s interview with |scheme is carried out about 250,000 | Deterding, a huge counterfeit plant at jpeasants will be affected. |Frankfort-on-Main had been estab- The government is working with in-|lished, which turned out more than tensive energy to satisfy the needs of 000,000 dollars worth of spurious viet currency. The first counterfeit to un- , according to the giant cou dermine Sov: repo circulated here According to o1 jKedia, counte |approached the | | Hoffman, who led Kedia to Sir Henry |Deterding, head of the Royal Duteh Shell. Det s reported to have given Kedia five million francs: for {the printing of counterfeit Soviet cur- t, Spiridon Promises Concession. work for the jobless and about $75,- | notes were put into circulation in 000,000 is being appropriated for a} Paris, while large shipments of notes |new dole system and trade school! were later sent to various Balkan cap- traiging during the next 11 months, | itals for circulation thru White Guard The colonization project is designed | agents. o eurb the influx of jobless from | ‘arms into towns and cities, ‘ ps Arrest Eleven in Big ‘Hard-Boiled Militarist_ French Bond Fraud To Head Tory Delegates. PARIS, N« The arrest of a jman of mystery known only as “Mis- To Geneva Arms Parley jter x” in the $6,000,000 Hungarian | - | pre-war bond fraud, raised the total | LONDON, Nov. 21. — The British |of arrests to eleven. |delegation to the disarmament confer-| The fraud involves the sale of bonds lence to be held in Geneva November fissued by the Austro-Hungarian em- | 30th, will be headed by Ronald McNeil, |pire before the war. The treaty of }an ardent Tory militarist. | Trianon provided that citizens of Aus- The names of the other members of |tria and Hungary owning the bonds | the delegation have not yet been made | should be reimbu d in paper crowns, public. and foreign owners in gold crowns. |New Anti-Semitic Drive Number of Jobless in Is Started in Hungary Germany on Increase | BUDAPEST, Nov. 21. — A puter BERLIN, Nov. 21. ~ The number janti-Semitic drive has been started by {of unemployed in Germany increased Hungarian fascist students affiliated |by 13,000 in the last two weeks of | with the Magyar society, “Awakened October, it was reported yesterday. | Hungary.” Building trades workers were par- | Jewish students in universities and ticularly hard hit. | technical schools have been subjected , RS | to attacks from the fascist students. |BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! | | | i } | | | Wrecking the Labor Banks The Collapse of the Labor Banks and Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer By WM. 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