The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1927, Page 3

oT RET ETT Foreign News --- By Cable and Mail from Special Corres; PHILIPPINE CZAR? | LEAVE FOR ARMS MEET AT GENEVA | To Bring Up Danger of Polish Attack MOSCOW, Nov. 23.—The Soviet | Union delegation to the preparatory USSR DELEGATES THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 19z7 Page Tiree REACTIONARIES WRECK PASSENGER TRAIN ‘Chang Tso-lin Getting Ready to Crown Himself Emperor; Orders Clothes Mar anchurian rd, is openl n himself emperor, accorc to a Tokio dispatch to the E News today, quoting advices ved in Tokio from Japanese cor- pondents at Peking. According to the dispatches Mar- shal Chang has already ordered Pledge Im pe re- (Special Cz \disarmament conference has left for | coronation robes from Soocho gation | Geneva, where the conference will be hi ter a six ‘held, prepared to advocate complete | industrial /and immediate disarmament. | 8 GE Altho little hope is entertained here | essensk. ‘that the capitalist powers will agree | amerous }to any disarmament proposal, state- | factor 4 the radio ‘ments from all quarters indicate ‘TO HEAR PLEA OF laboxatory w impressed | genuine desire for disarmament and | | with the in f pies \the hope that the conference will at | provinces nsky mitt 3 S least call the attention of world labor | | r jin Tyenoy 8 j splen is ——— 1 jo the danger of a new imperialist: JO LESS leat Sica wore modeg rss Major-General Joha A. Hull, judge | War arising from a possible ebb Scene near Leon, Mexico, following the wrecking of a thru passenger train from Mexico City to Ciudad leither Britain or the United States, advocate general of the U.S, army | attack on Lithuania. witia 4 | Seeeate, Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, by Mexican co unter-reyolutionaries. vented the looting of the train. PEASANT REVOLT A heavy military escort pre- has been mentioned, as possible suc-| “The Soviet Union is ready to pro tessor to Major General Leonard Pose, support and carry out the most Wood as Governor-Goneral of the |¥adical possible program of disarma- ;ment for the whole globe simultane- | jously,” declared Rykoff in a state-| ment issued recently. } Pointing to the danger of a Polish | |aceording to the delegates. The mill }is equipped with the most modern | Unemployment Comes : | H ai | textile machinery. |Up in Commons Tuesday | RAYNA PROME TO SEARCH ROYAL Premier | included in the delegation, expressed 4ONDON, Nov. 23, eae oeae PONRON ey ar admiration for the results y Baldwin refused today to re- { | mine and | a delewatic SanRARl t ’ control, the seven and a | attack on Lithuania, the Izvestia says, | IN SOUTH CHINA DUTCH FOR ANTI- Sie eles eae BEE eat sl ipa half hour working day and the work- [i teno Ge er aseluie tails eneny| who had marched into London led by|i& conditions. H He nbmeues. hidden. bend | A. J. Cook, secretary of the British| In both provinces, the delegation ell e fa hy 0 | st tatk at Geneva. There is now | j Mine Jeration to call the Gov- | ™@enibers ded banauets tendered going on an_ entirely concrete andj SPREADING F j bee attention to the appalling | ther ade councils, Every- ” | practical work which may in the near- | | | cond in the coal fiel {wh Be Fe ee access lest future have a most catastrophic | es | I Ba who has thus far avoided|t© all s formation, ll lan « a Hy pp effect on world peace. We refer to | ht Imperialism. (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Nov The Presidium of the All Union Central Council of Trade Unions, in response to an in- vitation, has Indian Trade Union Congress which will open at Cawnpore, November 26. | The delegates clected Amassoy and Voronoy. The council voted that a manifesto be addressed to proletariat ~ India pointing out that the fundamental task of the workers of all oppressed and exploited countries is to create one world militant International of Trade Unions as a united front against the imperialists, were Lepse, Non-Party Workers Send Greetings to Communist Congress (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) “MOSCOW, Nov. 23.—The Moscow Party Conference heard greetings from non-Party workers. Abankin, a worker of the “Red Proletarian” works made a speech urging them to remember that the working class looks to the Communist Party as part of the working class itself and must, therefore, 1 t atta such as that ot the opposition, which fails to see achievements. After Kamenev’s address, Zof, for- mer member of the opposition, who exposed the factional anti-Party work of the opposition, spoke. The conference debated Bukharin’s speech before continuing, Poincaré Government Opposes Naval Probe PARIS, Noy, 23.--The Chamber of Theputies today rejected the motion of an inquiry into the recent mutiny at the naval prison at Toulon after mem-} bers of the Poincare governracnt at- tacked the motion. The sailors, many of them impris- cued for “radical” activities, protest- ed against conditions in the prison. | the Polish plans for the absorption of |Lithuania, Each day gives new, ab- solutely detailed and trustworthy in- {formation to justify our warnings. {Here is our prime mission at Geneva | —to call the attention of all countries rope.” Cee, na | German Position, | GENEVA, Noy. 28,— President |Louden, of the preparatory disarma- from Count Johann von Bernstorff, chief of the German delegation, re- a general discussion of disarmament jinstead of confining the agenda to “security,” as originally planned. League of Nations attaches regard- ed the communication as “significant,” since compliance would permit the | Soviet Union delegates to express a {demand for complete disarmament. | ‘Former Allies Turn on De Graaf, Murderer of ‘Java Plantation Serfs \ BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 23.-—Jonk- heer De Graaf, governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, who became | notorious for his brutal suppressioh jof the recent revolution in Java, has | fallen out with his former supporters, the Dutch imperialists and plantation | owners. | The revolution, which was crushed | by the shooting of hundreds of work- ers and the banishment of their |leaders to the interior jungles of Dutch New Guinea, s thoroughly frightened the government and it has been decided to give small concessions to the Javanese in the Volksraad or |Gouncil. De Graaf is being attacked | for his share in favoring this political |maneuver. A petition has been handed to him demanding that all | discussion of the question be sup- | pressed. 'U. S. Secretly Builds Huge New Seaplanes WASHINGTON, the la been | val Nov. 23.—One of st seaplanes ever built has eretly constructed at the na- rplane factory at Philadelphia, BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! “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 bourgeois politicians.” who should not be inferior to the 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 iead the masses. The Workers (Communist) in the fight for: A Labor Party and a i The defense of the Soviet Uni The organization of the unorg: Party asks you to join and help Juited Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections. | on and against capitalist wars. ‘anized. Making existing unions organize a militant struggle. Applica Name ...... AGdrags ...5.6..0. No. The protection of the foreign born. tion for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St, N. ¥, City) | M ;ment commission, received a letter | questing that the conference take up | ** | chang | an | Protest Imposition of New Exorbitant Tax SHANGHAI (By Mail). — Far- reaching peasant disturbances broke | ent a delegation to the |to what is oceurring in Eastern Eu- | vt in the Izin district near Shanghai, o ing to the new tax. A few thousand peasants armed | themselves with all kinds of arms and | broke into Izin demanding that the }new tax be rescinded. The authori- ties refused to comply. The peasants then disarmed the police. | Police from the river started a bat- | tle with the rebels. Owing to the poor | weapons of the rebels and also be- cause they were, unable to use the }arms captured from the police, the | rebellion was crushed. Over one thou- | Sand peasants were killed. The others | Were dispersed. The press and government authori- ties blame the Communists who “in- | tended to start a campaign on Shang- jhai from Izin” for the disturbance. ee eg ag | *More Peasant Revolts. SHANGHAI, Nov, 23.—Hankow re- ports that a rising broke out in Dunt- chen under Communist leadership, * * * SHANGHAI, Nov. 23.—Three thou- sand peasants revolted on the island of Chunmin in the Delta of the Yangtse River. The rebels belong to the “Heaven League.” They revolted against high taxes and rent. ‘The Shanghai defense staff dispatched three battleships and a battalion of jinfantry to crush the uprising. JAPAN BARS ZIMBALIST, lacked sufficient money to comply with entrance laws, Efrem Zimbalist, famous violinist, today was denied ad- mittance to Japan upon his arrival from China. TOKIO, Nov. 23. — Because he| } | i Rayna Prome, movement, died in Moscow Monday. Canton and at Hankow. the Union of Socialist Soviet Re lies are increasing everywhere. In 1927-28 socialized economy will em- $1.2 per cent of all w PS aS | against 90.3 per cent in 1926-27, Pri vate capital will employ 8.8 per cent! including the farm-hands working for wages in agriculture. The gross output of the socialized branches will constitute 84.2 per cent in 1927-28 and the private section on- ly 15.8 per cent, which also includes that of agriculture. The income of the socialized sector , will be in 1927-28 about 82.8 per cent} as against 81 per cent last year. That of the private sector will be 17.2 per| cent including that of the peasantry. The cooperative membership is in- creasing from year to year. Their organization is improving and so is | their financial position. The total| jnumber of members of the coopera- | tive system next year will increase about 1644 per cent in all branches of | cooperation, In lute ives the different | cooperatives had in 1926-27 over 21 {million members and in 1 28 will | have 21,214,000 members. How the Workers Live and How Much They Earn, |, If we compare the monthly earn-} jings of workers during October-June | | 1925-26 with the corresponding period} jof 1926-27 we will find the following | In Moscow proper there is! crease of 9.8 per cent, in the cow province 15.2eper cent. Real} wages have in fact increased still more under the influence of a drop | pub- | | jin prices. State es.) If we compare the average wage of Moscow and province during the per- +++++.|iod in 1927, we find an increase of 20 per cent, News from the U.S. 5, R. The socialized economic elements in|* | point of view of the number of work- ers view of the sums it pays out, In 26 the Sotzstrakh minis- tered to 1,020,000 people, in 1926 103,000 people, and next year it minister to about 1,145,000 people, The budget of the social insurance organizations will increase from 165 million roubles in 1926-27 to 175 mil- lion roubles in 1927-28. Who Are Our Unemployed? Our unemployment is radically dif- ferent from that in the capitalist countries. There unemployment con- sists primarily of industrial workers who after working a few years in in- dustry are thrown overboard. Our unemployment. is entirely different. First of all 40 per cent of unemployed in the Moscow province are people | coming from other provinces, particu- larly from the villages. enormous percentage of our unem- ployed and most of them are unskilled | rs. The number of unemployed! workers industrial workers is small. On Sep- tember Ist, 1927, they constituted 15] per cent of the unemployed as against 18.9 per cent on the Ist of September, 11926, Education. The funds assigned for educational purposes in Moscow Province will in- crease also for the coming year and will amount to 48,700,000 roubles. The average per capita expenditures in 1926-27 were 9.70 roubles, and in 1927-28 they would be about 10.08 roubl The number of pupils will also rease and will be in 1927-28 612,000 in Moscow Province. The ex- penditures per student in the general schools in Moscow will be 47.52 rou- bles. young American journalist who devoted five years of her life to the Chinese Nationalist She edited the Peoples’ Tribune at Social ‘insurance increases from the} t involves and from the point of | 27 | People who} ing at high never worked for wages constitute an} thruout Hung | Suspect ‘Deterding of) BERLIN, N — Believing that important ev of the huge in - national ¢ plot to un mine Sovie in the local of. fices of the Rc Shell (British | rl =| oil) Compa ed the Ge police hav ian Government for pi an: 's local head of the company, is believed to have sub- | sidized White Russians in the forgery | plot. Despite the declarations of t British embassy and the Foreign Of. fice that the investigation will made public, it is widely believed that the police have orders to hush up the whole matter. German fascisti and White Russians operating under the | directions of agents of the Royal Dutch Shell are believed to be respon- | sible for manufacture of more tnan| $25,000,000 of counterfeit rubles. | Lishon Government Fears Revelt; Army Patrolling Streets LIBSON, Nov. ders who are s | tionary activitie h the com | be} 99 —Scores of lea- ected of insur by the Portugue: government a being secretly de- to~ Portugal’s fever-ridden an colonies. Heavy detachments of troops have been stationed at Entoncamento near the Spanish border and everyone crossing the frontier is being care-| fully scrutinized. In the capital, | guards patrol the streets day and night and the fidgety government tightening the censorship on ail | leaving the country. The gov- t is said to feel capable of con- trolling any violence which may break out. Horthy Government Encourages Affacks | On Jews, is Charge BUDAPEST, Nov. 23.—That ,the | Horthy government has deliberately | remained inactive, permitting ‘anti- | Semitic demonstrations, was charged | yesterday by opposition members of | parliament who demanded that troops | be callzd in to prevent the Magyar | students from attacking Jewish stu- | dents. The anti-Semitic riots are continu- chools and universities y with no interference from the Horthy government. At the. ersity of Budape 1 number of tudents w lly beaten and thrown bodily out of doors. des were lent h ) ainst the attack itie students. of auti-Sem- | iememigiinn, i] Charge “Mother India” | Is Tory paganda LONDON, That “Mother 0, a book Nationalism, y | ten and published with the con- nivance of\ the tory government as propaganda’ for the establishment of the India Commission was charged in the house,of commons yesterday | Aiding Forgery Plot |o unemployment _ situa-| the t s in the d ssions in the House The An ican delegates Joined c mmons, referred the delegation | British and Irish worke delegations oe Minidtr in a pledge to do everything in their y Tealth, Mines and oe See anes, 2 lpower to fight against the danger | an imperialist attack against the t Union at a banquet at Ivan- Pensions. 2 mass meeting held in uare Sunday, the mine: shouted “Down with Baldwi denounced the refusal of the Tory} .*" ; rnment to undertake any relief |! the week inves} res in the coal fields. : * * * fe Th ain body of still in South Russia Dispatches received here yesterday land will setier ted that the mine and unemploy- ? : ment situations would be discussed in| the House of Commons on Tuesday. / p, Official reports issued recently in-| in jig ening to a report on the Chinese dicate that unemployment in the mine |revolutionary situation at the Sun fields, is steadily increasing. : ety % | Yat-sen Uni 1 pledged to fields is steadily increasing. |fight for the preve fe i we manele Orth Geant as oes | American intervention in China. Coalition Cabinet in Belgium Being Formed | MADRID, Nov. 23. — Many per- e ic }Sons were injured and 1 build. . BRUSSELS, Nov. 23. — A tentative | #8 damaged by a bomb ex coalition cabinet, composed of Liber- | ‘he home of the director of an explo- als, Catholics and Christian Demo- | Sives factory near Mieres in the As- erats, was submitted to King Albert | *utias mining dis today by Premier-Designate Jaspar. If ratified it will succeed the social- ist government that resigned Monday. MADRID BLAST. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? Wrecking the Labor Banks The Collapse of the Labor Banks and Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers By WM. Z. FOSTER Here is a record of trade union treachery without equal in -American Labor history. 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