The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1927, Page 3

| Foreign News -- HINA BUSINESS MEN HIT MORGAN LOAN 10 JAPAN <elloge” Won’ t Com- ment on Petition | SHANGHAI, Nov. 24.—Declaring | hat the proposed loan to the Japa-/ ese-controlled South Manchurian nilroad, “an imperialistic Japanese olitieal and economic instrument,” a | roup of large native business men | as sent a cable to Washington ask- ig the State Department to oppose | ich a Joan. The business men point to the re-/| ont statement made by Premier | anaka that he intends to pursue a | strong policy in Manchuria.” * * * Kellogg Wor’t Talk. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. rod »partment officials refused yeste: » comment on a protest from Ceemas | H usiness men against the proposed forgan loan to the South Manchurian rilway. The protest was handed to | ie state department by Sao-Ke Al- | red Sze, Peking minister in the Unit-| H i States. Thomas W. Lamont, prominent) tember of the House of Morgan and | harlés R. Mitchell of the National ity Bank of New York conferred ith Secretary of State Kellogg re- ently with the Manchurian loan in iew.- Thomas Lamont, who recently re- aned from a visit to Japan, was be- eved to have made arrangements or the flotation of a loan of more nan $40,000,000. | Tunis Harbor ‘Strike Gains 3 More Ports) TUNIS, Nov. 24.-—The strike of he dock-workers, which broke out ere recently, has spread to Sfax, Siserta and Susa, all Tunisian ports. \t least 1,800 harbor workers are ow affected. Strike follows a pe- iod of unemployment during which he workers were reduced to starva- | that they demar | fused to THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ‘RIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1927 Page Three Th Frozen Near Pole ay a ay an, WIRELESS MESSAGE from Mac- Millan expedition stated that Donald MacMillan (above) and party. are frozen in at the spot within a few degrees of pole. But all's o Political Prisoners Put With Criminals In Claitvaux Jail (Special to the Daily Worker.) CLAIRVAUX, France, Nov. Mail). —Thirty-six victims of French imperialism, from the naval prison at | Toulon, scene of the laté attack on! the prisoners by the guards, have ‘been transferred to the central prison at Clairvaux. The prisoners arrived | on the 9:40 traip after 36 hours of travel in the cramped cells of the | prison train, These condemned sol- diers and sailors whose offense is} ed better food or re- as murderers and chained together 3. by rema’ annon fodder, vaux under a strong guard. Bare- headed, pale, feverish, with unshaved beards, their clothes in rags, the im- prisoned soldiers and sailors present- rily, “Poor fellows, what a ere condition they are in.’ Members of the Hrench Comenuner | 10 (By | 3, descended to the platform at Clair- | ed so pitiable an appearance that: by-} standers were heard to say involunta- | - By Cable and Mail from Special Correspondents WINTER IN THE USSR TORIES SUSPEND FOUR WHO FIGHT DOLE CUT MOVE | MacDonald Helps Halt Attack on Baldwin ~Four members | of the House of Commons were eject- ed from the House of Commons last night following a debate on the Tory | proposal to reduce the unemployment dole. Militant Laborites rebelled against the rulings of James Hope, chairman | ‘of the Committee of the Whole. When | James Maxton termed the Tory pro- }eedure “damned unfair,” he was | promptly suspended by the chairman. | Winter life in Russia is portrayed in these two photos just received in |the United States. One shows a Russian village hemmed in by snow and | | the other a Russian working girl ready to go skiing. RAMSAY MacDONALD. bestges if palelstinn, AVE: date Bosses Try to Divide| German MouldersGoOn |had been halted by a Tory motion and Paris Subway Strikers; Strike; Whole Industry | the suspension was carried into effect. | | Three other Laborites who rose to} denounce Maxton’s suspension were | also suspended. Hope’s conduct was! PARIS, Nov. —Despairing of | etined a “damned outrage” by Rich- | breaking the oes of the 3,000 sub- lard Collingham, Labor member from} way construction workers, whom aj iron moulders have decided to go on | | Wallhead. it all the sections of the German metal ‘industry. day ‘the strike began, the | | bos are attempting to make sep- | Toward midnight Ramsay MacDon- | arate terms with the different groups | {ald, reformist leader, and Stanley | of builders. ary leaders to stem the strike feeling Baldwin, head of the Tory. govern-| Qyertures have been made to the |the turners s and other powe ment held a long conference and the | excavators and mechanics in an ef-|ful unions i rman industry are | criticism of the government was per-/ fort to detach them from the strik expected to join the strike within the ceptibly checked. 'The offers have been refused. Ef- | week. Hope left the chair after he had forts to recruit scabs from the Paris! been termed a coward by Ellen Wil-| building trades and in Brittany have kinson, ‘also largely failed. MacDonald Confers. ie WANTED — MOR ARE YOU TING DERS! THEM? | ‘Workers ‘Still Out May Bé Affected Soon lature rtby. Mail).—By | governor- -general to replace the mili- a seven-eighths majority the German | tary. -month lockout has left as strong|a strike that threatens to carry with [pine deputi has been | congr: Despite the efforts of the reaction- | Soviet Union Planning To Aid Poor Peasants And Found State Farms ‘ jal Cable to DAILY WORKER) OW, Nov. 24.—Th mittee of th ; he Sovi Cer lut for further fa- es for the poor and middle antry as well as for cerns of agricultural un ‘Quezon Insists He Wants to Co-operate With U. 5 Rulers Fresh sabstanbiauen of the charges that Manuel Quezon, president of the | Philippine senate now speaking in this country, is leading only a feeble oppo- jsition to American rule in the Philip- pines, was given by his denial that he asa: to obstruct the Am an gov- ernor-general of the Islands. The charges grew out of the bill recently passed by the Manila legis- | appropriating about $75,000 for civilian technical advisers to the Altho it is believed here tha propriated by the Philip- s may prove too small, it ggested that the Am s will make the nece eases to be provided for out of in the United States on cigars other Philippine products. the sum a ry in- nd LIMA, F 24. —A large drilling oil concession granted by the | Peruvian Government to the Phillips been Petroleum Company has ap- | proved by the Senate. | organiza Danger of w Pa idium Union Comm ternational, the report of the the British C Bukharin in t the session deel tion has falle have adopted a cordingly the Opposition h Opposi- ishevism and Y . Ac- onal t become t a second party which v steadily to f me anti-Communist and an Ovi Referring to Opposition’ nist Inte g his charges w crete instances, de position \we ns of the the Commu- n, illustrat- er of con- t the Op- que renegade nistie elem The Oy PPS however, he said, y repulsed by the working class, The Comy ational, he declared, r a definite BG+ tion” whi most i proleta Kuusinen, who debate, stated t bility of permittir remain within the and declared i in the no pdssi- on to ated s Siac Tpdia and British Labor Party Reformists = ranes (about 5 cents) a day. They |couragement to the prisoners, who. eceive 20 at present. were too weak to reply with more | ods of hing SA than a feeble smile and “Thank you.” | bee skeptics with the declaration that) dently worked for by the true -jat his own sweet will, and the Legis-| sky pointed FOR GOVERNMENT POWER pad police immediately threatened the | By L. BURNS. MacDonald, absorbed during his Pre-| lutionary elements in the country! || embly elected by the bou ee aan activiti ‘ ommunists and ordered them. to : i E .. |miership in England in the solution| ‘The Indian policy of the British | geois upper cl n India and dis-|tion called for strong PLANTS move on. The young working class of} indie oe Tunepeetl prapletria, had not the| Labour Party ad the draft constitu- | solved rte the Viceroy. part of the Communist International WASHINGTON,. D. C., Noy. 24.— fenator Norris of Nebraska states hat he will bring in a bill in the next { ongress providing that the govern- nent retain control of and operate all ‘ower plants on the rivers, including fusele Shoals, and use the money to efray the cost of flood control. A BRONZE STATUE OF KARL MARX For the library and room of every active Commu- nist— We are now offering this beautiful bust stat- uette of Karl Marx (for- merly sold at $5.00) for $2.00. Send for one to- day. We will gladly send it for you to your fellow worker for a gift-—and we will pay postage. $2.00 Each Workers LiBrary Pus- LISHERS, 39 E. 125th St. | NEW YORK | || ‘The The 86 from Toulon will make part of the 600 military prisoners who have refused to carry on the wars of the French militarists and are hence | submitted to every brutality and suf- fering in the French jails and, at Clairvaux, will be mingled indiscrim- inately with the common law prison- ers, herded together from all the slums of France. BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! GET A NEW READER! Work Daily for the Daily Worker! wens the Paper to a Fellow Worker! [hist Over Hundred Militant Workers in “Red Raids” in Turkey CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 24.— More. than a hundred militant workers have been arrested in Smyrna, Stamboul, Adana and oth- er cities in a new series of “Red raids.” raids started when more than five hundred Turkish tobacco valked out on strike to the gov ment’s demand } PRE —— _Lenin « “Politics is a science and an jenven and is not acquired gratis. lefeat the bourgeoisie, it must train from among its ranks its iwn proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior to the. sourgeois politicians.” Said:= art that did not come down from If the proletariat wishes to And he proceeded to organize the. Bolshevik Party of Russia} vithout which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. ' We must organize a strong party in this country that will be. ible to organize and jead the masses. The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join and help: n the fight for: A Labor Party and a United Li abor Ticket in the 1928 elections. | The defense of the Soviet Union and against sere wars. The organization of the unorg: Making existing unions organi anized, ze a militant atragele, The protection of the foreign Pao Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 126th St, N. Y. City) At tho n Name .. Address .. Occupation (Enclosed find one dollar for initiation fee and one month’s dues. 46 ra a @ wt Glen policy of MacDonald’s Labor having grown and strengtheyed it-|,. * ty pet ee eA ss self of late years, has becomd a ot | time, if you blease, ‘to “devote atten-|tion for India {tion to India.” False and wretched} founded on the ee eee in’ the political fife of | | words! MacDonald, weighed down | the reactionary and thorough impe- It has already become F 2 impossible for the British ay ehorities | ith European affairs and unable to} of India} passed by it are ria’ “Commonwealth occupy* himself with Indian affairs,| Bill,” the author of which is the old beige ak aot tiagae the developing | nevertheless snatched a moment to | theosophist charlatan, Annie Besant, r |throw hundreds of the best workers|recently touring Europe with the brutal methods of shooting and the lash. New and more subtle methods are called for and the British bour-| geoisie have made successful use of the services of their voluntary and tried lackeys among the reformists. The activities of the British r formists in India have been particu- | larly energetic of late years. India) has become the goal of an unbroken pilgrimage: a regular procession of prominent members of the British! Labour Party and of the Trades; Union Congress visited India; among, the British “guests” to India we find \of Bengal see Prison! Messiah discovered by her in India. ’ The so-called “Lefts” of the “Inde- The ses arial nature of the Brit-| pendent Labour Party, with Lans- ish Labour Party's Indian policy was;bury at its head, has not, with its ‘signally confirmed quite recently.|1926 parliamentary drafts for the | We refer to the last Congress of the conversion of India into a dominion | British Labour Party in Blackpool.| with self-determination, gone very One of the resolutions carried con-|far from the official policy of the |tains a demand for dominion self-| Labour party. T draft also con- |determination for India. In this reso-jtains all the beauties of the impe-| |lution the British Labour Party de-/|rialist regime: jnies to India the right of complete /almost absolute power and empow ‘and absolute independence so ar-!ered to remove or oe ministe! Messrs. Johnstone, Sime, Rutherford, | Ben Turner, Pethwick Lawrence, Tom ritis tile in ‘the Solomon Islands ;Shaw and last but not least, the fa- |mous “Indian Expert” of the British |Labour Party and former officer in |the army, Graham Pole. India is By P. WHITE. head. Before beginning work the recruits passed as while the healthier places, going up sev- energy m thie }unfit for wor'! ones take thei eral times. political struggle and to/%Toup of islands with a total area of » channels of peaceful ne-| 11,000. square miles, situated in the! workers and cap-, Southwest Pacific. The native pop- tless ‘bat unsuccessful ulation is 150,000 and the white 600. Contracts with n: 'signed for two years, \fiyctuating from £10 t In addition to this | weekly rations, con: geois lead-| Coolies are not allowed to be im- isha Weslo iia pags. : e urion move-| ported, se that the planters are des terre oe ae of rice and’ dhalt-6 ng through | pendent upon native labor, which, | ee he Jn-: however, “don’t care about work”; , Theland even an annual tax of ten shill-| vays sufficient therefore, al recruiting usually i = contain cocoanut plan- wag S$ ciel and tations from which copra (the dried to sed for soap making, etc.), ah) per | the pri Rrcipal export, is procured. estab- The working ¢ twelve hours | with an hour off for dinner, while ¢ work often practiced. They t 4 stim fink. “The dian workers as soon as a . Labor Goy- resort to sending sp ernment ge again in England. | agents to tour the small islands. {live in hastily erected primitive shel- 7 " jters, surrounded by tl own small i A Pa 3 * is vegetable plots, They receive a new ¢ ion of the acti s of | i ‘ “ -lep” every mo ¢ - of the British Labour, Shooners putting in at any of | mee ie Pay ved ven aan ame ake these promises | lthe smal! isiands for this purpose POTONS of tol », if we only | usually signalize their arrival by vitle | take the single example of the law/fire, The natives gradually gather! with gard to emergency measures | around the landing stage, urged by} The head tax, which is used means of forcing natives wat introduced only a few in Be tiened in 1924 by Mac- | curiosity. The recruiting agent, de-)}py the British Government From Donatd’s ernment and entailing ‘claring the purpose of his visit, gives the very beginning the collect £ count! eats among the best; Vivid deseription of the wonderful this tax encountered native resis- evolutionary workers in this prov-| jlife of the plantations and the enor- sum is gr in pro ine mous money the natives could earn, | portion Pocshate veretehad: ages ie Trdian workers are also able |and displays the gay colored cottons, | to see the profound difference be-|¢lay pipes and tobacco which he is A erniser has been sent from Aus- tween the Hypocritieal words and careful to bring with him. Anyone tralia to put down the rising. Armed {veactionary of these represen«| tempted by these gloy prospects ‘only with arrows and spears the na- 'tatives of tish Labour Party.|to give his consent at o: receives |tives are. of course, unable to resist ecous labor meetings in{® g@y patterned “Lep-lep,” waist the bombs, machine-guns and can- India the B reformists | belt, pipe and packet of tobacco, All | non—all the technique of modern j addr dissentiont voices; were|reeruits are taken on board and the! warfare. But the fact in itself that often heard, criticizing harshly the{schooner goes to the next island. this is the third attempt at a native Government. Graham Pole, who was |is recruited the agent returns to the | comparatively short time inspires the + | particularly apt to hear unpleasant | plantation. things in India, usually quieted such} planter very dear—200 rubles per| dependencies of Great Brtain. principle underlying | | pool the Viceroy enjoying | to the composition of th jits say on the matter in a resolution jing that ‘2 |parties in the Legislature Assembly.” | of India has the right to be shortly to be honored by a visit from, ; ; ; i | hinst iene f | Native Labor Conditions, — The | are subjected to mredical examina- ansbury and a deputation from the news in the press of native risings | ;; Pr BR ieade’ th C i |tion, reduced to a fa by the fol-| | British Trade Union Congress. on the Solomon Islands makes some | A A | The aim pursued by all these dis- }lo g ingenious means: those ap- te 4 T e acquaintance with native labor con-' . Ess . shoaet pearing to be in weaker health are | tinguished ors is one and the} ditions of interest. ‘ Sha sami to distract the mrlutonaes|° not brought up for examination at of the working class of India | The Solomon Islands are a small all in case they should be + * The resolution with regard to the {appointment of a commission for In- dian reform, proposed at the Black- Congre by the Independent | Labour Party, is also worthy of se-| rious attention. The old Indian con- | stitution “conferred” upon India in 1919, expires in 1929. A commission | is to be appointed to study the results achieved by the existing constitution and to express its “competent opinion” with regard to the fitness of | the Indian people for the introduc- | tion of further reforms. A heated | ~ struggle is being waged with regard | commis- | sion. The Indian bourgeoisie are de- | manding 50 per cent. of the seats in the commission for representatives of the “Indian people.” The British Independent Labour Party also has put before the Congress of the La- bour Party in Blackpool and claim- | at least half the member- of the comm on constituted the Government of India Act | the elected Indian | ship under should represent (Only 2 per cent. of the population cted to the Legislature Assembly.”) } The Independent Labour Party evi-! | dently considers it quite normal that | the interests of India should be repre- '. dates elected by Sof the Indian bourgeoisie. This recruiting costs the} thought that all is not well in the|the throwing of thousands of workers sented in a commission by the candi- the upper The L representation sion of Indian Party considers such to be “the full expr public opinion.” without saying that the of exploited workers and peasants in India are not placing great hopes on such commissio. and that they will struggl¢ for their political and economic emancipation | without their help.’ The British La- bour Party, instead of lightening the struggle of the Indian toiling masses, ' are by their policy strengthening the position of imperialism in India, de-| fending the intere: of the Indian} bourgeoisie out er good will. | The British reformists are not hesi- tating to s ion the most severe repressive measures against the best | and st revolutionary ele India: this they have clearly | by their actions when MacDon | Government wa in power. | The Ind policy of the British Labour Party is ar y of sonorous speeches, t | quetting, with the India, an open def 2 the impe-| trialist policy of the British bour-| | geoisie, the denial of India’s right to | When the required number of natives! rising in Pacific Ocean islands jn a/| inde pendence, the defense of the Em- | pire, the sanction of martial law and into prison. } and declared that all sections of the Communist International must adopt strong measures against the Opposi- tion. 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