The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1927, Page 3

; THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927 Page Three eo Mi e ° Foreign News --- By Cable and Mail from. Special Correspondents ee oe Se Sigg TOM. opecial Correspondent USSR PROTESTS POLISH MENACE TO LITHUANIA Sees Danger to World! Peace. in Pole Move WARSAW, Nov. 25. — Dimitri! Bogomoloff, Soviet Minister to Po- | land, handed a note to the Foreign Office yesterday expressing fear that! world peace was menaced by Polish aggression in Lithuania. : The sudden visit of Marshal Pilsud- ski to Vilna is regarded with alarm! by elements desirous of peace. * * ! MOSCOW, Nov. 25.—That Poland is | openly preparing for war against Lithuania was charged by the of-| ici paper Izvestia today. In| an editorial warning Poland against | E Lithuanian aggressions, the NeWS- | paper said: . | “The Soviets cannot be indifferent to the» wanton destruction of Small states. Poland, ‘which had the ef- frontery to propose a world peace plan to the League of Nations in September, is now openly preparing fer war. against. Lithuania. Con- spirators have been armed to create trouble along the frontier.” On War Footing. LONDON, Nov. 25.—The dispute between Lithuania and Poland over occupation of the Lithuanian Citv of | Vilna by Polish troops is approaching | a crisis, according to a Riga dispatch to the Daily Mail today. The Lithuanian army is being put upon a war footing, and has been or- dered to repulse any Polish attack. According to the Daily Mail’s Rega correspondent, considerable anxiety is felt at Kovno, the Lithuanian capital, over. continued conferences of the Polish military chiefs at Vilna. ‘Soviet Coal Output Breaks All Records MOSCOW, Nov. 18. (By Mail).— ‘The output of coal in ali the Soviet Union reached 32 million tons this year, as against 29 million tons be- fore the war. -The pre-war level had been surpassed by 10 per cent already last year. In the current economic year 1927- 28, the production of coal is expected to reach 38 million tons. The coking of coal increased during the last two years more than two and half times, the respective figures for the years 1926-27 and 1924-25 being 3.3 million tons and 1.3 million tons. | (Actual Size and Design) SCREW-CAP TYPE $1.25 Sent by Insured Mail for { | paca coe* IONLY MASSES GAN ead of exian Ane | Colonel Noble Brandon Judah, Chi- cago millionaire, appointed to suc- ceed Major-General Crowder as Am- bassador to Cuba Charge Reich Tries To Hush Un Forgery Plot Against USSR BERLIN, Novy. 25. — That the Ger- man Government is making every ef- fort to hush up the international f6r- gery scandal in which Henri Deterd- ing, of the Royal Dutch Shell (British oil) Company is believed to be in- volved was charged here yesterday. The discovery of evidence leading to the belief that Deterding”was involved has led the German Government to inform newspapers more or less un- der its control to handle the situation with the greatest delicacy. Fake chervonetz rubles, with a to- tal face value of more than $25,000,- 000. were manufactured by the White Guard Georgians, who are known to have received the support of German nationalists and believed to have been aided by Deterding. Civil War Likely In Rumania Soon BUCHAREST, Nov. 25. — The en- tire standing army has been ordered ready and the streets of the capital are being heavily guarded as the Prince Carol supporters are reported ready to start a civil war immediately after the burial of Ionel Bratianu, re- actionary Premier who died yesterday. A strict censorship being main- tained over Budapest newspapers. Vin- tila Bratianu, who succeeded his brother as Premier, is preparing for the possible return of Prince Carol. $1.50 On Receipt of Money by” Jimmie Higgins Book Shop 106 University Place New York City In Lots of 5 or more $1.25 each. No Charge for Postage. CONTENTS | . | Of the current issue of Rational! | Living, Box 2, Sta. 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SSS | ° Lenin Beene tcah 2 NUE ASU Seu Me 2h _ Said “Polities is a science and an art that did not come down from Heaven and is not acquired gratis, Tf the proletariat wishes to defeat the bourgeoisie, it must train from among its ranks its _ bourgeois politicians.” And he proceeded to organize * hown proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior to the 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 masses. The Workers (Communist) Party asks fn 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. “~e~ Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th Sb. N. Y, City) eves Jame . iddress .... SVT e eee eeees @ City State i _ Ginclosed find one dollar ‘for initiation fee and one month’s dues.) | Imperialist Movement WIN FREEDOM FOR Hits at Hearst Fakes’ FILIPINOS at COMET | MEXICO CITY, Nov. 25=Re-| 4 iplying to charges contained in the | | |fake expose against Mexico now} \filling the columns of Hearst| newspapers in the United States, | e secretary of the Mexican sec-| | |tion of the All-America Anti-Im- Anti-Imperialist Head | Writes to Quezon | ‘ . .. | |perialist League has affirmed that || WASHINGTON, (FP), Nov, 25. — quotations from a speech of a] Manuel Gomez, secretary of the | | Mexican government official al- United States section of the All-Amer- | !leged to have been made at a re- jican Anti-Imperialist League, has |} |cent meeting of the Mexican made public a letter he has written to| | section of the League are pure Sen. Manuel Quezon, head of the Phil-| | fabrications. ; ippine Independence mission now in| The Hearst “exposures” are de-| Washington, proposing a change in| | clared to be part of the program of Filipino tactics in their fight to secure} | the counter-revolution in Mexico, national freedom. | | which has been decisively rejected He urges that “the road to Philip-| | by the Mexican people and which MAXIM LITVi USSR DELEGATES — TO ARMS PARLEY DISCUSS STAND Reach Berlin; Will Urge World Disarmament VOFF BERLIN, Nov. 25. — “We are go- ing to the Disarmament Conference | with clean hands and a set purpose,” declared Maxim Litvinoff, Assistant | Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the joviet Union, and head of the Soviet delegation to the arms conference, yesterday. | Stressing the Soviet Union’s desire | for peace and declaring that the Sov- iet Union will advocate complete dis- | | | | | pine independence does not lie through||is forced to rely more and more jthe White House at Washington,”| | upon help from outside. i cS : a protest to the American Government | armament, Litvinoff declared: MANLAPIT BEGINS FILIPING LABOR | Militarist Bureau. | “The English War Minister tried to | make out that we are militarists. Com- |pare England with Russia. We split this year 634,000,000 gold rubles | (about $317,000,000) on armaments. |Great Britain spent 1,115,000,000 gold | rubles (about $557,500,000). Only 12.7 jper cent of our budget goes for mili- | |tary enterprises, whereas the other} |powers, except Germany, spend be-| tween 20 and 35 per cent of their in- come on armaments. | “Our military and naval estimates this year were only 40 per cent of the |pre-war figure, Great Britain’s were | 130 per cent. | | “That tells the tale of our respect-| LOS ANGEL Nov jive viewpoints and it gives us the| unemployed organizers ar |right to go to the Geneva Disarma-| among the F ment Conference and insist on some-| Pacifie Co: thing being done and. not merely! Uhion of talked about and remitted to dilatory|by Pablo 1 Organizes Exploited Workers in West recently who has infu committees.” jnew life the Filipino work Lithuanian Question. j here. | In addition to the question of arm-| He UNIONS IN U.S, r | represen PLAN THE FIGHT ON IMPERIALISM AT PARIS MEET Mme. Sun Yat-sen, Chen Will Attend Congress PARIS, N: This city will | be the cent n Dec. 6, of the first meeting of the general council of the International League Against Imper- in the na- novements of the colonial id in the labor movements have been vill probably notable interna- cent months, To Gather. council tionalist countri of the of the Chinese notified the ittee of their intention India will be repre- entatives of the In- ess, Paudit Motti, ndit Javahar Lal delegation will in- Aslan, Ibsan El { dia N clude Emir Ch Djabri and Rie Ge rman of ue Against Im- secretary of the sort Workers Federation, . The “A a will ‘be at the Paris meeting by s from Latin America and the as well as from the United S itself. It is expected that a number of prominent American labor men will be present. tarily granted by imperialism,” Gomez declares. “It is in the masses of the | Filipino cause, which the All-Ameri-| pines on the ground that he favors the can ‘Anti-Imperialist League also looks | separation of the island of Mindanao shall include the workers and peas-|ministration’s intention of selecting | tempt to call the attention of the Con- ants, will be able to achieve anything | Forbes as suceessor to Leonard Wood. | ference to the danger of a new world | ceived persistent reports of the Ad-|ament the Soviet delegation will at- | are ropean Minorities Coming. “Moreover,” reads the announce- ment sent out by L..Gibarti, secretary | where Quezon’s, mission has recently | — renewed its plea for the making good | pusgs «= ® of the pledge of freedom enacted in Fill ines 0 ose the Jones law in 1916. 3 No Petitions. | “Independence will never be volun-| Forhes as Ally of Filipinos themselves, and their sympa- “ thizers among the oppréssed of all lands, that the hope of national eman- | Ives pile HI er cipation rests. Not petitions to Wash-| ington, but rather militant struggle on |the part of the Filipino people and| MANILA, Nov. 25. — Opposing the | ‘heir actual and potential allies——this | appointment of W. Cameron Forbes jis the essential requirement of the|as Governor-General of the Philip- upon as its own cause.” (containing rich rubber lands) from The letter says frankly that the|the rest of the islands, Senator Juan Osmena tendency toward friendly co-|Sumulong, leader of the Democratie operation between the Flipino leader- | Minority Party declared that he would ship and the imperialists is wrong,| and that nothing short of a “revolu-| against Forbes. | tionary independence movement”; Sumulong declared that he had re- backed by mass organization which against American imperialism. * * * The longing of Harvey Firestone, rubber magnate, for the rich rubber lands of Minadanao and opposition of Filipinos to a large concession there have led to proposals for the separa- tion of Minadanao from the archipel- ago. Nanking Forces Claim Victory in Shantung SHANGHAI, Nov. 25.—The Na- tionalist Military Council at Nanking today announced that their army had overwhelmingly defeated the forces of Sun-Chuan-Fang in a battle in which the latter’s casualties were more than 10,000. The fighting was described as ex- tremely fierce, with no prisoners be- ing taken. British Mills Issue Ra: Prome, young Ameri jour- Wage Sla sh Decree RE aided the Chines tater LONDON, Nov, 25. — Wool and'#list movement, and who died here cotton mills announced a wage slash | Monday, for thousands of textile workers when Scott Nearing, Anna Louise Strong they issued a statement declaring that |and Shan Tsung-fa were among those the expiring wage agreement would|who eulogized Rayna Prome and not be renewed. praised her personal courage and her The present wage agreement will, services to the Chinese revolutionary end at the close of this week. movement. Hold Funeral Services For Rayna Prome; Scott Nearing Praises. Work MOSCOW, Nov. 25. — Chinese, Rus- sian and American friends walked five miles yesterday along the frozen! streets of Moscow besides the body of | war arising from {ments in Lithuania. } . * * | Besides Litvinoff the Soviet delega- Polish encroach- |, de Ve Miserably Underpaid Filipino workers in this region have jbeen hard to organize owing partic- tion will include Anatole Lunacharsky, ularly to the attered occupations. Commissar of Education; Theodore | The majority of the re working Ougaroff, member of the Central Ex-|farm hands and yard-boys, and a jecutive Committee; General Simeon | as cooks, janitors and other domest: Pougatcheff, vice-chief of the general | occupations. For the most part they staff of the army, and Admiral Beh-/| are miserably underpaid. At the rens, formerly naval attache in Lon-|present time, out of some 6,500 don. | Filipino workers, 1,500 are unem- | ployed. 5 | -Manlapit, wh is known. t Bar Jewish Students ail Filipinos both Pa epatine im: From Budapest Schools tionalist and labor leader, declares Soar. that altho his organization is es- BUDAPEST, Nov. 25. — Jewish sentially an economic one it will not | students have been barred from uni-|7eSlect to carry to the organized |versities and technica! schools in|Wo'Kers of this country the demand Budapest as the result of attacks py | of the Filipino people for immediate, reactionary Magyar students. complete and absolute independence Jewish boys and girls were forcibly |" the Philippine Islands, prevented from attending their classes|_ Individual members of the Filipino yesterday by large groups of the fas-| Labor Union of America are being ica Anti- ich Man- cists. At the Fuenfkirch University |Urged to join the All-Ame a number of Jewish students were | Imperialist League, of w knocked unconscious with hard rub-|/apit is already a member. ber blackjacks. |Nicaragua Questionaire Sent to Labor Leaders The All-America Anti-Imperialist ;of the League, “the several national minor of Europe, whose demands have received no consideration from the League of Nations, have decided to appeal to our General Council, ask- jing the initiation of effective meas- ures for dezling with national minor- ity problems. “Because of this the Paris meeting will be important not only from a political standpoint, but’ also from the | standpoint of effective action. We in- |tend to organize an international see- |retariat with the fullest cooperation |of the organizations allied in our | League. “The General Council will try to es- {tablish contracts between advanced |parties in all the parliaments of the ) world, in order to be able to initiate |parliamentary action on an interna- | tional scale. | Labor and the Oppressed Peoples. | “It will try to form a close alliance between sympathizing trade-union and labor organizations for the. initiation SS movements in favor of the ed workers and peasants of the colonial and semi-colonial lands.” The Brussels Conference, at which the International League Against Im- perialism was launched, was the first world gathering of colonial peoples and labor representatives in history. Since the congress the League has League has prepared questionnaires rendered By SCOTT NEARING. (Written expecially for the Feature Service of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League) AE A NEW. campaign is. under. way: to organize the workers of the Philip- pine Islands. The driving force be- hind it is thegCongreso Obrero de Filipinas, which has recently been in close touch with the revolutionary Chinese Labor movement, thru the Pan-Pacifie Trade Union Seeretariat. The Labor Movement in the Philippine Islands ‘struggle and class consciousness; give | anto Evangelista, secretary; Gregorio them weapons by which to fight vic- toriously in their cause; (g) Build a newspaper organ, owned and managed by the workers’ and peasants’ themselves under the auspices of the Congreso Obrero de Filipinas; “(h) Reorganize the Congreso Ob- rero de Filipinas along the above- enumerated program, revise its con- stitution and by-laws in order to con- you to join and help) » * * |form more to the needs of proletarian In a program for the organization | nity; and campaign, the executive committee of | ) Mohilize and inspire the work- the Congress declares: masses in the struggle for “(a) Organjze the unorganized, | Philippine independence. that is, build a union in every in: - © * dustry where there is none existing. or if there is any, help along th organization campaign to make i mas appeals to your sense of }Mmore practical ad effective. duty to encourage its efforts. It: is j “(b) Build all unions on the basis | 20% the Congreso Obrere de Fiiipi {of industry, whenever possible, in-/alone which would benefit under stead of craft union, The Union de|this program, but also every indi- Tabaqueros de Filipinas (Cigar- | vidual labor organization and every makers) is now undergoing process / individual worker. By it and under of reorganization along this line; it the Congreso Obrero de Filipinas’ “{c) Centralize and systematize | may be able to unify and systematize jall labor organizations of the Philip-|the labor movement in the Philippine ‘pine Islands into a militant and uni-| Islands, and by the same unity and ‘ted front, and to work for the unity | Purpose our labor movement may be of the world trade union movement | able to stand and fight successfully into one powerful trade union inter- |like those in other lands for the | national; | betterment of workers and peasants | “{d) Break down the lethargy of | themselves. Every individual union the Filipino workers and peasants} Would not be alone in its own fieht, jand the extreme isolation of our|for a fight for one shall be a fight |movement from the outside world, |side with the cause of labor through-/a fight as a body, and have broken fout the. world, and especially the|the chains of our lethargy and isoia- cause of the exploited classes and op-| tion, we naturally could hope to ex- pressed peoples within the leaps and| pect moral and financial support bounds of the Pacific, where imperial-|from all labor organizations outside ism is now under attack by Asiatic|our country and throughout the peoples; its long and uncontested for-| world. With those means and weapons midable stronghold now, as in China, |in mind our common foe shall realize the scene of gigantic struggle of the|how hopeless it is to fight against peoples it has oppressed fighting to|our influence upon the toiling mass, throw off its oppression; and as a result the bourgeoisie would “(e) Formulate workers’ and pea-|have to halt in their selfish exploita- sants’ demands for their betterment, such as the establishment of a nor- mal working day, shortening the hours of labor and improvement of wages and working conditions in the shops and factories’ and in the farm; “(f) Educate the mass along these lines of conduct, give them correct ideas and interpretations of the class der the above tentative pro- e the Congreso Obrero de ‘that it is calling up against itself, a force that is irresistible, for its cause is that of humanity and justice— that is, the emancipation of millions of the exploited classes and the lib- eration of our oppressed people, “Fraternally, Executive Committee, Francisco Varona, president: Cris- on the subject of U. S. intervention in Nicaragua which are being sent to prominent labor leaders and others, | with the request that they express their opinion. Pineda, treasurer; Jacinto G. Mana- han; Antonio D. Ora, Mariano A. Ubaldo, Domingo Ponce, Isabelo Tre- jada, Girilo Bognot and Jacinto Sal- | azar.” | * * * Militant workers in the Philippines, | who are behind this new organizing | campaign, are facing two difficulties: | (1) . Their efforts to organize in the past have been met by the diver-| nportant service to the na- tional liberation movements in China, Sy: Sgypt and Latin America. Ame members of the League’s general council are Roger Baldwin, William Pickens and Manuel Gomez. YOU SHOULD READ This Letter for all; and once we are engaged in} tion, for they would see the force | ess interests; |sion of the leaders into political| ATIONAL Nov. 18, 1927. careers, | New York City (2) The present administration, in| pr aaa 5 Hed ; ; ; vate bin co-operation with the bosses, is: stag-|| thankful to sou. Tan vist enn ee support. I will ing a campaign for “class collabora-|{ never forget your kindr y n | tion.” Now I am begging y iit, don't | 4 t) know why I am I ic strike As regards the leadership problem, || without showi dren are one of the Filipino workers made |] suffering from 1 rent and buy clothing and Thanking you again for your wife and children. this statement: “Before 1902 we had! |no regular labor movement in the | islands. In that year the Workers) Democratic Union was formed. Ii} aim) i oty Sre was an anarcho-syndicalist organiza-|) .j,0 01", Swithhblid ton aoe tion, and lasted only three years. The; plied upon a lally int leader was Isabelo de los Reyes. He | is now a large landowner and a sen-| ator. Next came the Workers Labor Union of the Philippines, led by Lupe K. Santos. He was appointed gov- jernor of Nueva Viscaya, and later senator by Governor-General Harri- son. In the election of 1907 the movement split, and the union funds jwere squandered. WH. Cruz, in 1913 founded the present Congress of La- bor, He is now Director of Labor in | the Central Government. So you will see that as soon as a labor leader becomes prominent, he is taken care! ;of politically and that ends his use-| jfulness so far as the workers are concerned.” | The point on which the workers of | ithe Philippines are being asked to collaborate with the bosses at the help and from the but labor will be sup- uest to anyone spec International Labor Defense sends monthly $5 to each labor prisoner and $20 monthly each to their dependents. This Christmas we will send a special gift to them as a sign of class sk idarity and an indication that those on the outside have not forgotten them—$25 to each prisoner, $50 each to their wives and $5 each to their children, Will You Help? MAIL IMMEDIATELY SIGN TODAY. AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR DE SO East 1th St. Room 4 New York City present time is a workers’ compensa- Enclosed plense find 82 for which send me » book of 30 Christmas tion law, which is being vigorously |] coupons at.10: h which E will dispose of among my friends, neighbors and opposed by some of the leading busi-|] shop mates to help continue your work, The Workers Congress of the || NAME ............sces cee eceeete eee scc een ereeee eee ecaeten ta tenenans vee Philippines is affiliated with the Pan- Pacific Federation of Labor. Its main strength in the Islands lies in and about Manila, and the present or- ganizing campaign has as its object the extension of organization to the more remote narts of tha Island. ' ADDR cITy . INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE > y 9 SO CRN Some emaggeran meer epee: Simba trae tem, 3 q i :