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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1927 | Page Three Foreign News --- By Cable and Mail from Special Correspondents RIGHTS MURDER MANY PEASANTS IN SOUTH CHINA Changsi Peasants Clash With Landlords (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) SHANGHAI, Nov. 29.—More than eight hundred peasants have been killed and hundreds of others arrested | in the ruthless suppression of peasant revolts in southeast Kwantung, ac- ing to reports in the native press, + * * Peasant Unrest. {ANGHAIJ, ( press repor ese new wave province. The rebels Old Bolshevik Society - Expels From Its Ranks Trotsky and Zinoviey |Special Cable to DAILY WORKER MOSCOW, Nov. 29. — The So- leiety of Old Bolsheviks has | \pelled from its ranks the leaders | }of the Opposition including Trot- | |sky, Zinoviev, Kameneff, Preobra- jensky and Smirnoff. The Assembly of the Society algo thorized the Bureau to expel al embers of the society who signed | i the mansions and shop in! district. The papers de e that the @sing is led by the Peasant League. of Usi. The rebels wear ir insignia with knives, hes, etc. The red neckere! rebels are the recent rebellion, Revolutionary Committee. A Peasant Revolutionary Commit- ave very fw fire- | arable In destroying the mgnsions, | Ay Oy particularly _ harsh | py ¢ t those who either reported or | ¢ha arrested peasants for participating in \ eon he platform of the Eighty-three (platform of. the Opposition) USSIAN DEBTS FLIMINATED RY TREASURY DEPT, Considered “Bad” by | Mellon Gang WASHINGTON, Nov. 29,—Consid- speculation exists in both an «nd foreign political circles atement given to the press ury department that more 270,000,000 in Russian debts tracted by pre-Soviet governments in of that country have been written off ‘bad debts,” and all hope of col- ecting them abandoned because they tee has been organized in the district, |have been repudiated by the Soviet which requ the re community. ned the building of | government. The Revo-|that no further efforts will be made lutionary Tribunal sits in the temple, ;te collect them or whether a mere | The revolutionary military staff is,|bookkeeping factor Whether this means is involved is according to the press, situated in! questionable. Nanshiuen, from where it distributes Many senators and congressmen at placards, slogans ‘and proclamations | former sessions of congress have ad- urging the sants to rise. The chief slogan of the rebels is: ii | i vocated the cancellation of the Rus- sian debt, contracted by those who “Only those who till the land haye | Used it to build gallows on which to the right to possess it.” In some vil- | Murder the present heads of the Bol- lages, the gentry organized their vol- | Shevik unteer detachments and clashes have i | government. Whether the treasury and the state departments taken place between them and the | Will endorse this opinion is highly rebels. From the reports of three vil- | problematical. lages, in which such clashes have taken place, we learn that the rebels disarmed and beat the volunteers. Rights Raze Towns. The military action against the rebels is under the leadership of the military authorities of Shanghai and Nanking. As to the character of their action, it may be judged from the fact that more than ten villages | have been entirely destroyed and + razed to the ground. © sic, OAR JEWISH STUDENTS. PRAGUE, Nov. 29. — Jewish stu- dents were prevented from attending the inauguration of the newly appoint- ed rector of the German Technical In- stitute at Brunn. 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. ; i | i Armenian Debts Also Off. There is also another “bad debt” of $16,000,000 that was loaned to the government of Armenia, that has been stricken off because that government no longer exists. Many other nations, however, will pay enormous amounts to the United States on December 15. On that date foreign nations will pay into the treas- ury approximately $96,574,000. bring. ing the total of war time debts for the year to $163,586,000. Interest From France. With the exception of France, Italy, Roumania and Yugoslavia all debtor nations will make payments next month, it was said at the treasury today. France, whose debt pact is not yet ratified, is paying $20,000,000 annual interest on a $400,000,000 debt, remitting in June or August, | while the other countries make their remittances in June. Interest pay- ments in December amount to $70,- 1013,000, while foreign countries are reducing the principal of their bor- rowings by over $26,300,000. ‘Explain’ Bomb in Path {Of Turk Deputy Train CONSTANTINOPLE, Noy. 29.-— The bomb which was removed by Greek soldiers from the path of a train, carrying Turkish deputies across the Greek-]urkish railroad, has been “explained.” The bomb, it is reported, was a ignal bomb.” Fear that the Turkish with which the train was decked Se MENG) Oi, ea-suanmenat ad | | } on Obrego Mexico. Smolay tistitute Used by Lenin ts Now Made Museum LENINGRAD, Nov. 29.—Nicolai Lenin’s quarters in the former Smolny Institute, from which he directed the organization of the November! Revolution 10 years ago, have been | opened as a public museum. | The curator stated today that visi-| tors are ‘ming net only from all} parts of Russia, but from the outside world as well. | ‘Two rooms have been’ restored just | as they were when Lenin and his sis- ter, Anna Ilychna Yelizarova, oc- cupied them from April to July, 1927. The library has been filled with relics of the great upheaval. Lenin shunned the luxurious suites which {were used by the daughters of rich life proves the direc fashionable girls’ boarding school. Instead, he moved into quarters for- . Al Union Communist Russians when the institute was a} priest un@two other members of the League attempted to murder General Obregon. t connection of the catholic elements END OF A CLERICAL REVOLT ague, who with a The Catholic plot with the counter-revolution in Party Meets Tomorrow; To Discuss Opposition | 14 fs Be ap \{ Special Cable to DAILY WORKER | MOSCOW, Nov. 29. — The All| | Union Communist Party conven-}! tion which opens Thursday will not} only select the Central Committee and the Political Bureau but will discuss the problem of the Oppo- sition and decide the basic policies of the All Union Party. The Chinese situation and the Lithuanian-Polish controversy will be other problems taken up. | . =) 5,236 Militant Workers| Arrested in Capitalist’ Countries in One Month Statistics compiled by the Interna- | tional Class War Prisoners’ Aid show | that in one month alone, July of this r, 5,236 workers were arrested by capitalist governments for political merly occupied by servan’ Unbroken; Bratiany To Head “Liherals” BUCHAREST, Nov. 29.—Possit ties for a coalition cabinet seem s mer than ever the deadlock be- | tween the oppc on, héaded by Juliu |Maniu, and the liberal party remai: | unbroken, | Maniu has peremptorily refused to | {consider the proposals for immediate | dissolution of parliament and a sepa- rate slate for cach political party in the ensuing elections, addressed him by Foreign Minister Titulescu. In light of the political deadlock, the vis- it of the British minister to Titulescu, by express instructions of Sir Austen Chamberlain, is considered extremely significant, fee yee | land “Labor Government” and the re- activ different parts of the world, 2,409 rp¥ i. 54 ~e cazied. out, 103 “newspapé. >” Pe ‘and pamph-/ »rohibited. 3 Phe | greatest number of arrests lace in Rumania (945), Austria! coming next with 919, and Germany 4, WORLD CHESS CHAMP. BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 29. —Alex- ander Alekhine, Franco-Russian chess within his grasp. 9 Le By P. WHITE. The recently ended strike of South Johnstone sugar workers (Queens- land) supported by the local byanch of the Railwaymen’s Union is an event pregnant with serious _conse- quences for the whole Australian la- bor movement. It’ showed up the touching unity between the Queens- actionary Australian Government as | wounds and i abor Government in Australia Is Following Baldwin jlike any other and it cannot with| Secretary of USSR Consulate in China : PEKIN, (By Mail).—. Guards attacked Che ov, the secretary of the Soviet consulate in Dairen. He received seventeen knife said to be lying in a serious condition. White Guards organized a hostile demonstration in front of the Soviet rmed Whis2 jconsulate at Tientsin in November | twenty 7th. In the evening three Russian White Guards, in the army of Chang-Tsung- chang, northern war lord, opened fir on the consulate, but were beaten off. | A bomb thrown at the consulate failed | to explode. White guards who attempted to at- tack the Soviet consulate at Sh i were beaten off. Two of them killed when memt of the consulate staff were compelled to open fir the attackers. Czech Textile Workers Go on Strike for Wage PRAGUE, N the Freed cho-S The ter} Th di 7,000 spreading as other en- h of Cze- | workers struck. oeial democratic trade unions | |player, has the world’s championship | declared that they are in solidarity | an with the s proval of the London “Times,” which made sympathetic comment on hi words. “The Labor Government,” | wrote the “Times,” “is a Government | | safety to itself suffer any trade union or any combination of trade unions to usurp its functions. Mr. McCormack sees that to tolerate a| usurpation of the kind would be fatal | to trade unionism as well as to the| ite Guards Knife | American Imperialism Forces Chile to Delay Oil Tax; Aid Guggenheim SANTIAGO, Chile, No |The Chilean Government | |sage to the Senate h | 1} mended” that t petroleum tax be pestponed. The announcement lwas made by Foreign Minister | |Rios-Gallardo after pr re for | |the removal of the tax by the | | United States. | || ‘The protest was based the | |; | jcomplaint of American copper com- | |panies (dominated by the Guggen- | |heim interests) which use oil for| SR ARRANGES eo USS WITH N. Y. FIRM. ly G Soviet Union to Build /ical force Tron, Steel Mills yet obtained in America s the beginning of the So- paign to build up the iron eel industry. he agreement was signed with Percival Farauhar, a New York pro- moter, and it is understood that it | will be financed by one of the big- |gest banks in New York. First ex- | penditur will be made for the en- |largement of the Makeysky pig iron indry. \ | The contract provides that the jeredit may be exchanged for a year loan, whereupon Far- auhar would have the option of fi- nancing other enterprises in the So- jet Union. Horthy Covernment ment has refused to that Jewish uni- will be protected 2 violence of their fascist Alexander Lederer, presi- dent of the J Culture League, v distressed by the govern- on that he died of a at the door of his home. $ narrowly escaned ttack today, but got off with in- The Je nt Paul Teleki, head of the Un- y J a notorious the degraduate So rhite terror ed in ne counterfeiting scandal, h formed the Minister of Education tha ation will not desist from st the Jews. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? LH N ORT LEAGUE MEXICO WILL FIGHT REACTION Form National Group to Help Calles atch from pporters of for the de- to stamp out ements. More “the » revolutionary ciated Press Thruout Mexico. organizers Branch of , the s ader of the Agr who seems to have allied f with General Obregon. Bran- f the League will be formed in ridn polit- | ns, cities and villages thruout an workers are attempting vo million signatures as @ of appreciation of the revolutionists in the States of Jalisco, Aguascaliemtes and Michoacan has been announced by the War Depart- ment, reports from Mexico City state. U.S. to Bild Rai Road Though Costa - ‘Rica Makes Protest American engineers have started to build a railroad between San Carlos and Saraniqui in Costa Rica not only {without the necessary permits from {the authorities, but in spite of the jdecision of the Costa Rican parlia- |ment to refuse such permits to the | United Fruit company, one of the large American companies operat- jing in Central America. | i} railway on condition that it prolonged ithe line to a point where it would be lof general use to the country. But the United Fruit company wanted to {build it only so far as it is of special luse to its own busines | To date the only ion of Costa Rica to this invasion of the National !vights by the arbitrary decision of the United Fruit company is strong pro- tests in the whole Costa Rican press. i - | \U. S. Minister to China A * . ‘Denies He Will Resign | TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 29. — John’V. y, American Minister to , who has been accused of pur- |suing a pro-British policy has arrived |here aboard the President Pierce. | He is on his way to China where lhe will resume his duties. He denied } report: that he would resign. | YOU SHOULD READ This Letter a Costa Rica had decided to give the Lcompany the authorization to build.a—~ . 29.—The Hun-| “- wd might arouse the refugees was gi Continues Dynasty. soon as a real industrial conflict ee ey y Fh gers tke Sins awed orks Gy: es otealita Sy ae given : * ws | y ie members 0: e | a $2.00 Each as the reason for delaying the train. BUCHAREST, Noy. 29.—Ventila | 2%05¢- nek hc - :| legislative assembly) give allegiance |} Dear Comrades: ‘ ts . ? -. i ts are, briefly, as‘ follows: | y) @ alleg! | ie ; a RRS P © toe SH fer whe uel w I The incident has opened the whole| Bratianu has been elected to fill his o ae Race ‘Ue ve the South; to some body outside parliament.” eiatetan os Pan GLa en ton, : rmvite : soporte: Sear agar aac Pus- ee jurkish owned railroad | brother’s place as head of the liberal Johnstone suger refineries in North-| And revolution for McCox nd childr LISHERS, . 125th St. across the border since the Turks as- z . party. The former foreign minister, for the Labor ern Queensland, owing to the dis- Party Now I & ut from jail. I don't i contli but will be sup- jhis dynasty to head the liberal par- @ Que } | conflicts spre: ‘EW : H 3 yho was hi ; most afraid of know why Iam here. 1 = the Passaic strike, oe nth thay’ dels eae ahe: bor paigning for the party leadership, many years of service. The strikers follows the path ta Baldwin || suffering from poverty and misery. She y to pay rent and der until they are unfit for use, embraced Bratianu in an effort to| tuned down the arbitration imposed|!ast year for the : of the |} buy clothing and coal. ea vies = = == | sti is rivalry. | . 2 i eneral_ st fu ing you again for your help and please don’t forget me and mine stifle comments on his rivalry. He m them by the Executive of the | & neral s ful acing you again for your help and please don't forget n ° ° | j has also started a Sa for the | Union (the sugar workers are organ- | speed Fraternally yours, . i e lead pre-|ipog jj e Australiar Yorkers’ | after the | ~ Lenin Said ss ad Irmier Vintia Resta is the third otf Ues 4 ke ig Mi ag Bill, to p e from the labor mier, JInion). nflict an o | i ti SS ‘ty, his father and brother having pre- in the At wes pnother,, Ri fein p | ceded him, It a3 oa supported | “'Seussion “Politics is a science and an art sa did not come down from | a ss They refused to load| Bruce, Heaven and is not acquired gratis. If the prol i i | . an ugar prepared by scabs: | oa! he bo ‘ cal . 8 : the PFO letariat wishes to ‘Huge Lumber Shipment ‘The Queensland Governisent then de- defeat the bourgeoisie, it must train from among its ranks its, Arri BE Soviet | Ppa Cas 3 ie own proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior to the AT TAVES FOR | filling the orders of its repre: / his Chr 1S; imas bourgeois politicians.” Union; |would be discharged. The railway- Bom oe And he proceeded to organize the Boishevik Party of Russia, jinien declared strike soe chaannaeags we will send a special gift to them as a sign of class sol- without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. | ¢,¥) Faia x at Port Pol Geter 4 yf a ano nee pee Oneal — Soa We must organize a strong party in this country that will be, Newark. The cargo, which consisted f| not forgotten them—$25 to each prisoner, 200 each to able to organize and lead the masses. lof rough ae and see is under- F oe aul » went on ks eh S| their wives and $5 each to their children. Workers (Communis arty as 7 ioi ood to be the first of a series of ag omy about Be ouwe «| 3 The ht for: ace t) Party asks you to join and help | regular shipments and is expected to Governme Will You Help? in the fight for: lcause some agitation in the Ameri- The A Labor Party and a United Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections. | can lumb The defense of the Soviet Union and against capitalist wars. ame market. tional Lumber »| tion of {new trade uni SIGN TODAY AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY | Manufac- New York city ere “f | turers' sociation predicts that th rom the | British parliament ms oe The organization of the unorganized. “ lis the beginning of an annual impor lian. Worker: | object of the ¥ ada tg Fi pan Making existing unions organize a militant struggle. | tation of 100,000,000 feet and add them with expulsion. reactionary F\ The protection of the foreign born. t is believed that Russian lumbe We wiil not dwell here on this last | now the Enclosed p » find $3 for which send 1 a book of 30 Christmas eee ee eect eecerees . . j¢can more than compete with Americ: mentioned fact, although it is in itself| ginning to dream conponisa at 10¢ each which I wii! dispose of nmong my friends, neighboradal ony A Y rice basis.” romely inte j bi ¢ citing the Prime Mi ates t vontinue your “ aga Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party }lumber on a price basis. mely interesting and typical.} citing the Prime Mini shop mates to help continue your work. <i Ve the Left Wing of the Labor mo’ will turn to the attitude towards Mexico Pays on Debt. (Pill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St. N. Y, City) the ‘strike adopted by the authorities, | ment. |} Name Matis a PAD w MEXICO CITY, Nov. 29.——Thru the . Baldwin's Turn, MeCormac ration furnished | as . MUR AC iy aire Peat (RRR er int paz. Veanneie sie tek ete eae | Bank of Mexico the Mexican govern-| In the very beginning of the rail-|the final chord in this symphony: r fast a Address aaa these ea ek AO HRS MU eh ray .. | ment has sent the sum of $524,964 to} way workers’ strike, MceCormick,|“The Communists must go! We have jy crry ... “State | the international Committee of bank- ers on Mexico in New York. The sum represents this month’s instalment on the Mexican national debt. Prime Minister of the Queensland “Labor Government,” spoke out “in plain terms.” His declaration ac- ‘vally earned for him the complete ap- dealt with them here and it is now} up to Mr. Bruce to do something | about it for Australia. He talks.a lot about the. but never does anything.” | dues ) INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE | ey: eee