The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927 Page Three RYKOV'S REPORT, SHOWS GROWTH OF USSR ECONOMY Scientists Pledge to Aid Soviet Union (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 14.—The tremend- | ous strides made by the Soviet Union in the development and socialization | of industry and the tasks that the So- | viet Union still faces were outlined in A. Rykov’s report to the All Union Communist Congress in session here. in the first part of his report, Rykov described the economic situation dur- the past year, establishing by facts and figures that there were no dis- turbances in rural-urban commodity exchange, that partial hitches in supplying the population with neces- sary articles which was observable in recent months, are largely liquidated, that the credit system is absolutely stable. Mexico. federal inline Acai asiaty for his ssa Frighten Bratianu With the export of grain, Rykov aid, larger exports of lumber and animal products are necessary. In ful- filling the budget for revenue amount- ing this year to six billion roubles, the Party and Government must work tirelessly. Rykov devoted the second part of his report.to analyzing the various five year plans, pointing to two fundamental shortcomings: a statis- BUCHAREST, Dee. are not elaborated for construction of largest districts and republics. Gen- erally, the Gosplan has accomplished great work. ‘The central five year idea is derived from industrialization tasks as a method of socialist con- struction. Points Out Problems. Referring to various problems of the five year plan, such as agricul- tural, industrial, transport, reserve development problems and the strug- gle against unemployment, the speak- ey began the third part of the re- port with cultural development. Ry- kov’s conelusions are that cultural | mass development lags considerably behind development of productive for- ces. “Without cultural development,” he said, “further successful develop- ment of productive forces and further industrialization is impossible. We must learn to satisfy the growing cultural requirements of the working class, the peasantry. Finally the Party and Soviet organs must devote greater attention, energy and means to the cultural front.” Support of Scientists. The morning session began the dis- eussion of the Rykoy and Kzhizhan- ovsky reports, local representatives Jassy, Court martial proceedings ing the outbreaks. The government has also the pogrom. fraction of the actual losses, ing the various shortcomings. Geographical Congress. plause. discussion. have | been begun against the thirty-three Rumanian students arrested for their part in the brutalities committed dur- A twenty-four hour general strike of students has | | been called thruout Rumania out of Who Put Thru Fat Loan sympathy for the fascist rioters. | been | Church Aids Reaction Archbishop Francisco Orcozoy -Jim- | inez of Guadalajara who is one of the leaders of the counter-revolution in| Orders have been issued to Regime Into “Trial” Of Fascist Rioters .. 14.—Fearing an investigation of their alleged part | yeactionaries lost 120 men. in fomenting the recent pogroms per- tical tendency, and the fact that plans | petrated by Rumanian students in! Cluj, Oradia Mare and other Transylvanian towns, the government | Especially efforts are being made to of Vintila Bratianu is making a pa- rade of indemnification measures. frightened into presenting a bill to parliament asking about $545,000 for | damages suffered by the victims of This is said to be only a elucidating on economic construction in their respective districts and show- The academician, Fersmann, greeted the} Congress on behalf of the All-Russian | Fersmann’s | declaration that over 1,700 geographi- cal institutions are ready to assist the | | working class and peasantry in social-| | News SentF: r omCountry | ist construction met with stormy ap-| The evening session continued the —— Daily Worker Indictment Upheld The decision handed down by the Federal Grand Jury upholds the sentence in the case of David Gordon, a contributor to The DAILY WORKER. This decision means 3 years in jail for Comrade Gordon unless The DAILY WORKER can arouse mass sentiment against this attack. In addition to the jail sentence, The DAILY WORKER is fined $500.00. This is not an isolated in- cident but is in line with the policy of the Dollar Patri- \ ots to stifle every radical movement which might be in their way of involving the workers in another world \ conflict. Resist the attack on The DAILY WORKER. Tre Vheuy- Viedge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund. Fil out the following blank and matt it to THE DAILY WORKER, "33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Enclosed $........ a every week. I pledge I will send you $...... Hives Name .... iid SMEG 94:5 didlos db otaip oieisinidielertcidia.e o's e-rieimsvinet oe | ‘charge Levine Skipped ! Telegraph Bills; Force { PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Dec. | |14.—Claiming that Charles A. Levine, American trans-Atlantic | flyer contracted large telephone | and telegraph bills in Prague, | which he failed to pay before his | departure, the Prague post office | today forwarded a bill to the | | Czechoslovakian minister at Wash- ington for collection. | | If it is not paid, it was stat | | the telephone and telegraph clerks handling the messages will have to | make good | the loss. Reactionary Band In Mexico Attacks Train: Beaten Off MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14. —Counter- | | revolutionists, attacked a southbound | passenger train at Los Salas, south of Aguascalientes, last night, but were | driven off by federal troops. A War Office statement says that acne vee headed by the Chieftain orostisa were defeated at Hidalgo | len the Jalisco-Zacatecas boundary, after a seven hour fight in which the An intensive drive against the counter-revolutionary bands has been | announced by the’ War Department. stamp out counter-revolutionary ban- dits who are concentrating in Michoa- can. Japan Has No Designs | On China, Says Lamont |on China declared Thomas W. Lamont at a dinner given by the Institute of Pacific Relations Tuesday night. La- mont, who is a partner in JP, Mor- gan and Company, helped negotiate the proposed $40,000,000 loan to the South Manchuria Railway, which is being strongly protested by the Chi- nese on the ground that it is further- ing Japanese imperialistic aims in Manchuria. Charges France Censors LONDON, Dec. 14. — Charges that France maintains a strict censorship over all news dispatches to foreign countries were made yesterday by one of the editors of the Evening Stand- ard. of Interior for approval befcre being permitted to pass over French wires. | News is in this way otten delayed in | | transmission, he said. Prague Workers to Pay ©: Japan has no imperialistic designs | | Canton—Where the Workers Seized Power View of Canton, where workers and peasants swept the reactionary government from power and set pe a workers’ and Desesnt habe stuns Norwegian Labor Refuses to Join Amsterdam iat’ Trade Union Con itely to the left last night when it dam International. The Congress moved closer to- ward the Red International of Labor Unions when it invited Soviet and Finnish Trade unions to a conference for the purpose of summoning a | world trade union congress “on the basis of the class war.” A number of Norwegian unions |have signed pacts with Soviet trade unions pledging mutual aid and a! | joint struggle for international trade union unity. NORTHWESTER STILL . AGROUND | | VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 14.—-The | steamer Northwester, which ran |aground near Cape Mudge, B. C., in a |. “Doubtful” or “harmful” mesages, |snow storm Sunday morning, was still | thru C he charged, were sent to the Minister | | vessel can be salvaged has not yet) fast on a reef today. Whether the been determined. | BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! Madsen-Mygdel’s liberal govern- ment, which came to power with the slogan of “Regime of Economy,” |fiercely began to cut down those social insurance and pensions. Bene- fits for aged, invalids and unemployed | were cut down by tens of millions of | kroner. In cutting down the benefits |for unemployed, the government went | the limit; it decreased the State sub-| sidies to the trade union unemployed |funds by 10 million kroners by an} j act of parliament it abolished the| system of the so-called “extra- ordinary” benefits to unemployed. | To elucidate the significance of the {abolishment of the system of “extra- ,ordinary benefi we must note |that the Ghent system on unemploy- | ment benefits Denmark. According to this system ‘special insurance departments with funds by 10 x mn kroners, by an | set up by the trade unions. The insurance department junions carry on the work of ins | the unemployed, collect dues, main- \tain registers of unemployed and pay | |out benefit. The government’ and) | municipal departments, for their part, subsidize these insurance funds of the | junions, aecording ‘to the amount of cash in them. According to the | rules of these insurance agencies, the | | unemployed may receive daily bene- | fits of from 8 to 4 kroner. The un-| | employed, however, receive benefits | only for a period of from 90 to 120 days during the year. | ’ * * | In the last few years unemployment in Denmark is of a specific character. In summer months it falls to about 40} to 50 thousand, while during winter it increased to SO to 100 thousand, [f| we bear in mind that there are alto-| gether a little over 300,000 organized workers in Denmark, we may state that every fifth worker is unemployed during the whole year. While thou- sands and even tens of thousands of workers as a result of this stable un- work during the whole of the year, they receive benefits only for three or four months, : This altogether impossible position led to the setting up of “extraor- dinary” benefits. Parliament assigne special sums to those trade vo of litems of the State budget relating to| has been adopted in) (a total membership of e employment are unable to find any, Social-Democracy in where there were the greatest number of unemployed members. The “e traordinary” benefits were somewhat ‘smaller than the general benefits. | At present, the Madsen-Mygdal| Government decided to cancel the “ex- traordinary” benefits as from October 1st, 1927. A great mass of unem- | ployed, having exhausted their or-} |dinary benefits, are now deprived of ali means of existence. Under pressure of the workers, in- |dignant at the attack on the unem- ployed, and also under | sure from the unemployed, the Trade ! Union Council of Denmark on Septem- ber d convened a National Trade Union Conference in Copenhagen to {discuss the problem of the economic crisis and unemployment. * * * | The conference w idelegates representing j unions and 7 small organ word, practically all ¢ workers of Denmark were representea }at this conference. The social demo- erats being immensely influential in ;Denmark and the Oppositi ex- tremely weak, this conference’ should and did have the character of a polit- ieal demonstration in defence of the, ‘election programme of the social \democrats, delivered a pompous | speech, in which hé pointed--to the general reasons of the economic’crisis jand unemployment. those pre: | tory of soc for the vie~ the rv of the | trade union ce! on reduced benefits to the unem- ployed. After this a resoiution of | protest against the activities of the | government was passed, the activities of the social-democratic parliamen- | tary fraction were approved and so{ on. Besides this formal: part, the conference, nevertheless, had another feature: the really desperate position | of the unemployed was. discussed, representatives from the locals came forward proposing _measures for struggling «with Speeches were also made by the Op- position. Thus, the representative of the furriers’ and_ saddle-ntakers’ Union, Jensen, and a delegate from the electro and gold platers’ union, Kirsch, proposed that a 24-hour gen- refused to affiliate with the Amster- | direct pres- | Tle_ called upon } next } , analyzed the Act | unemployment. | | | Ban “What Price Glory” For “Allied” Armies Occupying Rhine Valley Des, 14.—The Amer- picture film, “W hat | has been prohibited [| in the “Occupied | many by order of the | i id, Commis- t scenes in| ) are reported to be | | discontented. j ‘R00 NIGARAGUANS KILLED BY U. S. FIGURES REVEAL Don’t Include “Bandits” Killed by Marines WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — “Paci- fication” of Nicaragua is proving jabout the hardest job the United | spite the saguine statements issued from time to time by state and navy department officials the northern half }of the Central American repuolic is still, after a seven-month campaign, seething with insurgency and general disorder. 800 Nicaraguans Killed To date the pacification has cost the lives of more than eight hundred Ni araguans, according to figures com- (Palestine Workers Starve While Big piled today from official reports, Profits Made Here while several hundred others have aa bi seriously wounded in clashes While workers who were ‘inspired’ American interventionists and by zionistic to In the last month there ; ine are sta it was east 86 known deaths Jacob Adler’s suit | the natives. of the profi are being earned by d through 35 as his command in Managua and by o here, minimum casualty figures now that 714 Nicaraguans have been 2 killed or wounded and inded in the period from May 15 to th No Medical Aid, Recorded casualties amdng the Nic- ion w which 1 the new corpc the amount ie I Us, 5s Air Proconsul to |‘ Hunt for PANAMA, | tention of | eipal por by the state department, are not Upon several occasions, > | natives, the marine command has de- k lane Routes, clared that the extent of the casual- iv ‘ bisa among the “bandits” could ndt be Eas ee ee | determined. Nor do these figures in- ‘ana ey an akon ot r n. | clude the number of Nicaraguans who, lacking medical attention, nave died tral America with a view to the es | tt 1 tablishment of a commercial air Tine |{™ their wounds. ntral America, James D. Sum-| arly in October the casualty fig- mers, United States Trade Commis- | Utes showed that upwards of 540 Nic- | ama, left | @raguans had been killed, on Novem- | sioner of Aeronautics of might general | un ng the “Allied” troops | | , oce the Rhine valley, many States marines have ever tackled. De- | * 1 on announcements by the ma- ember 11, At the same time seven | that this organ 5 rines and six native guardsmen of the Me Build-| have been killed and two marines a which he 1 a third | wounded. ns, who have been called “ban- | irmishes with the insurgent | LABOR UNIONISTS BACK FROM TOUR -PRAISE U.S. SR 8 of Delegation Land at New York the second gation to nts of the The bo ed at Pier 564, Hudson river and 14tk | All of the de on are rank and |file workers. | Names of Delegates. The eight delegates are: William Watkins, chairman of the delegation and president of the Switchmen’s Union, Local 206, Minneapolis; Peter Jenson, secretar he delegation, of the Machi Union, icago; ’ Union, Phil- Ben Thomas, % adelphia; William Stam- ford, Conn.; Willi: zie, Car- penters’ Union , Conn.; Ed- U Workers, Edward Stock, Jose, Calif., mated Asso- Pittsburgh, port on their ciation of The delegat trip at a meeting Wednesday, Dec. 21, at Cooper Union, under the aus- York committee of Trade on Delega- T. Hunt, former mayor will preside. The other members of he delega- tion are expected to return to the United States Dec. 27. The delega- tion not only visited the industrial centers and agricultural regions but ed the celebration of the tenth y of the Russian Revolu- pices of the New the American tion. Henry of Cincinatti A GOOD § SALESMAN Manuel Gomez \. Ravitch Here we see A. Ravitch, cireu- lation manager of The DATLY WORKER selling two blocks of | DAILY WORKER bali tickets to Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All - America League and James P. Cannon, see- retary of the International Labor Defense. Max Schachtman, editor of the Labor Defender, is standing right behind Ravitch, registering astonishment. “It was never done before,” observed Max. | | A Good Example Of Official Corruption < ive Repre- the Locome- Wash- | this city today. et a0 the mt sie were, bed i er first go to Costa | Killed or wounded, and 152 wounded. | Rieummers will first go to Costa! since then the following ¢lashes be- | ica. | = i : tween natives and marines have taken | —— Bue place: Nov. 21, near Telpaneca — 3 | Nicaraguans killed; Nov. 28, Somoto— D |4 Nicaraguans killed; large number eni } lar | wounded; one marine wounded; Nov. | 25, Laguna — 4 Nicaraguans killed; | | 7 wounded. | Nov. 26, — Elehipote—37 Nicara- eral strike of protest against the|guans killed; unknown number wound- | government’s activities be declared. | ed. Delegates from other unions seconded their proposal. The Oppo: va however, de: great majority of approximately “600 against 10-15 votes. * * * (Originally four natives were re- | ported to have fallen in this engage- | | ment, but that figure later was offi- cially corrected by Col. L. M. Gulick, | marine Sommer ) Dee. § } nando — Number of Nicaraguan cas- | After the conference the trade unions sent a special delegation to the government for negotiations. The ! delegation pleaded. that the law can- celling “extraordinary” benef! re- pealed. What was the answer re- ived? The Prime Mi Madsen-Mygdal | read them the wer which stated } that the main cause of the pr nomic cris in the nen 1 wages. E killed. Murders Listed. 9, Antigua— 20 Nicaraguans 20 wounded. Dec. 10, El Potrero—5 Nicaraguans killed; several wounded. Dec. 11, Santa Rosa — 3 Nicara- guans killed; 3 tvounded. Dec. 11, Telpaneca — 8 Nicaragu- ans killed; several wounded. Dec. killed; propos the _BoosT THE | mi ILY "WORKER: 5, Between Jicaro and San Fer- | ualties unknown; 2 native guardsmen | , he charged oo per day for s although he e union § hotel exp! pensior | was on full t Wills, a typi tionary, is rep’ $400,000. H «d to be worth fired from the conven- which last- lion in the Labor can recking the rade unions cor t toa eaaaicccaeeees the existing collective agreements | with a view to reducing wages. | Should the trade unio gree to this, the government is willing to act mediator hetween the workers and the | employers, aud to assign 10 million kroner for the unemployed. | It must be added that two or three | days before the joint conference be- tween the government and the trade ion representatives, the President of the Danish Employe ciation, | +Langkjer, irtvited C. Madsen, chair- man of the Danish Trade Union Coun- cil, and proposed that he revision of the collective and to a reduction of wag promis- ing to petition the government for a| {subsidy for the unemployed. * E ‘ | | ee to al ments Thus the government and the | ploy association proved to the whole country that they are close al- | lies. They came out openly, bringing all possible pri ure to bear upon the trade union representatives in order \to get them to agree to lowering of faeces: It has now become clear that the cutting of unemployed benefits, | the cancelling of “extraordinary” | benefits, and the “regime of economy” jin general of the Danish liberal gov- ernment was decided upon in order to lower the workers’ wages and to in- crease the profits of the Danish capi- talists. 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