The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927 FINANCIAL ZAR FOR NICARAGUA STARTS ON JOB Cumberland, U.S.Agent, Reaches Managua MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 15.— With a view to investigating Nica- raguan finances for the purpose of a large American loan, Dr. William W. Cumberland, formerly Financial Adviser and Receiver General of Customs in Haiti, arrived here yes- terday. Cumberland was appointed | by Secretary of State Kellogg sev-| eral weeks ago to make the survey. | American bankers are contemplat- } ing a loan of $20,000,000, a good part | of which will go to pay for. claims made by American citizens for al- Jeged damage fighting in Nicaragua. * * * The appointment of W. W. Cum- berland as virtual ezar over Nica- raguan finances was severely at- tacked by Manuel Gomez, Seeretary | of the United States section of the All American Anti-Imperialist | League. | If the proposed $20,000,000 Joan i, made, which appears almost certain} virtually all of Nicaragua’s re-| sources, including the National Rail-| way and the Nicaraguan Bank, will | be made security. | | German Government to! Ignore Eight-Hour Day | BERLIN, Dec. 15.—Yielding to the threat of German iron and steel } manufacturers that they would close | every iron and steel plant in Germany | on Jan. 1 if compelled to initiate the | eight-hour day as required by law, the German government tentatively promised today that certain firms might postpone the change until a “more favorable time.” The govern- ment will establish a special commis- | sion to decide which firms will be al-| lowed to postpone the new system. Leningrad Trade Union Schools Grow Rapidly The Leningrad Trade Union Coun- cil has developed extensive mass work in the workers’ university. There are now 8 branches of the uni- versity in all districts of the town. Apart from that there is a branch with several shifts depending on the shifts in the factories. Altogether Lithuania Dissolves Volunteer Militia as | Poland Builds Armies WARSAW, Dec. 15.—Premier Wal- demaras today dissolved the Lithua- advices from Koyno. The premier’s action was represent- ed as the result of his desire to com- ply with the agreement reached at Geneva abolishing the state of war between Lithuania and Poland, Filipine Workers Hit Col, Stimson: Politicos Approve MANILA, P, I, Dec. 15.—The ap- pointment of Col. Henry Stimson, who nian volunteer militia, according to | REACTIONARIES MURDER W' { Page Three creme moe ORKERS AND PEASANTS alo Reactionary troops who have retaken sections of Canton from the workers and peasants have murdered militant workers without the semblance of a trial. The above photo shows vanguard of army of General Chang Fak-wei, one of the reactionary leaders. aided the overthrow of the liberal to property in the | government in Nicaragua, is hailed by | the reformist politicians here. the nationalist party, in a statement issued yesterday declared: “Mr. Stim- son’s appointment has been favored from the start by our Party and has been favored by Filipinos more than that of Forbes.” Aguinaldo, former insurrectionary ean who now leads a group that is most favorable to American interests jalso hailed the appointment. of Stim- son with unqualified approval. “I do Labor groups here are strongly pro- testing against the appointment of Stimson, De Valera Reported Leaving Dublin For ~ New American Trip Eamonn De Valera was scheduled to leave Dublin for New York on the Leviathan today, according to a Dub- lin dispatch. He will attempt to ica and sound out the prospects for a new. loan in the event he gains Coincidental with the departure of De Valera, Mary MacSwiney, repre- senting the Sinn Fein, is reported as denounieng De Valera and his party, declaring they are no longer repub- licans because they entered the Dai! and took the oath of allegiance. De Valera is also reported hoping to raise $1,000,000 in America for a new newspaper. He has already raised $100,000 for it in Ireland, the dispatch says. 2,800 workers attend the university. Daily Worker Indictment Upheld Save Greco and Carrillo] 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, m 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 conflict. workers in another world Resist the attack on The DAILY WORKER. Haye Piedge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fond. Fill out the following blank and mail it to THE DAILY WORKER, Enclosed $ every week. Name ..., Street ... 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ++. I pledge I will send you $....,.. big a REY, "shini¥ Kip a sree ih olga di pOMD Ee 0: thp.0'4 15 WRUarela Hh: ole Gar eM ee ely dtl seal State PEE e eee cate teat teen eee teen ee neee teenies : not believe that President.Coolidge | |could have made a better selection.” strengthen his organization in Amer- | power in the Dail at the next session. | sromee! +n exist without pivine int Rumania Releases | | Who Murdered Five BUCHAREST, Dee. 15. All but | forty-four of the four hundred fascist | | students who ed pur Hungariar 3 scores of nian Regency on a number ed with sub- The Governm ecasions been char s the pogrom: cipal authorities i and Oradia Mare | took place charg |fied the govern | y in amp! of | ow tbrea The y the two | {towns were removed y | Two Italian stran; aken for beaten by Fas terday. students 'Anti-Soviet § pe aker Disgusts Even Those He Expected to Win GARY, Ind. Dee. speaker calling hi lectured at the ghborhood Settle- ment House on he Bankruptcy of | Bolshevik Regime” here, his remarks {were too absurd even for the anarch-} jists and non-partisans in the audi-| ence when he said, “the peasants have | no land, are reduced to absolute! slavery, schools are shut down, noth- ing but misery and _ starvation in | Russia.” al arayski,” | Last Visit 1918-1919 He admitted not having been there} since 1918-1919: Maravski will not} forget Gary. He left through shalt back door to avoid being mobbed, not by Communists, but by other Rus- sians who felt humiliated at having him for a representative. GERMANS SEEK LOAN. loan from the United Stat sought by the German Federz ‘overnment officials have hed the subject to S. Parker Gilbert, agent general for re- ons, it was learned today, Korjenevsky, Tashkent University, the geologist Stcherbakov and Prof. | Beliayev, while among the Germa scientis will be Prof. Ficker, di-| | Liverpool Saved From |Fear Palestine Bower I Project Will Fall Into | Hands of Great Britain | | _ JERUSALEM, Dec. 15. — The| | Jordan River hydro-electric power | | | ente by the} } \| is endangered terms that may s | the company to Br it was learned to ft control of ish interests, | | 225,000 from fi y enterpri all m: 3 ritish firms. so a prom- oe purchased | USSR Scientists Plan Expedition to Pamir; To Work WithGermans' NINGRAD, 0 (By Mail). he Academy of Sciences has de- cided to organize with German scien- tists an expedition to survey the Pa- mir next May. Geologists, meteorologists, botan-} ists, geographers and others will par- ticipate in this expedition. The aca- demy will be represented by. Prof. rector of the Berlin Meteorological | Institute, the geologist Rickmers, and others. { Fire by River Tide) LIVERPOOL, Dec. 15. — After |°* passing a night of great anxiety, this | city awoke today to find that the tide in the Ri Mersey had saved it from what t have been a serious con- flagrat: With the ebbing tide 10,000 tons of naptha, gasoline and other highly combustible spirits were being carried | ¢ out to sea, the dangerous mass v spread over the surface of the r when the American oil tanker Sem-/| inole broke in two. | atin-American Lea (Released By Ail American <Anti- Imperialist League) Manuel Ugarte Says U.SS.R. is Inspiration to All Oppressed. Maruel Ugarte, outstanding Ar-} gentine novelist and _ recognized| leader -of the growing movement! mong Latin American intellectuals | | tin-American unity against! | Monroe Doctrine imperialism, ha s| bration of the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. | The United States section ‘of the! All-America Anti-Imperialist League, | been in Moscow attending the cele- |. its resources to foreign} compa to speculate upon the hunger and misfortune of a whole societ; The Republic of Latin America morgaged today as a result of public debt or by the gift of their resources to imperialist groups can hope for themselves only by taking thi inspiration by the example‘ and ods offered us by this new Rus- » Which has known how ‘to build thout. getting money abroad and thout alienating or compromising any of essential resources. 30 Union Square, New York, has just | received the verbatim report of a} speech which he delivered in Moscow | and which indicates that the men of | Ugarte’s group look to the Union of | Socialist Soviet Republics as a point | of support and a dependable friend of all oppressed peoples. | The speech, a translation of which follows, is of the greatest significance | owing to the fame which Ugarte has achieved thruout Latin America dur- ing the past two decades as a result of his activities against imperialism: | Turn to U. S. S. R. “In the name of the Latin Ameri- ean delegation represented here by delegates from Arg Chile, Brazil, Colombi ela, | Cuba, Ecuador and Uruguay, I bring greetings. “Our republics of the South,—that is the half of a continent,—inhabited by eighteen million people, have suf- fered so many blows a imperialism. and so many ar itvary acts of local oligarchies that today | they are turning their eyes toward | this center of rebirth and of light. “The ten years of Soviet experience have had ‘and will continue to have a decisive influenee among us, even up- on those of us who do not belong to the Communist Party, because they have helped all of us to understand our own problems in two important spheres, | “Kirst, in the sphere of Interna- tional relations. They: have revealed "|to us how it is possible for a Pople the freedom of our territories, \the campaign which is to liberate us from the bankrupt politicians ‘who have sold us out to imperialism. Only | a deep. movem testorée Latin ecd Mass Campaign. “Russia has also given us an ex- ample in internal affairs, demon- strating to us that it is possible for a people to develop: freely only otting rid of the/parasites v cermine its vitality. Our peop’ Latin America are doubly exp by native capitaligts and by f speculators, ndithe experience of Russia teach that it is necessary to carry on two! \npaigns at once— the campaign whig¢ is to free us from invading imperialism and return to us and re our greeting a: you our hope in y to group ourse’ md | i power should at- tempt a blow against. her: ard di posed also to spread the good result ved during this Ru QQ ex 1ce, which is the most. extraordinary and the most foeund that humanity has known.” Senator. Ugarte is the atthor: of “The Destiny of a Continent” and a number of other books ‘dealing with the menace of American imperialism from the Latin-American point ‘of view as well as many widely known novels. He is a member of the exec- utive committee of the International League Assia Imperialism, now seeting in Paris. No Fire Faeilities In Death-Trap For At least fifty h in the holic St. according to po- e building, which ad few fire- t night. of the orphanage, ed the Or- age when th . The institution hool as wel an orphanage. ages of the children ranged from three to sixteen. a Suffering was terrible as the Hun-|t dreds of refugees forced into the freezing t only in sleeping ap; died of cold and exp: after rescue A new v children w old section erected in 1825 consumed like matchwood. wer out Polish-Lithuanian Relations Strained Waldemaras Admits wv PARIS, Dec. 15. — Despite state- its issued by League of Nations of- the relations between Lithu- ania and Poland are still strained, Premier Waldemaras of Lithuania de- din an int w last night. here are jl many obstacles to overcome before the relations between the two countries can be smooth,” Waldemaras said. By agreeing to end the technical te of war with Lithuania, Poland | automatically admitted the Vilna question still open, Waldemaras de- the re- egarded der turn of Vilna to Lithus as extremely unlikely h Ratchford, Former Head Of Mine Workers, MASSILON, 0O., Dee. (FP).— Michael D. Ratchford, 67, former pres- ident of the United Mine Workers of America and father of the 8-hour day in the mining industry, is dead here. | Queliec Children been | the | s The | Dead | \'\Powers Evaded Disarmament. Issue, Maxim Litvinov Charges eued from Page One) cement among the pow- preparatory commission so 2 no armame proposal, considering the question of tes in different countries, uding part of the draft proposal that the vention be invalid in wartime and that every state have the unlimited right to increase i rmaments. This lism”, in contra- netion to our proposals which are led as “utopian.” (Conti | fhe con ins the Britis } rmament made no progress | On the cont y, measures to prevent even the dis- ion of disarmament questions. It iat the disarmament ques- aised in connection with the »blem, and a special secur- must determine the de- security of every state. nen the Soviet delegation real disarmament at the ry Commission, the latter known "of n of the cap’ ntatives toward war our complete disarmament proposals. The objections made agai lutely 2 draft and the: » for consi also laid on the diff tes which g to the per- “ys + Union dele- result that the Soviet again be considered at the on of the Preparatory Com- Doubtless the representa- capitalist countries will pur- ame tactic at the next ses- > the nd a serious struggle awaits our attaining consideration and for a change in the commis orking methods. “Generally speaking the German legation supported our resolution, 0 i ing on the speedy convoca- |tion of the Preparatory Commission. Finally, however, it gave in on the |question of the convocation period. |In the last analysis, between the rep- jresentatives of all capitalist countries ;and ours is bound to be a certain | cleavage. Resort to Forgery. [he following is a general sum- mary of our activity on the disarma- {ment problem: Our first aim, to raise the question before the world, was jachieved. Let Boncour and Bech say ‘that the _Soyiet. proposals .contain jnéthing new. The fect remains that a complete disarmament proposal was fi made, which cannot be ignored. The program of the Soviet Union delegation secured broad sympathy, not only among the true friends of | peace, but even among the reformists who declared their sympathy. | During its stay in Geneva, and now on its return, the delegation has numerous letters and state- from various groups and indi- i ting the Soviet pro- italist ed to forgery methods to dispel any sympathy for the Soviet delega- jocraphal Stalin let- ter cont itious figures con- cerning our fore particularly our air forces, was circulated by some un- derhand agency. This shows how | powerful an impression was made by |the Soviet delegation, if to counter- | act it, the capitalist powers are re- sorting to such methods. “One socialist proposed that the USSR disarm first and that cap- italist countries will decide later on countries re-| the expedie { disarmament. This is pure hypo Instead of disarm- ament, this constitutes an attempt. to disarm the USS Our position is clear. We declared our agreement with the undertaking of complete dis- armament muitaneously with all other coun The best means to prove our sincerity will be for the other powers to endorse our program. The refusal of the capitalist countries to do so will convince the broad masses throughout the world that complete disarmament and cessation of war is possible under the Soviet system.” Discuss Gosplan, ~* Discussion on the five year eco- nomic plan ended today. Sokelnikov, one of the last speakers, declared his cardinal difference with the Opposi- tion on the question of the five year plan and inner Party questions. The last two years’ experience has annul- led any serious differences between him and the Party. After Rykov’s nd Kzhizhonovsky’s concluding remarks, the congress unanimously adopted the Control Commission’s thesis on the five year economic plan and elected a Resolu- tion Commission, * * " MOSCOW, Dec. 13. — Gosplan Chairman Kshizhanovsky reported on the five year plan of economie con- struction, saying that the 11th Party Congress in 1920 for the first time considered a unified economic plan. It adopted a resolution emphasizing the plan as the basis of economic re- vival and declared that economic de- velopment must proceed on an elee- trification basis. Six years of in- tensive work completely restored the national economy bringing a new phase of development consisting of new construction. “In general the 1920 construction plan considered the erection of thirty electric stations in the course of 10 or 15 years with an investment of twelve hundred million rubles,” he said. The same plan considered the investment of eight hundred million roubles for industrial construction. The same plan considered the investment of seventeen million roubles in the course of 10 or 15 years for industrial and transport electrification. “This plan, despite certain miscal- culations concerning export and foreign loans, has been satisfactorily accomplished. Lenin regarded that plan as being of the greatest impor- tance. The Gosplan will present the eoming Soviet Congress with a definitely elaborated five year plan for the prospective development of U. S. S. R. economy. Together with the five year plan, Gosplan will elab- orate a general plan for the further development of Soviet economy.” ea i ie British Planes Bomb Native Tribes in Iraq BASRA, Iraq, Dec. 15.—-An Un- known number of natives were killed when British planes bombed a re- bellious tribe of Wahabis in the Na- sirish district. The natives returned the fire slight- ly damaging one of the planes. tt BIRDS OF A FEATHER DUBLIN, Dec. 15.—Resignation of Timothy as Governor-General of the Irish Free State will be announced to- morrow, it was learned today. His successor probably will be James Mec- Neil, Free State Commissioner in London. LENINGRAD SKI CONTEST. Leningrad ski-ing amateurs are or- ganizing a trip from through Tornio to Stockholm on The best ski-ers of Leningrad will participate, ON THE WAY TO THE BALL towerrew night. on foot to the Color-light and Costume DAILY WORKER Ball in Madison Square G od rad