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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBEP 17, 1927 sage Three SEE IMPERIALIST SWAP AT BRIAND, MUSSOLINI MEET Italy May Get Syria in Colonial Trading PARIS, Dec. 16.—Mussolini in- formed his Cabinet Council :oday that he is willing to meet Foreign Minister Briand of France in an attempt to settle the difference between the two countries, according to dispatches re- ceived here from Rome. The meet- ing which is expected to take place in March or April, will be a discussion of the colonial problems of the two countries. That the Balkan situation and Ital- ian encroachments in North Africa will be discussed at the meeting is almost certain. France is particular anxiéus. to settle the North Afri question in view of the grow Italian influence in Tunis and the recent demonstration of the Italian fleet at Tangier. The recent action of the French Government in suppressing the lead- ing anti-Fascist paper in Paris: is generally conceded to be a bid for better relations with Italy. According «to rumors circulated here, France may offer Italy, Syria, which Italy has long desired, if Italy gives France a clear field in the Bal- kans. + * ROME, Dee. 16.—In contrast with} the hostile stand hitherto taken by the Italian press toward France, news- papers here are hailing the Musso- lini statement that a Franco-Ltalian agreement “is possible, useful and in- deed almost necessary.” * NORWAY ENVOY HERE. Halvard H. Bachke, recently ap- pointed Norwegian minister to the United States, arrived here yesterday. He-will-remain in New York a few days before going to Washington to take up. his duties, x (Actual Size and Design) SCREW-CAP TYPE $1.25 Sent by Insured Mail for $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. 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Not content with this, plus a | large political slush fund for i} which he was not required to make accounting, he charged the union $6.00 per day for hotel expenses although he was living at home, At pres- ent he is 79 years old, At the age of 70 he became eligible for pension, 20% of his salary, For nine years he drew this pension money although was on full time salary. Mr, Wills, a typical black reac- tionary, is reputed to be worth 400,000. He was fired trom active service by the conven- dion in Cleveland, which last- ed for six weeks and cost the Failroad worke. a half mil- Yon dollars. The full details, Making dramatic reading, are in the new book by Wm. Z. “Ww king the Labor nts, which can ILLS, Legislative Repre- he Publishers, . New York, N. ¥ {win government 5 Se Needle Trades Conference Is Held in Soviet Union MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (By Mail).— An international needle workers’ conference took place in Moscow at which members of the Unitarian | and General Federation of Needle Workers of France and the Needle Workers’ Unions of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Finland attended. The conference unanimously de- cided to create a Scandinavian-Rus- sian Unity Committee of Needle Workers. es, Buitish Industry, Hard Hits May Offer. Ml Saviet Union Loa Soviet DON, Dec. 16.-—Hard hit by v drop in trade with the Union following the break in diplomatic relations, British business | men and industrialists have decided to open negotiations for a $75,000,- 000 to a $100,000,000 loan to the Soviet Union, it was stated today. The British group is headed by the Midland Bank which was arranging a loan to the U. S. S. R. when the Bald- severed relations with the Soviet Union. British industrialists will benefit by the loan since it will permit the purchase of large quantities of manu- factured goods by the Soviet Union. British business men are also at- tempting to secure large imports of manganese ore, furs, hides and agri- cultural products from the Soviet Union. Bodies of 37 Children In Orphanage Fire at Quebec Are Recovered QUEBEC, Dec. 16.—The bodies of thirty-seven of the victims of the fire in the Catholic Hospice St. Charles have already been recovered. Seven- teen children, most of them less than ten years old, are still missing. The orphanage is an extremely old building with few fire-escape facili- ties. A group funeral will be held for the victims, it was decided today. Looting and Rioting Continue in Rumanian Fascist Atrocities BUCHAREST, Dec. 16.—Rumanian student pogroms are continuing in Transylvania according to dispatches from Oradea Mare. Looting, rioting and terrorism are still being perpe- trated. * * Wreck Building. « PARIS, Dec. 16.—Reports from Tarbun Ochar state that students en route for Bucharest left a train and wrecked stores and synagogues and terrorized the people. * * * To Acquit Fascists. BUCHAREST, Dec. 16.—News of the trial of the forty-five fascist students charged with rioting and looting in Oradia Mare‘ and other towns, is being suppressed. It is be- lieved that the government plans to acquit the studerits for “lack of evi- dence.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS EVERYBODY. Claims to be rational. But most | people never like anything that | is really rational. They fuss up and complicate life so as to ap- | pear “scientific.” | | §] Get a free sample copy of an | old issue of RATIONAL LIV- | ING, Box 2, Station M, New | York City (B. Liber, M. D., Dr. | | P. 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Executions are Soviet on Road to v More Socialization Dunn Tells Forum Soviet Russia is definitely on the road to more and more socialization, Robert Dunn, member of the advisory staff of the First American Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union) told the Friday Forum of the New School for Social Research yester- day. “Those who have been led to be- lieve that the economic system there is ‘drifting’ back to capitalism should book passage for Russia and see for themselves the strides that have been made in socializing production and distribution.” Speaking of the trade union move- ment of the Soviet Republics Dunn said, “The Russian worker is express- ing himself more completely and in more diversified ways than at any time since the Revolution. He de- mands more because he has an in- creasing sense of power and posses- sion. He lives nearer to a condition that might be described as ‘indus- trial democracy’ than does any other worker in the world today” Stanislava Piotrowska, a member of the research staff of the delega- tion, described conditions in her home city in the Ukraine, near the Bessarabian border. She character- ized New York Times reports of re- volts there as worse than lies. She dwelt on the tremendous growth of social and educational institutions in her home city—the increasing num- bers of clinics, schools, clubs and li- braries. Warns British Against African Interference JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 16.—Bit- Africa, Premier J. B.°M. Hertzog yesterdey threatened that, if such interference continues, Great Britain may find herself with one possession the less. Hertzog, who was speaking at a dinner attended by many important industrialists of South Africa, re- minded the British that interference once caused revolt in Natal and | might again. Invite Soviet Union | To Take Partin Meet | Of Pacific Institute | GENEVA, Dec. 16.—J. M. Davis, general secretary of the Institute of Pacific Relations, has left for Moscow to ask the U. S. S. R. to participate in the 1928 conference of the institute, it was learned today. The Soviet Union will hg invited to | send representatives of economic, fi- | nancial, scientific and labor groups. U.S.S.R. Can Give Tip To U. §. on Feminine Aid, Says Observer “The United States can take a tip from Russia” says Mary Winsor, edi- tor of “Equal Rights,” who has been studying conditions in Russia with the American Investigation Committee. The one-hundred and fifty year old American Constitution compares un- favorably with the ten-year old Rus- sian constitution, she says, The So-| viet regulations provide best of care free for expectant working mothers, | freedom from compulsory labor for) women of less than eighteen or more than forty and mothers with young children, escape from “particularly | hard and injurious” work for preg-| nant women and those with infants. | Women and children are always the | last to be discharged, she explains. | Full wages during a long vacation before and after childbirth are also} paid, she explained. | Other members of the committee: | Mrs. Ella Rush Murray of the Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People; Lucy Gwyn- ne Branham, Secretary of the Ameri- can Society for Cultural Relations | With Russia; Harriet Silverman, Edu-} cational Secretary of the Workers’ | Health Bureau; Ellen Dawson, Secre- | tary of Local 6,019 of the United Tex- | tile Workers of America, and Rosa} Laddon Hanna, writer. | pee SS | DISCUSS RETURNING WAR Loo! WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — Debate on the alien property bill opened in| the House at 2:15 p, m. today with! Chairman Green of the Ways and| Means Committee the first speaker. een entered into a detailed explan- ation of what the bill proposes by way | f liquidation of German-American war claims and return to German! owners of property held by the alien Save Greco and Carrillo! property custodian. | |Our Australian Letter QUEENSLAND, (By Mail).—Aris, Parties. The final figures are: Labor| ing out of the right against victim-| Party 40 seats, Nationalist Party 35] Canadians Grab R. R Lines as Mexicans Must Oblige Morgan OTTAWA, Dec. 16, — Declaring that the Mexican government, em- barrassed financially and unable to meet payments on its loan from J. P. Morgan and Co., is about to turn over its national railway system to a group of Canadian capitalists, the Ottawa Journal asserts that the re- cent visit of Sir Henry Thornton to Mexico was for the purpose of facili- tating the sale. “Having exhausted its liquid assets and being still in default,” the Jour- nal states, “the Calles government opened up negotiations to sell the Mexican railroads to a group of Can- adian capitalists who have for many years held valuable concessions in the Mexican republic, and who operate electric railways, electric light and electric power companies there.” Morgan’s Ambassador. The Morgan loan was secured by the ‘Mexican consular fees and the Mexi- can government, fearing that the fees would soon be used up has transferred its funds to a Canadian bank in New York. The appointment of Dwight W. Morrow as American ambassador to Mexico is seen as the Morgan firm’s attempt to fasten a stronger grip on the country by means of a commercial treaty which is not ac- ceptable to Mexico. Lindveroh Accents Invite to Fly Over Wall St. Conquests MEXICO CITY, Dec. 16.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has accepted invitations from Wall St. controlled governments of Guatemala, Salvador and Panama thus far, who seem to want their share of the “good-will” that United States’ imperialists have to dispense. It is expected that more “friendship” will be brought to Nica- ragua and Cuba by the colonel who carries a loaded rifle at his side. * 4 * Statue to be Erected. A statue dedicated to the success- ful fliers headed by Lindbergh, Cham- berlin, Byrd, etc., as well as those who perished, martyrs to advertising schemes of chambers of commerce, will be erected in Roosevelt Field, an- | nounced representatives of the Lind- bergh society which was recently formed. Argentina Labor Leader bg oe ® Communist Producer Is Kept From Portraying Ex-Kaiser m New Play. BERLIN, Dec. 16——The Com-} munist producer Piscator cannot | introduce Kaiser Wilhelm in his} play “Rasputin,” the lower court | decided yesterday. The court will| make its reasons for the decision known Monday, it was decided. Piscator will take the case to a | | | Revolt In Mexico Sheltered By U.S. General Jose D. Ramirez, Mexican counter-revolutionary leader, who served as chief of staff to General |Serrano, was permitted to enter the | Ramirez was sought by Mexican Fed- jeral authorities for his counter-revo- |lutionary activities. After being taken before the Spe- cial Board of Inquiry at Ellis Island, | Ramirez was given his complete free- dom without being obliged to post any bonds, it was stated. Ramirez ad- mitted to the Board of Inquiry that he had fled from Vera Cruz on Oc- tober 3rd on board the Ward liner, {concealing himself until the vessel |had passed Progresso, the last Mexi- jean port of call. Ramirez admitted that he was | wanted in Mexico. He was one of the leaders of the Serrano-Almada coun- | ter-revolution which broke out in Oc- | tober. Expel Oppositionist Who Boasted Trick OnUSSR Communists MOSCOW, Dec. 16.—The press pub- lished today a communication from | |the Leningrad regional control com- | mission on the Leningrad opposition which called secret meetings to elab- orate new anti-party tactics and to discuss the political report of the cen- tral committee while the Communist Party congress was in session. At these meetings Safarov, former editor of the Leningrad Pravda re- ported characterizing the Opposition’s declaration submitted to the 15th con- gress as “cleverest maneuver,” which was calculated to give the opposition | the possibility to further carry on its factional activities within the Party. Safarov and three other members |of the opposition were expelled from the Party and this decision is being | referred for approval to the congress commission dealing with the opposi- cal industry has been signed at Frank- fort-on-Main, it was learned today. The object’of the agreement will be to fix prices and to divide mar- kets. An attempt to bring British in- terests into the combine is being made. 8 NATIONS SEND MONEY. Huge sums of money from eight nations, including Great Britain, Bel- GERMAN STEEL WORKERS WILL PROTEST AWARD Govt. Decision * Doesn’t Enforce 8-Hour Day 5 | BERLIN, Dec. 16.—German iron [higher court _§ and steel planning to i " protest a on of the Ministry of I grants them i} our eig te make the tory in many More than 250,- workers are in- which was volved in the pronounced | Altho the de tions the eight a longer decision 1 nominally sane- our day it permits g¢ day “when ‘condi- ” The wage rate, proposed by the 19 cents an hour for wor tions warrant with the incre: rnment i : i skilled workers and 15 cents for un- |United States after fleeing from skilled workers Mexico on a Ward liner. General The government award was made when the workers and mill owners could not come to an agreement af- ter negotiations. The union has been given until Monday night to accept or reject the government’s award. If the union rejects it, it is expected that the government will make it le- gal and binding. The slight increase per hour granted to workers make their weekly wages lower than under the old terms if the men work forty- eight instead of fifty-nine hours, the union says. BOOKS BY STALIN QUESTIONS AND AN- SWERS TO AMERICAN TRADE UNIONISTS Stalin’s Interview With the First American Trade Un- ion Delegation to Soviet Russia 25 Cents 5 Copies for One Dollar. Other Books by Stalin BOLSHEVI Answered—An tions submitted by the tion. of Sverdlov universi | directly on the question of the | Aun Uae } internal policies of Soviet bce * and the peasantry—the main Sign Franco-German point in the rece dlecuantaneem ° the Russian Communist Party, | Chemical Agreement oe LENINISM VS. TROTSKYSM— BERLIN, Dec. 16.—The long dis- (in collaboration with ZiMhoview : and Kamenev). Especiallyf inter cussed agreement between the Ger- esting in view of the rec@nt dig~ man dye trust and the French chemi- cussion in the R. C. Py “The bal~ ance being sold out, €until Jan, § 5 On All Orders Under $1.00 Ist) at 6 CENTS. CENTS beatin ization at South Johnstone and the lockout of the railway employes by the labor government for refusing to handle scab sugar, Trade Union Con- gress was convened by the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council. At the Congress the Queensland La- bor Government was severely con- demned. The following resolution carried by the ocngress is very sig- nificant: “That this congress recognizes the failure of the Political Labor Party and the Q. E. C. is due to the reformist policy of the Aus- tralian Labor Party. It is evident in times of industrial upheaval that the interests of the people become the interests of property; therefore congress declares that recognition of the class-struggle and active participation on behalf of the workers must be the basis of work- ing-class politics.” Hit Reformists. The congress further declared its opposition to the formation of a dual labor party, but decided to utilize the existing machinery of the Labor Party to oust the present leaders and make the Labor Party give a better expression of workingclass principles, The Communist Party, while not opposing this, point out that the workers can only be emancipated by overthrowing the capitalist system by revolutionary mass action under the leadership of the Communist Interna- tional. seats, Country Party 13 seats, Inde- pent Labor 2 seats. | The main plank of the Nationalist} and Country Parties programmes ap- peared to be a denunciation of the Labor Party because it was dom- inated, so they said, by the Commu- nists. This was an entirely false issue because, although the leadership | of the Labor Party was new it was by no means red, and instead of stand- up to the fight they adopted a slogan “Vote Labor and Kill Communism and Nationalism.” The Communist Party ascribes the defeat of the Labor Party to: (1) Lack of consistent working- class education, which leaves the workers under the influence of the capitalist press, and leads Labor Party propagandists to believe that they can win the support of the! masses by being more boss-like than the bosses. 2) The leadership of the A. L. P., which clung tenaciously to the ex- ploded and futile methods of the previous leadership, and adopted a slogan which asked the workers te vote against the objective of the Party. (3) The A. W. U. bureaucracy who fought shoulder to shoulder t¢ bolster up their factional interests t: the detriment of the whole labor canipaign. A striking example of what mem- bership in the British Empire means for the Australian. workers was NEW SOUTH WALES.—--After one of the bitterest election campaigns on record, the Labor Government of New South A tae was defeated py. the Prakasa tts shown on the 11th of October, when, at the request of the British govern- ment, the Australian government |Released; Was Framed Eusebio Manasco, Argentinian la- bor organizer, condemned to life im- prisonment on a trumped up charge of murder, was recently pardoned by the President of Argentina. For my months Manasco had been organizing the peons of the northern provinces of Chaco and Misiones. When the organization was more or less perfected he called a strike which lasted for over a year. There were almost no defections dur- ing the entire period. For the land- owners this situation became diffi- cult. They offered Manasco huge sums of money but were unable ‘to buy him. So they decided to frame up on him. An obscure individual was “murdered” in the provinces and Manasco wae arrested and con- victed. The Supreme Court upheld the decision of the local court. The organized workers of Argen- tina of all tenden Communist, Socialist, Anarchists, Syndicalists, took up the case. Th held large protest meetings and carried on con- tinued propaganda for the freeing of Manasco and it is due to their ef- ‘orts that he has been liberated. 1500 PLANES SO FAR IN 1927. More than 1,525 airplanes have been manufactured thus far this year, and 1,239 unfilled orders are on hand, according to figures made public yes- terday by the commerce department. Last year 1186 planes were produced. despatched the H. M. A. S. Adelaide 43 the Setemen, Telands, RIVINe TIE Nawry worry? (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St. N. Y. ( Address gium, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia and,F inland were received by the treasury de- partment yesterday, covering war debts. PUBLISHERS 39 E. 125 St., New York, N. Y, WORKERS LIBRARY Defeat the Imperialist War Against Nicaragua LENINISM TEACHES US: “The victory of the working class in the advanced countries and the liberation of the peoples oppressed by Imperialism are impossible without the formation and consolidation of a common revolutionary front, “The formation of a common revolutionary front is possible only if the proletariat of the oppressing countries supports directly and resolutely the movement for national independence of the oppressed peoples against the Imperialism of the mother country for a people which oppresses others ean never be free.” The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join and help in the fight for: The Defeat of Imperialist Wars. Smashing Government by Injunction. Organization of the Unorganized. A Labor Party. The Defense of the Soviet Union and Against Capitalist W: A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party Name Occupation