The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 3

\ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21,.1927 Page Three Communist Party Congress Decides Not to Reinstate Opposition as Group DISCOVER WHITE. GUARD PLOT IN SOUTH UKRAINE Monarchists : Threaten to Murder Officials ODESSA, USSR, Dec. 20—A mon- archist conspiracy, aiming at the over- | throw of the Soviet government, has been discovered and crushed, the GPU (political police) announced today. According to the GPU, the plot was organized in the name of “the patri- ots of his majesty Nikolai Nikolae- vitch,” former commander-in-chief of the Czarist army. Threaten Vengeance. White 1 ‘the Guard Ss sent a letter to the local leader of the GPU threatening vengeance for White Guard spies executed by the Soviet government. The organization in its letter threatend to wreck trade and to assassinate GPU officers. See Deterding’s Hand. The threat to wreck trade is re- garded in certain quarters as an indi- eation that the group is in some way connected with the international forgery plot for circulating counter- feit USSR currency, in which Sir Henri Deterding, head of the Royal Dutch Shell (British oil) company is believed to be implicated. Soviet Union Oil Industry Growing More than $260,000,000 has been appropriated by the government of the Soviet Union in the last five years for the development of the oil indus- try, according to a statement by the American Russian Chamber of Com- merce. This sum represents 21 per cent of the total allotment made to all industries. The rapid growth of oil production in the last five years has been one of the major industrial achievements of the Soviet Union, the statement says. Production has increased from 9,215,000 tons in 1913—a record pre- war year—to 10,360,000 tons in 1926- 27, while oil exports have increased from 947,700 tons in 1918 to 2,088,- 800 tons in 1927. New wells-are being drilled and new pipe lines built in the Baku district. An intense effort is being made for a further increase in production. U.S.Pogrom Victim Gets $50,000; Others Nothing VIENNA, Dec. 20.—While no in- demnification has been offered to the Hungarians and Jews who were in- jured or lost property during the re- cent student outrages in Transylva- nia and Bukowina, the Rumanian gov- ernment is reported to be willing to pay $50,000 to Wilfred N. Keller, the American citizen who was savagely beaten at Oradia Mare. zi Great Assortment o- All Makes of Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- built. All Guaranteed. Moderate Prices. For Sale, Rental and Repairs. Open: 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. International Typewriter Co. 1643 2nd -Avenue. Bet. 85-86th. NEW YORK CITY. | Chileaa Dictator Bars Film Prodaced in USSR | SANTIAGO, hile, (By mail). | |—The Sovkino film “Ivan Grozny” | ‘has been cutlawed from Chile by. | | dictator Tbanez after haying been | | | | 1 | cipal moving Santiago. picture theater at | mittee, Carlos Alberto Martinez, removed from his~ post by | ~ for having permitted the, showing of the film produced in| | | the -S.R. Reformist Collaboration Plan {| LONDON, Dee. 20.--Altho — the |} General Council of the Trade Union | Congress failed to issue any formal ; Statement, it is regarded as fairly cer- jtain that the leaders of the Trade Union Congress will agree to ;meet ives’ of the National’ Con- | ation of the Employers Organi- | zations for the purpose of “fostering l|eooperation between capital and labor.” | A small minority within the General Council is bitterly opposing the move, | according to observers in close touch with the situation. Walter Citrine, Secretary of the Trade Union Con- gress, and a number of others of the more conservative leaders are how- ever definitely committed to the | trade union-employer conference. Deputies Pass Big French Naval Bill | PARIS, Dec. 20.—The huge French naval program for 1927 to 1931 passed the Chamber of Deputies at a special session this morning. The measure was opposed by the Communists, while the Socialists abstained from voting. According to the program the ex- penditures for the next four years will be: for 1928, 150,000,000 francs; } 000,000; for 1931, 185,000,000 francs. The construction program this year included a ten thousand-ton cruiser, six destroyers, five submarines of the first class, another submarine, a despatch boat and a mine layer. Communists branded the measure as part of the race of “capitalist pow- ers for the construction of heavy ton- nage.” Tory Government Gets WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The British government has “appropriated more than $17,000,000 for the devel- opment of commercial flying since 1921, according to a bulletin issued by the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Most of the planes used in commer- cial flying can be converted into mil- itary planes. New Western Union Co. Cable Barred by Japan TOKIO, Dec. 20.—The Japanese ministry of ccmmunications an- nounced today that it would not per- mit the Western Union Cable Co. to land the proposed Seattle-Shanghai cable at the treaty port of Hakodate, citing technicalities and regulations against fcreigners’ operating tele- graph stations on Japanese soil. STORMS IN BALKANS. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 20—Snow today, blockading traffic and inter- rupting wire communication. Defeat the Imperialist War Against Nicaragua LENINISM TEACHES US: “the victory of the working class in the advanced countries and the | and the more forcd used the better. possible without shown for fifteen days at the prin- | | for 1929, 250,000,000; for 1930, 250,- | storms were raging over the Balkans | "USSR HITS USE OF GAS IN WAR; ~ SIGNS PROTOCOL League Agreement | GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 20.—| |The Soviet Union has ratified the | League of Nations protocol for the prohibition of the use of poison gas in war time, was officially an- nounced today. Venezuela has also ratified the pro- | tocol ainst the use of gas. | The use of gas in war time was | severely criticized by Maxim Litvin- off, head of the Soviet Union’s dele- \gation to Preparatory Arms Confer- | ence, in his address demanding com- jplete and immediate disarmament. | The Soviet Union despite propaganda | to the contrary, has steadily opposed the use of gas in warfare. Litvinoff in his address especially criticized the preparations for gas warfare in the United States and the open propaganda conducted in the U. S. for the use of gas. |Report Irish Seamen Lost as Heavy Storm Sweeps British Coast LONDON, Dee. 20.—With snow and gales adding to the discomfort and even deaths attributed to the cold, there were no signs today that the record cold wave which is sweep- jing the British Isles would abate | soon, reported to have taken toll of prop- erty and life in the coast districts. An unknown collier was reported lcst with all hands off the coast of Kinsale, County Cork. * PARIS, Dee. 20.—Four unemployed French workers died of cold and ex- posure yesterday when a cold snap hit Paris. | 1 | * * F USSR BUYS HORSES. MOSCOW, (By mail)—The Soviet Union plans to purchase 108,000 light draft horses from Canada in 1928, it was learned. Three thousand horses will be transported on the USSR steamer Dekabrist in the next few weeks, it is stated. ‘Venezuela Also Signs The head of the censorship com- | | Heavy seas and strong gales were | TWO GENTLEMEN FROM WALL STREET ON THE JOB | | | | | | { me aad Charles Lindbergh,’ spreading the “good-will” gospel of Wall Street while Morgan collects on Mex- ican bonds, and Dwight Morrow, former partner of the House of Morgan, now ambassador to Mexico, after Lindbergh’s landing in Mexico City. 3 ie Kill { Nicaraguan, “colonbian Trade Union Mexico R. R. Unions Wound Four Othes, “TSbeinenaiinanes Fight Wage Slashes BOGOTA, Dec. 20.—Six trade | | ing the wage of Mex junion delegates are leaving for | | ployees as part of the plan to rehabil- ae MANAGUA, Dec. 20.—One Nica- | raguan was killed and at least four] | | more wounded when a force of Amer- jican marines and Nicaraguan police attacked a Liberal patrol near Mos- can railway em- Moscow to participate in the jsions of the Red International of | Labor Unions. | itate the Mexican national ra s icar: Ss wer by | will not be tolerated by the Me: col. Pre ee ee ¥| ete te asOe bares), renresent all railway workers, delegates from their Th Lib ‘ f dotetient ig oF | |branches of Colombian labor. The . 2 ie Liberal detachment is part of | |Colombian workers are strongly | | Unions declared in a convention here the army under Asuncion Hernandez | which has again become active in the state of Segovia where it has been | preparing an offensive for some time. | ~ The growth of small sporadic out- | breaks thruout the northern sections | f the Br of Nicaragua is reported to be alarm- pas oe taegee ing the Americans and the American |“! have been | militant and have long favored the | | yest ident of the Canadian onal rail 's, Who was recently reported to be arranging for the sale £ lines to a comb a —The govern- ish Empire and In- invited to attend a officered constabulary. Much of this |Co™ference on wireless communica- ailway capitali district is again seething with unrest, | 1 rding to an announcement) ‘The slash in the railway workers’ }made today in the House of Com- and the growing power of the Liberal | forces is arousing the natives to new | resistance, \ Pass the Paper uges is understood to be a part of e plan to groom the railroads prep- atory to the Canadian sale. to a Fellow Worker! } By G. H. ER are by now familiar with the de- tails of the murderous raid itself, made upon the Soviet Consulate at Shanghai.: There is an attempt being made by the Shanghai press and those who organized the attack, to shift responsibility by now stating that the consulate staff defended themselve before the “Whites” entered the build- ing. This is a deliberate attempt to “frame-up” a charge as they did not sueceed in murdering the consul, Com- rade Koslovsky, as they intended, so they seek to turn the death of their |victim into good account in an at- tempt to hide their murderous faces. In order to prevent them from do- ing this through their alleged lying press in Britain and elsewhere, I give ‘but a few of their own. statements {gleaned from the Shanghai capitalist | press which will show they organized tand propagated the raid openly. A News” said, in jghould be done by the fa | Incite Attack. “First, raid the Soviet Consulate. Why should the representatives of a group of murderers, who have made prostitutes of thousands and thousands }of their women and who have re- | duced a once fine body of men to ‘the verge of starvation, be allowed ‘to work in territory which has been jleased as an {nternational Settle- iment? If we can do nothing legally, | we should take digstic action illegally isti: British Incite Anti-Soviet Ready for Coming War The readers of The DAILY WORK- | centributor to the “North China Daily | advocating what | Raid in Shangh Yelp for Blood. @they even admitted, in a spontaneous- | w: The “China Weekly Review” also! ly written article immediately fol-| n paper correspondents as well, ob- states that a White Russian paper|lowing their blood-thirsty “incident” | ed this phenomena and comment- “published the most inflammatory ar- | that: jed on particularly the fact that ticles suggesting ‘blood for blood’,| “A number of ‘White’ Russians con- | the Municipal Police offered no re- ‘two eyes for one eye’, and so on and | gregated in front of the Soviet con- | sistance whateve: jrecommending a ‘white terror’ in|sulate and began throwing stones at ; gan throwing br' | Shanghai,” and that on the day of!the consulate windows. The avec ilding. One the raid posters were allowed to be|door was very quickly smashed; the icuous for h al er of these paragraphs, and other and rocks at the inactivity, since he p with, ‘Why should the Communist | broken. .Soon, however, a larger | House alongside men and women who ighway robbers be allowed to remain | crowd of ‘White’ Russians appeared} were throwing stones and breaking in China? Let’s clear them out of|on the scene and made an effort to| windows in the front of the consular | Shanghai!’ ” y (break into the consulate. The Soviet | building. In addition to this a squad | It needs little imagination to know |flag and all the bunting and decora-|of armed White Russian volunteers | what would happen to the Chinese if | tion with which the building was cov- | in the pay of the Shanghai Municipal they advocated these methods of re-| ered, was torn and trodden under-| Council, who were stationed on the |venging themselves for the violence | foot. The crowd surged into the Sov- | Garden Bridge adjoining the Soviet | they suffer daily from the same peo-| iet consulate, pushed en masse beyond | Consulate -while they showed |ple who plotted and organized their | the door and then there was an out- | at activity in stopping and search- murderous attack. We need only refer | burst of revolver fire. This was the motcr cars containing Chinese, to May 30th, 1925 when the Chinese | second attempt on the Soviet consnl-| they allowed several motor cars load« | students were murdered for prot jate y y.” (“North China Daily |ed with armed White Russians, the jing against being prohibited from | New: |cars being decorated with czarist col- |holding mass meetings in Nanking and hence conspicuous, to pass ross the bridge without interrup- ion. qe | Road. | Enter Consulate. | american magazine, Were the White Russia’ who, in| former libe his case, are the dupes of British | sissi Un |erganized violence, inside the consul-| tions are a jate when the staff was forced to act in self-defens: ; “The fracas occurred when a num- ber of White Russians smashed the is an published by a & of the N | . Their observa- | omplete exposure of the | in force and offer resistance to the ork of the British “die- | ricters until after the officials of the r representative was on | Soviet Consulate had been forced to 6 and his comments are as/|fire on the attacks, which was not follo’ |done until the front door had been windows of the consulate with rocks| “The actual trouble started at about forced and several of the rioters had and other missiles. The mob then;7 o'clock in the evening when White | entered the building.” smashed in the main door. Once in- | Russians began to gather in front of| That the British “North China D: | side, however, ‘they were met t or House Hotel opposite the |News” has not given up th tfussilade of bullets f msulate. the crowd | trous work is evident in a recent lead- | of the Soviet consular staff n to pos At article in which they now hypo- time there were men for restra but in re- Z police uniforms oiling the | e for more bloc yalk adjacent to the Soviet Con- enerate “White Judiciously Late. pot, ven back. The police then took a, hand in! thi | the matter and succeeded in ing order” (“China Courier, 0.—Decreas- | © when the crowd be- | iceman was con- | put out near the consulate “ending | windows on the first floor were all;stood directly in front of the Astor | “The police did not begin to arrive HOLD CONGRESS TWICE A YEAR, DECISION SAYS Zinoviev, Kameneff in Move for Surrender (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Dec. 20—The Fifteenth Congre on Commu- i zy with a re- on of Zino- leaders The statement read by 2d by Zinoviev, and others, de- jelared th atures recognize the errone of their views, unconditionally to and to discontinue the gan of the Opposition views. Must Submit Applications. ; “The Congr considered it im- | possible to d s the statement as the Opposition question had been settled by the Congress of December | 18th and proposed that the Central {Committee and the Central Control: | Comry 2 accept the Opposition ap- | plication for Party reinstatement only |individually and to render their de- | on only six months after the ap- | plications for Party membership had been submitted. Central Committee nd Central Control Commission de- cisions on the Opposition statements |are possible only if the activities of | the Opposition tally with their pledges ‘and with the decisions of the Party |Congress on the Opposition question. | The Congress unanimously adopted | without discussion the drafts of the {resolutions submitted by the special ons elected for the final ion of the resolutions on the ; various reports, Bi- nnual Congresses s voted that future con- es be held twice a year and con- rmed the resolution providing that All Union diseu n be held only if }such discussion is deemed necessary {by several local Party organizations, or gubernia, or if the Central Gom- mittee has not a sufficiently firm | majority on the more important ques- tions of Part icy and if, even tho a firm r xists, the Central | Committee v ° | ness of its pol y | In every case All Union d | begin and be conducted a |sponding Central Committee | cussion. test the correct- Bomber to Indo China PARIS, Dec. A giant bombing plane, the Georges Guynemer, left for Hanoi, capital of Tonking in French Indo-China for the purpose of estab- lishing an air route between Paris and the French possession. \ | | BOOKS BY STALIN | } | { | QUESTIONS AND AN- | SWERS TO AMERICAN TRADE UNIONISTS Stalin's Interview With the First American Trade Un- ton Delegation to -Soviet Russia 25 Cents } 5 Copies for One Dollar, Other Books by Stalin | liberation of the peoples oppressed by Imperialism are im | “The second move would be to turn i 3 es ? . OPP i spy i 3 id be 2} @he allegations that: “Some were | sulate, but they made no move what- | ¢ g manner: Ppt att \ye formation and consolidation of a common revolutionary front, a group of ex-army officers of the | shot down in front of the Astor House|ever to stop the trouble at the in- hite Guards, | “ceudenta ‘The formation of a common revolutionary front is possible only if the | ‘White’ variety loose on the Commun- (across the street), others the en. otion. M. fahtid ‘de bearing proletariat of the oppressing countries supports directly and resolutely the | ist agitators who are now working al- tranee of the consulate” is refnted by | “Persons standing in the lobby of aa ae Wee use movement for national independence of the oppressed peoples against the! most at will in this city. Give this | the “North China Daily News” for the hati Hotes Hotel ineludi z the ne Beer: imperialism of the mother country for a people which oppresses others can or votection, and I will guaran-| : e : i : a ; : bright eS Lever be fede.” | Stroup prot D ded oe Newman ra onesie pers NEES MCAT Aes RIL: HO ECU GED REL ROR SE ———|in Shanghai is one o! ist y. ‘ f Me tee that in a week all such ‘Reds’ ~ rt fs exiles may well be proud. 2s The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join aud help will have @eased their activities.” | l ] S S R Saves O1 : W hile ( } S. \cifically include Mond ‘SicyISM— m the fight for: (North China Daily News, 5-10-27), “40 We We Le 3 Ahh atean thatonegotne ann! bh Zinoview rn "3 tali The following comment from the! . . | inne the Bolahevth ly inter The Defeat of Imperialist Wars. ‘China Weekly Review, was given af- | Capitalists Squander It conEMLEy, Gahan siete: cremate : bale Smashing Government by Injunction. ter violence had been committed | ig , ’ (until Jan, i asteful to most, and dist } to a very large proportion, against the Soviet Consulate: { “There have been numerous ‘di- | Organization of the Unorganized. A Labor Part; Rd x A correspondent for the British; the Revolution Rumantseff was anjculated to bring about On All Orders Under §1.00 ¢ sid y. | torials in the foreign newspapers here | United Press, touring the Baku oil ordinary worker at the Baku wells, | scenes occurred at th *; , The Defense of the Soviet Union and Against Capitalist Wars. was ae one pnemen es ue cre- fields, and interviewing the Soviet] He recalled that,, although only & | oY th he orth ddd , ’ ’ ‘ ation of incidents, particularly an} Union’s oil producers. gives interest-| per cent of the oil.wells in the rich| News, 12-11 na A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. editorial in the “North China Daily | ing comparisons better the methods | Baku fields have been pumped dry,| The for ow the ° Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party News” on September 17th which rec-| of the operators in the Soviet Union |50 per cent of the wells in the United | black hand of Br rganized vio- | s' (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. City) | cmmehded the creation of an incident | and the headlong, wasteful grabbing | States are said to be exhausted. !lence and murder, and the oy CENT! j - ete which might force the foreign gov-|of petroleum resources in vogue in| “When American producers strike | disgusted Av an liberals who see | or Name .... beeeeeeesesevesseseae |Crmments to take action. At the meet-| the United States. a gusher they open it to full capacity. | the obviously dangerous tendencies in Postage gt ing on Friday, Sept. 30th, when the| The differences between the Rus-|The oil, spouting upward, carried the | organiziig th Russian _ riff- ‘ ASUYERS, Sys fee POM OR Sak Rata 9/15 Ka Shanghai Fascist organization was | sian and American oil policy was well|sand with it, undermining the upper | whose debauched existence in pre-re- y State | formally organized, at least. tivo | summed up in an interview the corre-|layers, which are then likely to sink | volutionary days prevents them from PUBLISHERS Secupation * speakers suggested the forcible ‘clos-|spondent obtained with Constantine | and kill the gusher,” he said. doing useful work even under the 39 E. 126 St., New York, N. Y, ing and cleaning-out’ of the Soviet |Rumantseff, vice president of the wing of the various imperialists to WORKERS LIBRARY ~ (Mrelosed tind $1.00 for initiation Consulate.” Baku Government Oil Trust. Before \ BUY THE DAILY WORKER which they have fled. ‘