The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1927, Page 3

FOREIGN NEWS - -2BY THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927 CABLE fage Three AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS “PLOT AGAINST EXPOSE WHITE GUARD TERRORIST USSR IN UKRAINE F lowers of Petlura Start Monarchist Unit; “ “Would -Assassinate Soviet Union Officials ODESSA, Dec. 23.—A White Guard plot to assassinate Soviet Union officials was bared today when the Ukrainian Ogpu (politi- cal police) announced the arrest nary organizations were also une Among those arrested at” Odessa is Colonel Zalinsky, well- known as a follower of General Petlura, whose atrocities in the Ukraine were recently disclosed in the trial of Samuel Schwartzbard, young Jewish worker who was charged with his assassination. Za- linsky and four White Guards who were. arrested with him constituted a newly-organized group followers. White Guards Confess. ‘A number of those arrested con- féssed that they were in contact with White Russian organizations abroad and that under instructions they were working for the organiza- tion’ of village groups for counter- | revolutionary struggle. They, also eonfessed that they were adherents of the former Grand Duke Nicholas. A number of other members of the Odessa group were arrested last week- and also had made confessions to the ‘same effect. Coal iat Tron Combine Buys Big London Paper LONDON, Dec. 23,—With the sale of the London Daily Telegraph to Sir William and James Gower Berry, the paper has passed directly into the hands of the coal and iron interests. | Berry’s brother, Lord Buckland, is a leader in the coal and iron industry. Their combine already controls the London Sunday Times, the Financial Times, several large Manchester, Welsh and Scotch newspapers, and a jarge number of smaller journals. Church Lords Demand More Loyalty of Dupes LONDON, Dee. 23.—The Church of Engand is called upon to exhibit “corporate loyalty whereby alone the dangers, of this ical time” may be met, by the Ai bury. prayerbook by the House of Commons after the Lords had, Supported it is the cguse of the tragic’ “crisis.” Portuguese General ange i Exile. to Azores! LISBON, Dee” "23,—The Lisbon regime has sentenced General ‘orton Matos to a “fixed residence” in the Azores. This is understood to mean perpetual exile. General Matos was, charged with activity in the re- volt last February. Moscow Takes to Skates | MOSCOW, U. S. SR, R., Dee. 23.—Long lines of workers waiting to buy skates are a common sight in the Mos- eow streets now that the very cold weather has frozen the rivers. The government of the Soviet Union is carrying on an energetic campaign. to encourage skating among workers. 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Federal ‘Troops Battle Mexican Reactionaries MEXICO CITY, Dec. 23.—Mexican |federal troops are engaged with a foree cf eight hundred reactionaries in the Gallos Basin area, according to reperts received here. The counter - revolutionists are equipped with field and machine | guns, it is stated. : ROYAL ¢ SERVANT DIES. BERLIN, Dee. 23, — Hermann Mol- kenbuhr, social democrat, who did his bit for German royalty by accom- panying the former Kaiserin on her flight from Germany during the No- vember Revolution, is dead at the age of 77 years. He went in person with the Kaiserin to protect her from pos- sible violence. | FRENCH SAILOR KILLED. CHERBOURG, Dee. 23. — One |sailor was killed and several were severely burned when a boiler ex- ploded on the steamship Remiremont. The steamer was caught in the icy storms which are raging over Europe. | LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dee. 28. — Dieu- donne Costes and Joseph Lebrix are resting after the reception they re- | ceived here on their arrival on a non- stop flight from Santiago, Chili. Five Bolivian army planes escorted the Nungesser-Coli plane, in which the flight was made in 12 hours and 22 minutes, to the flyng field here. CANADA HAS GOLD RUSH. MONTREAL, Dee. 23. — Announce- ment that gold has been struck in an abandoned mine shaft at Oorval near here, has started a small gold rush to the village. Many claims have been staked on adjacent lands. THE “DAWN” FLIES Mrs. Frances W. Grayson took off here at 5:07.0’clock this afternoon in her plane the “Dawn” for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on the first leg of her fourth attempt to fly to Co- penhagen, Denmark. planes in the near future. the huge payments due to Wall St: These people turned out to see Charles Lindbergh, Wall Street’s “good-will” i The cathedral in the background and the masses of people may serve as a target for American bombing reet. TARGET FOR cai FLIGHT » MEXICO ambassador to Mexico. Mexico in a memorandum to international bankers two days ago declared that she is unable to meet Senate Passes Big French Tory Budget PARIS, Dec. "23—The huge Poin- | care budget passed the Senate today | with few modifications. The changes in the measure, however, will neces- | sitate the return of the measure to | the Chamber of Deputies. The budget passed by the Chamber | of Deputies provided for expendi- | tures totalling 42,515,000,000 francs, i while expenditures authorized in the | Senate budget totalled 42,301,000,000. | The Poincare budget passed the | Senate by a vote of 271 to 17. while, the budget approved by the Chamb: of Deputies passed by a vote of 405 | to 125. To Fight U. S. Duties By Higher German Tax | BERLIN, Dec. 23.—The govern- ment of the German Republic is at- tempting to win a reduction in the 500 per cent tax increase on German manufactured power boats. The Reich will try to compromise by seek- ing a change in the duties of Ameri- can goods recently passed by the City of Hamburg. The threatened increase in duties on German automobiles and parts will be fought with similar duties*in Germany, it is reported. BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! Trish Tory Coming William Cosgrove, die-hard _presi- dent of the Irish Free State, will sail for the United States soon. Nationalist Movement Grows Among Samoans LONDON, (By mail).—Organiza- tions advocating the freedom of the Samoa Island are growing, according te the report of the commission ap- peinted to investigate conditions in the islands. The bulk of the report is an at- *|tempt to justify Major-General Rich- BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! ardson, administrator of the islands, ‘New Unity Scheme In Latin America A new organization for the promo- ition of better understanding among Latin-American peoples was promot- ed in Rio de Janeiro. Up to this date there was very lit- tle of that movement in Brazil on ac- count of the differences of languages, Brazil’s language being Portuguese, while that of all other Latin-American countries is Spanish. Brazilian intel- lectuals objected to the “Hispano- Y o” teo much pronounced in the denintiona of the Latin-Amer- .uais who favor Spanish influence. The Brazilians and many tother Latin-Americans prefer the ex- pression *“Ibero-Americanism” which includes the Brazilians deriving their [history and culture from Portugal. The name of the new organization in Rio de Janeiro is “Aproximacién Latin-Americano” and the founders, intellectuals, professors, journalists declare it is their purpose to develop artistic and literary interchange, to establish special courses on Latin- Americanism and to organize a bu- ireau for reciprocal information on and about the various countries of Latin America. BUCHAREST CUT OFF. BUCHAREST, Dec. 28. — Intense cold and snow threaten to cut off food supplies from this city as the coldest weather in years is tying up all rail- road communications. Australian It is a consequential and far-reach- ing decision the Australian Trade Unions have made in deciding to af- filiate to#®the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Movement. It is also natural | that the Australian movement should | be enthusiastic regarding the future development of the P. P. T. U. It was in December, 1922, that the Australian delegates raised the ques- tion of organizing a Pan-Pacific movement at the second congress of the Red International of Labor Unions. They gave as a reason for their timely suggestion the urgent need for combating future capitalist war in the Pacific. The organized Australian workers, probably more than the workers of lany other country, were conscious iduring the great war that, with the aid of traitors like Hughes, they were being drawn into the Temple of Jan- us, and that the workers were being nt to slaughter, and to be slought- jered, solely in the interests of the! | British capitalist class. The © over- | whelming vote against conscription | during the war proved this. War Danger. The Pan-Pac Trade Union Con- ference drew atten countries, But not sufficient atten- tion has been given to this question by the workers around the Pacific. | The momento cision to affiliate is lest if we do! .}than can effect a condition for ultim- ion to the dangers | of war between the various capitalist | nature of thie de- Trade Unions Join Pacific Labor of one million a year. Nothing more is needed to prove that all is not peaceful between Britain and Amer- ica in the west than the news item on the recefit “Disarmament Confer- ence” which appeared in the capital- ist press. To quote one statement | only, which is an eloquent expression | from a special Japanese correspon- | Gent for “Osaka Mainichi” who at- | jtend the Geneva Conference: “Everything .would have gone} smoothly, if the participants had dis- cussed the naval limitation question from a defensive point of view rather | than an aggressive one.” | It is only a united working class | ate disarmament by struggling against capitalist war, and by suc- cessful action destroy capitalist arm- aments in a struggle for working class power. This is the real significance of Pan-Pacific labor unity, as well as @ means to enable the workers to fight for immediate demands by mu- tual assistance. Lead to Labor. Our Australian comrades have giv- en another lead to all trade union movements in the Pacific countries who are still outside the P. P. T. U. If the items in their resoltuion, which we print in this issue are emulated by our affiliated organizations in the; | Hast, and the Canadian, American and Mexican trade union movements in the West, it is certain that the trade union organizations around the Pacific Ocean will be a chaJlenge to international imperialism in what must be a more devastating and de- structive war than the great war of 1914-1918. It is the Pan-Pacifie Trade Union Movement the western imperialists fear in the East. This is why in Java and the Malayan Federated States, in India and China, legitimatc trade unions are epee The agents} } b.S.. Mexican Labor Officials | | MEXICO CITY, (By mail). — As} the result of the secret agreements | between the American Federation of | i Labor and the Mexican Federation of | Labor (CRO: eached at the Pan- | American Lal Congress this year | Outlaw Chinese Immigration been practically cut off. While at present, the Chinese immigrant comes in under the general provisions of the law covering resident workers, the provisions of the law covering resi- dent workers, the provisions are ap- not, at the same time, vonsider the | Chinese immigration will virtually be | plied so strictly and rigorously as to antagonistic capitalist orces. The } rivalry between the great imperialist | is constantly increasing. The | power: conflicts between. the Japanese and the British commercial interests in China are bound to become more acute, in spite of the fact that Cham- herlain is forever pressing Tokyo for in the East. . Japan In Manchuria. The aggressive policy of Japan in Manchuria if allowed to freely run its course will not be confined to north China, for although Japan re- linquished Shantung upon instructions of the Washington Conference, they | have not abandoned this Chinese prov- ince as a Japanese sphere of influ- uninterrupted years of Japanese im- perialist development will inevitably lead to clashes both with British and America in the East. The anti-Japanese policy of Wash- ington is always a danger when one remembers that the Philippine and Eawaiien Islands are natural homes for the surplus population of Japan, which is increasing: at the repid rats essistance against the Soviet Union| ence, to say the last. .A few more} barred from Mexico. Reach Agreement. | As there was considerable demand on the part of the A. F. of L. for the exclusion of Mexican labor from the | United States, the CROM entered into |a secret agreement to take measures ;to prevent Mexican immigration into the United States and Chinese immi- gration into Mexico (to which the A. F. of L. was also opposed), provided that no formal legislation would be ; demanded by the A. F. of L. definitely discriminating against Mexican labor !and placing it on a quota basis as are | the European nations. In addition, Mexican labor in the United States was to have parity with | white labor in the A..F. of L. organi- zations, and the CROM was to be per- mitted to send organizers among the Mexican workers in the United States. Plan Exclusion. During the past five years, consid- erable sentiment has grown up in Mexico, especially in the northwest | result in almost complete exclusion. The Government plans, in the near future, to take the step of excluding them entirely. There are about forty thousand Chi- |~ nese in the country (more Chinese, in fact, that Americans). eery business principally. northwest they completely control the | whilesale and retail grocery and prod- uce business; and the enmity to them has resulted largely from this mon- opoly. « Bar Intermarriage. The above-mentioned treaty ex- pired during the administration of Al- varo Obregon, and was not renewed because of the immigration clauses | which the Mexican government de- sired to insert. As a result, the ques- tion of immigration remains unsettled, and the Chinese recently admitted have had to comply with certain con- ditions as to health, education, and financial reserves. Furthermore cer- states of Sonora and Sinaloz, against the entrance of Chinese into Mexicp, Actually Chinese immigration has tain states have now passed laws pro- hibiting. the intermarriage of Mexi- cans and Chinese. They engage | in laundry, cafe, restaurant, and gro- |. of western imperialism, as well as Japanese minions, use the bloodiest methods to crush the rising revolu- tionary spirit which gives rise to the building of real trade unions in the above mentioned countries. The im- portant decision to create a Pan-Pa- cifie Affairs’ Committee will make the affiliation a real living contact with every trade union in the Pacifie zone, | and will bring unity where none ex- lists today.’ This is what the em- |ployers dread. It is a prelude to the end of capitalism. The urgent and im- mediate tasks of aiding and strength- ing our weaker units in the various countries will be greatly sisted by the additional weight the Australian trade unions have thrown into the scales against the imperialist bandits of Holland, England, America. etc. Blow to War Mongers, There is another thing, however; we must not be disheartened by the recent decisions of the British Trad: Union Congress to break up the An- glo-Russian “Unity Committee and to cooperate with the murderous mas- ters who are slaughtering the Easi ern workers. This decision has no | lasting value for British imperialists i There are large masses of British workers, who, if riven a chance, would reverse this decision tomorrow, and join with our Australian Trade Union- ists in expressing themselves for unity around the Pacific, and for free- jdom of organization, assembly and press. The vote to affiliate to the Pb. P. T. U. movement by our A. C. T. 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The National Guard will include ninety- three officers and 1,136 enlisted men, according to the terms of the agree- ment. Lieutenant Colonel E. R. Beadle of the U. 8. Marine Corps has been Gesignated to command the National Guard. United| Argentine Officials Return Refugees From Ibanez Dictatorship BUENOS AY (By mail). — Three Chileans, opponents of the Ibanez dictatorship, the senator for Santiago, Lu las Romo, the dep- uty for Tr: en, Eulogio Rohas Merry and Professor Carlos Vicuna, who were exiled to the extreme south of the icy Chilean territory, below the Straits of Magellan, escaped and ar- rived in the Argentine port of Galle- gos in the southern part of Patagonia. There they were arrested by the Ar- gentine police who refused to allow them to communicate with their friends or even with the higher Ar- gentine authorities. They were pre- vented from appealing to the courts or to lawyers and after four days Were extradited to the Chilean police who took them back to Punta Arenas, south of the Straits of Magellan. Execute Thirteen in Salvador for ‘Revolt’ Thirteen officers of the Salvadorian | army were executed by the govern- ment after a summary court martial | for an alleged plot to depose the pres- ent president and install the former president Jorge Melendez. Melendes’ whereabouts are unknown to the government, but his aide, a general, and other officers were ex- ecuted. CAPE TOWN, Dec. 23. — A new diamond field valued at $1,750,000 has been found in Namaqua Land, thirty miles from Port Malloth. are far too the payments .dye for J. P. Morgan and Co. is one of Me s largest creditors. While foreign paynfents for 1928 tal 107,000,000 pesos ($53,000,000), co will proba find herself un- pay more than 382,000,000 s, the “El Universal Grafico” le to | Pes | says. In announcing yesterday that it ; | would present the international bank- jee with a financial statement of the |Government’s finances, the Ministry lof Finance issued the folowing state- | ment: “According to the latest data col- {lection of various federal revenues has been falling off since last Janu- ary,” it s, “principally in the col- umns corresponding to imports and exports. “Up to October last, the decrease in revenue, both in those of a perma- nent character and the supplementary ones, amounts to more than 40,000,000 pesos, equivalent to $20,000,000 United States money. “In spite of this reduction due to innumerable factors, among which are the general restriction of activities and the psychological depression which business has undergone, par ticularly during the present year, the government has been able to meet its international obligations and has not failed to care for the ‘public services. To cover these though it has had the necessity of imposing a strict regime of retrenchment. For payment of the obligations it found itself forced to ask for a loan of $2,000,000 with which it liquidated its pending obli- gations for payment of the public debt in the first semester of 1927. Must Limit Budgets. “The Department of Finance esti- mates its income for 1928 at 280,000,- 000 pesos, to which it must limit its disbursement budget in order to carry }out the general government program | with a balanced budget. “Attention is called to the fact that in the income columns for 1928, the one corresponding to petroleum has been eliminated, since it is considered that it can not be held as assured income.” Mexico Extends Term ; Of Presidency From Four to Six Years MEXICO CITY, Dec. “28. — The presidential term of General Obregon, should he be elected, in 1928, will be six years instead of four years of his | predecessors. The federal congress and the sen- ate have amended the constitution, extending the presidential term from four to six years, and twenty state legislatures have already ratified this amendment. (Mexico is divided into | twenty-eight states, one federal dis- trict and two territories. Thus the amendment has obtained a two-third majority.) | | | | LLL LES ESSE ENTE EEE TOE Cee DEAL LOUIS A. TITEFSKY AVENUE A and 10th IT PAYS TO WITH European Phonograph Co. STREET RADIO A i: Orthophonic Victrolas New Year Starts! With the passing of time more and more people are realizing why PIANOS PLAYERS GRANDS EASY PAYMENTS ARRANGED jf