The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1927, Page 3

"THE DAILY WORKER 'W YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1927 Page Three FOREIGN NEWS --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS ELECTION RULE HELP TO HINDU MOSLEM UNITY Trade Unions Support All-Indian Congress MADRAS, Dec. 29.--The united front of Hindu and Mohammedan in the struggle against British imperial- ism was guaranteed yesterday by the All-India Nationalist Congress in a series of resolutions providing for joint, instead of communal electo- rates with a reservation of seats for Hindu and Moslem minorities on the Dasis of population. Further resolutions were passed concerning the question of Hindu re- ligious processions which in the past have offgnded the Mohammedans by playing Thusic when passing mosques. The resolutions urge each community to-respect the religious differences of the other. It is hoped in this way to | \Large Profits on Lindbergh Trip Roll In | WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — The | impetus to the American airplane in- | {dustry from Lindbergh’s flight to; Mexico was apparent today when the | Department of Commerce made pub- | lic a report from Acting Commercial | Attache George White at Mexico City | jthat the Mexican Government has | granted airway. concessions from} Mexico City to both the northern and southern border of the republic. { One line will operate from Mexico City to a point on the United States | border opposite Brownsville, Texas; another will operate to e South Guatemalan frontier, along almost the {same course followed by Lindbergh yesterday. The virtual lifting of the embargo on planes intended for Mexico is be- lieved to have been partly caused by the granting of the concession. YOUNG WORKERS ATTACK TROTSKY OPPOSITIONISTS Youth Communist Int’] Supports USSR Party (Special to The Daily Worl-er.) MOSCOW, (By mail). — Express- ing its full confidence in the policies of the Central Executive Committee of the All Union Communist Party, the Praesidium of the Executive Com- mittee of the Young Communist In- ternational has adopted a resolution declaring that the Trotskyist Opposi- tion is fighting against the proletar- ian dictatorship and the Communist Party. The resolution of the Praesidium follows in ful The Presidium of the Executive | Committee of the Young Communist | International declares its full confi- | dence in and solidarity with the lead- Prize Soft Soaper | a 4 Charles Evans Haghes will head the United States delegation to the Pan-| American congress which will attempt | to soft-soap Latin-America while Wall | Street extracts its dividends. WALL ST. LOANS 2 WITH DELEGATES TO HAVANA MEET, | Report U. S. Will Fight} Arbitration Plan | WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The dele- gates to the Pan American Conference at Havana conferred with Secretary of State Kellogg yesterday and re ceived preliminary instructions. | The delegation, it believed, will | oppose any plan for arbitration of in- | ternational disputes among member: of the Pan American Union by the Governing Board of the Unio! a recommendation was made International Conference of which met.at Rio De Janeiro. —~ the } Jurists Those who confe 1 red with Kellogg were C es Evans Hugh enator Oscar Underwood of Alabama, Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassador to Italy; Morgen J. O. Brien, James Brown Morrow Plan lo Keep Quiet MEXICO CITY, Dec. 29.—That the | Mexican government has reached an} agreement with American Ambassa- dor Dwight W. Morrow not to dis- cuss the relations between the United States and Mexico at the Pan-Ameri- can Conference, was the inference drawn here from the announcement that Morrow would not address the| Havana meeting. The Mexican delegation, it is un- od, is under instructions from ident Calles to avoid raising any ues with the American government} uring the Congress. Morrow will sail for Havana on| an. 5th on the same ship that will} carry the Mexican delegation to the| Congress. SNOWDEN CIVES KELLOGG CONFERS Keport Calles, | MEXICAN SENATE APPROVES CALLES PETROLEUM BILL Calles Move ‘for Peace With jU. S. Land Sharks MEXICO CITY, Dec. 29.— The lles bill which virtually permits n oil producers permanent ion of petroleum Inads was ap- proved in principle by the Senate last night. The formal approval of the amendments proposed by Calles is ex- pected toda Chamber of depu- ties has approved of the measure. alr In addition to approving the Calles |measure on the oil question and vest- ling him with the rig to deal with foreign debts in 19 the Mexican Congress granted President Calles power to deal with certain phases of rarian question. 8 the | ership of the Communist Party of the | Soviet Union and the Communist In- | ternational in the struggle against the end the religious riots which have occasionally broken out as a result of these processions. -! H , | The new powers granted President 0 ice brrerize eo ere DE boo ik Rowe. bo Lec Pog Sales will enable him to return to | American land speculators large hold- Dwight Morrow, ambassador t The All-India Nationalist Congress also adopted a resolution concerning | the status of the Indian settlers in South Africa. A protest was voted against the recent recommendation to the Kenya government that there must be defi- nite European majorities on all gov- i} Workers in Poland WARSAW, Dec. 29.—Forty-seven orkers, three of them women, were ested here when the Polish secret police rajded a meeting of alleged anti-Communist Opposition, the Trot- sky-Zinoviev group. Expulsion Inevitable. The Presidium regards the expul- sion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as an inevitable outcome of their un- precedented anti-Party activiti h BILLIONS IN 1927 “Our foreign loans will reach, for the year 1927, the record volume of $ 600,000,000,” says Julius Klein, di tor of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign WASHINGTONN, (FP) Dec. 29.—| | Mexico, who is also a delegate to th | congress, will leave for Havana from! Mexieo City. Noble B. Judah, Am- | |bassador to Cuba, has already left for | Havana. | jings, often, it is charged, fraudulently LONDON, Dec. 29.—Phillip Snow-}acquired, which were confiscated by den, Chancellor of the Exchequer in|the Mexican government. President the Labor Government, has resigned|Calles is now empowered, it is be- from the Independent Labor Party, it) lieved, to virtually terminate the ex- was learned today. The Independent | isting agrarian legislation should he Labor Party is the Socialist core of | choose to de the Labor Party, which Snowden will} The action of the Opposition, continue to represent in the House} not only violated the elementary rules young Communists. i ‘ , of Commons. | bodies, | aa 8 jand Domestic Commerce, in the ve Tf A] Ukrainian partment of Commerce, discussing the | ernment 3 2 |foreign and domestic trade outlook at | * » . Wall St. May Aid French Currency * * i bi of Party discipline, but also the laws : I: Snowden's reat ion f: | y , : DOAN RRR SR ane pie en’s resignati - joined with all other Nationalist] TARNAPOL, Dec. 29.—T hr ee | ganization of a full-blooded apparatus |RaS had @ considerable effect in in-| jregarded here as indicating a gen- groups in demanding complete inde-|workers have been arrested here|0f a new Trotskyist Party; the collab- |Ct€asing the volume of our export! : | g | oe v8 jeral swing of Labor Party leaders} USK, Poland, Dec. 29.—The trial | away from socialism. Ramsay Mac-| fif ven members of the West | Donald, who leads the Parliamentary | 2 ene n Communist Party has been|Labor Party, was ousted from the| Current developments in France’s begun here. The state opened the at-|chairmanshjp of the I. L. P. several| financial situation led to belief in trade. There was also a large in-| credse in our tourist expenditures | L abroad, which were substantially in| of the $761,000,000 figure:f oration with non-Party elements | lagainst the Party; the alliance with | the renegades Maslow, Ruth Fischer, | | Souvarine, Rosmer, ete., who are out- | side of the Communist International; pendence from Lritain, says Sailen- dra N. Ghose, secretary of the India Freedom Foundation in New York. The present declaration of the Indian National Congr at which the charged with spreading Communist propaganda. * * * Seize Flood Relief Cash. trades unionists are represented, is the first flat statement of that im- portant body for India’s freedom from the British Empire. A certain percent of the delegates from each province of India to the Nationalist Congress must be from the trade unions of the district. PRZMYL, Dec. 29.—Police broke into the offices of the local flood re- lief committee arresting the mem- i bers who were present and seizing all the correspondence. They also re- moved all the money in the place. The police clajmed that the money~ was being used for Communist purposes. Militarist Budget of Poincare — Die-Hard Government Passed The huge Poincare militarist budget passed both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies several days ago. _ by G. PERI (Foreign Editor of “L’Humanite.”) PARIS (By Mail).—Discussion of the 1928 budget was begun a few days ago in the French Chamber. This session of the legislature is the next to the last. In every department of France, committees and sub- committees are spinning election in- trigues. Under such circumstances, the discussion will not be without interest. Some essential characteris- tics deserve to be pointed out. ~ Up to the present, the apologists for the National Union have been proclaiming that the Poincare-Her- riot government reassuring the big interests, by re-establishing “confi- dence,” have accomplished a sort of miracle in the public finances. On the eve of the elections the officials have changed face. They have cere- moniously announced that the facts are that the country is trembling on the verge of an abyss, and that the slightest “imprudence” may ruin everything. Class Finance. In order to maintain the receipts whieh amount to 12 billion and sev- eral hundred millions of francs, the Minister of Finance intends to keep up all the present taxes without any changes whatsoever. In other words, nothing will be changed in the class finances which are crushing the economy of France, direct and indi- rect taxes will continue to exhaust the country. These government arrangements re being planned, despite the fact ii year the farmers have watched their taxes growing, while the har- vest is so bad that a reputable bour- geois economist, like Lucien Romier, is openly speaking of an agrarian orisis. They are being planned while the small shopkeepers are the victims of the tax on business, while the clerks and functionaries are burdened with the erushing weight of the indirect taxes and while interest is climbing as never known before. So much for the receipts. Let us look at the expense account. The government’s project is consid- ering three modifications in last year’s budget. 1. In the first place (since fear of the others is the beginning of govern- ment wisdom)—a raise in the sal- aries of government employees and war veterans is being planned. But how much is not mentioned. Next comes the public debt. The domestic debt will amount to 30,000,- 000 francs this year. Three billion and a half for the Dawes annuities will raise the total to something like twenty-seven and a half billions. And there still remains the crush- ing foreign debt, concerning which no definite agreement has been reached either with England or the United States. Also, the report of the atrikes, d Minist of lof all eases. | Finance on military expenses should be mentioned. Poincare writes: “We have provided the army with the credits necessary ‘to guarantee new advantages stimulating recruit- ing, an inerease in the enlistment and re-enlistment bounties, pay, spe- cial pay, lodging costs and so forth. “We have arranged for all the sums necessary for the rapid formation of the units of the mobile republican Guards, at a cost of three hundred million francs! “But that is not all. We have pro- hibited the sums necessary for the reprovisioning of the mobilization stores, frontier armaments and the re-enforcement of the military ma- rine.” A few billions more are provided for the reservists and the construc- tion of a military air force, ete. And, of course, these innovations do not take into account produéttive expenses such as additions to the economic machinery, the electrifica- tion of the country, etc., etc. And the Capital Levy? Such is the resume of the project- ed budget of the government of the National Union. It is faithful to the principles which for a year have in- spired the policies of heavy industry whose authentic representative M. Poineare is. Principles which involve mulcting the taxpayer in order to maintain the franc at its present rate, ‘reimbursing the Bank of France and paying the Anglo: Saxons. It is worth pointing out that be- fore it was discussed by the Cham- ber the project was examined by the Commission of Finances, which is composed of a majority of Cartelists. A series of amendments were re- moved, for example, those demand- ing a reduction of one hundred mil- lion franes in the land tax of the small peasants and a twenty mill- ion frane reduction in the tax on agricultural profits. The president of the Council replied to both the propositions at once, and the Cartel- ists concurred. They even agreed to reconsider one of their votes by which they had refused the credits necessary to the convocation of re- servists. It is important to point out the fact that at no time during the de- bate did any representative of the former Cartel raise his voice to sug- gest a capital levy. This ancient article of the program »f May 2nd seems to have been definitely thrown into the discard. Some time ago a distinguished economist, Gaston Jeze, heeding the tendency of the English socialist leaders to abwndon the idea of a eapital levy, warmly recom- mended to Messrs. Blum and Renau- del to follow the example of Snow- den and Ramsay MacDonald and re- nounce their idol. Against this financial policy of the bourgeoisie and their socialist accomplices, the Communist Party of France is arousing the workers who for months past have been demon- strating thruout France by means of lemands, and mass meetings the attempts at a counter-demonstra- tion on the Tenth anniversary of the October revolution—all this goes to prove that the Opposition will stop at nothing in its effort to destroy and split Lenin’s Party. Only people who have no longer anything in common with the ideology of the Communist Party and who have deflected from Leninism to the camp of its enemies and opponents can resort to such methods. Supports Enemies. Their main arguments are taken from the ideological stock-in-trade of social-democracy. The Opposition Supports all enemies of the Soviet Government in its struggles against the only workers’ government in the world by accentuating the internal and external difficulties of the Soviet Government, and by the demagogic slander on the proletarian dictatorship and its Party. Decision Unanimous. Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Young Communist | International awaits decisive meas- | ures on the part of the Congress of | the Communist Party of the Soviet! Union towards the liquidation of the | anti-Party Opposition and towards the securing of iron unity and working | capacity of the Bolshevik Party. | The Presidium is pleased to record that ali Young Communist Leagues | have adopted. unanimous decisions | against the Opposition of the Com-} munist Party of the Soviet Union. It | calls upon them to carry on even more vigorously the educational work | undertaken concerning the anti-Lenin- ist and anti-Party character of the Opposition. | | Klein thus shows that American capital te the amount. of more -than $2,361,000,000 went abroad in the past | lyear, while the favorable balance of | }trade amounted to only $700,000,000. |In other words, foreign countries re-} |ceived from this country $2,361,000 | with which to pay for $700,000,000 of American goods which were exported, | and for.services and goods consumed | by our tourists. | |Four French Communist | Deputies Brought From) Jail for Xmas Session} PARIS, Dee. 29,—The French Communist deputies, Cachin, Doriot, Marty and Duelos, who were released during the sessions of the Chamber of Deputies, were able to spend a few hours with their families at Christmas time. Despite their con- stitutional immunity as French deputies, the four Communist leaders were seized by the police and lodged in the Sante Prison during the re- cent terrorism of workers in France. They will be returned to jail imme- diately. Dispute Over Fossils PARIS, Dee. 29. ntists, cura- tors and staid members of the Insti- tute of France are involved in a bit- ter dispute over the authenticity of certain prehistoric fos: and pot- tery unearthed by Glozel. A plea was made to the minister of the Beaux Arts to “release Glozel from the grasp of heretics.” tack by removing the defense at-|thonths ago because, of his conserva-| banking circles this afternoon that : torney on the charge that he was} hostile to the polish ‘government. | The Communists who range in age | from twenty to thirty years are| mostly Ukrainians, some are Jews, | all are described as intelligent. Altho | the majority are peasants there are | no illiterates among them. j The peasants and workers are \charged with planning to split the! morrow. West Ukraine from Poland in order | to set up an independent Soviet Re-| public. | 12-Year-Old Forced to | Work in Fascist Italy | Is Sealped by Machine) NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 29.—After | being completely s alped when her! hair caught in moving machinery, | 12-year-old Emily Baruffo, employe | of a printing shop, was taken to the hospital and her detached scalp | sewed back upon her head. The doe- | tors expect a complete cure within three weeks. Persia Demands British | Give Up Bakrain Isles| | GENEVA, Dec. 29.—The Persian |government has protested to the League of Nations against the treaty between Great Britain and the King of the Hedjaz by which the Bakrain Islands in the Persian gulf are de- clared to have special treaty rela- tions with the English. Soviet Union Liberates Women from Dull Household Drudgery, Capitalist Serfdom A two-fold enslavement of women —oppression by capitalism and by petty and dull household drudgery, such was the heritage of the Soviet power from the esarist regime. In the first days succeeding the October victory the proletariat not only abol- ished private ownership of factories and land, but also issued laws estab- lishing equality between women and men. The entire work of the Com- munist Party and of the Soviet Uov- ernment aimed at drawing large sec- tions of workers into administration of the country. Lenin wrote: “The main and fundamental task of Bolshevism and of the Russian Oc- tober Revolution is to draw into polit- ical activity of those who were most oppressed under capitalism.” ‘The chief aim of Bolshevism and of the Soviet Power is: to expose the hypo- crisy and lying nature of bourgeois democracy, to abolish private owner- ship of land, factories and work shops and to concentrate State power in the hands of the working and exploited masses. But one cannot draw the masses into politics without drawing women into politics.” Liberation Achieved. It has taken many years of per- sistent and strenuous work on the part of the Communist Party and the Soviet Power to accomplish the ac- tual liberation of women from house- hold drudgery and to bring about an equal participation of the /women masses in the administration of the country. Because of their lack of political consciousness, not all working women and particularly not all peasant Dehergn have erated br ain fed Pd ir rights to participate in S0- viet elections. The influence of bowr- geois ideology, the view that women’s place is the home are still deeply in- grained in the minds of workers and peasants. It will require much effort to prove to them the necessity of bringing forward working and peas- ant women candidates to the Soviets and of voting for women candidates, Women Head. The participation of working and peasant women in the Soviets and in their executive departments was much smaller during the first years of the Soviet Power than that of men, and to a certain extent this is the case even now. Working women consti tuted 5.7 per cent of the town So: in the RSFSR in 1920; in 1921—7.1 per cent, in 1922—9.8 per cent, in 19283—14.1 per cent, in 1924-25—18.6 per cent, in 1925-26—19.5 per cent. We get the following picture with respect to peasant women’s partici- pation in the village Soviets: in 1922 they constituted 1 per cent of the total membership, in 1928, 2.2 per ¢-——— Vol “8 Home-Brewed Vodka Is | Barred in Soviet Union MOSCOW, Dec. 29—The Cen- tral Executive’ Committee today placed a ban on the manufacture, sale and transportation of Samo- gon—home-brewed Vodka, The prohibition concoction is ex- tromely potent and frequently poisonous, It is made principally by peasants who like to drink the original ich Silay but wish to a ment to iaaeiahing 5 at cent, in’ 1924-259 per cent, and in 1925-26 10.5 per cent. However, small the percentage of women in the Soviets they neverthe- less constitute an enormous army of working and peagant women drawn into direct part&ipation in the ad- ministration of the country. Many in Soviets. In 1926 there were in the RSFSR 11,845 active women workers in the town Soviets; in the village Soviets— 87,000, including 300 chairmen of vil- lage Soviets. There were 22,000 peasant women who attended voiost Soviet congresses, 3,000 peasant women in volost and Soviet eom- | mittees and 7,800 peasant women in the commissions of the village So- viets. The Soviet State apparatus con- sists not only of Soviet#, according to |Comrade Statlin: “The Soviet State apparatus consists of millions of all sorts of non-party and Party organi- zations .which connect the Soviets with the mill.ons of our population.” Working and peasant women’s dele- gate meetings organized by the Com- munist Party as a special method of work for drawing working and peas- ant women into Socialist construction are spread throughout the U. S. S. R. They coordinate about 500,000 work- ing women, Aid ‘to Socialism. There ¥o aleo an enormous number of working and pereant women who have been drawn into Scelallst con- struction through the cooperatives, trade unions end various voluntary soolal drganizations, Work . for ke Dally Worker! tive views. Snowden was chairman of the In- dependent Labor Party from 1903 to 1906. | First Subway in Orient TOKYO, Dec. 29.—The first sub-; way in the Orient will be opened to-| It runs a distance of about three} miles between the Uno and Asakusa stations and was constructed at a cost of more than three million dollars. | | France will return to the gold stan- on Jan. 10 with the france revalued at present levels. The bank of France has reduced | the discount rate from 5 to 4 per cent, this being the second reduction this year. Gold continues to flow from this country to France, another $10,000,- 000 being carried on the liner. Ro- chambeau, which sailed yesterday. It is understood that an additional $20- 600,000 will be sent soon. This gold will be used to strengthen the re- serves of the Bank of France. movement for national independence of the oppressed peoples against The Chinese Revolution Continues 'HE workers and peasants of China are in revolt against their own military op- pressors and against foreign imperialism 4 as well. This tremendpus uprising has a direct bearing on American workers. In these new books you will find the history, the various forces involved and the exact meaning of all this to American Labor, The Latest Book on China y Whither China? i By Scott Nearing E A splendid analysis of the great revolution, the complete backgyound and the latest developments in the situation—Ready January 1, in an attractive cloth bound edition. Order now. $hI5 Read and Give to Other Workers CIVIL WAR IN NATIONALIST THE AWAKENING OF CHIMA— CHINA—Ear! R, Browder.—An ac- count by an eye-witness who was a member of the International Del- Jes. H. 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