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en *Yowers attempted to rescue him. Vil- Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union Expels Oppos THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1928 Page Three BRITISH POLICE BOMBAY WORKERS 13,000 Loom Tenders) Leave Textile Mills BOMRAY, Jan. 3.—Armed police | were called out today to break a strike | of 18,000 textile mill workers. The | strike occurred in the mills of the | Bombay cotton manufacturers and is considered the workers’ reply to the | attempt of the mill owners to increase the number of looms which each work- | er maust tend. Starvation waves and the terribly long hours in the humid atmosphere | of the Indian west coast, laden with | lint from the looms, has reduced the workers’ vitality to the point where) it has become a daily occurrence for® workers to collapse at their machines, the strike leaders say. i The present strike follows the long | struggle of the Bombay textile work- | ers against. the unbearable conditions | in the mills. The former strike forced | the Bombay mill owners to give up | the idea of an immediate slash in wages. When the bosses attempted to clamp the old conditions on the textile workers ufter their return to the looms the men streamed out of the mills, Monster mass meetings of the mill workers are reported to be in prog- ress under the auspices of the Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Party. Assurances of solidarity are being received by the strikers from the workers in the few mills that are still operating. The leaders declare that the strike will be long and bitter but the spirit of the strikers is equal to the struggle. Mexican Federals | Kill Reactionary MEXICO CITY, Jan. 3.—The last counter-revolutionary band operating in the state of Morelos was defeated yesterday when Ernesto Villareal, re- actionary leader, and three of his fol- lowers, were killed. according to re- ports received here from Cuatla. Villareal was captured shortly be- fore the battle and was being taken to Cuatla when a number of his fol- jareal was killed in the battle. New Wall St. Job | j { { Arthur Bliss Lane, formerly first secretary of the American embassy in Mexico City, has been appointed chief of the division of Mexican affairs in the state department. CONTINUE “GOOD WILL FLIGHT” AS | | changes in the newly amended petrol- U.S. OIL BARONS ASK NEW CHANGE IN MEXICAN LAW Expect New Agreement on Mexican Debts | MEXICO CITY, Jan, 8.—Further eum law are being sought by Ameri- can oil intere: Objections have been raised to the | provision for the confirmation of pre- | cons.itutional rights in oil lands in the issuance of new concessions. ary xt ee MEXICO CITY, Jan. 3. — A new} agreement for the payment of Mex-{ ico’s heavy foreign debts is expe ed | here as the result of conferences be- tween the committee of international | bankers, and representatives of the | Ministry of Finance. In a memorandum issued recently, the Ministry of Finance declared that | it was unable to meet the heavy pay- ments due to the international bank-! ers, A statement of Mexican finances’ has already been carried to New York! Fernando de la Fuente. The representatives of the Mexican) POLE-LITHUANIAN WHERE LINDBERGH WILL JOIN OTHER DOVES OF WAR Photo at right shows the American planes that are bombing Nicaraguan liberals. At left, old crater at San Salvador, over which Lin flying field at Managua, dbergh w } ' | icaragua, which serves as a base for the ill fly to Managua soon. | dbergh flew. | PACT IS FAR OFF KOVNO, Jan. 3.—The much-trum- peted agreement between Poland and Lithuania, the basis for which was | bankers by Fernando Diez Baroso and supposed to have been laid, at the Geneva arms conference, has failed to materialize. The possibility that NIGARAGUANS DIE | Ministry of Finance are expecved to {any agreement will be reached in view WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Col. Lind- hergh landed safely at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, this afternoon at 2:55 (BE. S. T.) after flying from San Sal- vador, according to a cable received by the state department this after- noon. * + SAN SALVADOR, Jan. 3.—With American marines and bombing planes shooting down liberal troops under general Sandino in the neigh- boring republic of Nicaragua, Charles Lindbergh left San Salvador this morning on his good-will flight thru Central America. He is headed for Tegucigalpa, Honduras. When Lindbergh takes off for his next stop, Managua, he will fly close to the scene of the fighting between the American marines and the Nicara- guan liberals who are fighting for the independence of Nicaragua. 4 Communists Are Freed in Exchange WARSAW, Jan. 3. — Thirty-two Polish prisoners in Soviet Union jails « panied by a representative of the} committee of international bankers. | According to reports, the Govern- ment will appropriate $15,000,000 which it expects io receive from its | petroleum revenues toward payments | on its foreign obligations | Naval Officers to Preach “Good Will” { | (Special to The Daily Worker.) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Another “good-will” expedition to Latin-Amer- ica‘is being planned by the United States Government. This time the} United States will show its love for) its “sister republics” by despatching | the Annapolis midshipmen to South} America next summer on the annual | naval academy cruise. | The midshipmen, who will in later \life supply the American navy with \its officers and help collect debts for American bankers, will stop at the principal ports of all South American republics bordering on the Atlantic, including Rio de Janiero, Montevideo and Buenos Aires, | j return here early this month, accom-| 4¢ Poland’s refusal to relinquish Vilna is regarded as very slight in official circles. A good deal of significance is at- tached to Premier Waldenaras’ state- ment that he intends to begin negotia- tions for a Polish agreement only after a draft constitution has been passed. The constitution contains ar- ticles declaring the capital of the country to be Vilna. All traffic across the Potish fron- tier has been suspended and the sit- uation is virtually the same as before the Geneva arms conference when Premiers Waldemaras and Pilsudski pledged to maintain peace. Young Communists Score Opposition (Special Cable to Daily Worker). MOSCOW, Jan. 3. — The Central Executive Committee of the Young Communist International has adopt- ed a resolution fully approving of the decisions of the Fifteenth Congress of the All-Union Communist Party and emphasizing the principle that support of the Trotsky Opposition is |Embargo on Planes to! 'Mexico Now Virtually iLifted, Reports State WASHINGTON, Jan. The embargo on the shipment of air- | planes to Mexico has been vir. | tually lifted, according to a letter which Representative Edith N Rogers has received from Sec tary of State Kellogg. One of the reasons for the lift-| ing of the embargo was to aid| American airplane manufactur Prosperous U. $.$.R, ROME, Jan. 3.—The recent restric- tion placed by the government of the Soviet Union on Italian imports is orted to have aroused the ire of Benito Mussolini. Every year Italy purchases thirty million roubles worth of goods in the USSR, and the unfavorable trade bal- ance is exciting the fascists. As a result the Italian government is be- lieved to be preparing a note cf pro- test against the murder of the Ital- ian counsul in Odessa by thugs, and the suicide of the Italian vice consul at Baku. The protest, however, is expected to be merely formal and the note is understood to be in no sense an ul- timatum. Paris Legion Head RUSSIA BETTER, WORKER DECLARES. MOSCOW, December. (By Mail).— | |'Twenty years ago Meyer Greizer left | Ode a youth, to go to America. | Today he is back in his native land, with the American Trade Union Del- egation. Change Is Great. “No one can appreciate the great change in the past twenty years,” he declared, “as well as a worker in my position, who knew the old Russia of the Czar, the priest and the knout. I well remember the old army and navy, | which were used to oppress not only | the workers and peasants, but na- tional minorities such as Jews and Armenians and the revolutionary por- | tions of the intelligentsia. | Army, Industry Comradely. “Now I see, instead of the old police, with their brutal and outrageous be- | havior, the new militia, a body of clean and courteous young workers and} peasants. The new red army and militia is as different from the Czar- | ist army and police, as the bright sunny day is from the black, stormy jnight, | “The comradely relations of the | rank and file soldier with his officers | jas well as of the factory worker with | the director, are a revelation. “When I return to America, I shall have a great message of what I saw jand heard in my land, in our land, the Soviet Union, the beacon light of all | | ported, however. the oppressed of all lands.” { } Hits Rumania Pogroms ATLANTIC CITY, Jan 3.—The ik | | j i ition Leaders GOVERNING BODY SCORES TROTSKY GROUP CAMPAICH Adopts Decision of Its Communist Fraction (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Jan with the fraction of the ic ntral E ce of the Soviet Union, the n at its meeting on Decer lst unani- mously decided to exc follow- ing nbers and ¢ members from the ¢ . e Commit- tee: B Istchenko, Kam nov, Trot- sky I 5 The sion of the Communist frac- tion which wa: jopted by the Praesi- dium, de that the expelled Op- positioni had been expelled from } the Communist Party for a number of acts hostile to the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Secret Opposition Meetings Are Barred MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (By Mail).— The press publishes a communication from the Leningrad district control commission upon the secret meetings convened by the Opposition during the discussions upon the political report of the Central Committee at the Com- munist Party congress in Moscow. These meetings were called to draft the new anti-Party tactic of the Oppe- sition. Safarov, the ex-editor of the “Leningrad Pravda” spoke at these meetings and referred to the declara- tion handed by the Opposition to the party congress as a “dexterous man- euver” intended to give the Opposition the possibility of continuing its frac- tional activity inside the party. Saf- arov and three others were expelled from the Party. QUAKES IN ITALY. ROME, Jan. 3.—Seismographs here registered two earthquake shocks in Italy yesterday. No damage was re- ed Gibraltar Swim Fails jincompatible with membership in the TANGIER, Morocco, Jan. 3.—Sea- 20,000 Swedish ‘Wood 'Communist Party. The principle is Charged With Graft sets Rasa |violation of the Minority Rights for carrying on activities hostile to the U. S. S. R. will be released in af sickness and contrary currents yes- terday defeated Mercedes Gleitze and Millie Hudson in rival attempts to swim the twenty-seven mile Straits of Gibraltar. This is the second fail- ure of Miss Gleitze, Londen stenog- exchange for nine Communist pris- oners whe were railroaded to long terms in Polish jails. The trains bearing the prisoners are now speeding to Kelosowo, a bor- der town, where the formalities of vapher, to swim the Straits, the exchange will be carried out. Fake League “Settlement’’ of Pole Controversy Hit BERLIN, Dec. 19 (By Mail) -—Con- vened by the International Workers’ Relief, a conference of various work- ing class and libera] and humanitar- jan organizations took place in Ber- lin today te discuss the Polish-Lithu- nnian conflict. Despite the League of Nations “settlement” the danger of a new war still exists, delegates de- clared. Among the organizations repre- sented at the conference were the; Relief, the | ¢ Workers’ International International Red Aid, the German Communist -Party, the Lithuanian Communist Party, the League for the Rights of Man, the International Wo- men’s League, the Group of Revolu- | tionary Pacifists, and the Anti-Im- perialist League of America. Anti-USSR Bloc. In his speech the Communist mem- ber of the Reichstag, Stoecker de- clared: “The League of Nations Council has not abolished the differ- ences between Lithuania and Poland, | it has only covered them up, Only a formal abolition of the state of war between the two countries has taken place. The League of Nations takes good care not to touch the real es- sence of the problem, the Vilna ques- tion. “The great imperialist states do not want to and cannot solve the Pol- ish-Lithuanian conflict, because they want to form a bloc against the Sov- ‘iet Union, and the incorporation of Lithuania in Poland would mean a big step towards this policy of complete encirclement of the Soviet Union. The German government which declared not long ago that it was for the in- dependence of Lithuania, altered its course in Geneva, probably at the in- stance of Chamberlain, and would’ now be prepared to tolerate the an- nexation of Lithuania in return for’ compensation somewhere else. “In the Lithuanian-Polish conflict the Second International is in the tow of the imperialist policy. The Polish social-democrats declare open- ly that they are not prepared to aban- don the idea of a union of Poland with Lithnania. In Lithuania a sec- é {tion of the social-democrats them- | selves are working for Pilsudski. | “The danger of war between Po- land and Lithuania is menacing now as before. All revolutionary workers | jand all liberal people must unite in |an effort to prevent this war which | would be a preliminary “to the war | against the Soviet Union. { Fascist Dictatorship. | A represertotive of the “Non-Party ty Committee in Poland” de- The victory of Poland over} Lithuania would mean for the work-| }ers and peasants of Lithuania sim-| | ply to exchange one fascist dictator- | | ship for another, for in Pilsudski Po- | land the workers’ and peasants’ or- ganizations are almost as ruthlessly | suppressed as in Lithuania. In Po-! land thousands of revolutionary fight- | ers are in prison, including the mem- bers of the dissolved ‘Independent Peasant Party’ and of the White Rus- sian Hromada of the workers and peasants. The Polish imperialists wish to occupy Lithuania in order to be able to attack the Soviet Union | Pulp Workers Locked | Out; Refuse Wage Cut | STOCKHOLM, Jan. 3.—More than} twenty thousand wood pulpworkers | were locked out this morning efter} | they had made clear their refusal to, | accept a cut in wages. Negotiations | between the workers and employers | broke down last night. | The government will attempt to} mediate in the dispute, it was learned today. Soviet Union ‘Buying Rubber to Make Tires BERLIN, Jan. 3.—The Soviet Union | is purchasing large quantities of crude! rubber here, it was learned today, for! {the manufacture of truck and bus) | tires. j Most of the purchases are being | made in Hamburg. British Slave Holders Ask for Compensation FREETOWN, Sieera Leone, Jan. 3.| —British citizens who were legally recognized as slaveowners before Jan- | nary Ist of this year are demanding | compensation as the result of the act | abolishing slavery in this protec-! ‘orate, 4 i Altho the Negroes are legally free. most of them are still being held by/ their former owners. from this side also, For this reason the struggle for the independence of Lithuania must be carried on very energetically.” Workers Must Fight. A representative of the Communist | Party of Lithuania described the bru- tal terror of Voldemaras and the at- titude of a section of the Lithuanian social-democrats who support the plans of Pilsudski. “The occupation of Lithuania by Poland would be the last step in the policy of encirclement of the Soviet Union. The workers | and peasants must carry on their struggle against this plan to the very end,” he said. In his speech Muenzenberg stressed the fact that should a coalition be formed between Great Britain, France and Poland against the Soviet Union, then Germany would also take part against the Soviet Union. He pro- posed that the conference should elect a committee of five from its middle to prepare a further conference upon a broader basis. The conference ac-| cepted this proposal Believe Bankers Plan | Debt Revision Scheme, BERLIN, Jan. 3.——That American bankers are: planning a scheme for altering the Dawes plan, advancing a large loan to Germany to put the “debt situation” on a basis and to stabilize European currency is the theory advanced by the Deutche Berg- based Zeitung of Dusseldorf. ‘Hopes the Murder of 'Nicaraguans Will Aid| “Love” of U.S. Power “TY hope this will improve the} | friendly relations between the two | countries,” retharked a sarcastic senator who is a well-known critic and American lives. | applicable to the Young Communist | International, the resolution says. Local organizations of the Y. C, I.| tion in connection with the hotel bills}jiam H. King, a democrat, declared | are asked to take the necessary steps Paid by the American Legionnaires | yesterday. The senator was making ;to purge the organization of all Trot- during their jamboree in Paris, will skyist elements. Say Grayson Plane Sunk Off Cape Cod PORTLAND, Me., Jan. 3.—The | PARIS, Jan. 3.—Charges of extor- ibe “explained” by ex-commander Ed- jward Thorn who is leaving here to ‘face an investigation committee in In- dianapolis. The legionnaires claim Paris reception committee charged lexorbitant prices for their hotel rooms and are demanding rebates that the/| Treaty to which the Rumanian gov- ernment is a signatory, Senator Wil- political capital out of the anti-} Semitic atrocities before a large audi- ence of Jewish delegates who had come from all parts of the United States to the Annual Regional Con- ference of the United Palestine Ap- | peal. | | ; Anne Belliveau, reported yesterday! 1 samen gases prt | crew of the British schooner, Rose|totailing thousands of dollars. { pages | The chai ich caused consid-} | that the whir of an aeroplane motor} oronie criticism at the time of the| | and then a great splash was heard °N| convention, were declared at the time | ; the night of Dec. 25, off the coast of | 4, he necessary in order to bring Gen-| Cade Cod, which, they believe may eral Pershing and other dignitaries to| have been the end of the Dawn, Mrs.jpgris and to cover the general ex- Frances W. Grayson’s plane. eause of the sleet storm, Captain Be- | nenses of the conference. Comeau declared i! was impossible to render assistance. A an Bec } SEAMEN’S THRILLING TALE Ca PLYMOUTH, England, Jan. 3— PERFECT PARIS-ROME AIR LINE The American tanker Dartford arrived PARIS, Jan. 2.—The first pilot BED: yesterday with six of the crew fly over a kilometre civew twenty | of the Newfoundland schooner Ena years ago, Henry Farman, Pioneer| Moulton, waterlogged in midocean French airman, plans to introduce a| 0" December 19. The tanker’s crew twelve hour night air service between | ‘old a thrilling story ‘of two days) Paris and Rome. 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