The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1928, Page 3

ASR Ales a ememmmmamemen THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1928 Page Three FOREIGN NEWS PLAN RED LABOR UNION STRUGGLE FOR 7-HOUR DAY Losovsky Gives World| Congress Program (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) | MOSCOW, Jan. 10.---Regarding the tasks of the Fourth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions.to be convened March 15th, A. Losovsky, secretary, stated that the congress will have to deal with the | most complicated problems in its New Planes fo FASCIST SLAYERS) — IN RUMANIA GET 10 DAY SENTENCE No ‘Compensation for | Jewish Victims GROSSWARDEIN, Reg nania, Jan. | 10. —- A military court today imposed ; sentences of from 10 days to fiv months upon five perso: including | three students, who participated in the rioving in which Capt. Keller, an} American, was injured. i] | No punishment has been meted out One of the new Loening a struggle for trade union unity. One of the leading campaigns of the R. I. L. G., he said, will be the struggle for the seven-hour day. Since the last congress, the united front of employes’ organizations, re- formist trade unions and bourgeois governments has been formed which determines, to a large extent, the new methods of self defense that the toil- ing workers must employ. Losovsky pointed out the shift of | the broad proletarian masses to the} left, the increasing tendency of the} trade union movement toward mat, | with the U. S. S. R. labor, the grow-| ing interest in the Chinese revolution | and the revived activity of the labor movement in Pacific countries, colo- nies and semi-colonies. Losovsky | stressed the growing influence of the Red International of Labor Unions, declaring that the best elements of the labor movement in Asia and Latin-America are joining hands with it. Among dtiar things, the congress will examine the following problems: the struggle against imperialism and the menace of war, the labor move- ment in colonies and semi-colonial countries, the tasks of the Chinese trade unions in the nationalist revo- lution, the tactics of allies of the'R. I, L. U. in England, the tasks of the interMational propaganda committees and the struggle for social legisla- tion and the seven-hour working day. BUKHARIN SENDS GREETING CABLE Soviet Leader Formerly Active in U. S. (Continued. from Page One) malignant imperialism the world has ever seen. It is amazing how many of these revolutionists at one time or another lived in the United States and participated actively in the American movement. Without exception al! who ever lived in this country and are now world leaders of the revolution de- clare the Fourth Anniversary will not only be an event in the American Communist movement, but a mile- stone in the development of the American working class. } Excellent Program. New Houses Built for Soviet Union Workers The Mecea Temple affair promises | MOSCOW, (By Mail). —- Moscow to attract an overflowing house, not} merely because of the thousands of workers are beginning to occupy the new houses buillt this year by the workers who have come to realize that The DAILY WORKER is a building cooperatives. Altogether 385 houses wil! be occu- GANTON GENERAL CRUSHES UNIONS Thousands of Peasants Die of Hunger CANTON, Jan. 10.—The orders for the suppression of trade unions re- cently issued by General Li Chai-sum have been ruthlessly carried oui. The leaders of many of the unions have been arrested. Altho General [i Chai-sum is in complete control of Canton, he faces wei, who was ousted from Canton, several weeks ago. General Lj Chai- sum has about fifty thousand troops concentrated in and near Canton. * * > PEKING, Jan. 10.—Thousands of peasants in Shantung and Chihii prov- inces have already perished of hun- ger as a result of the famine, and the lives of millions of others are endangered. Whole villages have been reduced to roots, grass and bark for food. Altho flood and famine are partly responsible for the conditions in the rural districts of the two provinces, the excessive taxation levied by | Chang ''so-lin and other northern militarists as well as the raids and confiscation of crops -practiced by Chang’s soldiers and tax collectors are primarily responsible for the im- poverishment of the northern peas- ants. powerful aid in their struggies and a guide to action, but because of the; _ Splendid musical and dramatic pro- | Eighty miles from the farthest north railway in Canada, the Flin Flon copper-zine property, with ore blocked out to the estimated value of $212,000,000, is to be “developed” by the Harry Payne Whit- ney crowd of New York. Plans for an entire company-owned village, with the workers depended on the fay needs, have already been announced. a struggle with General Chang Fak- | to the Fascist students who killed five | Jews and Hungarians in a series of | riots in Pamanalvania. | the United States navy to replace on battleships. The new planes ca miles. COOLIDGE FLOOD PLAN HITS POOR BUCHAREST, Jan. 10, — Accord- | ing to the local newspapers, the Rou- | manian government has awarded Cap- tain Keller, of Pennsylvania, $100,000 | damages for injuri ffered during | |the recent anti-Semitic rio.s by Rou- |manian students. Jewish and Hun-| garian victims have not been reim- bursed. and stabbed by vhe rioters. The United ing partial payment from the f & |States state department, through | jnvolved, was attacked by Charl coenpratian ton:thete fmigytalari sn: | Minister Culbertson, protested against | Potter, president of the Mississippi (the outrage to the Roumanian govern- | Commission. He a: ted that the | ment. flood area was too impoverished to WAGE INCREAS Warnes se help financially. ‘Millionaire Plutocrats | Although millions of do pill- been spent already on levees and ways, it was declared that constr Pile Up Huge Fortunes| 1926 Tax Reports Show tion is faulty and temporary, and oy | portunity for graft through the ar Never before in the history of the | of endless contracts is great. n- country have there been so many in- | comes of more than $5,000,000; never | ask $200,000,000 more than Cooli before so many incomes exceeding | demands to continue the graft policy | $1,000,000; never before so many ex- ——_—_—_—___— ceeding $150,000. Never before in the | history. of the country has so much Communist Novelist FOR LENINGRAD Municipal Workers Sign | New Agreements A gressional committee is expected to| MOSCOW, (By mail). — The Len- ingrad Union of Municipal Workers is feverishly carrying on its campaign Ba! gone ae the aoa emst of Returnsto Germany; for the conclusion of new collective | Plutocracy, to those wit incomes ex- agreements for the workers. Some] ceeding $100,000 a year. This is the Faces Treason Trial |° agreements have already been signed.| story of the preliminary revort of | aR enna a The masses take pti part in|the U. S. commissioner of internal], MOSCOW, (By il). —- Before leaving Moscow for Berlin, the Ger- | revenue covering income tax veturns bs man author Becher said to a press discussing the terms of the agree- ments. for 1926. correspondent of the “Trud”: fhe municipal workers will con-| The report shows 14 persons in the sets Leki epee : siderably improve their situation.| United States whose personal in- T return to Germany in connection Thus, they~ages of the water work-| comes for the year 1926 after all al-| With my trial to begin on the the 18th | ‘Lewisite’ (the name of one of the most terrific and murderous gases ap- plied in war). “Of course I could remain in the U. S..S. R. as my friends advise me, but I think that this trial will show the world the falsity of the sham The tramworkers of the lower cate- gories have also received a rise of 10- 20 per cent. Tram drivers, blacksmiths and me- chanics will receive another week’s vacation in addition to the former 2 aged close to $10,000,000 apiece. As the national income for the year av- eraged about $2,000 per person gain- fully employed, each one of these money kings received ‘about 5,000 times his fair share. The report with machine guns and bombs and have a cruising range of Captain Keller, attempting to quiet | WASHINGTON, I D. C., Jan. 10.— a crowd of students from a balcony} The Coolidge plan for flood control | 2 at Bosswardein, was severely mauled! along the Mi ppi River, demand- }tural credit cooperati r Imperialists ir-cooled amphibian planes, ordered by the water-cooled type now used rry a crew of three, are equipped 560 SOVIET FARMERS’ « CO-OPS GROWING MOSCOW, (By Mail).—December arked 5 years of ac of jicultural credit coope: time, the: four and other elementary ¢ operative organi- ations. The financial agricul- tural credit ves con- siderably improved. ‘They now about 700,000,000 roubles of which hout 480,000,000 roubles have been sted by the government and about 000,000 roubl The by the popu ¢ t granted by the agricul- es during the | years affected mostly poor and middle peasant enterp: 's which pur- chased with its assistance about 1,- 000,000 heads of work cattle. Airship tot Carry 100 Flies Ocean in Spring | ers have Bren raised 10 per cent, the|Jowable deductions exceeded $5,000,- ss otggt deel hee wire! de of eee LONDON, Jan. 10.—The English | wages of watchmen increased from|0g0. The gross income of these su- <eerates sida a eon Lesogebpie R-100, capable of carrying 88 to 51 roubles per month. preme plutocrats undoubtedly aver-|WUUPS and publishing the novel . st trans-Atlantic flight this spring. An Anglo-American Airship Company, with a capital of $25,000,- 900 to provide for regular London- New York flights, will probably be the ult of C. D. Burney’s visit to weeks. The other ae will ae shows once again the unequal division|‘democracy freedom of the press’ have better conditions. e wages of | \¢ “the | country’s spending power. lexisting in Germany. n bath house and laundry workers! _ have increased from 10 to 45 per cent. | A great gain in the collective | agreements is the fact that workers | can choose their free day and the pay-} ment for 2 weeks in case of dismissal even though the worker may have been warned about it in advance. The working clothes that workers receive are to last certain definite periods | after which they become their own | property. =y POPE STILL SECTARIAN. ROME, Jan. 10.—A papal encycli- cal, or cireular letter addressed to the church officials, has been issued warn- ing them not to enter into any united front arrangements with other church- es. The pope is much exercised over the theory implied in such movements Fri. Eve., Jan. 13 RATER AAA AA RAN AA Le TEASER EATS SEDATE SUSAR ESRTTS ESTAR A TEES America next week, according to the ane meeiee veatitane ru ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION . ngers, is expected to make | eS ELEE SASSO TE CRORE TA TENT SET TT ETT “DAILY WORKER” Mecca Temple BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS World’s Latest Field for Exploitation CAlTISH COTTON MILLS PLAN 10 LENGTHEN HOURS Would Cut Pay; Unions Fight New Offensive 40 ~The general rs are direct- longer hours LONDON of the basic industries, eul- minated erday in the announce- ment by two of the ¢ a ciations in the British cotton trade that they would demand a 1242 per cent wage cut and ngthening of the sork- ing wee 1 forty-eight to firty- two h s On ations that the using for their new long working week of the Amer- s in most of the ern states work y, often more than sixty emplo. der the most Worke ir an mill cotton mill more than fif \hours a we they point out. The cotton unions are planning to fight against the wage cuts and the lengthening of hours. A series of meetings to consider the employers’ demands will start today. the conciliatory attitude of the British trade have adopted of In spite of which most union leaders the rejection of tain. The proposed working week, if forced into effect, would bring work- | ers into the mills at 6:45 a. m,, trade | union leaders point out. Wages, they state, are already barely above the | starvation level Push USSR Sciences LENINGRAD, (By Mail)—The | ‘Kenning of Sciences is organizing, in the summer of 1928 an oceanographic and hydrobiological expedition to the Sea of Japan. This will be part of the big inter- national research work to be carried on in the Pacific Ocean undertaken in | accordance with the decision of the \last Pacific Congress held in Tokyo. | Linc icnoin acing | NAVY AIDS CAPITALISTS. HAVANA, Jan. 10.—American and Cuban shipping interests are rej {ing over the discoyery of a new chan- |nel leading into’ the port of Sagua La Grande on the north coast of Cuba by the U. S. naval survey vessel No- komis. The Cuban government had * appropriated $1,500,000 to blast the old channel. In the new one, which has ja muddy bap can be dredged. ‘ge | | | | | vram that has been arranged, with such internationally famous artists * the Russian singer of folk songs, ! Nina Tarasova; the famous violin vir-| tuoso, Sascha Jacobson; the magnetic classic and interpretative dancer, Doris Niles, who on this occasion will give 4 special series of Russian dances; and Paui Althouse, one of the fore- most dramatic tenors of the world, jong a star of the Metropolitan Opera forces. Only two more days reniain until the celebration and concert and all are urged to secure their seats at once in order to avoid disappointment at not seing able to get in on Friday night. WANT USSR FURS. LONDON, Jan. 10.--In spite of the: rupture in diplomatic relations be- | tween the Soviet Union and the Brit-" ish government, British merchants are anxiously bidding against German: firms for USSR fur contracts. The firms of Frederick Huth and Company and ©. M. Lampson and Company have succeeded in outbid- ding Liepsig merchants, and were awarded: large contracts. These two firms alone have signed contracts involving $9,000,000 in furs. DAUDET ROYALISTS’ CLOWN. PARIS, Jan. 10.—The buffooneries of Leon Daudet, French royalist, keep || the Paris potice on the hop. His last antic was to announce that-he ‘would address a meeting in the capital. The police prepared to arrest when he mounted the rostrum but he spoke by radio from Brussels where he es- caped from prison some time ago. SPANISH FLYERS FORCED DOWN MADRID, Jan. 10.—The Spanish aviators Jiminez and Iglesias, whe hopped off from Seville on Sunday on a flight to Cape Juby, Africa, have “peen forced down at Saffi, French Africa, an official communique saic pied this year, covering an area of 172,000 square metres. Buildings have | been put up also on a 40,000 square metres area not provided for in the | plan. This means that over 200,000 square metres of housing accommoda- tion will be placed at the disposal of Moscow workers LONDON, Jan. Wellington, New Zealand, this even- jing said that the New Zealand aviators | Capt. Hood and Lieut. Moncrieff, we {hopped off at Sydney, N. S. W., fly to Wellington were missing oe that some appremension was felt for them on account of darkness. 10.—Advises from| ; that all religions are good enough to combine with his own, and warns {that in order to get into heaven, all present protestants must “return to the embrace of St. Peter’s successor,” meaning himself. BUREAUCRAT FOR LIFE POMPTON PLAINS, N. J., Jan. 10.— —Joseph J. Pellett, building contrac- | tor and president of the local school | board, will draw pay as_ township | clerk for the rest of his life, in ad-/ dition. Pellett held the job of clerk | for the past 27 years, and according to the law governing the post, the of- fice is his as long as he wants it. AGAINST Injunctions. Company Unions. sk Ae Unemployment. Persecution of the Foreign Born. 5. War. OCCUPATION if you are on strike or uneim, check this box. UNEMPLOYED (Enclosed find 00 for initiat: Join in a Real Fight! JOIN A FIGHTING PARTY! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America Application tor Membership in Workers (Communist) Party (Pill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, ployed and cannot pay initiation fee please AND STRIKERS ADMITTED and receive dues exempt stamps until employed. kd auc era aihesant cat seeseeosbeseessnsnasessessens Sascha Jacobsen VIOLIN VIRTUOSO FOR 1. Organization of the unorgan- ized, 2. Miners’ Relief. # P | Alth 3. Recognition and Defense of au ouse the Soviet Union. 4. A Labor Party. METROPOLITAN OPERA 5. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- STAR * ernment. Ge eke oe ie hee heb beebt 43 E. 126 St, N.Y. @) { — 815 P.M. Jimmie Higgin’s Book Store, 106 University Place; DAIL Y WORKER, 108 East 14th Street; Freiheit, 30 Union Sq. 55th ST. and SEVENTH AVE. a Doris Niles in SONY pene oe oe meme Oriental and Russian Dances Recital of Russian, Gypsy, * Folk Song Interpretations. TICKETS $2,20—$1.65—$1.10—75e. Costume Georgian NINA TARASOVA bp ee ee ke eke ion fee ‘and one month's dues.) Y RSET STE ET ETE EEE EEE SSEET SETTERS TTTTTTSTTTT SET TTTO