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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANL UARY 1 , 1928 Trial Reveals British Bribes and Fo ay From Demonstration for Wall St. Delegates BALTIC STATES GET MUNITIONS FROM DIE-HARDS Fake Evidence Against | USSR in London Trial LONDON, Jan. 18. — Wilfred Thomas McCartney, a British sub- ject, and George Hansen, a Ger- man, were today sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on charges of “espionage in behalf of Russia.” The sentence includes two years’ of hard labor. McCartney charged that he had been sentenced on evi- dence faked by Scotland Yard. He said he had been offered a bribe and immunity if he testified about purely fictitious “Soviet organiza- tions operating in Great Britain.” rgeries in Anti- the Pan-American conference. Cuban Workers Stay Aw | | Telephoto pictures received from Havana verify the exclusive Daily Worker reports that very few workers turned out to greet Coolidge and members of the United States imperialist expedition to Arrow points to President Coolidge. * LONDON, Jan. 18.—That Scotland | Yard had forged letters and offered | him a large bribe in order to invent | testimony against purely fictitious | “Soviet spy organizations” was the} startling charge made by Wilfred | Francis McCartney at a hearing of , the case of alleged espionage by the | Soviet Union. McCartney declared that he had been offered money and | immunity if he invented testimony against the Soviet Union and faked evidence against George Hansen, who is on trial for alleged espionage. McCartney charged in his testimo- ny that the letters which were being used against him had been forged by Scotland Yard. That Great Britain has been mak- ing large shipments of munitions and airplanes to Baltic states as part of her campaign against the Soviet Un- ion was another revelation made by McCartney, who declared that he had been approached by Monkland, an un- derwriter at Lloyds, who volunteered to give details of the forgery of the famous Zinoviev letter, and to secure precise information about the ship- ment of arms to the Baltic states. (The anti-Soviet forgeries revealed in the McCartney trial are believed to be an attempt on the part of the Brit- ish government to reply to substan- tiated evidence of British espionage in the Soviet Union.) Students Start New \Pogroms in Rumania BUCHAREST, Jan. 18.—New out- rages have broken out in Jassy, re- ports from the north state. Scores of Jews are said to have been beaten to death in the streets, some being severely injured. The fresh outbreak is charged to students attending the trial of their colleagues who are accused of the killings, woundings and burnings sev- eral weeks ago. * * | | 48 COMMUNISTS TRIED BY TURKS Workers Crowd Court as Leaders Face Terms The trial of forty-eight of the one hundred and fifty Turkish Commu- nists arrested during the Angora Government’s November raids in Con- stantinople, Smyrné, Trebizond and Odana, has begun at Stamboul, des- patches from Constantinople state. The raids at which the Communists were arrested followed the strike of the Turkish tobacco workers who re- fused to allow the Kemal government attempt to confiscate a day’s pay for the purpose of buying airplanes and war material for the Angora gov- ernment. The police raids were carried out with the utmost brutality in all sec- tions of the country. Among the Communists now on trial is Dr. Chefik Hussein Bey, who it is alleged, returned to Turkey in disguise in order to carry on his ac- tivities among the workers after the Kemal © government had. forbidden them. Dr. Bey asserted boldly in the face of the court that the workers and peasants of Turkey have no part in the Turkish government. Using the court which may sentence him to a long prison term, as a rostrum from which to speak his message to the Turkish masses, Dr. Bey declared that the Soviet Union is the model which all the workers of the world must follow in self-government. The trial has created great excite- ment and hundreds of Turkish work- ers and peasants crowd daily to the courtroom. Egypt Uses Frame-up in Fight Against Unionism * By OSMANLI. CAIRO, (By Mail)-4+-After a lull of three years a new wave of strikes hasswept over Egypt. . Despite the treacherous leaders and the concilia- tion boards, the workers are coming out on strikes. When the Belgian Company running the Fauma Rail- road attempted to lower wages, the railwaymen took up the class strug-| gle—they came out on strike. In Cairo the silk workers declared a} strike while in Aleiiandria the tram- waymen came out. Very characteristic is the tram-} waymen’s dispute which has already lasted several months. The govern- ment endeavored by arbitration to settle the differences between the foreign tramway company and the workers. However, all their efforts were fruitless, The foreign company spared no effort to dupe the men and evaded granting the demands of the men or settling the issue in a direct way. The bourgeoisie did their best to avert the strike which in present day conditions may well encourage other trades to come out. Want “Labor Laws.” The Egyptian press, both foreign and native, are raising an alarm and urging that everything be done to appease the workers. Once again have they called attention to the “Communist danger.” In fact the Egyptian bourgeoisie are so alarmed over the “Red danger,” that they are even ready to concede labor legisla- tion, The alarm of the bourgeoisie is shown conclusively by the faet that bourgeois public opinion and indeed the’ government itself is urging the immediate enactment of labor pro- tection laws. The present formation of a commission to draft these labor iaws can only be put down to this. The bourgeoisie aspire to set up a dam that will be strong enough to withstand the onslaught of labor. The Egyptian authorities, however, are proclaiming that “Moscow agents” temper of the labor movement. Use Frame-up. It is by no means an accident that today when the strike wave is ris- ing ever higher, a conspiracy against the king and the state is being pro- voked. Attention must be given this “af- fair” which throws much light on the methods used by the Egyptian reac- tionaries in their struggle against the working class. The Egyptian Com- munist Party, “the Moscow Commun- ist Party,” the Soviet representative who arrived to purchase cotton, and several other prominent Egyptians, such as the president of the National Farty, have all heen involved in this “conspiracy.” Alli-Shuchat, the well-known Egyp- tian provocateur is staging the af- fair. The latter got in touch with a Communist who had just finished a term of imprisonment and asked him to initiate the organization of a Com- taunist congress. The Communist was told that the Soviet representative was thinking of appointing him as an agent for the purchase of cotton for the U. S. S. R., and finally the provocateur convinced him that he should agree to this appointment. pebble Agent. Alli-Shuchat <hereupon informed the police that a Communist congress had been held with “Agents from Moscow” participating. This provo- cateur declared that the Communists had drawn up a plan to assassinate the Egyptian king and to cause a revolution and that the “Moscow Communist Party” had already sent enough money for this purpose to Egypt. The Egyptian disciples of Joynson- Hicks who thought of staging a Com- munist conspiracy had the bottom knocked out of their plans. Even the police under pressure of the progres- sive Egyptian press suspected the statements of the provocateur. In- deed they were forced in the end to disavow their own agent and to hand are alone responsible for the present him over for trial. \Great Silence in U.S. State Department on Standard Shell Oil War WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (FP).— Not a word of comment was obtain- able at the state department, after Standard Oil of New York issued its formal declaration of defiance of | Royal Dutch Shell in the worldwide | oil war based on Standard’s buying oil from the Soviet government for its India market. The department’s decision that American firms could trade with Sov- iet Russia was ued by former Sec- retary Colby in 1920. Hughes sus- tained Colby, and has, more recently, contract with the Soviet government Standard is to sell in India in compe- tition with Royal Dutch Shell. ARMS SMUGGLING MEXICO CITY, Jan. 18—That foreign agencies are smuggling arms and munitions into Mexico to aid the counter-revolutionary forces was re- vealed yesterday when Mexican Cus- toms inspectors discovered pistols and cartridges on board the German steamship Schleswig Holstein. _The arms were discovered while the inspectors were going thru the crew’s quarters. PROTEST U.S. WAR) IN LATIN AMERICA (Continued from Page One) campaign against the National army in the mountain districts of Nica ragua, the war department today in- structed the commanding general of | the Panama district to deliver to the marines at Managua at once mules and supplies for the drive. The ordgr called for 60 pack mules in condition for field service, one es- cort wagon, 90 days’ field rations for the animals, shoes, harness, veter- inary supplies and other equipment sufficient for three months. | n- * * * Planes Bomb Posts. United States marine airplanes have been bombing the Liberal out- posts continually for the last three days. Reports of the bombing opera- tions have been issued by Col. L.M. Gulick, commanding the marin? The Amerian marine officers de- spair of making any further advance against the Liberals without re-en- | forcements and are confining them-| selves to air raid until the arrival of new troops. } * ote Opposition Develops. MANAGUA, Jan. 18.—The meas- ure calling for complete American | control of the elections in Nicaragua next October received a slight set-| back in the chamber of deputies whih has voted for 2 modified sub- stitute measure. The deputies declare that American control of the elec- tions is impossible under Nicaraguan } law, as no foreigner is permitted to! hold office. | The superceded bill, conforming to the wishes of the American state de- partment, was rammed thru the Nica- raguan senate which is solidly packed with reactionaries. But the measure has met with some opposition in the chamber, a number of groups and individuals opposing it. It is being hinted that conservatives of the Chamorro faction are attempting to defeat the American bill in revenge for the State Department’s refusal to recognize Chamorro as a legiti- mate candidate in the forthcoming elections. The American measure provides for Americans as presidents of every election board in the country. Many of the poll “watchers” would be ma- rines, BOSTON, Jan. 17.— Over 1100 workers in 25 Haverhill shoe factories have been compelled to accept a wage reduction of from 10 to 20 per cent, to take effect immediately, it was i } | i | | oil trust for supplies of oil which | POLE-LITHUANIA PACTFALLS THRU Waldemaras Insists on Return of Vilna WARSAW, Jan. 18.—The relations between Poland and Lithuanian which border on a state of open war were further strained yesterday when the Lithuanian government flatly rejec ed Poland’s proposal for a conference at Riga to discuss traffic across the as counsel for Standard, approved its | border. Premier Waldemaras of Lithu- | | ania made it clear that it did not recognize the present frontier and would not discuss border relations un- |less she recovered Vilna. The relations between Poland and Lithuania have remained strained in spite of the much-heralded agreement supposed to have been reached(at the | League of Nations meeting last |month. Lithuania has made it clear | that no peace is possible between the two countries unless she recovers Vilna, while Poland has made it equally clear that she will not return Vilna. Anniversary of Soviet Armenia [8 Celebrated The Seventh anhiversary of the for- mation of Soviet Armenia was cele- brated last Sunday at the Adams Memorial Church, E. 30th St., jointly by the Armenian fraction of the Workers (Communist) Party and Ar- menian fraternal organizations. The speakers represented the Ar- menian Benevolent Union, American Aid to Soviet Armenia, the Armenian Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER, was among the speakers. KAISER OVERPAID. BERLIN, Jan. 18.—Claiming 750,- 000 marks had been overpaid in an- nuities to the former kaiser, Prussia today appealed to the court of arbi- tration to recover that sum. COURT AIDS KAISER. BERLIN, Jan. 18.—The Prussian Supreme Court has confirmed a tem- porary injunction forbidding Erwin Piscater, Communist playwright, to depict Wilhelm in a play titled “Ras- putin.” | | Red Cross and the Workers Party. | BRITISH TEXTILE STRIKE LOOMS AS CONFERENCE ENDS Workers Urge Strike in Spite of Leaders MANCHESTER, Eng., Jan. 18.— The conference between the various | cotton workers’ unions and the Cot- | ton Manrfacturers Association held | yesterday ended when the representa- | tives of the workers flatly refused the | | demands of the employers for a 12% | | per cent reduction in wages and an| |inerease of from 48 to 52 hours per | | week. Approximately 100,000 work- | jers are affected. | The likelihood of another confer- ence in the near future became ap-| jparent when the union delegates to | the conference agreed to a proposal | of the mill owners that an investiga- tion be made by a government com- | mittee on the condition of the indus-) | try. | While most union leaders put their jfaith in a government commission, the majority of workers, it is be- jlieved, favor an immediate strike. Minority leaders are urging a walk- out to prevent the wage cuts and an increase in hours in the whole cotton goods industry. | The unions were represented at! yesterday’s conference by 130 dele- gates and the employers by 40. The government commission is expected to report in about two weeks. | ‘Soviet Union Envoy Arrives in France PARIS, Jan. 18.—Dogalevsky, new | Soviet Union ambi dor to France, | arrived here yesterday accompanied by his wife and daughter. Dolalevsky, who was appointed to! succeed Christian Rakovsky, was for-! merly ambassador to Japan. | Kursky Confirmed as USSR Envoy to Italy | MOSCOW, Jan. 18—Official an-} }nouncement was made today that | Dmitri Kursky, commissar for justice! |and regarded as one of the ablest commissars of the Soviet government, has been appdinted Soviet ambassa- dor to Italy succeeding Leo Kam- |enev, who lo& his post because of | his affiliations with the Trotsky Op- position. | 1 Arrested for Buying Anti-Fascist Paper | TURIN, Italy, Jan. 18.—Because | {he had purchased an anti-fascist | newspaper, the well-known writer, | | Pitigrilli, was arrested in Paris, it | was learned today. | The police searched the writer's | publishing house and placed him | under arrest upon finding the news- | Sovi Imperialist Envoy of Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to and ‘friend of fascist Italy, who is one of the soft-soap artists in Wall Street’s delegation to the Pan- American Conference. MURDER SOLOMON Native Revolt Against Heavy Taxes LONDON, (By Mail).—Twenty-five natives were killed and 200 “suspects” taken prisoners by the punitive ex- pedition sent to the Solomon Islands by the Australian government as the result of the rising of natives in Ma- laiti Islands. The natives rebelled against the poll-tax, imposed to drive them off the land and force them to work for white planters—they were also in re- volt against ‘the conditions under which labor is recruited. TROOPS OUT FOR BOLIVIA REVOLT LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. $8.—The dis- covery of a.revolutionary plot here has led to the arrest of sixteen | deputies and senators today. Two in- fantry regiments and two batteries of artillery were called into La Paz to prevent an uprising. A hasty meeting of the Cabinet has been called to consider the situation. Ea Fee 3 (Exploited Indian peasants of Bolivia rose in an armed revolt last year that was barely put down by the government.) On Espionage Charge BRATISLAVA, Czecho - slovakia, Jan. 18—Eight persons have been arrested here on the charge of carry- | paper. | BETTER. PARIS, Jan. 1 hicago gunmen | please take noti Two French gun- | |men early yesterday held up John | Maxson, an American student from | Elizabeth, N. J., and demanded his money. Maxson emptied his pockets | of the 25 francs they contained, and told the bandits that this was all he had. The hold-up men, out of the goodness of their hearts, returned five francs to him. FRENCH G ing on espionage for Hungary. Two of the four men arrested are said to have occupied important po- | sitions in a military bureau here. Nail Vatican Lie MOSCOW, Jan. 18.—Reports pub- lished in other countries that the gov- ernment of the Soviet Union had passed a death sentence against the Pope were branded a “malignant joke,” by Tass, the Soviet news agency. ot Campaign Page Three ‘CONCLUDE WAGE AGREEMENTS IN USSR INDUSTRY Appropriate Money to Increase Wages | (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, . 18.—The campaign for the conclusion of collective wage agreements in the principal indust {has been concluded thruout the Sc Union 3 Most industries have drawn up elab- jorate tar allowing for all jkinds of A total of |thirty million s been ap- |propriated for inc the wages |of the lowest paid wo Over 18 jof the 30 million rou will go to workers in the textile and metallurgic industries. Trade publ that the number of which re- quired solution by arbitration were | considerably lower this year than they | were last yea | | ISLAND NATIVES. sert votce Raid tomes | BELGRADE, Jan. 18.—Serbian po- jlice are making the death of Velimir | Prelitch, the Skoplje sub-prefect, to |make a minute investigation of Ma- |cedonian nationalist activities in |southern Serbia. Prelitch was shot and killed by Hora Bouljev, an alleged revolutionist, who killed herself as Wear a Lenin Button soon as Prelitch fell | Every militant worker, every Com- munist, should get his fellow-worker to wear this button! The price | button. Over up to 25—10e per 25—Tc per button, Party organizations should order thru their district organizers. Other -~ working class organizations order from the National Office, Workers Party, 43 East 125th St., New York City. | | The button represents a beautiful picture of Lenin surrounded by a lively group of children. Around the | whole scene are the words: “Organ- ize the Children.” Every workers’ child should wear | this button and every working class parent should get this button for his children, These children’s buttons may be ordered from the Young Pioneers of America, 43 East 125th St., New York City. The prices are: Up to ten, 10c per button; orders of from 10 to 100, Te per button; orders of over 100, 5¢ per button. WORKER. learned today. GREETINGS! The New York Section of The International Labor Defense extends its heartiest birth- day greetings to the lusty four-year-old—THE DAILY WORKER. In its fight for imprisoned workers THE DAILY WORKER has always waged a bitter struggle consistent with the ideals and line of the International Labor Defense. During the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations and strikes and during the successful fight to save Greco and Carillo from the electric chair, as during other labor defense campaigns, the New York section of the I. L. D. has always received the unfailing support of THE DAILY The 41 New York branches of the International Labor Defense unite in wishing THE DAILY WORKER and its loyal and militant staff many years of continued effort. LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER! International Labor Defense New York Section ROSE BARON, Secretary.