The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORK ER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1928 Page Three New Wave ie White Terror in South China; 39 Communists Are Executed MILITARISTS AT WUHAN CONTINUE TOKILL WORKERS | Peasants Control Many | Kwantung Villages Special’ Cable To DAILY WORKER.) | SHANGHAI, Jan. 23.—Th hive terror in Wuhan and other cities 01 south China has increased. On Jan 20th alone thirty-seven Communists | were shot in Wuhan. The executions | are still going on. 1 On the island of Macao (near} Hongkong) several hundred persons suspected of Communist leanings | were arrested. Twelve of them were | handed over to the Cantonese au-/ thorities, who, it. is believed, will execute them. In spite of the terrorism, workers | and peasants are still in control of large sections of Kwangtung province, | where they have set up their own gov- | ernments. The situation in Shanghai is still | tense with the native authorities at- tempting to break the numerous strikes now on. The Nanking govern- ment is reported to have assured the | British-American Tobacco Company | and the Standard Oil Company of New York that it would prevent strikes among the workers employed | by these companies in return for aj “oan” of $5,000,000. New U. S. Mission to USSR Seen by Coyle CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (FP). — “Re-/ markable interest in world peace and also in the Soviet Union is being shown in labor quarters all over the | west,” says Albert F. Coyle, former editor of the Locomotive Engineers’ ! Journal, who has been addressing western labor groups and others. He recently returned to America from extended travel thru the U.S. S R. On the Pacific coast and in the cther states in which he spoke, Coyle was surprised at the number of con- servative labor men, some in prom- inent positions, who asked how they could arrange to make the trip be the Soviet Union. “So much of what has been handed out to them from of- ficial channels in this country has proved to be bunk,” says Coyle, “that they want to see for themselves the new Russia of which I told them. Quite a number will probably join a yew American labor mission that is likely to leave for*the U.S. S. R. this summer.” | International problems affecting labor are receiying closer attention than formerly, Coyle reports, and chief among them that of world peace. oe Red ahor Int] A Losoveki, secret pec | LOCKOUT MEX AN, TEXTILE WORKERS Communist Union Puts Up Strong Fight MEXICO CITY, By Mail).-—-The | long period of depression through which the Mexican textile industry has been passing has been ace panied by bitter str ugeles between the textile workers and the foreign own- ers, most of whom are French. Work- ers in many mills have been locked | out. The Mexican textile workers are organized in three groups. One is affiliated with the anarcho-syndical- ist CGT (General Confederation of Workers)} the second with the CROM; and the third is an autonomous union led by the Mexican Communist Party. The textile unions are among the most militant in Mexico, and have fought consistently against lockouts. In their efforts to close down the factories the big textile owners have formed a united front. Several plants have already been shut down in Mexico City, Vera Cruz and Rio Blanco (the largest textile center). It is believed the owners plan to keep the factories long enough to demor- alize the workers, cut wages, and finally break up the unions. In this situation the CROM is inactive and the CGT irresolute. The Communist Party alone has organized meetings and called on the workers to fight against the lockouts. The Party has issued a call for a united front of trade unions, pointing out that this lockout will effect not only textile workers but transport workers, bakers and others as well. Nearing Analyzes Forces Back of Chinese Uprising “The Chinese movement is not only a movement away from imperialism it is a movement toward a new social order,” declares Scott Nearing in “Whither China” which has just been. published by the International Pub- lishers, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York ®— City. Scott Nearing has made a first | hand study of the Chinese situation, | having visited both northern and southern China in the stormy spring, summer and fall of 1927. he “If China,” continues, “can shake off the grip of Western im- perialism ...and es‘ablish the foundations of a new social order . . then Asia and Africa will follow suit, Since the Asiatic area includes two- thirds of the world’s population such a development would carry in its train unprecedented advantages ic the human race. No culture move- ment in history has ever included so vast a portion of mankind. No cul- ture movement has ever struck so suddenly or so deeply into the tradi- tional life of the world’s masses. | Literally, therefore, in vastness at: least, this Asiatic revolution is with- | out historic parrallel.” Basic Forces. Scott Nearing visited China after a thoro survey of books already pub- | lished had convinced him that very few of them published in English hac even attempted an analysis of the so- cial and economic forces underlying | the Chinese revolution. The vast num- | ber of books on Chinese situation al- ready published, he found, contained little material that “dealt with the industrialization of China; with wages and standards of living; with the labor movement; with shifts of population, particularly from country to city; with land distribution; with the peasants movement and with those other institutions and activities’ that seemed to constitute the driving force in the Chinese events after’ 1919.” “Whither China” after analyzing these basic forces, and outlining the history of imperialist aggression in China, discusses the probable out-| come of the class struggle in China, and_its probable influence on world history. Explaining the betsayal of the | ploited masses on the other. SCOTT NEARING. revolution by the Chinese middle classes, Scott Nearing who was in China at the time, says, “Chinese em- poyers and Chinese landlords faced with the growing militancy of the labor and peasant movements decided that the time had come to make a stand. The mass movement threat- ened the exploiting power of the Chi- nese business class and the Chinese gentry, who stood between the im- perialists- on the one side and the ex- The Chinese ruling class had encouraged the students to boycott foreign goods ‘and shad benefited when the workers struck against foreign manufacturers and merchants, but when the mass tnovement threatened their own econ- omic position, they were quick to] The N act,” dete ‘unasnecaaamanan ITALY FURNISHES ITS ALLIES WITH Little Entente | Protest to League GENEVA. Sans 2 ‘taly is arming all of el Europe is the charge made in indentical protest notes presented by League of Nations today by the members of the Little Entente—- vochoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rou- ry that Italy was hipments of arms to Hungary violation of all existing treaties. in The protest note not only cites | International of Labor Unions, whe} -hipments of arms to Hungary, but |has announced the agenda for the harges tha ve amounts of arms | Fourth Congress of the Interng ational | ond -niGnt Site” Rent “to other | {which opens Moscow, March 10th. |-ountries. Italy is charged with hav- | | The R. 1. L. U. represents 16,000,000 lone smuggled arms into Germany for (workers. jthe purpose of furnishing Adolph Hitler’s fascist movement in Ger- | jawany. The arms, it is charged. were sent | y the Italian government-controlled ! organization, Commercio Universale } 1 Ferrumenta Ordigni. Other ay se are said to have been made to | aay yee customs officials are said to have been completely aware of the fact that arms were being smuggled thru Austria in cases mark- ed as carrying vegetables and other aiseaonaalee HORTHY ARRESTS 13 MORE WORKERS (Special to The Daily Worker.) VIENNA, Jan. 23.—Thirteen Hun- garian workers have been seized and imprisoned on charges of Commun- ist activity. The Horthy government is keeping the men in jail where they are subjected to the cruelest tortures. Among those arrested were Holler, Glass and Papay. The Horthy offi- cials are reported to be holding the workers incommunicado, More ar- rests are threatening, the police state. Mexican Students to Urge Latin American Unity to to Fight U.S. MEXICO CITY, by Mail).—A committee of Mexican students to tour the Latin American countries propagating the idea of reciprocal citizenship was appointed at a recent anti-imperialist meeting held in Mex- ‘ico city by the National Students | League. The meeting was addvessed by Venezuelan and Chilean exiles as well as by Mexican leaders of the move- ment against United States imperial} ism. Hundreds Die as Plague LONDON, raging in Dekkan, India, causing hundreds of deaths daily, according jto advices from Hyderabad today. | Fifty thousand have fled from Hy- | derabad. and business is demoralized. | (Dekkan embraces a large tract lying in the eentral part of the South | Indian Peninsula, including the prov- | lince of Hyderabad.) Greeks Banish Refugees CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 23— “ollowing the public hangings of hree men alleged to have partici- pated in an attempt against the life! |of Kemal Pasha in 1926, the Greek | | government has suppressed all anti-} Kemalist newspapers in Greece, and) | has exiled all the leading refugees to! | “be Aegean Islands. The action has|/ been favorably commented on by the | Kemalist press. * 4% Fear Conversions. Turkish officials are reported to be investigating the alleged conversion of several Moslem girls to Christian- ity at an American school in Broussa. Turkish law prohibits religious propa- ganda in the school: | Jap Labor to Put Up 94 TOKIO, Jan. 28. inety-four la- bor candidates will vun in the coming elections in Japan, and organizers an- nounce that they will double the num- ber before the balloting begins. It is expected that Labor will capture a number of the seats. Among the labor candidates theve are reported to be factory workers, streetcar con- ductors and a sprinkling of profes- sional men. OSLO, Norway, Jan. 23.—-Pollow- ing unsuccessful attempts to form a ARMS, MUNITIONS: Sends | That fascist | s allies in Cen- | The note followed the discov- | sending lerge | ship- | j Sweeps Southern India’ Jan. 23.—A plague is} ‘Sword Follows Cross BRITISH MINERS’ “mss Fascist Ousted CHILDREN DYING OF STARVATION Misery Widespread as A Unemployment Grows By HARVEY O'CONNOR LONDON, (FP) Jar “In Welsh valleys, in Yor and Durham, there are pund of chil- | dren, especially babies, whose chance the ire of life is precarious if help is | brought to them. There are expec- tant mothers who have no clothing for the infants.” Oito Ge; fascist minister of de- The Westm fense in ( removed | | ‘ from his vher discovered the plight of | th invested” several million words in a charity appeal i Shesstter in! ding the Children Fu Another article | movie films. ieved to which | have helped in rganization of the} “Black Reich: MEXICO RAILWAYS. FIRING MANY MEN /To Slash Wages Despite | in this powerful sh daily, can hardly be accused of sensational- | ism, is headlined: 60,000 Homes Stricken by Starvation. | Funds sent to Blaina and Nanty. glo, | two Welsh mining towns, are served for providing one hot ay al day for men who are not receiving al penny from the state or the local com-} missioners in charge of poor law re-} the lief. By this course the little children Zz ie” NEEL Spicer, Rev. William A. | president of Seventh Day Adventists’ above, | conference and Rev. John L. Shaw, treasurer, who have left for missionary conference in China, Mis-|in each home will be saved in some} i i vari degree from the menace of starvation, 5 sionaries of the various churches have aes se ane eee ene ee Union Protest consistently carried on propaganda) acs | jmouth to feed.” M ICO CITY ,(By Mail) —The} board of directors of the Mexican| | Railways (under| Be, sige ialism. Thousands Jobless. Other parts of England are worse} Tot hs hit than South Wales. In Durham control 0: mer- | 50,000 miners have been completely ican capital) has issued an order to|* isméss all inspec- | tors on the line] running north from} the capital (This | is the most im-j portant. sectian of | the road, leading. to the United States border). Inspectors on all other lines jobless for months and the remaining 100,000 are the most part on short T0 GREET SIMON time. Unmarried men have been de- prived of the miserable 18 shillings | unemployment relief a week. There| Thousands of Indians are planning,are no other jobs—anyv rere—for |} to participate in a hartal or general | them. The married jobless miner is|| |given shillings weekly to support his}! strike in protest against the arrival | lwife and two shillings, of 50 cents, || of the British Statutory Commission |foy each of his children. | headed by Sir John Simon when it or Nowhere in western Europe, < arrives to investigate the government! probably anywhere on the continent! Luis Morones Will. be dismissed of India, according to reports from | houtside Poland, have great sections; “'"* * ‘j e later. A similar ig ‘of the population been reduced to such| Labor Faker — oyder was issued to Bombay and Delhi. The British com-| cheer mise y as festers in half a telegraphers. ‘The mission contains no Indian members. {dozen regions of Britain. Even non=| reduction in wages and personnel Despite the threats of the police ‘labor iapeerines are on jae ac- | will eventually effect all railway em- that no strikes for “potitical purposes” OS voce of miners’ families. Not | MOY SPR age | will be tolerated by the authorities, | only food is wanting, but even cloth-| This method of “solving the AS plans are being carried forward to re-| ing in the raw Welsh mining valleys. | | lem’ gi ee oe neg Ac ceive the commission with a general / | Children are dying of exposure, eee Mecioan pectin tng ean strike and mass demonstrations. But in the warm clubs of well-fed aus BL per cent xt Whe siete, al to | Besides the mass actions against |Tory politicians in the London West eaten: Mae it ei) Soe enues: The |j the commission, 50 members of the|/End nobody cares. The $35,000,000 | tracted strike of the railway | Indian legislative assembly are plan-|¢™uiser Rodney is commissioned for! Pp . y | union was broken by the Calles gov-| |service; the Kit-Kat Club still charges fish Rite wrt ape scly eo a gold guinea (§.10) for cover charge |e™mment and the CROM, (headad by | | A a . |and a drink; out in China, Burma and | Luis Morones). This has weakened aan pew roe bees ped the | Trak the Btitish machine guns are | the resistance of the union. mee es b vias pia i . busy; Winston Churchill and Tory The present situation follows the| eommussion Aas “Open. récamimended:) 4:4 bards conspire with Mussolini for | report of the Canadian Railway ex-| “WALL ST, RULE IN HAITI AIDED «BY PUPPET GOVT, Change C onstitatioik Approve Censorship PORT AU PRINCE, (By Mail) — | The puppet government of Haiti, completely dominated by the United 3) has passed thirteen amend to the cont strengthen the American dictators These amendment f Haiti, who is for all practical pur- give the preside’ poses, an appointee of the United States, greater control over the ju- dicial system, and give constitutional sanction to the pre: censorship which has prevailed in fact since the ‘American occupation in 1915. Haiti is dominated not only by American mari ne: ut by an Amer 2r who super- the “republic” ican high comm vises the affa of ‘and by various neial “advise Formally, it is rned by a presi- dent and a council of state of twenty- one members appointed by him and subject to his removal. The president | now in office is Luis Borno, a tool of the United States, who in 1926 had jhis couneil of state “re-elect” him to | office. Borno Recommends, The council of state has been exer- cising legislative functions since 1917, when the regular legislature was suspended by the United States fer refusing to ratify the acts of Amer- ican occupation. The thirteen con- stitutional amendments passed this | week were recommended by Borno and passed by the council. Another amendment limits the presidency to two non-consecutive | terms of six years each. A third pro- vides that the life term of supreme court judges be reduced to terms of ten years. A fourth amendment grants the president the power to change the present court personne! during a period of twelve months, after which appointments are not sub- ject to revocation. Change Courts. The amendments relating to the courts are significant because the Haitian courts have been one of the few institutions through which the natives have been able to express something of their hatred of Amer- ican “protectors.” In his 1926 report the American high commissioner at tacked the courts, declaring that “the foreigner is indeed bold who dares take his case to court. Trials by jury {aye farcical. The jury is always op- | posed to the government and can easily be swayed by racial or other The protest action is in accord with|the next world war, probably against | pert, Halloway, on the condition of ‘imagination and prejudices or by drawing upon its ympathy.” Nesies Struggle in Bar Unemployed From You Still Have a Chance to Transfer Your Money to a Voting in Elections Cooperative Institution, Without Any Loss of | Dividends LONDON, Jan. 23,—In an effort to ; stem the strength which the left wing | is gaining, the Bald- win government. will introduce a bill in the House of Commons providing for the dcisenfran- chisement of “pau- pers.” The measure. if passed wouid pre vent a large num- ber of unemployed workers from vot- ing. The bill, which would bar all recipients of poor relief from the polls, will be intredused by the conservatives at the coming ses- sion of parliament. Left wing lead- 5 jee are agitating against the meas- re. Guaranteed dividends are being paid ONS OR 6% FPS the 8. Baldwin Tory Leader RATiow Office: 69 FIFTH AVE., Cor. 14th St. TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 ‘More Stalling in U. S.- Franco “Peace” Treaty PARIS, Jan. 23.-The Monroe Doe | trine as well as the League of Na- tions may figure in the background of future diplomatic conversations re- garding America’s proposed treaty outlawing war, according to belief expressed here today. Foreign office officials expect some time to elapse before Secretary of State Kellogg replies to the latest mote from Foreign Minister Briand on the subject. They look to Secre- tary Kellogg to find a new formula for the term “wars of aggression.” 1928 May Be Big Year) LONDON, Jan. 23.—1928 may be || the most important year in histo; according to George Lansbury, Bri ish member of the Executive Coyneil of the League against Imperialism. “This year may decide whether Russia | | SECURED BY THE SECOND MORTGAGE $1,000 $500 coalition cabinet, King Haakon today requested Alfred Madsen, the labor leader to try to create a ministry. Jaborit ites heavy gains in the récent elections. made | perialism and whether I is to have a chance to work out hex own destiny, whether China will be resolutions recently passed by the All-! iho ibe Soot Union Union. the Mexican Railways. able to unite effectively inst im- India Nationalist Congress in session ! ast will .ad. at Madras. toward independence,” he said. ' - Dividends Are Being Paid From the First of January. Subsidiary of the United Workers Cooperative Association $250.000-29 Gold Bonds || Gold Bonds are being sold on installments and the smallest amount draws 6% dividends from the finst day of deposit. from the first day of deposit. NEW YORK, N. Y. ON THIS Second Block of Dwellings of the Cooperative Workers Colony. (Brovx Park East, at Allerton Avenue Sta., Bronx, N. YY. $100