The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1928, Page 3

— THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928 Page Three War Lords Murder More Than 72,000 Workers in 1927, Figures Reveal REACTIONARIES OF KUOMINTANG | BREAK WITHUSSR Arrest of “Workers in Shanghai Continues MOSCOW, (By Mail).—More thas | 72,000 people were executed by the Chinese war lords in 1927, according | to figures made public by the “Chi- nee Society for the Victims of the Liberation Movement.” The number of those wounded total 37,628, while the number of those arrested tota! 46.166, according to the society. During the period of January- March, 3,460 people were executed and murdered, 2,219 wounded and 4,- 683 arrested. In the period April- August, after the betrayal of Chiang Kai-shek and other generals, 26,154 people were executed and murdered, 29,189 were wounded and 25,113 ar-| rested. During the period September- | October, the respective figures were: 5,487, 2,270 and 8,420. | Apart from that, at least 30,000| peasants were killed in the Honan) province by Fin Yu-hsiang. Over -| 600 people were executed in Novem-! ber-December primarily in South | China; 4,000 were wounded, and 8,000 | { i arrested. Tens of thousands of revolutionary workers and peasants” are now on an! illegal footing as death sentences | await them. During the period of | March-August, 33,200 revolutionaries | were registered who were in need of aid, The arrested are almost in all! cases considered as hostages and can be killed at any moment without even a trial. The prison conditions are horrible. The cells are not heated in the winter. Food is offered very rarely and only in a rotten state. The death rate in the prisons is unusually high. | All the imprisoned, executed, mur-} dered, wounded, and those in hiding, | constituted the flower of the revolu-| tionary movement of China. * * * (Speeial Cable To DAILY WORKER.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 8.—Accorditig to reports from Nanking, the plenum of the Kuomintang which just closed, annulled all former resolutions adopt- ed by the Kuomintang in regard to the policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. Poe wt SHANGHAI, Feb. 8. — Séores #& workers have been arrested in a seriés of raids following the declaration ¢ martial law in the native section # this city. The Shanghai authorities are taking measures to suppress the strikes which have been sweeping the city. The last few months have been marked by a rapid increase in the number of strikes: MEXICO OUTLAWS DYNAMITE TRAIN MEXICO CITY, Feb. 8.—Five per- sons were seriously injured yesterday when counter-revolutionists dynamited a passenger train in the state of Col- ima, aceording to reports received here. The destruction of bridges, tracks and telegraph lines disrupted train service from El Paso, A large force of federal troops was immediately sent in pursuit of the reactionaries, who, it is expected, will be captured before they ean reach the hills. Fourteen counter-revolutionists were killed yesterday in skirmishes with federal troops in the regions of Pihtia= ‘mo and Cerro del radio agees James P. Cannon U. S. for Labor Defense ‘THE POINCARE PROGRAM ‘MURDER CHARGE | Socialists Aid Tory Finay Financial Measures| AGAINST GERMAN _FASCIST LEADERS By $y GABRIEL PER PERI (Poreign Editor, L’Humanite.) PARIS, Jan. 28 (By mail) Phe financial discussion heralded with such | | a fanfaré began two days ago in the French Chamber. Apparently it will | \Officers wy ie Black | | resolve itself into a@ series of ie tes in which the financial experts and | Reichswehr Arrested : B | < chnicians boost of their rival re- {ceipts for the benefit of the electoral | * a | gallery. It would be proof of an amaz-| BERLIN, Feb. 8.—Two ane | ing naivete and a strange misunder- | ioned officers and two other of- standing of facts to imagine for an |fi¢ers of Germany’s secret army, the | ‘instant that the discussion begun in | Black Reichswehr,” have been lodged q |the French parliament will draw the |i death cells in the “murderers’ tier” | lightest angry rejoinder from the of Ploetzensee Prison, near Berlin, | Poincare cabinet. The National Union | following the refusal of the German | |represents the union of all the bour- | Supreme Court to overturn their con- | | viction on the charge of killing fellow |, e | | | 3 | + |geois forces around the program of i the big bourgeoisie. Radicals and so- | soldiers t@ forestall “betrayal’ of the cialists are united in varying deg: | secrets of the fascist army, it was Stenting Fake “Peace” Pact With France | Chipote, Neither the one nor the other intend | to struggle against it effectually. | Nothing is so characteristic of the ? | grouping of political forces in France than the two addresses which were made at the opening of the financial debate by the socialist Bedouce, on one side, and by M. Francois-Poncet, the representative of the Comite des Forges, on the other. The socialist spokesman recom- mended, as a solution of the present difficulties, a new effort on the part of those who have already “saved the struggling country.” Conforming to the program of Jouhaux, he demand- ed that a certain control of the na- tional economy be granted to the| workers. The recommendations of | the socialist delegate envisage a sort | of economic parliament where the la- \bor unions would collaborate with the | representatives of big capital. Thus | | | | | | GABRIEL PERI. GEN. SANDINO ON MOVE AGAIN Rush Marines Against | Revolutionary Leader bosses and incorporated into the ma-} chines of the capitalist state. This program doés not differ es- {sentially from that developed by M. |F. Poncet, the spokesman of the Com- lite des Forges. He also recommends intensive production and class col- laboration. And he also solicits the have been}assistance of the most cléar-sighted 1 | elements among the workers to se- jeure the rationalization of the pro- ductive machinery of the bourgeoisie. Thousands of marines withdrawn from the region around FE) aceording to a report re- \ ceived in New York from Managua. } jand are being ‘concentrated ae be vie eee SIMON TRIES TO BREAK BOYCOTT against Matagalpa in order to trap the forces | of General Sandino. The new action | on the part of the Americans is an admission that Sandino has eluded all efforts of the Americans to destroy his troops or capture him and the campaign further north is a failure Reports ftom the interior of the country go to confirm the rumors that | General Sandino is advancing téwards | | learned today. The “Black Reichswehr” was or. | ganized with the consent of the Ge: man government and the active sup- port of the Ministry of Defence, ‘dur- ing the critical inflation years of 1922 ard 1928. During those years Ger- many feared a workers’ revolt and did not believe that the force of 100,000 men which the Versailles Treaty al- lowed the Reich would be strong enough to meet an attack. The “Black Reichswehr” was dis- solved in 1923. It turned against the government and through _ open counter-revolution tried to overturn the republic and establish a fascist dictatorship, Through the “Black Reiehswehr,” |labor divisions have written some of the darkest chapters in Germany’s post-war history. 100,000 men, the “Black Reichswehr” had to be kept secret. Any German even mentioning the name of the or- ganization was put in jail as a traitor. The penalty hanging over the mem-}| bers. of the organization for betrayal was swift and certain death. Death penalties were imposed by a secret, self-constituted Feme Court, based upon the Medieval “Vehm- gericlte” except that the aecused never knew of the charges against him until it was too late. PRAVDA HITS AT REFORMIST MEET Points Out Failure of | While the Coolidge gove aration for the next imperia amer France. - sadory sn Robert EB Olds, under-s war, it signs a fake peace pact with The picture shows, seated, nt is building a huge navy in prep- Paul Claudel, | secretary of state. French ambas- PARIS, (By Mail)—The “I ité,” official organ of the Commun- Human Because the Versailles Tr eaty|ist Party of France, published a let- ' they would be firmly bound to their | limited Germany’s armed forces 0/ter from Maxim Gorky to one of his Here is the letter: I do not | | Billgarien friends, } “Dear Comrade Bakalov, | know whether there is any sense ap- | pealing to the Bulgarian henchmen and their to hold the toilers in slavery, these people will not stop at any “The Sacco-Vanzetti case h how naive it was to think that such) effect humanitarian feelings among humaneness. Endeavoring appeals can have any “ and} arouse | henchmen. “The ruling cla: | the and Christianity, ete. hypocrisy and falsehood. s often refer to the gospel humanitarianism of They are |were before. This is particularly clear if one recalls the savage hatred Maxim Gorky Writes on Terrorism in Bulgaria But that is all} now more hypocritical than they ever | the south and definitely ‘end the| stories of his flight to Tonduras News which is brought in by natives state that the army of independence is ‘ccurely tidden in the trackless interior jungles where they are pre- paring to renew their operations. WASHING FON, Feb. 7.—Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee has s{fered for immediate consideration, a resolution a: from the secretary of the navy all information in his possession as to the nunibets of men and ships used. the ¢ost and losses, in the interven- tion in Nicaragua. Hope he de- mandéd copies of reports’ by naval officers as to the situagion in Nica- ragua during this war. On objection by Shortridge of California, the resn. lation went over for a day. ng Rivera Foe Deported From Buenos Aires | BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 8.—Churged with en‘éring the country without! “authorization,” Col. Macia, Catalon- ian Separatist leader, has been ex- pelled from Argentina. Macia, and his secretary, Gassol, were put on a ship for Montevideo. Macia had been refused a v by the eee consul at Montevideo. Tour. Fifty cities have sent in requests tour of James P. Cannon, for meeting dates in the forthcoming national secretary of International Labor Defense, on the American frame-up system it was announced yesterday. tion are: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, California; Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash-ngton; Spokane, Wash- ington, Denver, Colorado, as well as other cities in the Colorado strike Pittsburgh, Pa.; Newark, N. J., Arnold, Pa.; Detroit, Mich.; Mesick, Mich.; Kansas City, Mo; Chicago, Ill; South Bend, Ind.; St. Paul, Minne. apolis, Minnesota, Toledo, Ohio Philadelphia, Boston, Mass. Washington, D. C.; Milwaukee, Wise.; Martins Ferry, Ohio.; Rochester, N. ¥.; Utica, N. Y.; Youngstown, Ohio, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Muskegon, Mich.; Gary, Ind.; Southern ns mining points; Superior, Wise.; Du- luth, Minn.; Passaic, N. J., and many other points. Starts in West. The first séction of Caririon’s tour will cover the entire western coast, Chlifornia, Oregon, Washington as well as Montana, Utah, Colorado, the vicinity, Detroit, Pie "Bt Among the cities making applica-?-- exact date of the routin, nounced soon. While on the coi visit the political prisons at Quéentia and Folsom where Mooney, Matt Schmidt, ings, McNamara and ot fined, ard also the Walla Walla.prisoners, among whom! are Johi Lamb, Eugene Barnett and} others, Thosé wishing to make an engage- ment for Comrade Cannon should write to the national office of Inter- national Labor Defense, Street. t, Cannon San Tom SIGNALMEN AWAIT ACTION. CHICAGO, (FP) Feb. 8—The Bxotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, which was slated for disciplinary. ac- ‘ton by the A. F. of L. executive council at Miami for refusing to sur- render 5600 it eignalnen to the Brother- wood of Workers, as or- dered by ie Los Angéles conyention, has not yet heard of any action against it. Tb- Wouncil has adiourned. will} Warren Bill- | erS are con-| Centralia and! 80. E. ail Success of Indian Acts | Seen in Decision LONDON, Feb. 8.—The widespread strike movement in India and the in- jtensification of the boycott have | forced the British government to at- |tempt a “compromise” with elements jin India. In the midst of an uproar, Premier | Baldwin yesterday read to the House of Commons extracts from a letter. of Sir John Simon to the viceroy of India, in which the head of the Brit- lish Statutory Commission makes a play for the support of the conserva- tive elements among the leadership of the Indian nationalist movement. Simon proposes that all documents {and material prepared by the Indian fand local governments shall be sub- |mitted not to the Statutory Commiis- sion but to a “joint free conference.” |The conference, which will consist of | the British commissioners with Simon, will be supplemented by an equal |number of Indians chosen by the In- dian legislature. The new scheme of Sir John Simon’s is viewed as a direct attempt; to bréak the official boyeott by the} Indian legislators who have refused to gather or submit the ‘ }and m; Is” Whick the Commission proposes |Lamont | Bor House of Morgan W. Lamont, part- ner in J. P. Morgan & Co. was tece! ved this morning by! King Fuad of Egypt. He will have lunch tomor- row with Lord Lioyd, British High Commissioner, Altho the pur- pose of Lamont’s vist to Egypt has not ‘as yet been made public, it is! believed to be of a purely business na- cure. . W. Lamont Morgan Aide Chain Store Bakers’ Low Wage Make BreadCheap CHICAGO, (FP) Feb. 8.—Redueed ptices of A. & P. chain store bread are due to non-union conditions in their bakeries. Bakers are paid only factories, members of the bakers’ union assert. The Chicago Federa- tion of Labor has put the A. & P. stores on the unfair list, The Illinois taken ficewie Federation of Labor has done| size is } portant problems facing the working “documents | | derstand the magnificence of the ef-| | forts of a people who overthrow their | CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 8. — Thomas | |minimized in the report. $25 a week and colored women work- i ers get starvation wages in the bread a leading article devoted to the ses-| masters of their country. sion of the executive committee of “I never believed in the charitabil the Amsterdam arto ad ee ity of the bourgeoisie and I belic “Pravda” declares that the I. F. T. U-| aven still less now after the abomin- |is not merely unable to solve thé im-} s416 world war and after the ten | years of numberh the toilers of the U. class movement, but is even unable ee against) to solve its own organizational prob- lems. “The Amsterdam leaders are trying | to save their own position and the unity of the International which has been endangered by national contra- dictions, by an anti-Communist cam- paign on an_ international scale,” Pravda says. “They will however, not be successful. The present crisis of the Amsterdam International is no the Bulgarian government for nesty for political prisoners. “However, if you think that this may be of some use, publish this} letter so’ that those who rouse hatred by their action among the people may read it. “MAXIM GORKY. “Sorrento, Dec. 22, 1927.” “That is why I will not appeal to} am-} ‘TERMS OF “PEACE” PACT PUBLISHED |Articles of Treaty With | | France Made Public | WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—The new} ‘ranco-American arbitration treaty made publi¢ today by the Senate | Foreign Relations committee. |_ The treaty carried four articles, The | | \first provided for investigation of any \disputes arising between the two |countries, wherein “ordinary diplom- ic proceedings have failed,” by the }permanent international | created by treaty of 1914. The second le provided for submission of more serious disputes to the Hague! for arbitration. The third laid down the conditions y of the bourgeoisie towards R , al Amster dam Int’l Bg as aegis ‘under which arbitration in the above country where the workers ejected) onner would not be invoked. The MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (By Mail).—In| the parasites and want to be the| exceptions were domestic questions, ques-ions involving a third party, |those touching upon the.Monroe doc- trine and thosé involving France’s re- | ions to the League of Nations, The | final arti provided for the method jof ratification. pp ERS ee “ JOBLESS, KILLS SELF. | maintain his family of five children, jand with the birth of another im- pending, Alton Carricks, 35, truck | driver, living within a few blocks of ee capitol, turned on the gas in the kitchen and died, the night of Feb. 1./ | The Carricks had struggled against||) Bor? for 15 years together. temporary one, but the commence- ment of the unavoidable end.” Society of Friends of USSR Formed in France | PARIS, (By Mail.)—A society of| the Friends of the U. S. S. R.. has} rently been organized in France. he Society has now issued a mani. 6 to the toilers of France. whieh | ains the following: “We appeal to all those. who un- former bourgeois order. We appeal to all those who hate war, to all those | \who want to know the truth about) the U. S. S. R, and to spread it} among others.” | | FOR 1. Organization of the unorgan- ized. Miners’ Relief. Recognition and Défense ef | the Soviet Union. | 4, A Labor Party. 6. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Negligence Is Veiled In Submarine Report’ WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8—A voluminous report of the S-4 disaster which cost the lives of 40 men has been recvived by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Gross negligence in {sending the submarine out in a storm | directly from the repair shop with- out an accompanying tender to ward off surface vessels has been greatly i Although the findings warrant " court-martial in the opinion of many ‘navy officers, Wilbur is expected to drop the entire affair to save the face of his department. Bills, Always Few, Now to Be Smaller WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—Smaller sized paper currency will be placed in circulation about the end of this year, it has been announced by the treasury depai ent. The reduced- | please cheek this box. | UNEMPLOYED AND STRIKERS more than HEP) IN A REAL FIGHT! Join a Fighting Party! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America | Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party / (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, If you aré on strike or unemployed and eantiot pay Initiation fee | and réceive dues exempt stamps until employéd. (Bnctosed find $1.00 for initiation fee and one month's dues.) AGAINST 1. Injunctions. 2. Company Unions. 3. Unemployment. 4. Persecution of the Foreign Born. 5. War. 43 E, ADMITTED WITHOUT INITIATION } to effect a saving of |“insignificant crea- | arose when he | protest. | quieted the audience. commisson | WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Unable to!}| WORKERS JEER (MACDONALD AT LONDON RALLY Speaker ’ Protest Police Guard From Worl Ker's LONDON, Feb. Donald, jer of wa. booed and jeered by work last night when he ad- f the attempted dress a rally London Labor ty at Albert last night. W. ers in the ga mercilessly heckled MacDonald and his reference to the demonstrators as ‘ar- Hall y tures” only pro- voked more deris- M. Bondfield, ive laughter reformist Shouts of “traitor” attempted to quiet the A large number of police finally When Margaret Bondfield, another Labor leader, at- tempted to speak, however, the uproar was renewed. A free-for-all-fight developed in the |hall when the stewards attempted to eject a number of demonstrating workers from the hall. Order was finally restored in the hall. With the recent conferences |tween leaders of the Tr Congress and the big Bri trialists for the establis of “lass peace” and the wage cuts that fiave gone into effect in a large num- ber of industries, the popularity of MacDonald has waned considerably. They Lie The capitalist press lies about Russia. Get the “low down” on how the lies are manufac- tured by “The Press Bandits” INPRECOR for JANUARY 12. (Vol, 8. No. 2) A gr murda and Rosa Lux helm Pieck ¢ tant 4 aphic. description 1 A yearly sub. $6. Six 10¢ a single issue. Workers Library Publishers 39 €. 12S* St. | NEW YoRK | to OU’ g readers — } Many of our readers like | to. get the DAILY WORKER | at their newsstands or news- dealers, and for various rea- sons cannot get it. 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