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

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928 Page Thres Mexico Adopts More Strenuous Measures to Smash Counter-Revolution Soup for Starving Miners’ Chlidren in Pennsylvania Fields. REPORT MORROW GIVES HELP TO REACTIONARIES To Execute Terrorists Who Blow Up Tracks MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—-Counter- revolutionists found guilty of destroy- ing railway tracks will be executed on the spot. Those are the instruc- tions which the Mexican War Depart- ment has issuedgto all military com- manders. Reactionary bands have made a number of attempts to dyna- mite passenger trains and wreck rail- way tracks in the State of Jalisco. Thirty reactionaries have been ¢ap- tured and executed near Salamanca, in the State of Guanajuanto, accord- ing to reports received here. The re- actionaries were part of a band that attempted to capture and loot’’the town last Sunday. Troops are pursu- ing the remnants of the band. In a statement issued today, Min- ister of Interior Tejeda declared that ‘he disorders in the state of Quere- taro and Guanajuanto were part of the “anti-Government activities of Catholie fanatics” who revolted in 1926. * MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—Dwight wW. Morrow, the United States am- bassador, today refused to confirm or deny that he is acting or has agreed to act as mediator in the dispute be- tween the state ;and the Catholic chureh over the new national religi- ous laws. It was reported in Catholic circles that ambassador Morrow had used his influence with President Calles to have the latter receive in audience the Rev. Father John J. Burke, of Washington as an emissary from the vatican to try to arrange a com- promise. It is persistently reported that the initiative to have Rey. Father Burke come here orginated with Charles B. Warren and John B. Payne, who represented the United States in the “amity conference” held here five years ago. COOPS AID POOR SOVIET PEASANTS MOSCOW, (By Mail).-The net- work of credit co-operatives in the Moscow Gubernia unites 135,000 peas- ant households. The average percent- age of the credit societies is 35, but there are also societies uniting 75 per cent and over of the, poor peas- ants. Six million roubles of agricultural credit is handed out yearly. The capital of the credit co-opera- tives increases. They have now about 2 million roubles of peasant deposits. Towards the end of five years the amount will be ten millions. PHONE FROM U. S. TO GERMANY 0. K. BERLIN, American wireless telephone was placed in operation this afternooi., Chancellor Marx, Minisier of Com- munications, Schaizel and United States . Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman being the first to hold tele- phone conversations with the United States, They made successful calls to Washington, ‘talking with acting Secretary of State Olds and German ambassador Von _ Prittwitz-Gaffron. Transmission was excellent, every ‘word being perfectly understood. LEN SMALL WILL * * RUN ONCE MORE SPRINGFIFLD, TH Feh, .10.- About twelve hours after Governor len Small came out of a midnight conference with “Big Bill” Thompson, mayor of Chicago, and Frank L. Smith | who was ousted from his seat in the senate, Small announced thagé a third EL pti term will be sought by him. - Two planks have been added to his platform, ‘however, one calling for ‘full, free and equal rights of Illinois 8% a sovereign state of the Union,” which is interpreted as support for Smith, and the other stressing . the “America First” policy, in line with Thompson’s hysterical anti-British propaganda, The governor, who was slated for senator-elect Smith’s job, was not in- terested in another term as governor until a few days ago. Following the nce, however, the policy seems © have changed and goal ie anxious Hungry miners’ children receive a hand-out in a soup kitchen. Many miners’ children faint in school because of undernourishment. Send relief for these children to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Relief CANADIAN WAGES Rates of pay for industrial workers throughout Canada gained slightly in 1927, the average advance over 1926 amounting to 2 per cent, according to the annual report of the Canadian department of labor on wages and hours of labor. Canadian wages. are still nearly 7 per cent under the aver- age for 1920. A report on prices and the cost of living which accompanies the wage data shows that the cost of a work- er’s family budget in Canada during 1927 averaged 56 per cent above 1913. With hourly wage rates averaging 84.3 per cent above prewar and the cost of living up only 56 per cent, an hour’s work will buy about 18 per cent more in the way of goods and services than it would have purchased in 1913. The department’s figures on hours per week do not extend far enough back to make possible a com- parison of actual earnings. classed as common factory labor, have made the greatest gain compared with prewar. Their wages have eome down about 7% per cent from the peak of 1920, The coal miners’ wages have come down more than 19 per cent from the peak which was reached in this industry in 1921. Expose British ‘Scheme To Build Huge African Empire; Berlin Protest BERLIN, Feb. 10.—The' British plan to annex what was formerly Feb. 10—The German-| German East Afri- ca has aroused a good deal of unfa- vorable comment in the German press. The ‘Taegliche Rundschau, gener- ally regarded as the personal organ of Foreign Minis- ter Stresemann, says: the aim of the British is to trans- form her posses- sions in East Afri- ca into an English East African em- pire, with the former German colonies as its center. The result would be complete annexation of former Ger- man East Africa in glaring defiance of the League of Nations and repudi- ation of Versailles treaty. L.A. TOGIVE AFFAIR iN WORKER DRIVE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10. — The Young Workers are carrying on their. DAILY WORKER drive full blast and are arranging a Vetcherinka.' The | program which will include musie and dancing is to take place at the Co- onerative Center, on Febmary 16. Members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and readers of The DAILY WORKER are invited, admission free. The DAILY WORKER drive has heen extended tili March 18. At the end of the drive seven local prizes will be awarded and a, banquet will ho given to the winners. March 16 is the goal set to secure “00 subscriptions to The DAILY WORKER. The Young Workers .of Les Angeles have issued a challenge to every city in the country to double their present subscription list. KANSAS CITY CONVENTION. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Kansas city apparently satisfied the Repub- lican National Committee today that it has ample facilities for taking acre of the national. convention next June, f Stresemann, Protests BELOW 1920 RATE Factory trades other than those| “We know that) Hosiery Union Chiefs Are “100% Sold to the} Need for.a Wage Cut” PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10. — The Philadelphia section of the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery met Friday night to consider the pro- posal of their employers that wages be cut 7 per cent. Word has not as yet reached here as to the decision of the union membership on the rec- | ommendation.of the union officialdom | that the wage cut be accepted. One of the leading officials of the workers’ organization declared to the representative of a trade journal that he was “100 per cent sold on the em- ployers’ proposal, because,” said he, “the welfare of the industry requires it.” ‘POWERS PREPARE FOR WAR'—SHAW LONDON, Feb. 10—The great powers are putting up a “peace bluff to cover their preparations for the next war,” according to an article by George Bernard Shaw in the February number of “No More War.” The proposal of the Soviet Union for complete and immediate disarma- ment at the Geneva conference called the bluff of the militarist powers, Shaw says, and exposed the falsity of the declarations of peace made by the representatives of those powers. Oil Production Goes Up In Soviet Union Fields (By Federated Press) Soviet oil production for 1927 was the highest annual output for 25 years, official figures received by show. Amtorg represents in the United States the Soviet Naptha Syndicate. was 10,413,000 metric tons. Modernization of the oil industry has been pushed in the last year Am- Sore reports. eee We’re Here Again! end SWAP CORRE The most elaborate and beautiful Artists’ and Writers’ COSTUME BALL ever held in this town will be the NEW MASSES SPRING COS: COSTUME FROLIC WEBSTER HALL 119 E, 11th St. March 9th, 9 P. M. The best Jazzin town Bright new costumes! SAVE THE DATE!! Amtorg Trading Corp., New York, | Production for the year} LABOR GOVT IN NORWAY RESIGNS OSLO, Norway, Feb. 10.—The first Labor government in Norway, which was formed two weeks ago, resigned today, The government was censured by a vote of 86 to 63 on Wednesday, | after it had occupied office for a few days. Dr. J. L. Mowinckel, leader of the so-called Radical Party and former premier, has been called upon to form & new govérnment. The position of any government which Mowinckel may form is extremely precarious in view of the fact that no party has a clear majority. Pittsburgh MineConcert PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10.—A concert and vaudeville program for the bene- fit of the striking miners will be held Sunday at 8 p. m. at the Labor Ly- ceum, 85 Miller St. The concert is arranged by the local branch of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee. QUAKE IN MEXICO, MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—A severe earthquake shock of two minutes duration was felt here last night, but a checkup by police today failed to show any casualties or serious prop- erty loss. The tremor had a rotary effect and was followed by intense cold. Excessive or Painful RINATION f the Aged Eased by Santal Midy Sold by All Druggists i 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. | We ask our readers to | | speak with their newsdealer, fill out the coupon, and send ‘it in to us, so that we will be | able to make the necessary arrangements, to have it de- _ H livered regularly. CIRCULATION DEPT. DAILY WORKER, 33 First St. New York City, My newsdealer is } ARGENTINA LEADS. FIGHT ON POLICY OF INTERVENTION Havana Meet Deadlock- ed on Issue (Continued from Page One) ed out, is also contrary to the prac- tice of the United States, which has in a great number of cases exacted payments for alleged damage to the property of its citizens in countries where revolutions were taking place. The United States, it is pointed out here, has already made it clear that it intends to collect on claims made by United States citizens for alleged damages suffered in the Nicaraguan revolution. The deadlock on the intervention question, which is the problem most prominently before the Pan-American conference, follows the failure of the conference to reach any agreement on the question of the reorganization of the Pan American Union. The Ar- gentine delegation refused to recog- nize any agreement whose preamble did not include a declaravion against tariff barriers between American countries, The Argentine proposal is regarded as a direct attack against the high tariff policy of the United States. Argentine Steady. In spite of the new meeting of the sub-committee, Pueyrredon repeated that he would oppose any treaty which did not declare against the high tar- iff. Minister Guerrero of Salvador pointed out the fucility of considering other articles of the Union convention while Argentina refused to accept anything that did not include the tar- iff declaration. The commission, how- ever, finally decided to continue with the undisputed articles returning lat- er to the preamble. Oil Blast Injures Workers on Coast LONG BEACH, Cal., Feb. 10.—Roy Thompson, 22, of Bellflower, an en- gineer, was perhaps fatally injured at Long Beach early today when the Signal Gasoiine Company’s refining Flant exploded with a terrific roar which rocked the surrounding country for miles around. Many other were injured. Four oil weils were destroyed apd five others were damaged by the fire which followed the explosion. The fire covered an entire city block and required all of the Signal Hill and Long Beach fire apparatus to keep it from wiping out the entire Los Cerritos oil-field. Razz Reformists | London workers booed and hissed | Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret Bondfield (above) at a rally of the London Labor Party. COMINTERN MEET : DECIDES PROGRAM: Bukharin ~ Reports on Trotsky Opposition (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Feb. 10.—The plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International opened last night. The following order of the day was adopted: the Opposition in the Communist Party of the U.S. S. R. and the Communist International; the trade union question; the Chinese question; the preparations for the Sixth world Communist congress; the British question and the French ques- tion. The order of work having been fixed, Bukharin reported for several hours on the question of the Opposi- tion. | | Iron Workers Hurt | HOBOKEN, N. J., Feb. 10. —| Charles Werner, 45, and Sigmund) Berwen, 31, both ironworkers of Brooklyn, were seriously injured when an iron grating weighing 300 pounds fell on them while they were at work in the boiler-room of the S. S. Cella- mone of the American-France Line, docked here. Werner received a frac- tured skull and Berwen suffered a fractured right arm and severe inter- nal injuries. Both workers, employed by the Atlantic Basin Iron Works, | American USSR SHIPMENT OF GOLD 10 U.S. TO BUILD TRADE Soviet Union to Sené $5,000,000 to N. Y. Trade between the Soviet Union and |the United States will be facilitated by a shipment of $5,000,000 gold by the Bank of the Soviet Union to the Chase National Bank and the Equit- able Bank, it was learned yesterday. The gold will arrive in New York City on board the steamship Ham- burg of the Hamburg-American line Feb. 20. Trade between the Soviet Union and the United States totals about $100,000,000 and exceeds the pre-war trade. Altho the trade of the Soviet Union with the world at large is favorable, its exports to the United States are smaller than its importa from the United States. The gold shipments, therefore, are intended to offset the adverse trade balance with the United States. The gold will also be used to facilitate exchange opera- tions, it was stated. The gold bars will bear the imprtn® of the Bank of the Soviet Union. 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