The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1928 Page Three prreennnnniyirne Labor Union of Tampico, Mexico, Deno YS xtcutinmaneenliel. COMMEMORATE STRIKE LEADERS, YUCATAN LEADER A. F. of L. Reiterates Pet Phrases MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.—The La- bor Union of Tampica has held a meeting in commemoration of the} death of V. I. Lenin and to protest! against the imperialist policies of the} United States at the Havana Confer-/| ence, | “We have reunited to commemo-| rate the anniversary of the deaths of Lenin, Carrillo Puerto and the mar-| tyrs of the Rio Blance,” says the| resolution passed during the meeting. | The resolution then goes on to pro-| test in the name of the workers and| peasants of Mexico against the policy | of imperialism which the United! States and its agents are attempting | to force upon the Latin-American | workers at Havana Conference. { Press Hostile. Indignation has been called forth! by this statement of the determina- tion of the Mexican workers to resist the American encroachments. Commenting editorially on the res- olution of the Tampico Labor Union, Excelsior, one of the two leading | Mexican newspapers, refers to the | danger in which such a resolution may place the Mexican business men. “In the present moment we need for- eign economic aid,” the Excelsior | says, and goes on to call the resolu- tion a challenge. The paper then at- tacks Lenin and Communism. Carrillo Puerto, referred to in the resolution, is the former governor of Yucatan, assassinated by the reaction- aries in 1922. The martyrs of the Rio Blanco are textile workers shot during a strike at Rio Blanco in the state of Vera Cruz. The same paper comments more favorably upon the message of the American Federation of Labor which refers feebly to the imperialist pro- ceedings at Havana. After noting that’ the American Federation is not an enemy of the United States government but has actively seconded it in many impor- tant occasions, Excelsior praises the lukewarm protest of the A. F. of L. which reiterates the old phrases con- cerning the rights of small independ- ent nations. U.S. $8. TO SEND. i | | | Germany is now within two hours’ striking distance of Italy by air. The new commercial air- way recently opened between Friedrichshaven, Germany, and Genoa, Italy, are demonstrating for com- mercial purposes the practicability of long distance air invasions by bombing squadrons from either side of the Alps. Thousands of French Workers Are Idle! GET 152 IN DES. By Gabriel Peri. (Continued from Thursday) Confronted with this new anti- Labor Holy Alliance, how does the Poincare financial experiences affect the workers? By increasing taxes, by an eco- nomic crisis, by growing unemploy- ment, a heightened offensive against |wages and the threat of an agricul-| hours. tural crisis. From 1924 to 1928, the budget grew from 30 to 51 billion frances. In 1927, Poincare demanded three _ billions |more than had been forecast, and 70} In per cent of this impost was paid by the workers. Twenty per cent of these taxes went for military ex- penses. On the other hand, the domestic debt which amounted to 281 billion francs on the 31st of July, had reached 298 billions by Sept. 30, 1927. As for the foreign debt, it went from 179 billions 698 millions to 174,- 508,000,000 francs. A total increase of 5,164,000,000 on the whole debt. Besides, the economic stagnation and commercial sluggishness remain characteristics. Production Figures. Coal production has diminished with every month, 440,000 tons from January to November, 1927. The pro- duction of coal and iron has fallen by more than 25 tons in a hundred from 1926 to 1927. Production has been carried on par- ticularly with an eye to the foreign market. The foreign been the only remedy in the situation and it is narrowing from day to day. Examine the figures on tonnage ex- ported- and the decline is evident. The official statisties which deal with ten departments only show a constant growth of unemployment. market has | | is about 80,000 job- jless, and they increase constantly. | On the 2nd of last December, a ; Somme textile mill employing 1,450 | workers was working only 43 hours. | A dye w employing 240 workers was not averaging more than 40 hours. workers A linen mill employing 1,00€ was averaging only 34 In the construction of agricultural machinery, the ‘average is only 42 |hours; in foundaries, from 40 to | hours, as also in the building trades. the department -of the Somme Jalone there are 5,000 partially em- | ployed. | Miners Unemployed. | Forty thousand French miners are {not working more than from four to five days a week. t The number of | unemployed has: reached several hun- | dreds of thousands. At the same time a more and more violent offensive is planned every day against the workers’ wages. At |Chalone-sur-Saone the mean wage | was about 6.50 francs in 1914. Today | it is 27 but the index of prices being | 650, it ought to be 39 francs. | In the textile industry, a temporary | rise in wages has been achieved thru |a lowering in production. | The most savage exploitation oc- leurs in the chemical industry where wages stand at from 18 to 22 francs in the departments and from 22 to 26 }franes in Paris: And this in an un- healthy industry where death is a frequent occurrence. Living Costs Higher. These figures take on their full value when one considers the cost of jliving and when one remembers that the wholesale prices of foodstuffs |went from 519 francs in October to THE POINCARE PROGRAM FRENCH PRISONS | [51 Workers Jailed | Criminal Section | aia | PARIS, Feb. 12—Something of the | terror which the Poincaré regime, ac- 'vely supported by the French soci , carries on | ¥rench workers is revealed in the sta- | tistics of the prisoners in French jails in ; |for political offenses in the month of December, 1927. | In the civil jails in December there |were eighteen prisoners held in the | {political department and fifty-one in| the criminal department. In the mili- |tary prisons there were sixteen active soldiers, fourteen sailors, and thirteen | | reservists, making a total of one hun- | |dred and twelve political prisoners | jacknowledged by the authorities. | |How many more are not listed it is | impossible to esimate. The French colonies show the fol- | lowing balance of political “offend- | ers” in December; twelve in jail; five | under police supervision; fifteen in- | terned; one deported and seven ban- | ished, bringing up the total of French | ' political persecutions to one hundred | and fifty-two in the month of De-| cember, | Among the 51 prisoners ailotted to | the “criminal” department are the | iSaeco and Vanzetti demonstrators, | ; workers who tried to prevent scabs from working, workers who protested against the war on Morocco, and a} number of distributors of anti-mili- | tary papers. | | {cently are shown in the failure of a ‘squadron of marine bombing plane to discover the Liberals after a search |' unces Havana Conference; Lauds Lenin CHARGE BANKERS (umastine “Soo!” FEAR RECALL AS General Sandino Eludes United States Marines ith which General Sandino and his the country where he appeared re- which combed the whole interior and northern country. The revived activity of the marines and their planes is the result of the arm of the coffee plantation own who feared that the presence of General Sandino in the neighborhoo: of Matagalpa would lead to a whole sale insurrection of the wretched plan- tation peons, long kept in subjection by detachments of U. S. marines “Jent” by the Ameriran authorities. These detachments had to be recalled at the time of the big offensive | st the army of independence in| eva Segivia, Tt is the general belief here that Sandino and his forces intend to make | N & further stand in the more easterly | distriets of the country where there is a strong Liberal sentiment and where the American marines would find it almost impossible to penetrate without preparations which wil] con- iderably slacken their offensive and} give the army of indépendence an op- | portunity to rest and ré-establish their | bases. » * Scores Wall St. Rule. CLEVELAND, Feb. 12. — “Nica- yagua has been reduced from a sov- ereign state to a protectorate of Wall | Street,” Senator Wheeler of Mon-| tana, declared here in an address yes- | terday. | “The Coolidge administration has | sacrificed at least 700 lives,” Wheeler continued, “has deviated from the policy of economy, squandered thou- sands out of the public treasury and | permitted certain Wall Street bank- ers to fasten their financial tentacles xpon the unfortunate Nicaraguan na- tion and suck it dry.” State Dep’t. Propaganda. “Tf the American people were not hopeless, apathetic and duped by the systematic propaganda of the state * department, they would protest so | loudly that this. administration would MANAGUA, Feb. 12—The success | @& army. of independence are elnding the | _ attempts of the United States marines |j to trap him in the central section of king “Good Will ay E 2, The “good will’ flight was pro- | gressing nicely. The paid press was burning up the cables with accounts of tumultuous receptions of Wall Street’s pet flier by crowds of cheer- ing Latin-Americans. Even the weather behaved. And then—a small group of Porto Ricans upset | the imperialist calculations by pre- senting a protest to Colonel Lind- bergh declaring that the “bless ings” of the American regime were not “appreciated.” There were plenty of marines and blue-jackets on hand at the next stop, Haiti, to see that such a thing didn’t hap- pen again. The picture shows the crowd from which the protesting Porto Rieans stepped a moment later to present their petition to the flier. TROTZKY’S ROYAL “What Great Lord Is Here?” They Ask MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Feb. 12.— The following details concerning Trot- |zky’s arrival have been reported from Frunze, formerly Pishpek, a town on the Siberian railroad. Trotzky and’ his family came to |Frunze from Moscow in a _ special sleeping car. The public was struck | which Victory at Polls PARIS, Feb. 12.—The conversations members of the Na- tional Peasants Party of Rumania have rrying on with the for- mer Prince ol in Paris are regard~ {ed as indi ve of the termination jon the part of the le to recall the ex-prince should the y be suc- in the coming tions. i | BUCHAREST, ional Peasant lead- t the reinstate- of Rumania ef is gaining of a National be returned as regeney. efforts that the making to pres Peasant part of the R In E vent the su of the National E ants Party at the elections which are due probably in April, the leaders of the latte sert confidently that the B nu government has not much longer to live. Pe ution Continues. The persecutions by which the “Liberals” attempted to prevent the delegates to the National Peasants Party from arriving at the recent Congress in Jassy, after the failure of their threats to break up the con- ference, are being kept in force and petty terrorism is rampant in Ru- mania. It is generally believed, however, that the elections in the spring will mean a victory at the polls for the National Peasants Party or a large gain of seats for them in parliament. nts Party is a party of the rich peasants, and shop- keeper and professional elements from the large towns. It also con- tains large sections of the Transyl- vanian middle class who are restive j under Rumanian control. TRAVEL STARTLES 6 ee Feb. 12. — Juliu Maniu, leader of National Peasants Party, called Dr. Nicolas Lupu, min- ister of public instruction in the Bra- tianu government, an election thief and parliamentary armed guards were forced to separate the gladia- tors, Later the fracas was used as a pretext to suspend a number of the National Peasant delegates for from five to thirty sessions. The an- nouncement created a fresh uproar. SCORE AMERICAN by the great quantity of Trotzky’s baggage which amounted to over sev- enty pieces, and by the lordly comfort in which Trotzky is traveling from Moscow to his place of deportation. | Much attention was attracted by} the fact that Trotzky brought a hunt- ing dog with him as well as numerous hunting accessories. |Unemployed in October numbered |582 in November and 553 at the end 8,642; November, 10,880; December, |of December; that mean has jumped | 3; January 14, 1928, 16,519; Jan-|from 466 in October to 524 in De-} uary 21; 1928, 17;272. cember; that the price of sugar, cof- The actual number of unemployed |fee, cocoa has risen from 561 to 619 ‘is at least five times the number reg- lin the same period. LEAGUE OBSERVER FREE for the asking For your own sake we want you to get acquainted with the magazine Rational Living, Box 2, Station M, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 12— ‘The Soviet government will be repre- sented by an observer at the meeting of the League of Nations Committee on Security and Arbitration, the sec- retary general of the League has been GENEVA, Feb. ‘Poles Stop Communist | stop this unjustifiable war and the DRUG POLICY | children. When the history of this | time is written truthfully this admin- AN | istration will be called to account for lieism against the United States’ be- | been actuated solely for the benefit \trayal of the struggle against drags | of a very few Wall Street banking is being voiced here in connection with | fiims, no matter how much they may ‘killing of innecent men, women and A wave of crit. | its unwarranted: conduct, which has | seek to hide behind a paper canal.” informed. | Eoris Stein, who has been studying the League of Nations for the Com- missariat of Foreign Affairs: of the Soviet. Union, will be the observer appointed. Stein was a member of the delegation which showed up the} tangle of imperialist interests’ ond war plans at the last League confer- ence by proposing a complete and immediate disarmament. French-U. S, Tariff War Carried on by New Bill PARIS, Feb. !2.—Continuation of the Franco-American tariff war is seen in the new tariff bill sponsored by the Poinearé regime. Details of | the bill are lacking but it is known that the tariff hits such American iron, steel, ete. The only concession to American interests reported in the new meas- ure is the probable lowering of the duties on the $500,000 worth of Ford tractors which have been tied up in French ports by a ruling establish- ing a tariff declared exorbitant by the American. interests. Fear Women’s Labor Bill Will Be Buried TRENTON, N. , Feb. 12.---A bill has been passed in the state senate which would prohibit night work for women, and will go to the assembly | this week. Women interested in the bill have requested the speaker of the assembly to place the bill in the hands of the judiciary committee vather than the labor and industries committee, which has always buried the measure in the past. Law Stenographers Organize for Wages BAYONNE, N. J., Feb, 12,—Law stenographers of this city, most of. them girls, have formed the Law Stenographers’ League. Court clerks: are also included. The stenographers seek an 8-hour day, from 9 to 5, in- stead of the nine-hour day, from 9 to «, at present in force. Mrs. Anna Cohen is the president., OIL WAR BREAKS OUT IN FRANCE PARIS; Feb. 1 Drastie restrie- tion of the American and British par- ticipation in the French oil ma has been attrnepted’ in amendme |whieh have been made to the gover: ment’s petroleum measure, limiting jfor ail+ future time the velume of | business which may be transacted by ; American and British firms to the average amount done by both during the past five years. The American interests who did not {begin to penetrate the French field et ! margin of business since are enga; jat. the bill which they deciare is dis \eriminatery. They have notified the |State Department of their atritude {and it is expected that action will be taken by the United States govern- ment’ in the interest of the oil con- cerns when the French measure comes up for the approval of the | French Chamber, probably next week. fvm21hr ’ Jap Air Imperialist i | | Rear-Adiiral’ Masataka Ando, who is heading a delegation of offi cials from the flying corps of the’ Japanese navy, now in the United! States to study the methods of their ' imperialist competitors. | before 1922 and have done a narrow} exports as wheat, cattle, meat, cast) Election Victory; Put ‘10 Nominees in Jails i { WARSAW,. Feb. 12. government has arrested Communist: candidate: tok electio and: has annuiled the Communist lists. The workers re- ito the annulment by a boycott of the polls. The government every means’ to electing. thei 46,000 who are | 28,000 appeared he Polish the ten the Bielos- has been using the workers from didates. Of the stitled to vote, on French “Commercial” Flyers Reach N. Y. Capt. Dieudonne Costes and Lt. jJoseph Lebrix, French army trens- | Atlantie aviate arrived at Mitchell eld, Long Island, Saturday, where they were greeted by French diplo- j matic agents and members of the French Chamber of Commerce and other French societies. The arrival of Costes and Lebrix in New York completed a “good will” flight thru Latin:America and the eastern part of the United States, which followed their flight across the South Atlantic from Paris to South America. The flights were made ander the auspices of French aviation and export interests, which were alarmed at the possibilities that their | Latin-American trade would fall into the hands of American business in- terests as a result of the Lindbergh flights. | sss OS ee ei oye Arabs Attack British LONDON, Feb. 12.—-Arabs who participated in the hostile demonstra- tions which greeted the arrical there of Sir Alfred Mond, celebrated Brit- ish’ capitalist and former cormmission- er of public works, are carrying on a local warfare against’ the British’ iP regglers from the cities; LATVIAN TORIES UNITED RICA, Feb. 12.-—Atter prolonged dickering with nearly all the roac- tionary groups in the Latvian parlia- ment, the conservative cabinet re- cently former by Peter Juraszewski has won a vote of confidence. ‘Ihe vote represents a united front of all the reactionary Latvian forces against labor, jthe appointment of Consul General Pinckney Tuck as America’s “unoffi- | ial observer” without any real offi- | { powers at the forthcoming Opium | ‘Committee of the League of Nations | | conference, | The United States, who is realizing least. $1,096,000 annually, was} formerly the leader in the war against the drug traffic but in 1924 suddenly | withdrew her co-operation and has! réfused to take part in the work of |the League since that time. Italy, who | took the lead after the flight of the! United States, has been interested solely in safeguarding her own inter- | ests, j The delegates declare that no real | action against the drug traffic can be | effective without the support of the} United States. at ‘Poles Continue Trial | Of Peasants Kept for | Years in Jail Cells, The trial of the.133 white Russian peasants is proceeding in Bielostek. | ‘y were arrested on charges of | “Comraunist activity.” The peasants | come from the districts of Bielostok, | Sokuli, and Byelsk. } ‘The peasants, who wefe arrested in! have been sitting for two and “half years in the Polish tescis jails. The total of those arrested numbers 419. The Polish fascists) have brought up 200 witnesses against the accused: peasants, most of whom are police spies and govern- ment seeret agents. ’ Chain Stores to Rule | ’ Men’s Clothes Trade | A statistical report issued Satur-} day by a trade journal devoted to! the dry goods industry in this coun- try" shows how rapidly to what ex- tent the pi s of trustification and centralization in American industry is driving out of existence the small retail merchant. The survey shows the rapid rate at which the chain store'is replacing the more or less personal services rendered by the in- dividual merchant of men’s furnish- ings. In one year the increase of chain stores amounted to 12 per cent more than the preceding year. A ae larger increase is planned for 928. He declared that Coolidge’s refer- ence to the Golden Rule in connection with our’ Latin-American . dealings means the golden rule of Wall Street: Even while Coolidge was délivering his Havana address, Wheeler said, “the newsboys were selling extras telling about American bombing planes scattering death and terror over defenseless Nicaraguan villages.” “American banking firms had looted Nicaragua’s public funds,” Wheeler stated, mentioning the banking houses of J. & W. Seligman and Company and Brown Brothers as instigators: of American intervention. “What grand lord has arrived here?” was the general query at the station. Pilsudski Rages Again KOENIGSBERG, Feb. 12. — The outbreak of hostilities between Lithu- ania and Poland seemed a step nearer today with the arrival of a note from Warsaw demanding to know whether or not the Riga government intends to fulfill its Geneva “pledges.” Premier Pilsudski is reported to have announced that his patience is exhausted. 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