The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 3

THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1928 TAKE NUMBER OF CITIES IN MARCH TOWARDS CANTON Unrest Spreads as Bank Repudiates Notes CANTON, Feb. 18—While more than a million peasants and fisher? men in southern Kwantung have} driven out landlords and set up Sov- | iet governments, 17,000 well-armed | and well-drilled Communist troops have marched from the province of | Hunan into northern Kwantung, | where they have taken a number of | cities, The peasant revolt in southern Kwantung is spreading rapidly, ae- cording to reports received here. Titles to all ‘land have been destroyed and all land is being worked on 4 communal basis. There is widespread unrest in this city as a result of the repudiation of all of the notes issued by the Canton branch of the Nationalist Central Branch before 1928, Most wages had previously been paid in the almost worthless paper, and the new decree of the Canton authorities completely repudiates the notes, The issues be- fore 1928 amoypnted to $42,500,000. PEASANT TAX IN USSR SUCCESSFUL MOSCOW, (By Mail) —The rate of collection of the agricultural tax has considerably increased irr the second half of December last year. 63.2 per cent more was received than during the ist half of the month. | | Hunanese Co | Killed China Workers The biggest success is to be noted in White Russia where the collections brought in 10 per cent above the es- timates. In many districts of the Ukraine the tax has been fully col-} lected. | On the whole, 93 per cent of all) taxes have been ¢ollected throughout) the U. S. S. R. up to January 1st.) The collections amount to 77 per een} of the total annual tax. | | SEIPEL LEAVES FOR PRAGUE. | PRAGUE, Cezchosloyakia; Feb. 13. —Chaneellor Seipel, of Austria, will arrive tomorrow from Vienna. to de- liver an “educational lecture.” » He is expected to. take advantage of the opportunity to confer with Foreign Minister Benes upon closer commercial relations between Austria and Czechoslovakia. 5 ah Re General Hsu Shung-chi, who was one of the leaders in the Nanking government's bloody campaign against workers and peasants, has arrived in San Franciseo, He will visit Chicago, New York and Wash- | ington, «vhere he will see President Coolidge. COAL PACT LOOMS Report fissen Magnates) Want Cartel BERLIN, Feb. 13.—An alliance be- tween English and German coal pro- | ducers, as suggested by a conserva- | tive member of the British parliament | in the House of Commons, would meet with watm approval in Germany but it is not believed here that such a program cin be carried out. Essen reports describe the keen in- terest with which German coal mine owners received the news of the Boothby proposal, and it is declared that authoritative circles will support the scheme. Although the English coal owners have suffered huge losses through the strike, and were afterwards forced to dump at low prices, it is pointed out that for many matkets English coal has an advantage over the Germans’. The Germans also emphasize that the English coal operators have no na- tional organization on a lega} basis such as the union of German coal op- erators, and that without such an or- ganization it would be extremely dif- ficult to artange an international agreement. While the tone of the German re- action is one of sympathetically wait- ing, the Essen industrialists flatly deny that they inspired the Boothby speech, HE first Communist Party founded in South America was the Inter- national Socialist Party of the Ar- gentine Republic, which came into being in January 1918. The core around which this party was built was the group of the Marxist opposi- tion which had formed in the old so- cialist party, in the ranks of which this. opposition had fought deter- minedly against the imperialist war and against the social traitors. As a Left opposition in the Social Democratic Party, we began about the middle of 1917 to publish our own organ: “The International.” The news which we received of the revolu- tionary movement all over the world, and especially from Russia, was very scanty, and sometimes was lacking altogether. When we remember this lack of connection and communication with the international movement, it is the more surprising to note that our newspaper, “The International” pub- lished an article entitled: “Lenin or Rerensky?” as early as a month be- fore the October Revolution. In this ariicle we analysed the two stand- points, siding with Lenin, whilst the socialists supported Kerensky. The foundation Congress of the In- ternational Socialist Party took place two months after the October Revolu- tion, and expressed unanimous soli- darity with the Bolsheviki and their revolution. The I. Congress (held in the middle of 1919) resolved unani- mously on the affiliation of the Party to. the Comintern, which had been founded a few months earlier. It will thus be easily comprehended how great the influence of Leninism has been on the life and development of the revolutionary vanguard of the Argentine proletariat. Leninism helped us, and continues to help us, in our struggle against the soci democracy, which holds a fairly strong position in the Argentine Republic. In Uruguay, where social democracy has never been strong, we have suc- ceeded in‘destroying it. In Brasil the communist moyement has ousted the anarchists from their former leading position. In Chili we see a strong mass movement, working with the aid of Leninism for the organization of a staff of leaders and the crystalliza- tiow’of a Communist Party. The South American Labor Move- ment is influenced by the reformists, and by the anarchists or anarcho- syndicalists. This confronts us with Sarees linkobbant tank: We must The Influence of Leninism on Latin-American Workers stand for the proletarian State and dictatorship, for the necessity and function of thé Communist Party, for the work of the trade unions. Lenin- ism is the sole Weapon with which we can combat the traitorous attitude of the socialists, who actually support the bourgeois State beneath the cloak of its alleged “neutrality”; and it is our sole weapon agdifist the anarchist standpoint, which overlooks the es- sential of a State and adopts a counter-revolutionary attitude to- wards the dictatorship of the prole- tariat, thereby sinking more and more into an impotent petty bourgeois sect. This sanie weapon, which has secured for us the growth of our Party and will further help us in its consolida- tion, has enabled us at the same time to unmask those socialists and yellow. elements who have done their utmost to hold the trade unions back from their real tasks, and to make the unions organs of class co-operation. Hereby we have come into conflict with the Amsterdam trade unionists, who have referred to the declaration made at the French trade union con- gress at Amiens, have denied the necessity of a Communist Party, and have been only a hindrance to the development of the trade unions as a revolutionary force, When we remember what an im- portant role is played by agrieulture in South Africa, we realize what the peasant question means here, and we appreciate the value of the Leninist analysis of this problem as applied to our movement. As yet but little work has been done in this direction, but at least our Parties have made a beginning: already they understand thoroughly that unless an alliance exists between the workers and th peasantry, in which the proletarial takes the lead, there can be no thought of a victorious revolution. In this important work our signposts are Leninist theory and the historical example furnished by the October Revolution led by Lenin. There is still another sphere in which Leninism is of great value and utility to us. This is the struggle against imperialism. English im- perialism extended its tentacles to South Ameéri¢a many years ago, above all in the Argentine Republic. Since the period of the struggles for eman- eipation from Spanish rule (1810), England’s foothold has become siderable part even in the question mmunist Troops March AL, | Most Me sid Boses? ARGENTINE HEAD (MEXICO FEDER TROOPS DISPERSE REACTIONARIES Kill 12 in Battle in | Mining Town MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13.-—Twelve | reactionaries were killed and a num- | |ber wounded when federal forces en- | countered a band of 400 counter-revo- | lutionaries about nine miles south of | Coaleoman, on the border between the | states of Colima and Michoacan. H The battle lasted four hours, ac- cording to reports réceived by the war department. The number of casual- ties suffered by the federal forces | commanded by General Juan Domin-} |gue% was not stated. | Three reactionaries were also killed | jin fighting in a mining town in Ja- |liseo, accotding to “reports received | \here. The reactionaries ¢aptured the | town but were later driven out by federal forces rushed from Laque- jmada, | Secretary of War Amaro who was directing the operations against the |reactionaries in the state of Jalisco | returned here yesterday. peter Chicago Mine Relief tist =f Floyd Soule, a young scientist, will soon be forced to decide wheth- er he will use his ability to increase | the profits of the bosses. so distinguished himself as a scien- | since being graduated from | Ripon College, Ripon, Wis. five years ago, that he has been includ- ed among seven of the foremost physicists to study magnetic condi- tions on the earth’s surface. ASHTABULA AIDS o Page Three {| STILL OPPOSES U.S. AT HAVANA iSeeks Popular Backing; | Wants Presidency (Continued from Page One) ticularly hostile to United States in- | tervention in Nicaragua. | The Argentine position at the con- ference is supported at present by jthe delegation from Mexico and Sak jvador, altho Mexico, it is authorita- tively stated, has wavered consider- ably in its support of the declaration against intervention. Dr. Guerrero, head of the Salvador delegation, how- | ever, will support the stand of the Argentine delegation, it is stated. In an interview yesterday Dr. Guerrero | | stated: “Altho by common agreement of | |the sub-committee I can say nothing | as to what has been going on there, jmy attitude on the subjett of inter- | vention is well-known. I do not recog- | {nize the right of intervention of one {country into the internal affairs of janother under any circumstances.” | *, 18 HAVANA, Feb. 12 |steps in the He has * ‘With the final | reorganization of the | steadily firmer, and has played a con- | Le: Conference Formed CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—A successful conference for the relief of Pepnsyl- vania, Ohio and Colorado miners has |been organized here. Peter Jensen, jot the Machinists’ Union, is chairman, secretary, and Key. jlda Winsberg | David Rhys Williams treasurer. Sta- tions in many parts of Chicago have been established for the collection of clothing for the miners. A mass meet- |Feb. 24, will be addressed by Hilla }Reeve Bloor, general field organizer lof the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colo- jrado Miners’ Relief Committee. {Miners from the strike fields will also speak. Arrangements for Tag | Days Feb. 24 and 25 have been made. A concert for miners’ relief will be given at the Ashland Auditorium April 7th. Delegation to U. S.S. R.! To Publish Volume | By Federated Press) | Soviet Russia in the Second Decade is the title of the joint.survey made by the technical staff which accom- panied the first American trade union delegation to Europe. John Day Co. will publish the book at $4 in May. Stuart Chase, R. G. Tugwell and Robert Diunn—three of the experts —edited the book. Various features of Russian life and government are covered by the survey, including the unions, labor legislation, wages and social insur- | ance. | | | | Horthy Regime Broke | Its Pledge to Hatvany VIENNA, Feb. 13. — That Baron | Hatvany had been pledged amncsty | by the Horthy regime and had pleaded | guilty of “offending the honor of the Hungarian nation” on the understand- ing that he would be released was learned yesterday. Scores of organizations have pro- tested against the imprisonment of Hatvany and demanded his immediate telease. Hatvany was a follower of Karolyi. | Attempt to Form New Yugoslavia Cabinet BELGRADE, Feb. 13.—Former Premier Vukitcheviteh, of Jugo-| Slavia, was attempting today to form | a new cabinet and thus to end the long drawn government crisis. > He was requested by King Alex- ander to undertake the task after President Peritch, of Skuptehina, had failed. | } | i of the independence of the various States. Today the extreme acuteness of the struggle for markets and| sources of raw materials further en- hances the desires of the imperialists to seize upon the countries of South America, and this is expressed in a stronger and more violent pressure on the last remnants of even the outward semblance of national independence for these countries. Another exceed- ingly important fact to be taken into account heré is that the United States of America has come to the forefront of this struggle of late years, and is already a dangerous competitor to English greed for the South American markets. In some of the States im- perialist penetration is still proceed- ing on the lines of peaceful import of capital, whilst in others, Nicaragua |$245,000 during 1927 for butter fat, for instance, the imperialist advance assumes its acutest form. Some of the States are already partially or entirely colonized by Wall Street. The struggle with imperialism must form a very considerable part ef the activities of our Parties. The A Spat the forces, the methods, and the orgatiigation of this struggle are dictated to us by the teachings of nin, complemented and confirmed America. jthe Argentine government and Dr. | president's k | Honorio Pueyrredon, chief of the Ar-| 5 | Pan-American Union due to be taken | | ixth Pan-Aimerican | | Conference, a wide open split between | ASHTABULA, 0O., Feb. 13,- United Front Committee has been or ganized in this city to help the strik- ing miners. | The first meeting held netted $90} which was sent to Colorado. A little | later another meeting was held from | which $154 was collected, one half) going to Colorado and the other half going to the Pennsylvand-Ohio miners. A difference of opinion arosé as to the proper place to send it. The} majority of the Committee decided to sent it to the United Mine Workers of America at Washington, D. C.,| while the minority favored sending it to the Relief Committee, 611 Penn. Avenue, Pittsburg. The money was sent according to the majority de- | cision. | Change Opinion. i At the next meeting the relief com- mittee, the Workers International Re- lief speakers, A. S, Embree, Milla Sablich and Ella Reeve Bloor were present. After hearing their story they decided that the Pennsylvania- Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, Pennsylvania was the proper place to send future contributions. SAILORS DROWN WHEN TUG SINKS: BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 13.—Five sailors were drowned as a result of the; sinking of the navy tug Mohave when! the tug struck on Harding’s Ledge | last night. The tug, which has been | engaged in salvage work on the S-4,| in which 40 naval sailors were drown- ed, was returning from Provincetown } to Boston. The rock smashed a large hole in the bow of the tug. Hope was | held out for 3 of the missing men at) first, but searchers have given up, CO-OP‘CREAMERY PROFITS. BALDWIN, Ia. Feb. 13 (FP).—} After paying its member farmers the Farmers’ Union Co-operative Creamery near Baldwin showed a net profit of $6,000. This showing was made oft gross sales of butter of a little over $266,000. The net worth of the co-op is now $30,550. IOWA MINERS STRUGGLE CENTERVILLE, la., Feb. 13 (FP). | ~—-Two thousand coal miners are idle in and about Centerville. A couple of small mines have started company unions but produdtion is very low. nese revolution. The Lenjnist stand- | point will be the more useful to us in that a petty bourgeoisie anti-imperial- ist movement has already sprung up, | and this is neglecting the forces of the proletariat, striving to destroy the Communist movement, and plac- ing intellectuals at the head of the struggle. The above brief survey suffices to show how closely Leninism. is bound tip with the fundamental problems of the revolutionary struggle in. South America, ‘and of what paramount im- portance the Leninist ~ standpoint: possesses for the guidance of.the pro- letarian movement. The services which Leninism has rendered to. this movement are already very great, and in the future they will be greater still. The following works of Lenin have been published in Spanish: “State and Revolution,” “The Proletarian Revoli- tion and the Renegade Kautsky,” “Imperialism the Last Stage of Capi- tarism,” “Left Wing Communism,” “Taxation in Kind”; Bukharin’s “ABO of Communism” and “Historical Materialism” have also been trans- lated. To these must be added the hundreds of articles’ by Lenin pub- lished by the Communist press of today by the gentine delegation, loomed as the sen- The split was forecast when it be- came known that the home govern- ment had instructed the Argentine delegation to accept the project re- garding the reotganization of the union without insisting on the declara- tion against “economic barriers.” Dr. Pueyrredon, Argentine ambas- sador at Washington, has been firmly in favor of a declaration against “eco- nomic barriers” from the beginning ter the news from Buenos Ayres, it was reported that Dr. Pueyrredon would decline to affix his signature to the union project unless his declara- tion was obtained. NEGOTIATE USSR, GERMAN TREATY BERLIN, Feb. 13.—Negotiations for a new commercial treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union have already begun. The old treaty ex- ires on April ist. German trade with the Soviet Union has reached considerable proportions. German banks have taken a conspicuous role in financing the shipment of industrial goods to the Soviet Union, while imports from | he Soviet Union are also of con- iderable importance in German trade. are being watched here with a great 1 | | deal of interest. | | TRUCK HELPER KILLED JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 13.— George Dalton, 41, was killed yester- day when he fell from a truck owned | by Thomas Dening Co., on which he was a helper. Dalton was jolted off the truck when it struck an obstruc- tion in the street. Our ¢ readers |- Many of our readers like | | to get the DAILY WORKER | at their newsstands or news- dealers, and for vaitous rea- sons cannot get it. We ask our readers to speak with their newsdealer, | | fill cut the coupon, and send | | it in to us, so that we will be | | able to make the necessary | arrangements, to have it de- | | livered regularly. | CIRCULATION DEPT. | DATLY WORKER, 39 First St. New York City. | betes nits sieved ens re H (address) | No. of copies ....,... wieees “ Heads R, I. L, U. Meet | i es eae eae | ee A. Losovsky, secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions, who will probably act as chairman at | the Fourth World Congress of the | organization in Moscow, Match 15. | TO STUDY OL AND NEXT WAR See Commission as Move! to Aid Standard Co, WASHINGTO | Feb, 13.—The} commission ,on oil con-| servation is seen both as a move to | protect Standard Oil against foreign competition and to offer an excuse to| de! South to Join Kwangtung Peasants INDIA PROTEST AGAINST SIMON GROWS STRONGER Natives Protest Heavy Land Taxes LONDON, Feb. o the § with e p opposition continues, wing of the hing the boy- gainst the commission eased by the widespread inst the land taxes levied s presidency, The move- yainst the tarshas taken on a e political character. The protest against the taxes has reached such proportions that a num- ber of peasants were wounded sevetal weeks ago when police fired into a demonstration. Sir John Simon, head of thé statu- attempting to by the ment to commission, is h a compromise with the right wing of the nationalist movement. GALE IN EUROPE 50 WORKERS DIE LONDON, Feb. -13.—Fifty persons are believed to have been drowned in a gale which swept Western Europe sation of the conference. | of the conference’s deliberations. Af- | The negotiations for a new treaty | and the North Atlantic. Twenty-five lives are known to have been lost in Scandinavia and nine in Great Britain. The death toll may total well over fifty since many accidents to vessels at sea are first raise the price of gasoline. While the jextent of the oil supply will be studied |seriously from the point of view of | the danger of war, it will only bring jin recommendation which will favor |the big oil interests, since the Stan- dard Oil companies control the pipe jlines in the United States and are} § in a position to dictate in regards to \Gt nkel lost their lives in the Mersey price even if the government were|River whea the ship went down. A not already fendered servile thru|{number of houses were blown down campaign gifts, etc. in the torrential rainfall and burri- | It is expected that President Cool-|cane which swept the British Isles. lidge, who has recently been exposed| The American Farmet arrived in as elected with Harding with the help|Plymouth thirty hours late with its of “oil” money, will make up for the | propellors damaged. The vessel was jslip up in the Teapot Dome steal by |damaged whensit was four days out |a substantial gift to the oil interests |of New York. during his last days in office. | Report Kemal Ill | * 42 |, Shippers Financed WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—More PARIS, Feb. 1 ustapha Kemal, |help from the govérnment in the eon- President of Turkey, is seriously ill, |struction of river, lake and coastwise according to reports received here |ships by priv interests was*asked from Coystantinople. {by representatives of inland and coast- A Short time ago, Kemal Pasha was | wise shippers at a conference held reported to be suffering from faint-|here by the shipping men. About ing spells as the result of overwork. | $10,000,000 has already been borrowed Since then, it is stated, his health |from the government by the shipping has been weakening steadily. magnates. Wrecking the Labor Banks The Collapse of the Labor Banks and Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers By WM. Z. 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