The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1928, Page 3

sages Ki i : THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1928 Page Three Soviet Union Explains Proposal for Complete and Immediate Disarmament CAPITALISM WILL ‘PAN AMERICAN DISUNION SPURN PROPOSAL "Val Siret Dictates Policy at Havana IS USSR BELIEF .. imperialists J Fight for| Big Armaments (Continued from Page One) powers to shelve the proposals made by Maxim Litvinoff, head of the U.{ S. S. R. delegation, at the conference in December is pointed out. The proposal of the Soviet Union, | the Tass statement declares, provides | for the immediate demobilization of | all armies within the first year and! the abolition within that period of | all plans for mobilization. The pro-| posal, Tass s, would abo: battleships, cruisers and aircraft) carriers as well as ail ship equip- ment, munitions, mines and tor- pedoes. Disarmed ships may be used for commercial purposes if completely refitted. * * NEVA, Feb. 21.-—The security commission of the League of Nations adjourned until tomorrow after spending the afternoon in a fruitless discu on of the relation between “security” and “disarmament.” At the meeting of the disarmament commission in December, the Soviet Union urged that the distinction was metaphysical and attempted to secure a discussion of her proposals at a ion of the security commission. TELLS OF CANTON * G WHITE TERRORISM Soviet Union Consul Reaches Moscow MOSCOW, (By Mail).—On Febru- ary ist, the former Consul of the U. S. S. R. in Canton, Pokhvalinsky, ar- rived from China. In an interview given to a correspondent of the “Trud,” Pohvalinsky described the at- rocities perpetrated on the employees | of the Consulate, who fell into the hands of the rabid Chinese mili- tarists. On December 1ith, Canton was taken by the revolutionary workers, A Soviet Government was formed by workers’ deputies and a Council of People’s Commissaries elected. The new government had to fight from the very outset against the rapidly forming organizations of the White Guard. The fate of the town was decided by Li Fulin’s forces which were situated on the Honan island. They succeeded in breaking into Can- ton. As soon as they arrived they started to avenge themselves on the workers who remained in the city. “We,” says Pokhvalinsky, “were in the Consulate and watched the battles | through our window. “In the evening, at supper time, we were informed that the Consulate is surrounded. ‘he soldiers started*to break through the gate. Within a few minutes we opened the gates. All of us present in the Consulate were arrested, brutally bound and des- patched to the General Staff. Here we were put on the floor, all of us, ineluding the women, had our hands and feet bound and were tied to iron bars... . In this condition we were kept until the morning. Many of us fainted during the night. “In the morning the officers ar- rived and called out our names. The first one called was Comrade Has- sis, followed by Hakarov, Ukolov, Ivanov... . “They knew that they were going to be shot. “Hassis sang the Makarov shouted: Comrades. . . . “They were taken away and we never saw them again.... After a while we recognized their bodies by their photographs. “We were kept in horrible condi- tions in jail and only after the inter- ference of the German Consul were we sent out of China.” LAUNCH BOYCOTT ‘International.’ Remember us, | SCOTT NEARING, (Fed. Press) The Pan-American Union repre- |sents the United Sates, not Pan | America. The headquarters of the | union is an imposing building in the city of Washington. The-director of | the union was a professor of politica! |science in ‘one of the most conserva- ‘tive universities of the United States; | was in the employ of the U. S. treas- jury department and has held ad jresponsible positions under the U. | government. | The meetings of the union are not jeongresses with power to make and jenforce decisions, but conferences at jwhich administrative details are jelaborated and furglamentals are javoided. The Monroe doctrine, for j example, is not a subject for dis- meetings ot the Pan-| | American union. As one of the U, S. representatives put the matter: “The} Monroe doctrine is not an agreement |between the various American goy- ernments, but a statement of U. 8. policy.” The Pan- a ioriaat Union is also a statement of U. S. policy. How long will the Latin America republies ac- cept it? Wall St. Diplomacy. The question arose at the Havana conference on the subject of inter- vention. During the past 20 years, the United States has sent gunboats ‘and marines to Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Nicaragua; jhas forcibly dominated the internal {affairs of these countries, and in sev- eral cases, (notably in Haiti, Mexico jand Nicaragua) has shed much blood | before it could impose its will upon the local populations, In ceriain jcases—Cuba for example—provision tor intervention is made by treaty. Is this right? Should the United | States, with a population of 120,000,- |000 ahd a big army and navy inter- 'vene in Nicaragua, with its 650,000 | defenseless citizens? | Whether right or not, it is done. While the Pan-American conference was meeting in Havana, U. marines on Nicaraguan were shooting Nicaraguan citizens jeussion at of the U. S. military forces in the internal affairs of the country. The complete U. S. domination of the Havana conference is shown by the fact that delegates did not even mention the Nicaragua murders when they discussed intervention, but talked generally of outlawing inter- vention under international «law. Everyone was thinking of Nicaragua, Not a delegate mentioned it. “There is a suspicion that under- lying the reorganization of the Pan- American Union is a revival of the suggestion that there may ultimately develop an arrangement for the for- mation of a Latin American Union which would not include the United States,” cabled the N. Y. Times corre- spondent. He adds that Mexican and ~| Argentine delegates at the conference actively champion the cause of the weaker Latin American states against intervention by the United States. Business Interests, That is the heart. of the matter. The Pan-American Union is made of two unmixable elements. One member, the United States, is richer and better armed than all the other members of the union com- bined. Furthermore U. S. business interests have $1,500,000,000 invested in Cuba, $1,400,000,000 invesied in Mexico; $4,500,000,000 in the whole of Latin America. The other 20 mem- bers of the union are relatively poor and unarmed. With their resources and public utilities mortgaged to the business interests of the United States, ey always lie under the guns of U. S. battleships. For the moment the Pan-American Union may continue, at ieast in form. But in the long run, the United states will line up on one side, with jthe debtor countries of Latin Americr ranging themselves on the .other in an anti-U. S. Pan-American Alliance. If this can not be done openly, for fear of the United States, it will be organized secretly, like any other suppressed movement. Pan-American relations are un- \stable. Almost any critical event may | divide them into two classes: on the \north the Yankee peril, as it is des- eribed in Latin America; on the south | the territories and peoples that are being exploited and absorbed by the American Empire. s.| territory | who dared to resist the intervention | Overlook Murders. | Aids Oil Magnates eee Myron T. Herrick, United States Ambassador to France, will protest against the new French oil propos- als, The state department, which represents big business, is makiag the protest, the request .of big oil interests, KELLOGG AID TO U.S. OIL KINGS Protest Against Frenct Oil Proposal PARIS, Feb. 21.—Acting in the in- terests of large American oil inter- ests, particularly the Standard Oil, the state depart- ment, thru the United States em- bassy here, has protested to the Poincare govern- ment against the proposed French oil laws which will be taken up for final consideration by the chamber of deputies today. The bill provides that imports from foreign oil com- panies shall be limited annually to an average brought in during the last three years. The state department communication is believed to request that the United States ofl interests be permitted to do business on the basis Poincare, French tory. of their present maximum sales until France begins to import the quantities of oil which she expects from the Soviet Union and from her Mosul fields. * * * WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. —- Many oil companies have complained to the state department against the alleged “restrictive” French oil bill, Secre- tary Of State Kellogg is reported to have instructed Ambassador Herrick to re into the French proposal. GERMAN WORKERS HIT AT FASGISTS RERLIN, Feb. 5. (By Mail).—The parade of the Stahlhelm (Steelhelmet organization, a reactionary semi- fascist organization under the lea: ship of ex-officers and supported nancially by certain circles of th German industrialists) which tool: place today in Berlin was answere?, by large counter-demonstrations or the part of the Rerlin workers. Over 20,000 Communists and Red Frout Fighters assembled at various points in the proletarian quarters of Berlin. The streets were filled with many fi- , | Moscow. | GROWTH OF USSR OIL PRODUCTION Soviet Representatives Here Seek Big Loan In order to accelerate the develop- ment of the already rapidly growing Soviet oil industry, two representa- tives of the Anzeft State Oil Trust are in New York seeking a loan of $10,000,000, it was léarned yesterday. The loan will go to the purchase of refinery equipment, machinery and pipe line construction. The new pipe lines and refineries are expected to add 21,000,000 bar- rels to the annual capacity, according to a statement issued by the Amtorg Trading Corporation. A ten-inch pipe line is already being built between Baku and which, is expected to permit the ex- port of oil in much greater quantities than before. Another pipe line has been undertaken in the north in the Grozny district. The present refinery capacity at Grozny is 22,000,000 bar- rels a year. This, it is expected, will be increased 3,000,000 The two Sovief Union oil represen- tatives, Oparin and Surabekoff, plan to visit the largest petroleum fields in the United States and to study American methods of production. MORE USSR MILLS HAVE 7-HOUR DAY MOSCOW, Feb. 21.—The seven- hour day has been introduced in a num- ber of textile factories, raising the total to more than twenty. The new arrangement, which places the textile factories on a three-shift . system, not merely shortens the work day, but has in- creased production and provided em- ployment for more workers. The three-shift system is expected to re- sult in particularly large production increases in the manufacture of worsted and woolens. The seven’ hour day has already been introduced in a number of large cotton factories in Leningrad and CANADIAN GAP WORKERS. WIN TORONTO, Feb. 21.—A strike was declared here against the Sterling Headwear Company last Friday by Local 46 of the Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers Union. A 100 per cent response was the answer of the workers to the call of the union, which is engaged in an organization drive. The strike came after the employ- ers had discharged two of the active union members, whom they believed responsible for calling the other workers to a shop meeting at the union office, where they joined the organization. After refusal of the | demand of the union that the bosses} sign an agreement and reinstate the | workers, the strike was called. The) union believes that the employers will be compelled to settle soon. Bladder Batoum } barrels an-| nually by new construction. | MAKE PLANS FOR Imperialist Dreadnought Reaches New The superdreadnought Texas, planes which are carried by the Texas as scouts. } thoroughly equipped for the coming imperialist war. | FASCIST DEGREE TO BAR WORKERS FROM THE POLLS Only Citizens Paying ~ Heavy Taxes to Vote Orleans | | | | | | } } | | | { | | | | € ROME, Feb. Two bills pre- sented by } which would limit | voting to seisti and would bar | workers from the polls were approved | by the Counce f Min yesterday. Only t » of age who pay at least |100 lire yearly in taxes or own at j least 500 lire in state consols will be | permitted to vote. Few workers in Italy pay 100 lire annually in taxes in spite of the high t rate. The rely reaches an ex- in many industrial centers fi In or | vote 2 the birth rate, ted to men from f age who are married 0 Die as , Norwegian Steamship Goes Down 1 New Orleans, steams into the harbor; plioto below shows two sea- | largest battleship to ever visit The Texas is SANDING ELUDES MARINES AGAIN Aided Nationalists MANAGUA, Feb. large detachment of marines search- ing the Matagalpa district where he was last seen, General Sandino has again disappeared. Altho numerous rumors are circulated about the man euvers of the nationalist leader, ma 9 21. rine forces have beon unable to locate number in China. him, He is generally believed to be | in the mountains east of Jinotega. Ernestacio Hernandez, a Honduran citizen, has been arrested by a ma-| rine patrol on the charge of aiding} General Sandino. Hernandez was cap- | tured near the Honduran border on his way home. 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