The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1928, Page 3

j i i { i | , CURB BIG DRIVE e THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928 Page Three Chinese Worker- Peasant Troops Take Towns in Victorious March South MILITARISTS OF CANTON FAIL TO War Lords Fear Revolt) of Canton Workers (Continued from Page One) it is generally believed here. thorities in the city, who fear a new uprising, are executing thousands of workers and conducting wholesale raids. Almost two thousand workers and peasants were executed without | the formality of a trial by the! Kuomintang troops several days ago. | eo ie | Imperialist Ally } SHANGHAI, Feb. 23.—The Nank- ing Government made a new bid for the support of the powers yesterday when General Huang Fu, new Min-) ister of Foreign Affairs, issued a} statement offering to “‘remove all) sources” of difficulties with the} | powers and indirectly attacking the} Soviet Union. “Pending the conclusion of new } treaties, the Nationalist Government | is prepared to maintain and develop friendly relations with the powers in! such a manner as to be able to meet the altered circumstances of the | present time and to remove all sources of difficulties and misunder-.! standing.” _An indirect reference to} the Soviet Union is believed to have been made in the following state-! ment: “With regard to the powers seek- ing to impair China’s social institu- tions, the 'atiovalist Government will be constra‘aed to adopt and en-} force the most suitable measures to} deal with the situation.” | PRAVDA OUTLINES GOMINTERN TASKS | t MOSCOW, (By Mail).—in a lead- ing article devoted to the tasks of the coming session of the plenary meeting of the executive committee of the Communist International, the “Pravda” points out that the plenary session of the ECCI will examine a number of questions of great funda- mental importance for the interna- tional working class movement. “Having regard to the steadily widening breach between the work- ing class and the bourgeoisie and to the sharp right-wing swing of the leaders of the’ international social democracy who are steering for a! coalition with the bourgeoisie, the} Communist International must in- crease the struggle against the in- ternational social-democracy to the utmost in order to win the broad masses of the workers for Commun- ism. The French and British ques- tions were therefore down for dis- ion upon the agenda of the plen- ary session. “The plenary session will also deal with the activity of the Communist Party of China and determine its fu- ture policy. It will also deal with the question of the international ac- tivity of the Trotskyist opposition which has now turned its chief atten- tion to the work abroad. The plenary session must cause the Communist Parties to strengthen their work for the exposure of Trotskyism, one of the chief sources of the campaign of lies and slanders directed against the’ Communist International.” Hughes Goes Home HAVANA, Feb. 23—Charles Evans Hughes, Chairman of the Uni- ted States Delegation to the Pan American conference, and Mrs. Hughes were among the. passengers upon the liner Ulua which sailed for New York early teday. | | Thg au- i. SOCIALISTS LIE Pioneers Help Fight for China’s Freedom Young Chinese Communists demonstrate against the wholesale nurder of worker and peasant leaders by the Kuomintang war-lords. ABOUT GHICHERIN. “Tmprecorr” Nails False Reports in Press MOSCOW, (By Mail).—A number of social democratic papers have re- ported that at the reception which was held in honor of the departing former Austrian ambassador Pohl, a speech was made by Tchitcherin re- ferring in appreciatory terms to the services of Victor Adler as leader of the Second International. A correspondent of the “Inprecorr” has made enquiries concerning the correctness or otherwise of this re- port and discovered that comrade Tchitcherin simply mentioned that shortly before his death Victor Adler recognized the Soviet Government in the name of the republican govern- ment of Austria. Tchitcherin made no other reference to Victor Adler. if the social democratie press wish to regard this act of Victor Adler as one of his services, then one can say nothing against it. Nevertheless, it must be said that the social democratic press has ob- viously got its information from white guardist journals and has once again printed a lying report, by crediting comrade Tchitcherin with praise of the Second International and its leaders which he never ut- tered. POLISH FASCISTS TRY 56 PEASANTS VILNA, Poland, Feb. 23. — Fif-y- six members of the “Hromada,” an or- | ing Lindbergh with a Chicago-N. Y.! ganization of White Russian workers and peasanis who are fighting for their own Soviet republic against the Polish reaction under which they are | suffering, have been brought to trial| in Vilna, for “espionage in behalf of | a foreign power” and the “organiza- tion of rebellious uprising,” according to a special cable received by the na-} tional office of International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, from | the Berlin office of International Red } Aid. I naddition, there are still 434) members of the organization who are | still to come to trial. The Pilsudski government is doing | all in its power to annihilate the| “Hromada” which has the sympathies | of the overwhelming majority of the | White-Russian population of Poland! and which has, up ‘o the arrests, pro- pagated its program and ideas widely and legally. | DELAY FLOGGERS’ TRIAL. | RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 23.—Trial of 18 alleged floggers today threat- ened to be delayed when a special venire of 100 men brought here from | t:atham county was cha!lenged soon after court convened. Chinese Revolution Gains’ ‘rest of Europe combined. Strength, Says Anna Strong CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (FP). — The revolutionary peasantry goes march- ing on in China even though the revo- | lutionary intellectuals, merchants, etc., have become temporarily disillusioned, says Anna Louise Strong, now lec- turing in Chicago and other cities. Under the pen name of Anise, she re- ported the Chinese revolution last spring and summer. “There is no good reason to des- pair,” Anise declares. “As a result of last year’s developments three po- litically conscious revolutionary groups have emerged in China that were never influential before, First of all the peasants, who constitute half the population. Their immediate demands are’-for rice control, as against the speculators, and for peas- ant schools. Their fundamental feel- ing is against all forms of exploita- tion and oppression, domestic as well ‘as foreign. “The second group are the 3,000,000 workers in the cities who have become articulate and conscious not only of the issues of economic and political freedom but of the fact that the way { to acheive them is through organiza- tion. “The third group is at present Jes influential and consists of the ‘awaken- | ing women both in city and country, becoming ever more radical as they | push their demands for equality with | men. | “No matter what form the révolu- tion will take in the future it will be} Which starts at 2 p. m., will include] work, and a closer cooperation be- fundamentally influenced by these; three groups. Until this last year a) nationalist government might per-! haps, with some foreign support, have | gone on exploiting the peasants and! workers. That is much harder now. | China will get its house in order, set-} tling accounts with the militarists: and | then with the foreign exploiters. It has revealed how it is going to be done.” 1 Anise is about to publish a Mook on her experiences on the inside of the Chinese revolution. She traveled with Mrs. Sun Yat-sen from Hankow through Mongolia and Siberia to Mos- cow last autumn, oot Alva ARE AENEAN ANSI TY REE. a ERAS SIN | pletely for a purely commercial enter- USSR POPULATION !'Waukegan Women’s WAGES INUSSR SHOW BIG GAIN Countries Drop | MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Before the revolution the wag of Russian workers were far behind the wages | of workers of western Europe. Now, wages in the U. S. S. R. are rapidly catching up with the «ages of western workers and in some cases even exceed them. Thus, the real wages of the Moscow workers are already higher than those of work- ers of Vienna and Paris. Wages in the U. S. S. R. grow] constantly and rapidly. In capitalist countries they diminish or remain on the same level. Wages in the U. S. S. R. during the first half of 1921- 22 were 46 per cent of the pre-war level and in 1926-27, during the last quarter, they have reached a level of 110 per cent of pre-war. In January 1927 skilled workers in Germany received 90 per cent of the pre-war ievel and unskilled 99 per cent. In Great Britain the’ miners re- ceived in 1927 only 80 per cent of their pre-war wages, joiners 89 per| cent and smelterers 88 per cent. According to the contemplated wage rise in the five-year plan of economic development the wages of Soviet workers will soon exceed those {of al! capitalist countries of Europe.| British capitalism, shows it almost LINDBERGH LINKED IN NEW AIR LINE DETROIT, Feb. 23. — Rumors link- air-line deal were current here today following a secret conference between | the transatlantic flyer, Mayor Thomas G. Lanphier of Selfridge Field and business men, and understood to have included a meeting with Edsel Ford) today. Those best informed suggest | that in case Lindbergh enters into any such undertaking, it will be of a semi-! official character, as indicated by the | presence of Major Lanphier who is} still in the U. S. army. The government, it is stated, is hes- | itant to release Col. Lindbergh com-| prise, after the good use they have been able to make of him officially in | strengthening their imperialist ven- tures, INCREASES FAST MOSCOW, Feb. ~ The popula- | tion of the Soviet Union is increasing | at an extremely rapid pace. i According to statistics revealed to-j day the natural growth of the popu- lation las. year was 500,000 persons | greater than the growth of all the} These fig- | By LELAND OLDS, | (Federated Pre: y | The boycott on British goods, | threatened by Indian nationalists |pire the vigor of English capitalism | will be slowly sapped. Unemployment, | wage SHOWS DECAY OF BRITISH EMPIRE, Slash Wages as English | Cotton Trade Declines against the latest coercive measure of the imperial government, shows once again that the cornerstone of the British economic empire is get- ting loose. As the provinces under-| mine the economic bonds of the em- reductions, more unemploy- ment, a population increasingly sup- ported on unearned income distributed in dividends or doles—so the story of decaying empire will repeat itself. Trade Declines. The slow decay which the boycott) by the Indian nationalists will hasten is reflected in two articles in the weekly commerce reports of the U. S.| department of commerce. One deals| with the decline in British trade with India, the other with the cotton in- dustry’s dificulties in England. The report on British trade with India shows that the English share in total imports into India fell from an average of 63% in the last 5 pre- war years to 48% in the fiscal year 1926-27. In recent years the British | decline has been steady, the English share being 58% in 1928-24, 649% in 1924-25 and 51% in 1925-26. India buys less of the products which once made England the industrial center of the world—cotton goods, textile ma- chinery, railroad plant, etc. In the Indian market England is faced not only with the growing com- petition of other capitalist nations, particularly the United States and Japan, but also with Indian produc- tion. The nationalist movement in India as well as in China realizes that it can-strike at British power with the economic weapon. England is becoming increasingly vulnerable economically. The report on the British cotton industry, the original foundation of mortally hurt. The mill owners’ fran- tic demand for wage cuts and longer hours in a last effort to hold foreign markets is significant. But more sig- |nifieant is the cotton industry’s nec-} essity of writing down its capitaliza-| tion. Where capitalism is healthy it is constantly writing up capitalization in anticipation of larger profits. Indian purchases of English-made cotton goods increased slightly from 1926 to 1927 but the value fell off sharply. The shipments to India in 1927 totaled 1,652,514,600 square yards but this compares with 3,057,-} 351,000 yards in the last prewar year. The demand for English cotton goods in other provinces of the em-} pire shows a similar decline from prewar. In 1927 China took only 103,- 195,000 square yards compared with 716,533,000 yards in 1923. Egypt 159,- 884,000 compared with 266,623,000 and Turkey and Syria 91,966,000 yards compared with 360,742,000 yards in 1913. English exports of cotton goods in 1927 totaled 4,117,683,000.. square yards compared with 7,075,252,000 yards in 1913. | Strip Workers as Markets Fail. | In the last 9 months of. 1927. the; English cotton spinning industry av- eraged about 65% of capacity opera- tion. In 1924, the last year for which} census figures are available, the | English cotton industry showed 10% | fewer workers than in 1907 and pro-| duction down 23%. The cotton spin- ning companies have reduced their outstanding capital by about a third since 1920. “The latest move to restore trade,” Says commerce reports, “is a proposal for a reduction in Wages and an in- crease in working hours, sponsored } ures were contained in the annual re- | port of the Soviet Union Health De-} Cotton Spinners’ Associations and the partment. | Day Celebration Mar. 4 WAUKEGAN, IIL, Feb. 23. — In- ternational Women’s Day will be cele- brated here on Sunday, March 4, with a long, gala concert and en _ertainment at the Worker’s Hal]. The program, musical solos, dramatic recitations, and talks. by well-known speakers. In the evening the program will be fol- lowed by a 3-act play, “The Woman Slave” presented by the Dramatic Club of the Finnish Workers’ Educa- | tional Society. All workingclass women are urged ito recognize the significance of this; this state, which now resemble the may take some time but the past year | day and give their whole-hearted sup-| Baumes Laws in New York, were yes- port to the demonstration. JOBLESS CHEF TAKES LIFE. PERTH AMBOY, N, J., Feb. 23.-- Charles Nicolino, a chef of this city who had been unemployed for several months, was found dead in his room, Fo bed turned on the gas and gone to § chiefly by the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Associations. Both recommend a 25% -all round reduction in the stan- dard piece price lists of wages, equiv- alent to about 12% % on current earn- ings, as well as an increase of work- ing hours from a nominal week of 48 hours to 52%. Other suggestions call for a readjustment of the finances of many mills, a decrease in expendi- tures for sécial service and welfare tween the various sections of the in- dustry.” N.J. Passes Baumes Law! TRENTON, N. J, Feb, 23--Two| more additions to the crime laws of | terday passed in the assembly. One would make persons convicted three times of crime in other states liable to life imprisonment if convicted of crime in New Jersey, and the other would make the possession of stolen goods sufficient to convict the holder as a “fence.” Both bills were intro- duced bya woman, Agnes Jones. | Pueyrredon to sign the convention,” | INDIAN BOYCOTT LATINS SCORE HAVANA POWERS REFUSE See Confab as Gain for Wall St. Only) T0 DISARM: RAP MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2 benefited from the Pan declares. “In spite of the refusal of Senor | . ; | the editorial says, “which was deem- ed contrary to the wishes of the gov- | ernment and of the triumphs of Dr. Guerrero. . .Mr. Hughes and his| jcompanions returned to this country | without having conceded anything. “All Latin-America went out with! empty hands, while the United States | returned with all its baggage of priv- ileges. So disastrous have been the | effects of this conference that Cuba | should have been ashamed of having | furnished its meeting place.” | BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 2 “Per- haps it would have been better, if Argentina, and many others, had not | attend the conference,” says La} Prensa, in an editorial headed “Teach- | ings of the Sixth Pan-American Con ference.” | © sae | BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. Real Colombian public opinion was not represented at the Pan-American | Congress, “Il Tiempo” says in an edi- | torial today. CHARGE U.S. WILL. REWARD MONCADA WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Altho Secretary. of State Kellogg has is- sued a statement declaring that the United States “will maintain an at- titude of absolute impartiality” in the coming Nicaraguan elections, it is | generally believed here that United | States officials will favor General | Moncada, the “Ziberal” candidate. Moncada, it is stated here, was tacit- | ly promised the presidency when he laid down his arms at the signing of the Stimson agreement. In an attempt to answer the charges that the state department will support Moncada, Kellogg issued a signed statement today, which de- clares: “I desire once more to state with the utmost emphasis that the | United States is maintaining and will | eontinue to maintain an attitude of | absolute impartiality in all matters | regarding the, Nicaraguan elections.” | Seek to Deport Son Of Feodor Chaliapin HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 23.—De- portation proceedings have been _ started against Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., son of the Russian singer, who has been working here as an extra in the | movies. The local immigration office | charges that he was allowed to enter the country on a five months’ visitor’s permit, and that this period has now expired, ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA FLIGHT LONDON, Feb. 23.—Bert Hinkler, Australian aviator, hopes to attempt a return flight to England soon and} England in sixteen days, a record | for the return trip, an exchange tele- graph dispatch from Melbourne said today. Hinkler arrived in Australia yes- terday after making the flight from England in sixeteen days, a record for the distance. 23. PATA ITS Iowa | | | i OU’ ¢ veaders 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 i it in to us, so that we will be able to make the necessary | ' arrangements, to have it de- | | livered reguiarly. i CIRCULATION DEPT. | DAILY WORKER, 39 First St. New York City. | My newsdealer Is .......005 FS —The United States American conference, a is the only nat editorial in Rewarded for Sell-out | eneral Jose Moncada, Chiang Kai-shek of Nicaragua, who is be- ing backed for the presidency by Wall Street. Moncada sold out the liberal troops last year when he signed the Stimson agreement. MEXIGANS PLAN GUADALAJARA, Mexico, —A committee has been orga: the Anti-Imperialist League for the | purpose of furnishing all “possible aid | |to General Sandino to continue the | fight against the United States for- | 8 which are invading his country.” he motto of the organization will be “hands off Nicaragua.” The resolution calling for the for- | mation of the committee denounces United States policy in Latin-Amer- | ica and calls upon all Latin-Amer- icans to fight the “menace of Yankee imperialism.” USSR PROPOSAL Capitalists Arming for War, Pravda Says BULLETIN MOSCOW, Feb. 3.—“The Goy- ernment is conducting an obstinate fight for peace, but so long as we are surrounded by capitalist nations the danger of war will hang above us,” declared War Commissar Voro- |shilov in a statement today. Voroshilovy declared that the Red | Army was prepared to ward off any |imperialist attack. GENEVA, I The Soviet Union’s propos : complete and immediate disarmament met with a cold reception at yesterday’s session of the League of Nations Security and Arbitration Commission. British and French delegates led the attack on the disarmament proposal. Altho the powers are attempting to sidetrack the Soviet Union’s proposal, the USSR delegates are certain to introduce it at the Preparatory Dis- armament Commission meeting on March 20. MOSCOW, Feb. 23.—The capitalist powers are certain to reject the Sov- iet Union’s proposals for disarma- ment, an editorial in Pravda says. y | Anticipating as they do the next im- perialist v the capitalist powers will not disarm, the Pravda says. GE /A, Feb. The president of the League of Nations Council this afternoon telegraphed an urgent de- mand to Budapest that the destruc- tion of the contraband Italian mach- ine guns shipped to that country cease immediately. The machine guns are wanted as “evidence” when the league council begins investiga- ting the incident next month. February 25, 1928 at IRVING PLAZA, 15th Street and Irving Place Man Pind ieee Concert and Dance Given by : IL LAVORATORE a a a a a : the Unfurling of a FEATURE !— District Flag. & ea fe ein a a fa i ee od odds New York Italian Jol N IN A REAL FIGHT! | FOR | i. Organization of the unorgan- \ ized. Miners’ Relief. Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union. 4. A Labor Party. 5. A Workers’ and Farmers’ | Government. please check this box. ( \ UNEMPLOYED AND STRIKERS - Join a Fighting Party! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America If you are on strike or unemployed and cannot pay initiation ADMITTED WITHOUT INITIAT | and receive dues exempt stamps until employed. | (Bnclosed find $1.00 for initiation fee and one month's dues.) AGAINST Injunctions. Company Unions. Unemployment. Persecution of the Foreign | Born. War. \ pment vation » |