The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 3

e THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, NDAY, FEBR UARY 27, 1928 Page Three OREIGN NEWS --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS SOVIET UNION IN [BRITISH TEXTILE CRISIS|TVINOFF WILL | DRIVE TO BOOST |Worters Sufter Wage Cuts, Long Hours REPRESENT USSR CROP PRODUCTION Takes Steps to Increase Grain-Sowing Area MOSCOW, Feb. 26. --- Provisions for the extension of the spring grai sowing area are made in a decree is- sued by A. Rykoff, president of the Council of People’s Commissars. yes- terday, “After ealling for energetic and orompt action by the press of the Soviet Union and all government and Sommunist Party agencies, the de- sree provides for a more prompt and adequate supply of agricultural tools end machinery to farming districts, for larger credit facilities and for the supply of 6,250,000 bushels of se- lected seed to the poor peasant A more vigorous campaign to in- srease the grain-sowing area is seen in the appointment of Koobiyak, as minister of agriculture in the Rus- sian Federation. An_ editorial in Izvestia also points out the need of increasing the grain-sowing area. Mikoyan, commissar of trade, in an address before the metal workers’ anion yesterday, declared that meas- ares are being taken for the increase of the grain-sowing area. HOMELESS WAIFS IN SOVIET FILMS MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Len- ingrad Cinema Studio is making the experiment of producing a big film in which all the participants are home- tess children. This film which goes by the title “Golden Honey” is al- ceady finished and will be soon pro- duced. To find suitable types and artists for their film, the stage managers of the studio visited Leningrad night Shelters where one can find homeless By LOUIS ZOOBOCK. LONDON, (By Mail). = The troubles in the coal industry and the| prolonged depression accompanied by} fierce competition at home and abroad whieb has afflicted the great heavy trades, such as iron and steel, engineering and shipbuilding, have tended to draw away the atiention from the no less serious condition of what is, after all, one of the greatest of England’s exporting industries, | namely, the textile industry. For over five years Lancashire has been suffering from the worst spell, of bad trade. Its trade has fallen to) about two-thirds of its pre-war volume and rather less than three- quariers of its pre-war value. In other words Lancashire has to a marked extent lost the predominance which she possessed in the markeis | f the world. Before the war Great Britain supplied about 73 per cent of he cotton piece goods entering into international trade; during the period | 1921-1925 the proportion of British’ export had fallen to 57 per cent. The chief factor in this alarming} decline in the cotton industry, of course, has been the falling off of the great markets of the Far East—j India, China, ete. In 1913 the Far| astern markets imported from Eng- | land 4,357,771,000 yards of piece! goods. In 1925 the figure had fallen! o considerably less than half that quantity—namely to a bear 44 per} cent. At present the percentage is | still lower. Both in India and China} there has been a very large increase | in home production, and in both coun- | ries the rapidly expanding Japanese industry had tended to displace im- ports from Great Britain. Worsteds Hard Hit. Like the cotton industry of Lan- eashire the worsted woolen industries of the West Riding have been suffer- ing from a long spell of depression. | Exports, especially of worsted manu-/| factures, have shown a disquiting tendency to contract, and complaints have yearly been growing louder of an invasion of the home market by increasing imports of foreign goods. Exports of woolen tissues to the five principal European customers— Germany, Holland, Belgium, France Misleads British Labor Ben Turner, reactionary head of the British textile workers’ unions. Turner is also chairman of the Brit- ish Trade Union Congress. PAYROLL PADDING FOUND IN ARMY DETROIT, Feb. 26.—Eleven edm- missioned and non-commissioned -of- fieers of the Michigan National Guard and the regular army have been served with warrants charging pay- Detroit armory. The charges follow a secret ser- vice investigation. Two of the accused officers. are in the regular army and the others are attached to the 12/th infantry stationed in Detroit. Photo- static copies of forged checks are in the possession of the secret service agents, who stated that some of the accused have admitted cashing them. Privates Tayeaténed. It is charged that the officers re- tained money earned by soldiers, end told the men that the money was he- roll padding and check forging in the, ~ ATARMS PARLEY \Expect Soviet Proposal | | for Disarmament | GENEVA, Feb. 26—Maxim Lit- jvinoff, Vice Commissar of Foreign | Affairs, is expected to head the So- | viet Union’s delegation to the session lof the Preparatory Commission on |the Limitation of Arnaments which | will open here March 15th. The So- | viet Union, altho*it does not expect |the ‘powers to accept it, will attempt |to bring its plan for complete and| |immediate disarmament to the fore. The Soviet Union placed its pro- | | posal before the security commission, which is now in ion, thru its ob-| server Boris Stein. | Pe GENEVA, Feb. 26.—With ‘Ger- |many opposing a Central European | jagreement which would include Aus-| |tria because such a move would -in- terfere with her plans for the event- |ual absorption of Austria, the se- lcurity commission has reached ‘a ‘deadlock. Leading the forces op- | posed to Germany is Dr. Benes. Pouplation in Moscow, Leningrad Increasing MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The popu- lation of Moseow, January Ist, 1928 was 2,142,009, an increase of 112,400 during the year 1927. In 1927 there j was 52,100 births registered in Mos- cow, of which 27,068 were males and 26,032 females. During the same pe- riod 28,209 people died. By January Ist, 1928, the popula- ‘tion of Leningrad reached 1,676,800, an increase of 58.200 inhabitants dur- ing the year 1927. Get $135,000 in Mail Holdup Near Chicago | 26—A Grand | | Feb. The camel-drivers, who deliver even Chevrolets in India, joined the nation-wide walkout on February 3rd to protest against the arrival of the British imperialist Simon. troops fired into a demonstration i One worker was killed and a number wounded when British Even Indian Camel Drivers Joined Strike SOLDIERS OF RED [ARMY HONORED ON OTH ANNIVERSARY Stalin, Bucharin at Mos- | cow Celebration . (Continued from Page One) jof the week’s tenth anniversary fu- | bilee celebration, festivities have been ! proceeding enthusiastically in many cities ever since the anniversary day, | Feb. 23. Besides the local authorities in man ctions have granted funds for the improvement of cultural con- | ditions and life for the Red Army s. in addition to the 10,000,000 roubl ly granted by the com- manding ff. a sold Sir John commission, headed by n Madras. ELECTRIFY USSR RAILWAY SYSTEM. MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Soviet of People’s Commissars has con- firmed credits to the amount of 7,-| 750,000 roubles for the electrification | of railway transport in the current year. The following railway lines will be electrified: The surburban line (Moscow- Mytistchi), the Leningrad-Orannien- baum Line and the Surmassk Moun- tain Line im trans-Caus A Work in connection with this has already made considerable progress on the Northern Railway lines. Plans are being drawn up for the | electrification of the Moscow-Khar-| kov-Donbass line. | LYNCH—Feb 24 | ENO ee | | sys . { Political Prisoners | —— | Political persecution of workers in| Italy, Spain, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela andj |Bulgaria will be discussed by several | The Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Com- speakers at a meeting at the Civic) Clu, 18 E. 10th St., Monday at} 8.15 p. m. Roger N. Baldwin, di- RECORD FOREIGN = Building Inaugurated. ing for the Red Army and * ng the name of Frunze, been inaugurated in Moscow in on the opening of the new home by | the huge building ich was formerly the “Institute for Noble Young Ladies.” Greetings were extended } Sea ay ; N. Bukharin, Unschlicht, Uglanov, Foreign loans in March are ex-| Yaroslavs and others, while Ernest pecte a new mark, ording | Thaelmann conveyed the greetings of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, the German Communist Party and the Red Front Fighters of Germany. to present indications. Foreign fi- nancing promises to total well above | $500,000,000. . In addition to the $100,000,000 loan for Polish railways, which, it is pected, will be floated in Mare $61,000,000 loan will be extended t Austria, $60,000,000 to Fascist Ru-| mania, $50,000,000 to the Italian rail-| ways of F ist Italy and $40. to the Province of Buenes : A large loan, the amount | has not yet been determined, be made to Japanese public utilities, it has been learned. | HEALTH Strictly Pure FLORIDA HONEY Guaranteed by the Working Full Blast, Yet) A 10 Per Cent Wage Cut! WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 26. — BEE-FARMER. pany, of Clinton, is preparing to an- | Special Prices During Run of This “Ad” nounce a reducticn in wages amount- | 5 tips. 39.25 6 Lbs. $1.40 10% Goes to “Daily Worker” ORDER BY MAIL. CHICAGO, rector of the Civil Liberties Union, | ing to 10 per cent this morning. The i will talk on the Soviet Union. John | cut is to take effect March 1st, | 1 vill ide. Piornee Ecljes' val preside | The wage reduction is to be put | {over despite the fact that this par- | children who cannot be pursuaded to}and Italy—h, li settle down in children’s homes. After | 59 per ca aa ot ce considerable difficulties, the right nearly 90 per cent. types for the film were discovered. Lost markets and decreasing ex- ing held back. The privates were threatened with court marshall if they said anything about the matter, it is charged. Trunk train was held up in the south-western outskirts of Chicago by six armed men and robbed of $133,000 that was. being sent from The first stage of the work con-|ports; short time working and un- nected with the production of} employment; overcapitalization and “Golden , Honey” was full of enor-| indebtedness; the failure of the em- mous difficulties. The homeless} ployers to bring their technique up to children frequently decamped. One|date; grouping exports of textile of them ran away in the middle of|machinery which help to increase the the setting of the film and 20 per|competition from other countries; the vent of the picture had to be photo- multiplicity of small firms which in- - tor, if Levine does not soon séttle a “the purchase of surplus war material, graphed again, Time and working habits made these homeless artists disciplined. After a time, the children got so used to the conditions of their work in the studio that they felt quite sorry when they were not taken to be photographed. Leningrad pedagogues are amazed at the results achieved with the chil- dren in the cinema studio, SOVIET BUYS FOR CLOTHING PLANT A. L. Gandel, who has recently ar- riyed here, representing the sewing industries of the Ukraine Soviet Re- public, announced Saturday that he is in this country to purchase equip- ment for one of the largest clothing factories in the world. The projected factory is to employ a minimum of 5,000 workers, he stated. This is one of the first steps to be taken by the Soviet Union for the re- alization of an announced program ef expending over $5,000,000 in the next few years in building up the ready-to-wear clothing industry. | “The Moscow Clothing Trust alone | operates i0 factories, with 2,000 work- | ers each shift,” Gandel stated. “The | demand for ready-to-wear clothing in the Soviet Union, something which was entirely unknown before the war, has become so great that it is necessary to operate most of the clothing plants on three seyen-hour shifts each day,” he added. Iron & Bronze Workers To Get Strike Reports An important meeting of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union will be held Tuesday at the Rand School, 7 E, 15th St. at 8 p. m. A report about the answer received from the Bronx Association to the demands of the union will be given. There will also be reports about the Garman Ir n Works strike and about the general conditions in the trade. Flyer Threatened WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — The government will bring suit against Oharles A. Levine, airplane contrac- claim for $500,000 alleged by the gov- ernment to be due from the sale of surplus war material. Levine is said fees charge that contagious diseases fering from many kinds of contagious i crease to a great extent the chaos existing in the industry; the ex- ploitation of native labor forcing down wages at home; low wages to Bombay mill workers bringing unem- ployment in Lancashire, etc. All these are symptoms. The Lancashire workers are now more than ever learning by bitter ex- perience what British imperialism means to them. The wages of cotton workers in Bombay, the best paid dis- trict in India, in 1926 were for women £1. 3s. 9d. to £1. 6s. per month, and for men £2, 7s, 2d. to £2. 18s. per month. Boys and girls re- ceived from 12s. to 16s. per month. The working week is 60 hours. In China wages vary from 8s to 12s. per week for men; wages for women are still lower, while children earn from 3s. to 5s. per week according to age. These facts speak volumes about the social conditions that British im- perialism have brought to the work- ers of India and China. British capi- talism: is exploiting the sweated la- bor of thousands of coolies as a means of breaking down the living | conditions of textile workers. Pipa ome (Another article hy Louis Zoo- | beck analyzing the situation in the | British textile industry, will appear tomorrow). 3 Dry Agents Indicted | MINEOLA, L. L, Feb, 26.—Three men were yesterday indicted for ex- tortion in connection with prohibi- | tion activities on Long Island. John Winters. holder of a federal prohihi- | tion agent badge without authority; James Riordan, a former New York | | detective, and P. DeMarco, a police- man, ve the men indicted. Road- house owners here made the charges. HOSPITAL HERDS SICK. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Feb. 26. Bosses Not Worried at 48 Hr. Bill’s Passage SPARTENBURG, S. C., Feb. 26.— At first glance the statement of the mill owners of South Carolina that they are unconcerned as to the fate of a bill recently introduced in the state legislature, which calls for a 48 instead of a 55 hour work week in the state’s industries, seems para- doxical, according to the leaders of labor unions here, but their total lack of interest is explained when it is learned that the proposed bill was referred “without comment” to a committee, who can avoid bringing in a repert for several years. The politicians of South Carolina, who offer as the main attraction for the textile barons the extremely low consider such a measure seriously, it is reported. When other laws of bene- fit to labor came up in the legisla- ture after a delay of several years, down. Announcing! No. 5 of the WORKERS LIBRARY! The Trotsky Opposition receive faulty isolation at the Grass- lands pay hospital here. was made by Cecile Grace, a resident of this city. Grace stated that his 6 year old. son caught scarlet fever in the con- tagious ward of the ‘hospital while” recuperating from diphtheria. said that he had seen patients suf- | diseases thrown together in one room } of the hospital. LABORER IS INJURED. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 26.--— George Seamons, 49, a laborer of Brooklyn, had his left ankle crushed yesterday when a pile of lumber fell to have made a large fortune from on his foot. Seamons was at~ work at *he Ceores P- » Company. Its Significance for American Workers By Bertram D. Wolfe A keen unalysis of the role of the Opposition imthe Rus- sian Party, and a cutting expose of its counter-revolu- tionary supporters in Amer- ica, 100-Page Pamphlet Order Today From WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 E. 125 St. New York 50c labor standards, do not even intend to | they were almost unanimously voted | two Chicago banks to two banks in Harvey, Ill., yesterday. After cow- ing the crew and passengers ‘with a, volley of lead, they blasted the mail car, took the! pouches of money and escaped in a closed car. Less than a year ago, another such train was held up in exactly the same manner two blocks from where this robbery occurred, and the amount captured was $135,000 which was ac- tually the sum being shipped at this time, altho $2,000 of it was sent thru another route. Y. W. L. 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