The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1928, Page 3

- Expect Soviet Union to THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928 Page Three Make New Disarmament Proposals at Conference USSR MOVES TO DELAY MEET FOR TURK DELEGATES Tories Try to Sidetrack | Litvinoff Proposal | GENEVA, Mar. 15.—Faced with a new demand from the Soviet Union for universal disarmament by land, sea and air within four years, the League of Nations preparatory d%- armament commission met.again to- day. After a lpng re-| port had been read reciting the “ac-| complishments” of the League Se- curity Commission, the Soviet Union and German dele- gates made a mo- tion that all im- In Turkish Graft ss eS Ishan Bey, former minister ‘ of marine, who faces trial in the ene auestions | supreme court of Turkey on Monday owing to| charges of “irregularities” in of- j the absence of he) sie The graft in the ministry Lit ff : Turkish delega- ‘ USER. Envo y tion. The Turkish} (connected with the reconstruc- aon delegates, headed! tion of a number of ships) has by Tewfik Bushdi Bey, the Turkish Foreign Minister, are due late to- morrow or Saturday. It is expected eos aa 2 remem Easy deen at that the turks will support the Soviet Union demands for general disarma- SANDING ELUDES i . © addition to the disaramamént MARINE FORCES proposals already filed with the MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 15. League Secretariat by the Soviet) delegates, it is believed that Maxim | —United States marines operating in Northern Nicaragua are preparing Litvinoff, chairman of the U. 8. S. R. delegation, will have an entirely new! program to offer. The Soviet Union delegates arrived yesterday and en- gaged in a number of private confer-|for an intensive drive against Gen. Sandino, it was learned today. Xebels and guerrillas are reported o be getting active in the Jinotega jand Matagalpa districts. Sandino ences before the opening of the meet- ting today. himself is believed to be near Mata- galpa. The Soviet Union’s proposal second on the agenda. Litvinoff w Reinforcements of marines have rrived here from Corinto to replace make every effort to force the other marines on railway guard duty. created a national scandal. armament proposals before the com- mission in spite of the effor s of the British and French delegates to side- track them. Great Britain will at- tempt to have the proposals referre@? |The relieved marines will be sent to a sub-committee before they ‘ar | north to reinforce the detachments saken up for discussion in the con-|in the /Matagalpa and Jinotega ference. nones. Collaboration Scheme in Great Britain Falls Thru By I. D. LEVIN. B conference with the general covn- LONDON, (By Mail)—An extra-icil, The confederation regarded the ordinary fuss has been made about}matter much more prosaically: in- the ‘‘indus trial dustrial peace by all means, but what peace” conference # are the fireworks for? Conditions between the gener- ! differ in different industries: let the al council and a workers in every trade get together group of industrial ely with their employers; gen- magnates, headed § eral conditions for everybody cannot by Sir Alfred ; possibly be established. Mond. Ben Tillett The confederation in rejecting the described the con- ‘general council’s proposal for a joint ference as an conference, was undoubtedly prompt- event marking a led by the conviction that the process new epoch in the lof the “recovery of British industry” industrial history {at the expense of the workers by of the world. The | bringing down wages and worsening high-fiown phrases labor conditions in general, is only of the leaders of just beginning. An attack on the tex- the general coun- tile workers is at present imminent. cil are undoubted- ji Peace in industry would mean to re- ly meant to gloss mi frain from further attack and, na- over and distract A. J. Cook, | turally, this is not within the inter- general attention oeiaawal ests of the British bourgeoisie. 4 a gainst | . vid bas from the fact that collaboration. | Left Wing Grows. the policy of indus- And so the general council’s house trial peace pursued by the general/of cards came fluttering to the council has recently suffered a heayy| ground. Its position became hopeless defeat. | After its treachery in 1926 the gen- Hicks, the chairman of the last era! council has been suppressing the Trades Union Congress in Edinburgh | labor movement with an, iron hand made an offer of industrial peace to | not allowing it to recover from the the British bourgeoisie. But this olive | treacherous blow, and prepare for the branch was ignored. On the 1%th of|fresh inevitable contests, But the January, Citrine, secretary of the gen-| tendency towards the left among the eral council, repeated the offer of! masses is becoming ever more appar- peace made at the congress, inter-;ent. The géneral council, assisted by preting the meaning of the proposal the government is hounding ont the in a windy ‘speech on behalf of the| Communists, and the adherents of tho general council. The general couneil| minority movement, but is all of would like to come to terms witr|no avail. The influence of the Com- those employers’ organizations au-|munists and of the minority moye- thorized to speak on behalf of al the ment is growing from day te d employers in England. Citrine namec| The recent Communist victories ip two of the biggest employers’ organi-|the elections to the executive of the zations: FASCISTS “TRY” PEASANTS Pilsudski Decree Bars Defense Testimony With growing interest and atten- tion in Poland and throughout Eur- | ope, the trial in’ Vilna of the first 56 members, out of the 490 arrested, of the White Russian Workers and Peasants Party, “Hromada,”’ has al- ready reached its fifth day, during KELLOGG SENDS ULTIMATUM ON NICARAGUA POLL May Send More Marines j which the charges against the de- |fendants, “substantiating” docu- |ments, and all, the reading of which | took two days, and the farst group | of witnesses have been heard. | The fascist court has already de- nied the motion of the defense at- torneys for a postponement of the trial because more than 100 defense witnesses haye not yet appeared, and j upwards of 400 of them are not per j mitted to testify for the defense by governmental decree. The witnesses for the prosecution total 421 and for ithe defense only 240 were allowed, | until May 16. These are outstanding points in the! advices received today from Vilna by Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th Street, |which is organizing a national pro-| test movement in this country for the| defense. Vilna has the appearance of a be- leaguered city. with police lined up with bared bayonets in every street, while the prisoners, headed by deputy Taraszkiewicz, heavily manacled and under close guard were led fiom Luchishka prison to the court room. Representatives from the European press, including the Russian Izvestia and the Tass, are present, and the government has sent as its repre- sentatives to the trial the notorious enemy of national minorities in Po- land, and member of the Polish So- cialist Party, Holuvka, the chief of the eastern section of the Department of Foreign affairs. In addition, there ea representatives of the ministries of justice and internal affairs. The charges of the prosecution, con- jtained in 251 typewri.ten pages, and {36 volumes of “documents,” accuse the defendants of belonging to the Hromada and fighting for the right to self-determination for White Rus- sia, against the annihilation policy of Polish Fascism towards the White Russian people; for land for the poor peasantry, against tre frightful taxa- tion, for a workers’ and peasants’ gov- enment, and of being in collusion with a foreign government. The gov- ernment referred to is the Soviet Union. : AMERICAN HELPED MEXICO REACTION Is Arrested for Aiding Counter-revolution | | | MEXICO CITY, March 15.—An American rancher, Alonzo L. Taylor. has been arrested on the charge of aiding the counter-revolutionary re-} volt against the government, acccrd- ing to despatches received here from Guadalajara today. Taylor was men- tioned as aiding the reactionaries i a report submitted by the Attorney General of the State of Nayarit, ac cording to the reports. A Catholic priest and five other counter-revolutionists were executed at El Saucito cemetery, according to an announcement by the military au- thorities at San Luis Potosi. The re- ries were found guilty of or- ing a revolt against the govern- ment at a trial which lasted several | hours. q ne lis now being puffed by the general ;council as an e t of the greatest historical moment and the triumph of | their own ideas. | What is the meaning of all this? |Why did Sir Alfred Mond take up ‘the conference rejected by the em- ployers’ organization? | In order to give a correct answer ite this question it must be borne in mind that the process | British capitelisni is not an ew {The stable of British ind = jand there are clear indications that’ ——~\ 172 : : : ; |the hearing of the witnesses will iast A Lez sh the national office of Internationai | fy British Industries, covering almost the National Confederation! of Employers and the Federation of} Scottish Miners’ Union was an omin-| coal, textile, steel and ivon---are on} ous warning fer the general council.| the decline, Some however, chiefly which felt the need of doing some-!those working for the home market, the whole of British industry. Citrine} thing heroic. ‘ at the same time pooh-poohed the] And so it is offering to sell the idea of the general conncil sittine! labor movement wholesale to the down to the conference table with the! British bourgeoisie on the terms of various organizations of class collab-|the “status quo,” ie. the geners] oration which of late have sprung up| council not only accepts the govern- like mushrooms, adding that he had! ment’s anti-trade union bill, but wil) refused the invitation of the industrial! itself stand guard over it, and not peace conference called by the ler? jallow any strikes at all. The bour- mayor of London, since he considered} recisie, however, in return should re- such conferences as useless. ifrain from further attacks on the Attack On Wages. | workers, contenting themselves with His speech makes it obvious that|the favorable situation created tor are not, doing se badly and some are jeven flourishing, Sir Alfred Mond himself a millionaire, happens to be |a- representative of these fortunate |industries. Sir Alfred Mond is an out- (standing personality. He played a prominent part in the Liberal Party and is now a promineit member of the conservative party, which he has lately joined. He is an energetic of immense initiative. after the Amer- jioan model, Of German-Jewish orizin, he is unhampered by Britis the general council, apparently fas- ecinated by Mussolini’s idea of the. corporative system intended to con- voke a sort of industrial parliament of representatives of the organized) workers and organized employers, tc nothing less would the general coun- cil agree, However, on that very day on which Citrine “told the world” al! about the general council’s lofty ideos the National Confederation of Em- ployers’ Organizations met and pass ¢* 9 resolution rejecting the idea of ‘ them by the general council in its be. | vatisim and enslovement to tortine trayal of the general strike in 1926., During the war he developed the But this barmaining did not come off, chemical industry in England. which and the scheme collapsed. he practically keeps in his own hands Seize Mond’s Offer. | This industry is now in a flourishing And then Sir Alfred Mond enterad| state. Mos) of Mond’s supporters are the lists, inviting the general council! industrialists in those branches which on his own behalf and that of his group to a conference got up by them- selves. And the general council at! one time proudly rejecting anything! of the sdrt, se'zed upon Sir Alfred Mond’s offer as a drowning man clutches at a straw. This conference! have not felt the general economic to Raze Country WASHINGTON, March 15.—Nic- aragua will be compelled to ' accept any president who may b> “elected” under the “supervision” of American marines, it was officially learned today. An abrupt note to this effect is to + ee be dispatched to . ge Nicaragua. It will / be followed by publication in the “—~s—. y native press and <> by the posting of! manifestoes thru-| out the Republic, it was stated. NF. This was the} swift manner in} which the Ameri-| can Government met the new crisis | which developed} F. P. Kellogg. when the _lower Imperialists. House in Nicara- gua yesterday voted down the law which would al- low an American commission to supervise the election. The State Department declared that this government will supervise the election, regardless of what ac- tion congress may take, That more marines may be des- patched to Nicaragua to force the McCoy “election” law on Nicaragua was indicated in certain quarters. The opposition to United States “supervision” of elections comes from two sources. The genuine na- tionalist elements under General San- dino are struggling against United States intervention in Nicaragua; while a faction of the conservative party dominated by General Cham- orro is opposing marine supervision because Chamorro has been barred from candidacy by the State Depart- ment. The reactionaries realize that the State Department is supporting General Moncada and charge that ne surrendered to Col. Stimson after concluding a tacit agreement that he would be awarded” the presidency. Chamorro, it is pointed out, sup- ported United States “supervision” jof elections until he discovered. that the State Department favored Mon- cada, * * . WASHINGTON, March 15.—‘I shall never recognize any govern-| ment imposed by a foreign power,” said General Sandino in a message transmitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tn another. mes- Sage addressed to the recent Havana Pan-American) Congress, Sanding! declared “Presi- dent Coolidge! must, in the eyes ef the world, bear the responsibility | for the conse-| quences” in Nic- aragua. Liter Ot est against the hypo- crisy of Coolidge, who speaks of good will and sends an army to murder Nicaraguans,” he said. Sandino, replying to a communica- tion from Admiral Sellers, commander of the Special Service Squadron in Nicaragua, :deelared on’ Feb. 8, that only withdrawal of marines could end the present fighting. Sellers had warned he intended to use “the vast resources our government has placed} at our disposal,” if Sandino did not} enter a peace agreement. | “Today it is the entire Nicaraguan| people who, fight to drive out the! Gen. Sandino, Rebel Leader 67th Street and Uj Elére Dramatic ing and dramatie crisis in England. These are, how- ever, not the key industries; they are but oases in the gloomy desert of British economy. They are unable to soften the ever-intensifying class struggle in England, Tickets in advance $1.00. Tickets for sale at the Uj Elére office, 33 First Street, and Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, 106 University Place. 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Photo SILK STRIKE IN REVOLUTIONIZE million roubles for the industrializa- tion of agriculture and, more especial- ly, its export branch. At the present time, the Commis- jsariat has strengthened the export |sections of the respective Soviet trade SHANGHAI OVER USSR TELEPHONE | missions abroad, particularly with re- | jgard to the export of subsidiary Seats wea} | BE goods. ies : f Walk-out Took Place Scientific Tests to Bet- Mikoyan’s instructions point out Despite Kuomintang | SHANGHAI, March 1b.---Forty| thousand silk workers who went on) strike in spite of the municipal au- thorities have returned to work. More than 90 silk filatures in Shanghai were involved. Altho the terms of the agreement have not yet been made public, the workers are believed to have won| their demands. The walk-out took place in spite of the attempts of the Kuomintang authorities in Shanghai to prevent it. The Shanghai authorities have ex- pressed alarm at the regent strike) wave and are faking ithe to sup- press militant unions. / | JAPANESE RAID “LEFT QUARTERS TOKIO, March 15—A large num-| ber of workers were arrested here fol- lowing a series of raids on the head- quarters of left wing parties and | trade unions. The raids were made as | a result of the general elections in| which proletarian parties made a con. | siderable gain, | The police raided the. agercrreerredl of Communis ts and took possession | of the offices of the left wing paper, | Musan Shimbun. | The raids were nation-wide. Twelve | = arrests were made in the Saita dis- trict and thirty in Osaka. Among those arrested in Osaka was Profes- sor Ikuoovama, leader of the left wing | of the farmer-peasant party. | foreign invasion from my country,” said Sandino. “The only way this struggle can| fi be ended is by the immediate with-| drawal of the invading forces from our territory; the substitution for the present president of some Nicaraguan citizen not a candidate for the presi- dency; and the supervision of the coming elections by Latin-American representatives instead of American marines.” State Department officials are con- ferring with senate leaders over a plan to be followed to assure Ameri- 4“ can “supervision” of the Nicaraguan elections in October. The Nicara- guan Lower House rejected the McCoy Plan much to the surprise of |} the department. that it is necessary to enlarge exports even in the current year. 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