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

eee aromatic acme vage ‘ree ‘Laud Victory \SOVIE of U.S.S.R at | Geneva Meet | | aS | ; MOSCOW, March 26.—The diplo- | matic victory of the Soviet Union the preparato arms. conference| Describes MEXICO UNABLE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO WALL STREET BRITISH TGRIES _ ADD NEW CHUNK TO THE EMPIRE |Oil Involved in War on T MINING EXPERT HERE 10 STUDY METHODS Growth Finance Minister Again of | y f vhich closed at : : Makes Announcement | Ibn Saud jee eogken cover Iron Ore Output Figs dah i days ago wa - Psi issih ones = ihe i. Getta rll sia beanie noted with satis- Chief Engineer A. N. Bakhtiarov Mexican government’s revenues this LONDON, March Mamet the| of the Yurt, the Soviet Southess 4aa year are estimated reports of a “holy ag M > Corrs Given 3 . ee ee acs j ‘oscow Pravda. | Trust, has arrived this country ac- at 295,000,000 Great Britain in Arabia were belie ved f Maxim _Litvin-| companied by three other important pesos (8147,500,- |to have been spread as an excuse for |} ‘oat GHG. Kealedion 5 of the trust, it was leatiel 00), Snguen «for fee eam non of the imnoniane aca: the USSR delega-|yesterday at the offices of the Am- normal obligations, | Port of Koweit on the Persian Gulf ne ge Trading Corporation. Repre- but not sufficient | British bombing planes have, how- points Tare had sentatives of the Yurt, which pro- to meet foreign jever, raided tribesmen who fought tnebad “ae kt 00,000 "metric tons debt obligations t the construction of a line of | : cos ch’ to snake a eee tempt on the part of the powers to prevent the Sovi Union from taking under the Lamont- Pani agreement, it was announced to- Ar months’ study of methods and of the m market. an production z equipment M. Litvinof routed tories | British forts along the frontiers of Iraq and Transjordani | Koweit is not only extremely im-| Two German posters used during the week of March 11-18, when the International Red day by ’ Finance ; : ‘ i 4 |portant for stretegic reasons, but] part in the conference, The attempts| “While we have not as yet reached Minister Luis Mon-| Aid celebrated its fifth anniversary. The.poster on the left reads; “Remember the shooting {its occupation is important in view/made by the British delegation to|the pre-war iron ore output,” said i a tes De Oca. The) of the 32 revolutionary sailors, Remember your fighting comrades who fight in the prisons |! the recent struggle between! solve ‘the new Soviet proposal | Bakhtiarov, “the progress made dur- PERNT I government hopes |France and Britain for the terminus) , rly proves that the powe s wil] |ine the past few years has been very and dungeons. Recruit members for the Red Aid. Poster on the right reads: “Fight with | to obtain a short- of the oil pipe line from Mosul. After | encouraging. Four y the ago signed pact term loan to meet| the Red Aid for the release of all proletarian political priso .” The Red Aid carries on |q struggle of several months, the Pensa qe te pctigass reaming Yurt produced less than half a million the foreign loan| functions similar to those of the International Labor Defense in this country. |British government succeeded in te pias hi ae Several cpinion, of f ore. During each of the next obligations. RUE LEP MORSE Bt EE SES |“persuading” the French interests in Pee, j we succeeded in doubling Of the total income 30,000,000 |the Turkish Petroleum Company— production, and increased the output pesos will be spent on public works. KUOMINTANG LEADERS r, With the re- ;the trust which is to exploit Mosu The income tax will yield about eight per cent of the revenues. * * Two representatives of the Mexican ministry of finance visited New York several weeks ago to confer with com- mittee of international bankers on the Mexican loan. Mexico made it clear that she was unable to meet interest payments on her debts to Wall Street. SCORE PILSUDSKI TERRORIST. RULE Demand Release of 490 Members of “Hromada” (Continued from Page One) tempt to erush by legal violence the national, cultural and political aspira- tions of this national minority. We urge their immediate release and the restoration of legal status to Hromada and all other workers’ political par- ties and the immediate release of po- litical prisoners in Poland.” The telegram to Paraskiewiez fol- lows: “In the name of labor and liberal opinion in the United States, we ex- rress our solidarity with you and your fellow defendants on trial and con- demn the trial as an attempt to smash the Hromada and crush the legitim- ate aspirations of the White Russian minority in Poland. We pledge our support toward arousing and organ- izing progressive opinion in this coun- try in a protest movement against the infamous trial. We have cabled Premicr Pilsudski, demanding the le- galization of Hromada and other par- ties and the release of political pris- cners in Poland.” BOLIVIA WAR T0 GET WALL ST. AID LA PAZ, (By Meil).—Bolivia’s war preparations against Paraguay are proceeding actively with the assist- ance of American capital. A contract for the construction of a railway across the Andes Mountains into the Amazon valley, leading towards the disputed oil ‘territory of the Chaco | taking the city with the workers fore- | Boreal, has been awarded by the Bolivian government to the American engineering firm Kennedy & Carey. At ‘present there are no railway connections between the high plateau of Bolivia and the Amazon valley leading towards Paraguay. This rail- way going from Cochabamba to Santa Cruz, about 300 miles, will give ac- cess to the plain of the Chaco Boreal and Paraguay. SANDINO SOLDIER BRAVES MARINES MANAGUA, March 26.—A soldier of the army of General Sandino braved the fury of several hundred hired ballyhooers, planted by General Moncada and subservient liberals with the connivance of the United States government, to bring the heroic strug- gle of the Nicaraguan soldiers of in- dependence before the masses in Managua and the American invaders, Wearing the black and red colors of the troops of General Sandino the soldier mingled in the big hurra dem- onstration engineered by the Amer- ican leaders to support the impression that the Nicaraguan masses are be- hind the American supervision of the fall elections. The procession carrying many pa- per American flags, supplied, it is al- leged, from American sources, parad- ed to the American consulate where they were met by a marine guard. A detachment of American officered na- tive constabulary accompanied the marchers to prevent any. unforeseen j demand for wage increase: disorders. i \ } ‘vincial General Labor SLAUGHTER EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the second installment of the report made by Sou Chao-jen, chairman of the All-China Labor Federation, de- livered at the second meeting of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secre- tariat, in Shanghai, February 4, 1928. Today’s installment tells of | the wholesale execution of labor leaders and the ruthless suppression of trade unions by the Kuomintang generals, operating with the im- perialist powers. The DAILY WORKER publishes Sou Chao-jen’s report in full because it is an excel- lent general survey of conditions prevailing in China. * * * By SOU CHAO-JEN. Chairman. All-China Labor Federation The Kuomintang has become the hangman of the bourgeoisie, the mil- itarists, the imperialists, and the land- lords. They have cancelled all agree- ments of the trade unions; suppressed all the unions; denied all the so-called freedoms to the workers. They say that strikes, meetings, publications, ete., which have the previous permis- sion of the Kuomintang are permit- ted, but no permissions are granted except for some reactionary maneuver of their own, or to carry out some blackmailing scheme. Workers live under the worst white terror. The Kuomintang has broken relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics, although the proletariat of the USSR has helped China for several years. Workers of China recognize the USSR as our closest friend, which cannot be dispensed with. The reaction uses the Kuomintang to slaughter the communists. (Since April no party in China has been re- volutionary except the Communist Party). They break up the trade unions, arrest the leaders and kill them; they appoint traitors or bourge- cis officials to “reorganize” the trade | unions, attempting to take them over to be governed by the reactionary Ku- omintang. These things happen all over China. Murder Labor Leaders. They began the reaction in Febru- ary in Kanchow, Kiangsi Province, by assassinating the chairman of the Pro- Union, In Shanghai in March the workers made | insurrection against Sun Chuang- | fang, and helped the southern armi es before the army arrived; but when Chiang Kai-shek arrived he killed hun- dreds of workers as his first act. In Shanghai the Kuomintang has never stopped arresting and killing the tra union leaders. i | In Kwangtung in /pril, the mili/or- ists Li Chi-san made a coup d'etat. arrested 2,000 workers in one night, and shot 100 of them without an- nouncing their names. Among those murdered was the chairman of the Canton Workers Assembly. In Hunan the Kuomintang leaders killed thon- sands. In Hupeh they forced the workers to accept worthless. military notes for wages; when the arsenal | werkers demanded good money, they | killed their leaders and suppressed the strike with military force. They killed the Ricksha Coolie union leaders, as | well as the officers of the Textile | Workers Union. The railway workers of Wuhan made demonstation to de- | mand payment of back wages, of | whieh 11 months are owing, and were suppressed by White Terror, Feng Kills Workers. In Honan, under the “Christian General” Feng Yu-hsiang. 590 textile workers were slaurhtered for strik- | ing; the Henan General Labor Union was suppressed and the leaders killed because they supported the railway workers in the demand for back wog- | es. In Szechuan hundreds of workers | were killed in the suppression of the trade unions. In Amoy, when the workers gathered to demand the re- lease of their arrested leaders, “the | be related. troops fired into them, killing many. tm Anhui, the same events; the chair- man of the General Labor Union there |which is expected to be e | Irigoyenista WORKERS . Murders Workers ~ General Sun Chuan-fang, northern war lord, who has murdered thousands of work- ers in his campaign of terror. Sun’s forces include about two thousand White Guard Rus- sians. Communist Candidate In Argentine Election BUENOS AYRES, March 26.—The Communist - Workers’ Party has named a woman as its presidential candidate in the elections which will be held on April ist. The v heavy will be for parliamentary as well as presidential candid. a The candidates for the major par- ties are Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen and Dr. Leopoldo Melles, running on the and Anti-Personalista parties respectively. There are few fundamental differences in the plat- TO “PROBE” OIL India Oil Producers Ask | “Protection” LONDON, March 26.—As the re- sult of complaints from Indian petro- leum companies, the government tariff board was ordered today to in- vestigate alleged price-slashing by the Standard Oil Company and the Royal Dutch interests in their gigan- tie battle for control of the Indian market. * * BOMBAY, March 26.—Small petro- leum producers thruout India are alarmed as a result of the extension to the Indian field of the oil war now raging between the Standard Oil and the Royal Dutch Shell interests. Protection * against the flood of} cheap petroleum about to be unloaded upon the Indian market. in. the course of the price slashing struggle between the oil giants is being demanded by a number of native concerns and if} granted, is expected to lay a heavy burden on the native consumer. Inquiry into the needs of the Indian producers in the crisis which they be- lieve threatens them will be under- taken by the government’s tariff board with a view to investigating, and probably restricting, the dump- ing of cheap petroleum on the Indian | markets, The tariff, it is announced, will also try to determine whether the oil war is to be extended to gasoline. The government states that it is un- dertaking the inquiry at the instance of a number of large native oil com- panies. MEXICAN TROOPS. PURSUE BANDITS MEXICO, CITY, March 26.—Hun- dreds of federal soldiers today are in pursuit of 50 bandits who held up and robbed 200 .week-end travelers over Puebla Highway 25 miles from| is city and carried off five young} . S. Ambassador Dwight W. Mor-| row and foreign minister Estrada} passed through Zoquiapan, the scene} of the ho!d-ups just a few hours after | * WAR IN INDIA =<: | Altho Ibn Saud has issued no dec-| ‘China Workers Demand | oil—to use the British-controlled port jof Haifa, Palestine, rather than the mtrolled port of Alexan- dretta, Syria, as a pipe line terminus. | ‘aration of war, the British govern-| ent is determined to “deal firmly” with him. Ibn Saud as king of prac-! tically all of Arabia occupies the ter- ritory betwevn Mosul and Haifa. The! British government has therefore sued alarmist rumors of war and ac: | tually sent bombing planes 100 miles within the territory of Ibn Saud. VENEZUELA NEAR REVOLT REPORT | geois Home Defense Force attempted | aor B. F. Yoakum, of ; | BOGOTA, Colombia, March 26. a | Report that an insurrection impending / in several sections of Venezuela was! received yesterday at Cucuta, a small | village on the Colombia-Venezuela | | frontier. | The report states that rival factions | are trying to enforce their policy but | gives no precise information. | Conditions have long been unsettled | in Venezuela where the dictator Gomez has ruthlessly suppressed ev- ery effort to overthrow him. A recent demonstration of Venezu- elan students resulted in the jailing of scores of the demonstrators. Japanese Consul Go | SHANGHAI, March . — Labor unions here are reported to be de- manding the removal of the Japanese consul, on charges of ordering the re- moval of native Koreans to Japan. This was a breach of faith, the Chi- nese claim. The boycott of Japanese merchan- dise at Amoy continues unabated ac- cording to information from the southern city. produced three s of iron ore. WORKERS CLASH Sf and one half mi ic | struggle between the American cor- | | poration and the independent fruit WITH FASCISTI ; Production of manganese ore reache h . Rush Regular Troops to! Austrian Town VIENNA, Austria, March 26, — A, riot reminiscent of the Vienna upris- ings last year occurred in Feldkirken, | arinthia, on Friday, resulting in the | shooting of ten men. Regular troops were rushed to the district today. | The clash occurred when the Bour- | to break up a left wing meeting and expel the speakers from town. Spor- adie clashes between workers and po- lice have broken out in Austria since last July, when workers rose in armed | revolt against the government. U. S. Fruit Co. Wars» On Colombia Growers | BOGOTA, Colombia, March 26. —| Attempt of the United States Fruit Company to crush the competition of | the independent Colombian growers in the Santa Marta district is result- | ing in a serious situation here. The | cultivators resulted over the irriga- tion rights which are essential to cul- | tivation in this district. Minister of | Industries Montalvo has left for the | coast to investigate the situation. The United States Fruit Co. has very large interests in the Caribbean | section. | BRITISH TANKER ¢ DISTRESS. i SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.—| With a crew of 40 men aboard, the} British Hussar, a 440-foot tanker be-} lqanging to the British Tanker Ltd., of London is belieyed to be in distress | somewhere in the Pacific. | the DEB SCOTT NEARING SUBJECT: FRIDAY!! Big ATE NORMAN THOMAS COMMUNISM vs. SOCIALISM IN AMERICA }} Friday Evening, March 30, at 8:15 COMMUNITY CHURCH, 34th Street and Park Avenue. Piekets: Community Church; 1 $1.00, st a mie the highwaymen had been scattered. 505 an few at 82. Higgins Book Shop. 106 Univers Buy Your Tickets TOD forms of the major part: His Own Medicine PHILADELPHIA, March Sheriff Thomas W. Cunningham arrested here shortly after noon today by Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms John M. McGrain of the U. S. Senate for con tempt, of the senate. He ar- raigned immediately and on $1,000 bail pending a he writ of Habeas Corpus. fracd Da‘e for the hearing on the writ has been tentatively sect for next Monday. FLYERS REACH- LONDON LONDON, March 26. flyers who left Tempelhofer Fi on the first leg of wt to be a tr flight, ved at Baldon drome this afternoon, accor newspaper, ‘the Irish indepe e Geran known. In the north, in Fengtien, seven miners were killed for going on strike. In Peking 12 railway shoulders. They have c Billings, Neil, Merrick, spending yea’ ing on a! bor Defense helps to maintain their fa workers are check for small comforts like tobacc ) more. be The prisoners want s with us in the Lalor movement thes ,had but little time to read. Now they Leavenworth and cther prisons oup cv We will not miss a single one of them ‘ publisher. Your generous Huncreds of bool lations make difficulti x the sake of economy and to a’ with a number of publishers to send their books chosen by our comrades in jail. EAR Friend, Comrade, Fellow-worker: Tom Mooney, victim of a vicious frame-up, has already spent 12 years in prison. Jim Tully, noted novelist, who has seen him recently, H writes: “Those years have eaten at th arved hollow p s beneath his eyes.” he I 0, CA , Shaving cream. © men were so busy fig tin want books. From San 1g. ous eoO..-ades toll us the books t if you will help us. Books ean be sent only by an ¢ id duplie we have es. sport to the work of the I. L. D.‘in behalf of Labor prisoners We want them to know the workers who have not mind of Mooney, stooping his ynational La- It sends each labor prisoner a monthly But we want to do We want you to help us. organiziz n, Waila Walla, | creasing 450,000 tons last year. This produc- however, does t fully satisfy ne needs of the expanding Soviet iron and steel industr, We intend to study American production and equipment with a view of in- production in the Yurt mines. The allotment for capital con- struction by the trust during the cur- rent year is $9,000,000.” tion, t methods ANGLES FOR FARM VOTE WASHINGTON, March 26.—The condition of the farmer today is en- dangering the prosper of the na- few York told Democratic Club here today in a speech urging ie Woman’s National the Democratic Party to get after the farm vote by writing a strong agri- Elections Coolidge Program Two pamphlets by } Jay Lovestone The various cap- italist parties are soaked in oi]— ‘| Coolidge chooses not to run— the workers? How will they vote this Election Year? These two pamphlets tell the story. Spread them far and wide. 192820 cents. !} Coolidge Program—5 cents. WORKE ABRARY PUB- LISHE 5 hey want. stablished arranged Name Street THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE. SEND A BOOK Defend Labor Prisoners T have not forgotten my courage- o»mrades behind prison b: I send them my greetings and I ous cc enclose While ig, they $ for 80 EAST I!v STR NEW YORK, N. ¥. ; wages, which have not been paid for , a ork- | will be brought to their attention. ers were shot for demandins: back | gorgotten. Make your donation today on the blank adjoining. enn 9 months. In Kuangsi hundreds have ; been arrested and shot. In all dis- | triets the same or similar stories could | | THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEEENSE But the revolutionary sentiment of the working class has be no means was arrested because of advancing a and he has disappeared, bis fate being un- bent Pnty So National Chairmai National Secretary, decreased. The workers continue to struggle under their original unions. (Ta Be .