The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED SDAY, MARCH 28, 1928 _ Page Three Litvinoff Sends Protest to League Against Treatment at Geneva Conference SCORES REMARKS BY CHAIRMAN AT | END OF SESSION Sends Note to Sec’y of | , the League (Continued from Page One) i] armament conference which closed | here several days ago, has addressed a note to the secretary of the league of nations, protesting against the con- cluding remarks made by J, J. Louden, Holland, chairman of the conference,- it was learned today. Litvinoff in- sisted that his protest be included in the minutes. Louden in closing the conference in order to prevent a discyssion of the new Soviet Union disarmament pro- posal declared that he hoped the Sov- iet Union would participate in the disarmament conferences in a “con- structive rather than a destructive spirit.” Louden closed the conference after conferring with the British del- egates. Litvinoff attempted to introduce a resolution for gradual disarmament after the powers had made it clear that they refused to entertein any proposal for complete and immediate disarmament. The shelving of the | new Soviet proposal indicates that the powers will refuse to consider any dis- armament proposal, members of the U.S. S. R. delegation said. BRITISH GOTTON BOSSES CUT PAY Launch Drive Against Standards of Living MANCHESTER, Eng., March 27 | Contrary to their originally declared | intention to permanently withdraw | their demands for a lengthening of | the working hours, and a reduction in wages, the Cotton Spinners, and Man- | ufacturers’ Association » announced | Vt Monday that the 48 hour week they | agreed to does not include cleaning | up time. | This Association’s decision was reached at a secret conference held by the bosses on Saturday. The em- ployers also arinounced that. they will not seek any more conferences with the workers’ organizations. This is taken to mean that they will stand by their original demands for the 5214 hour week and a wage cut. Rank and file workers at a recent } conference urged a general strike in the textile industry to fight against wage cuts and .the lengthening pf hours. The conference urged a strike regardless of the attitude of the more conservative union leaders. ® F The Livingston Spinning Company’s mill opened Monday morning with al full force of non-union help carefully | recruited from out of town. The mill | announced termination of member- ship in. the employers association, made by these mill owners is believed | to be the first ruse in a well planned | attack by the whole association. The Livingstone mill will operate on a 5514 hour schedule. A similar attempt made recently by the Acqueduct Mills was defeated any a strike. CUBAN ARMY TO CONTROL ROADS HAVANA, March 27.—Traffic on the Central Highway will in future ltormerly be regulated entirely by the Cuban military forces, according to a decree signed by President Machado. The fierce repression with which the Machado dictatorship has met ev- ery attempt of the Cuban workers to better their conditions has Penaived in widespread unrest. The growing fear of the big plan- tation owners of unrest among the sugar and road workers is report- ed to have caused the new move. Mussolini’s Pal Richard Washburn Child, former United States ambassador to Italy, who helped engineer the Fascist « counter-revolution, is busy trans- | struggle of the Chinese ‘such an extent that the most H alone, Workers in Struggle Against War Lords) ELI ig China Terror (Ed. Note:—This, the third install- ment of Sou Chao-jen’s report, scribes the economic workers and peasants against the war lords in northern and southern China. Secretariat in Shanghai, February 4, 1928.) * * * Can the Ch:nese ruling classes stabilize their position even by such methods? Our answer is, “No.” As imperialism canncj stabiliz& itself, even more so cannot the Chinese bourgeoisie, who are the lackeys of imperialism. They cannot even come to terms among themselves; like the rival imperialists, they can agree on- ly to suppress the revolution. Struggle for Booty. Formerly when the working class movement was strongly leading the nationalist revolution, before the treachery of the Kuonintang, the imperialists were being driven back, concessions we: being taken over; then the imperialists could unite for a moment to smash the revolu.ion; but now, with the militarists in powe1 in the Kuomintaag, the revolutionary struggle against imperialism is set back, and ajl ‘the imperialists are rushing in again, intriguing among all the squabbling militarists, grab- bing all they can from one another. the Japanese from the British and the American from both, their unity to suppress the revolution gives way to bitter struggle to divide the booty. Each is trying to win over the various mili ar’¢s; the militarists, in turn, have nothing in common ex- cept their greed for money and power, and degenerate to desperately struggling groups of mercenaries. Therefore, the wars will not stop. Therefore, there is no consolidation, no stabiliza ion. They form all sorts of and associations, which shift from day to day, bu. they cannot consolidate. Financial Crisis. Look further at economics and fi- nance. The bank notes of the mil- litarist governments continue to de- cline. In Hankow the notes are no |longer accepted by anyone. In Can- ton the notes ave quoted at 30 cents to the dollar, and still going down precipitately. Even in the north, the Fengtien nctes of Chang Tso-ling are so rapidly becoming worthless as to completely disorganize economic life. The constant wars are destroying all transportation, trade is declining everywhere, factories are closing down, foreign trade is curtailed. As for the militarists under the flag oi the Kuomintang, each fights for his own individual interests; the first aim of each is how to get more money into his own hands, more territory, more troops, more arms. There is a limit to what they can squeeze out of taxation, but that limit is far short of their appetites. They rob the populace, and they turn to rob each other. -One day they are all on good terms; the next day they are disarming one another. The armed forces are enlarging all the time, to ex- eme exploitation of the suffering veople is not enough to finance them; one militarist must destroy the other to make room for himself to live. Therefore, cliques, alliances, constant sifting, constant struggles, constant war. For these reasons also there is and can be no stabilization. Wages Cut. Conditions of the - workers and peasants constantly grow worse. In Shanghai the average wage of the |employed workers is $5.50 per month. ™ the factories still running, the workers are being speeded up; in the textile mills, since the crushing of |the trade unions, every third worl has been eliminated, and the remain- ,ing two do the same amount of work done by all three; the eat- ing time has been reduced: workers are forbidden to sit while at wor: er are cancelled; hours are being \lengthened, wages decreased. The Seamen’s Union agreement won in the big strike has been cancelled; the ‘mechanies in Hongkong who won an increase in 1921, are now reduced to their former rates. The same thing goes.on everywhere. In such a situ- ation the workers must continue to struggle. Workers Struggle. The workers have continued to struggle energetically. In Shanghai there were 50 strikes in December including the big strikes of shop assistants, textile workers, and tramwaymen. In Hankow the rail- way workers surrounded the sta- tionmaster demanding wage pay- ;ments; more than ten thousand tex- tile workers gathered in public dem- onstration demanding restoration of their old agreement and payment of the annual bonus; when the so- called “reorganization committee” tried to stop the demonstration seven of them were killed; the ricksha cool- ies struck against an increased rental of rickshas from 80 to 140 coppers per day. In Honan the railwaymen, who had not been paid for from 9 to 11 months, seized the money from the s‘ation and distributed it among themselves, because they knew the lating Mussolini’s autobiography into Bnglish. The book will be used as. propaganda for Fascism. revenue was being taken by Feng Yu-hsiang for military purposes. Textile workers in Honan recently struck against a wage ev\ in Hunan, all former trade union agreements | | de- | and political | Son | | Chao-jen’s report was delivered at the |second meeting of the Pan-Pacific | =— CHINA STRIKES SPREAD: Poster issued by the Interna- tional Red Aid, urging junds for the assistance of the victims of the white terror in China. YICARAGUA CANAL IS UP IN SENATE Imperi ialist M easure Urged by McKellar WASHINGTON, March 27. — The much discussed Nicaraguan “Vedat, linking the Pacific Ocean to the Car- ibbean Sea through the Latin-Amer- ican republic now occupied by Amer- iean marines, would be built at once under a bill introduced in the senate this afternoon by Senator McKellar (D) of Tennessee. McKellar urged immediate struetion of the canal. McKellar’s bill would appro; $10,000,000 to begin work and ize a $200,000,000 bond issue to cover the cost of the canal. Wie con- ping . A bill providing for an investiga- tion to determine the best route for a canal thru Nicaragua was intro- duced by Senator Edge of New Jer- sey several days ago. The bill had the approval of the sfate and war de- partments, he said. the railwaymen, when refused pay ment of their wages, gathered a took possession of the town, altho they only had one revolver amongs: them. In Amoy the chauffeurs recent}; struck for an increase in wages. Ih | Manchuria a serious strike of ers took place, while the wor! he Pecking-Seuyan railway engag in a movement for wages. In Aone. kong the dockyard workers demandec payment in notes, because silver ha depreciated 5 per cent. The rubb: workers in Hongkong struck; fou leaders were arrested, but the wor ers, by demonstrating before the gov srnor’s office, secured their release Not only such struggles as_ thes: given for example, led by the Rec Trade Unions, have occurred, but even | | workers who have been under the | ©. control of the reactionary Mechanics Union in Kwangtung, have engeged in movements led by us. In the ma- chine shops of Canton they have been striking for 5 months under ovr | leadership; the Mechanics Union h: not helped its own members, the contrary to “reconcile” the ers, so tha® they are now e 3 under our influence. Formerly th: Hongkong dockworkers were led by | the Mechanics’ Union, but their re- cent movement was led by us. (To Be Pontinued.) « THREE Fridays from 9 in th deposit as you wish . OPEV PURSDAYS AND THURSDAYS 9 TO 3 CIT! Hae OPEN TONIGHT ... until 8 o'clock! ‘THs should be good news to | you! 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Cumber- iand, former tinancial Haiti, who arrived here after-a survey of Nicaragua a $ adviser to| for the payment of alleged damages suffered by American interests as a} result of the fighting. The loan will also go for the re organization of the Nicaraguan Na-| sional Guard, which is commanded by; Jnited States marine lle officers, TO HONOR GORKI IN SOVIET UNION Trade Unions to Join in Celebrations (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) ISCOV ereh zi-—The i 2s in celebration of the thirt woniversary of the literary act of Maxim Gorki were started today.| The Academy of Sciences at Len-| ngrad and the Federation of Soviet writers at Moscow have organized an official meeting and despa ched tele- grams of congratulations to Gorki, vho is at Sorento, Italy. The Central Council of the Trade) ‘nions of the U.S. S. R. has appealed | ¢ o all trade union organizations to! wicipate in the celebrations in| nor of the great writer. \ GRAIN PURCHASES. IN USSR GROWING Moscow, March § 27.—The collee- tions of grain thruout the Soviet a\ large portion of the loan will go | fth | ities | ‘inion are increasing rapidly. accord- | ng to official figures. The total for he eight months ending March Ist ts 9,296,000 tons. Sollections for the month of March exceed those for the last year, the of- | ficial reports show. Anncying BLADDER | WEAKNESS of Old Age Santa 1 Midy | fis by all Droseist | NIGHTS A WEEK: e morning until 8 at . whenever you wish! OPEN Pg ae AYS ENS | New York City | | HOW ABOUT YOU? BALBOA, March strengthened by land and air. U. of the Panama Canal S. Assistant Secretary of War F. | Dz avison and Maj. Gen. E. Fechet, chief of the United States army Aid Wall St. Rule 2 {Defences” are Trubee air corps, %who have been inspecting the canal | defences for the past two days an- nounced that the Canal Zone milita air fleet will be doubled after the being | Ww depot is completed at the Pacific en- trance to the canal. Additional heavy guns are being mounted in the forts on the Pacific Ocean side of the waterway. depot—Albrook Field—will be start- ed in about three months. It will cost more than $4,000,000. * 8 In addition to taking steps for the | construction of a new canal thru Nica ragua, United States imperialism is Sireet control of Panama Sa sa | Col a Bgl Lip B. Panama Canal for the protection of ||% Walker (right) United States gov- |is¢" imperialist interests in Latin | eae ee aa 2 en eeny |America and in preparation for the | Rod fo Chiari (left) puppet of Bae struggle in the Pacific. United States imperialism. its practice of refusing to sign agree- |ments with another country without | Police Chief. Ordered onsulting other countries directly nvolved, aecording to a statement is- sued by official news service of the U.S.S | | MIAMI, Fla., Mar. 27. — Details strengthening its armaments at the! The work of building the new air | Negro Murder, Charge. CALLES APPROVES E AMERICAN Build Big ‘Armaments in Canal Zone OL BILL AIDING AMERICAN BARONS Morrow Instrumental in Change in Law MEXICO CITY, March 27.—The re= {cent amendmen to the petroleum law, favorable to Ame n investors, were signed by nt Calles to- | Z and will be- law of Jor D. and Reu- special law President an q repre: esenta= 1 i i s of Industry, § 5 Pres. Calles Commerce and Iaa- Signs Oil Bill ) terpret” the regulatory pro s of the law. Mexican official they were | would prove acceptabl to the | United States Government and te a aa |foreign oil companies. MEXICO CITY, March 27.—In its = | While the amendments sustain the [Replies to Japan’s S Note | campaign to disarm workers and vile the amendments sustain te on Chinese Arms Leche nts Fad been armed in the ground are in property of ree |struggle against the counter-revolu- | +}, they firm congue MOSCOW, March 27. — An- eae the government has issued an sions granted to oi! companies before ” : gto | OnGer IRE HO AG aSian Misy nuts Bemis the 1917. constitat adopted. aha tiie it would ae adhere to leithout @ special permit, line falas a er Be panera oe aueas | The policies of the Calles’ govern- | petroleum cla constitution ee China the Soviet Government | ment are steadily becoming more con- | were “confis declared that it would hot-abandon | *ervative. The amendments make the condition eae ences that only land concessions where ac- tual production was under way prior to 1917 will be affirmed. Sierre Leone Negro Machinists: Join Red The U.S.S.R. stated its position in| o¢ how chief of police H. Leslie Quigg reply to a note by the Japanese Gov-| planned the murder of H. Kier, a Ne- Labor International decals oo Soviet Government in | gro bellboy, were revealed here yeste its reply declared that certain gov-| qa, Quigg and three other officers. MOSCOW, (By mail), = The Mims pslgacogggird had privileged positions in|/nave been indicted for the murder, | gro Machinists Union of Sierra Leoné, China and not only imported arms. | which took place as part of the regu- | Gs cates ’ : ma bat ‘setually maintained navies and }ioy Ku Klux Klan activity in this city. ious ie Bety the westest: oa arcned for: in China. E. W. Pierce, former city detective, of Africa, with a membership of 1322, testified that Quigg had ordered him, Pilsudski Threatens To Dissolve the Sejm WARSAW, Ma -The newly elected Chamber of De puties held its first session today. There are indi-| that the strife between the| ment and the Cabinet which| d before the general clection| tinue. Pilsudski has again | threatened to pore the Sejum. Aid Chile: Fascists tective who arrested Kier, to take the prisoner to .a lonely spot and “beat hell out of him.” to do as ordered, Pierce testified. years ago, Kier was shot to death. Rumanian Crisis BUCHAREST, March 27.—A meet- ing of leaders of the peasant party was held today to discuss Premier | Bratianu’s refusal to resign. Queen) SANTIAGO, Maa —The State M a " f Gr Mortgage Bank of Chile is negotia-| Marie's departure for Cypress to ting for a. $10,000,000 loan in the|Spend a month indicates that the | United States. political outlook is “clearer.” FRIDAY!! the Big DEBATE SCOTT NEARING NORMAN THOMAS SUBJECT: ISM vs. SOCIALISM IN AMERICA COMMU Friday Evening, March 30, at 8:15 COMMUNITY CHURCH, 34th Street and Park Avenue. Tickets: $1.00, $1.50; a few at $2.00. 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