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the top with a Tush. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1928 Ay : ee Page Thres FOREIGN NEWS AND FEATURES --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS PHILIPPINES FOR|2uits Atter Sue of Sanrip wee aa | U, $. FAVORS : eee Gis Pie eee e | BOLIVIA IN ohh de U.S, CAPITALISTS, STIMSON URGES New Land Laws Will, Oust Peasants | (Special to The DAILY WORKER) MANILA, Philippine Island (By | Mail).—Modification of the land laws permit large-scale develop- ment of the rubber region in Min- dahao and acquisition of large es- tates by Americans was advocated by the governor-general of Philip- pines, H. L. Stimson, at the opening} session of the new legislature. He explained to the representatives of the Philippine people that their eco- nomic misfortunes‘are due to ab- sence of large landholding. He said: “At the present rate with which the agricultural land of these islands is being distributed among their people it will be 400 years before| that great asset, that great guardian | of the people’s' stability, is fully put} to use.” He recommended such revision of | the laws governing the creation and| regulation of corporations, and the “laws under which capital comes in contact with government” be re- vised “so as to insure the people who are willing to lend money to you that the enterprise in which they in- vest will be fairly, justly and equi- tably treated by your public officials and: that the title of the securities which the investors receive in ex- change for their money will be sound and -safe.” Stimson explained to the Filipinos | that ‘their own way to independence | and liberty is to hand the country over to American capitalists. He told them how the United States 140; years ago were so poor that it had/| to. borrow money to develop the} country and its resources, how with- out foreign money the United States would still be in a primitive state and. poor and. . .“is America in economic serfdom to these countries today?” he asked. Stimson described to the legislators how beneficial the influx of American capital was to Cuba, Panama and Hawaii and that the Philippines had the brightest fu- ture before them if they would abol-| ish the antiquated laws preventing the formation of large estates and hampering American capital. He ex- plained that “by exciting an un- founded fear” the opponents of American capitalist imperialism “would block the only avenue to- wards economic and therefore po- litical independence of these is- lands.” In other words, the Filipinos according to Stimson, will get their independence if they sell their coun- try to American capital. He finished by assuring the lis- teners: “I believe that American capital has learned the unwisdom and the danger ‘of attempting unfairly to exploit the land in which it enters.” Afftr 30 years at the beck amd call of the capitalists to help slaughter workers, Sergeant Claude Ensign has retired. He is shown above being speeded on his way by a speech from Captain Cummings of the U. S. army. U. S. MAKES “REVOLT” TO GAIN OIL FIELDS FACTORY BLAST KILLS WORKERS One Dying, Many Hurt in Chicago Fire CHICAGO, July 22.—One worker | died early today, another was dying and six others were suffering from severe burns and other injuries fol- lowing an explosion late yesterday of acetylene gas tanks in the air reduction zompany’s plant. Fire swept through the building as a series of blasts from 100 tanks fed the flames. It was at first feared that a dozen workers might have been trapped in the one-story structure. After heroic efforts on the part of the workers, almost |two hundred of them’ escaped to safety. The names of the dead and injured have not yet been listed by the company. Buffalo Doctor Finds New Cure for Cancer new method of cancer treatment, by use of neddles of platinum and lead, has been discovered by Dr. Raymond Nauth, Buffalo physician and scien- tist. The announcement was first made unofficially from his labora- tories here, although Dr. Nauth later admitted the discovery of the profession. CAMPAIGN CORNER Carl Hacker, Ohio campaign manager reports that the total num- ber of signatures received at the Cleveland office of the Party has salready mounted to 5,600, with al- most. all out-of-town points still to be heard from. The call for a gen-| eral mobilization of all members to go out for signatures has just been issued. Although 20,000 signatures are needed, it is commencing to look as though Ohio is going to go over Sidewalks-of-New-York Al ‘Smith is figuring out how to raise a three million dollar campaign fund. Too bed there can be only one campaign manager. Otherwise we might sug- gest the appointment of a couple more Wall Street money-bags in ad- dition to Raskob of J. P. Morgan, General Motors, and the republican aie * * * Seems to us the situation looks somewhat awkward for the Al- phonse and Gaston parties of Wall Street. Being a republican and at the same time the Smith campaign manager, does Mr. Raskob, the re- publican, intend to vote the repub- lican ticket except for president, or is Mr. Raskob, campaign manager, going to vote straight democratic? Wonder if he knows or cares. Bera SE Will Smith get his official three million? That aint the problem. The question is will he get enough unofficially to elect him. * * Comrade Roy Stephens reports the Iowa state convention held at Des Moines Sunday to have been a huge success. Iowa is the eighth state to go.on the ballot. Wm. F. Petton was nominated for and Walter Sweezey for Neutenant governor, in addition to the presidential electors. Hannah Kuebbler of Toledo, Ohio, has the honor of making the first donation from the state of Ohio to| the $100,000 Communist Campaign Fung. She sent a money order for $5 with a promise of more later. . * apses. reports that the street meetings are now going full blast. Additional word from Comrade Be- dacht, Chicago District Organizer, guarantees that the states of In- djana, Illinois, and Wisconsin will be on the ballot with full Commu- nist tickets. ; * * | Additional orders for stamps and buttons have been received by cam- paign headquartezrs, raising the to- tal for buttons to 55,000 and for Vote Communist stamps to 95,000. The Ohio district has sent in an or- der for a thousand books of the Vote Communist stamps, amounting to 80,000 stamps, but the printer can- The creation of a new republic in the north of South America, to be formed of the state of Zuilia, of Venezuela and the Colombian de- partments of Santander and Goagira is discussed by certain “revolution- ary” elements in these districts of |the two countries. These districts jare those which contain almost all the oil fields of Colombia and Vene- zuela. The adherents of this pro- posed oil republic of Zulia of which Maracasbo is a part intend to abol- ish all restrictions on the exploita- tion and exportation of oil by for- eigners and hope, in compensation. to obtain early recognition and sup- port of their “independence” by the financial powers mostly interested in the exploitation of these districts. Would Profit U. S. Up to the present the financial interests of Great Britain in Vene-| zuela and Colombia are considerably | ‘larger than those of the United| | States. Consequently a “revolution” | detaching these provinces from the |two mother countries and the early recognition by the United States | would mostly profit the United! States, to the detriment of the Brit- | ish interests. The growth of the oil | production of Venezuela has been| |extraordinary. It has doubled every) year since 1919. It produced 425,- in 1921, 2,200,000 in 1922, 4,200,000 in 1923, 9,042,000 in 1924, 64,000,000 |in 1927 and 117,000,000 are caleu- lated for the year 1928. The British oil exploitations in| Colombia and Venezuela, due to their proximity to the Panama Canal. are a menace to imperialist inter-} | public of Zulia, under American con- | trol British influence might be more easily removed. The actual gover- nor of Zulia is said to have received assurance from resident Americans that in case of a revolution which would proclaim the independence of | Zulia from Venezuela, the new re-| public would receive all protection from the United States. The Vene-| zuelan government has repeatedly dewied that there is any such move- ment for independence. Neverthe- less, circulars and proclamations in | fused to dismantle the forts recently Ly | LAND DISPUTE. | Paraguay, Argentine Not Considered | (Special to The DAILY WORKER) The boundary conference held in| Buenos Aires between representa- tives of Bolivia and Paraguay. re- garding the disputed territory of the Chaco Boreal held by Paraguay and claimed by Bolivia was ended without argument. The aggressive purpose of the stronger party, Bo- livia, which is a virtual protectorate of the United States, became clearly apparent. The territory, about 100,000 square miles, very thinly populated capitalist papers can show how “ Crippled Children Outing " A Placed under capitalism in city institutions reeking with graft and ill treatment, the crippled children of the poor get an outing up the Hudson River once a year, so that the photographs in the happy” they are. Photo shows a group of crippled boys and girls on such an outing. by uncivilized Indians is still un- mapped, but in general under con- trol of the Paraguayan government which occasionally sends inspecting officials. Troops Sent. Bolivia began to claim the Chaco Boreal and to send troops and erect forts as soon as it was discovered that the territory, contiguous to the _. JIS | ; extensive oil land holdings of the lican prosperity is the issue upon wh By MARTIN PROSPERITY—OR THE BURST BUBBLE OF 1918 A. DILLMON. ST. LOUIS (FP).—Though papers of St. Louis declared that repub- ich candidate Hoover will stand, they Standard Oil Co. of Bolivia, also published the result of a social survey by the Provident Association, in contains vast and promising oil fields. Previously Bolivia never pressed its claims to this territory | When Bolivia’s pressure increased and the armed clashes between Bo- livian and Paraguayan troops in the GIRL WOULD SELL dry anata OELP FOR FAMILY the Argentine government called a| / conference at Buenos Aires of rep-| Poverty Forces Her to resentatives of the two countries to| settle the dispute amicably by mu.) Marry for Money MILWAUKEE, Wis. July 22 |tual concessions. Argentina, which has important economic and finan- cial interests in Paraguay, desired (UP).—Beatrice Albert, 19, who of- 2 mae naar aes Senate te fered to sell herself in marriage in olivia and indirectly to prevent the) . extension of the United States in-/°Tder to provide for her poverty fluence from the Pacific to the At-| beset family, was embarrassed to- lantic across the South American|day by complications resulting from continent through Bolivia and Para- the offer. jay and finally into Argentina. Unable to Agree. Beatrice thought her family After several weeks of negotia-| ‘roubles were over when W. W. tions the two parties, deliberating Covnes, 50, Spanish war veteran, under the chairmanship of an Ar- c@me forward and said he would pay gentine “neutral observer,” they her parents and brother $6,000 if were not even able to agree on what She would marry him. should be arbitrated. The Argentine , Govnes had the $6,000 all ready, arbitrator proposed that, pending a|bvt the family Beatrice hoped to settlement, the occupied districts in benefit has divided three ways in the disputed territory should be de- Advising her as to her course. militarized and the forts dismantled _ If she marries Goynes, Beatrice’s The forts of each country penetrate Mother says she never will speak to BUFFALO, July 22 (UP).—A 000 barrels of oil in 1919, 1,400,000| deep into territory claimed by the|her daughter again. pens If she doesn’t marry Goynes, her clashes. | 72-year-old father asserts she will Paraguay agreed but Bolivia re-|!ose all his respect. j If she contracts any auction mar- erected and only offered to reduce riage whatever, her brother won't the garrisons. The Bolivian dele-|take any of the money. | ! gates also refused to allow the arbi-| Increasing _Beatrice’s _ plight, trator to decide whether territory Goynes has cooled somewhat in his giving raise to frequent new treatment and said that it | ests of the United States. By the|held by an occupying force belongs| dor and saysbluntly that another would be submitted to the medical. creation of an independent oil re-| legally to that country or not and/ Solution is open to her—she can go is subject to arbitration. Further-|to work and support her folks, more, the Bolivian delegates re-| Apparently tiring of her hesi- quested that a part of the Chaco|tancy, Goynes is pressing his sug- should be declared Bolivian terri-| gestion by offering to permit her tory immediately, before and inde-| parents and brother to continue liv- pendently of the arbitration decision| ing rent-free in one of his cottages and that only the possession’ of a|if she will get a job. part of the Chaco should be arbi-| Beatrice, indicating what she trated. Boliwa did not indicate|may decide, says now that “money which part it is willing to have ar-| isn’t everything.” bitrated. In other words, it wanted | Sienna U.S. S. R. Scientists immediate concessions from Para- guay before entering into any ne- which it was found that house rent in St. Louis tenement sections has| doubled since 1916; that housing conditions have grown steadily worse during the period, and families are eking out an existence in quarters unfit for human habitation. The study is a part of a nation- wide survey ‘undertaken by social welfare bodies to determine the cause for the ewer increasing relief appeals. Of 100 St. Louis families studied in 1916, 15 were found living in 1 room each, 9 families in 2-room quar- ters and 1 in 3 rooms. In 1925, 1- room families had increased to 28, 2-room families to 13. Two families were found in 3 rooms each and 1 with 4 rooms. Many of the struc- tures were long ago deserted by more fortunate people for better neighborhoods. One father keeps his flock to- gether on $17 a week as a lumber- yard ,laborer, another with 8 chil- dren ‘gets $90 a month in a mail order house. Large plants through-| out the city are operating part-time or under-manned. Workers besiege downtown employment agencies beg- ging for any kind of a job. If Hoover brings a prosperity ser- mon to St. Louis he will encounter many unbelievers. Diver Drowned Under ‘Fourteen Ft. of Water . TROY, N. Y., July 22 (UP).— | John Ericsson, 28, a diver, was un- der water for four minutes Satur- day at the foot of Jefferson Street, Watervliet, when his fellow workers on shore felt a feeble tugging on the signal rope. Apprehensively they hauled Erics- son to shore. He was unconscious. For three hours his mates alter- nated with doctors in an effort to | revive him while a spark of life re- |mained. Not until Coroner Charles J. Cote declared him dead was the | fight given up. Fourteen feet under water, river workers said, Ericsson’s hel- met became unfastened. He was, the | gotiations. Paraguay sometime ago Leave on Expedition employed by |not supply the books in sufficient this’ sense, describing all the advan- quantities to meet the demand, and | this order had to be cut to 250 books for the present. 4 Don’t worry, Comrade Amter, the other 750 books will soon be in your hands. ae * The Workers (Communist) Party is in this election campaign to mob- ilzie the working class for a work- ers’ and farmers’ government, * * While Smithy is busy planning the best means of reaching into the bankers’ money bags, Herbert is already well advanced in the expen- diture of his first million. Herb has no, such troubles as Al. His prob- lem is not to get the dough but to pretend he is not getting it, so as to conceal the real total of his ex- penditures. * * * Max Hankin, Buffalo district or- ganier, is now on tour of the west- ern New, York counties to get the nefessary signatures for the Party to go on the ballot. | “ * * the Communist Election Campaign into the numerous working class camps in the vicinity of the city Word received from Rebecca Grecht district campaign manager, is to the effect that Mohegan, Golden Bridge Nitgedaiget, Unity, etc., will soon be ringing with the Communist Cam- paign. Ne * District Two, of the party, is plan- ining a‘series of Special Camp Col- | lections for the benefit of the $100,- 000 Communist Campaign Fund. * 8 * The first Workmen’s Circle branch has been heard from with a dona- | tion to the Communist Campaign Fund. This is a check for $5 from Branch No. 246. * 8 Reports from Denver are that young Tom Ayers has developed into a very good speaker who knows how to put the spirit of Bolshevism into his speeches. + # 8 Orders have already been received New York is planning to carty| tages of such change, are being cir- culated. The militant labor elements are | watching this conflict of the two | imperialisms in their countries, with- |out taking sides with any of the | parties, but they expose in their | secret but widely circulated publica- |tions the coming conflict and the |role the workers should assume in | such emergency. 10,000,000 Unemployed In World, Last Years | PARIS, France, July 22—At no | time during the last few years has ‘the total of unemployed throughout |the world fallen below 10,000,000 it was stated at the International | Social Conference here. | The conference took no concrete | steps towards remedying the situa- tion. They merely decided that ‘un- employment was an important prob-| lem. ie | NEW FASCIST EDUCATOR ROME, July 20 (UP).—Gieseppe | | Belluzzo assumed the duties of min-| \ister of education yesterday after Leing introduced to heads of depart- ments by Pietro Fedele, his prede- cessor. In a statement announcing his as- sumption of his duties, Belluzzo said: “I intend personally to direct pub- lie education with the standards and sentiments that animated my action during my term as minister of na- tional economy, I am confident I ¢an count on the active callabora- tion of all officials and teachers, to COMMUNIST stamps. Rush in your order to avoid delays incident to getting out new lots of stamps:and buttons. * . . Philadelphia reports that a call has been sent out for an election campaign conference of all left-wing working class organiations, and that it is planning the formation of a large campaign committee on which there will be representation from all organizations sympathetic to the | western ridge of the Andes, about -to read that the coastal countries offered Bolivia that part of the chaco Boreal which would give Bo- livia access to the Paraguay River MOSCOW, July 22.—An expedi- | tion of Russian scientists, headed by and thus enabling Bolivia to build) Nicholas Krylenko, left Moscow a seaport on the nayigable part of recently for Central Asia to study the river for vessels able to carry| unexplored areas of the Pamir goods and passengers to the Atlantic Highlands and the life of the tribes through the mouth of the Rio Plata. | inhabiting these regions. Bolivia’s Claims. The expedition will aettempt to Bolivia, however, claimed not less! find tribes, which are hidden in the than all the territory of the Chaco| wilderness, and whose costumes down to the angle where the River|have remained unchanged for hun- Pilomayo joins the Paraguay, whick | dreds of years. i is across the river from Asuncion | Ten Killed in German Train Wreck and Fire MUNICH, Germany, July 22.— Search of the charred wreckage of two railroad cars yesterday revealed that ten persons had been killed when the two cars were telescoped and caught fire near here. Twenty- five persons were injured. Three of those killed were women. When the coaches burst into flames, several of the victims were burned to death, some of the bodies being unrecognizable. MINERS’ CRISIS IN AUSTRALIA Coal Barons Launen Drive on Union | By W. FRANCIS AHERN. SYDNEY (FP).—The coal indus- try in Australia is in a serious crisis The principal factors are over-de- velopment during the war, introduc- tion of substitutes for coal, general depression. The crisis is part of the interna- tional coal crisis. The principal har- vest the workers reap is unparalleled unemployment. This crisis in the in- dustryvis reflected in a deep crisis in the Miners’ Union. A special con- vention of delegates from all dis- tricts has been called. It is admitted that reorganization of the union is necessary. Request- |ing and attending conferences under the auspices of the government is considered a dangerous experiment. The coal barons are aggressively attempting to lower the conditions of the miners and to cut wages. This the mine workers are strenuously opposing, and at various meetings held on the coal fields they have decided to resist. ‘Balkans Spend Budget On War Preparations GENEVA, July 20.—The Balkans spend a great portion of their rev- enues on their armies, it was re- vealed here in a report today. Jugoslavia spends 31.79 per cent of her revenues for military pur- poses; Greece, 25.93 per cent; Ru- mania, 20.40 per cent; Bulgaria, 17.65 per cent; Czechoslovakia, 12.61, and Hungary, 9.51. 40 SAILORS DROWNED: HANOI, French Indo-China, July 20.—Death toll in the shipwreck of |the French steamer Cap Lay, which foundered at the mouth of Song- tambo River yesterday, was set at | forty today, with as many injured. | Most of those dead were drowned | when lifeboats were crushed between | |the ship’s hull and rocks as they | were lowered. MUD FOR WANAMAKER PHILADELPHIA, July 22 (PU). —An urn containing soil from Laf- ayette’s grave, the place where the first American World War dead were | killed and the landing place of Com- |mander Richard E. Byrd’s airplane | America was placed today on Wana- | maker’s. crypt here. WON’T INVITE RUSSIA. WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP).— Only countries with whom the | United States has diplomatic rela- the Cleveland Con-| tions will be invited to send dele- | struction and Engineering Company | gates to the International Confer- and lived on Chaddunk Ave., Buf-| ence on Civi! Aeronautics, to be held falo. here December 12 to 14, the state pale Tae Weve eeeny department announced today. 2 SAVED: THEN DROWN. SHOW VENIZELOS’ TRUE COLORS BY JAILING WORKERS Greek Dictator Deports Many Strikers ATHENS. Givens! July 22.—The first indication of ‘the course of ac- tion the Venizelos regime will take is made clear by the mass arrests in Greece. In respect to a conflict between striking miners and police in Saloniki the Greek police have “proven” that “the Communist Party is responsible for the conflict, turning the strikers against the scabs.” After this “proof” the police,ar- rested seventeen Communists and ordered them deported. Five- of them were banished to Ionia, five to Anafi. five to Bolegrandos .and two to Thyra. * At the same time the police threatened that “if the Communists will again resort to terroristic ae- tion” they will bring mass arrests down upon themselves, In spite of the terror of the gov- ernment the strike coritinues. - In Saloniki a large meeting was to take place that was prohibited by the police. In spite of that the workers apneared in masses at the avpointed place. The police had or- ders that all corners and streets jeading to the meeting place be heavily guarded, and that at a pinch weapons should be used. The pru- dence of the workers saved them from a heavy blood bath. The editor of the Communist newspaper, “Rizpospastis,” was ar- rested in Athens. Strikers are arrested in masses, without any ground, in thé small towns of the provinces. Most of them will be deported. ag ee British Lord Says Amity Talk, Nonsense PARIS. July 22.—Lord Crewe, the retiring British ambassador to Paris |laughed at the talk of peace and good-will between the United States at a luncheon given for newspaper men. In a circle of acquaintances more frank than the usual diplomatic tyne the lord could speak more freely. Abandoning the usual diplomatic line he said: “There is a great deal of non- sense in the talk about Anglo-Amer- ican friendship and _ brotherly amity.” ‘a WIN HUNGER STRIKE. ATHENS, Greece, July 22.—The 17 soldiers who have been on hun- | ger strike in the prison of Syngros because their legal soldier’s pay was taken away from them because they. complained of the lieutenant of the prison, have won their demands, They are being sent to the mili- tary prison where they will be treat- ed in the customary fashion. The Vege-TarryInn “GRINE _KRETCHME” —| & BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD & MODERN IMPROVEMENTS - DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 284 St., Christopher St, Barclay St. oF Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lackae wanna Railroad to Berke Heights, N. J. BERKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY . Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1, NEWBURGH, N. Y., July 22 (UP).—Alice and Martha Patton, 18 | and 14, sisters, of 432 West 4th St.,| | New York City, were drowned in the Hudson river at Fort Montgomery, | after they had once been saved by | | John Dunning of 75 11th Ave, Man-| hattan. the capital of Paraguay. Paraguay ‘was unwilling to have Bolivian army and forts on the bank of the river) opposite to its capital. Reports are being repeatedly pub- lished that Bolivia is mobilizing. The Bolivian government press is making an intensive chauvinistic war propaganda against Paraguay publishing stories that Paraguay prepares to invade Bolivia. (Para- guay has 900,000 inhabitants and Bolivia 2,500,000.) To reach the capital of Bolivia the Paraguayan soldiers would have to climb the OPEN DAILY W NOW OPEN orkers Beok Shop 26-28 UNION SQUARE | 1 Flight Up Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, on all subjects. UNTIL 9 P. M. 15,000 feet. Bolivia is receiving| arms from the United States. Rejected Draft. At the recent Pan-American Con- | gress at Havana the Bolivian dele- gation rejected the first draft of the commission on maritime neutrality which provided that neutral coun- tries “may allow” the transition of arms and ammunition to a belliger- ant if it is a landbound country Bolivia insisted that this be changed DAILY WORKER ANNUAL PICNIC Order a Campaign Work. should be obligated to allow the tran- sit of arms to landbound belliger- ants. Paraguay accepted the first draft and opposed the second. Para- guay and Bolivia are the only other landbound countries on the Ameri- can hemisphere. Hughes. supported Bolivia and finally the Bolivian draft was accepted against the votes of Paraguay and Argentina. AL EXPECTS CROWDS 10 A. M. TO PLEASANT SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 MIDNIGHT BAY PARK $8.00 per thousand (regular . ALBANY, N. Y., July 22.—Albany is making arrangements to handle 150,000 persons when Gov, Alfred E. 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