The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1929, Page 3

_DAIL Y WORKER, NEW. YORK, SATURDAY PRIL 20, 1929 Page Thre! \Philip Snowden Desires World War Debt Re Revision tor British Bsns puree Envoy > AEVER INTENDED, TEPUDIATION OF WAR INDEBTNESS. Will Be Major Plank During Elections _ LONDON, England, April 19.— Nith the announcement that the var debts revision will be the big- sest issue for the labor party in the oming British election campaign, hat party of reactionaries yester- lay came out in the open as a watch log of imperialist interest second to ieither of the other two bourgeois parties. Its stand more than ever ade it clear that British working ass voters must vote the British ommunist ticket in May. | Philip Snowden, who first made japital for his party out of debt re- rision in a recent speech in parlia- ment, again stated definitely that je stood ever ready to champion the mterests of British capitalism, “For two or three years I have rersistently tried to arouse the ‘ountry to the seriousness of these!| “T am} lebt settlements,” he said. sure the facts need only to be snown to cause discust with the gov-_ 2nment which has so criminally sacrificed the financial interests of) his country for the advantage of other countries far more prosper-| nus and which have not made any-| hing like the financial sacrifice for} the war that Great Britain has nade, “Nothing could be of greater ad-| -antage to the labor party than that} chis issue should be made promi- rent.” Snowden disclaimed eagerly any) ntention to repudiate the imperialist | war debts. “I never said we should repudiate the settlements made. What I said was that a labor gov- arnment would not be bound by the orinciple of the Balfour note on any egotiations which may be opened or the revision of these settle. tents.” Ramsay MacDonald, who, as head, oppression and bitter forced labor is | War Display “at Burial mt Sarrail, French Militarist French imperialism used the funeral of General Sarrail, one of t s leading butchers of workers in the last world war, as a means of war propaganda. Photo shows the funeral of this jingoist. Negro Unionists in Appeal Against French in Atrica The International Trade Committee of Negro Workers has issued the following appeal to the international working class to fight against the brutal exploitation of | Negroes by the French imperialists | in Africa, The barbarous system of colonial exploitation, slavery and oppression | is still flourishing in its most brutal | |form. Forced labor and other forms | of oppression by French imperialists | in Equatorial Africa has killed off native railroad workers at the rate of tens of thousands and swept away whole sections of the native popula- tion. While the International Labor Office at Geneva, in the name of | civilization, is supposed to investi-| gate the conditions of forced labor among the natives, this barbarous of the party, refused to commit him-| | butchering millions in the colonies. self until he had seen the effect|During the last decade the popula- which Snowden’s proposal had on| tion of French Equatorial Africa the country, now admits that the ‘abor party will make debts revi-| mn the issue in the campaign. Snowden’s proposals, especially | welcome to the British imperialists, ook to revision of the Balfour note which fixed the war debt payments) ‘or Great Britain, the United States, {taly and France. The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready made State ery. and wield it for its own purpose, This new Commune (Paris Commune). . .breaks the modern State power—Marx. has been reduced by six millions. | For the last several months native | workers have been in open revolt | against this French imperialist op- pression. imperialism is cryshing these work- ers and carrying “civilization” Africa at the point of the bayonet. This raping of Africa, the bathing of the struggles of the workers in their own blood and the extermina- tion of the population in order that imperialism may flourish is shrouded in silence and secrecy. Only frag-| ‘mentary bits of news leak out, | A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. Grigori Ivanovich Peskoy (Gris Ka), a homeless waif, escapes from together with a group of other young inmates. They live by beg- ging and spend their nights in a cemetery. Here they are discov- ered by Red soldiers and taken to the Narobraz (local department of education). Comrade Martynov, an energetic man of incisive per- sonality, comes in and says he will take ten of the children with lim. He begins questioning them and. shows unusual interest and understanding. Grishka is among. the ten included and all are taken te Martynoy’s room where they live for a week, being kept busy gathering supplies for his colony. Martynov then takes them to the colony where he keeps them em- rloyed at various tasks, living in comradeship with them. Grishka, as well as the other children, are tilled with the joy of the new life, ‘ re er | (Continued) N the evening, when it turned cool and one wished to be quiet, they irank milk. Fresh, warm milk. Of heir own milking. What milk it yas! But is it possible to tell about t? Is it possible to tell about the ‘irst fairy dream? Can one tell how —doing it all themselves—they led he horses out of the cars, how they vitched them to the wagons? How they went through the strange for- in the dead of night? And the rest. embraced them with a sweet, eird spell. Like in a fairy tale! Grishka loudly questioned the mountains across the lake: “How are you? Hiello-o- ‘The mountains answered: “Ello-0-o!” Grishka laughed. ,“How’s that! The rocks are talk- ng!” ‘And once more filling his lungs vith air he. yelled: “Ts the boss home?” “4 ’Omel” “They call ce!” ‘Everything here trembles with ving nerves. Everything responds 2’Grishka’s call. It isn’t like in the ity. | There-dogs-bark, but on the ly they try to bite. nd the houses ‘ill not reecho human voices, It is joyous to stand on a rock. t 0! this ech-o. Ve-ry at 7 i} \from |the rock is warm. e ft | yesterday's home for juvenile delinquents | warmth during the night. The waves are advancing upon the | rock with a monotonous refrain: “Ou-ou-ou-kh . . . ou-ou-ou ... cu-kh,” A big one. swells up and rolls cn boastfully. And covers the voices of all the little ones and sings out: “Qu-oukh-khou-ou-ou! . . .” * & « ND it splashes over Grishka’s hare feet. They are all scratched the stones and bushes. hurts a bit when the sun dries them. But it feels good. “Come, mother water,’ wash ’em off.” Off with the knickers. days the boys wear Straight into the water. The waves envelop him, embrace him, and again h2 wants to shout. He wants to talk with the waves, the sky, the forest, the hills, the birds, beasts, end men. “To-ho-bo-ho!” And boyish voices respond from the hill: “Pes-ko-ov! de-vil!” And three of them, bare to the waist, in short knickers, rush down the hill. With their feet they make stones roll dcwn the steep. slope. At the head runs Taichinov, the lit- Ue Bashkir with whom Grishka had come to the colony. His head is bent to one side and he neighs like a horse of the step- pes, Then, with a leap as light as that of a wild beast, he jumps down to the shore near Grishka. “Must-a blow horn soon! What for come first? No work, no eat.” “Ain’t I workin’? You naggin’ Mahomet! I was ahead o’ you all corryin’ water and measurin’ milk. You air’t got your eyes open yet!” “Q-right, o-right. Come on, dive head, wanta see.” And he is already in the water end squealing joyfully. Grishka obediently ran out on the sand, bal- anced himself on his hands, head dewn, adroitly turned a somersault in the air, and splashed into the water head first. Taichinov is beside himself with delight. “Dive head! On hot no shirts. Gri-sha-ka, yelling Dive! “The blue-eyed Pole, Woicechovsky, Union} At this moment French} into | It has not lost} It) through the about this uprising and the conse- quent slaughterings by the French imperialists. This censorship and secrecy hides all the barbarism of the French imperialists. Brothers and workers of the world! Protest in world wide unison |against this slaughtering of our African brothers and fellow workers! Unmask the Imperialists! The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers of the R. I. L. U. calls upon the working class movement to protest and rally to the support of the African workers. | We appeal to the French Workers to send a Workers’ Delegation in- cluding Negro Workers to investi- gate this blood curdling oppression |of French imperialism. World revolutionary movement, mobilize the masses! French imperialist cut-throats! With our African brothers and fellow workers we struggle against French imperialism and against world imperialism, —The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers. No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manufacturer, Unmask the | so far at an end, that he receives | his ‘wages in cash, then he is net upon by the other portioss of the bourgeoinie, the landlor’, the shop- keeper, the pawnbroker, ete.—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). ingly frail, but strong little body |glistened in the air, Strong, broad-shouldered, Ukrain- ian Nadtochi was snorting stolidly jin the water, and suddenly he roar- ed in a deep bass: “Oho-ho-ho! Some lake! ot lakes!” PE lake is good. Now it is blue and joyous. And it roars angrily in the mornings, spluttering with white foam. And grows gray. And jit is always rumbling. It can rival the sea with its noise. When it is jcalm one may look down to the C5 rit lit. with instruments. They measured |the lake up and down. They took the kids, in turn, into their boat. |the water in this lake is radioactive. the fact to one another. “The water in our lake is radio- jactive.” A big lake. As one comes out upon it from the forest, one feels free and easy at once. The shores \ bristle with high, wooded moun- jtains. Right up to the clouds. But | they do not crowd the lake. Free | and clear it undulates in the moun- tain wilderness. And the forest re- joices because of the lake. The | |birches bow down to it. Pines and \firs send it their balsamy fragrance. ‘Summer bungalows hide in the woods. And some come out almost to the very shore. There are seven bungalows on the steep bank. This is the children’s colony. It stands apart from the village and from the other bungalows. The colonists’ litile dock is a cheerful sight. Four boats are rock- ing at the wharf. And the best of them all is the white sailboat, “Diana.” On a canvas stretched be- tween two high poles is a bold in- scription: “Work and _ knowledge conquer clements.” Grishka liked this inscription. Whenever he approached the wharf in a boat he always read aloud: “, .. conquer the elements.” Get that? And what a You can’t explain what word, “elements”! it is, but Oui-oui-oui! | when you hear it you have the de- sire to be a mighty hero, too, is one of the elements. The lake, That is ‘he sun has not yet grown hot, but aizo pales head.” ” His white, seem- why it rumbles so. A lake! {very bottom and see all the life in| One day a number of men came | |shirt. The children proudly communicated | | Tre LAWBREAKERS By LYDIA SEIFULINA ! colors. | beard. More Japan Workers Jailed in Red Raids; Thousands in Prisons TOKIO, ee April 19. — Tho strictest censorship, j strict censorship forbids all publica- | tion of news, it has been learned that 300 Left wing workers and Communists were jailed by the gov- ernment following Red raids Tues- day night. The government is giving it out that the arrests are due to evidence obtained from class war prisoners seized in similar raids last May. It is computed that the class war prisoners in Japanese jails now num+ ber thousands, hundreds having been imprisoned under the ordinance against “dangerous thoughts,” which makes even the idea of change in the existing government punishable by death or long jail terms. The ordinance against “dangerous thoughts” was made a law by the diet just before it closed recently, ! hopelessly torn by political disagree- ment. $15 a Week Enough for Workers, Says Australian Court SYDNEY, (By Mail). — Fifteen dollars a week has been decided on s “an adequate basic wage for Aus- tralian workers,” by the New South Wales Arbitration Court, influenced by the Employers’ Federation. Needless to say, Australian work- ers have not found it so. Long live the First of May—the | day of class struggle and class solidarity! International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 | (ea entire shore at the edge of water is adorned with a piebald’ border of round, gray-and-white stones and golden sand glittering in the sun. In one place a big old tump peeps out of the forest. The children. painted on it the head of an old man in a red hat. In many And now the stump looks like the living face of an old man. Only, he does not shake his white Otherwise he is quite alive! There, he is staring from the shore! And on the steep bank, like a beast cf the wocds, only without fur, appears Martynov, barefoot. He, too, wears short trousers like the children, and a thin, sleeveless He cdvances, crushing the into the earth. His voice stones |ccmes rumbling from afar: |These men spoke in a learned way: |! “Hey, you! Swarthy International! Have ycu had your ducking? It’s time to wake the rest. Quick! want it done quick—khny!” The four boys responded in dif- | ferent tones: “Khny: . Khny! . Sergei Mikhalych, khny!” : No one in the colony ce th meaning of this word. But to Marty. nov it meant everything. Khny— good, khny—bad, khny—quickly and \nimbly. Whatever you wish. It heard him use this word. He did not utter it in the city. It was Martynov’s password—for here only. A family word. In the race, Grishka was the first to reach the kitchen. ka’s squad is on duty. Eight chil- dren. Four girls ave naw at the porch-table, apportioning the bread. Uh, what a dinner there will be to- day. The day before they had agreed to cook manna groats in a new way. With pumpkins. The children them- selves decided upon the dinner and cooked it themselves. Squads on duty competed would turn out the best dinner? to bake bread. They had a woman maker. But everything else they did themselves. Look, what r pile of wood is prepared for the day! They chopped it last night. Grishka:| had worked quickly and nimbly. Martynov noticed it, mac2 a grimace, | rubbed his hands: “Ah, Peskov, Khny!” And all evening Girshka was | happy in that praise. 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