The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1929, Page 3

Pope Declares Himself Autocrat Over Vatican City wi RECORD TOTAL IN PRODUCTION IN SOVIET UNION Output Passes the Half Billion Figure ° Soviet industrial production for the month of April reached the record total of 1,104,000,000 rubles ($568,560,000), exceeding the aver- age monthly 1913 output by 60 per cent, figuring in pre-war prices. This is announced by Amtorg, the Soviet-American trading agency. The exports across frontiers for April amounted to 57,- 900,000 rubles, a decline of 2,800,000 rubles from the preceding month, while imports increased from 53,800,- 000 rubles in March to 59,100,000 rubles in April. There was an ad- verse trade balance of 1,200,000 rubles for the month as against a favorable balance of trade of 6,900,- | 000 rubles for March, according to cable reports received by the Am- torg Trading Corporation. The total favorable trade balance | for the first seven months of the current fiscal year, beginning Octo- ber 1, 1928, amounted to 28,500,000 rubles as compared with an adverse balance of 72,900,000 rubles for the corresponding seven months of the preceding fiscal yeag. A favorable trade balance was attained this year in spite of the falling out of grain exports. There was an increase in the exports of oil products, lumber, flax and tow, meat, casings, manga- nese ore and other products. An indication of the expansion in Soviet domestic trade during April is given by transportation statistics. The average daily car loadings amounted to 37,041 cars, a gain of 3 per cent over March and of 36 per! cent over April 1928. MUSTEDEMANDED “YELLOW” PACT Faculty of Brookwood | Accepts Terms “The Brookwood executive com- mittee demanded that I agree to a tt of yellow dog contract—pledg- myself not to work in the future with the left wing, and they dis- missed me from the faculty when I refused to do this,” Arthur W. Cal- houn told a reporter of the Daily Worker on the telephone yesterday. Calhoun was ousted Sunday fol- lowing an all-day conference of the directors at the Hotel Manger, ap- parently because of his attacks on the Conference for so-called Pro- gressive Labor Action, the offspring of the original Muste fake “pro- gressive” movement. Fought Fake “Progressives.” Although they remained silezt to | fis charges, the executive board at | its meeting were told by Calhoun that this yellow-dog agreement is directed against his participation in | the work of such organizations as the Anti-Imperialist League, and against his teaching in the Workers School in New York. Calhoun declared he was fired by he Muste gang because of his op- dosition to the “Progressive” move- ment, which at the last conference of the group was bodily taken over oy leaders of the socialist party, in- sluding Norman Thomas and James Jneal, in addition to Communist senegades like J. B. Salutsky, in the iire of .the corrupt Amalgamated Jlothing Workers of America, and sudwig Lore of the Volkszeitung. It is clear that the immediate ‘ause of Calhoun’s expulsion, Who vas found more or less acceptable o the Muste crowd for the past ix years, is the determination of 3rookwood to prove its loyalty to he corrupt right wing. This desire s considerably increased by the re- ent repudiation of the institution y the American Federation of La- or. Cater to Corrupt A. F. L. The attempt to win the good sraces of the A. F. L. bureaucrats s illustrated in its campaign of enomous slander against the Com- aunist Party. At the last session of he “Progressive” Group, much of he time was occupied with vicious ittacks against the work of the ’arty in various industrial centers. ‘An illuminating aspect of the European | |crushed once and for all. United States - ‘Imperialism Defeats Japan in Manchuria By Our Special Correspondent in China. The Chinese national flag was ees over the Three Eastern Proy- inces which constitute Manchuria,) on Dec. 29, 1928, signifying the | union of this territory with the rest ‘of China. This act is the most im- portant event in China and Asia in recent months, for it was in direct opposition to the desire and plan of Japan to keep Manchuria “inde- pendent,” as Korea was once inde- |pendent. But at the same time it ;does not mean as much as it seems to be because of internal and in- ternational factors that play a role in Manchuria today. | Vast Rich Country. To nee northern Manchuria alone, where I am at present: North Man- churia is a country as large as France and England combined—a vast, rich, undeveloped pioneer land much like the central United States 50 years ago. It has the greatest forests in Eastern Asia—most of which are as yet unexplored. It has! | gold, silver, and other valuable min- | eral deposits; it has the greatest |coal deposits in the world (controlled | chiefly by Japan). Into this country, during the past two decades, and especially during the last five or six years, Chinese peasants from the Chinese provinces of Shantung, Chihli and Shansi have poured to the extent of 13,000,000. These peasants have added tremend- ously to the wealth and the future prospects of wealth of the country, making it the chief granary of China and one of the chief sources jot food for Japan. Industrially and agriculturally, it is Japan’s base in the future. Chinese-Eastern Railway. Thrqugh North Manchuria runs the Chinese Eastern Railway, built by the old Russian government, but placed under joint Chinese-Soviet management in 1924. This railway holds a peculiar position in North |Manchuria. It is not just a com- mercial enterprise, as are other rail- ways, but it is a great cultural force. It has founded and maintained not jonly the telephone and telegraph systems for use of the railway dur-| Wing the past few years, but has ex-| tended them to the tgwns; it founded jand maintained some 65 schools and | colleges for Russians and Chinese alike; hospitals, clubs and rest- homes for its employes, on the Sov- iet model; it financed industries, in- troduced the only 8-hour day in China for its employes and work- men, and its workshops have the only trade union in all Manchuria. | |It founded and finances the Man-| churian Research Society and con- tributes heavily to the Peking and/ Vladivostock universities. . It is around this Chinese Eastern | Railway, with the Chinese peasant \population that has grouped itself \ about it, that the internal and inter- \national conflict is going on in Man- |churia today which, combined with | Japanese domination of Scuth Man- churia through the South Manchur- lian Railway, may lead to a serions international conflict. For it is to the interest of cer- j tain interested powers, particularly | Japan, England and America, that |the Soviet Russians be driven from Manchuria as they have been driven |from other parts of China, and that cies such as the 8-hour day and the organization of labor, should be Certain of these forces work with the present Nanking government whose policy toward Soviet Russians is well known while at the same time it has concluded treaties of amity and cooperaion with the imperialist pow- ers. Feudal Rule. On the other hand, Manchuria is | ruled by Chinese feudal militar of a character similar to that of the three Russian consulates at Dairen, Mukden and Harbin, ex- their principles of equality with the} Chinese, and their cultural tenden-| , the Yizam of Hyderabad or the Ma- Rarajah of Kashmir. This territory was formerly the great tramping groypd of Tschang -Tso-lin who arose from the profession of ban- ditry to be®ruler of the country and | then conqueror of Peking (Peiping); now his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh- | liang wears the boots of his father and has been appointed the com- |mander of Manchuria by the Nank- ing government. This yoyng mar- shal has shown what Manchurian law is when he called two of the highest Manchurian officials Before him—one the civil governor of Heil- ungkiang province and the other his, vice-commander—accused them of certain plots against his person and |, |Manfhuria, and then had them shot dead where they stood. When the natiqnalist flag was raised over the Three Eastern Prov inces on Dec. 29th, the terms of un- ification with the Nanking govern-| ment Igft all internal affairs in the | hands of the local offici: Nank- ing “appointed” certain o: als, but ut | ! they were but a confirmation of the list sent it by the Mukden govern-| ment. Foreign affairs, however,| came directly under Nanking. This | means that while the imperialist powers remained untouched by the unification, Soviet Russia is directly affected because Nanking had broken off relations with Russia. Excepting that the same policy | would be pursued in Manchuria and | pelfed, the local feudal Chinese of- licials immediately felt themselves | called gipon to issue vague and in-| sulting charges and warnings to all/| Soviet citizens. But the problem is} complicated by the fact that the| Chinese Eastern Railway is under joint Chinese-Soviet management, | and that the chief experts and train- ed specialists in its service are Soy- liet Russians. The Chinese have not | sufficient trained experts to run the railway, and there are Chinese who further state that various interested powers are urging the Chinese on |to confiscate the railway. It is a foregone conclusion that}. they will eventually do this, but the |more immediate plan seems to be to put the higher administrative po- sitions on a 50-50 ratio, instead of |the two-third Russian and one-third Chinese as at present; to take over} the mines, hospitals and other in-| stitutions of the railway; and even- tually to either confiscate the rail- way itself, or to regard the money | spent by the Russians in its con- struction as a loan. | | On the surface, the railway mat- (NL EQUIPMENT GUBAN WORKERS | TERRORIZED BY © MEXICAN GOVT, Labor Defense Appeals | for Aid The International Labor Defense received the® following lettter from the Mexican section of the In-| ternational Labor Defense which de- | scribes the reign of terror against | Cuban revolutionists since May 1st, | in which 23 have been | |murdered and more than 70 arrested, workers in addition to 80 being exiled: “The reactionary wave in Mexico is developing itsclf rapidly and we ask you to start a national campaign against the Mexican government |and white terror in this country. We | give you some facts, and this week we will send you a full report about | Jall the episodes: 1—Before May Ist | we had 46 workers arrested because | they spoke against the government. | 18 trade union leaders were expelled | from their states for ‘Communist’ activities. One of them died in the capital. One of the arrested was killed in jail in Guadalajara. 2. May 1st we had 70 arrested. O manifestations were dissolved by the police. Cuba Libre, orzan of the Cuban Emigrates, was suppressed and our review censured. 3—From| May 1st until now, we had 23 work- ers executed, 70 arrested, more than 80 expelled from their villages. Be- | tween the executed is Guadalupe Rodriguez, member of the Central Committee of the Mexican section of the International Labor Defense. |During the students strike, six stu-| |dents were killed, 39 wounded and one .,. . disappeared. 4, Now Heronan Laborde, deputy, was ex pelled from the parliament becau he is a Communist. He is the gen- eral secretary of the Mexican section | of the I. L. L.” The International Labor Defense | calls for all those interested in aid-| ing the Latin-American revolution- | ists and their families, who are now being murdered and exiled, to send funds to the National Office of the I. L. D. at 80 E. 11th Street, New York City, marked for “Latin | American Defense.” AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESD AY, ja |tion of the Anti-F North America which they declared | F JUNE 11, 1929 Annapolis Naval cademy, whom the coming imperialist var. Page Three ith Right of Life and Death CONSTITUTION PROVIDES SOME FIRING SQUADS |Pius XI. Makes Judges, | and Enforces Law ROME, Italy, June 10.—Pope Pius XI made a strong bid today to outdo King Alexander of Serbia, King Zogu of Albania, Primo de Rivera and all other military despots whose thrones he will now support, un they clash with his nearest partner, the blackshirt Muse solini, The constitution of Vatican state, the new petty nation established by treaty with the fascisti, will have its firing squad, and the gloomy priest in the Vatican will celebrate his resumption of temporal power by shooting against a wall anybody who is convicted in his own courta of plotting “any action against the pontiff.” Furthermore, it will have prisons for anybody who violates its laws, and as the pope is able to change Vorkers im Sis aughter, ‘of V the in ng the graduates of slaughter of the workers trained as Adams leaders in Navy Charles Wall Street has revier the = ANTI-FASCISTS MATTEOTTI MEET Pledge World Fight on Fascism Several hundred workers vigorous demonstration ism at a memorial i at Webster E Joined in y ti, murdered by order The meeting, ar ist Alliar jointly trade unions, work nal organizations r groups, was a splendid demonstration of pro- letarian anti-fascist force: which | contrasted'sharply with t arranged by the socia Rand School, 7 E. 15th St. Fight Fascist Terror. Speakers at the Webster Hall meeting brought greetings from |their respective organizations, gnd pledged to follow the program of ac- ist Alliance of the only logical way of overthrowing |ehe dictatorship of the fascisti and esi te sty st TQ SOVIET TRUST |of the Chinese to own all railways, mines, telephones and telegraphs on Chinese soil. That is the funda- |mental right of any people. They | |have the right to confiscate also, | provided they can get it no other way. But the Soviet government | declared at the time of the recent Chinese confiscation of the telephone ystem, that it is willing to nego- tiate on terms of equity and friend- ship, But the reply of the Chinese | to the Russians is couched in in-| sulting terms that they would use to né imperialist power. Japanese Competition, It has been years now that Japan, | working through the South Man- |churian Railway, has tried to build | branch lines that would cut off and completely emasculate the Chinese ‘astern Railway. The most import- ant of these lines that would com- |plete this process are five, and of these the most important would con- nect Kirin in Central Manchuria with the Korean port of Seishin, en- abling Japan to fill Manchuria with troops within 24 hours, The attempt of Japan to force these five lines to be finished is the origin of the anti- Japanese student movement in Man- churia which, in November, led to great demonstrations during which the Harbin police (Harbin is the \chief center of the Chinese Eastern | Railway) shot down 147 boy and girl students. (To Be Concluded Tomorrow) Valhoun dismissal is seen at the st, meeting of the Teachers Union. ilitants in the organization caused be adopted a resolution demand- yé that the Brookwood officials fer action on Calhoun until after n investigation is made by the nion, of which the entire Brook- ood faculty are members. Lefkowitz Froths. Abraham Lefkowitz, one of the uiefs in the union, who is at the ume time a member of the execu- ve board of Brookwood which fired alhoun, denounced the motion and tid that the school authorities uld do “as they damn please.” Lefkowitz, a rabid “Red” baiter | the legislative representative of e union and its representative in ¢ Tammany-controlled Central ades and Labor Council. Recently was let down as its “chairman the education committee,” and is N present nursing his bruises, es- ‘ially in view of the leyal services had rendered the Tammany gang the Council for many years, of workers. giving sucha student of Annapolie 2 Shows Promise in Murdering Workers LA Wall Street rewards those whom it has trained as officers wien they show special promise, while in training, as leaders in t. Photo shows secretary of Wall Street's slaughter Navat Naval Academy a {chairman, and J. 'Amtorg Announces U: S. Firm in Contract An agreement has just been con- cluded between the Amtorg Trading Corporation and the Foster-Wheeler | Corporation of New York providing | for the supply of large quantities of joil refining equipment manufactured by the American company to the |Azneft and Grozneft, the principal joil producing organizations in the |Soviet Union, it was announced by |Saul G, Bron, Amtorg Corporation J. Brown, chair- man of the Foster-Wheeler Corpora- | | tion, The contract provides also for} technical consultation and assistance | by the Foster-Wheeler Corporation. The first orders on this agreement, |< =| which are now being placed, amount |to approximately $2,000,000, Long- | term credits have been extended by the Foster-Wheeler Corporation. M. V. Barinov, president of the Azneft Oil Trust, who is now in this country with several. leading en- gineers of the trust, participated in the negotiations resulting in the signing of the present agreement. SELLOUT IRON MILL WORKERS Tighe Agreement Ties Slaves for Year ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 10. —The 1928 wage contract between | the Westerh Iron Bar Manufac- | turers Association and their 30,000 employes has been renewed for the | ensuing year, it was announced here | at the end of a four day conference between officials of the association | and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and.Steel Workers. The statement announcing the re- newal was signed by George M Clark of Albany, Ind., president of the Manufacturers Association an: Michael F. Tighe, of Pittsburgh, Ps. president of the labor union. The 30,000 iron bar workers thus find themselves betrayed by the’: union misleaders into being boun | another year by contract without th: | slightest gain of any sort. The will be unable to strike for a yes for an improvement of conditions. The conference between the uni misleaders and the bosses’ associn tion members was a “peaceful an friendly gathering” according to th | union officials, Tighe fs one of the A. F. of 1 metal trades ‘officials who deserted | the steel workers in their great) ae. of 1919, a strike led by Wil-| j ~ panty SE the capitalist system of Italy. Simply and concisely they outlined | conerete methods of action against the penetration of fascism in the trade unions, the fraternal organi- zations and in the Italian colonies. with The speeches received warm applause. were Represent Many Groups. Speakers included C. Lip; er of the militant Inder Shoe Workers of America; |vino, of the Biellese Wo: gressive Club; Cupelli, represent: tive of the Italian Maxim M Party; Mattei, of the W of Staten Isle hich general strike of the fur ceso Coco, for the Anti-Fa liance of America. Report on Congress. ; report of the nal Ant in, wa: Interna held in scist. Congre given by A. f. Tom DeFazio, acting secretary of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America was chairman. The meeting concluded with the singing of “Bandiera Rossa,” the battle song of the anti-fascists wherever they find themselves. Hall, Just Returned from Gastonia, Will Speak to Harlem ILD Otto Hall, Negro organizer of the Trade Union Educational League, | who has just returned from the strike zone in Gastonia, will give a .detailed account of the situation there at a general membership meeting of the Harlem Branch of | the International Labor Defense, to- | morrow at 8 p. m. 5 experiences in Ru: laws overnight, it may take some ingenuity for a cardinal who be- longs to the opposition to keep out of a cell. Absolute Monarchy. The “Acta Apostolica Sedis,” of- ficial organ of the new government, makes public today the constitution of the papal state, as dragged out District Youth | by Benito Mussolini from the junk heap of histo: The first a SR Lecture O LIS at Five O'elock PROPAGANDA OF Today by Dr. Kunitz ChTe BEJECTED K lecturer «| literature and culture a ~ Gary Refuses to Join Joshi Dr. sian lege of the will deliv City of New Y! talk on life r station WJZ at| in otk le says: Soviet Russ 1 ov CHICAGO, Ti, (By Mail)—| “The supreme pontiff, sovereign five o'clock Tu Although posters advertising the lo- |Of the state of Vatican City, has The talk is arranged by World |cal ( :’ Military Training Camp | {ull legislative, executive and judi- cial powers. During a vacancy of the See the same powers belong to the college of cardinals which can issue legislative regulations only in case of emergency and effective only during the vacancy unless con- | firmed by the pope elected. The Italian penal code, under the same re: tions, will be enforced displayed in , not one boy hundred included in at Thornton Frac- ional Township High School, near here has registered for the camp. The lack of response is only one in- ion that young workers of the| ghly industrial region centering Same r \ about the Gary steel district and the | in Vatican City. , ed Calumet Harbor Develop-|_ “Any action committed inside the ment are refusing to be hoodwinked | Vatican City against the pontiff is by the “preparedness” propaganda |Punishable in accordance with ar- of the organized bosses. “We refuse| ticle one of Italian law of Novem- to submit to training designed to| ber, 1926,” namely, the death pen- make us more perfect tools of | alty by firing squad. nee imperialism, in its coming struggle for world power,” the stu- [geal 43 Excursion to dents say. 1 ele * Pata il oticleetiationl Pak: Celebrate Affiliation vith Industrial Union nounced the total lack of registra- tions at a school assembly, and tried | a The affiliation of Local 43, Mil- linery Workers, with the fighting , 175 Fifth Ave., the auth- | h2 Seg aaee (| tharclass 7 ar among the the student boc pre vel de- ian government lot, Ru ied the John ional : Dele- die: gation to the and his radio talk tells of his many | | prop oviet Union last year ssia. Milton Goodman, executive direc- tor of World Tourists, announce that Dr. Kunitz will head an Amer- ican party of tourists to Russia next month, The party will | ‘ York on July 8rd on the mania. They will spend in the Soviet Union and will vi an universities and art in tutes. En route Dr. Kunitz will de- liver a series of lectures and in- timate talks on present-day and past | Russian literature and culture. ring a little last-minute pressure | r girls had been |social democratic president of the | of the police in question had refused | PLAN TQ FRAME stand chance to sign up.” studen camp,” ding line in waiting he said to Needle Trades Workers Industrial , “they would have been | Union, will be celebrated by mem- for a bers of the organization and a large Then, trying a} number of other left wing workers different line of attack, he con-|at the two-day excursion at Camp : tinued, “Do you know what kind of | Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N. Y., this Sat- FD EDI TIES boys go to these camps?” After!urday and Sunday. a i & Q mentioning two of last s| The joining of forces ats the ‘ tes, both outstanding athletic Industrial Union follows a’ long, ded, “You can’t tell me courageous struggle with the cor- BE RLIN (By Ma il).—The sys hat you're all going to work this) rupt Zaritsky machine in the Cloth atic attempts of e German re-| summer. About half of you are! Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers In- on to do ay with the consti-| just going to loaf, and I know it.| ternational which reached its climax m and wi . parliamentarism | The trouble is you're afraid you/ at the recent fake “convention” held now met with a new might have to ht for Uncle Sam|in New York. th the assistance of the Ge some tin 1 demo The immunity of the s of the Reichstz in and of the r has been used in conn on with dis- s which occurred in the publie gallery of the Reichstag be- tween unemployed workers and s picious looking individuals who afterwards turned out to be police spies present at the request of the unist Bertz and t deputy Bertz mbe Fic Stra: was ai ynal Reichstag Loebe. | Although the Communist member Pieck informed the house that most to make any official complaint, the | house adopted the motion of the so-| cial democrat Heilmann, notorious in connection with the Barmat cor- ruption affair, who was greeted with shouts of “Barmat Swindler!”, and the immunity of Bertz was with-| drawn. The immunity of Florin was | withdrawn because, as political | secretary of the Communist Party | in the Ruhr district he had signed | responsible for a Communist leaflet distributed amongst the miners. Heilmann argued for the withdrawal on the ground that as Florin was a metal worker he had no right to in- lterfere in the affairs of the miners! Gastonia Strikers Guard Relief Stores When the Gastonia mill stMkers remained solid under the teader- ship of the National Textile Wor! thugs to destroy the Workers International Relief station (ruins shown above). A new relief station was built, which the Strikers’ Defense Corps is guarding 709 inst ecole by compan thugs ana - oe \- 4 ‘ Gastonia police, » ers Union, the mill bosses hired ie clos tos one arose ed auditorium to 2 r, the boys show their determination by re- fusin ; Workers desiring to join in the excursion should make their reserva- tions at once at the office of Local 43, 4 West 37th St., or at 640 Broad- SEND the Daily Worker ¥ to a Striker @ rVVwVVVVVVVYV ‘ Name... T H position to send it Although we send thou- sands daily—ié is insuf- ficient to cover the de- mand. Even these bund- les we will be compelled to discontinue unless aid is forthcoming. The DAILY WORKER as in all previous strug- gles during the past few years must be the guide and directing force. In addition to ree lief send them the ore gan of class struggle. OUSANDS of workers on strike desire to receive the DAILY WorKER, but we are not in a financial VVVIVIVVTVVCT DAILY WORKER 26 UNION SQUARE New York City Enclosed find §.. to be used for the DAILY WORKER fund to supply bundles of Daily Workers to the strikers in various sections of the country. om, Address City ..... ..- State ...