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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
Workers Party Members
In Cleveland Arrange
First Dance of Season

CLEVELAND, Oct. 13.-The first
dance in Cleveland given by the
Workers Party this season will be
held Saturday, October 18th, at
Pythian Castle, 1924 East 55th st.
Party members and their friends are
all looking forward eagerly to this
affair which will be held in one Of
the prettiest halls in the city. The
Newman orchestra will furnish the
usual poppy music. All those who
like good music and dancing and a
real jolly time should not miss this
first of the indoors affairs.
Tickets have been distributed
which, if presented at the door, en-
title the holder to admission for forty
cents. Otherwise the admission is
fifty cents. Come one and all, throw
off all care for few hours. Have a
good tiny ~ meat sll your friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
ROumanian Whites Try
to Extradict Leader In
Revolutionary Struggle

PRAGUE, Sept. 7, 1927 (By MaiD,
Elek Koebloes, one of the pioneers of
rhe revolutionary working class
movement in Roumania, was arrested
by the Czechish authorities a few
days ago in the Carpathians after he
had successfully crossed the Rou-
manian-C zechish frontier Illegally.
Recently the Roumanian government
has done everything in its power to
get Koebloes into its hands in order
to metz out to him the fate which so
many other pioneers of the revolu-
tionary movement have suffered, i. e.,
Tkatchenko, Stefanoff, etc. In Rou-
mania, Koebloes has always been sue
cessful in Guiding the Siguranza.
Finally the government set price of
100000 Lei upon his head. There is
no doubt about it that if Koebloes is
handed over to the Roumanian au-
thorities he will be murdered.
This fate is certain to be his if the
Czechish authorities hand him over to
the Roumanian authorities. The
Roumanian government is exercising
strong pressure upon the Czechish
authorities in order to secure the ex-
tradition Of Koebloes. Koebloes is in
immediate and extreme danger all the
more because he is being held in the
neighborhood of the frontier and
therefore within reach of the Rou-
manian hangmen.
The Communist Party of Czecho-
slovakia is making all possible eff
forts to secure the right Of asylum
for Koebloes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
sOCIAL CoMposIT1oN oF STUDENTS.

The social composition of students in the universities
of the U. S. S. r. in 192526 follows: UNIVERSE
TIES manual workers, 244 percent; peasants, 259 per-
cent office workers, 259 percent other occupations
81 percent; artisans, IL percent; nonabor elements,
Is percent; others, OF percent
WORKERS FACULTIES: Manual workers. $50 per-
cent peasants 1919 percent; others, To percent.
Poytechncs Especial educational institutions Of
secondary school type) manual workers and their chill
dren POS percent peasants 372 percent office work
ers, 1873 percent; others, 81 percent.
According to preliminary statistics 70 percent of stu
dents admitted to Moscow and Lenngrad manual
workers and peasants
DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY IN CENTRAL ASIA.
In the of last year, the number of enterprises
in Central Asia increased from 228 $780, and the
Der of workers employed in industry from 10000 to
$4,000.
LAND ORGANIZATION IN KUBAN.
The plan for land organization in Kuban (Caucasus)
has been carried out to the full 100 percent Over 38
percent of the reorganzed has been handed
for utilization for croprotaon of than three fields
EDUCATION IN THE BORDER REPUBLICS.
When the Tadzhikestan Republic established it
had only three schools and three chldrens homes At
present it has 45 schools of social education so schools
to teach reading and writing and four trade schools
Iliteracy has been practically Equidated in villages
of the Stavropo region and in two big dstricts-the
Kamenolomsk and October districts North Caucasus)
in the course of three years. $4,000 adults have
been taught to read and write in this region.
ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE U. S. S. R.
review of the national economy of the U. S. S. R.
state industry amounted to 1922 million roubes at pre-
war prices against 3015 million roubes in july 1927
an increase of 16 percent
The production Of fuel in August current year
as follows coa2 33,100 tons, against 900 tons
in July, 1927 by % percent than Aug 1926 The
output of oil increased by percent, compared with
August, last year, reaching $4,000 tons in August
1927.
In the metal industry the production of pig-ron
amounted to 24500 tons in August, 1927 against 244
200 tons in July current compared with August
1926 the increase was 259 percent The production of
Maren steel increased from 281,2O0 tons in July to
303400 tons in August, 1927 The production of rolled
metals totaied $4,000 tons, against 1S6,700 tons in
July current year, compared with the production in
August 1926 the increase this year. was 144 percent
The production of cotton yarn reached 232O8 tons in
August 1927 against 7140 tons in July AS compared
with August last year, the increase 141 percent
The production of unbeached goods in August amounted
to 1868 million metres, while that of finished cloths to
1862 million metres, against 1871 and 1882 million
metres, respectively, in July current year The produc
ton of wooden yarn 3278 tons, against 24O7 tons
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
LOAN OFFER Goes
WITH LATEST u, S.
TARIFF WAR NOTE
S78,OOO,OOO Hint Sugars
WashingtOn's Terms

PARIS, Oct. 13-The latest ulti-
matum to be sent by the Wall street
financiers thru the American State
Department, to the French govern
ment still remains a mystery but its
terms, which are being freely discus
sed, are said to maintain the refusal
of the American government to nego-
tate a reciprocity tariff arrangement
with the French At the same time,
the note demands that the French
government at once accord a most
favored nation treatment to Ameri-
can products and allow them the same
minimums which Germany at present
enjoys.
While it is known that there is
nothing said in the note concerning
the rumored offer of the American
bankers to permit France to negotiate
a consolidation loan for $4,000, 900,
in return for preferential tariff con-
cessions on the part of the French,
official approval Of the loan has been
transmitted by the American State
Department to the French Embassy in
Washington. While officials are in
sisting that the tariff ultimatum and
offer to negotiate loan are separate
matters and have no connection, it is
obvious that the State Department
is bent on forcing the French to re-
cede from their tariff stand while
they bind them up in the tolls of a
new loan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14

NCoHt6tHe0 from rage OHel
Hawaii, will tell of his vivid dramatic
experience.
Brutal Sentence.
AT the same time that this sentence
was imposed upon Crouch, a COM
panion, Walter Trumbull, was ordered
jailed for 26 years for working with
Crouch in the organization of the
Young Communist League in the bar
racks. Trumbull is now field organ
izer of the Young Workers League of
America.
Enlisting in the U. S. army with
the intention of learning its methods
and exposing them to the thousands
of working class youths who form the
bulk of the armies of capitalist i'm
perialism, Crouch, a former news
paperman and a native of North
Carolina, succeeded in building up an
energetic organization among scores
of soldiers stationed in Hawaii. Dur
ing his imprisonment he was confined
at the federal military prison at AL
catraz, San Francisco Bay, Califor-
MIA, from which he was released a
short time ago.
/. L. d. Led Fight.
So bitter was the resentment
against the sentence imposed by the
court martial, and SO active was the
agitational work of the International
Labor Defense that took the lead in
fighting for their freedom, that the
federal authorities were compelled to
commute the sentence against the two
young Communists.
Sam Don, district organizer of the
Young Workers League, Dist. Two,
in commenting on tonight's meeting
said:
after serving his sentence in a
vile military prison Comrade Crouch
renewed with greater vigor the fight
against American militarism. He
symbolizes the struggle of youth
against American Imperialism. The
mass meetings addressed by Crouch
in numerous cities on his tour were
crowded with enthusiastic working
class audiences.
Danger of New War.
with new war nearer to us than
ever before, at time when the i'm
perialist powers are preparing for a
military invasion of the Soviet Union,
the demonstration with Crouch as the
principal speaker assumes a very
great significance. 1t must be turned
into "a vital demonstration against
war, against American imperialism
and against the militarization of
American Youth"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
Children Of USSR
Enthusiastic Over
u. S. Movie Slides

One of the results of the visit to
Soviet Russia last summer of the
first group of American Tourists or
gained by World Tourists, Inc, Of
60 Fifth Avenue, New York, is the
happiness and entertainment of a
large number of children in the chill
dren's village known as Dyetskye
Selo, formerly the Cars palace, near
Leningrad
Among the institutions visited by
the American group, headed by Mr..
Jack Jampoulsky, was the "Krasnoya
Zoria," which conducts a village of
schools, hospitals and museums for
children exclusively. The hearty re-
ception accorded by the children to
their American friends impressed the
visitors profoundly, and before leav-
ing, they decided to present the chill
dren with token in memory Of their
visit.
The announcement of their inten-
tion caused a riot of enthusiasm.
There We're many and fantastic re-
quests hurled in chorus at the Amer
leans. However, order was restored
I'd . vote taken. The object of their
clamor turned out to be an American
slide lamp, known as an opidioscope.
When the party returned to the
United States the purchase Of the
epidioscope was made, and last week
it was started on its way to the chill
dren's village of "Krasnoya Zoria"
through the Amtorg Trading Co. of
165 Broadway, New York.
The second tour organized by
World Tourists is scheduled to sail
for Soviet Russia October 18th, 1927
on the Cunard liner "Carmania"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
SpeciaIPrObIems Face Karelian Comrades

wiped out but in the back country
there is still tendency to think that
girl does not need schooling so
badly, all that is necessary in her case
is for the old man to scrape together
a respectable sized dowry. The youth
is doing especially good work In
overcoming this hide-bound attitude
and in one village which we visited, a
19-year old Komsomolka has been
elected chairman of the village soviet.
The struggle against religion is not
particularly difficult here. The popu-
lation had little love for the Greel,
Orthodox Church forced upon them
as part of the Cars classification
process, and the earlier Lutheran
Church has been out of the way q
long time. In Sookash Cora, the vii
lage referred to above, the church
stands absolutely idle except at
Christmas and Easter, when mon
astery furnishes an officiant. Not
even a sexton is on guard, but it is
not needed, nobody pays the slightest
attention to the place. After the
revolution the local priest tried to
take on a radical coloring in order to
hold on to his influence little longer
even going to the length of learning
revolutionary songs. But it did not
work. Of the population Of 400 not
more than 10 can be counted to the
"Old Guard" Of reaction, and they in
clude the former policeman, mer-
chant, and some very old peasants
mostly women. There is no Party
nucleus in the village, not even q
single member, but an active Kom-
somol nucleus of II members, 8 OF
them girls, seems quite up to the jot
of furnishing political leadership
They have just opened up general
club in building which formerly be-
longed to the rich merchant, and get
out wall newspaper every month in
which the whole village generally
participates. In the summer the
paper is hung out in the open air, in
the winter in the club. One article
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
Bankers Squabble Over
u. S. Loan to Prussia

BERLIN, Oct. 49, - Although the
U. S. State Department has approved
the Prussian loan of S30,O00,0OO
which probably will be issued next
week, German financial experts to-
day expressed belief that the trouble
which accompanied the loan negotia
lions indicates that the serious diff
culties will arise later over Dawes
plan payments.
S. Parker Gilbert, Preparations
agent general, insisted that the loan
should range behind Preparations pay
ments, as provided by the Dawes
plan, and that circulars advertising
the loan bonds should say so.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
American Autos Enter
Shanghai

the box, the back end of it is phys
ically lifted and the whole 5000
pounds is pushed on to the truck. The
whole operation is done by hand and
back.
The amount of human labor en-
pended in this process is grotesque.
Aboard the ship are dozen cranes.
The motor trucks might be driven
directly alongside and the boxes
placed on them as they come from
che hold. On the dock is an idle
crane that might be used to do the
Loading. But the bosses figure that
1t IS cheaper to put the two ton boxes
on human backs than on steam and
steel. So the heart labor
goes on.
The same ship that brought these
% American autos, to be carried on
coolie shoulders, unloaded 5000 pigs
OF Iead-200 pounds to the pig. They
were hoisted out of the hold about
ten at a time and dumped on the
landing stage. Then two coolies, with
each carrying pole, hooked their ropes
under two pigs, (400 pounds) at a
time and walked with them a dis
lance of about 100 yards to the shed
where the lead was being stored.
As the coolies walked, or rather
loped, they uttered that peculiar cry,
partly a warning to get out of the
way, partly an exclamation at the
weight of the burden, which rings in
the ears for weeks. Where many of
them are engaged together, this cry
raises like a chant, and carries for
long distances. At night it sounds
like the wailing of the damned. The
coolie in front begins the cry. The
coolie behind answers. Another coolie
takes up the note, and so it swells and
recedes. 1t is almost musical at
times, but it is always terrible.
Some day those burdened backs
will be relieved by steam and cleo
tricity and gas. But at present, they
are handling $500 pound Ameri-
can pleasure cars by hand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
By WILLIAM F. KRUSE.
Especial DAILY WORKER
Correspondence
CONTINUED from Last Issue
NCOlAelliNSN AANiAA N'9" NJ
Women and Youth Active.


Women and Youth Active.
The other side of this question is
the large and increasing number OF
members elected to office for the first
time, and also the slowly but steadily
increasing role played by the women
and the youth. In the volost soviets,
for example, 80 per cent were elected
to public functions for the first time,
in the volost executive committees
80 per cent were serving the first
time. This constant infusion OF new
blood is one of the characteristics Of
a workers and peasants soviet govern
ment Among these same volost So
Wet deputies one-fourth were under
Is years Of age; in the All Karelian
Soviet Congress in 1924 two deputies
were under 20 and 50 were less than
30 years of age, while in 1926 there
were 5 under 20 and 81 less than 30
years of age. There is now one men,
Der of the Central Executive Com
mittee less than % years of age. AS
to the participation Of women in
governing bodies, there are T women
among the AZ members of the Central
Executive, as compared with in
1925 In the Petrosavodsk Town
Soviet the number Of women increased
last year from Il to rs, while of the
1878 deputies to the volost soviets IL
per cent are women.
This increasing participation of
women in Karelian political life is
of especial Importance in that it Of
fers one more reflection Of the dis
lodging of the old life by the new.
In old Karelia the view prevailed gen
orally that women were by God and
nature preordained to a subordinate
role in life-which still makes itself
felt in the very considerable differ
ence between the number of girls and
of boys attending the rural schools.
In the towns this difference has been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
Complaint Hits Poland.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 10
The alleged closing of Lithuanian
schools and the arrest of school
masters in Wilma by Polish authori-
ties is the subject of a Lithuanian
complaint addressed to the secretary
general of the League of Nations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
German Plane Down Again.

BERLIN, Oct. 13.-For the second
successive day the Heinkel hydro
plane, piloted by Horst Merz, which
is attempting transatlantic flight,
met with misfortune.
The hydroplane, which took off
yesterday and was forced down near
Hamburg, again took the air today
for Amsterdam, but was forced down
near Wilhelmshaven.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
REVOLT AGAINST
FASCIST REGIME
IN SPAIN likely
Report Preparations for
General Strike

HIMDAYE, Franco-Spanish From
tier, Oct. 13.-Reports leaking thru
the rigid censorship maintained by
the Rivera regime state that Madrid
is seething with revolt and that an
outbreak against the fascist dictator
ship is imminent.
Preparations for nationwide
strike against the Rivera government
are said to be taking place. Five
hundred persons are reported to be
under arrest, charged with conspir-
acy against the Rivera regime.
The protest against the fascist die
tatorship has been accelerated by the
opening on Monday of the assembly,
packed by Rivera.
Report Revolt Likely.
LONDON, Oct ia report re-
ceived here by the Daily Express
from Hendaye declares that a revolt
against the Rivera government in
Spain is likely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14

which pointed out that private shop
keeper had not lowered his prices in
accord with a drop in wholesale prices
so angered that worthy that he took
a pencil and drew lines through the
offending piece 1t only served to at
tract still more attention and hilar.ty,
and in addition, the merchant had to
apologize to the wallpaper commits
sion. ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
Nicaraguan Liberal
Murdered by Marines

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. -
American marines killed the liberal
leader Santos Lobos and captured
eight of his band in skirmish at
Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua, according
to report wirelessed by Rear-Ad-
miral David Sellers, commanding the
special service squadron, to the navy
department today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
Belgian TraIe Unions
Invite USSR. Delegates
to Attend Convention

BRUSSELS, Oct. 13.-Repre-
sentatives from the trade union
movement of the Soviet Union
have been invited by the Execu-
tive Committee of the federation
Of Belgian workers to attend the
trade union convention to be held
here October Both.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
By SCOTT NEARING

Labor is cheap in Shanghai
cheaper than almost any other form
OF power, Upon the shoulders of the
shanghai cooie there are placed in
Uolefable loads-which he carries for
a lew coppers a day, living, mean
WhlIe, under the most degrading con-
oluons as regards food, shelter and
opportunity for his children.
Nowhere is the position of the coolle
better illustrated than his relation to
the American automobile.
Many autos are imported into
Shanghai, Some of them are trucks.
More are pleasure cars. These
pleasure cars are used, chiefly, by
the foreign residents of Shanghai
the whites" as they are frequently
called.
Export autos are boxed in the Uni
ted States. With their packing they
weigh $500 or $500 pounds. One
vessel recently unloaded So of these
boxed cars in Shanghai
Down in the hold, these huge
boxes, weighing nearly two tons, are
shifted over to the hatchway by
coolies, who hook the ropes of their
carrying poles under the corners of
the boxes, raise them up on rollers,
and then, by carrying and pushing,
get them into position where they can
be hoisted ashore.
AS the box reaches the dock, a
small, heavy truck is slipped under
it. About eighteen coolies seize the
ropes that are attached to this truck,
and pull it up a steep incline that
leads from the landing stage to the
dock. At the top the incline is pitched
sharply, and the pullers strain every
muscle, bending double, in their eff
forts to reach the level ground.
Once on the dock, the box is slid
from the truck, which is taken back
for another auto.
Later a motor-truck arrives to
take the boxed auto to the show
room of the company importing it.
The floor of the motor truck is three
feet above the ground. on which the
boxed auto is lying. One end of the
box is lifted physically by the coolies
and placed on the back of the truck.
Again it is lifted, and the truck is
backed up against the bottom of the
box. This process is repeated until
about half of the box is on the truck.
At this stage a roller is placed under
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
SETTLING ARMENIAN REFUGEES IN
SOVIET ARMENIA.

In press interview referring to Mr.. Fritof Nansens
statement in the Council Of the League of Nations as
to it being impossible to settle Armenian refugees in
Soviet Armenia, Mr.. Ambarshumian, chairman of the
following statement:
II fail to understand Mr. Nansens statement. If Mr..
Nansen reached his conclusion result of his nego-
tations with the governments of saes-members of the
League, then he is certainly right, the capaIistic
powers do not actually evnce the slightest interest in
moving the question of settling Armenian refugees from
the dead point. However, if Mr.. Nansen believes his
statement in any way refer to the Soviet govern
ment such idea not only counter to the facts,
but is also in contradiction to what Mr. Nansen himself
always said and wrote during four years In par
tcuar, the government of Armenia always went half
menian refugees desire to enter and settle in Soviet
Armenia. At the present moment just engaged
in distributing fifteen hundred refugees and prepar
ing plan for receiving parties of emgrants next
year"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
AN EXPEDITION TO THE UPPER COURSE OF
THE BLUE RIVER.

The Geographic Society will within short time send
big expedition under the direction of the wellknown
traveller and explorer Kozlo to investigate the
of the Yangtsekiang he Blue Rver) Asa's big
gest river.
In this reference, the following statement made
by Mr.. Kozloff in d press interview:
"The Yangtsekiang has not yet been investigated in
its upper and has since long been attracting the
attention of the geographers of the whole world. The
of the river have just little been Investigated
the North Pole. The expeditions task will be to in
vestigate the upper tributaries of this river whose
outside Of China proper, namely the
Tibetan plateau the Kuen Lun ridge which like
wise still remains unnvestgated. The expedition will
have carry its work under very trying conditions
sometimes in mountain passes 5000 metres high.
These passes have always been object of anxiety
to many explorers not much because of their steep
and craggy slopes and the cold winds because of the
rarefied air The expedition will also study the vegea
ton and fauna in the valleys of the Blue River the
Eastern border of the Tibet.
"The scientists of Western Europe believe in the
isence there of forests Of the richest varieties with
of dimensions, ferns bushes fruittees
etc The animal world of this UNEMPLOYED region is also
a riddle"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
NEWS FROM u. s. 5. z

in July, increase of 269 percent, as compared with
August 1926
The monetary circulation in August was 1925 mil
lion roubles against 1884 million roubes in July
rent The collected into the state budget
in August Ais million roubles against 1881 million
roubles in july 1927, and 3457 million roubes in Au-
gust 1926