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The daily worker., 1927-01-17
WORLD OIL War
LOOMS AS BIG
GROUPS SPLIT
u. S. and English Row
Over Russia

LONDON, Jan. IT, War between
the English and American oil monopo-
lists over the purchase of Russian oil
products is threatening as the result
of break between the oil companies
after an agreement was reached. The
parties are the Rockefeller Standard
oil group, represented here by the
Anglo-American Oil company, the Va
ouum OIL company of New York and
the Royal Dutch Shell combine and
Anglo-Persian Oil company, controlled
by the British government.
Politics Enter.
After many years Of bitter compe-
tition to gain a monopoly of Russian
oil products, an agreement was reach
ed between the two forces providing
for a division of the oil. Then Sir
Henri Deterding, Of the Royal Dutch
Shell, announced that negotiations
were off. Deterding said that he did
think it "policy to enter business re-
lations with the Soviet government
because of its activity in China" De-
terding is the same oil king who last
spring wired John d. Rockefeller not
TO send Russia money for purchasing
oil because ''it would be used by the
churches" The Standard Oil groups
attack Deterding, declaring he was not
80 "squeamish' in April when he sign
cd a contract for purchase of 100000
tens of Russian kerosene
race Started In 1920.
The race for Russian oil was start
ed in 1920 by the Shell group. 1t
sent a representative to Russia to
buy concessions. Standard Oil, hearing
OF this, started doing the same. Both
failed to get concessions and long
series of conferences with official and
semt-ofHcial Soviet union representa-
tives followed.
Boycott Russian Oil.
When Standard Oil was later sue
cessful, Shell started a campaign of
boycott against Russian OIL Deterd-
ing entered into an agreement with
France to furnish it with all its oil,
provided 1t did not purchase Russian
products. But Deterding could not
furnish enough oil and the contract
was voided. Again Deterding ap-
preached the Standard Oil grohp for
"co-operation" in negotiating a deal
with the Russian government. The
deal was arranged, when Shell back.
ed down.
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
masses RestraIn ExecutIon.


The Kuomintang authorities in
Canton have been dependent upon
telegraphic reports of the occurrence
from party sources in Peking. Even
these learned of the event only several
days after the actual arrests. There
was an immediate fear that the Muk-
den militarists would follow their
usual course and execute the arrested
men at once. This appears, however
not to have been the case. Chang
Tso-lin appears to have heard faint
suggestions, even inside the fast
nesses OF his yamen, of the rumble OF
popular opinion in China. They have
somewhat restrained his usual style
in these matters. Up TO the present
writing, there is no definite word that
the men are executed.
lrresoIution in Pekinq.
The telegraph lines have been fairly
cIuttered with reports about the new
cohesion" amongst the anti-national-
ist militarists and their large plans
| for an enormous expedition against
the Cantonese revolutionary armies
Sun Chuan-fang himself was at Tient
sin to participate in the conference
which was presided over by the Muk-
den warlord, Chang Tso-lin. Chang
Tsung-chang, the Tupan of Shantung
was authorized by this conference, the
reports stated, to lead 100000 men in,
to Kiangsu province and it's leading
city of Shanghai. Sun Chuan-fang is
reported to have agreed to this plan
most reluctantly.
| No Action Vet.
Out of welter of reports, rumOrs
denials and charges, this seems clear;
that up to the moment, no action on
a large scale has been started by
these anti-nationalist militarists to
ward beginning such an expedition.
| WI Peifu has finally admitted the
facts of a situation which everyone
also has seen and admitted fol
months-that he and his "army" are
impotent to do anythingA against the
nationalists. In a statement, report
ed from Peking, he is said to have
admitted that there is too much dis
organization among the army chiefs
under him in Honan to hope for any
cohesive movement against Hupef
province.
koo is Contradictory.
DR.. Wellington Koo, the acting pre-
king government, reflects the indeci
sion and irresolution of his military
hackers by announcing one day tha
he will resign, with his entire cabi
net, and the next day that he will re
tain Office for the present. One o
his statements on the subject of resig
nation asserted that he was personal
The daily worker., 1927-01-17


CThe following is special dis
patch to The DAILY WORKER
from the bureau OF information of
the department Of foreign relations
of the Canton revolutionary gov
ernment Of China giving direct In
formation on events there.)
CANTON, China, Dec. 4.-(sy Mall)
Actual preparations for the trans
fer Of the nationalist capital from
Canton to Wuchang were under way
during the first week of December. All
the departments held meetings to de-
eide upon the personnel Of the first
group which would leave for the
Yanetze on approximately the tenth.
The various bureaus of tho Central
kuomlntana headquarters did the
same. Records were packed and pre-
pared for shipment.
The decision of the political coun-
ell that the government and the CEN
tral party headquarters be removed
came after considerable discussion of
the problem in all its phases. 1t came,
also, after it had been made plain by
the civil and military authorities of
the provinces newly brot under ma
tionalist domination by the military
drive, that the transfer had the whole
hearted support not only of these au-
thorities but also of the entire popu-
lation in the newly-acquired prov
inces.
viii centralize Movement.
Tactical considerations also were
involved. The geographical position
of Wuchang, on the Yangtze, in the
center of the great Yangtze valley,
the commercial backbone of China,
will centralize the heart of the ma
tionalist movement. The whole circu-
lation of the nationalist organism will
be normalized.
From the psychological point of
view, the removal is a gesture of con-
fidence, in the security of the nation
alist position in the Yangtze terrain
and in the certainty of it's leaders that
the entire movement has complete
popular sanction.
Gains Bring Necessity.
With the actual territory controlled
by the nationalist government stretch
ing so far to the north-a thousand
miles from it's present base-Canton
no longer was the reasonable home
for it. 1t had become inevitable that
the home-base would have to be re-
moved to point more intimately in
touch with the new territory. The
enormous labors of co-ordinating the
work of the government in the new
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
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The daily worker., 1927-01-17
ANNOUNCE new HALLS
FOR DETROIT LEKIN
MEMORIAL MEETING

DETROIT, Mich., Jan. TO- De-
trolt's memorial meeting for NicoIaI
Lenin, scheduled originally for the
armory and cancelled by order of
the post commander, will be held at
the Finnish Labor Temple, 1863
Fourteenth ST., near McGraw, and
at the New Workers Home, 1343
East Ferry Ave-, near Russell. The
meeting will be held on Jan. % with
William z. Foster, Rebecea Grecht
and Walter Trumbull as the speak
ers in both halls. An increased mu-
sical program is announced.
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
OFF With Their Heads.

The fascist paper "Impero" writes
"The opponents Of fascism in Italy
must be completely suppressed. Italy
has only one head, fascism, and one
single brain, Mussolini. The heads Of
all those who do not believe in that
must be cut OIL"
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
Four Children Burn
to Death When Fire
Destroys Small Home

CLINTON, ILL.,, Jan. 16.-Four chill.
dren of Frank Riley, worker, were
burned to death when their small
home was destroyed by fire. The
mother was visiting neighbors when
the fire started Heroic efforts Of
Hank waldron to save them proved
fruitless.
The children are. Robert, s; Elmer
4, Charles, 2 and a baby, aged Ave
months.
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
Lenin on Organization

The most important publicatio,
for workers issued in many year,
Writings and speeches of a grea
leader on the fundamental question
Of organization. No workers III
rary can be complete without thi
invaluable work. Cloth. S1.B
The daily worker., 1927-01-17

PoIncare Gets Confidence Vote.
PARIS, Jan. 16.-Premier Poincare
was given another vote OF confidence
In the chamber Of deputies, by vote
Of 3e5 70 16s
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
FASCIST TERROR
TOLD BY INT'L.
RED AID REPORT
FakeAttempts on Duce's
Life Are Exposed

The exact course OF the "regenera-
ton OF Italy, as the bourgeois CORE
spondents call IT, at the hands OF the
murderous Mussolini is graphically
told in the various facts and figures
made public by the executive Of the
International Red Aid. II is impossible
for US to reprint more than a very
small part of the tale of horror and
outrage that has succeeded In slip
ping thru the long fingers Of the fas-
cist censor. This is the paradise"
80 much admired by Judge Gary and
the Hearst papers.
"Attempts" and Their Consequences.
MUCH is heard of the "invulnera-
ANI bility" of the bloody Duce. "No
bullet can hit him" Recent disclosures
following the arrest of Ricciotti Carl
baldi have supplied the key to this
"invulnerability." 1t now appears that
all the attempts were no more than
police provocations, known to and
even organized by the police in order
to provide an opportunity for intensi-
flying the campaign against the work
ers and all anti-fascists. That the
pilots" were utilized to increase the
fury of the fascist terror is shown by
the following facts.
The Sept. 5, 1925, attempt" was fol-
lowed by at least eight murders, 46
injured, nearly 1900 arrested, over
1000 searches, 1875 prohibitions of the
press, and 131 liquidations of anti
fascist organizations.
The April 7, 1926, attempt" had the
following consequences: murders,
IS injuries, $500 arrests, 315 search
es, prohibitions and 3 liquidations of
organizations. CThere seem to have
been very few newspapers left to pro-
hibit or organizations to liquidate.)
The Sept. IL 1926, attempt: muir
ders, So injured, 1000 arrested, 1,23OO
searches, IL press prohibitions, 4 or
ganizations disbanded.
The facts for the fourth attempt
| October 3O) are not yet available but
it is obvious that the figures will ex-
ceed anything that has gone before.
Death to Every Anti-Fascist.
ACCORDING to the new law on the
"A death penalty, not only is the
death penalty invoked against anyone
who undertakes any attempt against
the life Of the king, or the regent, the
queen, the crown prince, or the chief
of the government (MussolinD, but
against anyone who threatens the
lunity of the state" Thus anyone who
tells workers that their interests are
opposed to the interests of the en-
ployers is subject to the death pen
atty. No wonder Judge Gary admires
Mussolini so much.
A Spy in Every Home.
TN order to keep his eye out for every
l. sign of sign of anti-fascist senti-
ment it is required, according to new
regulation, that in every house there
be employed fascist porter who is
to spy on the dodgers and to watch
over their political opinions. The gov
ernment has declared explicitly that
all porters must be people 'recogniz-
ed" Chat is, approved) by the police
and fascist authorities. Inasmuch as
according to the present law anybody
opposed to fascism may be summary
imprisoned, the Supporters have made
themselves very useful to the fascist
regime.
| nnn.Ai.-l, IAaI.,
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
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BY NJ. Bukharin.

A fine analysis by premier Marx
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The daily worker., 1927-01-17
"Reaeneratingr Italy.

HERE is an example of the regener-
IL alton of Italian civilization. The
deputy in Bergama, catholic, was
taken by fascist murder gang from
his house to a nearby hill. After
splitting at him and kicking him, they
took him to a gallows they had erect
ed and made all preparations to hang
him. During all these proceedings
the fascists danced around the unfor-
tunate deputy like lunatics. Finally
the deputy was terribly beaten and
left to be taken to the hospital in a
well-nigh hopeless condition.
The daily worker., 1927-01-17

A brief folder in which lie
pointedly summarizes the Commm
position on this question. co
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
Infantile Sickness
Leftisln in Com
munism

In all young revolutionary mo
ments there develops an exaggera
tendency to the left" With devas
ing logic Lenin skaters their ar
ments and leaves a ringing, crys
declaration Of true Communism.
IS ce
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A CCORDING to certain estimates of
"A bourgeois circles, nearly a quar-
ter of million arrests have taken
place in the last period of time. OF
course, the prisons proved insufficient.
The wave of arrests is far from being
over.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Labor in China

The following facts on conditions
Of Labor in China are from an ex-
haustive study made by c. L. Malone.
They present a wealth of information
on the terrible conditions under which
Chinese workers are being exploited
today and deserve the attention of
every American worker. They will
lead to a better understanding of the
causes underlying the Chinese revolt
against foreign imperialist and Chi
nese capitalist exploitation Editor
Shanghai.
Nearly half the cotton mills in
China are in Shanghai-5S out of a
a total Of 122. OF these S., the ma
jority are foreign-owned, % being
Chinese, 80 Japanese and British.
These are the figures given by the
China Year Book. Consul General
Barton in Cmd. 2442, states that
there are 6 cotton mills in Shanghai
of which 33 are Japanese and 8
British. Perhaps one set of figures
refers to actual mills and the other
in part to firms owning mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Peaceful Air Ships
Easily Convertible
Into War Weapons
Draw. ~ VIM. Chopper.

WASHINGTON, June 9.-Fifty
commercial airships, converted over.
night into aerial warships, can adj
Quately protect the United States
from invasion by enemy fleets, it
was declared today by Walter Link,
president of the American Airship
Association, in a statement urging
the government to develop lighter
than-air aviation.
Link stressed the value Of dirigibles
as a part of the national defense.
He declared these huge birds could
carry enough bombs to sink any in
vading enemy fleet, while being pro-
tected in the air by squadrons of
planes. The airships also can be used,
he added, to carry their own COM
plement of planes.
Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not DIE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10

1t will be observed that all the British
cotton mills in China are in Shanghai.
Wages.-Men 30 to 30 cents per
day.
Children 10 to Is cents per day.
Over 60 per cent of the. workers are
women.
Average wage S12 per month, i.e.,
about AZ cents per day. (N.B.-The
dollar in use is the Mexican dollar,
value about Is. 25 cents is therefore
equivalent to cd. in English money
and az cents to about 1016d)
The wages here are rather higher
than elsewhere, but on the other hand
the cost of living in Shanghai is said
to be 20 per cent. higher than in the
South or inland
Hours Worked.--11.5 to 16 per day.
Seven days per week.
The normal hours are 12-hour day
and night shifts and sometimes Is or
16-hour shifts on the day before the
machines are stopped for cleaning, so
that the women and children may
have to stand for perhaps Is hours.
Very young children are employed in
the mills.
There is no time or place for meals.
There is very little lavatory accom-
mediation. Babies are not allowed in
the foreign factories, so they have to
be entrusted to a neighbor. Women
are allowed two weeks away at the
time of their confinement. If they
do not return then, they are liable 10
be dismissed. They get no pay dur
ing this period. For serious accidents
compensation up to so dollars is some
times given, but there is no obligation
to pay any compensation whatever.
Here, as elsewhere, there is no fenc-
ing of machinery, and owing to the
very long hours worked and the youth
of the workers very serious accidents
occur.
Tientsin.
Average Wage.-30 cents per day.
Hours-12-hour day and night
shifts. Seven days per week.
60 per cent. of the workers are chill
dren, who get Is to 20 cents per day.
Women are not so much employed as
in Shanghai. The Japanese provide
dormitories for their men and women
workers according to their usual Gus
tom. The rent is said to be so cents
per person per month. In the course
Of strike in Japanese cotton mills
in August, 1925, rs workers were
killed.
HankOw and Wuchang.
Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang
form together a triple city known as
Wuhan, on the junction of the River
Yangtze and the River Han, most of
the cotton mills being in Wuchang
and the steel works in Hanyang.
1t must be understood that all
wage-rates given relating to Hankow
are those obtaining at the time Of my
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
SOVIET UNION EXPOSES SERIES OF OUTRAGES BY
BRITISH; RANGE FROM ARSON TO MURDER

ment Various instances were like
wise discovered Of damage to indus
trial equipment and investigation es-
tablished a criminal purpose. Thus
it is quite clear that the British gov
eminent, which is rapidly preparing
war against the u. S. S. r., is striv-
ing by all ways and means to prevent
the peaceful labor Of the workers and
peasants Of our state. The fact that
all these adventurous attempts have
no roots within the Soviet Union it.
self is characteristic. The country is
growing rapidly economically, and
the welfare Of the masses is increas-
ing The union of workers and pea
SAINTS is ever growing stronger, and
the national might of the proletarian
dictatorship is increasing, The mis-
cradle criminal adventures of reac-
tionary foreign cliques are a fragrant
contradiction Of the powerful organic
growth of the great proletarian union.
The government is confidently defend
ing its position of peaceful labor and
construction but deems it its duty,
while still more theoretically pursu-
ing cOnstructional work to expose in
The eyes of toiling mankind and above
all the working class of its own coun-
try the criminal policy Of the Bri-
fish cabinet and its agencies. The
government calls on the toiling
masses of the union, in response to
the fierce efforts Of the enemies Of
the working class and peasants, to
raise their labor activity and to show
the utmost cohesion in their ranks.
The government calls all honest
toilers Of the country to still more
energetically work on the construc-
ton of socialism and strengthening
the defence capacity Of the country.
The British cabinet and its vassal or
gans are discouraged by the success
of our constructive work. Every new
mill, electric station, every success of
the peasants economy provoke a
flood Of unrestrained hatred in the
British capitalists, who are eager to
make our country an accessory Of the
imperialistic states. It's workers OBJ
ject to their exploitation; whose
peasants, landless slaves Of imperial
ism, can be shot just as the Chinese.
Protect Workers State.
The government calls on the work
ing class to protect its mills, fabrics,
stores, stations, and everything built
and created by the toilers, who, in
our country, conquered the landown-
ers and capitalists. The government
enjoins the all-union state political
deps dlrent to take energetic mea-
SURG % protect the country against
foreign spies, incendiaries and MUIR
derers and thor monarchist white
guardist allies. The government bows
the red banner Of the Union before
the body of Comrade Voikoff and
those other true champions Of the
proletariat who fell at the hands OF
infamous hired mrrderers who are
provoking a new war. The govern
ment declares that, supported by the
broad toiling masses and their unlim-
tied heroism, it will clear the coun-
try of its enemies and protect the con-
struction Of socialism from all at
tempts against it.
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against Rykoff and Stain. Gurevitch
was arrested in due time.
On May 10th a group Of Kolchak's,
former officers, inmates Of the Lenin-
grad Institute for Noble Orphans was
arrested. This group, according to
the testimony Of its members, was
directly connected with the white chief
consular department of the British
mission in Moscow. It was preparing
at the missions instructions, at
tempts at explosions in the Kremlin
and an explosion in the big (Bolshoy)
Theatre during any big meeting Of
the workers and peasants represen-
tatives Of Moscow or the Union.
British Bomb.
On the nights Of the second and
third Of June the state political de-
partment prevented an explosion in
a house near this department, located
on Dzerjinsky's Square Here was dis
covered q melinite bomb weighing
four kilograms. The melinite was of
French origin while the casing of the
bomb was Of British origin Thus
beyond a doubt, the constituent parts
of the bomb were brought from
abroad, which fact is likewise proved
by other things left behind by the
criminals
On June a Polish subject assas-
sinated Woikoff, Soviet plenipotenti-
airy representative in Warsaw and
English papers have already published
an arrogant interview with the tsar-
list diplomat Sablin who is unofh-
cially connected with British cabinet
ministers and justifies the murderer
outright. The English hand which,
while itself standing aside, directed
the blow of the Polish subject, is
here detected sufficiently clearly.
Assassinate Opansky.
On the same day, June 7th, be-
tween the stations of Jdanovichi and
Minsk railway accident was engi-
neered during which persisted Vice
chief, agent Of the All-Union State
Political Department in the white
Russian military district and Opan-
sky, who was taking with him a Polish
lieutenant spy, just arrested With
Opansly was killed the driver and
two collabOrators were seriously
wounded. Again on that same day,
June 7th at 9.22 o'clock in the eve
ming two bombs were thrown (of
which one exploded) in the Commun-
list Party's Debating Club in Lenin-
grad, and about thirty persons were
wounded, several very seriously. Be
longings left behind by the criminals
likewise quite clearly show the for
eign origin Of the terrorists.
British Guilty of Arson.
At the same time in various parts
of the union arsons of works, mills
military stores, etc, occurred. II
May powder store was set fire K
in Leningrad The criminal was the
/ director of the store, an Esthonian
Usild, who was working at the in.
structions of Esthonian agents of the
British government. Still earlier
fire was set to the Dubrovka mill
near Leningrad, the ihcendiary being
Finn working at the instructions Of
Finnish agents Of the British govern.