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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-09
DELEGATES Will
PROTEST AGAINST
ANTI-USSR DRIVE
Foreign Workers Hold
Congress in Moscow
Especial Gable to Daily Worker.)

NopeCIdl SdDle 10 Daily Orher.)
MOSCOW, Nov. 8.-An impressive
demonstration against the threat of
an imperialist war is expected at the
| Congress of Friends of the Soviei
Union, composed for the most part of
members of workers delegations from
| capitalist countries.
A provisional committee of men,
bers of the foreign delegations are
actively preparing for the Congress
which will be attended by about a
thousand delegates, mostly represen-
tatives of workers and peasants, but
which will also include foreign repre-
sentatives of the sciences and arts.
The Soviet press has published the
statements of several delegates, en-
phasizing the great political Congress.
Losovsky's Statement.
! Losovsky in an interview pointed
out that the Congress may be viewed
as an attempt to create single front
against Imperialism on the part of
workers and peasants of different
parties and on the part of enemies of
imperialism who do not belong to the
working class.
Melnitchensky, chairman Of the for
eign delegations reception committee,
states that the Congress is a power
full herald Of the international soli-
darity of workers for the Soviet
Union and reply to the imperialis-
tic preparation for war
Pravda Lauds Congress.
! The significance of the Congress is
very great, Pravda says. The Con-
| gress is not only an action against
militant imperialism, but it will also
/ give Representatives of the toiling
masses of all countries an opportunity
to know each other better.
The Congress will help destroy all
/ barriers between workers Of different
races, nationalities and continents,
which the bougeoisie have erected and
reformists consolidated
British Workers Arrive.
The British workers delegation,
consisting of 106 members, arrived in
Leningrad on board the steamer
"Soviet" yesterday and was met by
Representatives of various organiza-
! tons and by large crowd of work
/ ingmen ard women with banners and
music.
Upon landing, the delegates were
welcomed officially by the secretary
of the Leningrad Trades Council and
then a meeting was held at which
Lowther, chairman of the delegation
read a declaration in the course of
which he said, owe each and all
pledge ourselves individually and col
Gectively to struggle with all our
strength against intrigues and the
| anti-Soviet attempts on the part of
the British Conservative government
and the whole capitalist world. The
British working class is opposed to
the policy of breaking relations with
the U. S. S. R. and will do everything
in its power to restore the unity OF
the British and Russian labor move
ments"
Both Lowther and Saklatvala, who
spoke after him, were greeted with
stormy ovations by all assembled.
After the meeting at the quay the
delegates went to their rest homes.
Fifteen members of the delegation
will remain in Leningrad, while the
other will leave for Moscow.
j. Louis Engdahl, former editor Of
The DAILY WORKER and member
of the Central Executive Committee
Of the Workers (Communist) Party,
has arrived in Moscow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-09

the II 0 u S e of
Commons this
a ftern 0 0 n by
Austen Chamber
lain, F orei g n
Minister in the
Baldwin govern
ment who an
nounced that the
Foreign Office
had not received
any official re-
port from the
Abyssinian gov
eminent on the
matter. The con-
.,-s;o,, F1,. +ba.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-09
JAIL BOURBON FOR LARCENY

MELUN, France, Nov. 8.-For fail
ing to pay his bills and for having
passed large number of worthless
checks, Don Fernando de Bourbon,
Duke of Durcal, and said to be a
cousin of King Alfonso, has been ar
rested and Jailed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-09
Report Over 200 Dead
In Big. Madras Cyclone

MADRAS, Nov. 8.-More than two
hundred people are reported to have
been killed in the cyclone which
swept the east coast of North Madras
last week. The town of Nellore has
been partly wrecked and over thou
sand persons are reported homeless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-09
L. s. FRIENDLY TO RIVERA.

WASHINGTON, Nov. s.-An
agreement has been entered into be-
tween Spain and the United States
whereby the Modus -Vivendi between
the two governments, which was to
have expired Nov. 81, is extended in
definitely, or until one government
desires to terminate it. The agree
ment will govern all trade relations
between the two countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-09
Mine Strike in Mexico
Blow to U. S. Magnates

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 8.-A
strike of miners has paralyzed
operations at the American-owned
Cinco Minas Mining Properties in
the Pachuca District, says 4 dis
patch from that place today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11

up buildings either in suburbs or out
side towns, in the form of settle
ments. One of the aims of coopera-
tive working class buildings is the
establishment of new social customs
in keeping with the order created by
the October Revolution. Lack of
funds stand in the way of a large
scale development in this direction on
the basis of cooperative self-activity
Moreover, in spite of great difficult
ties this work is permeating con-
siderable sections of the working
class which is in sympathy with
these efforts. This work takes also
the form of providing creches for
children under school age, of arrang-
ing Fairgrounds for children's
homes, opening clubs, special red
corners, wall newspapers, dining
halls, laundries, etc. Housing CO.
operatives pay considerable attention
to this form of social self-activity.
Building cooperatives for the cree
ton of dwellings sprang up in the
U.S.S.R. at the end of 1923. On Jan
uary LIST, 1927, there were throughout
the Union about 1900 such coopera-
tives embracing about 100000 fam
lilies. The social composition of these
building cooperatives is 70 per cent
manual and 30 per cent office work
ers. Organizationally, building and
leasehold cooperatives are amalga-
mated together into town and repub-
lican unions. These unions have to
give organizational and economic
help to primary amalgamations.
p Workers building cooperatives are
given number of privileges by the
government, with respect to trans
port, payment for timber, allotment
of plots of land, exemption from
taxes, etc.
In order to provide building CO.
operatives Systematically with the
necessary funds, the housing State
bank was established in 1925. This
bank holds all the grants made by
the State budget and distributes them
among the various building organs
according to definite, carefully
drawn up plan. The bank gives loans
for the construction of brick buildings
for 80 to 60 years and for the con-
struction of timber buildings for 35
to As years, at an interest Of 2 per
cent according to law confirmed
by the U.S.S.R. Soviet of Peoples
in March 1927 which APP
plies also to loans made prior to its
promulgation) ". Belousov.
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Geneva Navy COnfab
Ready to Break Up
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British delegates in order that they
may state their position for home
consumption and try to convince the
British taxpayers that the blame for
the collapse of the conference and the
mad competition for naval arma-
ments that will be started upon the
American government
At the same time Gibson let it be
known that he aware of the purpose
of the British delegation in calling the
plenary session and that he could
guess fairly well the contents of
Bridgeman's proposed speech and
that he would answer it point by
point.
Millions For Armamen;s.
In preparation for the war that is
being plotted by the nations of the
world against the Soviet Union and
few imperialist powers that hope to
emerge intact from the next world
slaughter it is recognized that Amer
lea and Britain will struggle against
each other to obtain the lead Geneva
cannot be separated from the whole
world conflict. Especially, it is poin-
ted out, is this conflict sharpening
in Europe even during the sessions
of the conference, with American
banking houses making agreements
to float eloans for the border coun-
tries of Russia hitherto mostly under
the domination Of Britain.
In the great battle ship building
conflict that is already under way it
is known that the United States, to
carry out even its proposals at Cen
eva, instead of scrapping some of its
ships already afloat as Coolidge
would have had the world believe he
intended to do when he called the
conference, will in reality spend hun
dreds of millions of dollars for new
war ships.
Americas compromise figures of
100000 tons call for an expenditure
more than 1851, 100000. The fake
argument will be made before the
American congress that the appro-
priation should be voted for this
amount because it is $500, 900, 900 be-
low that offered by the British.
Workers Watch Conference.
Much interest is being aroused all
over Europe because of the events at
Geneva. The working class press.
particularly the Communist press,
points out the inevitable conflict that
must arise from the competition be-
tween the two great imperialist
giants of the world and the anti-war
agitation has taken on new impetus.
They all see the principal objective
of imperialism to be the attempt
first to destroy the Soviet Union in
order to remove that great menace
to imperialist plundering of the
world before they begin the decisive
fight among themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Paraguay in Fight to
Avoid US. Imperialism:
Concludes Spanish Loan

The government of Paraguay is
concluding negotiations with Spanish
bankers for loan with which to buy
war materials for a possible war with
Bolivia over boundary differences.
This is the second time within the
past few months that Spain has got
ten material advantages out of its
solidarity" with the Latin-American
countries in their struggle against
United States imperialism.
Under the name of "Hispano-
Americanismo" Spain is carrying on
propaganda throughout Latin Ameri-
ca for closer union with the "mother
country.
Recently Spanish bankers floated
loan of 100,000,000 pesetas to the
Argentine government. One of the
conditions of the loan was that the
Argentine national anthem be amend
ed; all words referring to the strug-
gle of Latin America for freedom
from Spain are to be omitted. Part
of the loan will be used to buy war
ships. Argentina has already spent
part of it on two modern destroyers-
which it bought from Spain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
SPY CONFESSES
FORGERY PLOT
AGAINST SOvIETS
American EN- ba s sly
Bought Forged Letters

According to a news story received
Saturday from the Moscow CORE
spondent Of the New York American,
a Polish spy, being tried before the
military division Of the supreme
court has confessed that he and
British spies framed-up the Sofia,
Bulgaria, bomb explosion of April,
1925. The spy pleaded guilty and in
his expose threw a political bomb
shell that rocks the capitols of Eu-
rope, especially in view Of the wide
spread conviction that both the Uni
ted States state department as well
as the British foreign office are using
forged documents in the campaigns
against the Soviet Union.
Details of the Plot.
In April 1925, according to the
testimony of Drujelovski, tn S e
things occurred:
l. The cathedral in Sofia was
bombed with the knowledge and con-
sent of the Bulgarian Government.
2. A British spy, Colonel Hoist
Drujelovski acknowledgement the
bombing.
3. NJ. Popoff, Bulgarian Minister
to Berlin, dictated fake documents
purporting to show that Communists
plotted revolution in Bulgaria on
April Is.
4. Drujelovsk himself participated
in this alleged forgery, and the docu-
ments were printed in Berlin.
5. These demonstrating the
apparent history of the cathedral
bombing plot-enabled the Bulgarian
Government to arrest and execute
hundreds of Communists; innocent of
any connection with the bomb out
rage.
because of the iron-h a n d
methods, based on alleged forgeries,
the throne of Bulgaria was saved and
the republican movement crushed.
The spy said:
81 am saddened by the executions
which were the result of my forgery"
The charges against him had to
do with espionage on behalf of Pc
land.
In the course of his story, Dru-
jelovski declared he had sold forged
Communist international letters to
the American Embassy in Berlin
and to American newspaper CORE
spondents in Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11

A "a "a
Henry Ford,
foremost of
Americas
slavedrivers, is here
shown, in
consultation with
Edward P. Warner,
of the U. S. Navy
Department.
They are deeply
concerned about the
intense pressure
being brought to
bear by the
Daily Worker Army
of Detroit upon
the Ford
Notifications.
Under the
leadership of one of
the ablest generals
on our field staff,
Sarah Victor,
the strategic center
of our capitalist
enemy is
undergoing a
steady
bombardment.
Hundreds of Ford
workers, driven
to desperation by
the monotony
and nerve-racking
speed-up system,
have seized with
enthusiasm
the Daily Worker,
and have begun
to read it daily.
From the columnsof
the Daily Worker,
they receive
daily inspiration
for their efforts to
form a union,
to protect
themselves against
the encroachrnelats
Of this most
ruthless car of
capitalism. From
the Daily Worker
they receive the
news of other
battlefronts.
The drive for
Five Thousand
New Readers for
the Daily Worker.
which is being
enthusiastically
pushed by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Building of Houses in the U.S.S.R.

Owing to famine and lack of in
dustrial development the population
of big towns and industrial centres
in the Soviet Union decreased con-
siderably in 1920. This situation
underwent great change when the
country had no longer to defend it's
frontiers and its independence and
was able to turn it's attention to the
establishment and consolidation of
its national economy. Smoke issued
again from factory chimneys, towns
began to gradually assume their for
mer busy aspects, economic life be-
came normal. We give below few
figures descriptive of this process.
The growth of the urban population
since 1923 has been as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Gas Workers Win.

CHICAGO, July 10.--The strike of
gasoline truck drivers and filling sta
ton employees has ended in COM
promise. The former are to receive
a monthly raise of $3.50 and the lat
ter SIS increase over the present
monthly maximum of S140.
The workers lost their fight for one
week vacation with pay. Workers in
the Sinclair Refining Company led
the walkout which was declared Sat
urday morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11

give below table showing the State
building grants to industrial enter
prises for the erection of dwellings,:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
AMERICAN PUPPET
IN CHILE SEXES
rs IN RED" RAIDS
Suppresses Communist
NEWSPAPER

Raids, arrests and deportations of
Chilean Communists have followed as
result of the ARGOS raid in London.
Addresses alleged to have been found
in the ARGOS raid were cabled to. the
British envoy in Chile who turned
them over to the police.
The illegal Communist paper ola
Antorcha" was discovered and sup
pressed. Communist leaflets and cir
culars are still being distributed,
however.
profitable Business.
rhe Santiago police raided the IWW
headquarters. All pamphlets and
books were confiscated. However, the
police did not destroy them, but sold
them in bulk to secondhand book
shops. The public is eagerly buying
the propaganda literature made avail
able by Ibanez police.
1t was announced at mass meet
ing in the largest theatre in Santiago
that Ibanez would be the only candi-
date for president. The entire press
of Chile reports that this announce
ment was received with great en-
thusiasm, but news has reached
neighboring states that the announce
ment was greeted with shouts of
death to the dictator" and Long
live the deported victims!"
Election Framed
A group of '76 Communists NOM
mated one of their deported comrades
as candidate to oppose Ibanez. The
rs Communists were at once arrested.
The police took them to the polls and
forced them to cast their ballots. This
was done under the pretext of en-
forcing the law of obligatory voting,
since legally" there were no other
candidates.
The Ibanez dictatorship was estab-
lished with the aid of the Guggen-
helm interests, which have invested
heavily in Chilean nitrate. On March
7th Ibanez issued a statement at
lacking the native nitrate magnates.
The Guggenheim interests in Chile
operate thru the Anglo-Chilean Con-
soiidated Nitrate Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Urban Foundation.

This growth of the urban popula-
ton is to a great extent brought
about through the proletariat, which
left the towns in 1920 partly to go
to the front and partly to the vii
lagos and which is now returning to
the towns. According to the recent
census the urban population is grow
ing rapidly. The average growth is
about per cent year.
The housing question became very
acute in the years of civil war and
foreign intervention. The imperial
| list and civil wars did not only bring
all new buildings to stop, they were
also to a great extent the cause of
the destruction of dwellings, and of
! the entire municipal economy. Over
| crowding in big centres was already
felt prior to the war. 1t had a seri-
Gus effect on the health of the pro-
letariat (great infant mortality,
spread of tuberculosis, etc.). At that
time the working class had to live in
easements, parts of rooms, barracks,
etc. It's housing conditions were far
from desirable. Tie housing ques-
ton was particul ~ acute in the
Donetz coal basin r. al the oil fields
Of Baku and Grozr,
One of the frs = Movements Of
the October Revolution was to pro-
vide better housing conditions for the
working class. Workers were housed
in dwellings taken away from the
irio g
not proper solution of the housing
problem. However, the appalling
housing conditions of the working
class were at least considerably miti-
gated. But civil war broke out and
prevented the Soviet Government
from turning its full attention to the
reconstruction of the country includ-
ing repairing and building houses. All
it's forces were modified for defence.
1t was not before 1924 that building
of new houses could be taken in hand
Building cooperatives played the role
Of skirmishers with respect to the
construction of new houses, the total
amount of money spent throughout
the Union in 1924-25 for the construc-
tion of houses was ia million rou-
bles, in 1926-270 million roubles, and
$40 million roubles will be spent in
1927.
The area built with the above sums
was:-1925, $50 thousand square
sazhen Il sazhen 7 feet); 1926, $40
thousand square sazhen; 1927, 655 |
thousand square sazhen (proposed). |
The main builders of new dwellings
were ~ the State industry, (2) the |
municipal departments of town So I
viets, 81 housing cooperatives (small |
cheap houses for one family each |
have been built through private en-
terprises covering almost the same
housing area. The State lin the per
son of the industry and the Soviets)
and the cooperatives, play the chief
role in the construction of houses.
In our industry the housing ques-
ton has been and is still very acute.
The construction Of new factories
and works and the extension of the
old necessitated the provision of new
housing accommodation and therefore
the government paid maximum atten
ton to this form of building. We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Byrd Discusses Polar Flight

PARIS, July 10.-Commander Rich
ard E. Byrd, North Pole and trans
Atlantic flyer, discussing his projec-
ted expedition to the South Pole in
an interview today, said that such a
flight could be made in either a
dirigible or monoplane such as the
America, but because OF the expense
a dirigible would entail he had be-
lieved it would be advisable to go in
an airplane.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Invite Ford to Levine Blowout.

Apparently to test his good faith,
Richard Gipson, president of the
Rockaway Chamber of Commerce,
has just invited Henry Ford to be a
guest at the Homecoming party to be
given Charles A. Levine, trans Allan
tic filler, on his return to this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
squatter Sentenced to Ia;l

TROY, N. Y, July 10.-Philip De-
freest, 45, who has been forced to
vacate five different farms to which
he had no title has just been SEN
fenced to two months in the Troy
Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
Drunk Policeman Susnendad

For being drunk while on duty Pa
trolman Albert Leacock of the Eliza
beth Street Station has been suspend
ed from the force. He hit Patrick
Mclean, a carpenter, while in an in
toxicated condition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11

give below table showing the State
building grants to industrial enter
prises for the erection of dwellings:
Year Million Roubles
1925 60
1926 100
1927 135
The buildings put up by industrial
enterprises take generally the form
of settlements and hostels Just out
side the town. The usual type of
house in a works settlement is a four
or two-flat house, two stories or one
story high. Hostels are put up
mainly for single working men and
women without children. They are
big buildings of several stories.
Settlement building predominates.
Accommodation in them is provided for
workers employed in the enterprise.
Rent in such buildings is as a rule
very low, as the enterprise takes
upon itself part of expenses. 1t is
becoming customary to place the ad-
ministration of these houses into the
hands of householders' cooperatives.
Municipal building by town Soviets
takes the form of the erection of flats
buildings, four to five stories high)
These houses are administered either
by the organs of the municipality or
their administration is handed over
to housing cooperatives. The latter
is quite usual at present, and these
cooperatives makes themselves re-
sponsible for expenses connected with
administration and the liquidation of
the debt incurred for the building of
the houses.
Housing cooperatives generally put
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FOOD COSTS HERE HIGHER,
Increase of Per Cent Reported in
September.

An increase in the average cost OF
food in Washington of per cent in
the month between August IS and
September Is was announced yester-
day by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The rise in the average cost of, food
during the month was general in 46
Of the 81 cities surveyed by the bu-
reau, with Washington showing one
Of the heaviest increases.
For the year ended September 10,
however, food prices here showed a
drop of per cent, with 49 of the 81
cities registering decreases in the cost
of food at retail. AS compared with
the average cost in the year 1913, food
in Washington on September Is was
"a per cent higher, only one city
Chicago-showing a greater increase.
At the same time the bureau declar-
ed wholesale prices in September
averaged higher than in August, the
bureaus weighted index number, based
on 1926 prices, of $50 commodities,
standing at 96.5 for September, COM
pared with 95.2 for the previous
month, a rise of ia per cent. Food
stuffs and farm products were gen.
orally higher than in August, with but
ter, cheese and most meats showing
sharp increases.