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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
SPECTRE OF WANT
.HAUNTS EUROPE;
GERMANY'S PLIGHT
Millions of Workers on
Brink of Starvation
BY MANUEL GOMEZ.

ESSEN, Germany, March 6. (By
Mail) Unemployment, the spectre
that one sees everywhere in Europe,
is most awful in Dawes's Germany,
At least 100000 workers are I'M
employed thruout the land. Some
100000 more are working only part
time. 1t is impossible to spend a
week in any German city without
having unemployment impressed up
on your mind as the outstanding fac
tor of, the present industrial situa-
ton.
Dawes and Unemployment.
Unemployment is at its worst in
those parts Of Germany where the
naturalization" schemes which are
the axis of Dawes's Germany have
had their widest application. In adj
dition to Berlin, the areas principally
affected are Westphalia, the Ruhr
territory, Saxony and central Ger
manipulating all the centers of
heavy industry. I have addressed
meetings of workers in all parts of
this territory. At every meeting a
large part Of the crowd was made up
of unemployed.
Talk to almost anyone riding in
the third and fourth class cars on
the railroads, spend a few minutes
with one of the many jobless work
ers who hang around the depots
waiting for a chance to carry a suit
case go over things with the secre-
tary Aof local trade union, and Off
cial figures no longer satisfy you as
to the seriousness of the situation.
City of. JObless.
This city Of Essen, in the heart Of
one of Germany's two greatest in
dustrial districts, is a city of the job
less. The big Krupp works, which
formerly employed 10000 men, now
employ 10000. While the decline Of
Krupp's is explained by special
causes, it is impossible to separate
them from conditions in general. The
steel industry as a whole, the en-
tire metal industry, even the fever
ishly busy coal industry, are working
with greatly curtailed payfolls. AS
often as not, reduced employment
goes hand in hand with increased
production, brought about under the
speed-up methods imported from
America. Such methods include not
only Fordized specialization, stand
ardization, the conveyor system, ETC.,
but also lengthening of the workday.
For Eight Hour Day.
The German masses may thus be
divided into two groups: one that
works long hours under speed-up
conditions; another that has work
for only few days a week, or not
at all.
It is significant that the Com
munist Party of Germany has had to
take up the demand for return to
the eight-hour dayl This demand,
echoed by wide numbers of Social
Democratic and other non Commun-
ist workers, is the central point in
the class struggle against Dawes
naturalization" in Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
Hoover and MussOlini
Swap Compliments

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Amer-
can and Italian militarists snapped
compliments yesterday afternoon.
when message from Premier Mus
solini was read at a luncheon given
today by the Nation Aeronautical AS
ISOLATION.
The message read by Commander
Silvio Searoni, Air Attache of the
Italian embassy at Washington con-
graduated the american people" on
the remarkable efficiency Of their
aviation.
Secretary Hoover, Secretary Of War
Wilbur and Postmaster General New
returned the compliment by congrat-
Ulating Italy-on her advance in avia-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
Hundred Twenty-three
Thousand Farmers Fail
In 1926; West Hard Hit

WASHINGTON (F'P)-Farm pow
erty has again been emphasized by
statistics announced by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture. This time
the department shows that $4,000
American farms have changed hands
by foreclosure of mortgages during
the past year.
Beside the loss of farms through
foreclosure by regular process, the
industry made a record of 10000
farms sold or traded
In the Dakotas and in Montana the
defaults Of payments which led to
foreclosures were from 6 to per
cent Of all farms, while in Georgia
and South Carolina the worst Of the
Southern farm depression was indi-
Gated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
WAR NEARER AS
JUGO-SLAVS ASK
PROBE OF ITALY
Want BenitO's Intrigue
Investigated

BERLIN, March 25. The war
clouds lowering over the Adriatic
threaten to take on a darker tinge
again, following reports from Bel
grace, That the Jugo-Slavian govern
ment is preparing a circular note to
the powers in which it will charge
Italy with feverishly preparing for
war and demand that either the pow
ers or the League of Nations investi-
gate these preparations because they
present a grave danger to the neigh
boring countries and the peace of
Europe.
Wants Italy Looked Into.
These reports, together with the
inclination Of Jugo-Slavia, to throw
open its own borders for international
investigation only if Italy is investi-
gated at the same time, reveal a con-
siderable stiffening of the Jugo-Sla-
Wan attitude over night.
Since it is believed that Mussolini
will never accept such an investiga-
ton, the League of Nations would
again be placed in a very embarrass-
ing situation. It is therefore expec-
ted that the powers viii do their ut
most to prevent Jugo-Slavian action.
Italy Spends Most.
The Jugo-Slavian parliament ac-
cepted the military budget today,
which the war minister. announced
had been cut by one third. The Jugo-
Slavian budget, it is said, provides
for but twenty per cent. of the total
for military expenditures, while the
Italian military budget is said to
total twenty-eight per cent.
King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia is
going to Paris Saturday to discuss
the situation with his ally, France.
Dragging In Germany.
Berlin is in an uncomfortable posi-
ton because England and France per-
sist in trying to draw Germany into
the present disturbed situation in the
Balkans.
The British Ambassador called on
Herr Stresemann today to obtain
German cooperation in settling the
Balkan quarrel
This is the first time that the al
lies have called upon Germany to par
ticipate in a joint action with the
big powers.
Stresemann reserved his decision
but, it is believed, he viii accept.
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Baldwin Finds No Civil
Liberty in England

LONDON, March 25.-Roger Bald
win, director of the American Civil
Liberties Union, departed for the
Continent last night upon the expira-
ton Of the two weeks permitted him
by the British Home Office to stay in
England.
Declaring that as an American citi-
zen he had no grounds for complaint
in view Of the record Of the United
States government for excluding
aliens with Objectionable views" Mr.
Baldwin said, 81 have observed the
pledge and the empire still stands
The two weeks look I have had at
the state Of liberty in England cer-
tainly is worth the price Of admis.
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
CHINESE WORKERS
SCORED FOR BAN
ON HOSTILE PRESS
u. S. COnsul's Report
Shows Class Bias


WASHINGTON, March 25 (FP)-
Glass fears of the radical labor ele-
ment in the Chinese revolution are
reflected in the State Departments
official summary Of report by Con-
sui General Lockhart at Hankow,
Mar. %.
IAN American newspaper at Han
kow, the Hankow Herald, and also
British newspaper, the Central China
Post" it says. ''have been forced to
suspend publication since Mar. 10
by the radical labor union at that
city. The labor union forced the sus-
pension of these newspapers by COM
pelling Chinese employees to quit
work. There was no apparent cause
for this action. No previous warning
had been received and no difficulty
with the employees had been expert
enced.
This establishment by Lockhart, at
q political strike such as has been
common in China for years, is modi-
fled by a further statement;
at is probable that labor leaders
were dissatisfied with the attitude
of the two papers toward the labor
cause and that the leaders of the
radical labor group had decided to
close them down. This is reported as
the most drastic action yet taken by
the radical labor group and has Gre
ated a sensation in Hankow."
FavOrs NOrtherners
In the midst of working-class rev.
olution, the anti-labor press owned by
foreigners has gone on undisturbed
for four months, and Lockhart finds
sensation" in the decision of the
labor unions of Hankow that they do
not care to continue to print foreign
er's attacks upon their national re-
surrection and emancipation He
tacks the word radical" to "labor"
three times in brief report. This is
in sharp contrast to the tone Of
American reports from the northern
tChinese headquarters, where ex-band-
its are never referred to in diplomatic
dispatches as ''ex-bandits" or "mili-
| tarists" or "reactionaries."
Lockhart further reported that the
loyap Chinese employees Of the Brit
ish Cigarette Co. offices in Hankow
had been Spirited away" until the
offices were forced to close. Foreign
employees, he said, had been threat
ehed, but have not been harmed"
!
! WASHINGTON, March % (FP)-
China's Nationalist government
aroused no enthusiasm IN the State
Department when it's forces captured
Shanghai. Secretary Kellogg de-
clined to discuss the question of pos
sible American recognition of the
winner. disappointment was regis
tered on official countenances. SYM
pathy of American officialdom has
been with the Northern militarists all
along. 1t has made numerous protests
to the Nationalist foreign minister,
Eugene Chen, when American inter
ests were affected by the acts of the
revolutionary forces. 1t has not re-
ported any serious protests against
footing and violence by the Northern
soldiers.
Minister Sao-ke Alfred SEE, ac-
credited to Washington by the Pc
king Recommendations, is still
acting as envoy for China.
\ Dad TIE na;Iy WorLar Evarv Nav
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Large Auto Export to France.

WASHINGTON, March 25.--More
than 80 per cent. of the passenger
automobiles imported into France in
1925 came from the United States,
according to the report made to the
Department Of. Commerce by Trade
Commissioner II. II. Kelly.
The foreign trade Of France in pas
senger cars during 1926 as compared
with 1926 on the weight basis
showed an import decrease Of 35 per
cent. and an export increase Of 81
per cent. aEE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
OIL LOBBYISTS
ORDERED MEXICO
TREATY BROKEN
American Supplies for
Rebels May End Tax

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 25.
Coolidge has ended the anti-smug-
Cling treaty with Mexico at the be-
hest of the oil interests.
This termination of the anti-smug-
Cling treaty is the step demanded
some weeks ago by the Doheny-Sin-
clair-Mellon oil lobby in Washington.
They declared that only this threat
to the security of the Gales govern
ment would bring about settlement
of the oil law dispute. 1t was their
guess that Gales, rather than face a
revolt backed by the forces that run
the Coolidge Mellon administration,
would yield on the oil law, and would
permit a comercial treaty to be
negotiated, or dictated to him, which
would in fact nullify the Mexican con-
stitution as to the oil claims of Amer
lean companies.
Weasel Words
upon due consideration" says
Kellogg's announcement, "the gov
eminent has concluded to terminate
the treaty at the expiration CT the
year MAR. 2S), and has accordingly
given the appropriate notice to the
government of Mexico"
All of which vague language means
that unless Gales shall quickly agree
to a treaty of commerce under which
the American oil companies will be
granted what they want, the arms
embargo may be lifted at any mo-
ment.
The White House spokesman, when
asked the real meaning Of this ac-
ton, said he had no comment to make
on the termination of "a small treaty
with Mexico covering the subject of
smuggling"
Oppose Intervention
On the day before this blow was
struck at the safety of the Mexican
government, a petition was delivered
to Coolidge and Kellogg, asking them
not to lift the embargo on arm ship
ments into Mexico. That petition was
signed by 1862 prominent citizens, in
GLIDING Dean Brown of Yale Divinity
School, E. NJ. Borchard, professor of
law at Yale; Dean Helen Taft Mann
ing of Bryn Mawr College; President
Glenn Frank of the University of
Wisconsin,; DR.. Aurelia Reinhardt,
president of the American Assn. Of
University Women; DR.. John Latane,
professor of American history at
John Hopkins University; Mrs
Louis D. Brandeis; David Starr Jor-
dan, president emeritus of Leland
Stanford University; VIM. H. Johns
ton, former president of the init
Assn. of Machinists; Judge r. w.
Bingham, Louisville; Edward A. Ross,
professor of sociology, Wisconsin
University, and many other educators
and publicists. Louis F. Post and
Edward Heating of Washington were
signers.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
Students Will Study
Southern Conditions

Surveys Of conditions under which
Mississippi women work are to be
made by students Of the State College
for Women. Nearly 20 girls have
enrolled for the first studies to be
made in the university town, Column
bus.
Students seek first hand answers
to the problems Of 5000 women in
Mississippi, working over 10 hours
a. day at a medium salary Of $500,
says the New Student national col.
lege student publication. The sur
plus cotton crop situation is men,
toned as another field for student
study. @fe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
BRITISH WORKERS COURT WON'T LET
PROTEST AGAINST VIM. J. BRENNAN
TROOPS IN China TAKE HIS OFFICE
Intervention Scored In
Manifesto

LONDON, March 25.-Workers
thruout England are protesting
against intervention in China and de-
inanding the withdrawal of British
troops and gunboats.
A circular letter demanding that
foreign powers keep their hands off
China has been signed by representa-
tives of all of the large trade unions.
Pointing out that troops have been
sent to China at the instigation of
British bankers and that Chinese
workers have been savagely exploited
by foreign capitalists, the manifesto
declares, eve call upon Britain to
bring back the warships from China,
or cease interfering with the efforts
of the people of China to form any
government they choose"
All Unions Protest
The manifesto is signed by A. E.
Rae. Trades Union Educational
League; j. S. Garden, Labor Council,
n. S. W; F. A. Armstrong, Clerks
Union, J. Howie, Coachmakers; A.
Middleton. painters; ]. Stewart, Elec-
trical trades; D. Duncan, A. W. U.
Central; J. Ryan, meat industry, N.
Jeffrey, meat workers; T. Fauling-
ham, boilermakers; w. Bright, brick
layers; D. Rees, miners; A. Sherwin,
hotel, club and restaurant workers;
}. Maclay, ironworkers; T. HS Bell,
printers; d. McLelland, blacksmiths.
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CURRENT EVENTS

Continued frofs Page One)
mate number Of Americans alleged
to have been killed in Marking. Any
body at all acquainted with the in
side workings of the newspapers can
tell at a glance that the whole re-
port is fake, purposely sent out
to stimulate public feeling in favor
of Intervention. The Tribune of yes
terday stated that: Reports of casu-
alties are conflicting, but one Briton
was known to have been killed, one
wounded and a Japanese. injured"
The Tribune correspondent in Shang-
hal admitted that the reports of loss
of foreign life in Marking were I'M
confirmed.
TT appears that the original report
was sent out by Reuters News
Agency. The American consul in
Shanghai took cognizance of the ere
port" but evidently did not believe it.
Among the worst offenders against
the Chinese, is the Hearst Agency,
Universal Service. This lying propa-
ganda agency stops at nothing in its
mad desire to embroil this country in
war against the Nationalist rev.
olution. Hearst is using the methods
he practised in Cuba before the
Spanish-Ameriean war. "You fur
nish the news" he cabled to his Cuban
correspondent "and we will furnish
the war" Those blOod-thirsty i'm
perialists care little if hundreds of
thousands of human lives are blotted
out in their greed for new conquests
COUNT FELIX Won LUCKNER
~ who commanded the German sea
raider Sea Eagle in the World War,
was a guest at the Advertising Club
last Thursday. Had an American
organization received the count any
time between the years 1917 and
1920, they would soon see their quar-
tiers in ruins and patriotic morons
doing an Indian war dance over the
wreckage. The officers would be
lucky TO escape coat Of tar and
feathers. People were arrested by
stool pigeons during the war for sug.
costing that few Germans may moi
be assassins.
a few had their necks tickled by
n patriotic rope for opposing the
war. Thousands were jailed for the
same reason. Now a count boasts Of
his exploits, sinking American and
British ships, before an audience Of
American rotarians. He thanks
America for helping Germany after
having defeated her and the audience
declared that he was a jolly good
fellow. Now, cannon fodder, get
ready for the next war, but take good
care not to get hurtl Join the Y
M. c. A. or the Knights Of Column
bus and go into training for the
business of selling. cigarettes to the
heroes"
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soldiers Die AZ Sea Of FIn.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.-
Fifty-five "flu" patients, from the
army transport Chateau Thierry, were
convalescing in Letterman Hospital
here today following the arrival Of
the plague-ridden transport from New
York. Four soldiers died Of the dis
ease at sea. O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26
Crap Game Near Police.

A dice game was raided and 16
men arrested at 10 State street,
Flushing, Queens, within $50 feet Of
the Flushing police station, early
yesterday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26

ALBANY, N. Y, March 25.-The
Westall bill, providing for a new
form Of government for Westchester
county, win be passed in the senate
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-26

ALBANY, N. Y. March 25.-With-
out opposition, the assembly today
passed the Westall bill, providing for
new charter form Of government
for Westchester county.
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SEDITIONj |. |. D.
APPEALS FOR AID
Coal Kings Wage War
On Active UniOnists

Continued from Page One)
ing up of persecution here. State
police are being rapidly modified for
strike emergencies, especially in Fay
cite county.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-14
SUIT ALLEGATIONS
REVEAL AMAZ|NG|
TALE OF INTRIGUE
Names of Late PreSIdeI
Harding and Senators
Mentioned.
BIZ Unffed presa

ON CUttCu fFeSS
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Jan. IA
Amazing allegations of politjc|
intrigue bringing in the names
the late President Harding, SenatoI
Shortridge, Lenroot and Lodge al
other famous men were interwovd
today In what at first appeared
be commonplace civil suit Il
damages.
The first of the disclosures wi
made yesterday at the beginning
the trial of an $4,000 suit brought i
Frank e. Webb, bridge promotd
against Col. r. NJ. Maclxay. form|
British army officer. Webb see1
payment Of two promissory notes.
Lloyd McComber, attorney Il
Mackay, said the pair met in Was
ington in 1921 with Richard F. Col
Pasadena, Cal, promoter, and TIL
the three discussed a plan for col
trolling Mexican government col
tracts in the United States.
Cole was friendly with PRESIDED
Harding and also with Carranza|
the attorney said. HE was exped
ing Harding to appoint him to
diplomatic post in Mexico, and thd
Obregon came into power there al
he had to find a new set of friend
Cole told Mackay that he needl
100000 as a fund for entertainil'
American and Mexican dignitaries
win other friendship. Cole and Wei
then proceeded to put on a graz
banquet at a Washington hotl
Covers were laid for seventy-fi1
guests. among them high Mexicd
and American officials, includiI'
Senators Shortridge, Lenroot al
Lodge.
Eventually the United States 4
telligence office Investigated the d
fair and found the dinner cost $500
or $40 a plate. Webb's people 4
came apprehensive and withdre
further support. Mackay had givd
Webb two notes totaling $4,000
security for the money he advanced
but when the crash came Wei
agreed to settle for $4,000 cas-
which was given him by Colon
Mackay."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-14
HIT
BY SENATE BILL
Adjustment Is Urged by
Legislature Member.

Adjustment of the public service
commission is asked in a bill pre-
scented in the Indiana Senate today
by Senator Howard A. Cam (Rep),
OF White, Carroll and Clinton Coun-
ties.
The bill would provide for the re-
establishment Of the railroad COM
mission and leave the supervision of
utilities to the local unit in which
1t operates. 1t was referred to the
public rights and franchise commit
tee, which, on suggestion of Lieu
tenant Governor Van Orman, an
nounced a public hearing on the bill
Monday in Room 49, the Statehouse.
The bill, with identical provisions,
was defeated in the 1921 session of
the Legislature. Cam asserts that
recent actions of the commission
have placed 1t in an awkward light
throughout the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-14
MEN GIVE VICTIM
FATAL AUTO RIDE
Four Seize Man-Threaten
to Beat Him to Death.

What police said today was a bat
tie between bootleggers and hi jack
ers, occurred Thursday night az the
Mike Mcclure restaurant. 1749 How
ard St, when, according to Mcclure,
four men entered, and after placing
eight customers against the wall,
picked out one man hiding behind a
stove and stated that they would
take him into the country and beat
him to death. They dragged him
into their car and left. Mcclure said.
Two Of the quartet are said to be
known to police as whisky runners.
The man was found at his home,
1852 S. Belmont Ave, early today
by Patrolman Wilkerson, and denied
he was at the restaurant or that ne
was beaten by the men. Wilkerson
said his face was badly bruised and
swollen.
Motor Policemen Tague and Fer
guson and Patrolman Mel Wilker-
son arrested Ray WEIGH, alias Ed
ward Welch. "a, of rs Chadwick
ST., and George McHenry, %, of 1929
S. Meridian St, on charges OF va
grancy and resisting an officer.
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Deaths

Lowell shannon, 81, Flower Mission.
pulmonary tuberculosis
acute dilatation of heart,
George H. ,Newsom. SO, Denison Hotel
Andrew sRotts, 6s. 1911 W. Ohio. corO-
Ella Ryres, "a. STA E. Market. acci-
dental.
Effie. Hamblin. %. 1891 W. Twelfth
peritonitis.
Ella Louise Hissong. SO. 221 e. Elev-
enth, acute dtlatation of heart.
Mary Jehu. l. Methodist Hospital, peri
tonitis.
Minnie Angelina. Woodland Ga, 1116 N
Capitol, acute cardiac dilatation
Lucy Alice Burkhart, 65. city hospital
Elijah n Thomas IS, ST. Vincents
Hospital. chronic myocarcitis.
Virgil w. Teyts. 10. 2270 N. Meridian.
chronic myocardius.
Irene Luceal Arbuckle, 7 days. 141S s.
East. obstruction of bowels.
Henry, Mcdaniel, rs, 1880 VILLA. chronic
myocarditis.
Jennie Hobbs, 1. city hospital. broncho
nneumOnia.