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The daily worker., 1927-02-07

vent Great Britain from making war
on China. Such action is considered
possible in view of Italy's declared in
tention to support Great Britain's
policy in the Orient. France is of the
opinion that the bargain behind this
policy was made at French expense.
Great Britain declares that the
Chinese situation is none oof the
leagues business. Britain dominates
the league, though at the last elections
to the league assembly a large num-
Der Of French puppet states were sue
cessful in getting in on the ground
floor.
League OF Robbers.
The Cantonese will have nothing to
do with the League of Nations, brand
ing it as an imperialist tool and a
foe of subject peoples. During the
period of strained relations between
Great Britain and Turkey over the
Mosul oil fields, league commission
headed by an Esthonian general gave
Great Britain the oil and Turkey the
can.
But the Cantonese are marching on
Shanghai and only a rapid-motion
commission could hand down a deci-
sion fast enough to suit the British,
and in view Of possible French hos
tility the commission might not be as
generous as the former oil-bcaring
one.
Fifty u. S. War Vessels in China.
PEKIN, Feb. 6.--More than fifty
American war vessels are now in
Chinese waters or within a few days
steaming Of this turbulent country.
Rear Admiral Hough in command
OF the Yanktze Patrol now has under
his orders the U. S. S. Isabel, the U
s. Elcano, the U. S. S. Monocacy, the
u. S. S. Palos, the U S. S. Penguin,
the U. S. S. Pigeon and the u. S. S,
Yaillabolos. These vessels have been
busily engaged during the past week
protecting women and children evacu-
ating Hankow and kiukiang and are
now keeping the Yangtze open for
refugees coming down from Chunking
and Chengtu in Szechuan.
Captain J. NJ Enochs. command
ing the South China patrol, with the
U. S. S. Helena and the L. S. S. Pam
pagna, is stationed in South China
Ready TO Land Troops.
Admiral Williams, in command Of
the Asiatic fleet, which generally
winters in the Philippines, is now at
Shanghai ON the Flagship Pittsbure
and has perfected plans for landing
! 1000 marines in Shanghai. Twenty
four dstroyers, ten auxiliary ships
and eleven submarines Of the Asiatic
fleet are ready for duty in China.
In Pekin here are $50 marines sta
toned as a legation guard, while thu
18th T. S. Infantry Of approximately
500 men is stationed at Tientsin.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07

appropriation of S1,200,000 to be-
gin work on three new cruisers,
comes the arrangement for appro-
priating S31 100000 to recondition
the battleships Oklahoma and Ne
vada, to increase the limit of cost
of the airplane carriers, Lexington
and Saratoga, and for a new &c.
100000 submarine. Craft above
and below the water, and in the air,
are thus provided for, which should
satisfy the war maniacs of all
schools of preparedness.
In addition, with the approval of
President Coolidge, it is also
planned to put thru a ten cruiser
program, appropriations for which
will come later.
In spite Of Great Britain's pro-
test, that elevation of guns ON bat
tleships would violate treaty obli-
cations Britten is pushing energet-
ically his proposed plan for gun ele-
walton OH eleven battleships. With
the United States aequiescing in
British imperialist policies in the
Orient it is probably hoped that
London will change its attitude to-
ward gun elevation, making the
concession that will result in Amer
ican killers being able to murder
their victims at greater distances
than ever before.
In the words of the Virginia
democrats, Woedrum, "the United
States must be prepared to protect
its rights on the high seas and in
sure its rights to uninterrupted
commerce.,
Thus the bulldogs Of American
greed, not only in Nicaragua, Mex
leo and China, but everywhere else,
go hunting the trouble that devel-
ops imperialist aggressions into
new wars-into the next world war.
No clear voice in congress speaks
or the growing numbers of work
ers and farmers who oppose the
war preparedness program of the
American exploiters, now grown
dominant in the world for the time
being as result of the last world
war.
In practically every parliament in
the world, there are strong groups
of Communists demanding the end
ing of imperialist war thru the
abolition of capitalist rule. Such
demand must also be heard in
Washington. This can only be
achieved thru the breaking away,
of ever broader masses Of workers
and farmers, from the old political
parties. The Labor Party is the
present instrument with which to
achieve this cleavage. Against the
efforts Of the war-mongers for the
greatest armaments this profit
world has yet known, the demand
of workers and farmers for the in
dependent political action of labor
to build the ever-increasing power
of toll against humanitys Oppress-
E ors.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
Mopping Up sun,s Brigades.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 6.-The Canton
ese armies continue to mop up the
demoralized forces Of Sun Chuan
Fang and are making progress in
their drive on Shanghai. The increas-
ing anxiety of the powers can be at
tributed to the conviction that the
Cantonese will be in Shanghai before
sufficient impeIialist force is avail
able to hold it for the foreign capi-
talists.
Oppose Sending Troops.
Many foreigners here are strongly
opposed to the sending Of troops to
China. Those residents are of the
opinion that the powers might as well
bow to the inevitable, that there is so
much volume to the nationalist move-
ment that it cannot be stemmed. Sew
erad Americans comment adversely on
Kellogg's nonsensical promise to treat
with the first stable government that
appears in China This is simply OBJ
iective support Of the bandit mill
tarist tools OF the imperialists.
Britain intends 70 use her fleet to
cut the Cantonese off from their
southern base by patrolling the
Yangtze river as far as Hankow and
to blockade the Chinese coast. The
main purpose Of the blockade is the
prevention Of arms shipments.
There is little doubt that the powers
will fight to retain their political foot
ing in Shanghai. There is less doubt
about the intention Of the Cantonese
to fight like furies to capture il.
France Suspects Italian Deal.
PARIS, Feb. 6.--France may sup
port the Chinese demand that the
League Of Nations take action to pre-
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
Money For Barracks.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. - An ap-
preparation by congress of S1,0s6,000
FOR construction of new barracks at
Governors Island, was considered vir-
tually assured today.
The house is expected TO accept a
senate amendment to the army post
construction fund, calling for new
barracks at Fort Jay, Governors Is
land.
Responding 20 the appeals that dis
graceful housing conditions at Gov
ernors' Island be corrected, members
Of congress are falling into line.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
British Press Worried
Over Discriminating !.
Clauses in u. S. Bill

LONDON, Feb. 6.-The new L. S.
senate h'r which would prevent ves-
sells carrying aliens among their
crews from entering American ports
was severely criticized in an editorial
in this mornings Sunday Times.
<"The folly Of supposing that Amer
lea can construct and maintain p
great merchant navy by hampering
the merchant navies Of the rest Of the
world is or should be patent the
editorial states.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
Scott Nearing Makes
Rubber Company Spies
In Audience Wriggle
BY CARL HACKER.

AKRON, Ohio, Feb. .-Lecturinq
under the auspices of the Interna-
tional Labor Department Scott Near
ing made splendid talk on the at
tack which American employers have
been carrying on against organized
labor in this country in the past
years.
He explained the situation in which
labor finds itself by being only about
thirteen per cent organized as against
the practically 100 per cent organiza-
tion of the employers through their
various Chambers of Commerce, their
Rotary Clubs, their Kiwanis Clubs,
etc.
Bosses Organize.
He pointed to an outstanding exam
pie of the watchfulness of the en-
ployers when he stated that in the
city Of Detroit the manufacturers are
completely organized while labor is
only 8 per cent organized. Nearing
explained the various methods em-
ployed by the bosses TO prevent the
workers from getting together and in
breaking up organizations which they
might have been successful in build
ing up in years gone by.
Pointing out Very clearly that the
newspapers are owned and controlled
by the manufacturers and by Wall
Street that schools are in the hands
of the same elements, showing the
buying up Of union officials by way
Of offering them jobs at higher sal
aries than their organizations are able
to pay them; he then launched into
an attack upon the company spy sys-
TEN.
Explains Spy Tactics.
lie explained the methods that are
used In checking up on workers in
the shops, and as he lid so. the half
dozen or more Of we'll known rubber
company spies who were in the au-
dience looked rather uneasy and
squirmed around in their chairs with
q very pronounced expression of guilt
on their faces. The audience Of 200
remained throughout the question
period.
Nearing also spoke in Cleveland. to
an audience Of 500; this meeting be-
ing equally as interesting as the
Akron meeting.
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The daily worker., 1927-02-07
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WORKER
Panama President to
Retain Office Until
New us. Treaty Made

BALBOA. Panama Canal Zone. Feb.
6-ln view Of the pending treaty with
the United States, President Chiari
has decided not to resign in order
to become candidate for reelection
A president who desires to run
again must resign twenty months be-
fore election. His resignation at this
time is inadvsable, according to the
decision of the liberal party leaders
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
Polish Police Fire On
Open Air Meeting

K0SS0W, Poland, Feb. G. -- Five
persons We're killed and eight were
seriously wounded today when the
police opened fire upon an open-air
meeting. Police had prohibited the
meeting but the organizers disregard
cd the authorities warnings.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
Economy Cal" Willing
To Spend Real Money
For Mere Submarines

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. - Presi.
dent Coolidge today submitted to con-
gress a supplemental budget recon-
mendation Of S2,942,542 for the navy
department during the current fiscal
year.
The amount would cover extra ex-
penses due TO the marine guard of the
mails and bring the marine corps to
its full strength of $4,000 by the end
Of the fiscal year, a total Of 81 ,050, 900
was recommended for the marine
corps.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
COMMERCE Chief
SAYS ACCIDENTS
HINDER SHIPPING
u. S. ShipOwners Kill
Too Many Sailors
CBy Federated Press.

NEW YORK (FP).-Cutting sea-
mems wages is not the way to put
the American flag back on the seas.
This contention of the international
Seamen's Union was unexpectedly sus-
tanned by Norman f. Titus, chief Of
the transportation division of the
Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic Com
meree. Speaking before the Propeller
Club he said that inefficient manage
iuent methods were the reasons why
America was having difficulty in COM
peting with foreign owners.
And one of the worst sins Of Amer
ican management, Titus pointed out,
was its carelessness towards indus
trial accidents. The large number of
accidents to workers needlessly in
iured in the marine industry is TAX
ing an increasing financial toll. DAM
age suits brought by injured workers
have become a formidable item. His
remarks follow in part:
Cites Wastes.
"It is not the high cost Of opera
ton under the American flag. but the
high cost Of extravagant and inef-
ficient management which has been
the chief factor in preventing us from
meeting successfully the competition
of foreign flag shipping in overseas
trade. Until shipowners set their own
house I'm order and follow the ex-
ample of scientific management, ef-
ficiency and economy set by the big
American industries we viii not have
real American merchant marine su-
premacy.
Costly Insurance.
Zone outstanding element Of cost in
America is insurance on personal in
jury claims covered by compensation
or protection and indemnity policies.
> The matter of the increasing
number and severity Of accidents is
one Of supreme Importance. Holman
& Sons, probably the leading writer's
of protection and indemnity insurance
are authority for the statement that
their record loss Of life and personal
injury claims on British vessels is
sd (pence) per gross registered ton,
and on American vessels 2s (shillingsl
Sd per gross registered ton; in other
cords the accident ratio on American
vossels is six times greater than on
British vessels.
High Priced Accidents.
Surely, here is room for improve
lent. Ii trouble IS caused by excess
s;ve accidents, the remedy is to re-
duce the number of accidents. Safety
engineers now claim that Is to 90
per cent Of all accidents are prevent
able"
The International Seamen's Union
has been waking up the shipping
world to the accident situation by its
aggressive policy OF damage suits for
injured marine workers. With Simon
Axtell. veteran marine lawyer, rep
resenting the organization, a heavy
financial retribution has repeatedly
been levied on erring shipowners who
let their workers be needlessly MANNED
and killed.
Would Cheaper Lives
Titus sees that these accidents are
lad business for the shipowners. He
looks at it in dollar and cents way.
He favors a federal maritime work.
mems compensation law. And here
the union disagrees. The seamen's s
union finds thatt its damage suits
bring higher sums than the restricted
payments provided under the kind Of
compensation law that would be
passed. And the higher the financial
penalty to the careless employer the
more certain he is to reduce accident
risks.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07

MASHlNGTON-Chester z. Mills,
federal dry administrator for New
York, was again accused for malsd-
ministrstion by Rep. la Guardia (R)
OF New York, in a statement today.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
Nashlnrton aAbandons Hone. :,

WASHINGTON. D. G., Feb. G. =
The administration reports that il has
abandoned hope Of early peace in
China, will refuse the plea Of For
cign Minister Chen. Of the Kuomin-
tang government that no more war.
ships come to Shanghai. and will rush
all available cruisers either to Chin
ese ports, or TO nearby island ports.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07
Soviet Union Heads
Deny Chen's Adviser
Is Government Agent

Moscow, Feb. 6.-Official Russia
and the Russian press today joined
in denials that Russian influence
caused Eugene Chen, Chinese nation
olist leader, to refuse the proposals
made TO him last week by Owen
O'Malley, British charge.
II was officially declared that
Bofodin, the Russian adviser Of Chen,
has no connection with the Soviet
government.
The church congress of Buddhists
Of the Soviet union meeting here has
issued a manifesto to the Buddhists
Of India, Tibet and Mongolia pro-
testing against military Intervention
in China and demanding that the
Buddhists Of the world support "the
struggle for freedom of the Chinese
Unions Refuse Scabs Charity Appeal.
GLASGOW. Feb. 6.-Because the
students assisted in breaking the gen
cral strike, the local trades unions
have refused to help student charity
campaigns, the executive board Of the
central labor body here has announ-
ced.
The daily worker., 1927-02-07

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
Chevrolet Plant Closes
In st. Louis; Jobless
Horde Raised by 5000
(Bv Joe Plotkiu)

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 2. - The
Chevrolet Auto Assembly plant has
been shut down since the middle of
October. During the time the plant
was running 5000 workers had jobs.
At present there are only 100 work
ing. The same condition exists in
many other industries of this city.
The present slump in industry is not
only affecting the workers. Many
small business men have been hit be-
cause of the unemployment. Due to
the crises in the Southern Illinois
coal fields many miners have left their
homes and have come TO St. Louis for
factory Jobs. None can be had and
more are tramping the streets. The
unemployed have hopes of getting a
job when the Chevrolet plant opens
December IS. However the news of
the opening of the plant is only a
rumor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03

Anna Karenina" in Pictures
Tolstoy's Famous Novel With Greta Carlo and
John Gilbert at the Embassy

pendent upon the tragic ending for
proper effect, had to threaten to
break his contract before his produ-
GER would commit the heresy Of per-
hitting a tragic ending.
But why any producer should
cheaper a picture so cleverly done by
titling it 'Love"-when that title
could be applied to any screen drama
in general, and certainly not this one
in particulars mystery. Maybe
the box-office, defeated on the ques-
ton of the tragic ending, had to have
its compromise. At any rate, one can
only regret the fact.
At least one contribution has been
made to the screen by the producers
of "Love," notwithstanding the fact
that the picture is, and is bound to
be, a great success. That is, it will
help to convince the master minds of
Hollywood that, after all, the social
drama is virgin field, awaiting in
tensive exploitation, and practically
guaranteeing its success. Provided, of
course, the business heads of the
country do not boycott them as they
did the perturbation of 'The Jungle"
$. A. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
The NeuV Plays

/ BRASS BUTTONS" a drama by
John Hunter Booth, will open Mon
day night at the Bijou Theatre.
Frank Shannon and Beryl Mercer
head the cast which includes Lee
Kohlmar, John 7. Dwyer and Edith
M. Shayne. Lew Cantor is the pro-
Queer.
I CAMILLA QUIROGA and the Ar
gentine players from the Odean The
atre, Buenos Aires, will open their
two weeks engagement of repertoire
at the Manhattan Opera House Mon
day night, with LA Fuerza Ciega"
(The Silent Force) by Martinez
Cuitino.
"OUT OF THE SEA-" drama by
Don Marquis, at the Eltinge Theatre
Monday evening. Lyn Harding, Rollo
Peters, Beatrix Thomson and 0. P,
Heggie are the chief players.
"HAPPY, musical comedy, opens
at the Earl Carroll Theatre, Monday
night. Book by Vincent Lawrence
and McElbert Moore. Music by
Frank Grey. Lyrics by Earle Croker
and Ebert Moore. Fred Stanley,
Madeleine Fairbanks, Percy Helton
and Shirley Sherman head the cast.
"THE BANSHEE," by w. D.
Hepenstall and Ralph Goldman at
Days 63rd Street Theatre, Monday
night. Among the cast of players
are: Marion Kerby, Lillian Walker,
Barry Maccollum, and Joseph Bren-
nan.
TRIGGER" Lulu Vollmer's new
play opens Tuesday night at the Little
Theatre. Claiborne Foster and Minor
Watson head the cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
',,<an~M y S IC~>&>p,'
With the OrchestYas
NEW YORK SYMPHONY.

Emile de Corona will appear as
soloist with the New York Symphony
Orchestra in Mecca Auditorium to-
morrow afternoon. Fritz Busch will
present the following program: Sym
phony No. s in F. Beethoven; Ana
creon, A. E. M. Gretry; Overture to
Marriage Of Figaro" Mozart; Largo
al Factotum from ''Il Barbiere di Sivi-
glia," Rossini; Symphonic piece from
''The Redemption" Cesar Franck.
Next Friday evening the program
will include three movements from
Gustav Holst's Symphonic Suite The
Planet; MARS, the Bringer of War;
Mercury, the Winged Messenger"
and Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity."
Ignaz Friedman will be the soloist.
He will be heard in Brahms Concerto
in D minor for piano with orchestra.
This same program will be repeated
at the Sunday afternoon concert in
Mecca Auditorium December IL.
The Hoist composition was written
during the war while the composer
was serving with the Salonika Ex-
peditionary Force. The first presenta-
ton of the entire work, which is in
seven movements was by the London
Symphony Orchestra at Queens Hall
in 1920. 1t is based on the astrologi-
cal, rather than the astronomical
significance of the heavenly bodies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
" DRAMA. TN
Soviet Union Living Newspaper

COVIET RUSSIA'S Living News
paper" whose latest message it is
to inform the jewellers in the outly-
ing provinces of a change in the sys-
tenn of weights and measures, is
making a tour of the principal cities
in Europe. Recently the group spent
week in Berlin. 1t was a small edi-
ton only, consisting of eight men and
four women, grouped under the title
of blue Blouses." In a West End
theatre at midnight performances
lowing to no stage being vacant) it
received frantic applause.
In Russia every appearance of the
paper" implies a troupe of twenty
actors and actresses, who must be at
the same time first-class acrobats,
singers, dancers and parodists. There
are six thousand of such troupes, in
cooperating one hundred thousand
players. The small selected COM
pany that chose Germany as its
iumping-off place for the rest of the
Western world is known as "Blue
Blouses." There are Red Blouses and
Green Blouses and blouses of all col
ors, the uniform being the plain
working mans garment, fitting as
closely as a mannequin's working
robe. Marvellously contrived cos
tunes are slipped over it These can
be utilized both back and front, and
apparently upside down as well. Much
&c roaAo If thn ,1oiy&+oI
colored cardboard picture frame for
heads to be stuck through, as in the
elder Russian cabaret shows.
New Journalism.
Turnout Russia, in every factory
there is hall which can be utilized
for such performances, and there are
few working men, women and chill
dren who do not avail themselves of
this unique method of watching the
singing and dancing and demonstrat-
ing of news. The programme changes
fortnightly, and is provided by CEN
trail bureau in Moscow. Each group
of twenty performers is attended by
9 composer, stage manager, and
scene painter. At headquarters there
are twenty dramatists-scenario-
writers might be a better term
constantly occupied in arranging the
worlds news in a vivid and assimil-
able form, suitable for the simplest
reader.
These ideal journalists are the sue
cessors of group of young students
of the technical university who, in
despair at the shortage of paper in
the year 1920, started the practice of
reading one newspaper out to a group
of hearers from a platform or stage.
One or two inventive minds added an
irnprovised cabaret show parodying
these current events. When some
young artists joined the band, the
first programme of monologues,
songs, sketches and song-scenes was
complete.
It was not till 1923 that the or
ganization was taken in hand by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

The Cleveland Orchestra, with
Nilolai Sokoloff conducting, will give
a concert at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday
evening The Womens University
Glee Club of New York, of which
Gerald Reynolds is director, will as
sist. The soloists will be Marie Mon
lana, soprano and Nikolei Ian, bari
tone. The program follows: Overture
20 The Magic Flute, Mozart; Israel,