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Chinese Seamen Issue
General Strike Call

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from the workers by the forces of the
right wing of the Kuomintang. To
affect this latter they besieged work
ers' clubs and shot down comrades.
"Acting in accord with orders from
the Shanghai General Labor Union
we now appeal to you to leave your
ships. You must be prepared to
sacrifice your lives for the cause.
This is struggle Of life and death
for the workers. You must decide if
your class lives or dies"
French Arrest Leader.
Wang Shou-hua, chairman of the
General Labor Union, has been ar
rested and is held by the French as
responsible for the recent labor
troubles" within the French conces-
sion, according to police reports.
Workers are reported to nave
rushed the Commercial Press Com
pound with the object of recovering
the arms seized by the Nationalist
troops yesterday.
Chen Will Ask Investigation.
According to dispatches received
here, Eugene Chen, Nationalist for
eign minister, will reply to the notes
of the powers on the Marking Incl
dents on Friday and the reply will
probably demand that the powers
prove their charges of Nationalist re-
sponsibility and will undoubtedly sug-
gest an international inquiry.
In the meantime plans for the anti
British boycott are being mapped out
in Shanghai, Canton and Honkong.
The action of British officials at
Hongkong who have declared the Of
flee Workers Union illegal has
aroused a great deal of anti-British
feeling.
MANILA, April 10. - American
naval reinforcements continue to
steam for China waters. The two
mine layers Hart and Rial, stationed
here, have been ordered to China i'm
mediately. Five destroyers still re-
main at Manila but they win leave
next week on their annual summer
cruise" in Chinese waters.
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apart from all other considera-
tons, think we have a right to
be in India on moral, but equally
strong, grounds. The British peo-
pies have very largely made India.
Their continuance in the country
is, in my opinion, necessary to the
future welfare of the country"
r. HE entire nationalist press in In
dia took strong exception to this
formulation of the imperialist posi-
ton with regard to India. Mr.. J. n.
Sen Gupta, the Swaraiist leader,
Langford James in the fol-
lowing terms:
II feel it is my duty, as a mem
Der Of the Indian National Con-
gress, as the leader Of the Swaraj
Party in Bengal and also as the
Mayor of the City of Calcutta, to
sound a note of warning. | say
with all the emphasis that / can
command and a full sense of re-
sponsibility that if Mr.. Langford
James and his compatriois con-
tinue making speeches of the style
Of which we had specimen last
Tuesday night it would not be
long before the challenge of the
European community was taken
up by the people of India. An
elementary fact which should not
be overlooked by Europeans In
India is that they total at the out
side two and half or three lakhs
Half million men sufficiently
desperate would be more tina n
enough to give them such trouble
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WALL ST. TELLS
HOW BANKERS OF
'VORLDCOOPERATE
More Potent Than the
League of Nations

One of the moot questions of in
tornational finance and politics is the
amount Of cooperation" among the
leading capitalist powers.
'eenrding to one thesis, they have
hleved practical harmony what with
the governor Of the Federal Reserve
noaid hoLnpbbng with the head of
he Bank Of England, the two of
them naying visits to the French fl
nancial and political lords and the
whole mess Of them collaborating
with the Herr Schachtman Of the
German Reichshank, Another thesis
helds that national and sectional
riYallies are too strong to permit eff
feetive permanent collaboration.
Confesses Ignorance
Waliprol withholds his opinion,
modestly asserting that he doesn't
know. But there is submitted here
with a report on the subject by Har-
vey Fisk & Sons, 1870 Broadway, one
of the big brokerage firms. Wallprol
by no means UNDERWRITERS the state
ments:
Organized Lending
Never before in the history Of
modern business have banking re-
sources here and abroad been so
thoroughly organized and integrated
as now. The initiative in this in
ternational cooperative movement is
to be credited to American and Brit
ish banking interests. A year or
more ago, the Central Banks of the
Germanic peoples coined up" and
within recent months the Bank of
France has been brought into almost
complete cooperation.
The Observation-Disclosures of credit
which now has been effected appeals
to us as being a more practical pro-
gramme for international peace than
such political organizations as the
League of Nations.
Being strictly commercial, this
league of banks and bankers and
business men throughout the world is
non-political in character, and slowly
but surely the days of the old diplo-
macy appear to be passing.
The highfalutin talk about peace"
is to be taken in a picwickian sense.
What is meant is peace among the
western powers to enable them to
loot the rest of the world better. But
all talk of peace between western
capitalism and the rising workers and
peasants republics of the Soviet
Union and China is so much hogwash
and you can be quite sure that Har-
vey Fisk & Sons realize it..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
BY c. LUHANI.

r HERE is a co-terminous boundary
line of about one thousand miles
between Burma, the easternmost
province of the British Empire in
India, and Yunan, the southernmost
province of China. The commander
in chief of the British army in India
has recently developed a great curl
osity about this boundary line. More
than month ago--when the con-
tinued advance of the Nationalist
Army in the Nangtse Valley and
put new complexion on the Chinese
situation--the British commander In
chief in India made a certain change
in his usual official itinerary Of Wis
its to the outlying military posts on
the frontiers of India.
As a matter Of long and ira
ditional routine, the general staff
of the British army in India has been
giving exclusive attention to the
northwestern frontier of India, that
Afghanistan. This time, however,
the British commander in chief in
stead Of going to the northwestern
frontier, went to the Burma-Chnese
frontier on the northeast. 1t was
visit Of reconnaissance TO find out
the state of affairs on the indeter-
inmate frontier, inhabited by a num-
Der of tribes, between Burma and
Yunan.
THE reconnaissance visit has been
followed up and Burma From
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of the colored races in Africa, Asia
or America due TO this very color line
prescription and persecution.
Surely the United States will not
expect her own colored citizens to
fight against these colored races in
the event of war with China, or Japan
or Mexico or Nicaragua or Hattie
set up the same color line in those
countries that is now officially set up
not only in her army and navy but as
well in the citizens training camps.
This is an issue, Mr. President. that
will not down. We ask that you settle
this question and that you settle it
right"
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long held her in subjugation by
exploiting provincial jealousy in
China and by setting one am
bilious Chinese general against
another. China seems at last TO
have awakened to the conscious
ness of what dire mischief has
been done to the cause of national
freedom by foreign intrigues."
z URTHER on in the article, "For-
ward" seems to take the present
neutrality of Japan, America and
France as indicating their sympathy
with the Chinese desire for emanci-
patton.
Discussing the interest which the
Indian nationalists take in the Chi
nese Revolution, the Swarajist or
gan says:
"The Chinese, like Indians are
inheritors Of an ancient and glori-
Gus civilization China is the dis
ciple of our Buddha. India is,
therefore, natural. Interested IN
the freedom movement In China.
The outcome Of her present strug-
gle against the forces Of foreign
Imperialism is being keenly
watched by Indians"
The reference to China as "the
disciple Of our Buddha" is whole
commentary in itself on the theology
of Indian nationalism. Forward"
closes the article with the assurance
that very soon the "last remnant Of
foreign domination in China will
have gone"
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as to make them realize their sin
gularly precarious position in this
country. The Congress is pledged
to non-violence and its members
are sincerely anxious that the
struggle for Swaraj should be
carried on on non-violent lines.
1t pains me to think that our eff
forts should be frustrated by
gentlemen of the ilk of Mr.. Lang
ford James"
D UT the most significant part of
- Sen Gupta's reioinder to the
spokesman of the British imperial
lists is contained in the following
sentence:
"THE EVENTS IN CHINA
OUGHT TO BE AN EYE
OPENER TO THE MORE SANG
UINARY SECTION OF TIL T.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY"
This is the first time that prom
inent Swaraiist leader in his official
capacity has referred to the events
in China as a warning what may
happen to British imperialism In
India itself.
The nationalist press in India gave
during December a more than usual
amount Of space to news from China.
The editorial comments OF the right
wing section Of this press were more
or less colorless.
p UT Forward" the principal or
y gan Of the Swaraj Party, has ex-
pressed itself on the Chinese situa-
ton more fully than the other ma
tionalist papers. In its issue Of De-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14

We are expecting the Duke and
Duchess of York to land in Sydney
in the course of a week or two. In
view Of the urgent necessity of COM
batting Imperialist Propaganda all
public functions in honor Of the Duke
and Duchess have been declared
"black" by the Labor Council, and
all representatives Of Labor are re-
quested to refrain from grovelling to
the Royal pair.
At a mass meeting held yesterday
Of building workers who have been
locked out for refusing to work more
than 40 hours week, it was decided
to continue the fight, This resolu-
ton was decided on by an overwhelni-
ing majority, and reflects great cred
it on the men concerned, as they have
been locked ont since January 18th,
and the 'labor" government has been
fighting them tooth and nail, A few
days ago the Premier (Mr McCor-
mack stated openly that "The Gov
eminent is fighting the Union on this
natter The executive of the
Queensland branch of the Australian
Labor Party endorsed the actions of
the Government because the A. L. P.
stands for Arbitration and Concilia-
ton, and the building workers We're
using direct action.
BY the time this letter reaches
America all of the members of the
Industrial Delegation will have
reached tehre. The organized work
ers of Australia will appreciate any
discourtesy shown by American
workers to the adverstied workers
representatives on the delegation, be-
cause they are only puppets of the
employers, and have been repudiated
by the Trade Union Movement of this
country l explained the whole posi-
ton in my last letter.
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Three Cycles Seen in
Railroad Stock Prices

If you're one of those workers who
likes to speculate on the date of the
next big crash, you can chew over
the figures just published by the Ma
tional Bureau of Economic Research
in regard to railroad stock prices.
The bureaus statisticians, after por-
ing over innumerable musty tones of
the dead past, have discovered three
big periods in railroad stock specu-
lation, each of which terminated in
one grand tumble OF values"
These periods are 1S60-1878, 1873
1897 and 1897-1922. Since 1922 the
stock prizes have SCARED again to I'M
heard of heights of which the end is
not yet. The forthcoming tumble is
bound to be a nasty one however, if
only because the pyramid is 50 i'm
mensely greater than ever before.
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BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW SSTANDS
|. L. d. Dance In Chicago

CHICAGO, April 13.-The North
West Jewish Branch. International
Labor Defense will hold an enter
tainment at Folkes House, 2733 Hirsh
Boulevard on Saturday evening, May
81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14

DETROIT -(FP)--Frank X. Mar
tel, typo, was reelected president of
the Detroit Federation Of Labor. His
opponent was Dennis Bait, machin-
list and former editor of the Detroit
Labor News, the federation organ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
BY ]. RYAN


The Commonwealth Arbitration
Court has ct last given its decision
regarding the Engineers case, for the
forty-four hour week The forty
four hour week has been granted.
The Judges in delivering the judg-
ments made it perfectly clear that
they had been influenced by the pos
sibility Of industrial unrest. if the
claim was not granted. As matter
Of fact, the whole Of the metal trades
in n S. w. had stated definitely to
the iron masters, that they would not
work more than A hours irrespec-
tive Of the decision Of the Court.
This argument carried more weight
than all the talk Of the advocates
during the six months that The case
was discussed.
Last year in y. S. W. the Labor
Government set, appointed a Commits
sion to investigate and determine a
basic-wage that would ensure a rca-
sonable standard Of living for work
ers in this state. After about five
months of enquiry, the Commission
decided that a reasonable wage for
five unit family was e5/6/-per
week. This wage was not given to
the workers; but a Child Endowment
scheme was put forward.
The Government adopted the Child
Endowment scheme, which is calcu-
lated to cost the employers 61a per
cent on their wages bill. The Legis-
lative Council has not yet passed the
bill, and there is still a chance that
it will not become law
There is a large section of the
working-class, who are dissatisfied
with the Child Endowment scheme,
not because they dislike Child En-
dowment, but because they resent it
being brought forward as an alter
native to an increased hasie-wage.
The existing basic-wage is e4i4/-per
week. An increase to e5/6f-would
mean an increase of 26P5, whereas
the Child Endowment scheme will
only cost the employers 6iate on
their wages bill, and the single men
and childless married men will not
benefit at all. Many workers regard
the whole affair as an opportunistic
concession to the owners Of indus
try.
! A Congress Of n. S. w. Trade
/ Unionists was held at the Trades
Hall, Sydney on Saturday, February
10Th. The Congress dealt with sew
eral matters, the most important be-
ing the Basic-wage, and Child Endow-
ment, China, and the Delegation to
Canton. In regard to the basic-wage
and Child Endowment, the Congress
carried a resolution expressing the
above point of view. A Hands off
China" policy was adopted and con-
gratulations and fraternal greetings
were sent to the Cantonese. 1t was
also decided to send Delegation to
! Canton to attend the Pan Pacific
I Congress on May LIST A Commit
tee was appointed to make the neees-
sary arrangements.
The Hands off China" Commit
| tee has been carrying on great work.
Every night a speaker delivers a
lecturette on this matter over the
Labor Councils wireless station e
x. ", and on Sunday combined
demonstration is held on the Domain,
also thousands of leaflets are being
distributed urging the workers to
resist intervention. A Labor Vol
unteer Army" is being organized for
the purpose Of defending free speech
free press, and the right Of assem-
bly,. A good deal Of ridicule is be-
ing poured on this move. but we hope
to have the army organized. when tho
! struggle becomes keener.
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General CrOwder, Wall
Street Ambassador to
Cuba, Throws Up Job

WASHINGTON, April 13.-Major
General Enoch II. Crowder, who has
faithfully served ]. p. Morgan and
Company and the sugar trust in Cuba
since 1919 has resigned his job as
Ambassador for the ostensible pur-
pose of practicing law in Chicago.
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Our Australian Labor Letter

Engineers MlanCy Brings VictOThe Government and Child
Observation-Disclosures Off China Decision at n s. W. Confer
ence--Duke and Duchess Of YOrks Trip Boycotted-
Building Workers 0-Hour Week--SLp For Fake
Industrial Delegation.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-15
GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, May IA R.--Corn took
the center of the stage today and
jumped to the topmost point reached
yet this season both for July and Sep
tember contracts. Decreasing stocks
of corn here, together with adverse
weather conditions and unusual late
ness of planting gave incentive for
speculative buying.
Corn closed strong, Ia cents to 2
cents net higher; wheat unchanged to
1s cent up; oats showing 1s cent to
as cent advance, and provisions the
same as yesterdays finish to a rise of
IS cents. 5
Activity as well as strength char
acterized the corn market almost from
the beginning. The forecast was for
fair and somewhat cooler weather,
whereas warmth and dryness are much
needed. Besides, corn was being taken
out of store here for industries, and it
was shown that receipts here for the
week were only about half as large as
a year ago. Shipments from here
meanwhile were twice as large. Cash
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-15

sales here today amounted to 171,0OO
bushels.
Broadening of commission house
demand was feature of corn trading,
although the bulk of purchases were
for professional spectators. Some of
the buying was on standing orders to
stop losses at various fixed limits. May
at the high point showed is cents a
bushel advance from the recent low
level. Contributing to the upward
swing of the market was likelihood that
visible supply figures on Monday would
exhibit a good-sized reduction Corn
offerings today were at no time bur-
densolne. Oats synlpathized with corn
Wheat trade failed to show snap to-
day, traders flocking to the corn crowd
Advances, too, in wheat were checked
by predictions of generally fair weather
northwest next week, making the out.
look more favorable for completion o
spring seeding. On the other hand
Kansas reports today said indication
are that this will be the worst Hessia1
{, fly year since 1915.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-15
COTTON MARKET

NEW YORK, May IA (P.-The cot
ton market was lower today under
realizing and some local OF southern
selling attributed to prospects for good
weather in the south over Sunday and
rather smaller domestic consumption
figures for April than expected. The
census report showed 619,14O bales con-
sumed in this country during April
compared with 694, 1913 during March
and 577,678 during April last year. July
contracts eased off to 1850 and closed
at 1883, with the general market clos
ing steady at net declines of 10 to 13
pOintS The close:
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-15
Hyde Park Bird
Census Is Made

LONDON. May IA QP-Bird life in
Hyde park and Kensington Gardens.
London, fluctuates with the weather.
Normally, there are $3.50 birds in
tneA parks, it is Ieckoned by E. II.
Nicholson, an Oxford student who is
the first person to complete a bird
census in these tracts. Nicholson,
encouraged by his success mere, has
begun Genus at Oxford.
The Hyde Park -Kensington Gar
dens birds were counted four times,
According to the census the birds
consisted Of 2,665 sparrows, 4ti3s Star
lings, 289 black headed seagulls, 24l
wood pigeons, 24O mallards, 43. tit
mice, and 26 little moor hens.
Nicholson began his census in No
venber. Two months afterward
when aonther census was taken, after
a spell Of cold weather, the number
was eight less But after month
Of wet weather, it fell by 1900. When
the weather improved the original
number was restored.
Nicholson says years will be re-
CURED to complete the bird census
in Oxford and vicinity.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-15
Los ANGELES LIYEsTOCK

LOS ANGELES, May IA (Federal
State Market News Service (F9) Hogs
receipts 500; slow; no early sales; bid
ding lower; receipts 5000 for week;
closing unevenly Is cents to 40 cents
lower; top Friday $11.65; bulk $1150;
215-26O pound butchers $10.25 to $1060;
packing sows $3.50 to So.
Cattle: receipts $500 for week; all
classes weak to 25 cents lower; plain
kinds off most; top steers $9.35; bulk
So to SO; top fed heifers So; grass cows
and heifers $3.50; bulk she stock $3.50
to $6.75; all cutters $2.75 to $3.50; bulls
$3.50 to Sc. Calves: receipts 900 for
week; closing SO cents higher; top
198-pound weights $3.50; bulk TO-
24o pound weights $12 to $12.35; heavies
$8 to $40.
Sheep: receipts 2,237 for week; lambs
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-15
F artisans Balk. At
CoIored Umbrella:

PARIS, May IA P-Light pink
and vivid purple hats caught on WiG!l
certain viyacious elements of Paris
male population but an umbrella
maker who tried to sell them color.
ed rain sticks had his trouble for
his pains. No one bought and he Is
having q large supply dyed to q
sober black.
Early season predictions that bril-,
liant coloring would mark male cloth.
ing for the year have been realized
only in part. "Sardine blue,' a
rather bright effect, and several more
or less intensive browns and mauves
found good many buyers. But
few persons INDUCED IN the pinks
purpleS or other more vivid colors.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-15

phone service has been established
between Germany and II nations.
Berlin can now talk with virtually
every country in Europe day and
night.
Although distances are not as
great as those which separate large
cities in the United States, Postmas-
ter General Rudolph Scheetzel said
the numerous treaties which were
necessary to link up alnCst every
capital and important city on the
continent evidenced a friendly spirit
of cooperation unheard Of between
nations before the war.