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The Washington times., 1928-11-26
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NEW YORK Nov. 26. Like Z
dam suddenly released BY It's bar,
riers. buying demand FOR industrial
stocks flooded the financial distaict
lat the beginning of trading today
and stock prices slyrocketed 2 e
10 points. III some cases the most
tempting offers brought no response
from the holders of the shares.
There was no indication that the
Saturday closing Of the big board
had toned down the current specu-
lative fever. Everybody wanted
stocks.
international Nickel closed on
Friday at 203, AS high as ~ WIS
Offered for the stock when the gong
sounded this morning, but holders
were sitting tight. Finally a
block sold at 2l4Ik UP 11lz points.
Victor Talking Machine stock ad.
yanced 10 156, a weekend jump of
10 points and gain OF 1O2 points
since its graduation from the sur'b
a few months ago
A dozen or more Of the favorites
rushed UP close TO points The
list was long one, Including Com
solidated GAS. Radio tup points,;
Andes Copper General Electric,
Pathe Exchange. United States
Steel. Cerro De Pasco Canadian
Pacific Railway Union Carbide,
Nash Motor and C,hrysler.
Al long list Of the copper stocks
forged ahead.
Stock sales feIl short of q mil.
lion shares In the first half-hour
against the 1927, 200 shares In this
period on Friday. The tape was
about Ito minutes behind at the end
Of the first hour.
Call money was unchanged at 61z
per cent.
The Washington times., 1928-11-26

East Kodak ~. ieS 1888 1888 1875
Eat Ak spring! 67 65 65 65s4
Eisenlohr. $50. 54S 54A 54ss 55
Elect Auto Lite liz ilO15 i12 no
Electric Boat. IL its4 10 III
81 POW & L.. ss1 ss1l ssSS ssN
ElP &L 81. s. lO7 iO7 lO7 iO71l
El Storage. 49,. s5s< s5s s5N s5ss
Elk Horn ..... w w w 7ss
Ellington s. -. 37L 81 313s s71s
Eitingon s pf. ios1l 1851 100 ios1s
Endicott John. 1914 79A 1874 ~
Eng Public S.. 47s4 ~ w 4S
En- Pub Scr IL. e3s1 1874 s524 "
EQUITABLE Bldg 32sS s21s S21 s21s
Erie 6s5 6s 6s 671l
Erie 1st 81. 81 60 81 COS
Eureka Yac... So 81 %
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Bank Debts increase

Debts to Individual accounts. as
reported 10 the Federal Reserve
Board by banks in leading cities for
the week ending November 81. ag-
gregated $19,11A106.0O or 9.4 per
cent above the total of STAG, sos, :
600 reported for the preceding week.
and 29.7 per cent above the total for
the week ending November %, 1927.
Aggregate debts for 141 centers
for which figures have been pub
lished weekly since January, 1918,
amounted to $1S, ,184, ,964 900, as com.
pared with $16,632, ,152 900 for the
preceding week and 1902 1857 200
for the week ending November %,
1927.
Exports Larger $500
Exports of manufactures this
year comprises greater percentage
Of our foreign trade than in 1927,
u - indicated by an analysis Of
our October international trade
issue yesterday by the Depa rtrnent
Of Commerce. Imports also show
a greater proportion of finished
manufactures. but not to as great
n extent.
Exports during the month Of
October had a value of $544022 900,
compared with $4S0.462 900 in 1927.
with finished manufactures amount
ing to s203,649, 300, or 37.4 per cent
Of the total, against $157 ,078 900, or
32.I per cent. Shipments of semi.
manufactures were valued at S59,-
$4,000 or II per cent, against
s55,034,009, or lis per cent last
year. Shipments of manufactured
toodstuffe, at $51, SAL 900. showed no
change in per centage. comprising
. per cent of the total as they
did in October, 1927. when the
value was $45. .643, 900. but ship
;nehts Of crude materials at $176..
S59, geo. compared with $I60. .282, 900,
showed a drop from 1873 per cent
10 5Z.5 per cent, and crude food
stuffs shipments at $52,381, 900.
compared with $62. .426, 900 showed
drop from 13 per cent to 9.6
per cent.
Imports during the month were
valued at 1855, 404. .O0e, against $685..
$4,000 last year, with finished
nanufacures accounting for $S9,147..
600, or 25.1 per cent, against $S3,.
$4,000, or 23.4 per cent, and semi
manufactures s71 .213 900, or 90 per
cent, against $67.s07 900, or 1911 per
cent. Imports of crude materials
totsled Silt, 6Ss.000. or 33.1 per cent
against S119 ,221 900. or 33.5 per cent
svf1ile receipts of crude foodstuffs
we're ,$41 1857 900. or 11.s per cent
against $44.195, 900. or 12.4 per cent
and manufactured foodstuffs were
Sss, ,391, 900 or 10 per cent, against
81 $4,000. or Ills per cent.
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PITTSBURGH PRODUCE

PITTSBURGH Nov. 26. n.NS.l-
Butter Prints 57l1 158c; tubs 56h
157c; local tubs 54@55c.
Eggs White 5695sc; current re.
ee1pts 5000.
Live Poultry--Hens fheavy) 27D
2sc hens night) 25@27c: roosters
faR1gc; springers 2Tn2Sc; broiIers
t09742c: Ducks 23n25c; Turkeys
50G1 5Sc:g Geese 20025c.>
Vegetables 1T o m atces 7S.i0n
tbasketl; potatoes pal 175-1s5 Q5O
Ibs); cabbage 7S-aes GDusheA
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SALES ON NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
i. B. HhbsA Ca u .s

( 1880 Prev,
High Low 3. NJ cIoee
Rey springs:.. 1875 12ys 12sS l2sx
Reynolds Tob / ss6 1854 i6ssS 1887
Rhine westp.. 52k s2k 52x So
Richfieid oil... 52S 5lSS 52k So
Robt Refs. 10J1 91S 10tl 8
Rossini Inc. III. 2ss16 236 2se1< 2ss
Royal Dutch. 621S 621l 621< 6zs<
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Johns ManviIle 1876 1874 ia ts9
Zones Bros Tea ss1i ss1S ssII 81
Jordan MetorsA -1a z 1s 12 IS
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SALES

BALES
Anacostia and Potomac Railroad
IS, $1,00O196.
Capital Traction Company 1o@
Potomac Electric SIS preferred
1001O2
Washington Gas Light. 9110s.
Washington Railway and Electric
preferred. 1n99s
Federal American National- Bank
.8@336.
Riggs National Bank warrants,
95-265Q 3I5, 105-265 @3I5. 50.265@
a15. 50-265D 315, 27312. 35-265O $40.
Barber and Ross, common, 30022.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 1001051 u
30@1051 Nj. 1001051z.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 50106.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas 5s $1 900 a. 1U3 is
Potgn1ae Electric Cons 5s. 81 900
q 1924
Potomac Electrict sszs pfd,. 100
10S
Riggs National Bank WITS, 20I10,
IA 10g, 501OS.
Washington Gas 6s al. 500 al 10S u.
Capital Traction SIS, $5O001O3.
Riggs National Bank WITS, 1850
80. 265031O, 3@ 30S.
Washington Gas SIS b, S1OOM1 los.
The Washington times., 1928-11-26
LOCAL PRODUCE

SEX dividend.
xEx-rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27

ter into the international situation
arising out of Imperialism. Here
are the countries where your loans
and investments have been made.
They are beginning to get restless
under the yoke, tired of being
divided, of having their rulers Sc
lected for them by a foreign power,
tired of being shot down when they
resist the oppression of the power
full nations. They may perhaps
want, like China, to have something
like an equal status before the world.
China wants the inequalities that the
imperialist countries have estab-
lished for her abolished. China has
thus turned from a passive nation
into one that is increasingly con-
scious of the fact that the only way
to get rid of the foreign exploiting
nations is by display of force, a
language the great powers are able
to understand. At times the native
capitalists in such countries may
unite with the foreigners in resist
ing the demands of the workers and
peasants. But this only makes the
bitterness of these doubly exploited
masses all the more intense. They
fight not only as workers against
the normal exploitation of their ma
tive capitalists and landowners, but
against the foreigner who is taking
his toll from this exploitation.
Progress of Soviet Union.
THE progress of the Soviet Union
is a factor that must also be
considered in this connection. The
Soviet Union is an inspiring example
folks in these countries. These back
ward peoples are beginning to learn
what the Russian workers and peas
ants did to one of the worlds pow
erful empires, what they are now,
doing for themselves under their
new order of society, and how fairly
nationalities are treated
within the Soviet Union, and Incl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
Wall Street Dollars Bring Slavery to Natives
of Many Countries

political and economic forces. But
those forces are already shifting,
making for new sources of conflict.
The nations that have the most ter
ritory and markets and fields for
Investment want to hold on to what
they have, while the recovering and
developing states are ever grasping
for new opportunities for investment
and trade and must resist the as
sumptions and claims of the great
powers.
All this makes for new and larger
armament programs, for as H. N.
Brailsford wrote, "the backing of
investments by diplomacy means in
evitahly an increase of the arma-
ments which are the diplomats last
word In spite of the continual
exchange of peace notes and the dis
armament conferences that have no
real intention of disarming, the
preparations for war are advancing
at a more rapid tempo than before
1914. The ornaments continue to
pile up even while the air is satur-
ated with peace talk. The situation
is in some respects analogous to
that prevailing in the days when
Hague conferences were in the head
lines and Mr.. Roosevelt, Tsar Nicho-
las and Kaiser Wilhelm were all the
graceful recipients of the various
peace prizes. The cynical reception
accorded the Soviet proposals for
genuine disarmament at Geneva
would almost lead one to the conclu-
sion that the holding of interna-
tional peace conferences was but a
part of the Suggesting for an
other war.
1t is, of course, often pointed out.
as recently by the British ambassa-
dor, that war between the great ma
lions is "unthinkable." Whether this
is true or not-and it certainly is
Mott may be we'll to consider
some Of the other factors that en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
G A NJ P A | G N OR N E r

children in Arkansas vote. I am
positive the workers condition would
be better under their rule than under
the present democrat dictatorship.
A well-dressed man overheard the
argument with a worker on the need
Of the Communist in Arkansas. The
well-dressed man butted in and said
we don't need any Russian Dictator
ship here. The worker signed the
petition and said we already have
dictatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27

(the Mooney Billings defense organization of
that time) goes to show that the bureaucratic
instinct of the masses power was correct.
And we tell the workers today that the way
to deal with the Mooney Billings case is to
arouse the American and international work
ing class on class-struggle basis. The labor
movement is not dead it is only dead "at the
top" Let US arouse the rank and file to get
Mooney and Billings out.
The International Labor Defense is under
taking to do this in connection with the twelfth
anniversary of MONEYS and Billings arrest.
Support its splendid effort Join the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and fight for our class
war prisoners rotting in capitalist peniten-
tiaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27

A number of parlor pinks down
here deserted the ship like rats de-
sert a sinking one when they heard
of our position on Negro question.
After listening to some replies of
adult Arkansas workers on the cleo
ton issue and after asking many
big raw-bone young bucks to sign
and having these young bucks in
form me that they could not vote
because they were not old enough
am now in favor of having all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
By ROBERT w. DUNN.
(Contiuued. }

!
1t ought to be clear to anyone
who has studied American history
that the imperialist course of this
country is not due to any accident
or to any mere mistaken policy"
en- the part of the American ruling
class. 1t is not just the result of
diplomatic laundering" On the
contrary, it is the result of the ma
tural development of our whole
economic society. The World War,
which resulted from the clash of
rival imperialist powers, destroyed
the German, the Austria Hungarian
and the Russian empires. 1t weak
ened the French and accentuated
the forces making for the decline
Of the British empire. At the same
time it opened the way for the
United States to become the fore
most lending nation and the worlds
richest power. So long as the forces
of capitalist society operate in
America, as they operated in Eu-
rope before they eliminated in the
world struggle of 1914, America
must grow increasingly imperialis-
tic. This is not therefore for
tuitous phenomenon. 1t has ad-
vanced step by step with the growth
and consolidation of American
finance capital.
1t is almost trite to assert that
the domestic policies of this coun-
try are dominated by the represen-
tatives of what for a better term
we call big business. The same
group undoubtedly shapes our for
eign policies. 1t would be polite
ally naive to assume that this group
will not protect its interests abroad
as fully and as consciously as it
protects them at home. The pro-
lection of these private holdings
abroad must inevitably lead to fur
Their incursions against the weaker
nations and still further steps along
the path of empire. Economic PEN
etration of backward countries,
financial ACKNOWLEDGMENT there, the
export of capital, are but the ac-
compartments of capitalism in
America just as they have been dur
ing the last century in Europe.
WHAT is to be expected as the
T" fruit of this growth. If it con-
tinues, certainly the same fruit that
Europe gathered in 1914. The riv-
airy in trade, the expansion of po-
litical power for the protection of
expanding financial interests, leads
to clashes with other powers also
seeking outlets for surplus goods
and surplus capital. A struggle of
Standard Oil against Royal Dutch
Shell necessarily, and in the nature
of the present order, entails the dip
lomatic support of the home govern
ment affected. For a time there
may be balancing of forces as be-
tween one group of nations and an
ether. But these agreements and
balances are precarious and I'M
steady, for they are usually based
on group rivalries. And further
more, they are usually based on the
existing set-up of power between
The different states. But this basis
may shift just as the relative posi-
tions of Germany and Italy, for ex-
ample, has shifted since the YER
sailles treaties. Those treaties were
built on the then existing balance of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
Capitalist Democracy's "Niggers"

Negroes as Negroes, and purely on the
ground that they are Negroes, can be barred
from voting in the democratic party primaries
in Texas federal district court decides at
Houston. The noble judge reaches this con-
clusion on the ground that the sacred liberties
guaranteed by our democratic form of govern
ment must be maintained. A Negro appealed
to the federal court which held
THE action complained of by plaintiffs,
being purely party action as to which the
holding is universal, that like other voluntary as
sociatiOns they have complete delectus personarum
and may select reject as members whom they
will, it is unnecessary to decide the second point
whether, if the plaintiffs rights had been invaded
equity could grant relief, other than to say that
the point is greatly in doubt, the books being full
OF cases declaring the doctrine that equity is
eerned only with matters of property and the main
tenance of civil rights and will not interfere for
the protection of rights which are merely politi-
CAL"
And that:
This view finds support not only in the law but
in the history of this country and always will find
support while free institutions are maintained"
With the mighty words "delectus person
arum' ringing in his ears the Negro can go
off and think it over. The ruling class thinks
by such methods to keep its slaves in a con-
dition of complete subsection without civil
rights of any sort.
But can anyone figure out why a Negro
wants to vote for the democratic party? We
do not offer this as an excuse for accepting the
action of the court in its consequences. On the
contrary, we say the decision is a challenge
that must be met with ringing answer. But
the answer cannot be written on ballot sup
porting the democratic party-the party of
slavery. Nor ballot supporting the republi-
can party, which is of exactly the same char
acter.
The answer of the Negro masses should be-
and one day will be, to support the party of
their own class, the party which will overturn
the whole system of capitalist democracy" in
which the exploited masses are "democratized"
out of all rights.
Some three-quarters of century ago the
United States supreme court made little de-
cision by which Negro slave, bred Scott, was
returned to his master. This decision was to
stand 'for all time" Where is it now? But
it took the most terrific class struggle the
country had ever seen to overthrow the bred
Scott decision and the system it upheld.
Let the Negro masses understand that their
present enslavement, exploitation and depriva-
ton of civil rights can be upheld by thou
SAND COURTS but Will come to an end IN a social
upheaval bigger than that of 1861.
However, their freedom can come only with
their loyal support of their own cause.
Negro workers and farmers To hell with
the democratic primaries, and the republican
too!
Vote for your own working class party-the
Workers (Communist) Party With it's pro-
gram, through struggles mightier than those
+1o4T ", Lad L.
Join the party of your class, not the parties
of .cla
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
By HUGO oEHLER.

Some Little Rock citizens would
not sign our petitions to put Foster
and Gitlow on the ballot because our
andidates were not born in Arkan-
sas.
A likely reply by the well-dressed
white collared slave in Arkansas to
he party petition hooters will be
What the hell we want to work
that out for. Haven't we got demo-
erat nartv?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
Foreign Investments and Foreign Policy

dentally, how carefully the rights of
the few foreign concessionaires in
that country are limited. 1t is be-
cause of this example of the Soviet
Union that the imperialist powers
are eager for its destruction and for
the negation of it's influence. The
war-like acts of the British-notably
the ARGOS and Picking raids of last
year-were provocative measures
that under ordinary circumstances
would have made for war between
two nations. But the strong desire
of the Soviet Union for peace pre-
vent this eventuality. Whether
similar provocation will ultimately
lead to war it is impossible to pre-
dict, but certainly the British en-
pire would do it's utmost to draw in
the United States on its side should
such war come. Great as are the
potential sources of rivalry between
the United States and the British
empire these two countries would
unite temporarily if the opportunity
came to crush the power and influ-
ence of the Soviet Union. But what
ever the immediate prospects of war
against the Soviet Union there can
be no doubt that our present policies
of protecting the investor and specu-
lator abroad will lead this country
into new interventions and finally
into war with rival economic en-
pires.
AT various times during the last
80 years there have been in this
country certain groups of progress
sives who have become alarmed at
the rapid development of the United
States along the imperialist road.
They have raised their voices in
opposition to the rabid jingoes and
annexationists particularly during
the Spanish-American war. There
are few remnants of such groups
today who want to block the more
subtle imperialism that proceeds
without the necessity for territorial
annexation. Such groups are at
tempting to register, check and
regulate the flow of capital abroad
by introducing legislation into con-
gress. They would also make it
illegal to use the armed forces of
the country to protect private in
terests abroad without a formal
declaration of war.
Colonials Fight Imperialism.
THE most vigorous agitation
against imperialism, however, as
| have suggested, comes not from
this country or Great Britain, but
from those subject nationalities who
suffer from the effects of imperial
istic conquest. These colonial and
semi-colonial peoples, as the recent
history of the British empire shows.
will be in the forefront of the fight
against Imperialism. But in the i'm
perialist home countries groups of
workers will also, in time, begin to
realize keenly that they are suffer-
ing under the same system and that
the great industrial and financial
combines that drive down wages at
home are the same that seek raw
abroad and that often take
of the lower labor costs
in those foreign countries. Together
these two groups-the more poorly
paid and militant workers of the i'm
perialist countries and the revolu-
tionary liberation groups in the
colonies and backward countries
will carry on the future struggle
against imperialism both at home
and abroad !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
The Soviet Rescue Ship

The Krassin ploughed her way
Thru endless fields Of ice,
Thru binding shrouds of fog;
Braved all the perils of the Arctic wastes,
And steered her trying course
To rescue and success.
H.
There is more than just ship
Manned by brave men,
Who saved some human lives
In this great episode.
In this see symbol that transcends
Immeasurably the stirring facts,
The ice, the fog, the frost
Greed, ignorance, reaction.
Humanity the castaways.
The rescue ships triumphant Revolution.
By ADOLF VOL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27

EX-PREMIER GIOLITTI of italy,
- who died last week, had the repul
tation of being political fox. Butt
like every such character, he god
caught in trap. Giolitti used the
black shirts to crush the revolution
airy movement in Italy when the
workers took over the factories.
Once this was done he thought he
could go back to his former methods
of political juggling. But the fas-
cists were organized and supported
by the big industrialists who wanted
i dictatorship. SO Giolitti and the
liberals soon found themselves out
in the cold, with Mussolini sitting
in the warm places. OF course
much though Giolitti hated Musso-
lini as successful rival, he hated
and feared the revolutionary work
ing class more. Benito would not
interfere with the wealth he amassed
under the capitalist system, but he
knew that if the Communists seized
power he would have to render some
useful service to the state and get
along like everybody else on enough
to provide him with the necessities
of life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27

hEEP though the prejudice against
the Soviet Union was, even it's
most bitter enemies were forced to
admit that the conduct of it's repre-
sentatives on ship and plane shone
out in contrast to the craven con-
duct of the fascist boosters. Now,
Mussolini wants to stifle the flood
of criticism that has been pouring
from the presses of the world on
the head of his black shirt COM
mander. 1t will take many speeches
and threats from the loud-mouthed
boaster to retrieve the loss of pres
tige he sustained in the Italia ad-
venture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-27
pENITo MUssoL1NI has agai,

pENITO MUSSOLINI has again
~ spoken, this time to warn the
world and it's wives that they had
better stop talking in a critical way
of the cowardly conduct of his Cen
eral Mobile, commander of the, air.
ship Italia that flew over the North
Pole and on its return became
cropper. The story is 50 we'll known
that it does not have to be told
again. How Mobile flew away in
the first rescue plane that hove in
sight, leaving his colleagues to die
on the ice, and how the ships and
planes of the Soviet Union covered
themselves with glory in rescue work
are facts well known in every part
of the world.