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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-02
DOUBLE TAXATION
FOUGHT IN FRANCE
important Diplomatic Cues
ton Arises With U. S.
Taking Aggressive Stand.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, September Am important
diplomatic question has arisen between
the United States and France over
double taxation of American firms
operating in this country.
Some companies deem the situation
so serious that they are considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of abandoning their
agencies and dissolving their sub
salaries altogether. Huge sums of
money are involved and the American
It is probable that the matter will come
up before the League of Nations in
october, when an effort will be made
to draft convention eliminating double
taxation throughout the world.
French authorities admit that the
law, passed in 1872, is rigorous" al
though French companies are placed
on the same basis as foreign. In their
opinion 1t could be prof1tably changed
only by bilateral or general convention.
u. S. Opposes Such Action.
America, on the other hand, is OPP
posed to this form of action and holds
the opinion that double taxation al
ready has been outlawed in interna-
tional Jurisprudence. Although enacted
in 1872, the law was seldom enforced
against American firms until about two
years ago.
One American company which organ
lied q subsidiary company in France to
manufacture and sell its products found
itself faced with a tax Of ID per cent
on dividends and interest received from
the French company and another ID
per cent on the proportion of its world
profits, represented by its investment In
France. An appeal to the court brought
a judgment that the taxation must
stand. The case has been taken to the
appellate court, but international law
yers believe there is little chance that
the decision will be reversed.
Another American company which
organized subsidiary to handle its
French business was asked to produce
the books of its home Office so that
French fiscal authorities could deter
mine what part of it's entire profits were
due to the operations of the subsidiary
and could enforce payment on those
profits in addition to taxes paid by the
subsidiary.
60 Companies Affected.
The American Chamber of Commerce
in France has tabulated more than 60
typical cases of American firms operat-
ing here either directly through agents
or through subsidiary companies, that
are liable to double taxation. These
have been submitted to the finance min
istry, with request for ruling in each
case, so that American business in the
future may know to just what extent 1t
will cost it to do business here.
The Associated Press was told that a
number of companies were actually
seriously considering complete with
drawal from French business unless a
clear and favorable ruling can be OBJ
tanned.
The United States Government has
taken strong stand in a long series Of
representations to the Quai DOrsay.
The conversations are continuing, with
the hope expressed that definite as
surance will be given to American busi-
ness that it can operate on the same
basis as French company in the
United States.
A tunnel to be constructed In Mon
treal, Canada, will cost $2,500,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-02
ENGINEERS GREETED.
Portes Gil Receives Delegates to
Mexico City Convention.

MEXICO CITY, September (R.-Two
hundred delegates Of the Pan-Ameri-
can Association Of Engineers were re-,
ceived Saturday by President Portes Gil
at Chepultepec Castle, who asked them
to carry his personal greetings back to
their countries.
Donald Baker Of Los Angeles, presi-
dent Of the association, thanked the
President for the many courtesies ex-
tended during the week convention in
Mexico City. The delegates spent
some time in going over the historic
castle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-02
Mermaids Become Brides.

TORONTO, September 2 (P.-Two
girls who came here as mermaids to
compete in a marathon swim have de-
parted brides. Each married her
trainer. Ruth Tower became Mrs.
George Corsan and Ethel Hertle now is
Mrs. Prem Garry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-02

A tunnel to be constructed In Mon.
treal, Canada, will cost $2500,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
PROTEST FRAME
UP OF FURR|ERs
Mass Meet for Mineola
Victims Tonight

A huge protest mass meeting has
been called by the New York sec
tion of the International Labor De-
fense to protest against the frame
up of the two fur workers who were
sentenced to serve from two and a
half to five years in prison in the
Mineola frame-up. The meeting
will be held tonight, Immediately
after work, at the Irving Plaza Hall
18th st. and Irving Place.
Among the speakers who will ad-
dress the hundreds of workers who
are expected to be present tonight
at the protest meeting will be Louis
Hyman, president of the Needle
Trades Union; Ben Gold, secretary
treasurer of the same organization;
Moissaye J. Olgin, editor Of the Yid-
dish Communist monthly, "The
Hammer; Meilach Epstein, editor
of the Freiheit; Alfred Wagon
knecht, Norman Tallentire, S. Lipt-
zen and S. Mensaer. The last named
is one of the two framed fur work
ers. S. Milgrom will act as chair
man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
Sick Workers
Greet DAILY

A group of Communits in a con-
sumptive sanatorium in Durate,
Calf, have sent five dollars as
their greeting to the Daily Worker
on its fifth anniversary. The let
ter which accompanied the money
follows:
Dear Comrades:
eve, the Communist group and
sympathizers who are at present
confined as patients at the Jewish
Consumptive Relief Association
Sanatorium, Durate, Calf, have
sent five dollars to the Daily
Worker as greetings on its fifth
anniversary.
eve feel that it is our duty to
continue our activities despite the
rcact that we are sick.
MANY of the patients have been
sick for years and unable to work,
but they gladly give their last few
nickles and dimes to the only Eng
lish Communist paper in America.
eve send our revolutionary
greetings to the Daily Worker.
Long Live the Daily Worker!
Long Live Communism!
81. KREITZBERG."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
COMMUNIST FORD UNIT
PARTY C.E.C.

At the Detroit City membership
meeting of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party held on Saturday, Dec.
20, there was presented, in the name
of the bureau of the Ford shop
nucleus. a resolution appealing for
the unity of all Communist forces
against the Right danger and Trot-
skyism. 204 comrades voted for
the resolution.
At this meeting, which was called
to discuss the convention theses be-
fore the party, the representative
Of the Central Executive Commit
tee was Comrade Gitlow; of the
Opposition, Comrade Foster. The
Central Committee resolution was
carried by vote of 1876 to 62, with
9 abstentions. Comrade Gitlow,
when called upon to express his
opinion on the resolution of the
Ford nucleus, said that he endorsed
whole-heartedly this effort at party
unification.
The Ford resolution, which calls
for party unisy, reads as follows:
"APPEAL FOR UNITY OF ALL
COMMUNIST FORCES AGAINST
THE RIGHT DANGER AND
TROTZKYISM.
"The bureau of the Ford shop
nucleus of the party introduces the
following resolution for adoption by
the party membership meeting of
Detroit:
81. In view of the menacing war
danger, of the growing attacks by
the government and all capitalist
forces against the party, in view of
the influence of social reformism
in our ranks, which makes the Right
danger the main danger facing the
party, in view Of the splitting at
tempts of the renegade Trotzkyist
Cannon group, in view of the most
urgent need of building the party,
the membership of Detroit, which
is the most proletarian section of
the membership of the entire party,
calls upon all Communist forces
within the Workers (Communist)
Party of America to unite forth
with to eradicate all factionalism,
and to close the ranks of the party
against its enemies.
"2. The membership meeting of
the Communist workers of Detroit
states with the utmost emphasis
that there is no basis in principle
for the continuation of factionalism
in the party. 1t fully endorses the
instructions of the vi World Con-
gress of the Communist Interna-
tional that putting an end to the
factional struggle is the most ur-
gent task of the American Party at
present.
"3. The membership meeting of
the Communist workers of Detroit
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
British Ship Workers
to Australia Despite
Unemployment There

LONDON, Jan. GA trick way
of British capitalism to get rid of
some of it's unemployed is seen in
the $1,OOO,0OO,00O migration agree
ment between the British "home"
government and the Australian Tory
government.
For every $375 furnished by the
British government, Australia must
accept an immigrant worker from
Britain, regardless of the fact that
Australia has an unemployment
problem of it's own. The Tory gov
ernment is entirely unconcerned
about the 100000 unemployed there.
The first big project is the con-
struction of the s6,oO0,o0o Wyangala
dam across the Lachlan river. which
is designed to irrigate 1,357,O0O
acres.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
GILBERT PLOTS
With KELLOGG
No Cuts for Germany
if u. S. Loses by 1t

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-S. Par
Ter Gilbert, agent general of repair
ations, is spending two or three days
with Secretary Of State Kellogg as
his guest. Gilbert recently released
for publication a report on his Off
cial recommendations, which stated
that Germany was vel. off, and
could pay the full Dawes plan re-
Guiremerts.
The German bankers and industri-
alists deny that such payments can
be made, and ask for total repair
ations debt not to exceed S7000,0 0,0G0,-
900 or $s,O00,O00,O00. They say
the next payment of $600,000,000
cannot be made.
Would Cut u. s. Payments
France. unofficially as yet, asks
$4,000, 100000. England and France
propose to reduce their debt to U.
S. proporticnally to any reduction in
the German reparet:ons payments to
them.
A committee of experts meets
soon to recommend modification of
the Dawes Plan, and fix the final
amount of separations. The U. S.
refused official representation on it,
and will insist on big debt payments
from England and France, even If
this means trying to hold Germany
to the full Dawes plan payments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
MMss0liMi Needs Babies
To Swell Fascist Armies

to support those they already have
Every Italian woman must give
to her country at least one son every
two years." according to the Impero
"a refusal on this point will be equi-
valent to pushing men on the road
to polygamy, which," the writer is
hypocrite enough to state. sis con-
trary to fascist moral principles. y
The moral principles which brutal
ize women revolutionists on the exile
hell-koles off the coast and in the
jails!
The penalty for not submitting to
Mussolini's ideas on childbirth should
be three years imprisonment on one
Of the penal islands," according to
Impero.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
'CALLED FUL LER HOOVER PLUNCES
MURDERER; TRIED into CAMP AIGN
ON LIBEL CHARGE TO START WARS
Boston Communist t
Faces Long Jail
Term
LID. Defends Worker
Sacco-V -Vanzetti Case to
Be Reopened
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily Worker)
BOSTON, Jan. 6.-The Sacco-
Vanzetti case, declared dead by the
impeccably-mannered hangmen of
Massachusetts as they tossed the
charred bodies of Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the out
ragged faces of the workers of the
world, refuses to die. Once more
the courts of Massachusetts are
are being compelled to reopen the
case in their determination to pun
ish a militant worker for refusing
to accept their edict that "the mat
ter is closed"
Harry ]. Canter, who was active
in the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation in
this city and was candidate for sec
retary of state on the Workers
(Communist) Party ticket, is facing
a long jail-term on a charge of
criminal libel if he is convicted.
Fuller, Murderer of Sacco and
Vanzetti." This placard, carried
by Canter during an election dem
onstration conducted by the Work
ers Party on November in front
of the state house here, is being
used as a pretext to put this worker
behind the bars and to stifle all
future protests against the murder
ers of Sacco and Vanzetti.
25 Arrested.
Twenty-Five workers were ar
rested during the November 3 DEM
onstration and charged with "saun-
tering and lettering" They were
found guilty in the lower court and
appealed for jury trial. In the
superior court they were fined the
maximum penalty of $40 each.
On November charge of Grim
inal libel was brought against Can
ter alone by the chief of police.
The grand jury, after an "investi-
CATION" brought in an Indictment
Oli Iillo SldlSt. l. U6 case came TO
court December 10, but was post
poned until January 81 when it will
be heard in Boston superior court
before Judge Fosdick.
That the placard carried by Can
ter is merely serving as a pretext
behind which turks a more sinister
attack on the militant workingclass
is evident from the fact that no
attempts have previously been made
to prosecute persons or publications
for calling Fuller murderer. The
Daily Worker and all of the Com
munist and left wing press have
repeatedly declared that Fuller and
his commission are guilty together
with the whole capitalist class of
numbering two innocent workers.
1t is believed that Fuller himself
and other high Massachusetts Off
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
GERMAN SOCIAL
DEMOCRATS FOR
MORE ARMAMENT
Party Program Urges
Bigger Army, No
Disarmament
Mouth Pacifist Talk
Will Help Build Up
Reichswehr

BERLIN, Germany, Jan. G.
Complete remuneration of even the
pretense of pacifist policy by the
German social democrats is dis
closed in the paragraphs of the
program which will be laid before
the party's convention in Magde-
burg in March. According to the
program, whose main features have
been made public, the social demo-
Gratis will come out boldly in de-
fense of armaments in practise,
though still cringing a little Sin
theory" and in defense of German
capitalism.
This complete reversal of their
prediction promises. to fight arm
ament, which began last year with
the party's support of the cruiser
bill, will be attempted in the face
of the anger of the German work
ing class already aroused over the
earlier cruiser issue.
The Reichswehr is the particular
object of the social democrats So
licitous care and they will do every
thing in their power to build up
this arm of the German forces into
a powerful fighting engine.
The so,ial democratic endorse
ment of ornaments is ushered in
by a few paragraphs of pacifist
sentiments, condemning war, but
stating that in view of Germany's
position they entirely endorse the
need for a greater army!
The armament endorsement urges
that the German government make
no attempt to evade the restric-
tions of the treaty of Versailles, but
also advises the government not to
feel obliged to disarm without
consideration of German military
and political practically"
The Madgeburg program is fhere-
ly the written admission of the poll
icy of the social democratic party
in every Reichstag discussion on
armament in the psst year. In the
Reichstag they have consistently
announced their pacifist stand and
then voted for the governments
war appropriations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07

PARIS, France, Jan. 6.-Italian
armies, bigger armies, armies fight
ing for Mussolini from the Alps to
the Sahara, planting the black flag
of fascism thru all the provinces of
its rebuilt Rome--such is the dream
Of Mussolini.
Thru the pen of his literary cor
poral Mario Carli, editor of Impero,
the ultra-fascist paper, the views of
Mussolini on childbirth have just
been made public to the workers and
peasants of an overpopulated coun-
try.
Bear children, children and more
children, is the fascist message to the
Italian masses who are often unable
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
WORKERS MUST
ATTEND UNITS
District 2 of Party
Issues Call

In view of the final discussion
and the elections to the section con-
ventions which are to take place
in New York City this week, the
Executive Committee of District
has issued the following statement:
"To All Members of District 2:
"The final discussion and cleo
tions to the section conventions in
New York City take place this
week. 1t is the task of all MEM
bers to participate fully in this
weeks discussion and elections, to
express their opinions on the issue
before the party, to criticize its
shortcomings, and, to make pro-
posals for overcoming the party's
weaknesses. To combat the Right
danger, which is the main danger
before the party, means to prepare
the party ideologically and organ
nationally in order that it may
fulfill the tremendous task of fight
ing the growing war menace and
the manifold tasks facing the party
in the present and coming strug-
giles.
"The district convention must be
the expression of the entire men,
bership. The party will be able to
fulfill it's tasks only if the entire
membership understands these
tasks and participates wholeheart-
edly in the formulating and guild
ing of its policies.
"Party comrades! Be at your
unit meetings to decide the policies
of the party. Everybody to the
unit meetings for the final discus
sion and election of delegates.
Attend your unit meeting this week
without fail.
Fraternally yours,
District Executive Committee,
District 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
STEEL CO. Gets
SECRET FUNDS
Mellon Makes Shady
Tax Deals

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The lat
est session of the House of Repre-
sentatives, was enlivened by discus
sion of the Mellon tax refunds scan
dal.
The report of the Appropriations
Committee, which considered Secre-
tary of the Treasury MELONS de-
mand for $75,000,000 for tax re-
funds, brot out the fact that altho
Representative Garner of Texas,
Democrat, had paid nothing during
the Democratic administration and
while the interest was running on
the huge $26,00o,00O steel trust tax
refund, he was now willing to ex-
pose the whole deal.
Garner took the floor and accused
Mellon of making secret deals with
the largest corporations, and par
ticularly with those of which he is
one of the owners, or of which his
immediate family are owners.
Garner accused Mellon of allow
ing huge credits for taxes, without
publicity. In this way S20,000,O00
was given the U. S. Steel Corpora
ton, a Morgan-Mellon concern. He
brot out that Mellon had allowed
over $2,0Q0,000,000 tax refunds dur
ing the last eight years.
Deals With Himself
He then cited the refund to the
Aluminium Company of America of
$621 ,626.04 and added:
"This is not all. The Aluminium
Company already had been allowed
as credit $165,117.18, and in abate-
ment they gave them just a little
Christmas present of $623, ,420, or a
grand total of refunds and credits
for taxes paid in one year, 1917, of
1867 ,426.64.
'Mr. Mellon, this grand Secretary
that you hear so much about today,
this man who will never perish from
the thoughts of the American peo-
pie when we are gone and forgotten,
this man sits on that side of the
table as Secretary of the Treasury,
and if reports are correct that he
owns the Aluminium Company, Mr..
Mellon, the citizen of Pittsburgh,
Pa, sits on this side and determines
how much he owes the government.
Mellon Must Gain
"Do you think the government is
going to get the best of it when the
Aluminium Company of America
starts in to compromise with the
ec1etary of the Treasury?
"Here is man sitting in judg-
ment on large sums of money, mil
lions Of dollars involved, trying the
case, if current reports are correct,
Of a concern in which he controls
or owns, the majority of the stock.
"The Secretary, as / recall, re-
signed as a director in sixty-odd COR
porations when he went into the
Treasury Department. They have
had applications for refunds. Under
the law at the present time, he can
st down and reach an agreement
with any of them, that is binding
on the American people, accepting
ten cents on the dollar for the
amount due"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
Arrives in Washington
and Sets Up Second
White House"
Pushes Kellogg Pacts
Patronage and Cruiser
Bills Divide Time

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Presi-
dent-elect Hoover arrived today on
his special train, with his extra
baggage car loaded with Inca gold
and other presents from debtor gov
ernments of the United States in
Latin America. He will establish
headquarters in the Hotel May
flower, and make it "Second
White House"
He was met at the depot by Sem
ator Shortridge of California, and
began Immediately his patronage
and "pork-barrel" negotiations. He
will be visited today or tomorrow
by Mellon and Gilbert, in regard
to German reparations, and will see
various administration senators
soon, to supervise the rushing
through of the Kellogg pacts as
part of the war against Britain
for which his administration will
plunge into preparedness, and to
direct the cruiser bill around some
of the senate's interminable red
tape.
Censored Wireless.
1t was learned on his arrival that
all of the wireless messages from
the Utah were, as was surmised,
actually censored by Hoover.
1t was also learned that Hoover
is contemplating, but regards Of
secondary Importance to the senate
campaign and the negotiating over
cabinet posts, a second tour, to
take in the West Indies, and to start
in February.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
HEBREW TRADES
AVOID Meeting
Make Fake Peace Offer
Then Run from 1t

Explaining in detail the treachery
of the bureaucrats of the former
Hebrew Butcher Workers Union
and the United Hebrew Trades, who
called a peace conference with the
Progressive Butcher and Poultry
Workers Union and then failed to
appear to confer, the latter organ
ization issues the following state
ment:
"The union breaking tactics Of
the Socialist" union bureaucrats Of
the United Hebrew Trades and OF
the officialdom of the former He.
brew Butcher Workers Union, then
policy of wholesale expulsions ant
intimidations compelled the progres-
sive elements to form a union tt
defend the interests of the workers
and prevent the bosses with the aic
of the right wing scab officials from
reducing conditions and standards.
"The right wing outfit, having
been dealt a mortal blow, began to
make fake peace overtures to our
organization with the intent of de-
moralizing and confusing our rank
and file.
A Real Program.
"The Progressive Butcher and
Poultry Workers Union having in
mind the interests of the rank and
file accepted their proposals for
"peace" negotiations, and offered
the following constructive program
as basis for unity:
"O Organization campaign tc
begin Immediately in charge of ar
organization committee in each Sec
tion Is in each section).t (2) Work
ing cards to be given out by the
Grievance Committee elected by the
membership. 90 Organization fund
to be raised thru a tax of 10 per
cent to be controlled by the organ
ization committee elected by the
membership. (4) Reduction in ini-
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