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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Miners CALL FOR RELIEF STRIKE
FUNDS TO CARRY ON STRUGGLE

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ing out of rank and file votes and
counting in of gangsters' votes, and
all the trickery developed through
years of Lewis and Fishwick mis-
rule. They are loyal only to the
coal operators. The UNIV. inter
national and district constitutions
are involved, complicated, and full
of opportunities and technical ex-
cuses for dictatorship by the oper-
ators' agents in the U.M.W.A.
The machine then expels mill
tants, and since Fishwick last year
secured from the coal companies a
district contract that they will hire
only UNIV. members lin return
for wage cut permitted by the
U.M.W.) expulsion is followed by
discharge from the mines.
Send Help.
Real distress, hunger, cold, not
nough clothing, no fuel, are COM
non not only throughout the struck
region but among the best elements
in the innsbruck region.
The miners, says the N.M.U. dis
trict office, have only their fellow
workers on whom to rely. They ask
for funds, Immediately and in suf-
ficient quantity to be sent to the
National Miners Union, national Of
flee, 119 Federal St., North Side,
Pittsburgh, Pa, not only for relief,
but for use in spreading the strike,
and building the union in prepare
ton for the national strike next
year. Just now only a victorious
strike, and a powerful industrial
union in the mine fields can bring
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
RED ART TO-NITE

Tonight Saturday. at 8 o'clock a
feast OF proletarian art will will be
presented to those workers who are
lucky enough to get into Labor
Temple, 18th st. and Second Ave,
where Red Art Night will be held
under the auspices of Local New
York, Workers International Relief
and the John Reed Club. The pro-
ceeds will go for the striking Illinois
miners and the USSR tractor fund.
Tickets at rs cents are on sale at
the WIR, 100 Broadway, room 221,
and the New Masses, 112 E. 10Th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
/ labor and Fraternal
Organizations
working Women Conference.

Anti-war working woman's confer
ence will take place saturday, Jan.
4 at p. m, Irving Plaza Hail, IRVING
Pl. and 18th ST.. under the auspices
tof the Communist Party, New York
District All trade unions, shop rep
6resentatives and progressive women's
organizations are requested to elect
delegates
WOmcns Council Giving Concert.
81 The Womens Council No. of the
Bronx is giving a concert and banquet
Saturday, Dec. %. p. m. lat 400
Boston Rd.
williamsburg LID. Dance.
M The semiannual dance of the Will
liamsburg. branch Of the LID. will he
held Sunday, Dec 20 at So Manhat-
tan Ave.
Lecture Monday.
Council l and Cloakmakers No 2.
OF Harlem viii have a joint lecture
on Monday night. Dec. 80, at $50 at
Plan Betty Gannett win speak.
Council No. IL of the Bronx will
have a lecture on the Five-Year Plan
Monday night. Dec. 80. at 2075 Clinton
] Ave-. Bronx.
Farewell Dance in Harlem.
Sunday. Dec. 20, at 1880 p. m. in
Harlem Progressive Youth Club. 1892
. MdulSOl ave-, near lVoih 81 o. LSI
man and his orchestra will play.
"a
BorO Park LID. Concert Dance.
q Workers of Boro Park are assured
%an enjoyable evening and at the same
ftime win help the political prisoners
by attending the concert and dance
y on New Years Eve at 1871 Il. 43rd st.
Il The program included n one-act
Splay. selections by mandolin orches-
4 ira and recitations followed by n
dance. Refreshments win be served
Admission only S5 cents.
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MEXICAN T0ILERS
ASK AID IN FIGHT
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comes simultaneously with the ter
ror on the revolutionary workers.
The bourgeois newspapers call for
blood. "Take vengeance against
these terrorists," these real terror
lists of facism cry. They call for
the government to use all the bar
barous methods at their disposal to
destroy in a flood of blood, the work
ers' and peasants movement.
Only A Part.
A partial list of the terror has
been sent to the International La
Dor efense and the United States
section of the Anti-Imperialist
League:
TIL re-arrest of Junco, Cuban
Negro workers leader, now held
incomunicado.
Cotono, Cuban revolutionist,
tortured in Jail with electric APP
paratus.
Barreiro, of Cuba, has gone
insane.
Barreiro's wife and two
daughters jailed and held in
comunicado.
Raids on homes of all arrest
ed and workers visiting these
detained.
Raids on all members of the
Central Commute Of the Com
munist Party.
All leaders Of the Mexican
section of the Anti-Imperialist
League arrested.
Paz, trade union leader in the
Typographical Union, delegate
to Montevideo Congress, ar
" rested.
The arrest of Quiros, Cuban
leader, proves further that the
hand Of Machado is involved.
Late word from government cir
cles on the raids is that all ubar
emigres must be deported to Cube
"a death sentence at the hands Of
the president Machado, tool of Wal
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
PROLETARIAN CABARET
DANCE TONIGHT

Tonight the Proletarian Cabaret
Dance will take place at 26 Union
So. There will be an interesting pro-
gram including the well-known
singer James Phillips in workers
songs, and Pauline Rogers in revo-
lutionary negro spirituals, and mo-
vies. Tickets, so cents. The pro-
ceeds of the affair go to build up
The Working Woman, a working
women's paper published by the
Communist Party Of U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Send Greetings to the Workers
in the Soviet Union Through the
Special Printing Of The Daily
Worker in the Russian Language!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
HJJISWOOD TO TALK.

The next lecture at the Workers
School Forum to take place on Sun
day, Dec. 20, will be on "The Ne
gro in Industry by Comrade Huis-
wood. The lecture will be held at
the School, 26 Union Square, Dec.
goth, at p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

appear in European productions,
will be seen in her first German
vehicle, "Wasted Love-" at the Lit
tie Carnegie Playhouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

permanent improvement in the sit
uation.
The Workers International Relief,
949 Broadway, New York City, is
concentrating especially on relief
for the strikers and others victim
lied by the bosses and U.M.W.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

The newly organized branch San
tiago Brooks" of the LID. is holding
a dance this evening at the Spanish
Workers Center 26 West 115th St.
New York, at $40 D. M There will
be a. good jazz band. Admission will
be 80 cents--women admitted free
Proceeds to go to pay travelling ex-
penses of a Latin American delegate
to the national convention of the
LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

GIRL COMRADE DESIRES SHARE
with girl n Broom apt. village. S2o.
Chelsea S474.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Midnight Show of Soviet Film.
Saturday evening. Dec. 2S. mid
night show, I'm Old Siberia" the
great Soviet epic film, in the New
Lakeland Theatre. Admission so
cents.
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Unit 1OF. section ..

Unit IUF, section =.
Special meeting will be held this
afternoon at 100, at 1879 Broadway
to elect delegates for Section Con-
vention.
ID. w. Representatives. Section 3.
VIII meet Monday, 8 D. m. at 11T9
Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Section Aeitprop Directors.

Directors will take place on Saturday
afternoon at Q p. m. at the office Of
the District Agitprop Department, All
comrades connected must be sure to
be present as very important matters
Evening star., 1929-06-30
Giant French Liner
Soon to Be Constructed

A new era of competition In trans
atlantic shipping has started between
the principal countries of Europe. Fol-
lowing Germany. Italy and Great Brit
ain, France has decided to build a new
liner Of huge proportions. It viii be the
Super lie de France, owned by the
French line, and win have q capacity
over $4,000 tons and electric engines
with speed exceeding ~ knots. Like
her smaller sister. the Isle de France,
the new giant ship will have the latest
fittings of the French de luxe indus
tries. The state is giving financial aid
to the enterprise, thanks to a new law
providing for a maritime credit fund,
granting big loans TO shipping COM
panies. The fund has already adj
vanced $2,000,000 to the French line
for the construction of the Super lie
de France.
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which, on the whole, it has worked.
It is natural, of course to compare it
to the treaty of Vienna. That treaty
was criticized in much the same way,
but it did furnish a framework for
the affairs of Europe, which subsisted
for at least so years and obtained the
long peace which enabled that astonish-
ing progress to be made in applied
science and general diffusion of COM
fort which characterized the nineteenth
century.
No treaty settlement can hope to be
everlasting, nor would it be well that it
should. but the treaty of Versailles
seems in every way likely to rival the
record of the treaty of Vienna in this
respect, If not to improve upon it.
Points of detail can always be
amended, and already provisions of the
treaty have been revised to bring them
into greater harmony with the necessi-
ties OF the time. If this is always done,
whenever the occasion arises, with wis
dom, caution and understanding, our
descendants will have every cause to
look back on the treaty of Versailles
with feelings of approval and satisfac-
ton as the instrument that exercised
the demon of war and restored Europe
and the world to the paths Of peace.
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Versailles did nothing else, it focused
the thought of the world upon the
question of maintaining peace by a
general uplift of living standards
throughout the world which would min
inlize those economic discrepancies
which have been among the most potent
provocations to war. President Wilson
saw this very clearly. Here Is bit of
unpublished history which shows this.
Reveals Interview with wilson.
A few days before the armistice a
distinguished group of industrial lead
ers called upon me at washington and
suggested that / ask President Wilson
to retain the price e-1xing methods which
the Government had adopted for var
purposes for a sufficient period OF time
to allow business conditions TO become
stabilized without too violent 1nterven-
ing shocks. When presented tner
plea and reasoning to the President ne
remarked that the history of all great
wars showed that profound social
changes invariably followed and that
conditions never were the same after a
war as before.
Therefore. he was Of the opinion that
any attempt to perpetuate war condt.
tionS would be to combat the forces OF
social and economic evolution. For
the government to take steps to main
tain war conditions along the lines sug-
gested would keep prices up" said the
President. Labor would, therefore,
make demands that wages be kept high
and the readjustments Of industry to
the natural postwar conditions would
be postponed beyond reason. The SOON
er the people of America and of the
world reach a natural economic post
war status of prices and wages, the
better"
Prices VIII Continue Higher
"Prices will continue higher" said
the President, from the effect Of nat
ural economic forces which have been
unioosened and accelerated by the war.
Wages will continue to be high and the
living standards Of the masses will
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would deserv e
grateful commence
ration.
Harsh criticisms
have been passed
upon its provisions,
but when we con-
slider the complex
ity of the questions
which it had to
deal with and the
imperative neces-
sity Of speed in
dealing with them,
we shall be less
surprised that the
work may be open
to criticism in de-
tails than aston
ished at the
SYY100tI1Y1eSS with
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Notable Changes in Political Field.
In the political field the changes
have been notable. In italy and Spain
we witness the experiment Of personal
relationships and in Russia class die
tatorship is still on trial. Time alone
can tell whether their establishment Is
to be permanent, or whether they will
give way or without violence to some
form of more popular government
Financially, the march toward gen.
eral stability has been steady and sure,
and improved conditions In this respect
exist not only In the countries of our
war allies but in those of our foes as
well. The reduction of the burden on
Germany as fixed by the Dawes plan
has had a substantial effect in this
direction, and the happy termination
of the recent Paris conference by the
adoption of the Young plan will not a
little tend to regulate the financial
pulse.
Little Progress With League.
Important steps have been made
along the line Of peaceful settlement Of
international disputes. The Pan
American Congress, the Washington
Conference Of 1922. the Arms Confer
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which 1t dealt.
In my capacity of president Of the
Conference of Ambassadors had the
difficult mission for the last 10 years to
see to the fulfillment of the treaty. De-
spite the inevitable obstacles that stood
in our way, can attest that on the
whole 1t has been executed.
Great progress has been achieved in
Europe as regards moral and material
disarmament. Victorious and defeated
nations finally have understood the ne
cessity for political rapprochement be-
tween them, and they have been helped
greatly in this way by the solidarity Of
their economic interests.
Thus, both France and Germany have
been able to sign, in 1926, the Locarno
agreements and, in 1928, the Kellogg
pact for the outlawry of war.
And quite lately, thanks to the work
of the committee of experts so skillfully
directed by Owen D. Young, the
problem of reparations, which for so
long has been irritating for interna-
tional relations, has been given prac-
tical solution.
Ten years after the conclusion of the
Versailles treaty peace seems thus to
have been truly stabilized in new Eu-
rope.
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Hawaii Rejoices
AS Volcano Erupts

Kilauea's sudden squirt of life recently
does not satisfy scientists here, who
hope that the volcanoes Of Hawaii are
entering a period of activity. Unlike
some other parts OF the world, Hawaii
retoiceS at volcanic displays, and there
Is always q rush Of tourists and towns
people to the crater of Kalemaumau--
the pit Of Kilauea-when the word goes
out that "She's spouting lava" I'M
mediately after the news Of Kilauea's
rising lava steamers leaving Honolulu
for the Island OF Hawaii-site Of XII
lauea-were booked to capacity. Ha-
waits tame volcanoes are not at all
feared, even by people who live In the
surrounding district. The went" Of
do not expect ''blowoff" such as occurs
at VesuviuS.
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should acknowledge herself solely to be
guilty of the war, when every objective
thinker must admit that every great ma
ton on the European continent had
pursued policy which sooner or later
must lead to the taking up of arms.
Regrets German Concessions.
It was bad that Germany should give
UP to her neighbors on each of her bor-
ders valuable districts inhabited entirely
or preponderantly by German citizens:
that she should deliver up her merchant
marine, that all German property in the
territory Of victor nations should be
confiscated, and that Germany, whose
trade balance must be passive because
Of all these treaty stipulations, must
pay huge Indemnity sums, the extent Of
which far exceeded President Wilson's
points.
The worst was that the treaty seemed
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acceptance OF the
conditions of the
allied and associat-
ed powers W h e n
the German Ma
t 10 ! Assembly
decided against me
left the cabinet to
which I belonged
as minister of JUS
tice.
Among the rea-
sons which deter
mined my attitude,
not the least was
that I feared a
permanent menace
to world p e &C e
would result from
the treaty. 1t was
had that GERMANY
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THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

who was inspired by Mr.. Lloyd George,
military pensions"
This would certainly have been a
good transaction for the allies If Ger
many had paid integrally. But it
proved to be a deplorable one for
France and Belgium and the other
countries devastated by the war, since
the sums paid by Germany were great
ly reduced by the claims Of Great
Britain, who had no devastated re-
gions, but who wanted to have her
pensions paid.
Calls Demands on Germany RightfuI.
Finally, from the point of view of
limitation of armaments, it was not
excessive to demand that Germany be
disarmed first, so long as the. other
powers undertook in the treaty, in
virtue of Paul Boncour's note, to be
diSarmed in their turn. But by inn
posing on Germany a system of vol
intary service Of IL years with linn
tied army, while the other powers kept
the right to have the whole nation
armed by digposing of trained reserves.
great injustice was done, and this
injustice is the principal cause Of the
almost inextricable situation in which
is entangled the Preparation Commits
sion Of the Conference for Disarma-
ment.
The Socialists Of Great Britain,
France, Germany, Italy and Belgium
had said all this In 1922 In Frank
fort, when they asked for cancella-
ton of the interallied debts, limi-
tation of reparations to the direct
damages and reduction to q reason
able sum, commercialization of Ger
manys debt and an end as soon as
possible to the military occupation.
At that moment their claims
seemed scandalous. They now ma
terialize one after the other. They
should all be accepted in order that
peace may be consolidated and that,
under the sign of international JUS
tice, Europe may cease to be divided
by definitely effacing the difference
between the victorious and the de-
feated nations.
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ence and recognized our right to repa-
rations, admitted by Chancellor Beth
mann Hollweg himself.
Revenge of Justice Over Force.
This treaty has been bitterly criti-
cized, but in its main lines 1t meant
the revenge of justice over force. Its
two essential dispositions - the dis
annexation of Alsace- Lorraine and the
resurrection of Poland-Were in accord
ance with the universal conscience.
This must be said out loud in this
month of June, 1929, which will mark
the tenth anniversary of the treaty.
/ would, however, consider 1t a lack
of moral courage not to add the fol-
lowing words:
Among the signatories of the lex
satura which the Versailles treaty
meant, very few, If any at all, realized
in 1919 that some of its points were
bound to outlive themselves in the very
near future. For many of the decisions
taken at Versailles have ben rspon-
sible for the strained international rela-
tions that existed in Europe after the
war.
Treaty Inspired by People.
From the territorial point of view, the
Versailles treaty was inspired, on the
whole, by the right of free determina-
ton of peoples But this renders more
irritating some of its articles which had,
as a result, to cut into two parts a
great country, to create frontiers which
it is almost impossible to defend, and
to take away from millions of people
the right to be governed according to
their wishes.
From the point of view of indemni-
ties to be paid by Germany, it must
be admitted that the experts in the
recent conference would not have had
to work for months II the negotiators
of the Versailles treaty had been con-
tent with Representations of the direct
damage caused by the war and had
not increased Germany's bill by adding
to it. as was proposed by Gen. smuts,
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of opportunities for
helpfulness have
been too numer-
Gus to make this
altogether COM
plete.
The advance in
material prosperity
has been great.
The standard OF
living has been
considerably raised.
Transportation and
communication, be-
cause of the de-
velopment in the
aviation, radio and
automobile fields,
have made tre-
mendous strides.
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Clemenceau, in the
name of France
the treaty of YER
sailles, which was
to put an end to
the most devastat-
ing war humanity
had ever seen.
This treaty cer-
tainly is the most
considerable diplo-
matte act yet
known In the his
tory of the world
because of the
many nations it
involved as sigma
tories and because
of the extremely
varied and COM
plex problems with
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Kellogg pact-all evidence the coop
erative spirit, which is the "sine qua
non" of any real advance. In all these
the United States was represented.
But after 10 years we appear to be
just where we started with respect to
the League of Nations, the one per-
manent body created for this par
ticular purpose. And little more can
be said of our relation to the World
Court, on which. by the invitation of
the other powers a representative sits
from, of but not for the United States.
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ment of the issues
of the past, but as
the beginning of a
new orientation of
the world. The SUI
perhcial critics of
the treaty who
have made so much
noise In the world
have had an easy
task in pointing out
its technical de-
fects as a settle
ment, but they have
overlooked the vast
and more Signif1-
cant developments
which have been
u n + o ] d in G ever
since.
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Car71bor1 Sees Pact
World Greatest
Diplomatic Act
BY JULES CAMBoN.

Minister Plenipotentiary for France at
Versailles Peace Conference
PARIS.-Though 10 years have gone
by since that moment, cannot think
without being deeply moved of that
luminous day, June %, 1919. when
was called to sign, with M. Georges
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0LCt CdCA OIAlCL OUl
were inspired by
an entirely differ
ent spirit. One was
freely accepted by
the signatories. the
other dictated by
the victorious ma
tions to a defeated
country.
I signed the Ver-
sailles treaty as
the representative
of Belgium, and II
I had to do 1t over
again I would dc
it. This treaty gave
back to my country
the victim Of an
unjustihed aggres-
sion--its independ-
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cream. Inc aSSO-
citation of most OF
the countries of
the world in the
League of Nations
has created a wider
and m ore SYM
pathetic attitude.
nd the recent
signing Of the Kel-
logg pact consti-
tutes a material
m ark of re a ]
achievement. We
look upon the pres
ent collaboration
of the great Eng
disappearing races
as a hopeful indi-
cation of further
,~-o~rn@r aud the
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(From a painting by Karl Anderson.)
economic era will develop and prevail. -
Beyond all question. a candid view of
what happened in the world since the
signing of the treaty shows that Wood
row Wilson was the valid prophet of a
new social era for all the world. In
spite of all the frightful losses of the
war, the living standards of the masses
of America and Western Europe have
been definitely established on higher
plane
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American Failures
At HeLpfulness Are
Scored by J. w. DaUis
BY JOHN w. DAVIS,

American Ambassador at Court OF st.
James, lelS-l92l.
We may look back, think, on this
tenth anniversary of the signing Of the
Treaty of Versailles with no little salts
faction. Our failures, however, to avail
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japanese Baron
Believes Treaty
Deserves Honor
BY BARON GHCHI TANAKA,
Premier Of Japan,

TOKIO.-n for no other reason than
1t, closed the most devastating and
desoiatirlg war of which we have record
in history, the treaty Of Versailles
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Locarno Accord
With Versailles
Seen by Belgian,
BY EMILE vANDERvELDE.

Belsium's Plenipotentiary at Versailles.
BRUSSELS.-I am, with Edouard
Benes, the only statesman who signed
in 1919 the Versailles treaty and in
1926 the Locarno treaty--two diplo-
matte acts whose texts do not contra
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Regrets German
Concessions to
Former Enemies
BY OTTO LANDSBERG,
German Minister for Justice in 1919.

BERLIN.-Ten years ago today Ger
many signed the treaty of Versailles.
Hard domestic battles took place in
which some of those who declined
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True Perspective
OF Treaty Is Seen
After Ten Years
BY EDWARD N. HURLEY,

Shipping Adviser at American Peace Com
mission at Versailles.
With the advantages of decade of
hindsight, the treaty of Versailles now
begins to appear in its true historical
perspective-not so much as a settle