THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1927 Page Three News from U.S.S.R. BRITISH MONEY j Communist International Urges Against ECONOMIC- CONSTRUCTION. It was on an average a 13-14 hour Protest Mining Industry In 1927—1928. day. The “famous” law of 1897 fixed BACKS FASCIST Control figures for 1927-28 indicate an UVa hour day. But employers Lithuanian Terrorism a considerable development of the could make free with this law, or to mining industry: coal production is put it differently, the lav/ provided (Special Cable to Daily Worker). I to increase 17%, coke production 23%, for legal excuses for its infringement GROUP IN CHINA | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 16. | production ofraw oil 14% and produc- in the shape of “urgent” work, over- I i —The Communist International has ’ tion of kerosene, benzine and vege- time in the ease of “urgent orders,” Dissension in Nanking j addressed an appeal to the workers | table oil 25 to 41%; in the iron ore etc. The working day of piece-work- if all countries urging them to pro- industry a 27% increase of production ers was not limited as they were not Govt. Continues i test against the Lithuanian fascist is expected. This increased production j considered regular wage earners, hut ; government which has been bru- will enable the mining industry to people working on a definite job. (Special to Daily Worker). i tally oppressing workers. I of supply next year all the fuel, miner- j After the revolution, 1917, SHANGHAI, Oct. 16.—The consti- Hundreds militant workers February have als and other mining products which ! the working tuent meeting of the fascist associa- I been tortured in prisons or class began to introduce executed by the country needs. At the same time, j the 8-hour day by downing tools after tion has taken place here. This as- I the fascist officialdom. cost of production will be reduced on | eights hours, which was resented and sociation has been formed with the an average 5.6%. I opposed by the capitalists and their assistance of British money and under Considerable amounts have been as- | lackeys—social democratic Menshe- the leadership of British reactionary AGENT signed for work in the mining viks and social circles Shanghai. DF WALL capital revolutionaries who in Seven hundred ioSusfry: for the coal industry—l 36 had a seat in the provisional govern- people took part in the meeting. million roubles (it was 126 million ment. As a result of this the workers The association considers itself to roubles in 1926-27). for the oil indus- did not succeed in having a law passed be “international” as it accents Rus- STREET TO RON try—lßs million roubles. of a general 8-hour day during the sian white guardists as members. The Ten Years Progress. whole eight months of the existence British press publishes the full text The “Comintern” leather works in of the so-called provisional govern- of the speech of the newly backed Leningrad was a very small concern ment. It was only after the October chairman of the association, the Brit- POLISH AFFAIRS prior to the revolution. It was revolution that the 8-hour day became ish merchant Fireh. The speech was thoroughly re-equipped under the Sov- part and parcel of the conquests of filled with hitter hatred for the Chi- Treasury Dept. iet government and increased its pro- the proletariat as one of the immov- nese masses and their struggle for Ma n ductivity 14 times. Its output in 1926 able foundations of the new life. Im- emancipation and hatred of the Sov- “Financial Advisor” was 1,200,000 hides instead of the mediately after October 25, a decree iet Union. former 84,000. At present, the pro- was issued on October 29, 1917 intro- * * * WASHINGTON, Oct. If,.—Charles ductive capacity of the works is 1,- ducing the 8-hour day in all enter- More Trouble In Nanking. S. Dewen, assistant secretary of the 600,000 hides per year. prises and households and a 42-hour (Special Cable to Daily Worker). treasury, is to be financial advisor Canal for the Irrigation of 34.000 weekly rest for all wage earners with- SHANGHAI, Oct. 16. The Nank- to the Polish government and a mem- Hectares Land. out exception. By the same decree a ing Extraordinary Committee of the ber of the directorate of the bank, number of Kuomintang on the side and the as provided In the coming financial year, a regulations re protection one for in the “stabilization Wang canal 28 kilometres long will be laid of women and child labor were estab- Chin-wei and Tang Rhen-chi plan” drawn up by an agent of the The first and other Wuhan members adopt- House of Morgan, Prof. Edwin on the right bank of the Syr-Darya in lished. labor code issued in are Kem- 1918 ing a strongly hostile attitude merer, a Princeton Central Asia for the irrigation of part October was based on general to- university “econ- compulsory wards Nanking. omist.” of the Steppe. This canal will irri- labor service. It was dic- Tang Shen-chi and Wang Under the agreement gate 34,000 hectares. tated by the exigencies of civil war. Chin-wei for “stabili- consented as the of negotia- zation” a §70,000,000 loan will Storage of Cotton Makes Progress. However, in regard to working hours, result be tions to recognize the floated on Bankers in The Cotton Storage Campaign in rest and protection of women and extraordinary Wall Street. labor, of the Kuomintang. On England, Holland, Sweden and Fergun (Uzbekistan) is in full swing. adolescent the new law did not committee the change anything other side the Nanking members Switzerland will cooperate in the loan All the cotton cleansing works, two in the provisions of By M. Pass. the decree of October 29. In it agreed to convoke immediately the and the French government has au- of them only recently constructed, fact public made even more complete this achieve- COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY AGENT OF WALL STREET: “Damn (he Mexicans! fourth plenum of the Kuomintang for thorized a issue in France. have been set going. Dewey is a trusted agent of the ment of the October revolution by They chase and they chase, and they don't let me take over the government!” i the purpose of electing a central com- Expansion of Foreign Trade. millionaire outlaw secretary of the The of the foreign trade limiting overtime to a few exceptional -1 mittee. turn-over * * • treasury, Andrew cases clearly defined in W. Mellon, and his of the U. S. S. R. amounted to 113*4 the law. The appointment to the job of 8-hour day became an Dissension among menibei’S of the financial million roubles in August, against 109 inalienable con- to places ouest of the working j Wuhan and Nanking governments who advisor Poland him in a million roubles in July of the currant class. None of position important the subsequent PRAVGA united to form a counter-revolution- more than am- decrees prior to and HITS ST year and 101 million roubles Our Australian Letter bassador, August, and is indicative of after NEP the brought ary government at Nanking has brok- the 1926. code of 1922 I fact that Wail will any alterations into the working | en out on a number of occasions. The Street dominate The general turn-over of foreign hours APIA, Samoa (South Pacific without trial of any sort, deprived of Polish policy. laid down by law. Observance of the j bond that ties the two groups together trade during the last eleven months Ocean). —Serious trouble threatens in their hereditary titles, taken from NEW TACTICS SF labor code and consequently the is opposition to the workers’ and amounted to 1.322 million roubles; ex- ob- ex-German Samoa, of the ac- their family homes and banished to servance of the day because peasants’ movement. port 691 million roubles and imports 8-hour and the tion of the New Zealand government other districts, and ordered to assume 42-hour weekly rest, etc., is * * • 631 million roubles. obligatory in interfering with the hereditary tra- names other than those to which they for all institutions, enterprises, house- j TROTSKY GROUP Scientists Found The active balance of the foreign ditions, usages na- a by Yelp for Concession. holds and customs and of the had full legal claim. Efforts trade of the U. S. S. R. during this individuals who employ tive races; arreating native chiefs, de- European residents Samoa HANKOW, Oct. 16.—With the pow- hired labor. in to secure period reached 60.8 million roubles priving them of their and deport- fair-play for the natives were ignored, er of the revolutionary movement tem- This is titles Opposition’s Methods J against the passive balance of 101.6 a short sketch of the es- ing them from their villages and and when it was recently arranged porarily checked by the betrayal of Society to Bsiild tablishment of the million roubles for the same period 8-hour day by the family circles. that 6 native chiefs should go to New Move for New Party I the struggle by middle class elements last year. Russian working class. Let us now When New Zealand was given a Zealand to interview the prime min- and opportunists in the Hankow gov- consider the real working hours (Special to WORKER) ONE OF THE ACHIEVE- in mandate to control the territory, it ister regarding the various grievances, Cable DAILY i ernment. British business men here MAIN the U. S. S. R. in separate MOSCOW, Oct. 16.—That the Economy in USSR MENTS OF THE NOVEMBER branches set down that the heredi- the New Zealand government prompt- | held a meeting yesterday and formally 7. of industry. According was natives’ methods of Opposition 1917 to 1925-26 sta- tary traditions and rights to be ly notified the Samoan authorities not the are lead- appealed to the British government REVOLUTION. tistics, the average length were ing to an attempt (Special to Worker). of the work- to issue passports to the chiefs. at the creation of for the “restoration” of the conces- Cable Daily The Working Day Tn the U. S. S. R. ing in the safeguarded. But the N. Z. government a new day mining and metal in- Since then the situation has gone party is the charge made sion lost in the C’hen-O’Malley agree- MOSCOW. U. S. S. R„ Oct. 16. to is | placed Samoa under the control of of- j Right up the end of the last cen- dustry 7.5 hours, in the engineer- from bad to chiefs against it in an editorial in Pravda. ment signed March 15th. Many eminent scientists and special- the ficials who knew nothing of the tra- worse. More have I tury, length of the working day ing industry 7.4 hours, in I he new tactics of the Opposition are » the cotton ditions and practices among the been arrested and deported from their * » ists, among them a number of prom- in Russia was not fixed by legislation. industry 7.4 hours, in the paper Sam- jbeing employed with an eye on the in- oans. As a result these have not only villages, and according to a recent SHANGHAI, Oct. 16.—About 1,600 I inent ¦ engineers and university pro- dustry 7.7. hours, etc., the average | coming Party Congress. fessors, founded “Society for been ignored, but treated with utter statement by impartial observers of ! British troops were sent from have the . home —ra—— m-amtmitfxztari Uwatmajaum throughout the industry being 7.5 The Opposition wants to carry a disregard contempt. the situation, the treatment now being j Shanghai yesterday, reducing the Promotion of Socialist Construc- hours. The average length and jstruggle against the Party and use the of the accorded to the natives “is sufficient to tion in the Soviet Union.” all weapons can | force about 6,000 men. working day in the U. S. S. R. is de- Old Social System. to make the natives’ old-time cham- that possibly harm The new organization states in its creasing every years. | it, the Pravda says. The Opposition In .1922 it was The natives of Samoa have an elab- pion of their cause, Robert Louis declaration that it wholly shares and ORDER 7.9 hours, in 1923 7.8 hours, in 1925 j evidently intends to place before the supports the of the orate social system of self-govern- Stevenson, to turn his grave.” Defective Equipment principles Soviet in Party the accomplished fact of a new 7.6 hours, at * * whereas present it is ment, handed down from generation to * regime and expresses the warmest only 7.5 is ! party. Injures hours. There also a de- generation, to which every Samoan Engine Crew sympathy for the promotion of cul- crease in number of No Piece-work. Illegal Apparatus. the working hours submits as a matter of course. This tural and economic development of per head per year. In 1924-25 the SYDNEY, Australia.—Mass meet- Showing that by its feverish ac- SOMERVILLE, N. J., Oct. NOW social system was recognized by the 16.—A the country. tivity the Opposition created own number of working hours constituted ings of unionists engaged in the metal its Camel Back” type of locomotive It invites all scientists to join the Germans who brought their control illegal apparatus, Pravda points with 77.5% of the pre-war working hours, trade industries have made it clear out its driving rod pinions worn out badly organization points of the territory into harmony with that methods of the and out the im- in 1925-26 75%. These figures that they will not tolerate the intro- the Opposition injured its entire engine early portance ; are the Samoan traditions. Thus it was nothing crew of the association in a mo- 03 eloouent testimony that in the U. duction of the piece-work system have in common with the yesterday morning on the S. in 1 Central ment when that under German rule there was a traditions of Leninism and the Bolsh- world-wide reaction is us- S. R. one of the main achievements the workshop. Neither will they tol- | Railroad near here. The shaft ing every method ; native parliament, consisting of an evist Tarty. came to vnpede the of the October revolution—B-hour day erate the introduction of the daily hir- | loose and punctured the boiler, growth of economy of the Upper House of 15 Sacred Chiefs, and The illegal anti-party activity letting the Soviet BOOKS and 42-hour weekly rest is observed to ing system instead of the present I water into the fire-box. a Lower House of ‘Faipules’ (local carried on country Union. the full. For people engaged in weekly hiring system. They in a in which a brain representatives) elected by the Sam- likewise dictatorship of the proletariat exists, work and workers employed in indus- say that they will not accept the pay- and Pamphlets oans in the various villages and dis- constitutes not only a of dis- tries considered to be injurious ment of straight-time rates over- breach to tricsts. for cipline, but also the gravest crime for ALL MEETINGS, SALE health and also for adolescents, the time work over 44 hours per week, The New against the Leninist Party and a pro- and DISTRIBUTION on the working hour is limited by leg- Zealand government has instead of the present payment of Soviet all vocation against Bolshevism by the islation to 6 and some cases to 5 now abolished native authority, time-and-a-half for overtime. On its place up legisla- bourgeois democracy, the Pravda hours, and even to 4 hours a day. and in has set a these three matters, the metal trade council, of six continues. There is no tive consisting official unionists are solid from one end of doubt whatever that members appointed govern- Hits Printing Office. the Bolshevik by the Australia to the other. revolution has secured ment, 8 unofficial members elected by ! It is therefore impossible to keep for the proletariat of the U. S. S. R. Employers have been granted the j the Europeans in the territory, and a within the bounds of educational the 8-honr day, the weekly right to introduce piece-work, daily J 42-hour “Native Advisory Council,” selected by ¦ | methods in the struggle against the REVOLUTION rest, social insurance of workers hiring, and straight-time payment for Opposition. 7he Report dri/r* at the administ-ator. But these native Therefore, the Central of the First American the expense of employers and other overtime by an award of the federal I “adviser.” do not represent the Snm- Control Commission was absolutely Watch The DAILY WORK- rights won in the struggle with arbitration court, despite the strong right the can people, and the best proof of this in having excluded from the Labor Delegation to ER lists books on bourgeoisie and laid down in Sov- opposition voiced by the unions, who Soviet Russia for of the is that they have been repudiated by Party Preobrajensky, Serebriakov, iet labor code. assert that an attempt is being made and Charov who took, upon them- •'lO out of the 38 native districts in to introduce American shop systems SOVIET RUSSIA EDUCATIONAL Samoa. Further than this, selves the responsibility for the or- i WORK. the Sam- into Australia. ganization oans generally regard of a secret printing office. A social faculty the “advisers” The various mass meetings held Send for catalogues and lists insurance will be as mere Aligned with Enemies. opened in the nominees of the government. throughout Australia during the first The to the soon MGSPS Profes- more the Opposition estranges sional University. The aim of this Samoans Protest. week of July to protest against the itself from the Leninist line, the more faculty new award instructed the union exe- will be training social insur- When the Samoans protested it adopts the arguments of the Russia After Ten Years WORKER ance workers and raising cutives to call a strike ii the employ- enemies of f DAILY their quali- against the attempt to break down the working class, the BOOK DEPARTMENT It will have ers attempt to put the new award into points out. fication. a two years’ their ancient traditions the New Zea- Pravda The Opposition Report of 33SFIRST ST., course. operation. desires “subjectively” the victory of the American Trade Union NEW YORK land government instituted an ordin- \ Socialism, it The new faculty will open its ance “to control Samoan customs.” but does not believe in Delegation to the the possibility of Soviet Union doors on October 15, 1927. Under this ordinance, chiefs BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! this victory. The Samoan " arrested, elements who decidedly do not desire is frank, complete were arraigned, condemned GET A NEW READER! the victory |ERE picture of life of Socialism are ranging in Russia, themselves along side of the Opposi- Soviet made by a labor del- tion, namely the bourgeois non-party egation which has just returned from ll intellectuals not those who are wo-k- there. Every phase of Russian life is --ing the of n in interests the toilers, but touched upon. It is a thorough Revive the HELP THE PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND those who cannot live under the pro- study: letarian dictatorship. The The Soviet Government, the - Opposi- ». ' ...... , i tion joins willingly with such ele- Communist Party, Education. Trade What have you done to help the Workers (Communist) Party ments. Unions. 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