The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 2

Page iwo DOHENY OIL PLEA BRINGS WARSHIP DASH TO TAMPICO Intervention Days of Wilson Are Recalled (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.--If, as Many progressive senators and con- gressmen suspect, the Coolidge ad- ministration {s getting ready to pre- sent congress and the senate with a fait accompli, so far as our Mexican Policy is concerned, in tne shape of | a force of occupation in Mexico, the Preparations are being made openly. | Naval forces sufficient to blockade | the entire eastern Mexican seaboard are being rushed to Vera Cruz and the light cruiser Richmand, one of the best equipped fighting ships of the u-vy, is already at Tampico, Her sister ship, the Omaha, ac- companied by six destroyers, are expected to arrive at Vera ®yuz to- morrow, The American interests that are to be protected by the fleet consist largely of refineries and other prop- erties of the Doheny oi] group upon whom de la Huerta has made a demand for $400,000 in gold. It is believed here that the United States is closer to a drastic policy ef intervention in Mexican affairs than at any time since the advance ef forces into Mexico under the Wil- sen administration. 60,000 ON STRIKE INENGLAND’S RAIL INDUSTRY (Continued from page 1) ing for service in bringing milk and vegetables to the capital. + strest, heart of the newspaper world of England, was a-roar with motor trucks rushing in a constant stream thru the narrow thoro- fare, loaded with newspapers for points outside London where first effects of the strike was to interrupt | train service. There was little excitement con- | nected with the initial stages of the strike, for England’s workmen are traditionally law-abiding and orderly and anything savoring of sabotage or violence was discounted by union leaders. Unless the strike lasts over two weeks it will not embarrass the Labor Party government, as it is estimated that length of time will be required for the Baldwin government to wind wp it: affairs and turn {h¢“>-vern- Mivivet whecnhinery Uver to a. wamsay MacDonald and his cabinet. Watch the “Daily Worker” for the Unemployment Is on Increase Says U. S. Report SAMs itber Ceepoes the conntry dar. ing December is reported by the U. a it service. This sur- lo: eee x appeared especially in larger cities. The trend ar cae mt, according to the report, definitely downward with some felt in most all branches ef tade. The railroads especially laid off numbers of wor ers while the industries, machinery, foundry a pe shops employing the same yo igher ‘were also reported as New Yorle City, the report says: industries are still employin; eomplement of workers an is virtually no unemployment 8 a ly skilled mechanics atho oo gag a surplus of un- The employment service notes a eontinued unfilled demand for skilled and semiskilled workmen in the build- trades with little interruption in activities apparent. Work Daily for “The Daily!” NOTHING IS CERTAIN ABOUT C. P,P. A. AT ST. LOUIS, MO. (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON.—Representatives ‘of most of the railroad !abor organ- izations, as well as state and local bodies, farm organizations, the Socialists and other groups have no- tified the national office of the Con- ference for Progressive Political Action, here, that they will take part in the gressive conference to be held Feb. 11-12 in St. Louis. Among the Socialists who will attend are James H. Maurer, of Pennsylvania, and Morris Hillquit of New York. While it ts not certain that this tonference will outline 2 plan of oe campaign for 1924, it is that the question of endorsing the me, a thiri-party conven- tion immedtately following the Dem- roe, soap emg idea will be brought up lelegotes from Illi- nois, Wiseonsin, Minnesota, the Da- kotas and Montana. Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first instalment of “A Week”, the ian revolution, ee te Ren feed it you UBS: iter, ae tHe DAILY WORKRLAN United States War on Mexico Looming Big By JOHN PEPPER Greedy American imperialism is preparing a new crusade: It wants to conquer Mexico. The United States government first sold arms to the Obre- gon government and now it has sent warships to Tampico, The Coolidge administration declared at first that it is sell- ing weapons to Obregon because that it is the “constitutional” government in Mexico, and because the United States is inter- ested in the maintaining of order and peace in Mexico. The Coolidge government declares now that it must send warships to break the blockade established by the government of Adolfo De la Huerta at Vera Cruz, “to prevent interference with legitimate American commerce.” * * = ™ We must arouse the workers and farmers of our country. The greatest menace is facing us. The United States, the young- est, greediest, and mightiest imperialist country of the world, now aims openly to conquer Mexico, after it had undermined it economically. But the conquest of Mexico is not only the great- est danger for the workers and farmers of Mexico, but is the greatest menace to the workers and farmers of the United States as well. The costs of the great world war were paid in bleod, money and sweat by the workers and farmers of the United States. The workers still pay thru the increased cost of living. The farmers still pay thru the frightful-bankruptcy of millions and millions of toilers of the soil. A new war against Mexico would mean the sharpening of the world crisis, it would mean the increase of the army and navy, the growth of central- ized government, new, and ever new burdens upon the working population, This is the most cunning and most unscrupulous game played by American imperialism. United States imperialism first forced the Obregon government to its knees. The Obregon government was recognized by the United States, but only after Obregon recognized all the prerogatives and privileges of American capitalists in Mexico, after Obregon, the representa- tive of young Mexican capitalism, had not only betrayed the interests of Mexican native capital, but had begun to oppress the workers and disarm the peasants who had supported him until then. * * * The United States government recognized the Obregon government after Obregon had capitulated, but the Obregon government is still too radical for the United States, and Amer- ican imperialism, at the same moment that it recognized Obre- gon, was stirring up a counter-revolution in Mexico against Obregon. Behind the Adolfo De la Huerta counter-revolution stand not only the big land-owners who had to give up a part of their land to the armed peons, not only dissatisfied army officers and their reactionary Catholic church, but also powerful Amer- ican oil interests. Wall Street recognized Obregon, and Coolidge sells him weapons, while at the same time the De la Huerta counter- revolution is financed by Wall Street, and simultaneously with that Coolidge sends warships to break the sea blockade made by the De la Huerta government. It all seems nothing but contradictions. It appears to be madness. But there is a frightful and bloody method and logic in this madness. This method and logic is the logic and method of imperialism. i : The seemingly contradictory acts of the United States are explained by the plans of Wall Street and the White House to conquer ico. The United States supports Obregon and sup- ports Huerta, in order thereby to render any government im- Possible in Mexico. American capitalists want to invade Mex- ico, The Chicago Daily Tribune has betrayed the plans of the imperialists. Says the Chicago Tribune, which represents that tendency of American imperialism which does not want to have anything to do with Europe but wants to conquer Latin America: “We have guarded and backed the right man, but if he is friendly and wants to develop a peaceful Mexico it is highly moral to give him arms and ammunition. If that method will not succeed, THE UNITED STATES EVENTUALLY WILL BE DRIVEN TO MORE DIRECT INTERVENTION, AS IT HAS BEEN DRIVEN IN HAITI AND ELSEWHERE. “In that case the wise thing for AMERICA to do would be te ENLIST AND DIRECT THE RURALES, WELL PAID MEX- ICANS, TO KEEP THE COUNTRY IN ORDER, just as the Filipino constabulary does in the islands, That naturally would cause an uproar, but it would be justified. It may be avoided by supporting a Mexigan administration in the way our govern- ment is now doing.” | * * * * It is our duty to arouse the workers and farmers of the whole country, to expose the plans of American imperialism, ,to fight against the new war. The workers and farmers must see that one step will follow the other. First came the sale of arms. The second step was the sending of warships. The third step will be the landing of troops. The fourth step will be the com- plete mobilization of army and navy. And then it will end with the new conscription of the man-power of the nation. And there is a possibility that the Mexican War will not remain isolated. Already there is a conflict between United States and British oil interests in Mexico. Today the United States sends warships to protect “legitimate American com- merce.” Tomorrow Great Britain will send warships to protect “legitimate British commerce.” * * * a In the imperialist period of capitalism there is always the possibility and even the probability that no local war remains isolated and localized. In 1914 the insignificant local conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia led to the explosion of the world war. Who can guarantee that the local conflict between the United States and Mexico in 1924 cannot bring on a new world conflagration? ‘We must realize that war danger and war is not an accident in the period of imperialism, but that it follows with: iron inevitability from the very nature and inner structure of this period of imperialism. What is being done today by the United States government in Mexico was already explained theoretically on November 8, 1923, in the speech of oar Secretary of Commerce, before the American Marine ‘ongress; “It seems worth repeating at times that our international trade is one of the very foundations of our standards of living; that our whole fabric of living and comfort are dependent upon the import of commodities which we do not and can not our- selves produce-—tin, rubber, coffee, sugar, and a score of others; further, in the main, the amount of these commodities we can import will depend upon the volume we export. Moreover we need a CONSTANT EXPANSION OF OUR EXPORT MAR- KETS to give stability to our internal production by a wider range of qustomers.” ~|KLANSMEN RIDE AGAIN IN HERRIN RAIDING HOMES Glenn Young, Gunman, Heads Nightshirts (Special to The Daily Worker) HERRIN, Iil—The Klan, _ under the leadership of S, Glenn Young, is again in the saddle in Williamson county, after having flaunted the au- thority of Major MeMacklin of the Illinois National Guard, who re- mained here, after the state troops were withdrawn, to prevent a recur- rence of the raiding getivities. Homes of union miners were sin- gled out by the raiders who seemed well organized. They met at 2 A. M. in West Frankfort and after receiving lists of names and ad- dresses from 8. Glenn Young, moved on Weaver, a small mining camp near here, Homes of klansmen were marked by a white cloth tied to the door- knob and these places were not mo- lested. Wine was the overwhelming proportion of liquor found and this was all in homes of miners and un- mistakably intended for their own use. It was spilled out without ceremony. From Weaver the raidin, ries proceeded to Spillertown, Paulton and Carbondale. Seven arrests were made in these three raining camps. A smaller party of klansmen de- scended upon Ziegler, in Franklin county, searched 125 houses and made twenty-five arrests. Earlier in the evening Chief of Police Ford had made a raid here. He is an acknowledged klansmen, Young, after stating the raids were part of a new series that would complete the “cleanup” of. William- son county, left for Chicago, where it is said he will confer with special prosecutors who will have charge of the cases in the federal court at Danville. The Williamson County Minister- ial association has evidently decided upon a policy towards the raids, as yesterday every minister delivered a sermon upon the good points of Williamson county and denounced the reports of conditions carried by the daily press. Among the miners the belief con- tinues te grow that these arbitrary raids are merely an attack upon union miners and especially upon foreign-born members of the union conducted mostly upon private dwell- ings of miners lends color to this theory, Pistols Crack As Gangsters Gather To Settle Feud Pistols were unlimbered in Chiga- go’s underworld today following the shooting of Davy and Maxie Miller, west side politicians, as they left a downtown theater last night. Davy Miller will die, physicians said. “His brother received a flesh wound. In a statement to police, Miller accused three alleged beer run- ners and gangsters. marks a renewal of Chicago gang twars, patroled the west side today to quiet expected disorders. The Millers were accosted by three men as they emerged from the the- ater. Hundreds of late theater-go- ers were thrown into a panic when six shots rang out. A heated argu- ment posedaed the shooting. Davy Miller is a well-known Chi- cago politician and prize fight referee. OKLAHOMA'S EX- GOVERNOR LOSES IN SUPREME GOURT TILT WASHINGTON.—The petition of former Governor Walton of Okla- homa for a review of his impeach- ment and removal from office by the Oklahoma legis:ature was denied to- day by the United States Supreme Court. The decision of the Supreme Court to refuse to take under consideration the proceedings by which Walton was impeached and removed has ‘x0 direct bearing on the merits of the case. Walton appealed to the Supreme Court for a review on the grounds his tria! had not been constitutional. The court decided today it has no juris- diction or reasonable cause to inter- fere. Walton has another appeal still pending before the court, but the rul- ing of the court today was regarded as final, In opposing the petition, the attor- ney general of Oklahoma and the managers of the assembly argued that the matter involved was purely a st4te question and not within the scope of the United States constitu- tion or the jurisdiction of federal courts, In reply to Walton’s assertion that the majority of the members of the legislature had not been qualified to sit as ede upon him because of their alleged Ku Klux Klan affilia- tions, counsel for the stete quoted the section of the Oklahoma consti- tution which provides: “Each House will be the judge of the election and qualification of its own members.” On this score it was arguéd that whatever Walton's allegations, he had no right to challenge the qualifica- tions of the members of the Court of Impeachment. The Industries for the workers! t and the fact that the raids were | Authorities fearing the shooting} Miners’ Unions! of the Daily Worker Now and Get Daily News of Convention ‘The miners’ convention opens Order Bundles today. Our Staff Correspondent will send the big news over the wire to the DAILY WORKER. 4 Every miners’ local in the United States should keep in touch with developments at this convention. net give the facts, It never does. The DAILY WORKER will. Order your bundles of Daily The capitalist press will Workers today, Write or wire to the Business Manager, The DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, Mlinois, $ HUGHES LOSES IN FIRST ROUND OF RUSSIAN PROBE Agent Kelly Fails tc Give First Aid (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretar) Hughes’ arguments against Soviei recognition were riddled by Senato: Borah before the senate foreign rela Bok Peace Plans and Sinclair War Schemes Hold Capitol’s Eye oil Burns May Cometo Chicago to Help Hash Disclosures (Continued from page 1) Galliano, custodian of the bailiff’s office, are similarly held on evidence connecting them with purchases of other booty stolen by the dicks. The exposure of the Burns’ agency will have a damaging effect on the prosecutor’s case against the com- munists arrested at Bridgman, Michi- |gan, two years ago, is the opinion of Chicago radicals. The Bridg- men case, though ostensibly a local acair, under a state lan, was initiated , and prosecuted by Department of Justice agents. “Immediately after our arrest the | New York chief of the Burns agency —passing himself off as a Depart-! ment of Justice man—quizz¢#d each lof us in the St. Joseph’s county prison,” said C, E, Ruthenberg, sec-' |retary of the Workers’ Party to! |a representative of the DAILY) WORKER, “The Burns’ lieutenant | kept this leading role right thru the ease and we used to joke about the ineonspieuous part the local district) jattorney was playing. Jt would be| interesting to find out whether our) inquisitor was also doing a business! in burglaries and robberies on the side.” Earl K. Browder, another Bridg- man defendant and associate editor! of the Labor Herald, which has bee: qwaging an untiring war on labor spies and agents provocateurs of the Burns strife, made this coment: “The exposure made by the DAILY WORKER of the part played by em- ployes of the Burns Detective agency in a long period of crime in Chicago merely confirms what is generally known in the labor movement that the Burns Agency is a manufacturer of crime rather than a detector of it. “While it is interesting to know that the Burns agency is connected | with robberies, hold-ups and other, ordinary crimes, it. would be still more interesting to know what con- nection it has with acts of violence which it attempts to fasten upon the! labor movement. Let us hope that in the developments of this exposure we rwill even get some light thrown upon this side of the infamous Burns agency.” They Have Not Changed. Nineteen years ago, the Iron Work- ers’ Organ, the official organ of the Ironworkers’ Union of that time is- sued a warning to local unions not to send any Socialists as delegates to central bodies or conventions. They were charged with being disruption- ists. Today the Socialists are eating out of the fakers’ hand and the abuse that was formerly levelled against the Socialists is now huurled at the Com- munists. } i . tioned in my preface he has oe himself. He showed books out as well as that.” him.” _ WATCH Who Is Libedinsky? Author of “A WEEK” Quoted from letter by Arthur Ransome, famous Bri- tish writer, dated Christmas day, 1923. “I saw Libedinsky this last week in Moscow. now aged 25. He was born in Chelyabinsk in the Urals, the son of a Doctor. He was finishing school when the revolution started. When the Czecho-Slovak troops re- volted and made the way easy for the Siberian Counter- Revolution and Allied intervention this lad joined the Red Guard. During the Kolchak regime in Siberia he went into Siberia and there, “underground” and, of course, hunted for his life, remained until the collapse of the Kolchak regime and the department of the Intervention- ist troops. His wife, who writes under Valeria Gerasimova, has been hotl; spoken criticism of present-d German and Hungarian, and was most delighted with the English and American editions, saying, “It will be a long time before here in Russia we shall be “Unfortunately I could get no portrait of him, but he has promised to have one ready for me next time I see This is the author of “A WEEK,” soon to appear serially in The Daily Worker. ; By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON.—While Bok is being dragged hefore the special senate committee appointed to investigate foreign policy propaganda in the United States, to explain his motive in offering Washington Post, organ of the administration and friendly to the Sinclair oup, prints an appeal for American capital to take charge of vast developments in Persia—with the usual concessions, political involvements and dangers of future wer over the fruits of the venture. The Persian legation confirms the accuracy of the editorial “Oppor- a prize for a peace plan, the tunities for Americans,” wherein the Post declares that an oil concession has been granted to an American (Sinclair) concern, in the region of the Caspian sea, and that Persia is now anxious for the coming of Amer- jean capital to construct railways, tramways, electric lights, power plants, factories, sawmills, roads, ete. “A new spirit, resembling that which has transformed Italy and Spain, has manifested itself in Per- sian affairs,” tays this inspired state- ment. “Consequently the advent of Americans is welcomed, and induce- ments to capital are offered which will doubtless greatly accelerate the development of the country. The mineral wealth of Persia is now under inquiry by several American syndicates.” Having indicated that American investors would be turned over to| P0 British trade routes, the Persian- Sinclair propaganda goes on to say that the Perrians are “deeply resent- ful of the influences which have been exerted agaipst them by British and Russian policy,” and that Americans will therefore get much better con- cessions than would ordinarily be tha case. As the trumn card in the prospec- tive stock-selling campaign, the American public is assured that the) Persians (woh so recently made a treaty with the Russian neighbor, whom they are said to resent), “are proud of the record they have made in asissting Dr. Millspaugh, the American financial adviser who is now, on the recommendation of the Department of State, undertaking the economic regeneration of Persia.” There is. one touch of industrial realism in the prospectus: “The na- tives are good workers when properly coached.” Negotiations betwen the American international Corp. and the Ulen Con- tracting Co. of New York, on the one hand, and the Persian Government on the other, as to railroad construc- tion, have begun. Reports from Europe that the Sinclair oil concession has been cancelled are not confirmed, JAP RULE TOTTERS DIET ADJOURNS TO AVOID OVERTHROW (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO.—The Diet opened today for a short session and adjourned until tomorrow when it became practically assured that lack of confidence in the present government will be voted if the question gets a roll call. Such a vote would be followed by disso- lution of the Diet, WASHINGTON, D. C,—Former Jr., will tell United States senators about Ku Klux tar and feather par- ties and floggings in Texas when Senator Earle B. Mayfield is placed on trial for the title to his seat, de- clared the anti-Mayfield forces. He is the name of attacked for too out- lay p As I men- been attacked for the same me translations of his book able to put FOR IT! tions subcommittee ay after noon when Robert F. Kelly, of the Eastern European division of th: state department, appeared with copies of Pravda, official Soviet news paper. Kelly was challenged by Borah t« prove a single case where Communis’ party members were exempted fron the*punishments of the civil court: where wrong doing had been proved Kelly was unable to offer any evi dence to support his contention tha’ the administrative party was abow the law, “Is it not a fact that Communis: Party members have been shot?’ asked Borah, Kelly had no proof t: the contrary, Borah asserted that there was ni evidence that Communists duly con victed by the courts had in any cas: been saved by the law’s penalties by any outside influence. Borah likewise challenged the stat: department’s expert to show an} communist party machinery intendec to influence court decisions. Agait Kelly failed to offer any evidence. The Idaho senator then went fur ther and stated that the Soviet con stitution had no provision granting party such authority. This was deniet by Kelly, who said that there wa: such machinery, but he did not offe: to submit the vague section re fered to. ” “Kelly was then asked whethe the Communist Party had ever exerte: litical pressure on court decision in any other way than Republican: and Democrats in America had ofter done, but he failed to reply, The clinching argument by Senato Borah was thot Comunist Party mem bers had been compelled to face th firing squad for capital crimes ai non party Russians had done, witl no intervention from their organiza tion. Whether the soviet governmeni controlled the party, instead of th party controlling the government was a question that Borah offered fo1 consideration by his questioner an¢ the commitfee. The department oi state’s argument turned on the mat: ter of party control. Mr, Hughes contention being, that the soviet gov: ernment should not be recognizec because it is controlled by the Com. ing to effect revolutionary changes ir America thru the American branck of the Communist International. Fivan E. Young, chief of the state department’s eastern European divi: sion was another pinch hitter before the committee. His big stick, Ike Kelly’s, was a sheaf of Izvestia docu ments. LABOR’S REGIME TAKES HELM AS STORM BREAKS (Continued from page 1.) Promise, now are endeavoring to cir- cumscribe the strike and minimize its efects by inducing all other rail- way employes to remain at. work. With the exception of the Labor Herald, which has taken an attitude of neutrality, the strike is condemned by praitically the whole British daily press. Meantime the Baldwin government is preparing for tonight's obsequies in the House of Commons. Labor’s amendment reply to the king’s speech declaring “Your Majesty’s present advisers have not the confi- dence of this House,” will be sere by some 60 to 70 majority, includ- ing the unanimous Labor member- ship and most of the Liberals after the debate, in which MacDonald and Lloyd George will participate, comes to_an end, Baldwin, accepting his defeat, will hand his resignation to the king tomorrow, who will request MacDon- old to form a government, Preliminary arrangements already have been made for a meeting of the Byiae & council tomorrow to sweat oe Donald and the privy council- lor. . Correction in Zinoviev Letter There was a mistake in the letter by Gregory Zinoviev, chairman of the Communist International, to the Com- munists of America. ‘The following is the correct text for the part in which the mistake occurred: “,. . even in a few Sections of the International, the traditional So- cial Democratic attitude toward the farmers is still very strong, The Communist International was born from the womb of the Second Inter- national, It is no wonder that indi- vidual Communist parties still pay heavy tribute to the Social Demo- cratic tradition, especially in the question of the attitude towards the farmers. The Social Democratic par- ties of the Second International even in their best days were in essence guild parties, Which did not set them- selves the task of the real overthrow of capitalist rule, but confined them- selves to the fight for the partial im- provement of the condiion of the working class within the Fie bs ay of capitalism, This guild Menshevist tradition can still be nerceived mostly in the question of the attitude te- wards the farmers,” : For Recognition of Soviet Russia! munist party, which, in turn is seels ~ = PSE STI I i me