The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1924, Page 2

Page Two MEXICAN, U.S. UNION OFFICIALS BOW TO WALL ST. Urge Monroe Doctrine for American Labor (Continued from page 1) erican officials under Harding to ac- Quire the naval oil reserves of Calt- fornia. Doheny loaned Obregon several mil- lion dollars to finance the military Movement against the armed agent of the Cowdray oil interests—and the United States government defended— not “democracy and Uberty,” but Doheny’s oil company—in its suppos- ed “neutral” attitude. The second act in the prostitution of Latin-American unionism to the im- perialists of Wall Street, came when Robert Haberman, the yellow social- ist Maison officer between the Mexi- can labor fakers and their American superiors, came before the A. F. of L. convention in El Paso with a reso- lution he had put thru the C. R. O. M. convention pledging the Mexican federation to defend the American fed- eration against its critics in all its class collaboration with the Wall Street im- perialists, The resolution follows: “Whereas, the American Federation ef Labor, has given unequivocal proofs of solidarity to the Mexican labor movement, and has defended en- ergetically the Mexican Federation of Labor from all the attacks of which we have been the victims in the United States; reciprocating loyally to this noble attitude, be it, “Resolved, that the Mexican Federa- tion of Labor will oppose all attacks | which the enemies of the American | Federation of Labor will attempt to/ undertake against it in any part what- | soever of the Mexican republic.” “Monroe Doctrine of Labor.” To this manifestation of the united front of labor fakers in behalf of Am- erican imperialism, Vice-President (sometimes called “Crown Prince”) | Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L. re- plied in the following words: “Mr. chairman, I move that the president of this federation convey to the Mexican Federation of Labor our} appreciation for this declaration of | loyalty to the ideals of democracy and pledge of support and co-operation with the American Federation of Labor in the promoting of the ideals of trade unionism, which, after all, is the be- ginning of the Monroe doctrine of American labor to apply to the west- ern hemisphere.” This was adopted by unanimous rising vote. When Haberman, for his good serv- ices in behalf of Gompers, Morgan and Doheny, was given a diamond stick-pin, as official gift from the A. F. of L., he was so overcome at being thus taken into the camp of the big- fat boys that he could only splutter something about “making this a bet- ter world.” Ricardo Trevino, secretary of the Mexican federation, immediately tak- | ing the floor of the A. F. of L. con-| vention in order to make clear what this new labor backing to the Monroe | floctrine meant, accused the capital-| ists under the “labor” government of | England, of supplying de la Huerta| with arms. Taking the offensive against Eng- lish imperialism as represented by the two fraternal delegates from the Brit- ish labor movement, Trevino declared that he had just received a telegram that arms and ammunition were again being landed at Belise, in British Hon- duras, from there to be smuggled into Mexico to support General Angel Flores, reported already in arms in the state of Durango, in a new coun- ter-revolutionary movement. Trevino apealed to the British delegates to show some “real solidarity and pre- yent the shipment of these arms.” The British delegates, being repre sentatives of Amsterdam, undoubtedly felt somewhat embarassed by the sud- den onrush of the Monroe doctrine. Cramp said that Mexico was being exploited by both American and Eng- lish capital. But Swales answered Trevino that the workers of England would condemn the shipment of arms into Mexico. He said that tho labor was defeated in the recent elections, sufficient power would be brot to make difficult these shipments. Swales made a typical Amsterdam talk of socialist platitudes and as- sured everybody that the workers of the world do unite. But he dispatch- ed the following telegram to Arthur Henderson, secretary of the British GREAT LABOR CARTOONS by such noted artists in the FRED ELLIS HAY BALES WM. S. FANNING in the December issue of the ST. LOUIS JOBLESS MOB NEWSPAPER OFFICES IN HUNT FOR WORK ST. LOUIS—The growth of the army of St. Louls jobless is indl- cated by the fact that police are stationed at the rear of local news paper offices as the first editions come out, so great is the daily throng fighting for possession of the first papers in the hope of dis- covering some kind of employment In the help wanted columns. Em- ployment offices are swamped with applicants for work, with few jobs to supply the demand. There has been a noticeable growth of the out- of-work army since the election. labor party and member of parlia- mont: “Informed that arms purchased in England are shipped to British Hon- duras to be used against Mexican la bor government, I urge upon you to raise the question in parliament to prevent repetition. “Also inform the ‘Dally Herald’ and the Trade Union Congress.—Swales.” Combrazo Licks Gompers’ Boot. Not to be outdone by others, Com brazo, delegate from Santo de Do- mingo, occupied by United States ma rines in defiance of all law to force the rule of American banks upon the the workers of that country, took the floor before the A. F. of L. delegates and debased himself in the most ab- ject and disgraceful manner. He de- clared they had good labor laws in Santo de Domingo, but would not en force them as the American marines would not allow labor to organize or make political speeches, In spite of this humiliating oppres- sion by American imperialism, Com- brazo asserted that the workers were conservative “like Gompers.” Like Gompers, he, too, wanted immigration laws against Negroes who worked for fifteen cents per day. He apparently stands boldly out for sixteen cents. He said that American capitalists in Santo de Domingo boycotted the Dom- inican workers because Negroes from }the West Indian islands were cheaper. |“Gompers is the great emancipator of |the workers,” said Combrazo, and added that Gompers, Morrison and Mattie Woll were “idols” in his coun- jtry. Several Mexicans followed with speches lauding Gompers. Jose Mi- guel Bejarano of the Mexican agricul- tural department, stated that nearly fifty per cent of the Mexican workers were organized, were in control and were “giving the land back to the Indians.” He was careful to say that they were not confiscating it. Almost 300 delegates and guests of the A. F. of L. convention are going to the inauguration of Calles as guests of the C. R. O. M. and the Mexican government, the government paying the bills. When Soviet Russia did this, it was a great crime, according to the Gompers family. Schlossberg of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers is also going to Mexico City at the expense of the Mexican government. The Wise Interpreter. A representative of a Mexican s0- cialist theatrical company appeared on the platform. He said they were traveling from town to town spread- ing revolutionary socialism and wanted the support of the American Federation of Labor. The interpreter translated this to the A. F. of L. dele- gates as “spreading principles of the American Federation of Labor.” Something Worth Fighting For. Soto y Gama, agrarian leader of Mexico, said that the reason they had to have a violent revolution was be- cause a state of feudalism had existed in which good-looking women became the common property of ranchers and their sons. Madero, he said, was the father of Mexican working class revo- lutions, but now they were going tc stop the use of force. Strikes had been met with machine guns, Soto y Gama said, and there were so many dead they had to be carried away in flat cars and dumped into the sea, But now everything was going to be done according to law, and he virtually apologized because force had ben used. He asked the A. F. of L. delegates if they would not have used force under these condi- tions. They squirmed, but no one re plied. Now, finished Soto y Gama, Mexico was inviting foreign capital and everything will be lovely. Ape Sam’s Exclusion Policy. The C. R. O. M. (Mexican Federa- tion of Labor) in its session, passed a resolution in favor of barring all Chinese from Mexico, and to “Mexi- canize” the Chinese who are there by insisting that they be “law abiding citizens” or be deported. Trevino, echoing the policy of Gompers in trying to lay the ground for re-entry to the Amsterdam Inter- national of Trade Unions, expressed the hope that the world’s labor unions would join one movement and be di- rected from one central point. Big Rakeoff on Straw Hats. WASHINGTON.—Straw hat man- ufacturers in the United States, oper- ating 96 plants in 1923, paid wages averaging $1,100 to 6,802 workers and took $6,600,000 gross profits for them- WORKERS MONTHLY. GET IT! selves, in addition to their own sal- aries, according to the census of man- ufacturers, U, 8S. department of com- merce. hails, THE DAILY WORKER BRITAIN MAKES THREAT OF WAR AGAINST EGYPT Plans Open Annexation of the Sudan (Continued from page 1) ians managed to get from Eng- land when the latter was in a tight corner. Heavy Money Indemnity, A money indemnity of $2,300,000 is demanded for the death of the Brit- ish agent. Premier Zaghoul is will- ing to pay this but balks at some of the other demands. The note is an ultimatum, demand- ing a reply within twenty-four hours. One of the principal bones of conten- tention between Britain and Egypt is control of the Sudan. Egypt has been easing in on British influence in that quarter, The Sudan is potentially one of the greatest cotton growing coun- tries in the world, and properly irri- gated with the waters of the Nile, would prove a gold mine. The Asquith family were financially interested in the Sadan and no doubt, this is also true of the members of the Baldwin government, Lord Allenby, British high commis- sioner of Egypt, presented the note to the Egyptian premier, accompanied by a strong military force, Every ef- fort is made to impress the Egyptians with British power, cannons being fired and airplanes buzzing overhead as the body of the slain Briton was shown in public. Ready to Strike. Britain has a heavy naval force mob- ilized within striking distance of Egypt. Military reserves are also close at hand. The British note blames the Egypt- ian government for Stack’s death, ac- cuses the latter of ingratitude for England’s benevolence and charges it with carrying on a hostile campaign against British subjects and British interests in the Sudan. The note continues: “Your excellency was warned by his majesty’s government a lHttle more than a month ago of the consequences of failing to stop this campaign. It has not been stopped. The Egyptian government have now allowed the governor general of the Sudan to be murdered and have proved that they are incapable or unwilling to protect foreign lives. “His majesty’s government, there- fore, réquires that the Egyptian gov- ernment shall: 1,, Present ample apology for the caime; 2. Prosecute an inquiry into the au- thorship of the crime with the utmost energy and without respect for per- sons, and bring the criminals, whoever they are or whatever their age, to condign punishment; Prohibit Free Speech, 8, Henceforth forbid and vigorous- ly suppress all popular political de- monstrations; 4. Pay forthwith to his majesty’s government £500,000 ($2,300,000); 5. Order within twenty-four hours the withdrawal from the Sudan of all Egyptian officers and purely Egyptian units of the Egyptian army, with such resulting changes as shall hereafter be specified; 6. Notify the competent depart- ment that the Sudan government will increase the area to be irrigated at Gezira from 300,000 feddans to an un- limited figure as the need may arise; Threatens Force. 7. Withdraw all opposition in re- spect, hereafter specified, to the wish- es of his majesty’s government con- cerning protection of foreign inter- ests in Egypt. “Failing to comply with these de- mands, his majesty’s government will at once take. appropriate action to safeguard their interests in Egypt and the Sudan.” How Egypt can comply with these demands without completely losing its national identity is impossibie to im- agine. The Egyptians have claimed control over the head waters of the Nile as the very life of the country depends on the great river. To this claim the British have hitherto con- ceded, agreeing to accept a certain amount of water for irrigation pur- poses in the Sudan. The Stack inci- ent is now seized on to ignore this agreement and claim unlimitea use o! the Nile waters for the Sudan cotton plantations. French Government Disturbed, PARIS, Nov. 23.— The slumbering imperialist duel that started between England and France with the firing of the last shot on the battlefields of Europe was prodded into increased intensity when news of the sharp Brit- ish note to Egypt reached Paris, The entire metropolitan press opened a heavy attack on the tory government, Annexation Next Step, Paris looks on the note as a pre- text for fresh conquests and in view of French interests in the Near East and its friendly relations with Turkey, it is not likely that the Quai D’Orsay SOVIET RUSSIA GETS BAGK FLEET AND NOW RULES IN BLACK SEA (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Nov. 23.—The Russian fleet used by Baron Wrangel will be returned to the Soviet government, making Russia undisputed ruler of the. Black Sea, it was learned here today. Premier Herriot admitted that France’s ambitions to secure oll and grain from Russia will con- filot with America’s Interest in oll, but sald, “This cannot prevent us from recognizing Russia and pro- teoting our interests there.” Herrlot admitted that the reason France recognized Soviet Ri la was to get ahead of the other na- tions in commercial dealings with the Soviet country. ITALIAN CONSUL PRAISES REIGN OF MUSSOLINI Calls it Peaceful Despite Murder of Workers In a speech at a banquet of the Italian chamber of Commerce, where Samuel Insull was decorated by the Mussolini government, Leopoldo Zunini, Italian consul, praised the murderous reign of Mussolini. Zuni- ni is noted for praising the govern- ment which happens to be paying him his salary. During the government of Giolitti, Zunini was a rabid liberal. Now he condemns Giolitti as a trai- tor. 9,000 Workers Murdered. In spite of the fact that 9,000 work- ers have been murdered by the Mus- solini government, and that there are at the present time over 8,000 prison- ers in Italian jails serving terms of 20 to. 30 years for opposing Mussolini Zunini claimed that Mussolini has been a peaceable ruler. Savior for Whom? The Italian consul described Mus- solini as the “savior of Italy” and called him a “new Ceasar.” Zunini heaped praise on Mussolini for crush- ing the power of the workers and farmers under the banner of Commu- nism, Zunini, the American advertis- ing agent for his boss, said that the economic condition of the country is good. As a matter of fact, 100,000 more workers emmigrated from Italy this year than in 1922, in addition to almost a million who have fled the country to escape widespread unem- ployment and the white terror of Mus- solini. MEXICAN LABOR FAKER ALMOST BULLET PROOF MEXICO CITY, Nov. 283—President- elect Calles gave his promise to the republic today that he had no inten- tion of transforming himself into a dictator. In a statement that probably is the first of its kind ever to be made by a Mexican president, Calles said that he would not interfere with the legis- lature when he took office on Dee. 1. Nor would he seek to impose his will upon it. Louis Morones, chamber deputy and labor leader who was wounded. re- cently in a pistol fight on the cham- ber floor, has so far recovered that he can walk about in the hospital. 700 Teachers to be Dropped and Classes to be Made Larger Classes in the public schools are to be made larger and 700 teachers are to be discharged by the board of edu- cation, if the report of Nelson B. Henry, made to the secretary of the finance committee of the board of education, is adopted. Henry advises organization of larger classes to aver- age 48 pupils, view of the present shortage of classroom space and the deficit in the educational fund.” May Lose Their Pensions. It is admitted that the Strickler report, recommending the discharge of teachers above the age of 59 will probably be followed out. This will discard, without compensation, teach- ers who have for years clung to the public school system in order to fill out the time required to secure their pensions. Hundreds of teachers are to be dropped, who will lose their pensions. ~ Class rooms will be increased in size far above the 48 advised, as most of the class rooms are near or above that size already, As soon as teach- ers are dropped, the average size of the class room will be nearer to 60 than 48 pupils. Water Goes to Los Angeles. ALABAMA HILLS SPILLWAY, In- will allow the situation to develop without making France's . position known to Downing Street. The French government has no illusions about the intention behind the latest British move, Annexation of the Sudan to the empire is clearly the next step. yo county, Cal,, Noy. 23.—The mags- ive iron gates of the Los Angeles aqueduct were closed here today and $10,000 worth of water which since Sunday had datly been diverted from the canal by Owens valley raiders again began its rush to Los Angeles. British Empire Looks Like Tender Eggshell Under Baldwin’s Rule By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ‘ODAY, Baldwin's British government takes upon Itself the offensive against Soviet Russia. But it is a weak attack when analyzed. Baldwin's tory rule rejects the trade agreements signed after negotiations between MacDonald’s labor government and Russian Soviet rule. But it is not opposed to renewing these negotiations on its own account. It wants to draw up its own trade agreement. * * a * In launching its new offensive for trade relations with Russia, which it hopes to make more beneficial to itself than the terms agreed on a 6 MacDonald, the Baldwin government uses all the tricks of lying diplomacy. After all the world has been made acquainted with the forgery used by the tories in the recent election campaign, the Baldwin government now brazenly proclaims. that the so-called ‘‘Zinoviev letter” is genuine, But. it makes its claim in such a half-hearted manner as to confess to the lie in its own throat. + . * ° It isn't so much the alleged “Zinoviey letter” that is troubling Premier Baldwin and his friends. It is the “Com- munist propaganda” of the future that bothers them the most. And they pretend to believe that all of this comes from Moscow. The Communist International is responsible for all the unrest in Great Britain, is the self-confessed tory hallucination. : ° * * * In India a “prince of the blood” is in trouble. He was not discreet while in London and faced blackmail amounting to $750,000 to hush the matter. The Baldwin tory govern- ment tried to use its influence with the go-between, the Mid- land Bank, to keep the name of the Hindu prince a secret; because the revelations resulting would inflame the growing unrest in India. Up to the present time this development has not been charged up to Moscow... * * In Egypt the natives take different methods of voicing their protest against British imperialism. Baldwin rule is now pouring more troops into pt, in order to cow the Egyptians into degrading submission, using the attack on one of its war lords, sent to Egypt to carry out its imperialist purneeety as the excuse, as in many others. But there has een no charge of Moscow propaganda, as yet. In fact, in India, Egypt, and in all its other subject colonies, dependencies and mandates, British rule faced resist- ance, long before Soviet Rule rose to power in Russia. As far back in 1776 developing British imperialism went down before a successful revo lution in the United States, In the coal fields of Great Britain there are 100,000 un- employed miners. This is one of the big causes of unrest affecting the whole British working class. But Baldwin rule has failed to charge that Moscow is responsible for unem- ployment among British worke: rss * * * . Baldwin knows that the Russian Communists do not need to propagate their cause in England from Moscow. The forces for the overthrow of British imperialism are at work within the British Empire itself. British capitalism will fall, but because British labor itself will successfully struggle towards this end. British capitalism, like American capitalism, meets the cry of the millions for bread with stories about faked “vodka riots” in Moscow. In reply to the workers’ growing demand for a better life comes a flood of cheap anti-Soviet propa- ganda from the pen of Emma Goldman, the anarchist ally of the yellow press. She repeats the lies once more, in the British press, that she sold several years ago to the New York World and other “red-baiting” American dailies, British imperialism, under Baldwin rule, offers a woe- ponent countenance to the growing social-revolution at home and the national revolutions in her colonies, 'f Baldwin's imperialist rule rr any serious offen- sive against Soviet Rule, its empire will break like the shell ¢ an egg underneath the heel of the growing proletarian giant. ‘ FRENCH SENTENCE GERMAN GENERAL AS COMMON THIEF BERLIN, Nov. 23— The German press howled with indignation today over the sentence passed by’a French court martial at Lille yesterday on General Von Nathusius, The former German commanding officer was sent to prison for a year and ordered to pay the costs of trial on a charge of confiscating and shipping to Germany |# valuable property from the chateau he occupied as headquarters in north- ern France during the war. The sentence was denounced as a “scandal” dictated by “vindictive French militarism,” and a move likely | 3 to arouse a world-wide storm. Has No Mourners, NEW YORK, Noy. 23.—There will be few to mourn its passage,” says Equity, organ of the Actors’ Equity Association, in an obituary of the anti- union Producing Managers’ Associa- tion which formally dissolved this autumn. ™ Kings Visiting. BELGRADE, Nov. 23—King Alexan- der and Queen Marie, accompanied by Prime Minister Nikola Pashitch, will go to Rome in January on an official visit to the Italian royal family. The visit is expected to have an important effect on Italian-Jugo-Slav relations. Soldiers Leave Williamson County, MARION, IIL, Nov. 23-——'The dove of peace has settled once more in Will- iamson county torn by many months of fighting between Klansmen and anti-Klansmen. The last of the na- tional guardsmen, under command of Captain William Butler of Spring- field, left for home today, with the ex- ception of three soldiers suffering from mumps‘at the Herrin hospital. Re Second Call for Wage Cut. WEBSTER, Mass,, Nov, 23.— “An- other attempt to put thru a 12% per cent wage cut for its 650 employes is, announced by the North Village tex- tile mill of the Slater company. Work- ers stopped a similar attempt last pate 1113 W. Washington Blvd. READ THE DAILY WORKER, NABISCO WHO OWNS THE PLANTS AND PROFITS MAKING NABISCO? WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF THE YOUNG SLAVES? NABISCO A pamphlet describing the horrible conditions of the young workers in the plants of the, National Biscuit Company all over the country. Read of the campaign of thi orgauize the young slaves all over the land, Scents aCopy 25 copies for $1.00 $3.50 per hundred YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA Monday, November 24, 1924 ee ee ee FASCISTI BEG SUBMISSION IN NOTE. TO PEOPLE Appeal Shows Musso- lini in New Role ROME, Nov. 23.—An appeal to the Italian people to “remain quiet and not obstruct the course of Fascist rule,” has been launched by the Federazoni, minister of the interior in the Mussolini cabinet, as the result of a special conference of Fas- cist leaders held here last night. Beg For Another Chance, Beneath the wording of this appeal there is-audible the note of desperate terror and hopelessness which Farcist leaders, despite all their bravado, are unable to keep out of their every word today. No longer able to pre- tend that there is satisfaction with their rule, they have resorted to ap- peals to allow the Mussolini govern- ment to show what it can do to bet- ter conditions. The determined boycott applied by parties of the opposition to the Fas- cist chamber of deputies resulted in the absence from the house yesterday of nearly half of the parliamentary deputies, only 354 out of the 680 de- puties being present. Of those who attended, 337 went thru the formality of expressing their confidence in the government, So empty was the cham- ber that @ group of Fascist deputies found it necessary to occupy seats on the left in an attempt to disguise the true state of affairs. Control Voting Thru Gunmen. The situation in the house is of even more significance than would appear from a citation of the figures. The tactics applied at the last national election made voting physically im- possible for anyone not in favor of the Mussolini dictatorship. Workers were threatened and terrorized and those who dared to appear on the streets on the day of the elections were ruth- lessly beaten up by gangs of gun- ment. As soon as the elections were over, at the polls, Mussolini proceeded to put into force a rule under which any party which receives a plurality of the popular vote is automatically giv- en two-thirds of the seats in the Ital- fon chamber of deputies. That the vote of confidence taken yesterday included only half of the deputies ig a reflection of the revolt brewing with- in the Fascist ranks. Large numbers ‘} Of prominent Fascist leaders have ‘re- signed from the party within the past few months, oe) ee Rather than return to Italy, where other members of his family lived, John Calandriello, 21 years old, 4848 Federal street, killed himself yester- day by shooting himself thru the head. British Devise New Method to Protect Their Hold on Irak PLYMOUTH, Eng.—British judi- cial atrocities against prisoners of native race in trak (Mesopotamia) were made public in a Plymouth lec ture by Capt. Pollard, a British army officer. There have been so many murders of Brit officers by tives in the port of Bazra, Irak, that ordinary hanging did not seem to act as a deterrent. The old British practice of outraging religious be- llefs of the Mohammedans was therefore revived in Irak. Murder- ers/of Mohammedan faith are not only hanged but hanged in the skins of pigs. This to a Mohammedan means not only bodily but spiritual death since the pig is regarded as unclean. The British practice in India had been to shoot prisoners to pleces from the mouth of a cannon, with similar violence to réligious be- liefs regarding the hereafter. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, ad @ Young Workers League to , Chicago, Illinois