The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1925, Page 3

i | | t KELLOGG INSULT TO MEXICO FROM MORGAN'S MOUTH Sheffield Tool of Amer- ican Bankers (Continued from page 1,) without the support of the United States no Mexican government can hope to maintain itself. Conferences with Morgan Partner. “Ambassador Sheffield, who recom- mended the action taken by Secretary Kellogg, scted practically as the agent of the Wall Street interests during the whole of his stay in Mexico. In every one of his communications to| President Calles, the claims of the bankers have occupied the most prom- inent place. “When he returned to this country a short time ago, Mr. Sheffield went! immediately to the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., where he was closeted with Thomas W. Lamont for two ‘whole days. Mr. Lamont is head of the international bankers’ committee vepresenting holders of Mexican se ourities. “After the conference, Lamont and Sheffield traveled together to Wash- ington, where Sheffield made his re- commendations to the state depart- ment. ‘i “Never was the connection between ‘American financial capital and the Mexican policy of the United States ernment more apparent, ust Support Calles Against Wall St. | | withdrawal BORAH SAYS HE FAVORS ABOLITION OF FOREIGN IMPOSITION ON CHINA WASHINGTON, D, C., June 18. Senator Borah, In an Interview In which he plainly evaded the Joint responsibility of the United States with other imperialist pow ers In China, nevertheless expressed | himself as follows: would favor the of extraterritorial rights In China as speedily as prac- tleable, and a policy adopted by all which would respect the territorial Integrity and national rights of a great people.” 38,000 N.Y, TAXI DRIVERS SUFFER WITHOUT UNION Are Helpless Victims of Many Regulations “Personally, | (Special to The Daily Worker) > THE DAILY wo Negroes Answer Gen, Buliard By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. more interesting and ch more important than the paranoic tales of adventure by flood, blood and field ostensibly written by General Bullard and syndicated to a number of capitalist papers, are the expres- sions of opinion from members of the Negro race aroused by Bullard’s at- tack on the Negro soldiers. General Bullard claims that the Ninety-second Negro division would not fight—that they could not stand bombardment, and had to be sent to the rear. ‘HIS may or may not be true, but it is of no moment and those who rush to the defense of the Negroes against the general's charge of cow- | ardice are falling into a trap set for them by this militarist. Ability to stand shell fire is not the possession of any race or nationality. It is sole- ly a question of training and every soldier knows that raw troops—and particularly raw peasant troops, un- accustomed even to the clamor and the white man. In the war. He Is nothing but a! Beast and a devil anda hypoortte, We know what they did to each other. The worst savages In Africa are harmiess in comparison. When the north was try he marched thru on his way to Georgia. He made a more complete Job of It than was done by the Germans In France. And this was cans, against thelr own Even In those Ways they forced the Negroes Into the army to fight their battles, bunk. His great victories were against deserters and half starved Germans who were glad to be cap- tured. There was only one reéal battle in which Americans had a hand; that was_in the Argonne, and Germany wi arved out and beat- en before it started. The Negro division (92d) was not In this fight. ¢ - We refused to fight; we had no vibration of factories and city pye quarrel with the Germans; they ~sink into helplessness in the face) never did us any harm. of prolonged bombardment by high J. Williams, fighting the south In America, Gen. | Sherman destroyed the whole coun- | | done by Americans against Amerl- | People. | ee | As for Gen. Bullard’s story, it Is | LABEL LEAGUE =: DEATH LIST IN WRECK ON LACKAWANNA NOW 44; OTHERS ARE DYING (Special to The Dally Worker) Hackettstown, N. J. June 18.— | The death list in the Lackawanna | rallroad wreck near here Tuesday | | | | | Mounted to 44 today, with the death of Clemens Schmidt, 47, of Chicago. | Twenty four still are in hospitals. The condition of several Is critical. Meanwhile, the work of investiga- ting the disaster was continued. | PRESIDENT OF GETS AUTOMOBILE: Must Be Given Chance to Use His Head President Scheck, of the local branch of the Trades Union Label League, will soon be riding around in | ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL PROGRESS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES AND OF PEACANTS, SOVIETS’ AIM”—KALININ MOSCOW, (By Mail).—In a detailed report he delivered at the sitting of the Third Congress of Soviets, Kalinin, President of the Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, declared that, seek- ing to improve the Soviet power as exercised by the local authorities and institutions, the Central Government had set it as its task to resolve the following problems: To increase measures tending to involve the peasants in the labors of Soviets; to increase the responsibility of members of local Soviets by way of more liberal criticism of the actions a eR OMNERENIE TNT 6 of the various authorities; to enforce |ant delegates emphasized the fact judicial responsibility of officials guil-|that the putting into effect of the ty of unlawful organization of elec-| measures enumerated by the presi tions--in which event the latter are gent of the executive corresponded to t be cancelled; to scope of |the demands voiced by all farming application of adm penal- population of the Union, ties, with its frequent substitution for Rights of National Minorities regular judicial prosect by local : to attract the local pop. Larin, a prominent leader and dep ty—member of the All-Russian Cen- tral Executive Committee (R. 8S. F, S. R.), reproached the Ukranian ad- ministration for what he called a cer- in want of due regard for needs of onal minorities and urged the it of minority, however weak and ver its numerical strength, to live as a separate and in- r- |dependent territorial unit, ulation, as far as possible, activitie to mitigate the for offenses against xation re tions and others, while meting s¢ ere punishment on officials for illeg actions, Aid to Peasants Stating that it was impossible to regard as completed the work of pe: NEW YORK, June 18.—Due to an7°*Plosive shells. Most of the Negro order issued by Police Commissioner Enright, all taxicab drivers must wear uniforms and uniform caps, It was only a few weeks ago that the com- missioner took control of the taxi in- custry in this city, by an act of the board of aldermen, Who will supply the uniforms and caps to the drivers no one knows. But the taxi drivers “President Calles of Mexico has| seem to have the feeling that they answered Secretary Kellogg in the} will have to buy this equipment them- ‘nly way which the Mexican people | selvos and are therefore preparing to Sould expect, In tho past, the Mext-| protest against this order which is troops in the “army of democracy” came from the agricultural districts; they had not even had industrial ex- perience and it is entirely probable that they did not stand shell fire any better than did the conscripts, from the farming districts of France, England, Italy and other countries. Even General Bullard admits that were good combat units—proving that training and experience is the im- portant dffference. UT all this is beside the point. Negro troops of the regular army} myth of the prowess of the American a first class Essex Coach at the ex-| | pense of the league according to a re- HIS letter puts before the white | Prt of a meeting held by that organ- fee class a question which they | !#&t!on recently. The coach which Papaya \\| his grateful co-workers intend to pur- saan chase for Scheck will cost in the Negro fight the |\Vininity of y of one thousand dollars, or to battles of the white man and be [f. oxoct $917.00. his slave? It is rumored that the Essex Coach In addition it punctures the bubble- | j. 2 goay wagon, but as the late Sam- uel mpers once said when told that the beer he was drinking was non- union: “Yes, but it is good beer.” Perhaps Scheck will fasten one of his labels on his coach and exhibit it to Formerly of the 92d Division. {forces in France—they were fighting jagainst worn-out, half-starved ene- mies. “Food will win the war,” said Hoover, and it did—together with difficulties that were bound with such work, mainly through the separate groups of those minorities being dis- persed over a large territory covered by a number of different republics. This part of his speech the President of the Central Executive Committee of the Union concluded by moving a proposition that the Central Govern- ment be charged with the task of closely following the general realiza- tion of measures bent towards cul- tural development of minorities. {that of one #an president has shown himsel! more | confiscatory. than amenable to the demands of ‘Wall Street, but theso demands have now become so insistent that even he is forced to resist if he wishes to Driven Off Fifth Ave. Some months ago the commisisoner issued an order to all police on Fifth The important thing for Commun- ists is what the Negroes themselves think about Bullard’s charges of cow- ardice. the avalanche of war munitions pour- | ed out from factories manned by Ame- | rican workers—black and white. One more letter: | the workers of Chicago as an example jof what can be accomplished by one person who takes a personal interest in the union label. During the lively debate that fol- lowed Kalinin’s speech, fourteen peas- fecting the national Soviet adminis- However, Larin’s asertion were re tration in regions with national min-/ tuted by members of the government ‘orities, the speaker pointed out to the of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic at |the Moscow Congress, who, with prac tical evidence in hands, were able to state that all the minorities in Uk- raine-—Russian, Polish, Jewish Bul- garian and others—had their own national councils, even in case the population concerned did’ not exceed village; moreover, the Ukrainian government energetically opposed any attempts at forcible “Uk- rainization” of Russian or other min- orities. The Congress unanimou resolution endorsing Kalin’ posals as stated above. sed a pro- retain the backing of any considerable | Ave. and on Broadway to keep all section of the Mexican people. cruising taxis off these streets. His “AN enemies of imperialism must | eason for that order was that cabs rally to the support of Mexico's in- | Congest traffic. An injunction was se- dependence and of the stand taken | Cured from the courts restraining the by the Mexican president against the commissioner from interfering with imperialists. the taxi drivers, but the commissioner “Not for one moment can we afford | Was soon able to have the injunction to ignore the threat of a reactionary | set aside, coup d’etat in Mexico stimulated and| That is what the taxi drivers are encouraged by support from without. | setting from the Hylan administration Mexico must be on her guard. and that is what they can expect fur- “The wage earners of the United | ther if they re-elect the “peoples” man States, who have nothing to gain and | into power, everything to lose by the reckless| There are in this city 38,000 taxi policy of !mperialism being pursued | drivers and not one organization that by their government at the dictation | will fight for these drivers. The only of a financial oligarchy, must be pre-| taxicab organizations in this city are pared to act at 4 moment’s notice.|the ones the bosses and manufactur- Fortunately, the Bullard article pro- | duced a number of letters to the capt- | talist press, praising or condemning | the general's statements, and many} of these were from Negroes. | They can be divided into two class- ij es: First, the protest of the Negro in-| tellectual who resent the charge of cowardice per se, but who resents only the implied insult to his race but not apparently, the whole scheme | of white domination fostered by Ame-| rican capitalism, who accepted both the war and the duty of the Negroes to take part in it. The second, disregarding the charge of cowardice as unimportant in the TOLEDO, Ia., June 9.—The Negro soldier fought and died for the Stars and Stripes and now is called a cow- ard by Gen. Bullard, who states that “they are hope! ly inferior.” | wonder if there is a race on the globe that has made the progress that the Negro has since the eman- cipation, altho they are persecuted at every turn by such narrow mind- ed people as the general? One of America’s foremost states- men once sa cep the Negro out of the schoolhouse and a gun out of his hand or he will whip the world.” | wonder if Bullard remem- bers that and is just trying to kid himself into believing that they are Right now they must their solidarity with the exploited people of Mexico, and of all Latin America, “Every day’s news brings fresh stories of the advance of American imperialism. Yesterday it is China; today Mexico; tomorrow some fresh outrage in the Philippines. June 29 to July 4 Is Antl-Imperialist Week. “The All-American Anti-Imperialist League reiterates its appeal to the workers of the United States to join with their Latin-American brothers in observing Anti-Imperialist Week, June 29 to July 4. Anti-Imperialist Week must be a demonstration of the soli- darity of all the anti-imperialist fore- es from Alaska to Cape Horn.” Union Hatters Hope to Get Work ORANGE, N. J.—(FP)—Union hat workers of Orange, N. J., anticipate an increase in the amount of work available when the Morris Kata Hat Co. opens up the abandoned plant of demonstrate | ers belong to. Union Official Asleep on Job. The Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union is the only union that these ex- Ploited drivers can affiliate with, but it seems for some reason or other the officials of that union will not organize these drivers together. The drivers want a union and are waiting for some one to start the drive. One driver who has been operating a taxi inthis city for ning years, said, “I have been hacking in this town for nine years and it seems that conditions are get- ting so that the next thing you know Enright will issue an order that no taxicabs be seen on the streets after dark. Why the devil don’t some union official come around and organ- ize us.” Yellows Want to Join Union, Another driver working for the open shop Yellow Taxi corporation had this to say: “I have been working for this company for seventeen months and I am tired of the whole thing, if I go on Fifth Ave, I get chased off. It seems that these streets were made face of well-known facts and throw-| cowards. ing the challenge of the race con. [solous Negro into the teeth of Bullard IKE the...seegnd . letter, this on and his kind. points out a vitally important NTO the first classification falls the following letter: “CHICAGO, June 9.—It is inconceiv- able that one who has attained Gen. Bullard’s position should stoop s low as to make such a cowardly ai tack upon a division that Gen. Persh- ing, in reviewing it at Le Mans, be- fore our return to the States, stated ‘Was, in his opinion, second to none in its efficiency,’ I, like many others, interrupted my education at the University of Chi- cago to volunteer a few days after! war was declared by this country, and, statting from the colored officers’ training camp at Des Moines, Ia., where every prejudiced external in- fluence and Col. C. C. Ballou, the com- mandant, tried to discourage the ef-| forts of Negroes to train themselves for leadership of their own in war, we who attained the rank of officers | the Negroes, not only in America, but in the African colonies of British and imperialism. had guns put in their hands. ‘were taught of warware, all the white to fight other white men. The Negro masses will never forget the léssons beaten into them at the point of |the white man’s artillery. If it 1s right for white men to kill one another and get black men to help them, why is it not alright for men who terrorize and torture them? HE question may be put a little crudely here, but in one form or another, it is being asked by millions of enslaved Negroes. The statements above are two to change that has taken place among | During the world war the Negroes | They | |man knew because he needed them | | bayonets and amid the thunder. of! black men to fight and kill white | the ©. B. Rutan Co. About 200 workers | ror the limousines of the millionaires will be accommodated in the factory, | ana not for a working man. The only which meludes finishing and trim-| thing that will help tis is a union, I ming hat bodies made in other dis-| would join and get some of the drivers tricts in addition to manufacturing hat] a¢ the garage where I work to join.” bodies. The Rutan plant has been asked if the company that employs closed since the company decided that| him would have any objection to his ft could not deal with the United Hat-| joining a union, he said, “If the com- ters’ Union any longer. pany would find this out I would get Bea oes fired immediately; they have spot- Advertises R. R. to Students ters on the job and if any one is ee At the 137th convocation of the Uni-| talking about a union he 1s turned in versity of Chicago, C. H. Markham,| and fired. Last week a fellow was president of the Illinois Central rail-| fired for agitating. The men don’t road, was allowed to deliver the con-| care and don't give a damn any more, vocational address, advertising his| They are disgusted and all the fel- road. Markham’s subject was, “Tran-| lows need is a leader and the men sportation in Modern Life.” ‘ will do thé rest.” ASWESEEIT -:- ByT. J. 0’Flaherty continually suffered under such injust- ices as this last one by the general. Official records of the war depart- ment will be called upon to refute every statement made by Gen. Bul lard. Levi E. Southe, HE writer of this letter seems to view the problem of the Negro in the world war as one of securing on an equal footing with white dupes, the right to kill and be killed for American capitalism and its fetishes. His. remedy for such slanders as those of Bullard is to have thi department “refute every statement made by General Bullard.” Needless to say, the war depart- ment will be only too glad to tel be needed soon in another war. (Continued froin pago 1) gard for the rights of self-determina- one left the lesser of the two is pref-| tion, but now that they have welded erable. A big slice of China is pow | their plough shares into swords, the under the influence of the Soviet | Christian nations show a most com- Union and much as the American cap- | mendable desire to follow in the foot- italist dislikes the competition of the | steps of the meek and lowly Nazarene, Japanese in China it hates the spread | and repay violence with humility. in of Communism much more, the meantime Chang-Tso-Lin will be bh Ai worth the attention of the Chinese Doone the most farsighted of| student. And don’t forget General American capitalists are express-| Feng. He's the fellow we're rooting ing themselves against hasty action! for just now, in China on the part of te govern- ent. They even hint thi - einai pg stoclpigcone ot Anoh| rH DAILY WORKER hinted that fean capitalism should be held re-| ~~ Secretary of State Kellogg pulled sponsible for any trouble they may get | # boner when he made public a state- themselves into. In fact it is hinted | ment attacking Mexico without giving that should they make a trip untothe| the facts on which his provocatory unknown for their temerity in mistak-|@2d insulting fulmination was based. ing the Chinese for pacifists that the|Of course the facts would not alter dead Americans should be chargod | the case, but they would at least indi- with scietle. cate Kellogg was not a political een pe own rey higher be able to justification his actions. or this much American wisdom,| As it is, several republican papers the Chinese have to thank their| have delicately hinted trusty rifles. When the favorite|logg has Ml Chinese weapon was the pigtail, for-| the eign powers very little re . tte and he will be greatly pleased, pleased that he will tell oth preciate fully the willingne: Negroes to fight and die for them. It all Negroes took this attitude to- wards their problems as a race, their situation would be worse than hope- less. UT if Rullard’s articles have done nothing else they have shown that the first type by no means rep The following letter quite correctly ignores the slanders of Bullard as unimportant and right to the heart of the whole question: CHICAGO, June 9—I was a lieu tenant In the 92nd division during the war. Gen, Bullard says that the Negro division was cowardly and refused to fight. What ut it? It was a well known faot that Negroes, Second Lieut. 356th Inf., 92nd Div.” r driving power inherent in the mil- 1 | ness to “keep their place.” the Negroes that they made first-class cannon fodder if only for the reason that from all indications they will The war department will: soothe the injuréd pride of this type of Negro so of his race that the white masters ap- of the one for militancy among the Negro masses—egainst a servile acceptance of the white man’s right to judge and punish. If this represented the feel- ing among the Negro masses in the United States, they would be well on their way to social, political and eco- nomic equality. UT the Negro workers and farm- ers are still, in too large num- bers, fooled by promises and mean- ingless concessions. Their leaders for the most part are timid and apolo- getic, unaware of the tremendous lions of Negro workers and farmers, all too ready to make their plea on a basis of respectability and willing- What is needéd is a leadership which will din into the ears of the white rulers unéeasingly the ques- tion asked by the Negro veteran: Why should @ Negro fight the battles of the white man and be his slave? o Tee Distr bute a bundle every day during Red Week of June 15 to 21, Grand at BRAND'S PARK, If the workers of Chicago bought Essex coaches in- | stead of Fords or Packards (?) per- | hups the Essex people might find it to | their interest to go union. What | worked with Clown cigarets might | work all around. Bronx Library Social Not Called Off | The Bronx library committ begs | to announce that the Comraderie and | sociale for June 27, has not been call- jed off. All welcome. Admission free. | Plenty of good cheer and good times assured, Come ready for frolic and fun. Keep the date in mind, Saturday night, June 27 at Bronx headquarters, 1347 Boston Road. Bring your friends | long, Incidentally don’t forget that there 8 sti room on our shelves for some good books, Look over your library, and if you have a book or two to spare, don't be bashful, bring it around, and -we will inscribe your name on our honor roll. The library is open every evening from 8 to 11 Pp. m., 1347 Boston Road Still Resisting Public Power WASHINGTON—(FP)—On the eve of his business meeting of cabinet chiefs and heads of commissions and other branches of the executive end | of the government, to consider econ- omies, President Coolidge is found to | be resisting the idea of federal deve- lopment and distribution of power at | Boulder canyon, on the Colorado river. He agrees that the government should carry the burden of providing flood control and irrigation, but he is dead against its entering into the business of generating and selling electricity. On general principle, he hopes that the two sides of water- NATIONAL LEFT WING CONFERENCE OF NEEDLE TRADES IS CALLED FOR NEW YORK CITY ON AUGUST 8.9 (Continued from page I; of the reactionaries to surrender to the employers. All of these facts combine to make it especially necessary at this time that the Left Wing forces should consolidate themselves, clarify their program and tactics, and solidify the Left Wing leadership with the masses in the needle trades, for a militant struggle against the em- ployers and against the collaborators with the employers, The National Committee Needle Trades Section, T. U. E. L., there- fore, in cooperation with the T. U. E, L. National Committee, issues this call for A NATIONAL NEEDLE TRADES LEFT WING CONFERENCE to be convened in New York City, August 8th and 9th, 1925, to consider and act upon the following agenda: 1. Report of the T. U. E. L. National Committees. 2. Report of National Committee of the Needle Trades Section. 3. Amalgamation and Trade Union Unity;—(a) Amalgamation of the Needle Trades; (b) National Trade Union Unity; (c) Interna- tional Trade Union Unity—Anglo-Russian Commission. 4. Trade issues and program: (a) General; (b) For each union. 5. Unemployment. 6. Shop Committees. 7. Organization of the Unorganized. 8. Struggle against the Bureaucracy—Tactics of the Left Wing. 9. Left Bloc in the Needle Trades, 10. Labor Party. 11, Organization Problems of the Left Wing. 12. Press—“The Needle Worker.” 13. Finance. 14. Election of National Committee of Needle Trades. 15. Adjournment. * Every separately functioning group of Left Wing Needle Trades workers is entitled to send TWO DELEGATES to this National Con- ference. Certain of the larger and stronger groups in New York City will be entitled to additional delegates, the number of which will be set by the National Committee, not to exceed eight delegates from any group. Picnic and Dance given by the resents the thought of the American}= WORKERS PARTY BRANCH No, 1, SLOVAK SECTION Sunday Afternoon, June 21, 1925 SPEAKERS; ROBERT MINOR and Others. Friends ¢ ! Come i Be thy aay, wit Slovak Communists—the of Party. f Good Musio——Admission 50c. storage on the Colorado can be kept} Needle Workers! apart, so that private capital shall not be deprived of a profit from power. Distribute a bundle everyday during} Wil! lead to victory. Week? Vacation If You Can Afford It TROY, N. Y., —(FP)—Workers in Troy collar factories who want vaca- tions and can afford them, will be per- me mitted to take them during the first two weeks of August. Cluett, Peabody | & Co, C. W. Gerguson Co., Corliss 8th AND 9th, 1925. Fraternally yours, NATIONAL COMMITTEE, T) VU. E. L., M, LONG, Secretary. NATIONAL COMMITTEE, ‘WM. Z. FOSTER, At this time when our movement is growing so rapidly, when such tremendous problems are pressing upon us for solu- tion, it is a supreme duty of every sible part in formulating policies and perfecting the organization that Left Wing Group to take a respon- ELECT YOUR DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE, TO BE HELD AT 108 EAST 14th ST., NEW YORK CITY, ON AUGUST t,o Secretary, Coon & Co., and B. J. Conlin Co. mak: the announcement. Employes of Var Zandis, Leckey mill gets the last two weeks. | PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST splendid writer and propagandists, 16 CENTS, 3259 Elston Avenue. SINGING JAIL of the best of American S$ Your local DAILY WORKER — f BIRDS By Upton Sinclair, You can also get A four act drama by a them by mail a9 direct from BARS AND SHADOWS By Ralph Chaplin. Poems written in Leaven- worth penitentiary where the author was committed ber of the I. W. 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