The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 4

_ the Four >———_- Pag! THE DAILY WORKER SEND MARINES 70 NICARAGUA TO AID BANKERS Coolidge Protects Wall Street’s Loans ° By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—(FP)— No love for the liberal regime of President Salorzano has prompted the state department in sending the gun- boats Denver and Tulsa, with 800 Sailors and marines each, to “restore order” in Nicaragua. Salorzano, fac- ed by sudden armed revolt by the old Chamorrista party, appealed to the American minister for help, and ord- ers were quickly sent to Balboa that the two shiploads of armed men should sail at once for Bluefields and Corinto. But Washington's motive is simply one of protecting American bankers’ loans, and the regular pay- ment of Interest on these loans. Latin-American political intrigue is complex enough, and the intrigue of Wall Street, through Washington, in the affairs of Latin republics is a web of treacheries and reverses—all looking toward one end, which is the disciplining of these Latin-Americans to work hard and patiently for the bankers, and to take orders from Washington. Bankers After Interest. Salorzano, while a mild liberal, was willing to pay the interest on all the American loans, and to arrange for mew loans at generous rates of inter- est. When the Chamorro family, re- presenting the big landowners who fornferly acted as a government for Wall Street, kidnapped the Salorzano cabinet and upset the whole country without any prior understanding with Washington, it was time for firm disciplinary steps. Possibly the mere show of force will be sufficient, this time, to persu- ade the Chamorristas that the bank- ers cannot stand for the economic waste involved in a new civil war. Two or three years of fighting would probably lead to a victory for Salor- zano in any case, and the bankers would have to wait a while for their interest. On the other hand, there are in Washington a number of experts on Central American affairs who point out that the Chamorro uprising has come promptly and most fortunately on the heels of the withdrawal of American mariines from Nigar- agua, where they have been stationed since they were sent in to overthrow the Madriz government in 1910, and to defeat the Mena government in 1912, If it were the purpose of the Wash-} ington authorities to show that Am-| erican marines are necessary to pre- serve peace in Nicaragua, then it} could not have done better than to have first withdrawn the marines and then discovered the inefficiency: of | the new Nicaraguan constabulary, which is officered by Americans selected by the state department. Marines to Overthrow Election. President Taft sent the Paducah to Bluefields in May 1910, where it land- ed marines and prevented the capture of the town by government forces who were beseiging a rebel force. President Madriz had refused to make a treaty with the United States, desir- ed by American bankers. On 26, *1912, the foreign Sept. minister of the government set up by aid of Taft and the marines re- ported to the other Central American governments: I have the honor to <cellencies that on the eneral Luis Mena sur- rendered in Granada with more or less 700 men to the commander of the ific fleet of the United States, Admiral W. H. Southerland, the latter promising to take him to Panama un- der his protection, under promise that he would not return to Nicaragua and that his forces be disarmed.” In the following January, reporting on his campaign in Nicaragua, Ad- miral Southerland said; “Commander Steele, chief of the Calffornia troops, was at the head of the forces in each of the encounters. . at the Massaya pass, at Granada, at Chichigalpa, at Leon, and in the assault on the hill of Coyotepe, and he was the first to raise the American flag on the top of the hill.” He describes the engage- ments with “the enemy”, and the final rout of the liberals, who, as the American forces poured volleys inform your 24th instant into their fleeing ranks, “seemed erazy-like, shouting and shrieking from terror.” It is the beneficiaries,in Nicaragua, of this slaughter in 1912 who are now trying to overthrow President Salor- sano, who won the election last fall. PHILADELPHIA MEMBERSHIP TO DISCUSS REORGANIZATION IG preparations are afoot in thi general membership meeting to and most successful meeting ever held in the district. bership meeting of the district, to party and its reorganization on the Saturday, September 26, at 6 p. m., W. Weinstone, district organizer of the New York district, will represent the Central Executive Committee and will lead the discussion at this meeting. - Al! Philadelphia members should be present at this meeting in order ito secure a better understanding of the party tasks at the present moment. By V. J. ANDRULIS, Tt has never been my desire to talk as a member of a section. I think I express the sentiment of many active comrades of the language sections of | our party. But we have language sec- {tions and it is necessary for some comrades to take care of them—to work in them. Working in them, of course, we have‘to talk and write about them, whether we want to or not. That is why we have to write about them now. But I am glad we do it now only to see our way clear | how successfully to get along without party. A Short History. joldest sections in our party. We with five or six other federations and the whole socialist left wing. During active. It participated in the organ- ization of the Communist Party, not only thru the activities of the over 6,000 members, but also by means of fimancial aid amounting to $1,500. Then came the infamous Palmer’s raids. As all of us know, the Com- munist Party at that time was less centralized than it is now. The blow, therefore, was hard. The Lithuanian Federation, with the ‘rest of the party, had to work hard to develop the movement under the new condi- tions, During the “underground period” the membership decreased I think, to less than half. Of course, those that left did not go over to the enemy’s camps. But they limited their activi- ties to educational, fraternal, organiza- tions and in the trade unions. There they worked with us as they are do- ing now. Back to Masses Again. The coming of the Workers Party was heartily welcomed by most of the members of the Lithuanian Federa- tion. But at that time we had quite a@ numerous sectarian element and they split away from the federation. Most of them came back and those that remained outside degenerated into a small reactionary group. Thus, the federation got rid of both right wing opportunism and sectarian left tendency. Today, no Loreism, no op- portunism is visible in the Lithuanian section. Its Strength and Influence. In proportion to the Lithuanian population in the United States, our Communist movement is _ strong. There are approximately about 750,- 000 Lithuanians in this country. Altho our section has only about 1,400 mem- bers, its influence is much greater. The section is in control of one edu- cational organization with 6,000 mem- bers; a working women’s organiza- tion with 2,000 members; a proletar- ian amateur-artists’ organization with 1,500 members. It has a daily paper, semi-weekly, and a monthly journal. Its influence also is great in almost every Lithuanian progressive organ- ization. When there were language locals in the U. M. W. of A, in most of these local our. comrades were leaders and officers. Now’it is the same in the case of the A. C, W. of A., Lithuanian locals. It is true, in two out of six our comrades were beaten, but most of us know what means the reactionaries used to beat us. Yet, in spite of that, our com- rades again are regaining the posi- tions they held in their locals, Having that much experience in se- curing contact with the masses, we naturally resented every tendency to sectarianism. That is why the drop- ping of the slogan of a labor party was so much opposed by the Lithuan- }ian section—so much so, that the | whole section, with a very small ex- ception, stood with the former minor- ity. The New Step, I think I can safely say that as far | language sections—to centralize the | The Lithuanian section is one of the | were thrown out of the socialist party | the organization of the Communist | Party, the Lithuanian Federation was | Get Ready for Reorganization N yesterday’s DAILY WORKER the Organization Department an- nounced its plan to mobilize the membership for the reorganization of the party into shop nuclei and international branches, With the beginning of this campaign. to reconstruct our party, a series of articles on organizational questions is being printed'in every organ of the party. Questions and problems confronting our mem- bers in the rebuilding of the party will be answered and bnalyzed in the DAILY WORKER by Comrade Jay Lovestone, head of the Organ- izatlon Department, and other party members. The DAILY WORKER has also established a special section for the Organization Department. In this section there is being printed ar- ticles on the progress of the organization campaign, the experiences of the comrades in the work | of organization, and letters and reports from comrades’giving thelr experiences In cacrying on ‘the party’s activities thru the shop nuclei. These articles will be fiving articles, and of intense Interest. Watch these columns closely. 4 MEMBERSHIP OF PARTY APPROVES CONVENTION ACTS Pledges Loyalty to the Decisions of the C. I. (Special to The Dally Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—At .a gen- eral membership meeting of the Work- ers Party of this city, called for the purpose of hearing the report of the delegate to the national convention, the following resolution, introduced ers inthe shops. We can be sure that a stronger party working more effec- tively among the English speaking workers, will also more successfully reach the foreign speaking workers. The reorganization has another ad- vantage for those sections of our party that have other organizations. For instance, I heard a Lithuanian worker say, many times, when asked to join our section: “IT belong to your organization that also is doing Communist work like your section.” Some probably used this as an ex- cuse for not joining the Workers Party—but there are many to whom it is difficult to explain that an edu- cational organization is not a revolu- tionary party even if it is Commun- istic. But it will be easier to show to many a worker the difference ber tween the centralized, Bolshevized|by members of the D, EB. C., was revolutionary party and its semi-| unanimously carried: “Reésbdlved that Communistic auxiliary organizations:-we will whole-heartedly carry out the it will be easier to show them that un- | decision of the C. I. and that we will less they are members of the revolu-| work earnestly for the purpose of tlonary party, they cannot be Com-| liquidating the factional struggle, and munists, we will adhere strictly to the decis- We therefore face the reorganiza-|ions and instructions of the new C. E. tion mainly only with problems how|C., and diligently work for the Bol- to get°every member of our section | shevization of our Workers (Com- into either shop nuclei er internation-| munist) Party.” al branches.’ This depends much on 7 our press and organizing ability. For + Re the Bureau of the Lithuanian section, I can say, that it is getting behind the reorganization campaign with concen- trated energy and strong determina- tion, Theother problem is: how to make the nuclei and branches effec- tive in theirswork. Our party is com- Resolution Adopted at the General Party Meeting Held Sept. 11, in Seattle, Wash. We, the members of all branches in Seattle of the Workers. Party of America, in mass meeting,.assembled posed of many different language speaking members. That is a difficulty. For many years this social-democratic federationsystem psychologized the membership; so that now it is diffi- this day, Friday, Sept. 1, 1925, in the Record, Bidg., after, considering the report of our national convention and the decision of the Comintern, and after mature deliberations resolve and declare that we reafirm our loy- alty and pledge our unqualified sup- port to the Comintern and highly com- mend our Comintern for its Commun- ist guidance in its endeavors to pre- serve our party by bringing about har- ~ mony and unity in our ranks, Oppose Freight Increase We unconditionally approve of the The state of Illinois will oppose an | actions of the Comintern in choosing increase of five per cent in freight fee turning over the leadership of our rates asked by western~ railroads | party to the group of comrades whom when hearings before Chairman Clyde | it considered to be nearest in its ap- B. Aitchison of the interstate com-| proach to Communist ideology and merce commission are resumed here, understanding and who are trust- it was announced. worthy of such leadership. ‘ GENERAL MEMBERSHIP | Jor tnese comrades represented in the Ruthenberg group have had years of MEETING IN NEW YORK ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 experience in our party and the revo- lutionary movement in America, and in our opinion are trustworthy of such leadership. NEW YORK, Sept. 18—A gen- In accordance; with the decision of eral membership meeting will be | °U" Comintern we pledge our undivid- held on Friday, Sept. 25, at 8 p. m., ed support and loyalty to the Central at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66.E. 14th | Executive Committee as constituted St. Jay Lovestone will report for |"2der the Ruthenberg group leader- the C. E. C. on the work of the ship and pledge our assurance that we national convention and the im- mediate tasks of the district with regard to bolshevization and re- organization of the district. All cult to undo-it. But we have to over- come it. Reealling the many difficult moments ‘our party successfully over- came, we can be sure of our success in overcoming the ‘language difficult- ies. will continue our efforts,in the build- ing up our party and movement and help rally the mass of the workers to the Communist standard. as the Lithuanian section is concern- ed, the party's reorganization will meet with success. Firstly there is |no opposition, neither to shop nuclei ;nor to international branches. Sec- jondly, for Communist work among | masses of Lithuanian workers, we already have effective means thru our |other organizations, and we will ef- fectively use these where the party's apparatus cannot be used success- fully at the beginning. As far as the Communist movement is concerned among the Lithuanian workers, abol- ishing the language sections in our party will do no harm. On the other hand, the reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei and the internatio: branches will centralize our party nad | provide better means to reach work- ¢ Philadelphia district to make the take place September 26, the biggest The general mem- discuss the Bolshevization of the basis of shop nuclei, will take place in the Machinists’ Temple. Comrade other meetings are called off for The above resolution has been this day and every party member adopted by unanimous ‘vote of the members. r must attend the membership meet- ing. AARON FISLERMAN, Secretary, ‘The Workers Monthly ERE each month you will, find not only the ‘utstand- ing events of the world of Labor in brief, clear articles— Made more attractive by photo- graphs and art features of Labor’s best artists— But also the theoretical back- A Ye , sal ground that leads to better: Foreign beer ampand vadersitanes re any articles by the outstand- 1118 W. WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ing writers in the Améfican and CHICAGO - < ILLINOIS world Communist moyements. AS WESEEIT -:- (Continued from page 1) money talks to everybody. It is al- most as convincing as their beer. It has a special appeal for jail guards, sheriffs and such folk. Cook county jail has been changing wardens re- cently almost as often as Terry Drug- gan changes his silk shirts. But the new ones are constantly getting into trouble because of Terry’s persuasive- ness. S..0¢@ Sade Friday a group of newspaper men visited the jail to learn for themselves if Messers Lake and Drug- gan were there or not. Like the “nine blind men of Hindoostan, to learning much inclined (who) went out to see an elephant, tho all of them were blind, that each by observation might satisfy his mind” the newspapermen would not take no for an answer and the warden, that is the warden of the day, took a chance and hoping for the better, prepared for the worst, And the worst was not slow in putting in an appearance, in the person of Frankie Lake, who was running down the stairs, evidently about to take his morning stroll along Michigan boule- vard. Druggan was in his cell be- cause he did not care to walk out. The door was open. see i i the class war prisoners in various parts of the United States read this, they will have something to think about. The cases pf the two mil- lionaire bootleggers are not isolated ones. Had they been “respectable” business men and not outlawed gang- sters, no notice would have been tak- en of the affair, Former Governor McCray of Indiana, is having a nice easy time in Atlanta, Georgia. He got away with millions of dollars. A worker who gets in bad with the gov- ernment for organizing his fellow slaves, gets five to ten years and no favors. LW ODAY is International Commun- ist Press Day. The press is the principal propaganda weapon of the Communist movement and it must be constantly improved, in order to be- come more and more effective for the giant task ahead of it. The Com- munist press does not depend entire- ly on its staff writers and editors. A Communist press that has to do this falls short of. the mark. The DAILY WORKER aims at becoming amass paper and it can only reach this goal thru the co-operation of the workers in the industries. ’ se @ ‘VERY worker, and particularly every Communist worker should determine from this day to send in the news of what is taking place iti his shop or place of employment. is the news and not what the report- er thinks that is interesting and fi- structive. One worker correspondent declared that What took place in thé THIS INTERNATIONAL & PRESS DAY . It! PLEDG By T. J. O'Flaherty shop was too local and did not excite his enthusiasm, ‘He preferred to tell us about the Dawes’ plan, which. is. a very important matter, but we do not know what is going on in the shops and we depend on the workers in the shops for that information, Strikebreaking, Labor Department is Pretty Busy; Many Cases Up WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—On Aug. 22, 1925, there were 32 strikes before the labor department for settlement and in addition 22 controversies which had not reached the strike stage. Total number of cases pend- ing, 54, eight of which are new. The eight new cases may be compared with nine. and“10 for the first and second weeks preceding. The new cases involve plumbers and steam- fitters, printing pressmen, clothing workers, dredgemen, foundrymen, coal miners and textile workers. INDIA’S STEEL UNION, REPORT NEW YORK, Sept. 20—Organized labor of India, recently defeated “in the Northwestern Railway strike and now fighting on the textile factory front in Bombay has wen recognition in the steel industry without a strike, according to papers arriving in New York from Indian ports. The new deal affects the 25,000 workers em- ployed by the Tata company, a group of Indian capitalists who have a Vir- tual monopoly of the iron and steel industry in the peninsula and who never before have recognized a labor union. The Labor Association of Jamshed- pur, the union getting recognition is affiliated with the All-India Trade Union Congress. The citv of Jam- shedpur is the steel producing center, 20 miles out of Calcutta. The workers there were said to points—the reinstatement of Sethi, an organizer discharged for his union ac- the promise of a system of union dues collections equivalent to the American icheck-off, if the union desired it. For Progress in Education. ‘The American Federation of Teach- ers has announced thru its secretary, F, G. Stecker, that it will sponsor the |. éducational bill slated to come up in ‘congress which recommends educa-| 3234 Hirsch St. ‘tional ataches to foreign countries. WORKERS GAIN | | have been primed for a strike when} the company conceded three main} tivities; recognition of the union and) | GERMANY JOINS © NATIONS LEAGUE Big Opportunities Now in Soviet Union MOSCOW, (By Tass)—The press here draws attention to a letter writ- ten to editors of Berlin papers by @ German merchant resident in the U. S. S. R., who, among other things, deals with the question as to how Germany's entrance into the league of nations might affect her trade rela-_. tions with the Soviet Union. The author points out that the ae tual economic position and the eco- nomic development of the Soviet Un- fon for the past six months or 80, as well as favorable crop prospects, offer alluring openings for German in- dustry, which, given a favorable polit- ical juncture, can largely develop and increase exports to the U. S. 8. R. thanks to the growing purchasing capacities of all the layers of the population, more especially the peas- antry, of the Union. On the other hand, the writer warns the German public lest an eventual decrease of exports to thé U. S. S. R. as a result of Germany joining the league might prove the more dangerous that export trade profits are the only. source from which Germany can honor her re-, parations obligations. Balaban and Katz. 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