The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER x Ty 8 Bublatied bythe by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING .CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): { By mail (outel¥e of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4,560 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months a Address all mail and make out checks to ] THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iilinois . a a J. LOUIS ENGDAHL acenenscemnaenneonenciiamanpeeese toes ! WILLIAM F, DUNNE i MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager Pee cae de elena RNAI —————— nn Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1928, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of Marci 2, 1879. i Advertising rates on application. The Bloody Fist in Panama Yestegday’s invasion by American troops of Panama City, adds another chapter to the long series of crimes against weaker peoples perpetrated by the international banditry comprising the United States armed forces. The rape by the Roosevelt administration of the nations of the Canal Zone; the bombarding of Vera Cruz, Mexico; the aymed in- vasion of Haiti and Santo Domingo under Woodrow Wilson—not to mention the expedition into Siberia; the odious role of the govern- ment of this country—under republican and democratic administra- tions alike—as international strikebreaker and ravager ‘of small, helpless nations; the whole history of this nation since it entered the aveua.of world imperialism makes the exploits of Atilla, Alarec’ and barbarian pillagers of the ancient world pale into insigni- <—e 190 other ficance. The Panama invasion is purely for strikebreaking purposes. The working ¢lass of Panama City organized peaceful mass protests against the extortionate rents imposed by the landlords. The Panama governmental police murdered in cold blood one of the participants in the demonstration of last Saturday night. This so aroused the workers that they showed their indignation by turning out by the thousands at the funeral Monday. ‘The police tried violently to disperse the mourners returning from the funeral. The workers stood firm while speakers urged them to refuse to pay rents until they are reduced. Later in the day the bakers, tailors, butchers, street car and other transportaion workers went on strike in protest against the actions of the Panama police. authorities to the. United States troops. Gen. Lassiter, in command of the Canal Zone troops, ordered three batallions rushed into the| city. Then began the slaughter of defenseless workers. The head- quarters of the labor forces was pillaged and at least one of the work- } ers murdered in cold blood. Against this savage invasion the unarmed workers are fighting with every weapon at their command. The invasion of the hall was resisted with chairs, clubs and other improvised weapons. In the streets the strikers sprinkled tacks to puncture the tires of the autas bearing the armed banditti and in general resisted as best they could, As is usual in such cases there is no declaration of war against the people of Panama by the American government. And it is not war. It is plain butchery—the customary strike-breaking tactics of the United States army. Machine guns menace the populace from public buildings, the plazas are arméd camps, reminiscent of the armed invasion of Gary, Indiana, by the notorious strike-breaker and scab-herder, Major General Leonard Wood, now directing Ameri; can suppression of the natives in th ePhillippines. The workers of the United States have a duty to perform in this situation. We should make the struggle of the Panama workers our struggle. The masses thruout the nation must be aroused and the vicious character of this latest assault exposed until the pro- tests will rock the Coolidge administration at Washington. Furthermore, energetic action must be taken beyond mere mass protest. Every class conscious worker, every militant in the labor movement should immediately start an agitation to tie up trans- portation of munitions and supplies from this country to the troops in the Canal Zone, thereby bringing the utmost pressure to bear up- on those responsible for the ferocious throttling of a helpless people. American imperialism must be made to know that its vandalism will be challenged hot merely by the bleeding colonial victims of its Just, but by the American workers at home. The Struggle in Vera Cruz While Haberman, yellow socialist, hanger-on of the Morones ma- chine in the Mexican_Federation of Labor, Calles supporter and fra- ternal delegate to the American Federation of Labor convention, was giving a rosy report of the progress of Mexican labor under the Calles regime, the militant workers in the Vera Cruz district were at grips with the native capitalists and American imperialists. The bosses have locked’ out the workers. Senor “Gompers” Morones issues statements to the press promis- ing that these “red” elements will be-curbed and Haberman explains to the trade union bureaucrats that the Communists are responsible for the “outbreak.” | But dispatches from Mexico. City inform us that the governor . : of the province, not yet absorbed into the Wall Street machine that rules Mexico, has issued a statement accompanied by a request to the legislature that he be given a mandate to seize the stocks and other property of capitalists as an answer to their demand for “more governmental guarantees for business.” Then came the call of the Panama |* . . The class nature of the struggle is shown clearly by the fact. that all the chambers of commerce and big industrial concerns are lined up against the workers and are urging Calles to adopt’ the most drastic measures against the “reds.” The governor’s statement is as follows: “The gapitalists in the state of Vera Cruz use illegal arms and unfair means, made possible by their privileged social position, to “oppose collective action by the workmen and the efforts of the state thru laws to make effective conquests for the rights of the com- munity over the antiquated and discarded right of the individual. The action of the foreign merchants and capitalists in closing thelr i stores and preventing the sale of the necessities to life as a means ns } of fighting the workmen is unfair, inhuman, and absolutely selfish, “The action threatens to disturb, the public peace and com- ve 4 pletely submerge the masses. The merchants of the port of Vera Cruz have created a condition of intense excitement and uneasine: inimical to public peace, and I, therefcre, propose that the state grains, vegetable: tables, flour, peppers, butter, lard, oil, coffee, tea, sugar, milk, eggs, meat, fish, forrage, and medicines.” The role of Haberman, like that of the German delegates who praised the Dawes plan, is that of an international scab. He comes to America to lie about his. fellow countrymen of the working class who have the backbone 'to fight the slaveholders whose badge of shame he is proud to wear. ‘This is the role of the socialists the world over. bid ize salt, ase . Get a member for the Workers Party and a new. subseription for the DAILY "wr "age ¢ sas He | ‘Some Pages of Bessarabian “Happiness” — In connection with the trial*of five hundred peasants in Kishinev, the Roumanian governmental press announces that protests abroad against the terror in Bessarabia “are the work of Moscow.” . : The newspaper [fupta proposes that foreign representatives visit Bessarabia with the aim of “studying the Bessarabian By U, STEKHOVITCH Een is absolutely right. Mos- cow is slandering as usual, Lupta’s anger is noble, its gestures are elegant. Can anything be more simple? Study the ‘Bessarabian prob- lem,’ ‘collect supplementary material and documents and smash to atoms the “slanders spread by Moscow.” And so we will present the first document for the information of for eign “representatives.” “Rapid and Heroic” Ordinances. This is the kind of ordinance tlrat was issued during the period of sev- en years’ passionate love of the Rou- manian Czar: the beloved “daughter They are the noble the good king of Roumania, Hohenzollern. Bessarabia.” ordinances of Karl Von IRST Ordinance: Issued by the commandant of the Edinetz gar- rison, his excellency Captain Dimi- triu, in 1918: “Roumanian officers,” declares the commandant to the all-obedient Bes- sarabian people, “should be welcomed by the population of the Edinetz lo- cality in the following manner: All those who welcome the officers must stand to attention with their face to the officer and quickly, feroically and with a smile on their face, must take off their hats and bow to the ground.” And further on: “In order to train the population for this and so that my ordinance be correctly carried out, at one o'clock I will send’ my commandant’s cap round the streets on a stick and everyone must greet it" HE reader of course, will be scep- tical about this and shrug his shoulders. But it is a real document which the “Moscow slanderers” hap- pen to have in their hands. As is customary, the ordinance bears the remark “certified true copy” signed by the vice-president of the Edinetz rural district council, Mr. Vulpa. But perhaps this is just an isolated case of arbitrariness on the part of crazy hangmen. We will, therefore, reproduce another ordinance publish- ed only a few months later: “I order all inhabitants, both of the male, and female sex, on meet- ing me or my officers, to step off the pavement and taking three paces backward into the roadway to greet Us with a happy and heroic look.on their faces, and by putting their hands to their hats.” Signed person- ally by the commandant of the town Beltsy and posted up in prominent places thruout the town. me With One Foot in the Grave.” Alexandri is the name ‘of one of THE FRENCH “DEFENSE OF CIVILIZATION IN MOROCCO By BERNARD HERMAN HE robber war now being waged in Morocco was started by the French bankers with the active aid and cooperation of the socialists. ‘The reactionaries and socialists voted as one man in the French chamber of deputies against the Communists, who alone opposed the imperialist war, who alone rallied the French workers against this monstrous slave expedition. As Jean Longuet, one of the leading French socialists said, aghast: the Bolsheviks were actually favoring the liberation of “African savages!” These flunkeys of imper- ialism raised the cry: “The war in Morocco js a war in defense of civilization! A war in defense of humanity!” Well, here is how the correspondent of the London Daily Expréss describes the campaign in Morocco against “African savages”: “The lagt village we occupied had previously been bombed by airplanes, and the efficiency of the air-worker is only too evident, Smoking ruins are all that is left of most of the flimsy native houses. The streets are im- passable. Great piles of debris are thrown here and there, and everything is in a state of confusion, “The natives headed by their chiefs, carrying white flags, came out to meet us at each village. They are always met by the commander of the column with the same formula: ‘If you do not bring out all your ayms and ammuni- tion, all your flocks and herds, to me here within half hour, I will burn the village to the gPound and kill ten leading men.’ , “Pillage under such conditions is temptingly easy, and the commander has considerable difficulty in restrain- ing his soldiers, After each village was taken, the men appeared carry: ing sacks, pails, and other receptacles ful. of booty, to the intense annoyance of the native officers, and to the great amusement of the commander and myself.” HIS pretty description gives us some indication of the blessing- bearing role of the white races and the bankers toward the darker and “inferior peoples.” From this descrip- tlon of the Moroccan campaign, we can see that the French bourgeoisie and their socialist lackeys bring the following blessings of civilization and humanity (of both of them) to the “savages” of Morocco: i 1. Bombs, me on the fragile a bell! {uma (motherland) for | the deputies of the famous Bessarabi- in “parliament” — the “sfatul tseri.” lent treacherous Alexandri was _presi- of the bourgeois ‘ “people’s ue” and one of the most arid an- ationists of Bessarabia in 1918. Only six months after the “annexa- tion,” during the days of the bloody suppression of the Khotinsky rising in Northern Bessarabia, Alexandru speaks once more. TANDING with »one foot in the grave,” he declared on October uyezd. For instance, in the village of Ukshino, over 200 peasants were shot; 300 houses were burnt, while in the village of Neq@boutzy not. more than 50 houses were left standing out of, 600 and more than 200 peas- ants were shot. The eighty-year old man Feodosia Temkuliaka, had his arms” cut off with a sword . . HE villages Attaki, Stavchany, Do- Many, Kaplevka, Prigorodok, Chop- onossy, Zarojany, and many others | Kaliaee Jail 500 Peasants’Are in Its Dungeons. 12, 1918, at a meeting of the league in Kishinev, “I had the courage to speak thé truth, the bitter truth. Fifty thousand troops are living like out- laws and are plundering everything they can lay their hands upon. Rou- mania during the last half year has ‘Russified’ this border Jand to an im- measurably larger degree than the czarist regime did during 106 years’ occupation lf the kind of order that is being. rapidly put into force in our country will continue in this way; we will, be, taking a step backward of a whole hundred years.” This is what even a bourgeois poli- tician was compelled to admit; one who frankly stated he was “standing ith one, foot in tha grave.” OW was the ‘Khotinsky rising suppressed? Let us look at the documents "and facts. The peasants’ representatives fromi four rural dis- tricts of the Khotinsky uyezd (50,000 inhabitants) on January 29, 1919, pub- lished a “report” i Odessa. Having wriggled out of thé clutches of the Roumanian sigurantza (secret police) these representatives included in their “report” only a hundredth part of what was really happening in the ‘ villages, much to the grafitication of the women and children inhabiting the villages, the survivers, of whom no doubt give thanks to-heaven for the blessings dropped therefrom. 2.~ The imperialists relieve the Moroccan herdsmen of the unpleasant necessity of caring for their flocks and herds, This isindispensable in the process of bringing civilization to savage peoples. Having no flocks to take care of, the Moroecans now have plenty of leisure, which they can de- vote to reading The Milwaukee Leader or Karl Kautsky’s latest book. 8. The imperialists relieve th Moroccans of their arms and ammuni- tion. This is bringing christianity and a higher moral culture to the lowly Riffs. ‘No longer will they be able to break the sixth command- ment. 4, One of the» civilization has alt in Moroceo. The 4 troops and the respondent were “ the sight of the at advances in ly been wrought mander of the ily Express cor- tly amused” at ops pillaging the helpless villages, is is an example of the developmen the comic spirit in even backwar : like Moroc- co, M OWEVER, the: this “amused > is one remark in | lackey’s report which js very significant. The native officers showed “ftense annoyance,” A little more of this “civilizing” pro- cess, and the native officers and the majority of the natives still serving (heir French commanders will soon turn about and be®fh “civilizing” their French commanders, and the working class of France, and of Spain, will begin “civilizing” the commanders of the commanders, at-home, Moscow Health Heads - Plan Education Drive on Veneral Diseases MOSCOW, Oct. 18, The Moscow health authorities are organizing a portable exhibition om venerial di- seases, which will constitute a feature inf the educational gampaign now con- ducted among the masses, The exhibition will show the evil effects of prostitution and veneral con- tagion under the ednditions of modern city life, 1% The exhibition Will be demonstrated at various factories, accompanied by explanatory lectures given by physi- clang ; 9 9 oot NO volding or exercising control over Hii were subjected to partial or complete destruction. The daughter of a peas- ant from the village of Urukshina was violated by soldiers. She afterwards gave the names of other girls who had been violated before her eyes. On January 21, the “report” announc- es further that by order of the com- mandant of the town of Khotin, more than 500 people were driven into a square for a,supposed publication of some ordinance or other. All those present were sarrounded and fired on from machine guns. Further: Sixty women and chil- dren who had fled from the neighbor- ing villages had hidden themselves in a wood near the village of Sher- outz. In the night the women, with trembling hearts, pressing their pal- pitating breasts, looked forth into the distant darkness. Would they come The night dragged on like a long torture. They arrived. The lit- tle house was surrounded, wag barred and bolted and set, light to, high col- umns of red flame lit the sky above the woods, and the inhuman howls of those who were being burnt alive, could be heard far away in the vil- lage. WARS’ ARE WON BY ‘DOUGHBOYS’, SAYS OFFICIAL (Continued from page 2) bring a crushing defeat to America in her next war. Drum spoke for the war depart- ment, as his statement was prepared in advance by the general staff as a rebuttal to the two weeks testimony given the board by army and navy fliers. He flayed the proposals both of Colonnel Billy Mitchell, stormy pe- trel of the army air service, and of General Mason M. Patrick, as unsound in strategical value, worthless to the national defense and intended only to give aviators more special privileges, higher pay and quicker promotion than go to Americas other fighting units. Drum “settled” one great contro- versy of.the recent world struggle while testifying. He declared it was the war department's firm opinion that the “dough-boy” won the war. Assails Coolidge Economy As for the “lack of funds,” blamed by many witnesses for the army’s failure to develop aviation, Drum laid the responsibility. directly at the door of the White House, He said the economy policy of President Coolidge forced the general staff to underman the air service along with all other branches of the national defense. An $80,000,000 program for new air equipment, planned by the war de- partment, Drum said, had to be aban- doned because of this economy, Dangerous Policies Taking up each recommendation for a new air policy, Drum character- ized them as dangerous to the nation- al defense, “The establishment of a separate air force independent of the army cannot be justified on any grounds what- ever,” Drum continued, “The idea behind all these plans is the same, It means separation in- stead of union. It means aggravating out present difficulties instead of ap- plying a remedy. It will mean ald and assistance for our enemies in- stead of their destruction and down- fall.” Drum declared the war department was completely satisfied that “wars will be won in the future as they have been won in the past by seizing and problem and thus destroy the slanders spread by Moscow.”—(From the latest telegrams.) This is exactly what was announc- ed in a governmental decree after she suppression of the Khotinsky rising, and which was pogted up in all hous- es and at all cross roads in Kishiney, And in this same decree there was a little “note”: Seven villages had been raised to the ground, five hundred people had been killed.” The Bratianu government confessed murdering five hundred,”’so how miany must have been done to death in reality.? Let the faets*of the “Bessarabian prob- lem” speak ‘once more against the “Moscow slanders.” FTER the blood bath, railway- men’s.delegates from the Okintsy station arrived in Odessa from Kho- tina. Trembling, with extreme emo- tion in their voices, they prayed that urgent measures be taken to save their women folk afid children who had remained behind in the “Bessa- rabian~hell.” These delegates were really shuddering and seemed to look strangely from side to side; tle night- mare of the previous days haunted them still for many weeks. The delegates stated: One hour before the Roumanian army advanced, Kho- tin, which was occupied by the insur- gents, the chief of the insurrection- ary detachments allowed the railway- men to load their belongings into a wagon. At the last moment the only locomotive to be found in the sta- tion, was required by the insurrection- aries for military activities. The ‘detachment of: insurrection- aries retreated. . . A section of the rajlwaymen re- mained with their baggage unloaded. Khotin was taken by the army of occupation. HA, so you were preparing to flee. . . .” And with a whip in his hand the Roumanian officer, at the head of a detachment of gen- darmes, began “continuing the ven- geance.” They hounded down these railwaymen for several days. Several hundred were arrested. In the district of Okintsky alone more than 165 rail- waymen were shot without trial, the remainder were “reprieved” and were made to swear an oath of allegiance to the “Tsara Muma"” (motherland). Public Executions. In the Tsara Muma—this land of nobles discdntent—public executions have already a considerable past. We wilkecite yet further facts and docu- ments -by way of “studying the Bes- sarablan problem.” In the Akkerman uyezd there is a small peasant hut, on the way from Tatarbunar, to Kaushany. It is a muddy’ autumn night. A patrol of 25 men with the gendarme in com- mand—one of the close assistants of the well-known hangman of the Kishi- ney. secret police Myzu—breaks into the hut. “Well, you swine, where's your land. and sea areas,” the place for aviation, he added, is to aid the army or navy in getting this control. “Dough-Boy” Wins Wars To-give the air services responsibil- ity »for defending areas along the coasts; as proposéd by General Patrick in his plan for a separate air force, Drum said, would confuse the opera- tion ‘of the national defense and lead to disaster. Such a proposition, he added, “violates the lessons of all wart” In thé last war and in the next war, Drum declared, the “decisive force” will be the “dough-boy.” Want Cheap Labor in South. NEW ORLBANS, Oct 13.— Calls from the federal state labor office at Texarkanna, Ark., were received here this week for 100 saw mill laborérs, skilled and unskilled, 500 cotton pick- ers, and 100 skilled and unskilled la- borers for various industries, for Texas territory. That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. husband?” The old mother and wite with down» cast eyes, remain silent’ pHs barbatul (husband) disappear? ed three days ago somewhere. He went in hiding from repression. All his family is arrested; the wife, the two-months’ old child at the. breast, the mother, father, brother and 12- year old lad. All are subjected to horse whipping at the police station. At the same time, peasants in the neighboring villages are clapped into. irons, as hostages. They are taken out on to a square near a church. The entire population—about 300 are driv- en out on to the square. Machine guns are placed at the entry and exit of the square. The center remains» empty. Seven victims are led here. . The whipping commences with blows and lashes, Several lose con- sciousness; these have water thrown over them and the - whipping con- {inues until death. ‘ R_ let us recall a case in »the vil- lages of Dinoutsy and Dankoutsy. It resembles a most fantastic fairy- tale with which foolish mothers gen- erally frighten their disobedient chil- dren, This district secret palice had decided to send a punitive expedition into the village of Dinoutsy: “The Bessarabian louts have revolted. . .” The officer sent at the head of the detachment, confused the village Dinoutsy with Damkoutsy. .On arriv- al at Damkoutsy the officer pave or- ders that within 30 minutes the en- tire population be driven out into the streets--women, children and old men included., Bighty-five men were seized on the spot and were whipped before the eyes of the public. The officer gave order with whip in hand. “Well, will you agree t6 carry out orders now?” asked the officer. The people kept silent. No one un- derstood what orders were intended for Damkoutsy: The officers, realising that he had come to Damkoutsy by mistake, left with his detachment for Dinoutsy. “This is where the guilty ones really are. These Bolshevik swines are in Dinoutsy.” ND the whole population of DiI- outsy was driven out Into the street and 285 of them subjected to Public whipping and torture. Several peasants were beaten to death. The people standing around betta, si- lent. Let us cite yet one more fact: On the way to the town of Ismail in the village of Brugk, three arrested peas- ants were killed by the convoy. For five days three bloody and disfigured corpses floated about in a ~ canal among the weeds. It was forbidden to bury them under threat of severe punishment. * Such was the order of the authorities, “by way of a public example.” RUBBER MONOPOLY PUTS ON THE SCREWS; CAUSES MANUFACTURERS GRIEF (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct, 13—The rubber monopoly restrictions under the Ste- venson scheme of withholding the supply and releasing only as prices rise has been responsible for the rise in both rubber and rubber “shares on the market. Raw rubber has gone up to four shillings and share holders are cleaning up all arrears In dividends. Ceylon advices say stock supply of rubber on October 5, is 400 tons lower than on Sept. 13. But the rise in price, while good for rubber share holders has caused @ group of rubber manufacturers and consumers to send a delegation to the under-secretary of state for the colonies, demanding an ending of the restrictions. All they accomplish- ed was to get a promise that Colon- ial Secretary Amery would consider the matter. COMING! 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