The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1925, Page 6

ett nt or se tn a | npremat a Sere aN Bee ae eee ‘Page Six THE DAILY WORKER|[The Oil Armistice Ends in the Near East - ; Published’ by the DAILY: WORKER PUBLISHING CQ. 1113 W. Waéshington Bivd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4712 "nis SNe decide SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, IIlinois — ib J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE (*" MORITZ J, LOEB. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879, ..«.Bditors ..Business Manager Advertising rates on application. <i 290 = A Topic for Patriotism Day Today, the second day of “education week,” is devoted to.patriot- $sm. Simultaneous with the celebration of this day in public schools, there comes the announcement that Federal Judge McClintock, oper- ating in the West Virginia soft coal fields, has declared labor,unions illegal. That this rnling has the endorsement of. the: government is seeni from the comment of the Washington Post, edited by the notori- ous Ned McLean, who was involved in the Fall, Denby, Daugherty, Roxy Stinson series of scandals beginning with Teapot Dome and ending with the whitewashing of the department of justice. The Post interprets the McClintock decision as nullifying. the Gompers inter- pretation of the fourth section of the Clayton Act, which says;that the labor of a human being is not an article of commerce, and hence thru combination cannot be considered a monopoly in restraint of trade. £ McClintock rules that the Miners’ Union has always .been an illegal organization and hence,government officials can have no dealings with that organization. In order to erush the organization in West Virginia by governmental force, it is necessary for_a, legal | decree to clothe the act of suppression. The McClintock decision means that the government cannot deal with the miners thru negotia- tions, but should crush them by force. e The implications of such a decision are a solenin thought for Patriotism Day. It will require a veritable avalanche of sophistry and patriotic buncomb from the pen prostitutes on the capitalist papers, aided by the droolery from the flabby lips of the skypjlots to dispel the con- tempt all intelligent workers hold for the McClintocks, their deci- sions and the capitalist government at Washington that permits such time-servers and labor-baiters to sit upon the federal bench. Incidentally this decision is one more argument in favor of a labor party, with spokesmen in congress that can initiate impeach- ment proceedings against this buzzard judge. Not that his impeach- ment would be realized, but congress could be used as a forum from which to speak to the masses on the outside and expose the fraudulent character of the United States government. Boosting the Coolidge Myth The delectable business of perpetuating the myth that Cal Coo. lidge is a great man goes merrily no. The latest contribution comes from Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the federation of women’s clubs in Washington’ The child culture club of Ogden, Utah, asks the esteemed lady: “Is it disrespectful to refer to the president of the United States as ‘Cal’?” She replies: “Calling Mr. Coolidge ‘Cal’ does not indicate rudeness. It sug- gests a hurry to get acquainted, and is an effectionate term applied in approval of a leader who is himself seemingly a little austere in _ his: forcefulness.” Since Coolidge’s woeful display of his ignorance of history at the speech before the congregational church convention in Washington, where he exposed to the world the fact that he did not undepstand even the rudiments,of the principles upon which this government) is supposed to rest, the mythmakers have had to work overtime. Slated to ‘be discarded because he was too colorless for the ‘office even of vice-president, the insipid Down East yankee found himself catapulted into the presidency by the death of Harding. A deliberate campaign to create a giant out of a peewee was launched. Coolidge was so bewildered that he was dumb. This confusion was) seized upon by press, pulpit and other means of publicity to create the idea that his silence was the brooding of a gigantic intellect. For capitalism in its final stage, where governmental officials are mere marionettes, performing every act in response to those who hold the strings, Coolidge is the ideal president. But history will deal rudely with the Coolidge myth. Its final verdiet will unques- tionably be that his silence denotes plain stupidity, nothing; more. Mexico's Proposed Land Law A new law, restricting ownership of land by foreigners, passed the house of representatives in Mexico City by an almost unanimous vote. It is now before the senate and will probably pass without any marked alterations. Spokesmen for the measure state that it is government inspired. a ‘The probability is that the Calles government, serving the in- terests of Standard Oil, is making a move against the British con- cern known as the Mexican Eagle Oil company. ‘ ‘ It is certain that Mexieo does not contemplate the shutting out © of ‘foreign capital altogether, but the bill is. intended simply to ‘restrict the investments of one imperialist-group in favor of. the “other. ‘ é =") Mexico has, since 1910, béen kept in a eontinnous, turmoil, with one puppet president replacing another in rapid suecession:;Madero, Villa, Huerta, Carranza, Obregon, Catles thrown on to the stage of history by either Standard Oil or the’ Mexican ‘Eagle—playing ‘the game either of the U. S. or Britain—in the world struggle for control of the oil production of the world. ‘ Mexico will not merely restrict, but will prohibit foreign ecap- italism’s ownership of land when the workers, revolutionized by the inrush of foreign capital and the industrialization of large sections of that nation, rise in their might and proclaim their own rule, in- stead of being used as pawns in the imperialist struggle between Britain and the United States. As proof that royalty and brains are strangers, consider the prince of Wales. On a recent tour he tried to make speeches, written for him by paid diplomats. When the prince came to the word “nucleus” he pronounced it “knuckles,” with the intonation of a coster-monger, There is no member of the Communist Junior leagues that cannot give the prince lessons on the pronounciation of nucleus. We wonder what would happen if he tried to say “shop nuclei”? Now. that. Morgan is to float more loans to the Italian govern- ‘ment Mussolini may obtain a new lease of life for a short period, in til the loans‘have been “invested” dm munitions with which to murder ~ THE DAILY WORKER HEN England secured control of the Mosul oil district the Stand- ard Oil company raised such a storm of protest that an armistice was sign- ed in the form of a gentlemen's agree- ment whereby the United States con- cern was to receive twenty ‘per cent of the future production of those fields, “4 Now, as the aftermath of Locarno, comes a decisive break Between Eng- land and this country over the ques- tion of Mosul oil. The armistice is ended. The struggle in the Near Hast between the two leading imperialist nations of the world breaks out anew in a more malignant form. “It is not confined to Persia and Turkey alone but involves the other imperialist na- tions of Europe. A short time after the close of the Locarno o@nference there came to light a new alignment on the. question of Mosul oil, Britain’s mandate is soon to expire so energetic action had to be taken to perpetuate it. The question will come up in the council of the league of nations. France, bound by economic ties to Standard Oil, and receiving a share of Mosul oil, resents this extension of the time period of the mandate. Before the sixth assembly of the league France had things very much her own way. With the support) of other nations she easily dominated. But at the sixth assembly every meas- ure adopted was reached thru a com- promise with British interests. This diplomatic triumph of England paved the way for her calling of the Locarno “security” conference, Called with the two-fold purpose of creating a bloc of European nations against the Soviet Union and at the same time resisting the stranglehold that Wall Street is obtaining upon Europe, the final results, still in the womb of history, will unquestionably reveal the fact that its one achieve- ment was a triumph for England against America. HE contradictions within European capitalism prevented the realization of the British foreign minister’s(Cham- berlain’s) hopes of preparing a uni- fied struggle against Russia on the basis of the Locarno pacts. The econ- omic dependence of France and Italy upon the United States prevents their uniting with Britain in its second ob- jective. But, in spite of this, upon the basis of the Locarno pacts Britain is moving against the United States. A few days after the Locarno con- ference there came to light the fact that England had offered Germany a per cent share in Mosul oil on condition that Germany was to join the league and support England in its demand for a 25-year extension of the mandate. This move was deeply re- sented by Standard Oil because the Rockefeller interests desire to wrest Mosul oil from Britain and place it in the hands of Turkey. France backs Turkey and Wall)Street backs France. When the agreement between Britain and Germany was made public Stand- ard Oil flatly refused to permit Ger- many to obtain a percentage of its share, on threat of withdrawing from the Mosul oil group. England stood firm for its agreement with Germany, Standard Oil withdrew. HIS withdrawal of the United States from the Mosul group {s a declaration of an oil war against the English concern, the Royal Dutch Shell. Preparations for the war had already been quietly made by Stand- ard Oil buying up large claims under various Turkish concessions in the Mosul fields, This one act brings forcibly upon the’ stage of history the next stage,and possibly the last, in the world wide conflict between the two imperialist giants, England and America, in their titanic struggle over monopoly of the oil fields of the world. The politics of diplomacy will soon give way to its logical extension, the politics of war, PROPER appraisal of this new struggle is impossible without keeping in mind that it is one front, though at present the most important, of the world struggle between Britain and United States for control of the oil supplies of the world. This strug- gle has been raging since 1919, when Standard Oil set out to,conquer new oil fields and found that the Royal Dutch Shell controlled by Britain had been quietly getting control of most of the available supply of the world outside .the United States, and a por- tion inside. Since that time Standard Oil has used every copceivable means within its power to overcome its rival. In 1922 the United States concern, operating thru a subsidiary, the West Indies Oil company, was on the verge of obtaining a valuable concession from Persia, when the Anglo-Persian Oil company, a British concern step- ped in and secured the oil by claiming a prior concession to the property. A siight gain over England was made in the Argentine in South America, but in May of that year, the Royal Dutch Shell secured another advantage over Standard Oil by signing an agreement with Leonid Krassin, acting on the Soviet delegation at the Genoa con- ference, to the effect that a ‘five#ear concession in the Baku oil® fields would be granted the Royal Dutch Shell ‘and its subsidiary, the \Anglo- Persian concern. Concessions, ip: Rus- sia, tho of temporary advantage, to the nation securing them, cannot be viewed in the same light as conces- sion “@sewhere, for! fe re: that the let Union prévents, thréfpolit- ical cofttrol, the securing of a mon- opoly by any -other nation and be- cause, af, bes! ie foreigner acts only as pit Rew ire nn the pi is of agreer ts. are alwi 8 of sho) tion _ e -expitatjon of whic ea gg yt Britajn i ae P wh the government. D sly to Panama and Am LKS who imagined the occupa- tion of the city of Panama by gur “gallant boys in khaki” constituted an invasion were under an illusion. The entire “republic” of Panama is under American rule all the time, The recent episode was merely an applica- tion of “martial law” for the purpose of breaking a strike of decidedly un- American Panamans and restoring im- perial law and order. The slaughter of five natives was just a “regrettable incident.” Readers of The DAILY WORKER may be interested to know what the republic of Panama looks like now that it is back to normal. 'N the first place there is the strip of Panama territory known as the Canal Zone, ten miles wide, running straight across the. middle of the country and competely dominating it.» Contrary to popular belief, the Canal Zone is not legally a possession of the United States but is part of the “republic” of Panama. Certain it is, thaf in 1904, with the concurrence of Roosevelt's “big stick” and the United States navy, the zone was “leased” to the U. S, in perpectuity. But Panama has never received a single penny of rental, The rent money is stored up in a Wall Stret bank to cover interest payments on the 30-year 5% per cent loan that American bankers forced upon the protesting “republic.” Sim- ilarly with the $10,000,000-that thé U. | 19 ‘s insaecordance with the treaty of 1903 -whereby Panama was foreed to -ecognize our “specialsrights” sas ,“the suarantors of Panaman .indepen- dence.” vt It was with reason'’that Roosevelt called the treaty of 1903 “a historic stage in the develépmient of the Monroe Doctrine.” Let us consider the territory of Panama (exclusive of the Canal Zone) under the present conditions of peace and normalcy. Customs, finances and police are under the direction of Americans. The Panama railway is owned by the United States ~govern- ment. Revenues from the liquor ex- cise are pledged against interest pay- ments on the 8 per cent “national de- fense loan” of 1921. (N. B.—Any at- tempt to institute prohibtion in Pan- ama, in accordance with Yankee pre- cedent, would no doubt mean another hurried military . invasion from the canal zone.) The -total amount of private prop- erty in the “republic” of Panama was officially estimated about two years ago at $33,175,501. Of this, $5,000,000 or more belongsyto the United Fruit company, which has its own railways, lands and equipments. By arrange- ment with the: dummy Panama gov- ernment, the Goodyear Rubber, com, pany has exclusiye warehouse facili. ies for rubber in Panaman ports. The, American Foreign Banking corpora ion and the International Bankins S. was supposed to have paid over to! ‘orporation (both controlled by the Panama in return for the concession to build and operate the Panama canal. This money is invested in New York state bonds; the Panamans can neither change. the investment, nor touch the principle or the interest. The entire net income of this “consti- tutional fund,” as it is called, is pledged to cover interest payments on another Wall Street loan—the 5 per cent serials of 1915. However that may be, an American governor runs the canal zone as Unit- ed States territory—with a 100 per cent American military administra- tion, an American post office, Ameri- can fortifications, and American sol- diers and marines. A Panaman wor! er can not even get a job inthe Canal Zone, except at unskilled manual la- bor and at the very lowest rate of pay. a F course, the soldiers ard marines do not stay in the Canal Zone, voy evevrnn the rest of ‘the “repub- lic’ whenever the Canal Zone admin- stration thinks 1t, advisable. That ee er Cane Wall Street money trust) have their branches in the, “republic” and dom -nate the movement of financial capi- tal there. Two-thirds of all the capi- tal invested in, Panama is American capital. ne Moe wana “pig business” has thus an enorméus' stake in the little pseudo-republic’*where the Panama hats come from. Has not this at least a little to do with the deter- mination of the U. S. government to guarantee Panaman independence 80 religiously, even from the Panamanr themselves? Is not American imper- jalism simply a phase of the develop- ment of American capitalism toward the monopoly of whatever sections of the earth it can lay its hands on? I have not touched at all the ques- tion of imports and exports between Panama and the United States, but when that is taken into consideration as well as the factors mentioned above, it wil be plain that Panama has no more /imdependence economic: ally than she has politically, Like <e erican Imperi 0 throttle,.operations of Standard Oi in the,,undeveloped fields of Mesopo- tamia and also to secure the more favorable concessions from the Soviet government for exploitation. Standard Oi has bitterly opposed the inroads of British oil and has utilized its power in Europe and the Near East to overcome British control. ‘HEN Britain tried to decisively subdue Turkey in 1921 by back- ing Greece against that nation, it was French support with full backing of Standard Oil that sthashed the military campaign of the Greeks. Britain and France (with the backing of Standard Oil) were at war and the Turks and Greeks furnished the soldiers to fight the battles. England’s maneuvering witHin the leaghe of nations that culminated in its securing preponderating influence in the sixth assembly was the be- lated reply to the defeat of Greece. Also the early expiration ofthe four year mandate for Irak forced Britain feverishly to strive for advantages over France that would insure a con- tinuation of the Irak manuate. The best way for Britain to secure a perpetuation of its own mandates against the will of France is to dis. credit the French administration of mandates. That accounts for the policy of “neutrality” on the part of Britain in the fierce struggle now raging between the Druse tribesmen and Syrians on one side and the French butchers on the other, The British press is strangely silent on this matter. Some capitalist edi- torial writers and European political correspondents have evinced amaze- ment that Britain maintains a consist- ent policy of refraining from severe criticiém of France in the Syrian af- fair, They, in their infantile minds, accustomed to analyzing the words of statesmen instead of the acts of the governments involved, construe this silence to be one of the beneficial re- sults of Locarno. But, while main- taining “neutrality,” the English press inadvertently exposes its hdnd by ad- vising the English authorities in Pale- stine to avoid anything that could arouse suspicion that the English are behind the revolt of the Druges. This protestation of innocence is very sus- picious. We think Britain, like the player queen “protests too much.” Last week in the article on “Manda- tes in Syria and Irak” the present writer said: “While Britain had a hand in the Riff affair there is noth- ing to indicate that the revolt in Syria, was encouraged from that source.” We pointed out that Britain had everything to gain from the defeat of, France in Syria; the transfer of con- trol of territories so \that a Cape to Cairo railway and a further extension to Caleutta, thereby uniting the con- tinent of Africa with that of Asia, can be realized;—also the preparing of ¢ sase against France on the grounds that she is incapable of administering other states of the Central American and Caribbean region, she has been impressed into the American econo mic system, dominated by the lords oi Wall Street, and is as’ truly a part of it as IMinois or California. With the difference, however, that she is one of the colonial divisions of the system —that she is a subject nation, ex- ploited under imperialist slavery, and her sons and daughters are obliged to toil under the most abominable conditions to produce super-profits for the imperialists. It is the super-pro- fits from subject nations like Pana- ma that make it possible for Ameri- can capitalism to continue its ex- ploitation and pauperization of the American working class. For this reason, if for no other,’ every class conscious worker in America, must be a supporter of the growing Panaman movement for freedom from Ameri- can rule. UT it would be extremely superfi- cial to assume that American financial interests in Panama itself furnish the only, or even the main reason for the enslavement of this little dependency of American imper- ialism. Panama must be looked at in connection, first and foremost, with the spread of American imperialism }thruout Latin-America, and secondly, with the development of American im- derialism over ali the world. The -anama canal provides the key to the ituation. The project of the canal was what uspired the original robbery of Pan- sma trom Colombia in the imitation vevolution staged in’ 1903. The pro- ject was an old one, but it did not ac- quire irresistible momentum until a certain period ha@ been reached in the economic and political develop- ment of the United States, To say that the canal was wanted for trading purposes is to repeat an obvious truth, without at the same time throwing any real light upon the juestion. The fact remains that it vas only after America’s entrance on che world political stage that things began actually to happen in Panama, After the war with Spain, the Ameri- can empire included Hawaii, Samoa and the Philippines, Porto Rico in the Caribbean and Cuba, a protector- ate, close at hand. In the words of President McKinley, the building of the canal was intended to afford “that intimate. and ready intercommunica+ tin between our eastern and western’ seapoards demanded by the best rt tion of the Hawaiian Islands and thé thay get the mandate. We proved that Britain had every incentive'tovearry yn intrigues against France in) Syzxia, but we then had no evidence that she actually had a hand in starting the struggle. We. still question Britain having had a great deal to do with it much as she may have reached to- ward that end, but the press comments of London, just arrived, are suspi- clously colored in regard to the af- fairs in Syria. There can be such a thing as. overdoing the pretext of “neutrality.” P. led England really has a hand in the Syrian revolt she is’ playing a des- perate game, amounting almost to in- sanity,, because such elementary for- ces, once unleashed, cannot be arrest- ed by.arbitrary decree. The Syrians and Druses have very definite desires to throw off the shackles of ‘the im: perialist power of. Europe: and they will not. be more ready to submit to’ British rule than they weré ‘to French? Also,.the success of the Syrian revolt will encourage the movement’ of ‘rz: tional, Mberation in all” thé” colonial countries and Britain will find herself faced, With widespread reVolts ‘thru- out ail of Asia aiid Africe, “But such are the contradictions of imperialism that the competing nations ‘must’ fre- quently ‘stake their existenc® upon the outcomé of one maneuver.’ When the Mosul oil flelds are deve- loped' ‘they will need the Syrian ‘port of Beirut as the pipe line terminal. With the French retaining control’ of the Syrian mandate the French and American oil interests (in reality ome) can force Britain to disgorge a large portion of her petroleum products. This ‘creates ‘another incentive ‘for England to control Syria. At the same time this struggle over oil, the with- drawal of Standard Oil from the Mo- sul group, the bloody struggle in Syria, the strategic position of Beirut as the natural terminal for Mosul oil eloquently explains the American naval maneuvers in that region. It explains why United States . battle- ships traversed the distance of the Mediterranean to Alexandria, from thence to ‘Beirut, on the pretext of destring to “protect American lives and property.” Can anyone doubt for a moment that these warships are there for any purpose other than as-s threat to Great Britain? ‘It’ Palestine the: British forces. are mobilized on the border. - Insthe port Beirut American destroyers .mena- sly lay in the harbor. preparing to oust France, the agent of Standard Oil, from Asia Minor. In driving relentlessly toward this ob- je uses every strategem at her i al. The attack of Greece against Bi la was unquestionably the work of Britain, who wants to strengthen -her front against Turkey, -with.. the i#éa of subduing that nation, securing andisputed control of Mosul, captur- ing Constantinople and the. Golden Horn and at the same time blockad- the mandate in Syria, so that Britaii | ‘Wg° Soviet Russia in the Black Sea. ! oe Th -rospective expansion of our “influ- snee..and commerce in the Pacific.” pot tap the United States is an em- pire stretching out evétywhere—in ‘he Atlantic as well as in the Pacific; ‘Burope, Latin-America and the Far Bast: Imperialism implies an indus- trial method of international»seizure and ‘thonopoly; it is therefore,.a form of business in which big guns are re- quired no less than salesmen and credit men—to protect and extend the monopolized areas. Imperialism and war are inseparable and there, are j millions of workers who can be use as cannon fodder. The various units of the American empire have, been pieced together with that idea in mind. Latin-America is the economic base of American imperialism, and the Panama canal is its central strategic base. ‘The entire Caribbean aid Central American region has its strategic as well as economic © importance ‘for American imperialism.” A’.series of naval bases beginning with Key West, orida, and including ” Gitantanamo Bay (at the southwést of Ouba),:Por- fupe, and the Virgin ‘Islands, give the United States absoliite control of the Caribbean. The ‘treaty of 1907 TAK Santo Domingo givés the U. S. ‘che, right to build “a tival base: at jamana Bay; the tredity of 1915 with laiti. gives her‘ the samé right ’ tc he. Mole of St. Nicholas; and th: aryan-Chamorro treiity ‘Of 11916, “per- mits her to build naval bases the Bay, of Fonseca and the” Corn Islands off, Nicaragua. w MALE Brae is. significant. that ‘in’ the’ not fantastic volume récently ‘pub- under the titlé ‘of cn eu History st he Anteri- can-dapanese Campaign ‘of 1931-33,” the starting point of the war is con- nected with the blowing up. of a Jap- anese steamer in the Panama canal and the consequent suspension of communication betweem the Atlantic and the Pacific. The author, H. C. Bywater, is a leading British naval authority, and he knows whereof he speaks. ‘ ‘OT without reason are the Ameri- can military forces in Panama concentrated in the Canal Zone. American imperialism will cling to the “republic” of Panama in the face {of everything. There “is not: another of “her possessions thap she would not give up before this? She) guards jedlotisly against the sMghtest unset: Pacific War; A Britain is |, ting influence on the poniuwnla, Anti-| Jerstand Communism--study it. * ‘ WAP Bulgaria is financed by France, a fact that the league of nations inter- yened in the Greco-Bulgar confilet does not mean that another effort will not be made to achieve the same & ‘VENTS transpiring in Asia Minor EK indicate Britain thus far the win- ner, But the struggle over oil is dir- ectly between the United States and Great Britain, the other nations in- volved are mere pawns of one or the other of these two powers; their own separate interests are transcended by those of the two giants of imperfal- ism, The temporary triumph of Britain only makes more imminent the out break of a war that will involve the whole world in a devastation many times worse than the past war, The United States is rapidly consolidating its power in Europe. The debt settle- ment with, Italy which makes this government the guarantor of the Bay- age regime.of Mussolini, the debt né- gotiations soon to be resumed with France, the small being drawn into the sphere of Amer* ican banking capital, all menace the power of England. In the coming world war present indications are that England will/havé the support of Germany and Gréece in Europe and Japan in the Far East, while the United States will have the support of France, Italy and Turkey.’ We refer to England alone, instead of the British empire for the reason that Canada will either support the United States or remain neutral. The same applies to Australia. But the penetration of American finance cap ital in both these British dominions favors their entering the conflict on the side of the United States. Canada is so geographically situated that she could not successfully wage war againts this country. Australia, be- cause of the fear of Japan, will be im- pelled to unite with the United States in the struggle. The last world war, a struggle be- tween combinations of imperialist na- tions, thru reducing to secondary posi- tions all of the principals except two, cleared the ground for the next world war, a struggle between these two colossal powers, wherein all the rest of the world will be pawns of one or the other. The close of the oil armistice in the Near Bast revives the war for oil, which inevitably will lead to an- other world conflagration. These sinister preparations must be exposed by fffe revolutionary workers of ‘all countries and every effort di- rected toward building an invincible proletarian force that will challenge the power of capitalism. Instead of meekly playing the role of human cannon fodder for the imperialist na- tions we must prepare the working class to hurl from their seats of power the imperialist bandits and in place of the bankrupt league of im- perialist nations establish the world wide. Soviet republic, By Manuel Gomez capitalist agitation that tends to de- stroy the present balance of forces, | strikes of ragged and hungry laborers against extortionate rents, any work- ing class or peasant disturbance at | all—will be put down as callously as Great Britain would put down a simi- lar disturbance at Suez. Panama is the pivotal point of the entire structure of American im- perialism outside of the United States. In the face of this, what mean the protests of the little people of Pan- !ama who only want freedom?. — We Correct An Error, NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 16.—To the Editor of The DAILY WORKER: One of The DAILY WORKER'S New York correspondents was seriously mis- informed in a report published in the New York edition of The DAILY WORKER of Friday last, Nov. 13, to the effect that the Norwegian steamer Start had been tied up at Pier No, 3, army base, South Brooklyn, for two days by a strike for a wage increase By H. M. Wee debtor nations _ — under the direction of the Inter- ~ national Seamen's Union. z. According to correcting reports just received, there is no foundation ‘for the above report given to our corres- pondent, Two port delegates of the I, W.,W, Marine Transport ‘Workers’ {ndustrial Union No, 510, Bryan and °etergon, bring the word personally bru the former to The DAILY VORKER, New York office that the crew of this ship, the Start, positively is 100 per cent J, W. W., that these two delegates themselves stamped up the members of the crew while.in port, that there was no demand for an in- crease of _wages or other demands and no trouble of any description while the ship was in port and that the ship sailed on Nov, 12. ' The erroneous report was particular. ly obnoxiois to the .wobblies at this time, because during their recent strike in support of the international strike of seamen, the officials of the I. 8. U, at all the ports of the r were reported to have given the ship- ping masters and the crimps active co-operation in fighting the strike. the wobblies have been more than ever in lining up sailors’ in New York port, since the strike was transferred to the job, Praternally, 9.) H.R. Rich: want to thoroughly-.an If you ek af