The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1926, Page 2

+ peera) STANARD OIL a Page Two THE DAILY WORKER WARNS IT MAY LEAVE MEXICO Company ~ Organ Re- peats Familiar Threat (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 31.—“The fu- ture of the world’s second largest pro- ducer of oil depends upon the conclu- sion of a fair working agreement” in Mexico, states The Lamp, Standard Oll of New Jersey Journal. Represen- tatives of Standard Oil companies and subsidiaries are now returning from conference with the Mexican govern- ment which stood firm for the protec- tion of the rights of its people to benefit from the country’s natural re- sources. The magazine relates the fight in Mexican courts of Standard Oil against the 1917 constitution of Mexico and the 1925 petroleum bill, which declares that the nation owrs the oil in the Sub-soil and that its ownership cannot be taken or given away. This big private corporation protests against what it regards as the destruction of “all such rights acquired under pre- viously existing law, without compen- sation,” saying that “herein lies what is known as the Mexican oil problem.” Future development of Mexico's oil ‘resources has to be carried on under eoncessions from the government. The companies owning lands in fee or “Jeases acquired before May 1, 1917, must get confirmatory concessions be- fore the end of this year. The presi- dent of Mexico is to issue necessary regulations to put the law into effect. The “Kindly” Corporation. The company magazine says that Standard Oil, if given a,chance, will Seek out new Mexican petroleum fields, develop them, etc., but it makes No mention of what good this will do the Mexicans, outside of giving a few thousand employment. It claims that one of its Mexican subsidiaries, Trans- continental Oil, “has been fortunate to escape serious labor troubles. The minimum wage paid by it to common labor was four pesos a day. At the beginning of last year a savings plan was instituted for its employes by which the company adds a certain per cent to the deposits made by them,” in the hope that this welfare device would prevent workers from organizing for direct economic gains. May Go Elsewhere. Standard Oil warns that if its profit- making opportunities in Mexico are curtailed it will take its money “to other countries which give greater set curity to investments and where con- ditions are such as to afford a reason- able certainty of profitable return upon them.” The question of the value of Standard Oil’s presence in Mexico to that nation and its people is at no time considered by the oil corporation Periodical, nor is the right of Mexico to change her laws to the detriment of Standard Oil profits granted. Moving. Suow Blizzard Envelops Middle West The whole swept by a proportions. Trains are marooned and held up thruout the plains states. A half-dozen deaths have been reported and m injuries from accidents. The wind approached hurricane velocity in some quarters, doing great damage. Chicago is buried under a heavy snow and on Tuesday, street car trat- fic was seriously delayed. A migra- tory worker was found dead from ex- posure on the north side, middle west is being Se TTT MLL MLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLCLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLALCLLLLLL LL CooL ECOL Grand Ball and pring” blizzard of large | WILL THIS LAW JAIL THE BOMBING BOSSES, PROSECUTOR SAVAGE? People who throw bombs will be imprisoned for life if Chicago’s as- sistant state’s attorney, Joe Savage, has his way in the next legislature. There are legal punishments already prescribed for bombers and Savage is paid to enforce them. But seek- ing a new law is easier than getting convictions on indictments. Enthusi- asm for convictions abated when ; it was discovered that practically all the recent bombing offenses were perpetrated by agents of employer associations, not by the labor men the prosecutor wanted to send up. Police of the Mill Owners Make New Attacks on Strikers (Continued from Page 1) Albert Weisbord, who ts today and has for some time past been a resident of Passaic longer than some of the mill owners and newspaper editors who assail him. Then, to make themselves more ri- diculous, the chamber of commerce publicity agents propose that the plan of Secretary of Labor Davis, who has never lived a day in the state of New Jersey, be accepted by the strikers in spite of the fact that it was em- phatically rejected by the committee at Washington and branded as a bare- faced strike-breaking proposal at the time. The chamber of commerce state- ment concludes by stating that settle- ment negotiations should be in the hands of local workers who will stay in Passaic and see that the interests of the workers (?) are defended after the strike is over. Never was there a more brazen piece of hypocricy. The reason the mill owners object to what they term ‘outsiders” is because they know the labor organizers who have had experience in strikes and in main- taining union organizations will be able to defend the interests of the workers, while those workers who are in the mills and who are dependent upon the employers have not yet had the training that enables them to fight at all times for their demands. The demand for the so-called “out- siders” to leave Passaic is a demand for the destruction of the organization that the workers have built up and are every day making more powerful during the conflict. The rank and file of the strikers know and appreciate their leadership and nothing makes them more furious than to suggest that their leaders whom the bosses denounce leave the vicinity. While not all the strikers are class conscious, most of them know enuf of the struggle to realize that anyone whom the bosses attack deserve their support—which is one of the first steps on the road to class conscious- ness. Butte Unions Plan Joint Action Against Utility Interests (Special to The Daily Worker) BUTTE, Mont., March 31—With the Montana Power company and the Butte Street Railway company both on the unfair list of the Butte cen- tral labor body, the electrical workers and the street carmen are lined up for joint action. The electrical work- ers struck when companies refused to discuss a $1 a day raise to $7.50. The street carmen are negotiating for 5c an hour additional, with prospects of strike action to enforce it. Other unions will be asked to aid the move- ment for wage increases, Entertainment given by BAKERS’ UNION LOCAL 1, A. F. W. Saturday, April 3rd, 1926 at the LABOR TEMPLE 243 East 84th St., New York City Room 13: Dance Room 10: Vaudeville Room 16: Restaurant Music by Bohsung’s Orchestra Commencing at 8 P, M. Tickets 50c per Person—Hatcheck 25c F EXPECT DECISION BY HOUSE TODAY IN ENGLISH CASE Old Party Lines Ignored by Representatives (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 31—Party lines were dropped today as the house began its second and what is expect- ed to be its last day in considering the impeachment of U. S. district Judge George W. English. Democrats joined with republicans in urging impeachment while a similar alignment defended him on the grounds that he had done nothing criminally wrong and was guilty only of mis- takes and “using language the rough y people in that district could and.” A wide variety of fact- ors were declared by leaders on both sides to be back of the absence of re- gular party lines in the contest. Many democrats on the judiciary committee, which voted 14 to 6 for impeachment, privately declared to- day that while they originally enter- ed the investigation friendly to the jurist and demanded the charges be proven, the nature of the evidence unearthed convinced them he should be impeached. Many congressmen from labor districts also were fa- vorable toward impeachment because of what they regard as Judge Eng- lish’s arbitrary and unwarranted hos- tility toward labor organizations’ in issuing injunctions during strikes. Marojity Report Usually Wins. The fact that majority reports from committees are rarely turned down by the house was set forth by admin- istration leaders today as a strong factor indicating impeachment would be voted. “The house has little op- portunity to thoroughly study volu- minous evidence such as is before it in the English case,” said one party leader today. “The fact that the re- port for impeachment represented the views of able lawyers from both par- ties will lead many to vote for im- peachment on the theory that the case can be more thoroughly consider- ed when the senate sits as a trial body.” Anti-Labor Record Defended. Representative Wm. P. Holiday, (R) of Illinois, yesterday defended Eng- lish on the ground that his instruc tions for summary action against the railroad strikers was justified. He stated that the language used was “the sort of language they under. stood,” referring to Judge English’; orders for the harshest possible ex- ecution of the injunction against th« strikers, eee Judge English Called WASHINGTON, March 81. — Im- peachment of Federal Judge George W. English, East St. Louis, Ill, was demanded today in the house “for the sake of the whole federal judiciary.” In a caustic arraignment of English, Representative Hawes (D.), Missouri, painted him as a “drunkard, a man | whose language resembled that of the barroom.” Big Meeting Planned for Passaic Strikers by I. W. A. of Chicago The workers and the friends of the workers of Chicago will -have an op- portunity to hear all about the Passaic textile stirke in detail Thursday, April 8, at 8 p. m. at the Douglas Park Audi- torium, 3302 Ogden avenue, where a huge mass meeting will be held for the benefit of the 20,000 strikers. at Passaic and vicinity, The speakers of the evening will be Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, who will speak on “Police Brutalities and the Denial of Civil Rights to the Strikers.” J, Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, will tell about the deter- mined efforts and bitter struggles be- ing carried on by the strikers for la- bor. F. G. Biedenkapp, national sec- retary of the International Workers’ Aid, will explain the need of relief and how it is being carried on by the I. W. A. and the general relief com- mittee of the strikers, First-Hand Reports. - All of the speakers have spent con- siderable time among the strikers and speak from first-hand knowledge. The importance of a large attendance is evident. Be sure to advertise this meeting among your friends. The admission to the meeting will be a can of foodstuff or 15c, NORTH SIDE DEFENSE MEETING ON FRIDAY AT BELDEN HALL As part of the intensification of labor defense work by all branches on Chicago's north side, the North Side Branch of the International La- bor Defense has called an important meeting for Friday night at Belden Hall, corner Belden and Lincoln avenues, To this meeting full membership is being called with special request for attendance due to the character of the work outlined. ‘To this meeting also, as at all meetings of the unit, invited and readers | workers are The DAILY. OOOO | WORKER made weteome, i Communists Attack. Government. The Communists, on the other hand, Drunkard in Congress are redoubling their attacks on the Communist Deputies Sing ‘The International’ in French Parliament (Continued from page 1). district, which elected the Commu- nists, comprises part of the central business section of the city and part of the big east side working class por- tion, To Refrain From Voting. As a result of the decisions of the radical socialists and the socialists to refrain from voting on the Peret pro- posals to meet the budget deficit, there was every indication that th® Briand cabinet would have its life prolonged at least until the reconven- ing of parliament after the regular Easter vacation. Former Premier Herriot had appealed to both groups not to vote on the government pro- posals in order to prevent the over- throw of Briand. Anticipate Briand’s Fall. He believes that with the passage of the government’s financial meas- ures thus assured, and his own and sympathetic groups rélieved of respon- sibility, Briand will Have to bear the certain wave of condemnation which will roll in like an avalanche from every part of France.‘ The protests are certain to assumea huge volume. The new poll tax, which tax 9,000,000! citizens who have never before been lirectly taxed.and many of the other new tax proposals, are extremely un- popular, Modify Sales Tax. The government was obliged to lim- it the proposed increase in sales taxes to transactions by wholesale houses relieving thus the immense number of small shopkeepers from whom it had been hoped to collect the bulk of the tax. Both the socialists and the rad- ical socialists are still opposed to any kind of an increased sales tax at all. Peret has also won the approval of the finance commission to a small in- crease of duties on wine, beer, cider, and coffee. These will hit the work- ers particularly as even the poorest families include these items in their diet. There will be increases in real estate and commercial property trans- actions. Even the dance halls of the Montmarte district, which are the re- sort of the tourists and the American visitors especially, aré to contribute to the official reventies. Opportunist Tacti¢s, as Uusual. In accordance with their opportun- istic tactics and lack of a real revolu- tionary theory, the French socialists have now given up their oppositon in order to help the liberal bourgeois pol- ‘tician, Eduoard Herriot, put his po- itical opponent, Briand, an ex-social- st and chauvinist, “in bad.” It is ex- vected that whenf{he Briand cabinet ‘alls, Heriot will. 2@itvthe. yremier- ship again. 4 government. Garchery, a Communist representative, in the chamber yester- day pointed out that the Briand pro- posals mean that only a third, or ap- proximately $50,000,000 of the $150,- 000,000 needed to balance the budget, will come from le on the rich. Two-thirds of the total will be paid by the poor. Out of the estimated income of the new poll tax of about $19,000,000, only $5,666,666 is to come from the wealthy classes. The Com- munists, he declared, stood for the capitalist class in France standing for the entire deficit. Sacrifices $10. There was an unusual scene in the chamber when Deputy Dauthy, a rad- ical socialist, took three one hundred franc notes (about $10) from his pocket and handed them to Finance Minister Peret, declaring that “Depu- ties should make an example of sacri- fice.” Briand Or “Chaos.” The continued decline of the franc, altho minimized by the finance min- istry, is expected’ to strengthen the government’s position. A fall of the ministry at this time was character- ized as “extremely dangerous.” De- feat of Briand, his supporters claim- ed, would plunge the.nation into un- precedented financial chaos, Senators Get Reports Coolidge Suppressed (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 31—Reports on six investigatio: U. 8. tariff commis: that have been suppressed for more a year, were delivered by the commission today to the senate committee investigating its activities, Subpoenas were need- ed to get them, | * The reports, including the contro- versial one on the sugar investiga- tion, will be made public later. Tho- mas O, Marvin, chairman of the tariff commission, testified yesterday that President Coolidge had declined to authorize publication of the sugar re- Port. / made by the Florida Bricklayers . Strike for Increase ST, PETERSBURG, Fia., March 31. —No bricklaying was done in St, Petersburg when 200 bricklayers went on strike for a $2 increase to $14 a day, Contractors threaten to try the open shop, but the met stand by their demands, pointing to the high cost of living and the enormoué Florida profits in building and land, { NT Ween Make your al ‘A ah week. This is a issue to give to your fellow worker. f “American Samoa” Bares| the Atrocious Crimes of Wall Street Imperialism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ONSIDER the case of “American Samoa,” cluster of pearls in the south seas set gaudily in Wall Street's im- perialist diadem, when Coolidge’s bandit government in Washington begins screaming about American capitalist rights in Mexico. Lorrin A. Thurston, publisher of the Honolulu Adver- tiser, made a trip to Samoa to gather shells on shores washed by waves more than four thousand miles distant from San Francisco. The Hawaiian journalist, however, stumbled into facts that jolted him into telling the world about them. Thus the conviction of Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull, the two soldiers sentenced to 40-year and 26-year prison sentences while serving in the dollar’s army in the Pacific, has an interesting sequel with which all American labor should acquaint itself. ‘ * * e e The United States does not dispute that Mexico belongs to the Mexicans. Washington has recognized the revolution- ary government of Calles. On behalf of America’s profiteers, however, the Washington government tries, in its usual way, to bully the Mexicans into abrogating ‘their oil and land laws, adopted in the interests of the Mexican people. Intervention is dgain threatened as the malicious anti-Mexican propa- ganda is resumed. The atrocius Magdalena Bay hoax is again trotted out to do its usual service in breeding war hatreds. - e e« @ @ Washington is trying to apply Samoan methods to Mexi- co. These methods are, in Thurston’s own words, as follows: “No known method of annexing territory has been pursued (in bringing American Samoa under the control of the United States). Its Independence was recognized by us (the United States)—evidenced by a formal treaty, under which we were given the privilege of establish- Thg a coaling and supply station at Pago-Pago harbor. “For fear that England or Germany might ‘ beat us to It,’ the presi- dent thereupon, by executive order, ‘grabbed’ not only the whole harbor, but the whole island upon which Pago-Pago Is located, and five other islands as well, and designated the whole as a ‘naval station.’” That is the way the “Locarno spirit” works in the South Pacific. Congress has never ratified this grab. It doesn’t have to. The constitution does not follow the flag to these islands. The secretary of the navy's recommendation for governor is accepted and the tyranny that thrives on murder and massacre that Wall Street has visited upon Guam, the Virgin Islands and Hayti is ready for business in Samoa. The governor has supreme power. He uses it as.only American despots can. + For instance, a Samoan is put on trial for murder. Even the governor has admitted that the testimony was “all lies.” But the victim is convicted. His lawyer tries to appeal to higher authorities, But Thurston vouches for the following exchange of cordialities at the foot of the gallow: “Samoan law does not provide for an appeal,” said the governor, “Who are you going to appeal to?’ “To the president of the United States,” replied the attorney. “You're too late,” replied the governor. “We are going to hang the defendant this afternoon.” And hang him they did, by the neck until he was dead. _, Evidently the U. S. navy didn’t worry much about the life of one rebellious Samoan, where it had previously mur- dered thousands in Hayti with impunity. e e es se .,, This is the United States government that talks hypo- critically about “confiscation” to the Mexican government. Mexico's workers must develop strength to kick every American profiteer far beyond their country’s uttermost bor- der. They must learn to root out every semblance of sym- ro to be found in their midst for capitalism in all its forms. abor in the United States must stand by them in this laudable effort. The imperialism that wars on peoples in other lands also turns its lust for murder upon its own people. Congress gives ready ear to stories brought to them by prejudiced Catholic spokesmen seeking to stab awakening Mexican labor in the back. It will not listen to the striking textile workers of Passaic, New Jersey, seeking to raise their low INJUNCTION 1s SOCONY HEAD ISSUED AGAINST | DISCLAIMS IVY IRON WORKERS New York Co. EXCHANGE PAYS NO. ATTENTION TO CAL COOLIDGE 258 Stocks Tumble to New Lows (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 31 — The stock exchange paid no attention to Presi- dent Coolidge’s announcement that “prosperity continues throughout the Jand.” Frantic selling of all issues re- sulted in a turnover in Tuesday's market of more than 3,000,000 shares forcing 258 leading stocks to depths lower than the bottom of Monday's vengeful bear market. Railroad securities were particular ly hard hit despite the protests of rail executives that the condition of their companies did not warrant such low market values for their stocks. The influence of large banking interests was seen in the early hours of Tues- day’s.trading when railroads were forc- ed up from 1 to 6 points. It proved a hopeless maneuver, In a short while the stocks were tumbling lower than ever. The President's “bright future” talk is calculated to alleviate the deprese- ing effects on business being shown by the collapsing stock market. There is, of course, a chance for some reco- very in the market, but there are definite indications on the horizon that LEE LETTERS N. Y. Judge’s Writ Stops| But Speaks Only for the Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 31.— Federal Judge Adam C, Cliffe has issued a temporary injunctions against locals 1 and 63 of the International Union of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers restraining them from calling a strike on two New York buildings now under construction, The injunction order includes two contracting firms erecting the build- ings and is issued in favor of the Dahistone Metallic Door company that is installing the doors of the two build- ings with carpenters doing the work. The ironworkers informed the erect- ing contractors that they would have to stop the carpenters from installing the metal doors, even at the expense of cancelling the Dahlstone contract, or a strike would be called. Thus the injunction included the contractors, RR Mall Rates May Be Cut, WASHINGTON, March 31, — Sub- stantial reduction in postage rates on practically all mail matter was recom- mended by Postmaster General New today in a report to the joint congres- sional postal rate revision committee. The cuts would apply chiefly to pgst cards, newspapers and magazines, and the special handling fee on parcel post packages, ‘ ‘ NEW YORK, March 31.—President H, L. Pratt of the Standard Oil Co. of New York denied any connection with the letters sent out by Ivy L. Lee, Rockefeller publicity man, urging in- vestigation of the Russian situation with a view towards ignition, He also disclaimed that the Standard Oi! Co. of New York had made any pur- chases of oil from the soviet govern- ment, It is known, however, that the bulk of Standard Oil's foreign business is done by the Standard Oil Co, of New Jersey, of whose affairs Platt did not speak. It is also highly improbable that the Lee letters had no connection with the Standard company in view of Lee's position as “adviser on pub- He relations” to the Rockefeller family, Make Up for Coal Strike Losses, WASHINGTON, March 31—Charging that coal operators were trying to make up losses sustained in the an- thracite strike, Representative Tr way (R.), Massachusetts, today urged congr to enact coal legislation “with teeth in it.” : Treadway was the first witness be- fore the house interstate commerce committee at the opening of hearings on more than 30 pending coal bills, the tendency in business generally is for contraction and that this fs re- sponsible for the condition of the mark- et and not vice-versa, President Coo- lidge’s Pollyannaism will ‘be tested when the contraction begins to swell the figures for unemployment. Russian White Guards Captured in Fighting Raging About Peking (Continued from page 1) ers the assault upon the capital may be delayed. Meanwhile the Kuomin- chun is digging in and La Chung-lin, who is in charge of the defense, an- nounces thet Peking will be held to the bitter end. $500,000 Diabursed, The foreign customs officials here have ordered the payment of $500, 000 out of funds on hand to Pres! dent Tuan Chi Jui for distribution to the police, seamen and other municipal employes who have received no pay for months. The move was made not only to head off the dangerous dis- satisfaction among these workers, but also to make them realize their de- pendency of the traitorous chief exe- cutive who is daily becoming more unpopular. Student Demonstrations Continue, Student demonstrations still con- tinue. Leaflets and other Mterature are being widely distributed, demand- ing that Tuan Chi Jui resign or be dismissed and a pure nationalist gov- ernment instituted. The Chinese are also urged to rally for the defense of the capital, se. @ Tientsin Unsettied. TIPNTSIN, March 31.—The eitua- tion here is still very unsettled. Mean- while the new troop leaders are threat- ening to shoot merchants refusing to pay arbitrary tax assessments for the war on Peking. The chamber of com- merce has suspended operations. Many of the local police force are on strike and a heavy military guard is maintained on all the principal streets. LI Ching-ling Selected, At a conference several days ago between Chang Tso Lin, General Li Ching-ling, the former civil governor of Chihli province, and General Chang Tsung-chang, the governor of Shan- tung province, it was decided that Li Ching-ling should be in charge of the assault upon Peking. If he captures the city and drives out the national- ists, he is to be made commandant of the capital. Chang Tsung-chang is then to become the military governor of Chihli to succeed Li Ching-ling, Whether the plan will be carried out is not at all certain, Li Ching-ling, who had already appointed his chief subordinate generals to the posts of civil and military» governors, res- pectively, of Chihll, is to dismiss them, according to this agreement. He has not yet done so, and no one knows it he will. ‘Temporarily End Strike. SHANGHAI, March 31—The student strike in the ten Chinese colleges here has been temporarily ended. i se Interior China Stirred, SINANFU, China, March 31—The students of this city held a Lenin celebration in the course of which they marched to the governor's resi- dence and demanded that he publicly declare himselt as opposed to foreign domination and to the missionaries. He refused and summoned troops to drive out the demonstrators, 2 ene Powers Present New Demands, PEKING, March 31.— A demand that the Chinese armies fight not less than three miles from the walls of Peking was made today upon both the leaders of the national army and the attacking forces commanded by Fung Tien by the counctl of repres- entatives of foreign powers in Ohina, The demand was made in the in- terest of the foreign residents of Peking whose lives, it is ‘believed, would be endangered if the fighting came any closer to the olty.