The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 2118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chioago): 98.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six montha $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113, W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOBB.... Editors Business Manager —— ee SSsSsesSeSFese Bntered as second-class matl September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi | cago, IL, under the act of March 3, 1879. <i> 190 i Will Green Aid Cuban Strikers? The railwaymen of Cuba at their last convention affiliated their organization, “La Hermanidad Ferroviaria”, to the Pan-American | Federation of Labor, whose chief components are the American Fed eration of Labor and the Confederation Regional Obrera Mewicana. Evidently the Cuban railway workers, or at least the leaders of La Hermanidad Ferroviaria, had the idea that they would attain some advantages by this affiliation. The railwaymen of Cuba are now on strike. And in Cuba, it must be remembered, a strike conflicts with the interests of Ameri ean capital, which has hundreds of millions of dollars invested there, chiefly in sugar production and in the same railways which the union men are now striking. Also, American capital owns the Cuban government in the person of President Machado, who is an agent of Wall Street from head to foot, having before his election on a visit to New York, promised the New York bankers to see that there would be no strikes if they would back his election with the powerful influence they have in the island. Machado was elected. Strikes have been broken up by martial law. Strike leaders have been assassinated. Union leaders have been | exiled. Some havo fied the country~to escape assassination from| Machado’s hired killers. A dozen union leaders of Havana are men- aced by a frameup. A white terror almost unexampled in a sup- posed civilized state is ruling Cuba in the ‘interests of American im- perialism. The Pan-American Federation of Labor, whose chief leader is William Green of the A. F. of L., does nothing, because asa tool of American imperialism, its function is to protect Amer- ican capitalist investments in Latin America. Of course the Pan-American Federation of Labor may express its regrets at such incidents. It may go so far as to publicly assert that in carrying out the holy mission of exploiting Cuban labor Wall Street is going too far in assassinating labor leaders and breaking up labor unions. But it will not use the great power of the A. F. of L. or even give material support generously to the Cuban unions—even those who are affiliated to it and now on strike—to aid in their bat- tle against imperialism: The militants of the American labor movement have a duty in forcing the A. F. of L., as the dominant force in the Pan-American Federation of Labor, to act promptly and positively in support of the Cuban railway strikers and all other Latin-Americans oppressed by Wall Street, or to expose its officials for what they are—the agents of capitalist imperialism in the ranks of labor. Advertising rates on application, —) Memorial Day The entire week-end will be devoted to commemoration of Me- morial Day in myriad churches, schools, halls and clubs, with cere- monies in the various cemeteries on Monday, the day set aside for official observance. On such_occasions the irrepressible patriotic orator is in full flower. So debasing has become the formulas adopted on such holidays that the term “decoration day orator” is considered an appellation of degradation. The flamboyant, spread eagle exhortations of the public haranguers have become the most insignificant part of most celebrations. The day, especially since the world war, has been devoted ex- elusively to the glorification on a grand scale of the most vicious} aspects of imperialism. Those workers who gave their lives that their mighty masters! might become mightier are extolled on Decoration Day, while \the| vast army of wounded, diseased, shell-shocked, battered survivors are scorned as beggars and their demands for even the elementary | needs of life as partial compensation for their sufferings—(say noth- | ing of the lavish things they were promised when they were coerced} and deceived into the slaughter house)—are viewed as impudent. | Dead soldiers are eulogized because the masters want living} workers to believe there is something magnificently glorious about} dying for a national emblem so that in the next imperialist slaugh- ter more workers will be willing to sacrifice their all in all that their masters may exploit still more workers in other lands, While the soothsayers of the master class pay homage to Wall Street’s butcheries the workers should strive to consolidate their great power of numbers into organizations that will resist with every means at hand the next threat of war in which they will be expected to act as cannon fodder. Mexico’s Right to Expel Priests Many indignant but futile protests from catholic clergy and prominent laity have rolled into Washington because of the expulsion from Mexico of the priest, Monsignor Carura. The case is a very simple one and the priest is obviously to blame for his own expulsion, He was in Mexico as the personal representative of Pope Pius XI, who has long been niéddling in Latin and Latin-American countries in order to find some spot on the face of the earth where he may establish temporal power so his envoys can intrude in international conferences. The Mexican laws, separating church and state, prohibit such practices. Monsignor Carura knew this and so he deliberately lied when he applied for permission to enter Mexico, and was permitted to come into the country as a “religious teacher.” It was because of. this deception alone he was expelled. Those who protest against the action of the Mexican government, are in a ridiculous position, They presume that the/ United States has the right to dictate what methods Mexico shall use in enforcing her own laws. r, Wall Street intrigue is back of all the agitation against Mexico because of this incident. It wants to completely dominate Mexico and works its propaganda mill day and night in order to arouse hatred against that country so it can exploit its vast oil and mineral resources, If it were not for the prospects of pillage in that nation we would hear no hysterical protests from the capitalist press and pulpit about this affair. ~ Get a member. for the Workers, ipa and a new subscription for Tu Dairy Worker xa THE DAILY WORKER | GEN. FOFOZA AVERESCU RUMAM/A { PREMIER MUSSOLINN /TALY MUSTAPHA count Kemal PASHA BETHLEN TURKEY HUNGARY With the exception of Reza Khan and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the pictures above show European dictators who represent various forms of fascism. The collapse of capitalist economy leads to the dissolution of parliaments and capitalism then rules thru iron and bloody dictatorships with such men as Mussolini, De Rivera, Pangalos, Aver- escu, Bethlen and Pliisudski doing the dictating. Reza Khan and Kemal rule over states just emerging from feudal- ism and have their hands full with the problem of maintali ig autonomy In the face of outside Imperialist aggression. te The Slaughter of the World Court Senators By H. M. W M. WICKS. Edward Bok, vice-president of the notorious Philadelphia scab publish- ing house known as the Curtis Pub- lishing company, former editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal, and more re- cently known as the director of the Wall Street slush fund which was so lavishly bestowed upon various venal elements of society, from preachers to senators, in order to jam thru the ad- herence of this country to the world court, is silent as the tomb upon the systematic slaughter at the polls of Mellon-Coolidge senators who -voted for his measure. The White House refrains from comment upon the, disastrous recep-; tion its supporters have received from the republican voters. * First William B. McKinley, the trac- tion magnate of Illinois, went down in defeat before Frank L. Smith, an jagent of the Insull traction interests. |As far as the interests they repre- sent is concerned, there was no choice between the two; one owned down- state traction monopolies, while the other represented the Chicago trac- tion octopus. The sole difference was jon the question of the world court. 'G. 0. P. World Court Senators Lose Elections Emphatic defeat of three adminis- tration backed candidates for the Senate on the world court Issue is causing Coolidge a little head-scratch- ing. The defeat of McKinely in Illinois and Pepper in Pennsylvania was fol- lowed by the downfall of Senator Burt Stanfield of Oregon whose picture is bove. Below are, lef! en, George W, Pepper, and right, Sen, Wm, Me- Kinley. hence the defeat of.McKinley was un- questionably “the result of his world court stand. Next came Senator George Wharton Pepper, supported by the millions of Mellon, with a consistent record in support of all the Coolidge policies. He was defeated by the notorious “Boss” Vare of Philadelphia, an in- credibly ignorant person who had ab- solutely nothing to recommend him except his opposition to the world court and his espousal of the wet cause, The same week that Mellon went down to defeat, Segator Robert N. Stanfield of Oregon, was also repudiat- ed by the registered republican voters of Oregon and an opponent who has no record and is unknown outside his own state, won the nomination. Backed by Coolidge. All three of these senators were sup- ported by the Coolidge administra- tion, altho the ent refrained from personal endomement for fear of the effects their diation at the polls might have the adminis- tration as a whole. e defeated sol- ons and their colleagues who face election contests this year have been unsparing in their criticism of Coo- lidge. They say that the Down East Yankee president has acted the role of an ingrate by accepting their sup- port and then refusing to come to their aid in time of dire distress. Rumors are rife in-the capitol that Coolidge and Mellon have decided to change their strategy and that other senators will have the now doubtful benefit of open support of the admin istration, with official endorsement of Coolidge. It is undérstood that Sen- ator Irvine L. Lenrgot, who is being challenged in Wisconsin by the LaFol- lette forces, deman, that the white house spokesman ©) declare in fa. vor of his candi d that Coolidge agreed to publicly lend “him. The only senator gyho supported the world court and is to be returned is Reed Smoot of Utah, whose domina- tion of the Mormon church, which is the dictator of 1 destinies in that state, is undtSputed. Albert B. Cummins of Iowa, faces defeat at the hands of Smith W. Brookhart, whose popularity in the state has increased tremendously since his exclusion from the senate by a combination of Melon, republicans and Morgan de: ‘ats which consti- tute the Wall Street coalition that had to impose gag rule in order to drive thru its vicious program of reaction, All Enemies of Labor. This opposition to the world court should not be mistaken for support of labor because these senators, partclu- larly Borah, who led the fight against this country’s adherence to the court, are notoriously antl-labor, They view the United States as a helpless novice in the fleld of inter- national diplomacy, being enticed in- to the world court and the league of nations by the sinister machinations of other powers. Jn reality this coun- try enters the court for the purpose of utilizing it to advantages over its rivals, It fa a weakling, but a powerful imperialist giant that en- ters the world arena to challenge the rest of the world, « Those who voted to adhere to the ae world court paved the way for the next slaughter of the workers of the world. When the possibilities of di- plomatic trickery have been exhausted within the league and the court, the intrigue of statesmen will give way to the dictatorial commands of gen erals and admirals marshaling thc workers of the imperialist powers inte another gigantic slaughter the aim of which will be to decide which imper- ialist power shall rule the world. Workers cannot look to the Smiths, thes Vares for anything but bitter enmity, nor can they expect the La- Follettes and Borahs ta strive to avert the threat of another imperialist war. They, like all the middle class they serve, will vacillate and finally go over to the side of the imperialists, con- soling themselves with the thot that war is required to deliver us from “European entanglements.” Only a class party of labor, relent- lessly fighting against both these old party elements, can achieve anything worth while for the working class, In- stead of supporting the opposition to the world court the labor organiza- tions should rally to the demand of the Workers (Communist) Party for united labor tickets in the coming elec- tions in order to break away from the baneful influence of the old parties the masses who are opposed to the vicious Mellon-Coolidge coalition of republi- cans and democrats and pave the way for the definite crystallization of an American Labor Party. Wisconsin Governor Challenges Lenroot, a Coolidge Supporter Running as a candidate of the La- Follette insurgent republican political machine of Wisconsin, Gov. John J. jails the world court and the lidge outfit in general, Like all small capitalist spokesmen his pro- gram le futile and holds nothing what- soever for labor. Get your friends to subscribe to the American Worker Correspondent, The price Ip only 60 conts a year. uy . Mrs. Clara Senecal, ghown above, has succeeded her husband as sheriff of Clinton county, New York. The family owns the bloodhounds. She was appointed by Governor Smith—perhaps to keep the bloodhounds in the service. Pilsadski Troops Rule Warsaw In spite of a so-called election for president, scenes like this In Warsaw register a certain amount of doubt concerning Pitsudski’s declaration that he Is for “democratic government.” Troops Ike these will dominate Warsaw during the elections. If the elections go against Pilsudski, as he says him- self, “I know what to do.” CS ALE FOR A LABOR TICKET ‘IN THE 1926 ELECTIONS SSL TEI IR ESTELLE OE Distribute This Leaflet! 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