The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1926, Page 2

se cepureees ae eT Page Two THE DAILY WORKER MONOPOLIES OF BRITAIN YIELD TO AMERICANS Wall Street Gains in Conflict (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 17, — Amer- lcan imperialism, by its aggressive policy has, according to government officials, “broken” Ttoreign monopol- istic control of important raw mater- lals essential to the industry of this country. The dominant position of American finance capital, working hand in hand with the p dustrial monopolies of this « been able to make great inr 9 the monopoly of its imperialist rival, land, in its form- er monopoly of rubber production British control of rubber production has been broken thru the device of withholding to spheres under British control, and inducing the pro- s to go over the American mono- an coffee and Chilean nitrates ost their monopolistic character American interference. Steady Inroads Made, rding to official information the rubber monopoly has been cut 50 per cent. The Dutch are now pro- ducing o 40 per cent of the supply and have established a big market in the U dad § with American bankers extending credits for further development of the Dutch rubber pro- ducing areas. Thru its attempted monopoly on nitrates the Chilean government has defeated its own ends because the production of synthetic nitrates has ine: ed heavily in Germany, where Wall Street bank capital again finan- ces the experiments and controls the production. Agreements stipulating that the American market be supplied first make this virtually an American industry on German soil. It is anti- Cipated that another year will see such a development of the synthetic nitrates as to completely smash the Chilean markets they now control be- cause synthetie nitrates are produced much more cheaply that natural nitrates and are reported to be of a better and more uniform quality. Brazil’s Monopoly Wrecked. In Brazil, according to officials here in the commerce department, the gov- ernment borrowed a big sum of money in London to buy up coffee and hold it off the market to stimulate prices. Reports indicate a big coffee crop this year and experts hold that the Brazil- jans will be unable to obtain sufficient credits this year to buy up the excess crop. The weakned financial position of Britain and the growing power of Wall Street has swung Brazil into the sphere of American imperialism. While, the monopolistic prices may continue the profits will go to Amer- fean capital instead of into the hands of British capitalists. Will Not Effect Workers. No one should imagine for a mo- ment that the breaking of the Brazil- Btitish monopoly means anything else than a substitution for it of an Amer- fean-Brazilian monopoly, with prices remaining as they are, or even soar- ing higher. Nor will the synthetic nitrates bene- fit the farmers, who must use some of this material for fertilizer to en- deavor to enrich their impoverished soil that is decreasing in value be- cause of the extraction of mineral ele- ments thru long cultivation to supply the needs of the market which elimi- nated the possibility of scientific rota- tion of crops to save the soil, Only the auto industry will be bene- fited, because rubber prices will be cut in response to the complaints of Manufacturers that if the price of rubber continued to soar fewer auto- mobiles would be used, If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. ANOTHER FULL PAGE OF CARTGONS on the events of the week by Hay Bales Some most unusual and strik- ing illustrations by Lydia Gibson And a splendid account of the workers in Great Britain, 4 by T. J. O’Flaherty in a feature article “New Days in Old England.’ Look for these splendid contributions to the New Magazine Supplement on OPEN SHOP BOSSES OF GARY LOCK OUT 2,000 OVER NON-UNION SASH GARY, Ind., June 17.—Two thou- sand union workers of Gary are locked out by their employers to force the use of open shop material in building construction, This action was taken by the building contractors’ association at first against the construction work- ers, and was followed by the ma- terial men locking out their team- sters, The building trades workers re- fused to work on jobs where glazed sash made in non-union factories was used. The dispute will com- pletely halt Gary's $10,000,000 build- ing program. MAYOR DEVER GREETS PRINCE; DODGES NEGRO Evades Invitation toWel- come N. A. A. C. P. Mayor William E. Dever, who was invited to speak on the opening night of the Seventeenth Annual Confer- ence of the National Association for the Advancemnet of Colored People, in his letter to the arrangements com- mittee declares that he will be unable to speak on this night as he must take part “in a reception to the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden.” Mayor Dodges Invitation. This action of Mayor Dever is look- ed upon as an attempt on the part of this democrat politician to dodge speaking at this mass meeting of Ne- gro organization. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met in Philadelphia and the mayor of the city was asked to speak he nicely sidestepped the in- vitation. The conference opens on Thursday morning, June 24. Delegates are all expected to arrive in Chicago Wed- nesday. Nightly mass meetings are to be held. All those that desire to at- tend the nightly meetings will have to register before 7:45 each night at the conference headquarters at the Pilgrim Baptist Church, 38rd St. and Indiana Ave. Among the speakers that are scheduled to speak are Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt and William English Walling, the renegade socialist. Workers Seek Admittance. A number of working class Negro organizations are sending delegates to the convention and will seek to have their delegates seated. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a race-conscious or- ganization of middle class elements mainly. It has aided in a number of race segregation fights. It was es- pecially attractive in the trial of Dr. Ossian H. Sweet in Detroit, INTRODUCES BILL AGAINST EXCESS CAMPAIGN FUNDS Johnson Upholds Prim: ary Election System WASHINGTON, June 17.—(FP)— Senator Caraway of Arkanasas intro- duced in the senate, after the Penn- sylvania primary expenditures’ had been shown to be near $2,000,000, a resolution reciting the language of the Willis-Lenroot resolution adopted when Newberry of Michigan was seat- ed in 1922. At the point where Willis declared, in thé Newberry resolution, that the expenditure of $195,000 for the nomination of Newberry was a threat to the permanence of demo- cratic institutions in this country, Car- away left a blank for the amount. He stated that he left the sum blank in order that Willis might fill it in. He ||regarded the regular republicans as experts in those matters. Willis, he urged, should write in the amount that the administration sepators consider to be reasonable for nominating their man in Pennsylvania. He quoted a statement by Secretary Mellon, who said the amount expended in the state was not unreasonable, Defends Primaries. Senator Hiram Johnson of Califor nia followed with a spirited defense of the primary election system, replying to a speech made a few days earlier by Senator David Reed of Pittsburgh, in which Reed had referred to popular primaries as a western scheme, fit only for “petty western states.” Johnson asserted that the primary election gives the common folks their only chance against “the power, influ- ence and wealth massed against them by the boss,” and declared that it was far easier to corrupt a convention than a primary. He said the attitude of the reactionary press and politi- cians today is that of a litigant who, having tried to bribe the jury, de nounces the jury system as a failure, Your uefghbor will appreciate the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. |man N, L. Hollingsworth and Baggage- 17 KILLED IN PENNSYLVANIA TRAIN WRECK Cincinnati Limited in Crash with Express (Continued from page 1) air, The known dead so far report- ed are Engineer W. S. Gordon, Fire- master A. M, Lees, se 8 NEW YORK, June 17.—Seventeen persons were killed and fourteen in- jured when Pennnsylvania train No. 40, known as the “Cincinnati limited,” collided with the rear of train No, 50, called the “Washington-Pittsburgh ex- press,” early today near Gray, Pa., according to an official statement is- sued by the railroad company at 10:15 this morning, The dead consist of 14 passengers and three railroad men. The injured, No Danger of Death for Doty, Deserter GENEVA, Switerland, June 17.— Bennett J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn., now awaiting trial in Syria on a charge of desertion from the French foreign legion, probably will be sub- jected to disciplinary measures and faces virtually no danger of being shot, Henry de Jouvenel, French high commissioner in Syria, indicate today. Chicago Collectors of Junk Form Union The junk men of Chicago have formed a union under a charter from the joint council of the Teamsters’ Union and have elected Jacob Zisken as their business agent. Zisken says that the union intends to see that the junk collectors get a fair price for what they gather up thruout the city. They sell their col- lections to several dealers owning large storage yards. ‘ U.S, MONROE DOCTRINE IN all but one fireman, were passengers. A, M. Lees, baggageman on train No. 40, was reported missing and pre- sumed to have been killed, it was an- nounced, 15 Bodies Found. Pitttsburgh division headquarters of the Pennsylvania railroad shortly be- fore noon today announced that fif- teen bodies have been recovered from the wréckage of the disaster. Rescue crews are searching the de- bris for more victims, as it was feared that at least three others lost their lives in the rearend collision of the Cincinnati limited. Wore Asleep. Identification was made extremely difficult because most of the victims had retired for the night and were atttired only in their pajamas, with no marks of identification. Ten bodies were taken to the Stra- der morgue at Latrobe, two to the Nicholson morgue at Derby, and two others to the Ferguson morgue at Blairsville, The other bodies were re- moved to stores near the scene of the wreck, to be taken later to the morgue. Woman with Two Children, The body of a woman taken from the rear car of the Washington train was identified by a card she carried as that of Mrs. William Brooke Dun- moody. The bodies of two children, in the same berth with her, have not been identified, Twelve persons were seriously in- jured and removed to a hospital at Latrobe, Pa. Fifty others were shaken up when the speeding New York train crashed into the Washington train, which had stopped to make repairs. Many of them were jolted from their berths to the floor, sustaining minor injuries. ‘Current Events (Continued from page 1) tickling powder, rather than with vin- egar and gall. Of course we can be assured that the Pennsylvania boodle exposure will be explained from many angles, but only the class conscious workers will understand that capital- ist democracy is as easy on the civic nostrils as the sneeze of a polecat. “ee LD Man Shaw delivered himself of a few’ thousand dollars’ worth of nonsense in last Sunday's Hearst papers on the British general strike and other subjects. Shaw is by no means a political idiot, unlike many intellectuals of his type. His article on the proletarian dictatorship in Rus- sia, published in the British Labor Monthly a few years ago, showed that he understood the class basis of soci- ety and had no illusions about capital- list democracy. Now, he talks rubbish about the “capitalism” of trade union leaders, having reference to the meth- ods used by the General Council in conducting the strike. Mark you, Shaw did not condemn them for sur- rendering to the enemy. He con- demned them for using the strike weapon at all, 0: O40 ORTUNATELY the British workers no longer take Shaw as seriously as they used to some years ago when the great dramatist was a younger and son. While their right wing leaders were babbling about democracy, the government put the “mother of parlia- ments” where she belonged and es- tablished a dictatorship inside of twen- ty-four hours. More of that is what the millionaire socialist Shaw wants, And also Andrew Mellon of Pittsburgh and the U. 8. treasury. I. L. D. of Jamestown, N. Y., Calls United Vanzetti Conference JAMESTOWN, N, Y., June 17,.—A vnited front protest and aid confer- ence for Sacco and Vanzetti has been called by the local organization of In- ternational Labor Defense, The con- ference will take place in Wellman Building, fifth floor, at 8 p, m., on Friday, June 18. All local trade un- fons and workers’ fraternal organiza- tions are urged to send delegates to the conference, A mass protest meeting will f low''the conference in a short time, better man, They have had their les- SERIOUS FIX League of Nations May Settle Tacna-Arica WASHINGTON, June 17. — United States imperialism has* met its first serious set back in its advancing con- trol over Latin-America by the with- drawal of Chile from the Tacna-Arica negotiations and a manifest tendency to turn for any future arbitration either to other countries of Latin- America or to the league of nations. U. 8, Incites War. As usual when imperialists are in- citing war, the United States Sec- retary of State Kellogg is issuing a sheaf of wnofficial statements telling how the Yankee imperialists are pining for peace between Chile and Peru, and that there “will be no war if the United States can, avert it.” Meanwhile, everything, from start to last in the Tacna-Arica) affair, has been conducted by the United States in such a way @s to intrease the con- flict and lead to war. With Chile refusing, meekly to ac- cept the dictation of the United States, which thrutsts its’ power down the throats of Latin-Atperican coun- tries disguised as “protection” under the Monroe Doctrine, two possibili- ties, both unpleasant..to the United States, appear to supplant the “kindly offices” of Secretary Kellogg, League May Ignore Ménroe Doctrine. Firstly, is the possibjjity that Chile may appeal to the league of nations, which means British perialism, to arbitrate the Tacna-Arica affair. The league may, to recover the prestige it lost in South America by the resign- ation of Brazil, be only to glad to step in, But if it does and the United States is compelled to stand by in defeat, the prestige of Yankee im- perialism will suffer enormously thru seeing the Monroe Doctrine pushed to one side by British imperialism thru the league of nations, ; The other and not much less defeat for U. 8. imperialism will come by the disputants in the Taena-Arica affair taking their case for arbitra- tion to other Latin-American nations, as is indicated by speeches to that effect in the Chilean chamber, which stration of approval. ica prestige in South, America,” Judge Postpones the Trial of Robert Scot of Joseph Maurer, Chi 0 drug clerk, his brother, Russell Scott. sell, who once escaped should hang for Mauref’s death, Attorneys for Mrs, Catherine Scott, wife of Russell, we had planned to stage’a “s' show.’ to take any food. _—— British Buy White Star. Cc $39,000,000. Read “OIL” by Upton Sinclair Read It today and DAILY WORKER. ey everyday in The were received with popular demon- As one of the statements given out ‘by Kellogg declares, “The next steps are uncertain and fraught with grave consequences for the future of Amer- Trial of Robert Scott r the murder ‘was postponed until June 28 pending the outcome of the sanity hearing for The state seeks to prove that Rus- the gallows by an insanity plea, now is sane and king some way to make legal the admission of the public to the theater where she arvation Police stopped’ ‘admission of the public to the show, but Mrs. Scott, it is declared, still is-reposing in a hospital: bed in a glass cage on the stage, and has refused for two days NEW YORK, June 17,—Sale of the White Star line to Furness, Withy & » and other British interests was approved hare today by stockholders of the International Mercantile Marine company for between $34,000,000 and By J. LOUIS ———— HE announcement is made that the New York District has achieved 40,000 points in The DAILY WORKER subscription drive, entitling it to send one of its DAILY WORKER “Build- ers” on the trip to Moscow, capital city of the Union of Soviet Republics. Other districts, great industrial cen- ters, will look upon this achievement as something inevitable. They will be satisfied, without being stirred to greater activity themselves, that the New York District should have this triumph. ‘Taking all the facts into considera- tion, however, one finds that several other districts, notably Detroit, Cleve- land, Pittsburgh and Chicago, espe- cially Chicago, ought to head in ahead New York District Must Not Be Alone in Sending Daily Builder to Moscow. ENGDAHL. tedly attractive publication for the thinking elements among the workers to buy and read. thers may be at- tracted for excellent reasons to the New York World, while there is the sensational Hearst press and the tab- loids to catch the unthinking. It is against this capitalist battery that The DAILY WORKER must make progress in the New York District, It does not face the same bitter struggle in the other districts. In these other territories, even in Chi- cago, the local capitalist press is rath- er mediocre, bitterly hostile to the workers and offering no vital attrac tions to working class readers. Yet the New, York District overcomes this handicap also and wins the privilege of sending one of its “Builders” to visit of New York. see First of all, the New York District is most remotely removed from the place of, publication of The DAILY WORKER (Chicago). This means that the issue of “The Daily” is a day old before it reaches New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the three states in the district, whereas it is in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl- vania, the states covered by the De- troit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh dis- tricts, on the morning of publication. And in Chicago the distribution is even quicker. This is a big advantage. In the four districts named the workers just sym- pathetic enough to consider subscrib- ing to The DAILY WORKER cannot say that the news is old. It comes to them fresh. But the New York Dis- trict overcame this handicap against it and was the first to score its 40,000 points. ‘a8 The New York DAILY WORKER Builders also have to face and fight the most powerful kept press battery in the nation. The New York Times is unquestionably the best capitalist newspaper in the United States, if not in the world. When the Chicago Trib- une, with the Gary disaster at its very doorstep, consigned this very impor- tant news to the third page, the New York~Times put it on the first page and gave a better news account of what really happened. The Timés very frequently publishes foreign news a full day ahead of other capitalist news- papers in other sections of the coun- try. The Times, also, being a good capitalist newspaper, gives serious at- tention to the whole labor movement, more so than any other newspaper in the land. All this makes it an admi COOLIDGE PICKS LABOR ENEMIES FOR RAIL BOARD Brotherhoods Angered by Choice By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, June 17.—(FP)—Is Calvin Coolidge, by his selection of the members of the board of media- tion established by the Watson-Parker rail labor disputes act, deliberately provoking a nation-wide strike on the railroads? That is the question worrying repre- sentatives of labor since the announce- ment that Coolidge has appointed as chairman of that board Sam Winslow of Massachusettts, who fought for years as chairman of the house inter- state commerce committee to prevent the passage of rail peace legislation, Winslow alone is a taunt to the rail labor organizations. The appointment with him of Morrow and Hanger, mem- bers of the old railroad labor board, is regarded as a direct affront to the discussion of rail wage peace, But the fact that Morrow was given the job after Senator Ernst of Ken- tucky had told Coolidge that Morrow must be placated or Ernst would be defeated for re-election to the senate, is interpreted as showing that Cool- idge has failed utterly to meet his re- sponsibilities in the adjustment of the rail wage issue, May Mean Strike. Coolidge knew, when he appointed Winslow,, Morrow and Hanger, that they would constitute an anti-labor majority in the new board. He knew that a nation-wide wage movement affecting the train service brother- hoods would come before this board for investigation and report this sum- mer, Railroad management, organized as the Association of Railway Executives, learned two days beforehand that Winslow was likely to be named, The brotherhoods had not recommended or supported any candidate. They had told Coolidge that they asked only one thing—that he name board in har- mony with the purposes of the law and that none of the raflroad labor board be among them. The three men who were selected are satisfactory to the National Association of Manufacturera and to its ally, Senator Butler of Mas- sachusetts, chairman of the republican national committee, ) ' " ANN i 4 the capital city of the First Workers’ Republic. a Then the New York District has more working class newspapers than any other city in the nation. It has the Jewish Daily Freiheit, the Ukrain- fan Daily News, the Hungarian Elore, the Lithuanian Laisve, to mention a few of the dailies. Especially in the needle trades, the workers turn to the Freiheit in large numbers. There are also socialist and other working class foreign-language dailies to attract ad- ditional numbers of workers, who find it easier to read their own rather than the English language. Some of these dailies, of course, penetrate to the western districts mentioned, but here they cannot have the same carrying power as in New York, “the home” of these papers. But the New York District has also overcome this handicap and when its “Builder” reaches Moscow he will have a worth-while story to tell of the winning struggle being made to estab- lish the English-language working class press, The DAILY WORKER, jin, the metropolis of the nation. eee The Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Chicago Districts, therefore, have no reason to accept the achievement of the New York District ’as some- thing inevitable. It is rather a sting- ing exposure of their own inactivity. There is still time to make good. The subscription drive runs until July Fourth. Reaching 40,000 points in any of these districts means another “Builder” to Moscow to imbibe the spirit of Russian labor's victory, re- sulting in a better labor fighter for the class struggle in the United States, Surely this goal is worthy of the greatest possible effort Labor’s Enemies As Rail Arbiters President Coolidge has named Ex- Governor Edwin P. Morrow (top) of Kentucky, Samuel E. Winslow (cen- ter) a former Massachusetts congress- man, and G. Wallace Hangar (below) of Washington as .members of ti ute Board. All jabo die ra tr oO SAITO SE nay ONE ATOR SOLER eae eter a ee ee ey ~ CHILE FLINGS DEFI AT U.S. IMPERIALISH Monroe Doctrine Hides Plunder and Robbery (Special to The Daily Worker) SANTIAGO, Chile, June 17.—Enthu- slastic demonstrations of approval rocked the Chilean chamber of depu- ties yesterday when members of the chamber made a spirited frontal at- tack on United States imperialism which shelters Itself behind the sup- posed paternal of the Monroe Doctrine, Chile wants none of Yankee “pro- tection” or “arbitration” in the Tacna- Arica dispute, either; and the depu- ties called upon the government to place the arbitration of the dispute between Chile and Peru in the hands of Brazil or Argentina, Time to Balance Accounts. “The moment has come to balance accounts over the Monroe Doctrine, and instead of saying, ‘America for North Americans,’ say, ‘Latin America for Latin Americans,’” declared Depu- ty Edward Matte. Deputy Hstay followed his colleague by declaring: “Chile must not forget how North America has bullied Mexi- co, robbed other lands and usurps even today the territory of Colombia,” Defies Imperialism. Referring to the actions of Gene! Lassiter, Pershing’s successor on the plebiscitary commission. Estay de- clared that Chileans can not but re- gard such actions with contempt and that “Chile thus replies to the ternal imperialism of the United States with its plundering and) trampling over weaker peoples, and sends this mes- sage thruout the entire world.” At this declaration the entire house rose spontaneously cheering. What effect these speeches in the chamber may have upon the cabinet is yet, to be seen. 3 Chilean officials declare that they fail to see by what authority the ple- biscitary commission proposes to vote on reports of the commission after having declared the plebiscite proceed- ings ended. Participation by Chile is therefore regarded asyillogical and im- possible. Meanwhile, it is held that until other arrangements aer made, the territory remains exclusively in the hands of Chile, Canadian Premier Given Confidence Vote After Fight OTTAWA, Ont. Can., June 17.— Premier King of Canada squeezed thru by, a marrow margin in a vote of confidence yesterday by a vote of 113 to 107, on an amendment of a want of confidence offered by the con- servatives. The two Aiberta progressives de- serted the admintstration on the question of failure to convey Alberta her natural resources. This was the deciding fector of the session which lasted all day and well inte the morn- ing. “protection” Maybe. An openshop lawyer named Dennie Of principles didn’t have any; For as judge he ne'er failed To have girl pickets jailed Without charging the bosses a penny SEND IN A SUB! 4 PAMPHLETS BY LENIN. STATE AND REVOLUTION. 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