The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1926, Page 6

ne Page Six mre orc =) Be nest THE BAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iil. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By maii (in Chicago only): By inail (outs'de 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 Blivd., Chicago, tlinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNN MORITZ J, LOEB. POPLIN DAMON Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Cht- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Ge 290 } . Editors ..Business Manager Advertising rates on application. Preparing the Case Against Mexico Ambassador Sheffield is returning from Mexico for a confer- ence with Coolidge and Kellogg and presumably has a carpet bag full of “evidence” of violations of the Warren-Payne agreement which provides compensation for American adventurers whose con- cessions are revoked by the-enforcement of the Mexican constitution of 1917. That the Coolidge-Kellogg-Sheffield conference is merely a formality which the state department thinks it necessary to observe before any public demands are made on Mexico and advantage taken of the crisis precipitated by the hierarchy of the catholie church, is intimated in a Washington dispatch to the Hearst press dated August 14 which says: | Any change in the Mexican policy of the United States | will hinge upon the report of Ambassador Sheffield, returning from Mexico next week, it was learned at the state department today. In the meantime, powerful capitalist papers like the Chicago Tribune are energetically preparing the ground for a new offen- sive against Mexico. The Tribune, in a series of special articles, attacks not only the Mexican agrarian measures for the abolition of landlordism and the division of the land among the peons from the administrative standpoint but challenges the principle of this legis- lation. The Tribune says: The agrarian moyement in Mexico was purely a political measure. There were any number of acres on which landless peons could have been settled under a wise colonization scheme. But the peons wanted land already planted to crops and their leaders saw the peons at election time. ... Of all the millions of acres which have been expropriated ....a very small portion is under cultivation today .... there are few herds, and the meat Mexico consumes is, to an increasingly large extent, im- ported from the United States. The above statements are deliberate perversions of the facts. We have not the space to answer all the misstatements in detail but it is a well-known rule of evidence that if one statement of a wit- ness can be shown to be false his whole testimony can be impeached. The animal products of Mexico are rapidly increasing in amount instead of decreasing as the last statement in the Tribune quotation implies. The Mexican chamber of commerce in the United States— of which Samuel Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive company is one of the directors—makes the following statement in its most recent report: The big drop in petroleum and by-products was offset by the increase in the export trade of some other commodities, CHIEFLY IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS, THE TOTAL AMOUNT IN 1924 BEING 4,364,595 AGAINST 9,829,500 IN 1925. (Emphasis ours.) The export of animal products (and this trade is almost en- tirely with the United States) DOUBLED in the year 1924-25 in- stead of showing a decrease. It is manifestly impossible for ex- ports to increase 100 per cent in one year unless domestic production TRE DAILY WORKER The Fight on Filipino Freedom—The Vanished ‘Little Brown Brother”’ Perfoc— Tide and Con quer’’—Philippine Rubber Possibilities—The Philippines-as a Strategic Base for Amer- ican Imperialism in the Pacific Area——Natural Resources Other than Rub- ber—Mobilizing ‘‘Public Sentiment’"—Some Defects of the Independence Movement. I.—The Introduction to the Bacon Bill. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. | .HE tour of inspection in the Philip- | + pines by Colonel Carmi Thompson, the personal representative of Presi- dent Coolidge, the introduction of the Bacon bill in the house of representa- tives, the publicity given to the state- ments of Harvey Firestone relative to the possibility of certain districts of the islands being used for the develop- {ment of raw rubber production, the controversy over the policy of Govern- or-General Leonard Wood, have fo- cused the attention of large numbers |of the American people upon the ques- tion of Filipino independence, ECENT developments in the Philip- | pines and in Washington need to | be understood in the light of the grow- |ing strength of American imperialism, jthe sharpening of the struggle, par- | ticularly with Great Britain as a result of this, and the growing importance of the Pacific area as a field of inpe- rialist enterprise bringing with it the menace of imperialist war. | Article HE the Ame an government towards the Filipinos as expressed in the Jones bill has undergone a complete change. The half-hearted entry into the impe- rialist arena in the Pacific, which con- templated the granting of full inde- pendence to the Filipinos at some time or another, has become the open- ly expressed determination found in the Bacon bill to hold the Philippines in perpetuity, to exploit the Filipinos and their natural resources to the lim- it, to set up a dictatorship over the richest districts of the islands (Min- danao) and to divide the Filipino ter- ritory and people and thus create an internal conflict. resembling that between the Mohammedans and Hin- dus so successfully used by Great Brit- ain, making the exercise of American domination so much the easier. HE Bacon Bill has four important provisions: 1. For the creation of a separate province to be known as “Moro Prov- ince. The purpose of the bill is stat- ed in the title as “a bill to create with- n the Philippine Archipelago a juris- By J. MURPHY. |Member of Central Executive of the Communist Party of Great Britain. this, At first it considered this ap- pointment a suspicious measure, aim-| 1922. | previous platonic attitude of diction to be known as Moro Province J and to provide a government there- for.” Section I, reads as follows: The provisions of this act, the civ- il government hereby created, and the name “Moro Province” as used in this act shall apply to and in- clude the entire island of Mindanao (except only the provinces of Misa- mis as now constituted) the Island of Basilan, the Suiu Archipelago, including the islands known as the Jolo Group and the Tawi Tawi Group, the Island of Palawan, the continguous islets between Palawan, and the Balabac Strait on the south, together with the Island of Dumaran and all other islands pertaining to the Philippine Archipelago under the sovereignity of the United States south of the north latitude eleven degrees thirty minutes and west of longitude one hundred and twenty degrees east of Greenwich, as also Palamas Island, in the event the international arbitration be- tween the United States and the King of the Netherlands determines it in favor of American sovereignty. “FVHE Philippine Republic,” the chief organ of Filipino independence published in the United States, makes the following enlightening comment on this first proposal of the Bacon Bill in its issue for June: It is significant in connection with the introduction of the Bacon Bill that just about a year ago the U. S. department of commerce made public a report entitled, ‘“Possibili- ties for Para Rubber Production in the Philippine Islands.” The Repub- lic for September, 1925, contained a full account of that report, which in- cluded:a ‘map of the Philippines marked to show the areas govern- ment investigators recommended as most suitable for rubber production, EVERY SPOT THUS MARKED ON THAT MAP IS WITHIN THE DOMAIN THAT WOULD BE WITH- DRAWN, FROM THE JURiSDIC- TION OF THE PHILIPPINE GOV- ERNMENT UNDER THE PROVI- SIONS OF THE BACON BILL (Em- phasis In the original). (To be continued.) On the Death of Comrade Ozerzhinsky I spoke to him for the first time in I remember how calmly he put ed at espionage within the country. | questions regarding the British work- But later it paid frank tribute to his| ers, and how impressive the difference |capacity for work and for tackling a was between the figure of this man, Kosloff to Produce “Scheherazade” At Coney Island Concert NEW YORK, Aug. 15. — Rimsky- Korsakoff's “Scheherazede” Concert for the benefit of the Passaic { { | | | Mrs, jand took off all of her clothing. WITH THE STAFF | Being Things From Here and | | There Which Have Inspired } Us to Folly or Frenzy | i { t “It would be disastrous to grant China all her demands.”— Charles C. Batchelder, former commercial attache to the Ameri- can embassy at Peking. "8 NO HONOR AMONG CAPITALIST EDITORS The death of the Varl of Dun- raven led a New York editor to say: A good journalist. You could never interview him, though. The last time I wrote him for an in- terview he wrote vack: “FT am sorry but I must ask you to excuse me from aceding to your request. T am like the little boy who, when. the minister’s wife came round to him with the jam, promptly said: “<*No, thank you, maam. T used to work where they makes \it.”?”"—From the Chicago News. 78 JOLIET, Ill.—The latest method of dis- persing officers has been developed by Sarah Donaldson, of Joliet. Deputies went to the woman’s home to arrest her for chopping down part of a neighbor’s barn, She ran in the house The deputies left. Ten minutes later, she was back at her will be one | task of chopping down the barn, which of the main features of the Symphony she said extended over onto her prop- erty. | ANY in the ranks of the world rev-| problem. The business men who had| as outlined by the bourgeois press, and olutionary proletariat will be) travelled to the Soviet Union to make | its reality, I no longer remember our jshaken to learn that our great com-/pysiness connections were compelled | entire conversation, but I will never rade’s life has come to an.end. His | to admit that he knew his business} forget the quiet clarity of this man, The deputies returned a third ti strikers’ children which takes place | the officers gave it up.—News item: mm on the evening of August 28 at Coney | Island Stadium. It will be produced very name reminds us all of the dif-} ficult days of the revolutionary strug- gle, when the civil war was in full sway and it fell to his lot to play a mighty role in it. And he did his hard and honorable work, while the bour-/ | geoisie of the whole world covered his name with dirty slander, The period of the civil war, in which he was the leader of the Cheka, has stamped itself most deeply into thei memory of the workers’ enemies. In the West this Commission was de- seribed to us as a devilish organiza- tion, which was directed by a dark figure—by Dzerzhinsky—who spared no means to enslave all “good peo- ple” completely, The bourgeois pa- pers wrote that the shadow of terror follows everybody in the streets, in the |trains, in the factories. People only |spoke to one another in whispers, did jnot dare to sell anything, to think of ‘anything, to do anything not allowed iby this terrible organization. This or- ganization—claimed the bourgeoisie— |killed hundreds and thousands of peo- |ple without process of trial, had | thrown thousands of people into fright- |ful dungeons, after that nothing had ever been heard of them. And the bourgeois press regarded Dzerzhinsky and refused to speak ill of him, “ENGLISH COMRADE VIEWS NOBLE RECORD OF HERO OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION who filled everyone with confidence in him, who had suffered much, and who marched steadfastly towards the goal, from which nothing could divert him. During his life he was known to millions of workers as one of their great leaders in their fight for free-| dom. After his death still more mil- lions will learn of his life, full of self- sacrificing revoutionary struggle. You have gone much, comrade! You have fought the great battle and died at your post. We will feel your ab- sence grievously, comrade, but the great party which you helped build up and the even greater International of which this party is a part, will con- tinue your work, and in their even greater victories you will also play a big part. A great life and a great end in full armor—that is all the old Bolshevik could wish for, 14 Persons Hurt in Wreck. MUSKOGEE, Okla., Aug. 13.—Four- teen persons were injured here today when a passenger train collided head on with a switch engine in the yard limits on the Midland Valley Railroad. Many passengers were cut by flying glass. All were reported from Arkan- Opera Co. and his skilled ballet of 50, by courtesy of David S. Samuels and George Kramer. duct an orchestra of 100 at the open air stadium, and there will a singing chorus of 250 voices, State Federation Makes Drive ST. LOUIS—(FP)—A campaign for affiliation of unions is being conducted ; by the Missouri State Federation of Labor preparatory to a drive for la- bor bills in the next legislature. 108. 1312... 2722. David Mendoza, by arrangement | b: i jemi 4 attle wi m with Major Edward Bowes will con: |} 4994, pip cermemicas Nov. by Alexis Kosloff of the Metropolitan | Extract From Recorp or Crook Coun TANCL, EDWARD, killed ina 23, Myles O'Donnell and James Dougherty indicted. Pro- secuted by Assistant State’s At- torney William H. McSwiggin in Judge William’s court and ac- quitted.. McSwiggin later mur- dered with Dougherty and an- other beer runner, KLIMAS, Leo, same history as Tancl case. ty’s Coronpr Make These Figures Grow Faster! - June 1 et Nag 1 5 . August 1 cS increases to some extent. It is precisely in the field of stock-raising as the embodiment of this terror, vher Mri ° . Q i increase has| When he later went into the Su- Ww = ~ Tribune charges decay that this tremendous increase ha |preme Counell of National eonomy taken place. . . and showed his abilities in the field of | Accompanying the attack on the agrarian law, the Tribune has in, govelopment of the Soviet Repub- a long list of alleged persecutions and expropriations of AMERT- ics, the bourgeoisie was confused CANS. Coolidge’s statement relative to the “lives and property of jand could not find an explanation for sas, Kansas and Oklahoma points. | ee a 3709... ? August 5 August 12 August 15 Send a sub now and get the spe- ¢| cial rate of five dollars for a year’s subscription and the pleasure of; help Our Daily. Felix Dzerzhinsky, late Chairman o' the Supreme Economic Council of the Soviet Union. Americans in Mexico” is given additional significance by such propa- ganda. A ‘As we said in the beginning the case of Wall Street against the Mexican people is being prepared in advance of the arrival of Am-| bassador Sheffield. Only the most stupid can overlook such signs as these. The American labor movement, to which the Mexican labor moyement jooks—and has the right to look—for assistance, must do more than | assert its neutralit, “The Monroe Doctrine of Labor,” proclaimed so grandiloquently at El Paso, must be made into a weapon for the defense of the Mexican masses against American imperialism. Neutrality is impossible. American labor cannot play a nega- tive role, It must be either for the Mexican people or for the church and the imperialists whose tool it is. Help the British Miners! The British labor delegation now in this country soliciting funds to help feed the striking British miners and their dependents while they are engaged in a heroic struggle to preserve their present standard of living, should be given hearty support by every worker in the United States, whether in a trade union or unorganized. Tt is regrettable that aid in this struggle, which means so much to labor the world over, should be confined to financial assistance. It is deplorable that union miners in the States, France, Germany, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia should dig coal for shipment to the Brit- | ish market. And it is even more regrettable, because more ‘obvious | seabbery, that British transport workers on dock and railway should | handle this coal that enables the British capitalists to carry on pro- | duction even tho at a loss. The blame for this conduct rests ‘on the | shoulders of the reactionary leaders. The rank and file proved their | willingness to stand with the miners. In all probability the limit of co-operation given to the striking | miners at this time will be financial help. This help is now all-im-| portant. Without the aid they already received from foreign coun. | tries the strikers would long since have been forced to return to the | pits at the mercy of the operators. It is hardly to the credit of the | labor movement in other countries that the workers of the Soviet | Union contributed $2,500,000 out of the total of a little over $3,000,000 contributed to date. The call for assistance has never been made in vain.to the Amer- ican workers, They must now co-operate with the British representa- tives who are here to tell the story of the British miners’ struggle. To a great degree, on the American workers rests the responsibility of feeding the strike. Let the gapitalists be given a much needed lesson. They must be given a demonstration in international soli- darity, «— Divine Right of Kings — 1926 ? are the following: DISTRICT NO. 1— Chelsea, Mas: Woburn, Mass. Maynard, Mass, DISTRICT NO. 2— Bronx, N. Y. Bronx, N. Y. Bronx, N. Y. New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. DISTRICT NO. 3— Minersville, Pa, Baltimore, Pa. Binghamton, N, Y. Buffalo, N. Y. DISTRICT NO. 5— Arnotd, Pa. E, Pittsburgh, Brownsville, Pa. DISTRICT NO. 6— E. Liverpool, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio August 22 . August 31 HE United Labor Ticket assessment, payments to the National Office In- creased by 548 from August 12 to August 15. That is a better showing than has been made at any time during the period of the collection. The nuclei which made their settlement since the last list was published Nucleus No, 4.50 5.00 2.50 1.00 il 1 al Five million dollars shoul pot be too much for the American workers to send their striking brothers in Great Britain. se me Campbell, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio. . DISTRICT NO. 7— Detroit, Mich, DISTRICT NO, 8— PHOTON, NN, csisssninsoanhs scent DISTRICT NO. 10— Kansas City, Kans. Denver, Colo, DISTRICT NO, 9— St. Paul, Minn. DISTRICT NO. 15— Terrington, Conn, . z } While these figures show an improvement the payments are not coming in fast enough to complete the assessment by August 31. On August 15 the total is 1,291 short of the figure set for that date. In order to reach the total of 10,000 by August 31, payments for 383 members must reach the National Office each day during the balance of the month. The impetus given the collection during the last week or ten days must grow in strength, Every secretary who has not made his settlement must report at once. The collection from the members who have not paid must be pushed more energetically. > WE MUST RAISE THE TOTAL TO 10,000 BY AUGUST 31, To those secretaries and nuclei who have not made their collection and settlement we make the appeal: Lae SHOW HOW A COMMUNIST PAR reed 2.00 ,