The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1926, Page 4

—— Bi Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER, PUBLISHING CO. 3113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): . | By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3950 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, fillnols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE °" MORITZ J. LOED..... ses ... Business Manager SE caddie hai ae 20 or coer arora! maim aes = Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Cnt cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. = Advertising rates on application. Aid for the British Miners It is not generally known thruout the American labor move- ment, we belicve, that the British coal miners are fighting the coal owners for a pitifully small increase in wages under the tremendous | weight of the emergency powers. act. This act, put in force by the proclamation of the king at the beginning of the general strike, has not been repealed. Under its provisions, granting extraordinary powers to police, judges and the government as a whole, hundreds of miners havé been arrested and jailed. It has been necessary for the labor movement in England to ‘ up special machinery for the defense of the persecuted workers ges for their families. Striking miners are being imprisoned most flimsy charges and police raids on workers’ meetings Tequent occurrence. ‘ le publicity is given to these outrages by the capitalist press. e@ -mpression which the British rulers seek to create thruout the) ee and especially in the United States where the trade unions| e in a-posttion to give large sums for relief, is that the miners’ strike is being fought out in the most peaceful manner possible and that the government has taken no special steps against the miners. The reverse is true and the persecution of the British coal miners and those who are fighting side by side with them should stir Amer- ican workers to greater effort in their defense. 1 Let no worker be fooled by any belief that the boasted. dem-| ocracy of British government restrains the ruling class from trying by all means to crush the miners’ strike and destroy the miners’ union. This is the objective of the British capitalists and after! that a general attack on the whole trade union movement will be} started. | The weakness of the American labor moyement. is allowing} American capitalists to aid the British rulers. by huge -shipments of coal and this must be remedied. It is possible to arouse a nation- | wide demand among the masses for an embargo on eoal for Britain and, in addition to a constant contribution of money and supplies, | there must be commenced a campaign to'stop coal shipments. Such | a plan already has been endorsed by the Chicago Federation of La-| bor and the American Federation of Labor executive council urged to lead the campaign. Faced by starvation, jailed under the provisions of the emergency | powers act, left to fight alone by the manipulations of agents of the| bosses in the ranks of British labor, the coal miners are putting up) one of the great struggles of labor history. We must see that they win. . . Coolidge and Mexico The waves of joy which surged thru the hearts of the liberals of the land when it was announced that Coolidge would not lift the arms embargo to Mexico—thus cooling the ardor of the interven- ‘tionists—may now subside. The spots of the leopard are unchanged and Coolidge remains the puppet of American imperialism. It may have been quite a simplé matter for the liberal tribe t7 believe that the same Coolidge, who keeps troops in Haiti and Nicaragua, continues the subjugation of the Philippines and main: tains a flotilla in and near Chinese waters, had experienced a change of heart in relation to the Mexican question, and with a grand gesture! refused to consider the prospect of the United States interfering in the internal affairs of our southern neighbor. For us it was not. These remarks are occasioned by a dispatch to the Chicago} Tribune from Arthur 8. Henning who does his reportorial sniffing at the royal Spa of the president, Paul Smiths. Says pie erence of the Mexican policy of the administration: .... The president has... . refused to lift the embargo on the export of arms to Mexican civilians altho he had been on the point of doing so for several months.... If the theory of the efficacy of the president’s action is correct it is apparent that the administration possesses a weapon that can be used to force recognition of American rights in Mewico generally.” (Our emphasis.) Precisely! Behind the pacifist hypocrisy of Coolidge and his Wall Street masters is being prepared a monstrous club with which to beat down the opposition in Mexico to American imperialism. Coolidge realizes the difficulty of mobilizing a more or less protestant, nation in the interests of the catholic church, especially in Mexico. But the occasion is too useful to allow it to slip by without forging .. another weapon “to force recognition of American rights in Mexico! “generally.” The record of American diplomatic negotiations with Mexico are indication enough that “American rights in Mexico” are synonymous with the financial interests of the American oil, metal mining and agricultural investors. ; Coolidge is merely continuing the dirty work of American im- perialism carried on under the administrations of the government for the last two or three decades. Shoe Workers Preparing for Straggle There is something striking in the shoe industry in Massa- chusetts. The report of the mass meeting in Lynn where a demand for a general strike was made by the workers shows that after a long,| ~ period of apathy in which the agents of the bosses have been busy; trying further to divide the workers there is now a new determina- tion to organize and increase wages. If the strike takes place it is evident that from the first it will become, in addition to a struggle against the bosses, a determined effort to unite the various unions in the industry. This is the immediate task of the militant shoe workers. With this in mind at the beginning of the wage struggle there should be none of the disorganization and lack of concrete objectives in the organizational sense that has marked many of the strikes in the shoe industry. Painters’ Local No. 275 Gives $1,000 T the meeting of Painters’ Local Union No, 275 of Chicago, held Tuesday night, Paul McKenna, representative of the striking British miners, addressed the meeting on the need for relief to the strikers and their families, with the result that the local voted an immediate cash donation of $1,000 to be sent to swell the relief fund and aid the miners’ fight for victory. THE DALCY OW The Fight on Filipino Freedom—The V. quer’’—Philippine Rubber Possibilities—The Philippines as a Strategic Base for Amer- c Area——Natural Resources Other Than Rubber—Mobilizing “Public Sentiment’’—Some Defects of the ARTICLE V. The Moral Justification For Broken Promises. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE HE spokesmen of imperialism are finding many reasons, some re- lated to rubber, ; some having a broader political | significance relat- ed to the neces- sity for the Amer- ‘ican ruling class of having a base ‘jn the Pacific | area, why the Fil- | ipinos should not RYEY Fi { be given a status ae fi rubber tr as a nation now— who influences U. S. OF any other time. policy in the Philip- The statements pine: which find space in the capitalist press today differ greatly from those in the 1898-99 period when expansion versus anti expansion was the issue and when even the most rabid expansionists | were willing to concede that the in- habitants of the Philippine Islands were to be freed as soon as some sort of a democratic government had beep set up and the “pacification” process completed. ODAY, thoss who speak for the decisive section of the ruling MEXICAN 1. L.D, IN PROTEST AT CUBAN TERROR Asks Aid to Uniooists Jailed in Guatemala MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20.—The In-} ternational Labor Defense of Mexico is organizing large mass protests in Mexico and in Central America against the mysterious ‘disappearance “of Al- fredo Lopez y Arencibia, general sec- retary of the Federation of Labor of Havana, Cuba. | Murdered By Police. Lopez has devoted most of his life to the organization of the working class of Cuba. He was busy reorgan- izing the manufacturing industry of Havana when he was summoned by the chief of police and asked to stop the work he was doing. He was threatened with severe punishment unless he gave up organizing among the workers in the manufacturing trades. He refused, and a few days dater-he disappeared, Some workers assert that they have feen. informed by the soldiers that Lopez was drowned in Havana Bay with a cannon ball tied to his feet. The militant workers have been sep yehing persistently, but have found noselue to his whereabouts, Protest Guatemalan Repression. The International Labor Defense, of Mexico is appealing to the organized working class of the American -conti- hents to protest the imprisonment of 12 workers in Guatemala. On the 6th of June these 12 workers met to discuss ways. and means of strengthening the trade union move- ment in Guatemala. In this group there was a spy—Manuel Alvarado— who reported this meeting to the po- lice. The next day all these workers were imprisoned under the law against strikes, which condemns them to serve from 5 to 10 years in prison. The prisoners are Alberto del Pinal (serving a second term), Adrian Bau- tista, Max M, Gonales, Antonio Cuhes, Antonio M, Sanchez, Nestor Juarez, Alfredo Toledo, Benjamin Castro, Mamuel Lopez, Felix Portillo, Victor Manuel J, Pena, Herlindo Garcia and J, Luis Soto, Special Illinois Election, SPRINGFIELD, Il, Aug, 20.—Gov. ernor Small late yesterday issued a cali for a special election on Nov, 2 lin the tenth (Peoria) and sixteenth (Aurora) judicial districts. The va- cancy in the tenth district was caused ‘| by the death of Judge, Charles Miles and the vacancy in the Aurora district was caused by the death of Judge Maz- zini Sluser of Wheaton, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! | WCEL Radio Program —————$ Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs, It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT, 6:00 to 7:00—Chicaago bor talks and bulletins; solos. 7:00 to 7:30—The Florentine String Trio, dinner music, 7:30 to 8:30—Fred Villani, popular songs; Johnson Sisters, harmony songs; Fio and Ray, songs of today, 8:30 to 10:00—WCFL semble; Jack Egan, the Little Irish Tenor; Hickey and Johnson, Hawaiian and songs, 10:00 to 11:00—Dance music from the Municipal Pier Auditorium, Chas. Cook's Orchestra. ition of La- instrumental SUNDAY, AUG, 22. 00 p. m.—-Band Concert, Liber- Rivkin, director, 3:00 to ty Band, ican Imperialism in the Paci Independence Movement. class, while they do not say in so many words that the Philippines be- long to America by right of conquest and are to be exploited to the limit by their conquerors in perpetuity, nevertheless make it clear to any in- telligent person that the day when the Filipinos were our “ittle brown broth- ers” and our mission was to train them for independence has passed. EAR ADMIRAL WIULLAM RODG- ERS, speaking at the Williamtown Institute of Politics on the promise of freedom contained in the preamble of the Jones bill said: ¥ A bad promise is better broken than kept, The admiral expresseit! the opinion that the differences betiveen Moham- medan and christian islanders made unity impossidle and his conclusion was, of course, that the United States must stay in the islands to preserve peace, 7 EWTON W. GILBERT; former act- ing governor-general of the Philip- pines, is also against independence but is willing’ to consider a’ “dominion status” for them, But he too rejects the promise made in the Jones bill. He said in Williamstown: Either we must Say, ‘and many of the people and conscientious men Of our country advocate it, that the so-called promises were not binding, had no legal force, and therefore we will not regard them, or we must say that we recognize their desire for Independence and recognize the CLEVELAND PAINTERS FIGHT THE OPEN SHOP; BUILDING EMPLOYERS UNITED BUT UNIONISTS ARE DIVIDED = By |. AMTER. CLEVELAND, Auge 20,—The: fight land, which has been going on since stage. hands, The open shoppers, seyeral weeks ago announced the establishment of a fund of $5,000,000 with” Which to carry on the fight. They have been deaf to all intervention and mediation, altho the workers have been in conference with Prosecuting Attorney Stanton, who has attempted to settle the strike, The painters met in special meet- ings and gave full power to the strike committee to negotiate g settlement of the strike. During the recent days there have been reports of “vandal- ism,” physical violence and attempted and accomplished explosions. An Open Shop Fight. Now the defy has been’ thrown down Although most of the painters are back at work for the independent | contractors, the Master’ Painters’ Association, which is part of the American | Plan Association—the dpen shoppers—refuses to come to terms. unions have stood firm,’for they realize that they have a hard fight on their + to the painters and glaziers, “The time for negotiation has.passed,” the master painters say. “Che train has left.” In the monthly ‘jeurnal of the chamber of commerce an article en- titled “A Fight to a Finish” déclares that the only solution {to the “intol- erable condition is thé ‘open shop.” The master painters féel secure in that the scabs and thuge that they have brought to town are. protected by Safety Director Barry, and_ even firemen have been put on the job. Building is on the decline in- Cleve land and the bosses feel safe, partic- ularly since they are getting full po- lice protection, But what of the union? Unions Divided. Unfortunately, the situation in the building trades of Cleveland leaves much to be desired. There are two building trades councils, and only re- cently the building laborers’ union was split by a “benevolent and pro- tective association” being formed and affiliating to the council, which does not belong to the Clevéland Federa- tion of Labor. Then, further, the painters and glaziers, iftheir strike have been quite alone. It is true that there has been no scabbing on the part of the unions, but instead of mili- tancy supporting the paipters and gla- izers and bringing the gtrike to an early close, the other trades have gone on working, giving*only moral— and perhaps financialaid to the painters and glaziers, = This is due in part to the fact that the contracts of the agent unions cerminate at different times and run tor different periods, the move is now on to have all the contracts end on May 1, There must something more, however, and thi } is that all contracts must be for longer ‘than one year. f Bosses Have United, Front, The entire building trades must take the threat of the open shoppers very seriously. The line-up of the banks, chamber of commerce, manufacturers’ association and the police against the workers shows whom the workers have to fight. The building trades must realize that if the strike of the painters and glaziers is broken and the men have to return to work de- feated, then the fight will begin all along the line. The painters defeated, then the fight will be started against the carpenters, bricklayers and the others. It is perfectly clear, there- fore, that the first trenches must be held, and therefore the building trades have two questions to 1, Can they conduct ® successful struggle against, this aggregate of ex- ploiters with their own rapks split up? Is it possible to conduct a fight in our a obligation of the United States, WHEN THE UNITED STATES IT- SELF THINKS THE TIME HAS COME TO GRANT IT, but we must still say that the time has not yet come. (Emphasis Mine), F HERE is a fine opportunity rere to say some- thing about “scraps of paper” but it ts not necessary. The quotation speaks for itself. Norbert Lyons, representative of the American chamber of com- merce in Manila is still more outspok- en. He was less cautious than other champion of inde- OPPonents of inde- pendence. pendence and one can understand quite easily that be- hind such a virulent attitude is the determination of the capitalist to sur- render no advantage that American rule in the islands gives him: MANUEL QUEZON Speaker of Philip- pine tegisiature, Development of our foreign trade is an imperative economic necessity for this country. Shall we delib- erately hamper it by seriously aban- doning our Philippine position of advantage in this most important and MOST COMPETITIVE FOR- EIGN TRADE AREA IN THE WORLD? And what for? of the painters and glaziers of Cleve- March 1, has now reached a crucial The two day, when the employers have unlim- ited capital at their disposal, if the ranks of the workers are not solidi- fied? It is impossible. There is only one thing to do, and that is to merge the two building trades counccils, A. F. of L. Order Ignored. It is a well-known fact that the two councils have been ordered to unite by the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor, to which they both are affiliated. But the instruction has been disregarded: Altho the orders of the A. F. of L. are to be considered mandatory, neverthe- less, unity is more essential than any- thing else. If the leadership of the two councils refuses to listen to the orders, then it is the duty of the rank and file to act. A conference should be called of the unions affiliated to the two councils for the purpose of merging the coun- cils. The rank and file must con- sider this a war measure—for the building trades face war against the open shop. 2. The painters and glaziers are con- ducting the fight alone. It is the duty of the entire building trades to form a defense council for the protection of the painters and glaziers and pro- moting the interests of the building trades workers. This might seem a duplication of the two building trades councils, but it is not. It should be a joint council of the rank and file, for the charges of vandalism, incen- diarism and explosions are piling up, and the police and detective forces of the city are on special guard. Can the struggle against these forces be left to the painters and glaziers alone —even if they are capable of handling the situation? The challenge of the open shoppers is against the entire building trades— “in this field (the building trades) the open shop must sooner or later be in- stalled.” The challenge has been is- sued by the chamber of commerce, the master painters’ association with the protection of the police and fire de- partments. Are the building trades going to stand for it, or are they going to prepare for war? New Revolution in Nicaragua Reported WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—A new revolution has broken out in Nicau- gura, according to a dispatch to the state department today from Amerl- ean charge, Lawrence Dennis at Man- agua, The government is taking vigorous steps to crush it, the dispatch saia. The rebels have cut telegraph wires and railroad tracks, SEND IN YOUR SUB TO THE DAILY WORKER! To please the vanity and gratify the ambitions of A HANDFUL OF PROFESSIONAL FILIPINO POLI- TICIANS? To fulfill a so-called promise contained in the Jones bill preamble, said to have been written by President Wilson, AND WHICH IS NO MORE BINDING or peremp- tory than the commitments made by Mr. Wilson at Versailles? (Emphasis mine.) M Inge process by which the imperial- ist spokesmen arrive at the con- clusion that independence for the Fili- pinos is inadvisable is a. splendid ex- ample of the method by which the business interests of the capitalist class dictate foreign policy. It is first determined that the Philippines are tich in natural resources. Then it is discovered that they can be made still richer (rather that the American rul- ers can be made still richer) by con- verting part of the islands into rubber plantations, ..Then it is found that they are necessary as a base for busi- ness in the compétitive Pacific area, NLY one thing is lacking—it must be shown that they are valuable as a military. and naval base and that other imperialist nations could and would use them. J. W. Wainwright, former assistant secretary of. war, furnishes the final argument, In the New York Times for August. 3 we find the following re- port of Wainwright’s speech at Wil- liamstown: Discussing the possibility of Japan taking over the Islands upon Ameri- can withdrawal, Mr. Wainwright said that ENGLAND HAD THE GREATEST INTEREST IN THE PHILIPPINES. He pointed out that THE PHILIPPINES WERE ATHWART THE PATH OF ENG- LAND TO. AUSTRALIA, CHINA AND JAPAN and quoted the remark made to him by a British official, who said: “If you pulled out, JAPAN MIGHT BE EXPECTED TO BE THERE BY DINNER, BUT WE CERTAINLY WOULD BE THERE BY TIFFIN.” (Empasis mine.) AVING satisfied themselves on this ‘last and vital point, American imperialism then discovers that the promise of independence in the Jones bill does not need to be kept. The moral justification for breaking the promise, in accord with the dic- tates of the elastic conscience any good imperialist must have, is that in- dependence would be a bad thing for the Filipinos. Again we quote from the report of the Wainwright speech: The Amer- ican government, Mr. Wainwright said, was convinced that independ- ence would be a misfortune and could easily be a disaster for the Filipino people. (To be continued.) Consul Denies ‘Calles. Rushes Troops North (Continued from page 1) acted blindly and without any con sideration: of the results of their ac tion, trying now boycott, now. ap- peals to foreign Catholics, and then appeals’ to the Mexican government and offers to compromise, as in the present Jetter from the episcopate in which the bishops propose that the law be not enforced until the con- gress can meet and consider. the ‘sit- uation, As a compromise, it is @ joke, the government is expected to yield everything, and the church would have everything to gain and nothing to lose. President Calles has refused to consider such a ‘compro- mise.’ “The stories of organizations of merchants and business men propos- ing to the government that a compro- mise be struck. between church and state, on the, basis of concessions: by; the state, are also manifestly untrue, as there are no such organizations of the business interests outside of the chambers of: commerce. The cham- ber of commerce of Mexico City and the Federation of Mexican chambers of commerce, which js a national body. are both on record as adhering to a policy of neutrality in the present crisis, Neither thé boycott nor ap- peals from the clergy will cause them to interfere.” “Deputies” Killed, Juan Aguilar Ficachi, Marcos Dias and Andreas Garcia were killed and Pablo Azcona, Santiago Caparoza and Adrian Nieve. were wounded in a) shooting affair,on the streets of Meéx- ico City August’ 19, “All of these are variously described by the capitalist: press news service as senators’or dep- uties. It is also’ stated that over twenty deputies took part in the bat- tle, As a matter of fact, no govern- ment officials were involved. Read “Oil” by Upton Sinclair on page 5 today. CHICAGO JOINT BOARD ARRANGES | MASS MEETING ON NEW YORK STRIKE AT SCHOENHOFEN HALL, WEDNESDAY The ma national Ladi meeting arranged by the Chicago Joint Board of the Inter- ’ Garment Workers’ Union to discuss the New York garment workers’ strike will be held Wednesday night, August 25, at Schoenhofen _ Hail, corner Milwaukee and Ashland Avenu Louis Hyman ahd Morris” Sigman have been invited by i} seine Board to aoe) this Naseeal os } IWS WITH THE STAFF | Being Things From Here and | | There: Which Have Inspired | Us to Folly or Frenzy | A Little Nun Sense Sisters. Mary Baptists and Columba of the OrdeF of the Blessed Sacrament were, $0 the Tribune tells us “driven out of Mexico’—In the headline, and in the, text,:““managed to escape from Mexico im the dead of night.” In Chi- cago the nuns unburden their souls: “Mewica did: not elect Calles. The best “people there were all against him. But the Mewicans are very poor. They work for thirty-cents a@ day. We never meddted. in politics at al. Just taught thé children to earn their living and: save their souls, God will surely see. that things come right in the end” ‘1 Our Social Events Editor Feels All Broken Up Over It ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 20.— William Green, president’ of the American “Federation of Labor, and the’ members of the federa- tion’s executive council, left Al- bany today for Plattsburg consid- erably ‘perturbed because Gov- ernor Al Smith failed to keep a dinner engagement with the labor leaders here last night. Green has never met Governor Smith and: the labor men counted on their getting acquainted. F oe * Usually, They Don’t “Bven' experienced writers almost invariably write something before..they..begin to say any- thing.’"—From_ Bruce Barton’s lessons on Jesus as an advertising genius. fr @ A PILOT A colored conscript in the U. S. Army resented his being forced to do the heavy and dirty work, as was cus- tomarily the orders issued by white officers. One day he was asked by a visiting citizen what rank he held. “Ise a pilot in de infantry,” was his somewhat startling reply. “But theéré are no pilots in anything but the Flying .Corps,” protested his questiéner == “Oh yes dey Is,” insisted Jim, “from de time 1 fust put on dis unifohm de sergeant fe began sayin’, ‘take dis and dat and pile it dere,’ and by gum, ise been piling»it ever since. Nobody can’t gay | ain’t.a pilot, nossuh!” 3 * * 2 @ . MISUNDERSTOOD A lumberjack’ with a broken leg was taken to a hospital for treatment. After-the leg had been set, the nurse asked him how the accident occurred. He“replied: * % “You see, ma’am, it was this way: 1 was skyhooking for the Potlach Lum- ber company and | had only one ground mole, He sent up a big bule butt and she waé a heavy one. | saw her yaw and:yelled to him to give her a St. Croix, instead of which he threw a sag into her ‘and gunned her, and that broke, my: leg.” ¥ ‘Neither do J,” said the lumberjack. ‘The datn’fool must have been crazy.” ; _"-& e 8 A Soft Nosed Bullet . Turneth Away Wrath “The Mexitan Catholics are peace- able folks, want no trouble, would commit nv nce under any circum- stances, are fervently patriotic to the Mexican _govetnment and intend to obey all laws, but—who is it that wants the embargo on arms and am- munition: to Mexico taken oft by the U. S.2. ie sae 9 ' “A FOND EMBRACE “Vem, leans going meda: to become a Moham- " Miss Nelson said. ‘I love Ab- much |.want to embrace ed 4 “The day of the ‘rough: neck op’ is past, He is “being supplanted by the officer awhose every thot ig courtesy.” — Judge Samuel Sithert, Cuyha- Mey, :Ono. esre >