The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1926, Page 3

.—_v CUBA SUFFERS IMPERIALIST WHITE TERROR Unions Crushed and Unionists Killed By HARRY GANNES. Alfredo Lopez, the secretary of the tocal Federation of Labor of Havana, disappeared on the 20th day of July, 1926, and since no trace has been found of him, The disappearance, arrest, and oft- entimes open murder of labor and revolutionary léaders in countries dominated by American imperialism ig not an uncommon occurrence. The disappearance and probably secret murder of Alfredo Lopez is not at all surprising when we remember that Lopez was charged with being the author of a pamphlet criticizing the strikebreaking activities of President Gerardo Machado, the outright tool of American imperialism and particularly of General Crowder, the personal rep- resentative of Wall Street in Cuba. Crushes Railway Union, Machado had succeeded, thru the use of the most brutal and terroristic methods, in crushing the railroad brotherhood of Camaguey. Local or- ganizations of the railroad union were raided, members were indiscriminately arrested and held under cruelly ille- gal and wantonly brutal conditions. Machado’s role as chief scab most siaringly puts him in the limelight as the puppet of American capitalism in the breaking’ of the railroad union. All the railroads in the north of Cuba sve controlled by United States capi- tai, Undoubtedly Machado’s orders were to crush the brotherhood as a safeguard for American profits. Lopez, active labor leader, was picked as one of the foremost organizers in Cuba. This was not Lopez's first taste of Machado’s fascist methods. Lopez had often been arrested, questioned, bullied, but was usually set free on pressure from the working class. Not the First. Neither is the murder of Lopez the first act of open brutality on the part of Machado’s Wall Street govern- mental machinery in Cuba, Julio Antonio Mella, now an exile in Mexico, is another victim of Ameri can imperialism in Cuba. The mem- ory of Mella’s illegal imprisonment and hunger strike has hardly slipped cut of the day’s news when Wall Street adds a deeper hue to its al- ready black record in Cuba by the murder of Lopez. “Independent” Only In Names, _ The independent Cuban government, dominated by a subservient group of Wall Street bootlickers, is one of the most groveling supporters of Ameri- can imperialism. Every possible penny of profit that can be wrung out of the Cuban workers and peasants finds its way into the coffers of American bank- ers, The exploitation of the Cuban work- ers and peasants is carried on whole- sale under the foremanship of Presi- dent Machado. His entire state ma- chinery is at the beck and call of the American investors: the United States Fruit. Company, the American Sugar Refining Company, the Amerftan To- bacco Company and last, but not least, the National City Bank. These in reality are responsible for the murder of Lopez, Same In Peru, Machado in Cuba does not stand alone as the willing and survile tool of American imperialism in the ex- ploitation of his own people. Wher- ever American imperialism does not outrightly own the land, whether it be in Central America, South America, or elsewhere, it does not overlook pro- tecting its investments by the corrup- tion and subsidization of the local dictator. The dictatorship of Peru is just another such an example of the terroristic rule as that of Machado in Cuba, First Mella, and now Lopez. But the crimes of Machado and the Ameri- can investors in Cuba has not ended with Lopez. No organization of the workers in Cuba is safe in the face of the strikebreaking, union-smashing, openly terroristic activities of Gen- eral Crowder's Cuban government. Cuba is a small country, a sem!- colony lying in the shadow of the United States’ right. Cuban workers must have help to fight the Machado- Crowder-Sugar Trust terror, The unopposed success of the bloody deeds of Machado will mean the extension of this method of sub- duing workers wherever the American dollar collects the sweat of the work- ers, Cuban Workers Herolc Fighters, The Cuban workers and peasants have always exhibited a determina- tion to fight unrelentingly against, American domination and exploita- tion. That’s why Lopez wag mur- dered, To crush the tyrannical co- operation, of American imperialism with the unjon-lestroying, murdering Machado dictatorship, the united pro- test of the workers everywhere ef- fected by American imperialism is ‘necessary. The murder of Lopez will not stop the heroic efforts to stem the worst type of exploitation rampant in Cuba. But the thurder of Lopez cannot go unchallenged by the entire working class of the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, “Bay It with your pen in the | forrespondent page of ‘Y Marines Land, Warship Watches. in Nicaragua THE DAILY WORKER Page Thr Sree eenreeeree erry cerenentenentenemmen eemarmnraeemmersmneenciens recur reermr aera ut ht sneer ne SN Reenter ie ne As Revolation Threatens Wall Street Interests Here are views showing men and place: Involved In the latest disturbance in Central America In which again American marines are hastily dispatched ostensibly to “protect American life and property,” but actually to put y y Y down the rebels and to keep In power President Chamorro of Nicaragua, a threatened. At the top: View of Bluefields and President Chamorro. Other ern waters, Rear Admiral Latimer, and government palace at Managua. VENEZUELAN LABOR UNION IN AN APPEAL AGAINST OPPRESSION BY TYRANT GOMEZ, IMPERIALIST TOOL Because of the white terror regime in Venezuela under the dictatorship of General Juan Vincente Gomez, the Venezuelan labor union is compelled to maintain its chief center of activity in New York City. The DAILY WORKER is glad to voice the protest of the Venezuelan workers in their letter printed below, and to point out thet American labor has a duty to perform in opposing the imperialist oppression of the Venezuelan people by the United States, for which Gomez is the willing tool.’ The same could be said for Dictator Orellana of Guate-¢———————__ mala, ‘ Blessed by Rome. The bloody rule of Gomez in Vene- zuela with its repression of the Work- ers, has proceeded under the blessings of the catholic church, for the catho- lic religion is there joined with the. state. The rule of Gomez has been ment. But the United States government has no quarrel with Venezuela and no capitalist papers of the United States have wept crocodile tears over Vengzuela as they have over the sup+ posed “rights” of catholic priests in Mexico, A. F. of L. Does Nothing, Nor has the American Federation ‘of Labor done anything to protect the Venezuelan Labor Unfon, with which it is affiliated thru the Pan-American Federation of Labor, from American imperialism. Instead, it has stified Venezuelan labor protests thru its control of the Pan-American Feder- ation congress. The Venezuelan La- bor Union’s letter is as follows: se @ 4 Willow Street, Brooklyn, New York, August 19, 1926. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: Taking for granted your passion for the liberty of all peoples, we of the Venezuelan Labor Union have re- course to your periodical in behalf of @ nation cruelly oppressed, in which, owing to monstrous and swaggering tyranny, no proper use of the press can be made. Genuine Tyranny, Venezuela has no lack of lofty cre- dentials among the peoples of Amer- ica; she has a right to a patent of honor; and it is with reason that sne appeals to all republics for moral and material aid. There is now in South America a people in grief under the lash of governmental abuse; their arms, in the name of all that is piti- ful, are raised for help; but for every one that ventures to speak up against such tyranny, there is sudden seizure, the burden of chains, and incontinent seclusion in some dungeon, where of- ten enough he is flogged to death, In the name of the martyred and silenced people of Venezuela, our or- ganization begs you to give space in your periodical for their complaints, that we may thus secur¢'the attention ot America, that all humankind may hear ft, that magnanimous souls may be moved to come to the help of those who have the undeclinable duty and the most decided purpose to break a way toward the light thru the jungle of social venality, Want Support. We wish to count upon the”material and moral support of those for whom patriotism is a noble and vibrant maat- ter, in order that in the near future our banner of protest may flutter un- der a favorable American sky, Tt is a disgrace to America that there are to be found anywhere such acts of the magnitude of those which emigre occur in Venezuela with ¢ knowledge and sanction of the civilized world... so malodorous that Mexico severed re-' lations with the Venezuelan govern- principles of solidarity constrain every country not to regard with continued indifference the vandalic capers of Juan Cincente Gomez, applauded as they are by a vile cohort of hired jour- Nalists who in no way reflect popular sentiment, because they confourid the issues and renounce all dignity for the Sake of the despot’s favor. For the present, in order that our introductory correspondence may not be a burden to you, we shall call to your attention only one matter, of re- cent occurrence, which pictures in masterly style the ambition of the ty- rant, and the malleable and elastic fashion in which he has struck terror into the hearts of men distinguished for their intelligence, their social and economic tenure, Enormous Graft, By consent of the national congress it has been resolved that Juan Vin- cente Gomez might purchase for the sum of seventeen million bolivars fhe estates known at “Hatés de El Caura,” consisting of more than one hundred square leagues along the Orinoco, Serves Imperialism. These Gomez acquired for the ridic- ulous sum of three hundred thousand bolivars; he contrived to plunder Ven- ezuela with his customary procedure, and suggested the scheme to his henchmen in congress. It was ac- cepted without objection, with the en thusiastic approbation of persons who, thru fear or effrontery, sanction- ed and continue to sanction the mon- strosities of this man who has given free entrance, without precautions and to their huge advantage, to the dan- gerous magnates of imperialist coun- tries, In Venezuela Gomez disposes of the property of the natives quite as he pleases. The measures which he puts into praction have a generous range —from impudent offers for valuable property all the way to arrant bully- ing; imprisonment or death are cur- rent coin. Seizes National Wealth, Thus he has seized upon whatever the country produces, monopolizing the cattle industry and its derivatives, the mills, navigation, the manufacture of Roman cement, the exploitation of minerals, woods, pearls, cigarettes, transport, etc—all this to such a de- gree that a newspaper in San Jose, Costa Rica, edited by Venezuelan exiles, enumerating the number, ex- tent, and other particulars of the Properties acquired by Gomez during his dismal predominance, ablishes @ total of much more than a thousand million bolivars! And yet waen he first came into power Ke was a man of very modest fortune, We make Pan-Americanism offec- tive by attacking Tiff its very lair all such systematic plundering. We do not hesitate, Respectfully yours, Martin Feinstein, English Secretary, the Venezuelan Labor Union, Rob Ol! Station. ’ BELOIT, Wis.; Sept. 8.—Three-arm- ed bandits early today slugged L, H. Vance, and oflistation attendant, into 0h, fetes NS ee tool of Wall Street whose chair is photos show U, S. marines in South- MEXICANS NAB GROUP INTENT ON MISCHIEF Eight Lose Lives in At- tempted Overthrow MBXICO CITY, Sept. 8—An at- tempted counterrevolutionary move- ment in the state of Colima has been frustrated and eight of the leaders executed and forty persons arrested, according to a dispatch to Excelsior. Further executions may take place, it is said. The Excelsior also reports that a party of reji:is is operating near Las Vegas, and that trains from Mexico City and Vera Cruz are operating un- der a heavy guard. Federal Deputy Moza Ledosma was mortally wounded, Domingo Cuenca, a local political leader, was killed and two others were seriously wounded in a pistol battle in Guadelajara, accord- ing to reports received today. The battle occurred as Ledosma passed the headquarters of his political op- ponent and there was an exchange of words preceding an exchange of bul- lets, Identify Only Six of 48 Victims of Movie Fire in Irish Town DRUMCOLLIHDR, Ireland, Sept. 8. —Deadly silence prevails in this stricken village, broken only by the tramp of feet, sobs and an occassional hysterical shriek as attempts are made to indentify the dead of the dis- astrous fire in the improvised motion picture theater here. The charred remains of 48 bodies le in coffins in the houses and stores and all day a continual procession of relatives and friends filed before these bodies striving to identify them from rosaries or trinkets which were found upon them. Thus far only six of the 48 bodies have been identified. Spain Leaves League as Germany Enters It MADRID, Sept, 8. — At a meeting of the king’s council it has been decided to send a note to the league of nations ‘withdrawing Spain from membership in the league. The note will rebuke, the league for showing Spain no consideration, whfle not mentioning Spain's demand for Tan- gier, and citing that Spain's “tradi- tions, prestige and importance” as the mother country of twenty Latin- American countries deserved a better treatment, — | Germany Enters League. GENEVA, Sept. 8. — Germany will enter the league of nation at once, President Hindenburg has signed the appointment of German delegates, among them Stresemann, Dies Attempting Animal's Rescue. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Attempting to rescue two kangaroos when fire destroyed part of a warehouse where ‘two hundred trained animals were stored, Tom Collins was burned to death today. Collins’ body was found beside those:of the beasts he tried to lead to safety. set ee We will agnd sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends— §, P, RAILROAD SENATOR IS A BORE ON FLOOR Press Gallery Groans at His Re-election , (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.— (FP) — Triumph of Senator Sam Shortridge of California in his campaign for re- nomination at the hands of the repub- lican voters of his state has been met by groans from the veterans of the senate press gallery. Not be cause Shortridge is a reactionary, whose devotion to the service of the Southern Pacific Railway and to the| big banking magnates of California is canine in its completeness, The senate has always had its ma- jority of servants of big business. The reason why newspaper correspondents hoped that Shortridge would be lost somewhere outside the Golden Gate is because he is the dullest bore among all the tiresome persons in that as- semblage. He Takes Punishment. Tall and cadaverous, with a solemn horse, face which is apparently incap- able of a glint of humor or a gleam of enthusiasm, Shortridge rises in the midst of almost every serious debate to ask, pompously, some silly question. Sometimes he repeats his query three or four times, in a measured tone and with slow gestures which he considers impressive to his fellow-senators, Usually his question stops the debate for five or ten minutes, because he never is satisfled with an answer such as the mental quality of his interrup- tion warrants. Jim Reed of Missouri once became so irritated at the show- off tactics of the Southern Pacific sen- ator that he remarked that “No man in human history has ever been so wise in fact as the senator from Cali- fornia looks.” Whereupon Shortridge assumed a lordlier pose than before, vee Don Chafin Paroled, Parole of Don Chafin, former sher- iff of nonunion Logan county, West Virginia, from Atlanta penitentiary, has been granted by the federal parole board. Chafin applied for release last June, but another indictment was hanging over him, due to his activities as partner in a bootleg enterprise, and the parole was delayed until that in- dictment could be quashed. Chafin’s downfall after nearly a score of years of terrorism in Logan was not due to his lawless intimidation of trade unionists who ventured into’that cor- ner of the coal fields of West Virginia. Big Bill Coolidge, head 6f-the Island Creek Coal company, dominating the Logan field, saw to it that'Don was elected sheriff year after year, on the democratic ticket. The Island Creek and other coal companies, thru their county associations, supplied, Don with funds for the hiring of a private army of deputies, with which he patrolled the road entering the county from the north, searched every passenger train that arrived, and dragged strangers from hotel beds in the middle of the night to explain their errands in his bailiwick. Occasionally they killed a man, and often the miners whom they jailed were beaten. None of these acts brot any punishment from the federal authorities, Don Gets Too Fresh. But in the campaign of 1924, Chafin tried to carry his county for Davis against Calvin Coolidge. He had a delegate in the national convention in New York City, and felt that it was up to him to arrest or drive into hid- ing all voters who would not support the democratic nominee. His strong- arm methods aroused the republicans, and as soon as the machinery could ba set in motion they had him indict- ed and convicted on a bootleg con- spiracy charge. Chafin seems to have considered that federal liquor laws did not apply to his territory, His release after a little more than a year in prison is credited to “Big Bill” Coolidge, cousin of Calvin. The coal operator visited his cousin in the White House last May, and made a request that his friend be turned loose. Then “Big Bill” went home to Boston and reported that the White House would be all right on coal mat- ters. Missouri R, R. Gains Trackage. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—The Mis- souri Pacific railroad today was au- thorized by the interstate commerce commission to acquire control, by pur- chase of capital stock, of the Mariona & Eastern, a coal carrying road in Williamson county, Ill. 2 Workers Entombed In Sewer. ROCKFORD, Il, Sept. 8. — Jack Hammond, 32, was dying this after- noon and Everett Graham, 22, was in a hospital seriously injured as the re- sult of being entombed in an eight- foot sewer excavation. Firemen saved the men from asphyxiation, but Ham- mond was crushed by tons of earth, Another Arrest in Hall Case. SOMERVILLE, N. J., Sept, 8—An- other arrest in connection with the Hail-Mills murder mystery is belteved imminent today, following a guarded statement by special prosecutor, Alox- ander Simpson, Why not a small bundle of The|’ DAILY WORKER sent to you regularly to take to your trade FIVE DIE IN LABOR DAY WRECK IN HEART OF CITY; BIG CRASH AT JUNCTION An overloaded excursion train of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- road was visited by death as it was bringing Labor Day vacationists from Wisconsin towns late Monday at Clybourne Junction. Five per sons were killed and more than half a hundred seriously injured when another train bit the rear car and sent it crashing thru the one before it, telescoping them and im- prisoning the terror-stricken passen- gers In the twisted Iron and splin- tered beams. The driver of the suburban train that crashed into the death cars has been held responsible. The en- gineer, however, in his own defense said he was following instructions to go slow, proceeding at no more than ten miles an hour when sud- denly the lights of an oncoming train blinded him and next he knew he was upon the other train. The scene of the wreck revealed that not only were the cars over- loaded, people being forced to stand in the aisles, but that both the cars in which the greater number of victims were killed and injured were of wooden construction, WOODEN COACHES RESPONSIBLE FOR HOLIDAY DEATHS Coroner’s Jury Lays Blame on Road An engineer in bad health and over-crowded ancient wooden coaches are held as the real causes of the Labor Day wreck on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad at Clybourne Junction that took a toll of five lives and severely injured more than 50 holiday passengers, by members of the coroner’s jury now investigating the disaster. Coroner Blames Road. The officials of the road, after an investigation conducted by them, have laid the full blame on the engineer of the suburban train that crashed into the fated rear coaches of the death train. But the coroner’s jury has heard evidence to show that the en- gineer had been in poor health for years and had poor sight. ‘Coroner Oscar Wolff, after he viewed the wreckage said it was a marvel to him that so few people were killed. Antiquated Coaches, He openly laid the burden of the blame on the Northwestern road for using the antiquated wooden coaches to care for surplus fares on holidays. The coroner charged that if steel coaches or even more durable wooden had been used, no one would have been killed and few injured, Reading Road Wins Race to Acquire 219 Mile Pa. Line WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Around a 219-mile railroad, extending from Tamaqua, Pa., to Campbell Hall, N. Y., will center one of the biggest railroad fights the interstate commerce com- mission has encountered since it re- jected the Van Sweringen billion-dol- lar railroad merger. This became known today when the commission gave notice that it would conduct hearings, beginning tomorrow. on the application of the Philadelphia & Reading to acquire control of the Lehigh & New England by lease and other trackage arrangements, This apparently insignificant road, which is devoted largely to freight movement, was a prize for which five great systems angled for months and which the Reading finally landed. Daugherty Trial Gets Under Way in New York NEW YORK, Sept. 8, — Trial of Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney- general of the United States, and Col. Thomas W. Miller, former alien prop- erty custodian, opened today in federal} court before Judge Mack, The defendants, both officials during the Harding administration, are charged with conspiracy to defraud the government, The morning session passed without the acceptance of a single juror, Fifteen were questioned and five definitely rejected, WCEL Radio Program broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. m—Chicago Fede bulletins. 30—Fable Lady—Stories ition of La- for children, 6:30 to 7:30—The Florentine String Trio, bag m songs. 10:00 to 1:00 a. m.—Alamo Cafe Orches- tra and Enterta a i. Perens, ae Chicago Federation of Labor radio MORO TROUBLE I$ ARTIFICIAL SAY FILIPINO Independence Committ: Accuses General Woo: (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — With gard to alleged conflicts between F: pi Dinos and Moros in the Phil Moro region, V. G. Bunnen, head the Washington office of the Phil pine Commission of Independence, bh the following statement: The reported strife between F pinos and Moros in Zamboanga a Jolo during the visit of Color Thompson in these places was the sult of an attempt on the part of t enemies of Philippine independen to impress the president's envoy wi the supposed hatred between the t peoples, according to advices we ha received from our Manila office, fact, a Filipino ex-governor of one the Moro provinces charged Maj Fletcher of the United States ay with being responsible for it, It Sounds Famillan This is not the first time that-st ilar efforts have been made, for ¢ alleged hatred between Filipinos # Moros has been invoked time @ again, especially since the intro tion of the Bacon bill, as an argume against independence and.for the se aration of the Moro region from # rest of the Philippine archipeing The reported conflict is the same.aa: —the same music, staged in the pr ence of Colonel Thompson and f effect im the United States, and in far as the Filipino people are cc cerned, they are satisfied with*t comfortable knowledge that W Thompson and the American peor have too much common sense-not see thru it. Wood tn Plot. And despite the assertion of Ge ernor General Wood that the Ba: boanga affair, according to Manila 4 patches, was so serious that only ¢ presence of Major Fletcher and t troops prevented actual clash, t same dispatches state that Cotor Thompson dismissed it with the sta ment: “I am sure it was only a m understanding which has now happi ended,” The following facts and figur taken from the official records of t bureau of non-christian tribes of t Philippine government will show t yond the shadow of a doubt that t Filipinos and Moros can live togeth peacefully if undisturbed by outsi influences, as proven during the Hi: rison regime, when the Filipinos we permitted to manage their own fairs, including those of the Moro gion: Americans Cause Killings. From the period beginning July * 1903, to December, 1913, before t Filipinos came in control, there « curred 152 encounters between t Moros and the constabulary. Durt the period from January, 1914, to C tober 15, 1921, the Harrison regin only 20 encounters occurred. Taki: only a short period of two years the Wood administration, beginnt October 16, 1921, more than 25 € counters have already occurred, least 17 have occurred up to Augm 1923, Worse Now Than Ever, From July 15, 1903, to Decemtt 1913, as a result of these encounte: 1,565 casualties are recorded, whi during the Harrison administratic running for a period of about sev years, only 373 casualties occurre and during the administration of Gc ernor-General Wood’ up to Augw 1923, less than two years, 163 casm ties have happened. Under the m vious administration up to 1913 t average encounters between the cc stabulary and the Moros per year w 20, while during the Harrison admin tration it was only three, and und the Wood administration up to Augu: 1923, it increased to nine, Wood Makes Trouble. Under the previous administrati prior to 1913 the average number casualties per year 208, while der the Harrison administration it w only 63, and under the Wood admin tration up to August, 1923, it } creased to 89, These statistics selves and show beyond any dou that at least the relations betwe the Filipinos and the Moros duri the Harrison administration, when t government of Mindanao was in t hands of Filipinos, were more cord} than at present, let alone the great progress attained during that peri compared with that which preced it and the present one. speak for the A subscription to The DAT WORKER for one month to t members of your union is a go way. Try it. GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurani 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, | LOS ANGELES, CAL, House—North Side, Chicago, Il. Price $3,900 | BUILD 6 rooms; tile bath; hare wood floors; furnace; built-in be ur Central 2503,