The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1926, Page 3

eae ree P< THE DAILY WORKER Page Three PORTO RICANS RESENT ‘NAVY’ RULE OF U.S, ‘American Corporations Hold Monopoly By VICENTE GEIGEL POLANCO President Juventud Naclonalista de San Juan, P. R., Member of Na- tlonallst Party, Member Execu- tlve Committee Porto Rican Section All-America Anti-Im- perlalist League. HE imperialist war fought by the United States at the end of the nineteenth century brought Porto Rico within its zones of exploitation. In twenty-eight years of colonial govern- ment we are not indebted for a single act of justice. In Porto Rico there is no such a thing as liberty, There is what might be called a sort of politi- eal tolerance; that is, we aré allowed to say, just to say, certain. things. Freedom of speech? No, indeed. A mere trick to deceive naive minds. ‘The essentials of democracy, the fun- damental principles of representative government are beyond our reach, The Jone’s act, our Organic Law, is one of the most oppressive pieces of legis- lation congress has ever passed. Com- pared with the Autonomous Charter we enjoyed under the Spanish regime, the latter reveals a higher sense of justice, a purer conception of political liberty. And that was a law of mo- narchical Spain! Dependency of War Department. ORTO RICO is a dependency of the war department, The welfare of the whole country rests on the whim of an imperialist body as is the bureau of insular affairs, Congress forced upon the Porto Ricans American citi- zenship: a citizenship meaningless to our spirit, useless in our social life, deprived of the moral significance it has in the states, The new status of citizens of the great republic has not changed in any sense our abnormal political situation, As a matter of fact, the American citizenship was granted to the Porto Ricans not as an act of justice to a community highly civilized, but, as voiced by the bureau of insular affairs, as a con- clusive demonstration of the perma- nent occupation of the island. In other words, American citizenship, the purest expression of political rights for a loyal American, was used as a tool for imperialistic machinations. American corporations hold such a monopoly over the land that more than 40,000 small landowners have al- ready disappeared. Our economic situation is becoming worse. We have no. industries. And the fate of our agricultural production depenfs. on the humor of Wall Street. Impose Forelgn Tongue. ORTO RICO is a Spanish-speaking + country. Our traditions, culture, mode of living are essentially Spanish. The imperial government has tried, in vain, to change these conditions, The fight against the language—tha* is the highest expression of our personality— has been continuous and merciless. Public inistruction, practically from thg kindergarten to college, ‘ls conducted in English. If teaching in a foreign tongue is not a pedagogical crime, I do not know what it is. Spanish, our vernacular language, is taught as a special subject! In the University of Porto Rico there are courses on the history and literature of practically every country, with one éxception— Porto Rico. Perhaps the authorities think that the knowledge of our his- torical development and the formative elements of our nationality might en- danger their schemes for the Amer icanization of the island. Porto Rican youth must ignore the doing and think, ing of our great men, but she must know by heart the most trivial facts about Jefferson, Lincoln and the rest of the American national heroes. The official policy consists in keeping our youngsters in complete ignorance of everything that is related to our life as a people of a different race, Americanization A Failure, spite of these tyrannical measures, Americanization in Porto Rico has been a failure. And that is so due Jargely to our cultural resources, The first civilized community was before the foundation of Jamestown, And from that date on our standards of living have been essentially European. Spanish is spoken thruout the island. Woe have a literature of our own, eg failure of Americanization 1s also due to the governmental pol- icy of imperial America, Porto Ricans thought that America stood for liberty, democracy afd similar slogans, power ful enough to lure the crowds. But when we realize that the United States stands in Porto Rico for both economic and political exploitation; when we realize that political corrup- tion has been the most remarkable product of the new regime (the poll- ticlang being by-product), the senti- ment of national independence ‘has conquered the public mind in such a way that the Porto Ricans will never be satisfied with any concession from the United States short of their com plete freedom ag a people, MANVILLE, R, 1-—(FP)—After a conference of Goy, A, J, Pothier with mill officials from Manville-Jenckes Co, mills and United Textile Workers heads, it was announced that a settle ment of the strike of cotton workers had been reached, The workers have yet to ratify or reject the plan, which provides return to work at the Man- ville Mill and of sympathette strikers oA efre Globe and Social mills and 7 Poland--The Land of White Terror One Case Amongst Thousands. 'YLVESTER BOGANSKI of the vil- lage of Kustiki in the community of Kostaniovo in the district of Vileika was arrested, together with his sister by the Defensive. During the search in their house nothing was found. Af- ter tha search several pieces of the equipment of the house disappeared. On Dec. 24th, 1924 Boganski was transported, together with his sister to the town of Krasn{ in the admin- istration of the tenth batallion of the frontier guard. On Dec, 25th .Boganski heard from the neighboring room the voice of his sister; he heard a conversation, then laughing, singing and. finally crying + +. Boganski’s sister_was made drunk with alcohol. In the morning one heard again crying and terrible lamen- tation. As Boganski heard after- wards, pins were pushed under the foot nails of his sister and her hair was torn out in order to induce her to sign a statement, Beaten Severely. On Deo, 26th. Boganski was called to the office and the examination began: The sergeant and a certain Stachek attacked Boganski and beat him with their revolvers. After one and a half to two hours they undressed him com- pletely, bound his hands and feet, fet- tered him to a bench and began to beat him with sticks. Then they beat him with iron wire and with a sap- per’s spade. The police agent, Sta- chek forced a wet rag into Boganski’s mouth and then they beat him with sticks on his feet. Boganski fainted and when he regained his conscious- ness, he was examined again, ‘When he gave no answer, he was again fettered, thrown against the floor several times and beaten with wires and iron sticks till he fainted again, Then they poured water over him, fettered his hands to his breast and fetched two new sticks because the others were broken. The whole Procedure was repeated once more till Boganski lay on the floor uncon- scious for the third time. They took him to the guard’s room where he passed the night with terrible pains and asked the soldiers to shoot him. No End to Torture, On Dec. 27th Boganski was again asked Ao come down for examination, again tortured and maltreated and left in the guard’s room. On Dec, 28th he was tortured for the fourth time. His hair was torn out and the sensitive spot behind the ear crushed, On Dec. 29th he was again tortured and the sergeant and Stachek ordered him to write @ letter to his wife in which he said “I accuse nobody to have caused my death.” Then a hot fluid with a powder in it wis poured into his throat. He fell down like dead. His sister was led into the room, her brother’s letter was given to her and her brother’s naked body un- covered, With the scream: “Beast, why do you mumMer an innocent man? She fainted. Blasco Ibanez Says Spain Will Reenter League of Nations GENEVA, Sept, 14.—Spain will im- mediately re-enter the league of na tions once the regime of General Primo de Rivera is ended, declared Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist and leader of opposition to General de Rivera, in a note to President Nintch- itch of the league of nations assembly today. Lumber Man A 8ulclde, McLBDAN, IIL, Sept. 14. — Clutching a revolver and with a bullet in his head, Leonard Dodgson, lumber deal- er, was found dead upon a pile of lumber here early today, He has been despondent for several years owing to ill health, Get a copy of the American Worker Correspondent. It’s only 5 cents, ‘i ye Japanese Oust Radical Rajah The Polish rulers are the tools of British imperialism, On the evening of the same day he was beaten on his feet and breast. Then he signed two statements: 1. That everything in the minutes is true. 2. That all persons mentioned by the sergeants had participated in the attack. In the beginning Boganski resisted and refused to sign, but they began again to beat him and the serg- eant himself signed the statements with Boganski's hand. Then they turned out the light and lt pine chips, forcing him to look into the blinding light. After that Bogansk! lost his eyesight for some time. On Dec. 30th Boganski was tortured the seventh time. Stachek kneeled on Boganski’s breast, took his trousers off, took out his sexual organs and crushed his testicles. Beastly Attack. On Dec. 31st Boganski was tortured for the eighth time, his hair was torn out and he was beaten on his head and feet. Then the agents opened the win- dow and tried to shoot Boganski “whilst attempting to escape.” Bo- ganski anticipated this because the of- ficer who was present said to the ag- ents: “Do with him what you like, I take the responsibility.” Then Bo- ganski asked for a revolver to shoot himself. Stachek gave him one which Boganski turned against his own breast. However, the revolver was not loaded. The hangmen laughed bru- tally and continued to beat Boganski. On Jan. Ist and 2nd Boganski was again tortured in the same way, this time by ‘five agents. Boganski was thrown on the floor, Stachek sat on his breast and held his hands. A sec- sat on his feet. Then Boganski was forced to drink urine mixed with pe- troleum, five full bottles, On Jan: 4th the execution of Bogan- ski and two peasants was staged. The soldiers were placed in rows and only in the last moment they were sent back under the pretext that the tele- gram of the president ordering the execution had not yet arrived, On Jan. 6th Boganski was informed jthey are lazy; some might have been | wise, but time was lacking. The roads ond agent held his head. The third/inat 1 have traveled are filled with BORKY GREETS RUSS WORKER CORRESPONDENTS Famous Novelist Drops Good Suggestions Maxim Gorky, the great Russian novelist, is of the opinion that moral- izing is poor propaganda, Ridicule 1s| a better weapon, he thinks. Recently the editor of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Correspondent, the of- ficial organ of thousands of worker corresponents scattered all over the Soviet Union, sent Gorky a complete file of the paper, with a request that he give his opinion of it. The fol-| lowing letter was received from the} noted novelist, which gives the He to the stories that have been circulated by enemies of the workers’ republic, to the effect that Gorky was against the Soviet regime: Gorky Works Long Hours, “Comrades, we cannot accomplish very much by means of correspond- ence. It would be diMcult for me to write long articles picking your corre spondence to pieces word by word. And just now I am working no fewer} than ten hours out of the twenty-four. If I were in Moscow, we could arrange some face-to-face meetings. I should learn something from you and, per haps, you would learn something from me, KI] With Ridloule. “Many of you like to moralize, This kind of activity Is not profitable. It Is better to kill with ridicule, A harsh word must be hurled out abruptly, like | a blow; but in passing judgment you must remember that you are judging comrades whose life is very hard and who as yet do not understand the! enormous demands of the present his- toric time. It is hard for them to understand this, because they haven't the time to learn. No Time to Get Wise. “Not all fools are ignorant because the wrecks of those who did not have enough time to make themselves real men—and some of them were more gifted than I. These wrecks I shall never forget. “I give you a hearty handclasp. I wish courage to all of you and close friendship. Stand close together and learn to aid one another to live thru these grave hours and days. that he would be transported to Wil- eika where he might be acquitted, but hé was warned to keep secret what had happened to him here, otherwise there wotild be ways and means to repeat the’ tortures. On Feb. 8rd Boganski was released in Wileika.., (Extract from the interpellation No. 190 of the White Russian club to the Ministry for Justice and Interior.) (Continued Tomorrow) MADRID, (By Mail.)—Since the have always held Communists, Frame-Up Gives Nine Years. Some days ago Comrade David Rey was tried by the military court. He was accused of writing an insulting letter to Generals Primo de Rivera, Martinez Anido and Milans de Bochs, and was condemned to nine years’ im- prisonment. ¢ It was proven that the letter could not have been written by Comrade Rey, since when {t was written he was held incommunicado in prison. It was probably written by police spies in Rajah Mahendra Pratap, of Afghanistan, whose anti-imperlalist and antl-British activities brought him fame In India, is forolbly deported from Japan because of his failure to comply with passport regulations and hie refusal to leave Japan. The photo shows Japanese jainclothes men car SPANISH LABOR, PERSECUTED BY PRIMO DE RIVERA, ASKS WORKERS OF THE U. S. TO MAKE PROTEST (By a Spanish Worker) Spanish Communist Party was con- stituted, a violent and brutal persecution has been endured by its militant and leading members. Seventy-five per cent have been in jail for varied questions and the prisons of Madrid, Bareelona, Bilbao, Oviedo and Valencia omer to rob the party and the work- tag class of one of their best militants. The Red Ald In Action. The press has not published any in- formnation on this outrageous case. The censorship will not allow and se- verely and brutally stops any news of this nature, The Red Aid of Spain (Socorro Rojo) has initiated a very active cam- paign in belialf of David Rey, publish- ing Mlegally a manifesto explaining his case demanding the Spanish proletariat show its solidarity in his behalf, The manifesto is being read fm all factories thruout the country, Garraf Case. Those foted for the offense against the royal train near the coast of Garrat have been condemned to death, imprisonment for life and other minor penalties by the military judges, All the indicted are affiliated with the Catalunian Separatist party, It was proven at the court-martial that the plot was prepared by the po- lice in order to accuse the separatist party, which is strong and powerful in Catalonia and has always shown violent opposition to the present gov- ernment, ||) Many Death Sentences. The separatist movement of Cata- | lonfa and the Communist activity among the workers are the two real enemies of the military dictatorship, Both have to endure the brutality of police persecution, In three years of the military dicta- torship the number of death sentences signed by the government exceeds the total executions since the beginning of the century. Many working class mill- tants are in jail awaiting sentence, Ask international Help. The Spanish proletariat demands | help agains: {ts outrageous persecu- tors from the workers of other coun- tries, The working class of the United States coult make thelr protest against this cruel persecution of their Spanish fellow workers heard by regis- tering their resentment at the Spanish Ja She Taito Staten, _ | Tribune, the living newspaper issued jby the worker correspondents of the “MAXIM GORKY. “Sorrento, Italy, June 17, 1926,” , { TIBIETRBYHA The next, eleventh issue of Prolet- Novy Mir, will be out next Saturday, September 18, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. It is the first indoor issue after the summer season. All who understand the Russian language are invited, Admission ts only 25 cents. Begin- ning at 8 p. m. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends—send us name and ad- 500 workers are sending news of their lives, the job, and their unions to The DAILY WORKER. 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