The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 3

tf Ls In Mexico Amount O11 lands and refinerie: $500,000,000 Mines and smelters 300,000,000 “Plantations and tim’ 200,000,000 Railroads . 160,000,000 Factories, stores, banks, public utilities and gov- ‘ernment bonds .. 140,000,000 ' THE Dw so 98 I1LY WORKER Seri arene satrmecumenan steernatsantiestinmantnttinmnnnrnanstaredacanete Page Three US, INTERESTS OWN FOURTH OF MEX. RESOURCES Are Same G1 Grip That Control Here By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. The right of American. multl-million- aires to exploit for their own profit ig challenged by the Mexican people. That is the meaning of the present Mexlean crisis, as is forcefully pointed out by Willlam P. Helm in the Chicago Journal of Commerce; This business Paper tells the world that American interests have grabbed at least one- fourth of the wealth of Mexico, The Americans behind the pressure of the American government on Mex- ico, says Helm, are “the Morgan in-| terests, the Standard Oil interests, the | Penrose interests, the Sinclair inter- | ests, the Guggenheim interests, the | Mellon interests, the Coleman-Ryan interests, the Bethlehem Stee! inter ests, the Southern Pacific interests, the Kuhn-Loeb Interests; the Henry Doherty interests and the interests of other wealthy Americans ane Ameri- an corporations.” Have Support of Kellogg. This reads like a catalog of the cap- italist oligarchy which controls the economic life of the United States. According to Helm, the state depart- ment is supporting their plan to ex- tend that domination to Mexico, ‘This group of powerful corporations, says Helm, owns from one-fourth to one-third of all Mexican resources, di- vided as follows: American Investment ~+«-$1,300,000,000 The Oil Interests. “Important ofl interests in Mexico ere listed by Helm as the Standard ‘Oll Co, of Indiana, thru its control of the Mexican.Petroleum Co.; Doheny’s British-Mexican Petroleum Co., with concessions totaling 2,000,000 acres and a production of about 150,000 bar- rels a day; the Standard Oil of New Jersey, with pipe lines handling about, 100,000 barrels a day; J. P. Morgan & Co., which, thru the Marland Oil Co., has concessions covering 12,000,000 Total ’ geres; the Mellons, thru the Gulf Oil corporations; and the Sinclair inter- ests, 5 Mine Holdings. Big American interests in Mexican mines include the gold, silver, lead, copper and zine properties of the Gug- genheims, operated by the American . Smelting & Refining Co., the Phelps Dodge Corp., operating thru Mocte- zuma Copper Co., and the Green Can- anea Copper Co., controlled by the Coleman-Ryan interests, Miscellaneous American holdings in Mexico, Helm notes, include about 2,000 miles of railroad line, telephone and telegraph, electric power and light plants, iron and steel companies, rub- ber lands and millions of acres con- trolled by the American Chicle Co. Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? Get a copy of tne American Worker Correspondent. it’s only 5 cents. | IN CHICAGO | There will be workers, polic catchers. boodle will attend the TICKETS ON SALE at the offl Russian Co-op, Restaurant, and by ganizations, ® PHILADELPHIA “FREIHEIT” ELKS HALL, Broad and Vine Stree MEET THE QUEEN AND OTHER QUEENS The king will be there too! detectives, defectives and dog- From office-boy to president, the whole kit and ka- MASQUERADE Given for THE NOVY MIR, Russian Communist Weekly Saturday, December 25, at 6:30 P. M. MIRROR HALL, 1140 N. WESTERN AVE. Ww. Washington Blvd.; the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division 8t.; the Exporting of Tobacco Increases in Russia; Turkey Aiding Market (Special! to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 22.-—- The Russo- Oriéntal chamber of commerce has onferred with representatives of the oviet-Turkish Company “Russoturk” on the question of ‘export to Egypt of Black Sea tobacco grades, mainly the Sukhum ones, U. S. S. R, actually occupies the fourth place in the Egyptian import of tobacco, the first place being taken by China, followed by Japan and Greece. There was imported to Hgypt 800,- 000 kilograms of Soviet tobacco in 1924, and 700,000 kilograms in 1925, out of a. total import of tobacco of iy | million , kilograms, The above mentioned conference has decided it,.was necessary to en- large the export of Sukhum tobacco to Egypt, thru the channel of the “Russoturk” apparatus, RUSSIA IS HOPE OF EUROPE, SAYS INDIAN SCHOLAR Tagore Sees Soviet As Center of Culture (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 22—In an interview with journalists in Prague, Rabindra- nath Tagore, the Indian poet, said: “I am tired by my journey, but nevertheless I am going to visit Rus- sia. I want to see the country of Tol- stoy, Dostoyevsky and Soloneff. Af- ter that I can die. I am very old and my weak heart refuses to work. I must hurry up with my visit to the U.S. 8. R, Sees Decline of Europe, “In Burope I saw only growing su- perfluoug egoism and aggressive spir- it of nationalism, which can be noted with all Europe nations,. The culti- vation of unscrupulous force will lead to general conflagration and awful de- vastation. Such digastrous spirit of rivalry is bound to result in the de- struction of culture. The moral: de- lusion of the West is particularly dan- gerous for Wastern defenseless na- tions, Culture Depends on Russia, “I was for a long time and am, still studying Russian literature, which I greatly admire, because it is imbued with humanitarian principle and .ab- solutely deprived of chauvinism. The great Russian people, which created valuable works having contributed to the general culture of mankind; has entered now in the path to the great future. Russia has future, while Eu- rope is already in a state of decay and degeneration. I am sure that European culture in future will en- tirely depend upon Russian, Says Teachers’ Union Fights Propaganda in Public School System (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Deo, 22,—Lillian Her- stein, delegate of the women high school teachers to the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, speaking at the De- troit Labor Forum on the question, “Should Teachers Unionize?” said the worker has more genuine respect '| for education than has the business or professional man. The aim of the teachers’ union, she said, is not to propagandize for the labor movement among the public school children, but to keep the edu- cational system free of all propaganda, e, ice of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 members of the Russian labor or- SEAMEN’S STRIKE IN SHANGHAI IS RALLYING CREWS Five Ships Tied Up as Union Forms (Peking Tribune Special to The Dally Worker.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 22.The strike of seamen inthe employ of the China Merchants” Steamship Navigation com- pany, which ‘started Nov. 13, continues. The strikers have submitted their de- mands to the authorities of the com- pany and organized pickets and propa- ganda corps for the wharfs of the company and protection of their own men. Strikers Active, The strikers are active among thé crews of other Chinese vessels and advocate that the mayor of Greater Shanghai be petitioned to permit the establishment of a branch office of the seamen’s union in Shanghai, Pledge Support, The seamen’s unjon has pledged its support to the strikers of the China Merchants’ Steamship Navigation com- pany, Tho there are five ships idle, there has been no serious development in connection with the seamen’s strike. Lawyers in Gov. Small Graft Hearing Warned to Speed Up Process (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 22—Warn- ing attorneys for the state and de- fense that the court would look with disfavor on further delay in process of agreement between counsel on amounts of interest paid by various Illinois banks on state funds. during | Gov, Len Small’s ferm,as state trea- surer, Master in Chancery Charles G. Briggle received virtual assurance that a “hurry up” process would be launched, With this assurance the Small hear- ing was continued until March 10, 1927, at which time Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom stated that agree- ment was expected to have been reached by counsel on payments of all acounts except the famous “Pack- ers’ Notes.” Following ‘expected completion of this phase of the case} the real tussle in the suit, that over the “Packers” Notes will get under way to deter- mine what Sinall owes the state. 96 Million Exacted From Foreign Nations By U. S. in Single Day WASHINGTON, Dec. 22,—Nihety- six million dollars were paid into the treasury of the United States govern- ment in one day this week by eight foreign governments as part of their war debts to this country, Great Brit- ain paid in the bulk of the money, $92,950,000. Of this amount, $67,950,- 000 was for interest, tho rest being principle, The other nations and the amounts paid are: Czecho-Slovakia, $1,500,000; Belgium, $1,000,000, (all interest); Esthonia, $50,000; Finland, $100,000; Hungary, $40,000; Lithuania, $46,800; Poland, $750,000. Repair Ancient Mosque in Turkmenistan; Relic of Sixteenth Century MOSCOW, Dec. 22.— Repairing works have been started at Annau, in Turkmenistan, of an ancient mos- que, which is valuable from a scien- tific point of view and has been fully described by an American scientific expedition, ‘This mosque belongs to the monu- cients of the XVI century, which is decadence period of building art in the Hast. While technically, it ranks | after other famous buildings of Buk-| hara’ and Samarkand, the mosque ex- cels them considerably as gar as mos- saic. and frescOs are concerned, The) Annau mosque is the only monument | of Moslem architecture with a frontis- piece on which are represented Chi- nese dragons. Leningrad Library Training Workers MOSCOW, Dec. 22.— The Lenin- grad state library has opened special courses for librarians. Preference 1s \labor efficiency are growing. ——$— $$ $$ PRINCETON PROFESSOR MAKES SOUTH AMERICA SAFE FOR OUR DOLLAR BALBOA—Prof, Edwin W. Krem- merer of Princeton University, Is here on his way to New York for the holidays. He will then return to Ecquador to resume his work In reorganizing the finances of that country. In March or April, It Is re- ported, he will take up similar work for Brazil. In this work for South American governments, he reorganizes every- thing on the basis of the dollar in- stead of the pound sterling, which, whether go intended or not, is a dis- tinct advantage to American finan- cial interests. While here he called on President Chiari, who seeks to employ the pro- fessor in Americanizing Panama’s finances, INTRODUCES NEW IMMIGRATION LAW TO AID FAMILIES Would Admit Them to U.S. Automatically (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 22.—(FP)— Present restrictions on the admission of near relatives of aliens lawfully ad- mitted to the United States are re- moved by the provisions of a bill in- troduced by Rep, Victor L, Berger of Wisconsin. Wives and minor children, dependent parents, and minor brothers and sisters of aliens who have declar- ed their intention to become American citizens, are classified as non-quota immigrants in Berger's bill, and are made admissible outside of the quota, Tells of Cruelties, Tg a statement he issued, Berger recited the cruelties to which immi- grants who are punished enough when they are obliged to leave their native countries are exposed when they are |prevented from bringing their wives and children, their dependent parents, and their young brothers and sisters to this country. Under the present jaw, only the wives and minor chil- dren of citizens are exempt from the quota. + Makes for Immorality, “Advocates of restrictive immigra- tion canwadtomplish their purpose, whatever that is, without breaking up the family—without keeping husbands and wives, ‘parents and children, thousands of’ miles apart. The pres- ent law seems to be deliberately cal- culated to destroy the family in hun- dreds of thousands of cases. Those who appear so solicitous about the condition ofthe family in other coun- tries and under other systems of gov- ernment forget their professed love for thagfamily when they vote for the restrictlons contained in the present law, which promotes immorality far more effectively than all the liberal- izations of marriage and divorce laws ever attempted.” Besides the moral considerations, Berger said that there are many mil- lions of dollars going annually to for- eign lands to support dependent rela- tives. This money is being diverted from American channels, he said, Gold Mining in Russia Is Growing Industry; Great Increases Made MOSCOW, Dee, 22.—The output of gold in the course of the last three years is shown by the following fig- ures published by the Supreme Coun- ciloft National Economy: In 1923-24. 53,280 pounds of gold were mined.in all gold fields of the Soviet Union, the number of workers amounting to 29,500. In 1924-25 the | gold output, was 64,980 pounds, the number of workers occupied amount- Jing to 26,926, in 1925-26 an output of 68,940 pounds is expected, the number of workers being 30,986, These figures show thay both the gold output ag well as the In 1913 czarist Russia produced 114,300 pounds of gold, the;number of workers em- ployed being 88,000. Thus before the war one worker produced approxi- mately 1 pound and 5 ounces of gold, while in 1925-26 the individual output amounted to 2 pounds and 3 ounces, given to applicants with a university education, knowing foreign languages and already having experience as li- brarians. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends—» ik Read it today and every day In The DAILY WORKER, BIGGEST BANKER SEES NO CAUSE FOR PESSIMISM Says Keep Wages Down to Keep Prosperity (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 22—Charles w. Mitchell, president of the Nationel City Bank, the largest financial inst!- tution in the world, says in an inter. view that he can “see no reason why the American people should be pessi- mistic about business conditions in 19: recently increased its capitalization by $25,000,000, calls on everyone to be “optimistic” about the new year, Discounts “Cycle” Theory, Mitchell says that the doctrine that @ wave of business depression always follows a wave of prosperity should be cast overboard. He gays that the country is producing wealth now at a | higher rate than ever before, and can see no reason why the process should stop. Warns Against Wage Increase. “The country’s increasing powers of production are the basis of pros- perity,” he said, Then Mitchell gives a “warning” against increasing wages of workers. “The problem of main- taining this prosperity will not be solved by indiscriminate wage in- creases, which necessitate price in- creases, interfere with distribution, and threaten a slow-down of prosper- ity. Only where wage advances are accompanied by corresponding in- creases in production are they com- patible with enduring prosperity.” CURRENT EVENTS|. By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) from the direction of the Torrio-Ca- pone red light and gambling dens of Cicero and outlying regions, eee HE Alabama windbag, Senator Hef- lin (Dem.) takes advantage of sen- atorial immunity to vent, the rumor that Jess Smith, unofficial official of the D. of J. did not come to his death by his own hand, but was assisted in the process by a person or persons unknown, with the gentle hint that Harry Daugherty and Andrew Mellon could shed light on the tragedy. The motive of the crime was, according to Heflin, the attempt to cover up the collection of $2,000,000 from. the boot- leggers of the United States to reim- burse Andrew Mellon for the unpaid balance of the $5,000,000 loan he ad- vanced to the G. O, P. national com- mittee during the election campaign. In view of the acquittal of Doheny and Fall in connection with such a henious crime as selling and stealing @ portion of the national domain, a senator who expects to secure a con- viction in a trifling matter like the murder of a diabetic, must not be as dry as the south is supposed to be. ee 8 GROUP of serious tinkerers with pacifism have met and organized an “American Arbitration Crusade” and intend to inaugurate a rousing campaign to induce peace-lovers to re- double their efforts for the prevention of war. Those trustful souls expect to list everybody in this crusade “from the officer of the military training camp who urges preparedness to pre- vent war to the absolute pacifist who pledges himself never to fight under any circunistances.” see HE crusaders want money, Various titles are dished out on “cash down” terms and in proportion to the amount of the donation. For 25 cents you can become a Peace Crusader; $1 entitles you to call yourself a Peace Seeker; for a $5 bill you can put Peace Counselor on your stationary; a $10 bill will make a Peace Advocate out of you; $25 and you are a Peace Patron; if you want to wear the hon- ored label of Peace Patriot it will cost you one hundred smackers, and $500 the crusaders will give a chart as Peace Founder. Now select your. title. Don’t wait for the Christmas rush. * #e HE relatives of Hymie Weiss, North Bide bandit, are quarreling over the dead bootlegger’s fortune, which ‘|is not to be sneezed at, considering that it totals the respectable sum of $1,800,000. “Crime does not pay,” shouts the moralists and professional soul-savers. But we rise to ask: What else does in terms of cash? We do not know of a dead gangster in recent history whose demise has not uncovered a sizable estate, either in cash, bonds or real estate, or in all three, Perhaps a criminal career is not conducive to longevity, but it is no beggarly profession, The Dance of 5,000 $500 IN PRIZES FOR THE BEST MASQUES -” Mitchell, whose bank has just — AREW NOVEL jlo Ginclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) I. Bunny went at once to call on Panl and Ruth at the address which Dan Irving gave him, It was a mean and dingy lodging house in a part of the city given up to Merxi- cang and Chinese, An old woman sent him up to the second floor, and told him which door to knock on, but he got no response. He came back later, and found that Ruth had just got in. They were crowded into one little room, with a gas Plate and a sink in an unventilated alcove, and another alcove with a curtain before it, and a cot on which Paul slept. Ruth was ashamed to have Bunny see them in such a Place, but explained that it wouldn’t be long, just till Paul got a job; he was out looking for one now. She herself had got work in a depart- ment store, and as soon ag they could get ahead she was going to study trained nursing, She looked pale and worn, but smiled bravely; she didn’t really mind anything, so long as Paul was out of jail. Bunny wanted to know all the news, and plied Ruth with questions. Just what had Paul done to get ar- rested? The first time, Ruth said, the sheriff had raided the Fascum cabin, with a lot of rough, hateful men, who had torn everything to Pieces and carried off all of Paul’s books and papers—they had them still, They had done the same thing to. all the other fellows that used to come to the cabin—they were going to prove them “reds,” but what evi- dence they had or claimed to have was a secret the sheriff or the dis- trict attorney, or whoever it was, was keeping to himself. They had had a lot of spies on the bunch— one fellow was known to be a spy, and two others had disappeared, and would no doubt turn up as wit nesses—but who could tell what they would testify? All the other boys. were still locked up in those horrible tanks, so dark and dirty, and nothing to do all day or night. The trial was set for next February, and apparently they were to stay there meantime. Paul was free, thanks to Bunny’s ten thousand dol- lars; Ruth could never express her thanks— Never mind about that, Bunny said—what about the second arrest? And Ruth told how Judge Delano had issued an injunction forbidding anyone to interfere with Excelsior Pete in the course of its: business, the production and marketing of oil. That meant that you musn’t advo- cate or encourage the strike; and of course Paul had done that, so the judge had sent him to jail—that was all, Judges were getting so they did that all the time, and what were union men going to do? It had been a fearful ordeal for Paul, he was not very well, and of course he was ter- ribly bitter. He would never go back to Paradise again, it wasn’t the same place at all. Ruth smiled a wan smile, “They've cut down all those lovely trees that we planted, Bunny. They needed the room for tanks,” (Continued tomorrow.) Railway Express Men .to Arbitrate Demand for Wage Increases NEW YORK, Dec, 22.—(FP)—Arbi- tration hearings on demands of the 70,000 workers employed by American Railway Express Co. will be held in New York during Decem ber and January—exclusive of the holiday week. The men seek 10 to 15 cents more per hour. They have accepted William B. Wilson of Pennsyvlania, former sec- retary of labor, as an arbitrator. y | The company has chosen E, A. Sted- man, a vice-president. These two will choose a third in five days and hold hearings in order to give a de- cision within 30 days. The proceedings are under the Wat- son-Parker rail labor act. B. & O. Not Suffering. NEW YORK, Dec. dividend of one-half of 1 per cent on the common shares of the Baltimore & Ohio R, R. Co., declared by the board of directors, brings the divi- dends for the year to 6 per cent, This distrib: only @ small part of the earnings, as the amount ap plicable to common stock, after tak- ing care of interest charges and the 4 per cent dividend on the preferred stock, amounts to $17 @ share of com- mon, the | 22.—An extra |- Saturday, December 2! COMPANY DOPE FOR THEIR SLAVES By Rebecca Grecht Tells how the capitalists are trying to splice the sundered bonds between employe and employer by the use of com- pany organs. Humble indeed is the concern that has not its weekly or monthly dope sheet to tickle the funny bones of the workers into the feeling that they are part of the busi- ness. They are—as much as @ common soldier is part of a war. They do the work, This excellent article is illustrated by the noted cartoonist JER- GER 5 dik fe i THEY WERE ONLY : “GREASERS” By C, A. Moseley Moseley covered the shoot- ing affray in South Chicago which ended in the death of a police officer and a Mexican laborer. The man who fp all Probability slot the officer, being dead, could not be satis- factorily hanged, so the police arrested another Mexican and charged him with the Killing of the policeman. The story throws a light on how justice is meted out to aliens in the United States. Yet our press raves about occasional affront to a Yankee capitalist in Mex- ico, but outlawed bandits. coe COMMUNISM CAPTURES THE YOUTH OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA By Rose Katz The writer visited Russia after an absence of twenty- two years and saw a big change. A short article about stumbling professionals who missed their former privileged Positions and their children who are developing the collee- tive spirit which is character- istic of the Russia of today. +++ {POWER AND SUPERPOWER By N. Sparkes The second of two articles written for the New Magazine on this interesting subject. +++ ‘ THE STORY OF OKANOGAN APPLES bes By Joel Shomaker A French chambermalé bit into a rosy apple she pillaged out of a guest’s luggage and uncovered 9 valuable gem which landed the guest in the | police station. The apples Shomaker writes about are not gem-lined, but they some times land the apple-growers | in the bankruptcy courts, + 4+ |In addition to these articles the |New Magazine will contain Hay Bales’ famous “Cartoons of the Week,” T. J. O’Flaherty’s “In the Wake of the News,” “Proletarian Odes” by C. A. Moseley, poems by Henry Geo. Weiss and Robert Whitaker, and excellent fiction. 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