The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1926, Page 2

Se » Seeretary of Stale Kellogg 4 legger work of h x me like,a political smoke-screen for rt FORD NUC Rn .y community without the protec- af crooked officials, said Olson. ‘Note.—Even the take notice of th ulated by Wan elally, in every coun struggle The kept press professes to be surprised Nicaragua by all other co: typified in the special cabl published under +». Press Assails Po) “° --. he cable shouy’ lity Tow follows: untries oppr. td a a 7 capitalist press in the @ rising anti-imperialist way, Street's latest attack against ‘4 try below the Rio Gra of Nicaragua against the aggre rica Flares Up Against Wall St. Rule; Boycott Is Urged by the Argentine United States is forced to in South America, stim- caragua, The press espe- thde, valiantly supports the ssion Ajirected from Washington. at thé spontaneous support given ad e of John W. Whig y Wall Street rule. to the Chicago Dail: heading, “Argentines Bitter in Attack on U. 8.; Sesath America; Coal Boycott Is Urged.” d be of general interest and is republished in full. This is News It is | | wv ‘AN W. WHITE. ..¢es, Argentine, Dec, 29.— » from Mars getting his first earthly impressions from the Buenos Aires newspapers would be convinced that the one great evil in the world today is the United States of Amer Two of the leading morning news- papers devote nearly ten columns to ‘able dispatches which picture the United Sates as plunging ruthlessly along its imperialistic path and tramp- ing down the weaker republics. ' The South American press associa- tions ate showing activity in cabling from all parts of the world every quo- tation or newspaper expression un- favorable to the policy of the United States. Nicaragua Affair Stirs Press. “The intervention in Nicaragua is accepted as an event that was to be expected in the fixed program of the United States eventually to annex #li of South America. The Brooklyn @Gagie’s criticism of the action of the Ynited States gets two columns on page ofte, while other articles picture deliber- Arica set- ately messing up the Tacn *lement. A five-column headline carries the jto find tory of the States to allow Argentine beef or Ifa seed to enter the country comment hat this is a pa the imperiali scheme to refuse » buy from Argentina against which | he government is allowing exporters | to fotm trusts which are vigorously ted if they try to operate a only suggested solution is means to stop buying from the United States. La Nacion declared that this is the proper time to develop the coal re sources of Argentina and cease buy ing American coal. It suggests that! hilean coal could be used in the meantime. The smaller newspap are using the most violent languag toward the United States even pic-| turing the pan-American fight as| part of the imperialistic program against South America. At this crucial moment when the United States needs a friendly voice before the Argentina government and people, Ambassador Peter A. Jay is sadly, departing for home with hi daughter’s body. His departure is re tted the more because he could have presented the truth to the Ar- gentine government even though it never reached the populace. refusal of the United} 1. | Olson Retires, Hurling .. in Bootleg Laxity at » It’s “Political Smoke-Screen,” Says Crowe fhe booze business could not ex without the protection of crooked of-| icials,” Edwin A. Olson, retiring fed-| eral district attorney, deciared in a| seport of his four years’ activities, | — 7 to Attorney General Sar-| gent. = geport fairly bristled with 4l.charge@s against local en-| 4t agenclés whom he inferent- “ accepting $30,000,000 | it”-trom booze, vice | at sted annual budget 1 this assexte, declared with val authorities hi 30,000 establishments for violations instead of th the four-year period. ooze business could not exist had occasion to study the boot- close range. I know the net- protection, from the gun- men in the\‘valley’ clear up to the hypocrites who sit in high places.” Olson said the most effective weapon in prohibition law enforcement was local co-operation which would assure the arrest of violators and the hailing of them hefore"local courts. State’s Attorney Robert B. Crowe caustically criticized Olson’s report. “Olgzon’s knowledge of any graft,” he sald, “whether it be hundreds of dollars or millions, should be present- ed to the federal grand jury. It looks ‘etiring from office.” Graft Charges Local Officialdom; WILL ROGERS DIRECTS = | | HIS SHAFTS OF HUMOR | | AGAINST WALL STREET | | Will Rogers, U. S. humorist par | excellence, has jolned In the at- | tack on what he calis “Our Latest War’ in Nicaraguasy Since becom- ing mayor °f Beverly Hills, Cali- |, fornia, he ig, taking his political du- | ties serlougly by poking fun at Wall Str@et’s latest aggression in Central America. Since every im- perialist war must have its “pay- triotic” slogans, Will Rogers has | wired to a large number of capi- talist newspapers, the following: }it from placing the try WILL ROGERS, RECRUITER, OFFERS NEW “WAR SLOGANS” Beverly Hills, Cal,, Dec, 29.—A few slogans for our latest war: “Join the army and take the old nick out of Nicaragua.” “Join the mavy and try and help America find Nicaragua.” “Join the aviation; we are send- ing our plane to Nicaragua.” “Let’s make Nicaragua free for 100 per cent Americans to live in.” Recruitingly yours MAYOR ROGERS (WILL). Miner Killed at Herrin. HERRIN, Ill, Dec, 27. — Dennis Campbell, 25, driver at mine A, of the Cc. W. & F. Coal company, was killed here today when caught between a pit car and the side of an entry. Here’s How! LEI DISTRIBUTE 13,000 LABOR _ PARTY LEAFLETS! _ Just Read This Letter: ‘ Me snredes: December 28, 1926. Enclosed find $21 for 7,000 leaflets “A Labor Party in the 1928 Elections.” These leaflets are ordered by Ford Nuclei Central the District Office. tunity of reading labor's answer’ All Workers Should mor _ Bureau which gets the Ford Worker out. Shop Nucleus No, 1 & 2 (Fords) each have ordered 3, This will make 13,000 which the e from Ford slaves will have the opportunity to read. This letter should be an example to every Party unit, to every Party organ, to every Party member and militant. work- aa Have the slaves in YOUR factory shop or mine the oppor- to Coolidge’s presidential mess- age which is the program of American capitalism? Read This Leeflet! ng It to Them! + Ford Nuclei Show the Way! Get on the Job! leaflets sell at $3 a thousand. Sain: sbesdilia hes Meoiiaien arts: | % v WASHINGTON IS WEAKENING UNDER DEMAND TO ORDER THE DAILY WORKER FORCES FROM NICARAGUA (Continued on page 2) of “neutrality” the United States will have to recognize Sacasa. Latimer Given Responsibility. Secretary Kellogg issued a_ state- ment to newspapermen Wednesday in which he said that he would “trust Admiral Latimer’s judgment” in the matter of withdrawing the troops, The marines won't be withdrawn un- til Admiral Latimer says so,” he de- clared, Kellogg is now obviously at- tempting to shift: the responsibility to Latimer, whom he says is acting with- out “suggestions from the state de- partment He denied that Latimer is interfering with the liberal revo- lutionists or that he has established a censorship which prevented the liberals from communicating with the is | outside. Telegram intercepted. A tew hours before, Dr. T. 8. Vaca, confidential representative of Sacasa in Washington, made public a tele- gram that he had attempted to send to Sacasa, and which had been inter- cepted and returned to New Orleans, the Postal Telegraph company report- ‘ing that it was unable to deliver it. Increase Number of Ships. The number of warships sent to icaragua has been increased, it is learned here. There are now five located along the harbors, and one other is waiting at anchor at Hon- auras ready to proceed to Nicaragua. The ships there now are the cruiser Denver at Bluefields, flagship Roches- ter at Puerto Cabezas, cruiser Cleve- land at Rio Grande Bar, destroyer Barry at Rio Grande Bar, and the .|cruiser Galveston at Corinto. An emphatic protest against the United States intervention was lodged with President Coolidge by the liberal government thru its representative, Dr. Vaca. Vaca branded the interven- tion as unwarranted and demanded immediate evacuation. The liberal gov- ernment is held in virtual imprison- ment by the U. S. marines, he said. Action Unparalleled, “The practical arrest of the consti- tutional ruler of a sovereign state with which the United States is at peace is almost without parallel in the history of international relations,” Vaca’s note d, “and is unwarranted by any prin- ciple of international law, “T also desire to protest against the action of the United States naval of- ficers in depriving the constitutional government of Nicaragua of the use of the wireless station, tye only means of communication, and t¥us preventing situation in Nicaragua before the world,” U. S. Feared Liberal Victory. A statement issued by representa- tives of the Nicaragua liberal govern- ment in Mexico City declared that the triumphs of the Sacasa forces over | Diaz is the reason that marines were landed in Nicaragua. “The United States was unwilling to allow the Diaz government to be defeated and it realized that it would be unless it in- tervened to protect Diaz,” the state- ment said, “It the United States had not inter- vened the revolution would have been over as Sacasa forces were sweeping thru the country,” they declared. Country United. “The jntervention,” they said, “will serve to unite the entire country against Diaz and to support Sacasa. American intervention in favor of Diaz has inflamed the country which is now rushing to combat‘the invaders. “Proof of the blind .obedience of Chamorra and Diaz to the American department of state is shown by their attack on Mexico, These charges of bolshevism were first made by the state department, and now are repeat- ed by Chamorra and Diaz.” * * © Hits Wall Street Rule in Nicaragua. WASHINGTON— (FP)— Salomen de la Selva, secretary of the Nicara- guan Federation of Labor, who two years ago promoted the sending of a commission to his country by the Pan-American Federation of Labor. has issued a statement in Washing- ton, denouncing armed intervention by the United States against the lib- eral and labor movement in Central America. Curb Nicaragua's Rights. The labor federation in Nicaragua, he says, has made every effort to ivoid bloodshed and to keep out of partisan strife in that country. But armed intervention by the United States government is a chal- lenge to their national sovereignty. It is a denial of the right of the peo- ple of Nicaragua to overthrow the military dictatorship set up by Cha- morro when the people had defeated him and his party in a peaceful elec- tion. “As against Diaz the organized workers have not been willing to support Sacasa,” says ‘De la Selva, “but in defense of Nicaraguan sover- eignty and against the advances of imperialism they naturally fee] other- wise. That American lives and prop- erty are endangered, the Nicaraguan Federation of Labor isin a position to deny most emphatieally. Sacasa so far as his social/ifieas are con- nerned, is as conservative as Diaz. But the revolt is justified; Sac having the constitution on his side.’ Claim Labor’s, Support, Sacasa’s representative in Was! ington replies that Sacasa and hi party do have the sy ‘gort of organ ized labor in Nicaragua, thru a com pact made during the presidentia campaign in which Salorzano was chosen president and. Sacasa vice president, two years,ago. Mexico's labor movement has supported the Sacasa element with its influence ai Mexico City because of this fact. SWIFT JUSTICE DEALT BY SOVIET FOR ATTACK ON YOUNG FACTORY GIRL (Special to The Daily Worker) * LENINGRAD, U, S. 8 R., Dee. 29.—That under the rule of the So- viets protection to the worker has succeeded the czarist persecution of our class is shown vividly by the sentencing to death of seven Rus- sian youths here for an attack on a young factory girl. Ten others who were implicated in the crime re- ceived sentences ranging from one to ten years, Sons of Businessmen Predominate at State University, Roll Shows (Special to The Daily Worker) CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Dec, 29.—Ap proximately 50 per cent of the fath- ers or guardians of the 12,000 stu- dents attending the University of Illi- nois are business men, according to a survey made by the registrar’s of- fice. The parents of about one-ninth of the students are farmers, another ninth skilled laborers and one-tenth professional men. Only 162 are re- tired, while 104 parents are of the artistic class. / Twenty-One Drown When Ship Founders in Black Sea Storm PARIS, Dec, 29.—Twenty-one lives were lost when the steamer Astoria foundered in a storm in the Black Sea off Roumania, according to a Buchar- est dispatch to the Berlin Lokalan- zoiger, the Paris Midi reported today. The Midi says: “A Bucharest dis- patch to the Lokalanzeiger states that the steamer Astoria has foundered in the Black Sea ina storm, Twenty-one passengers were drowned. The only survivor was a Turk, who swam ashore and committed suicide when he learned that his wife and three children had perished.” Oh, you must wear them! It doesn’t matter what kind of pants you wear to the T. U, E. L, Masquerade on New Yoar's Eve—just so long as you wear them at Italian Hall at 631 N. Clark street, < — In Return for Fred’s New Year’s Greetings, We Make Kind Offer We have to thank Fred A. Britten congressman for the Ninth Illinoi+ District, for @ photograph of the Army-Navy game at the stadium ir November. But this reminds us that, just after the game, when we asked him for ‘ expression of opinion on the proposed legislation looking to the registra tion and fingerprinting of the for eign-born, We were turned down rather brusquely with the informe tlon that he was too busy in closing up the affairs of the great game t« give any attention to such a matter Now that the photographs of the game have bee nmailed out as a New Year's greeting card if Congressmar Britten would like to have us quot: him on such a trivialfmatter as th treatment of the forBign-born, w shall be glad to give his remarks * place next to pure lvertising mat- ter. K. C. Police Believe Slayer of 12 Women Killed 2 More There al (Special to The Dally Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec, 29.—Po- lice here are convinced that a phan- tom who left a trail of eleven mur- dered women on the Pacific coast and one in Council Bluffs, lowa, may have put to death two persong and an in- fant in Kansas City during the past two days, The death here of Mrs, Germaine Troquet Harpin and her infant gon is attributed to the stranger, A. N. L. C, Open Forum. The American Negro Labor Con- gress Open Forum meeting will be held this Sunday, Jan, 2, at 2618 South State St. at the regular time, 3 p. m. W. M, Moore will speak on ‘Origin- al Causes of Social Unrest.” The Masses Forge Ahead in Spite of Opposition of Backward Leadership By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. IOUS wishes have been uttered, in the past, by the officialdom of the American Federation of La- bor on the question of “Labor and the Farmers.” That was the title for instance of a section of the re- port submitted by the executive council to the 44th annual conven- tion held at El Paso, Texas, in 1924, the last gathering presided over by the late Samuel Gompers, The re- commendations for closer affiliation with the farmers were unanimously adopted, without a word of discus- sion, but nothing has ever been done to carry them into effect, The dec- laration“set forth that: “Common’ problems and mutual needs have many times in the past brought labor and the farmer to- gether in support of constructive measures, Farmers and industrial workers are the world’s basic pro- ducers and consequently both groups are vitally interested in find- ing and utilizing the principles that make for continuous progress and well-being of themselves and those they serve, “Realizing the identity of inter- ests of these two great producing groups, certain exploiting organiza- tions have attempted to create dis- sentions and to spread propaganda misrepresenting opinions within these groups, thereby sowing the seed of lack of confidence, “To defeat such mischievous ac- tivity we recommend that from time to time there be conferences be- tween the representatives of the farmers and the representatives of labor, that there be greater publicity for facts, and agreement for co- operation upon mutually satisfac- tory undertakings, political and economic.” The purpose of this recommenda- tion died with Gompers. It has never been carried out. The last two conventions of the A. F. of L., at Atlantic City and Detroit, made no effort to develop the unity of city and land labor. The administra- tion of President Wiliam Green hasn’t a single score in its favor on ‘this issue, This accounts in great part for the fact that the whole official press of the organized labor movement is silent on city labor’s approach to the farmers. It wages no struggle to win the farmers for independent action against the capitalists. It does not point out the “common problems and mutual needs of the city and land labor, Nothing is done to combat the enmity that the great exploiters seek to stir up be- tween the workers and farmers thru their malicious and false propa- ganda, No one ever hears of any conferences being held between the representatives of these two vast sections of the nation’s population. et ae It is* Labor, official organ of a host of railroad workers’ organiza- CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) The sweat and blood of Belgian work- ers and Congo rubber slaves is con- gealed in this luxurious airplane. eee ‘O sooner was the fascist govern- ment of Lithuania established in rower thru a coup d’etat than it be san to slaughter the militant leaders vf the working class. Four workers, members of the Communist Party vere executed a few hours after the sentence of death was passed on them for no other crime than that of swear- ing allegiance to their party. The Lithuanian dictatorship is following in the wake of all the other murder- ous blackshirt regimes that have been set up in Poland, Bulgaria, Spain, {taly, Roumania and Hungary. The first to feel the iron fist of the capi- talist tools are the Communists. The social democratic leaders have not been seriously molested. They are not dangerous to the capitalists, *-_r © HORTLY after the end of the war, when the capitalist system in Bu- rope was tottering the capitalists al- lowed the soclalisfs in several coun- tries to form governments. This was true of Germany, England, Sweden, Holland, Belgium and smaller coun tries to some extent. The socialists acted as a brake on the revolution- ary movement and In Germany drown- ed it in blood. But now that capital- ism has become a little steadier on its feet—tho this steadiness’ is not liable to be of long duration—the capitalists no longer need their so- Washington Gets British Tip to Adopt More Conciliatory Attitude Toward China WASHINGTON, Dec, 29.—A reply will be made within a few days to the British memorand: urging the powers to assume @ more conciliatory attitude toward China, the White House announced today. It was sald the Coolidge the Britis Stas a. ‘ pare ig in accord with the general policies outlined by | CURRENT EVENTS x.» ofteneew tions, that gives most of its atten- tion to legislation before congress and the various state legislatures. But its current issue has nothing on the desperate farm situation, altho the trade unions supporting Labor will be asking for the farm- ers’ support in the next electoral struggle, Oo: & While the whole capitalist press, during the meeting of congress in December every day featured material on the farm relief. meas- ures, the issue of the Seattle (Wash.) Union Record, Dec. 24, is barren of any mention of the farm problem. This daily still claims to be “The only Seattle newspaper thoroly covering activities of organ- ized labor,” and E, B, Ault, who was editor when this paper was owned by the trade unions, still writes its editorials. But it is now safe in the lap of the exploiters, . As if in reward for their failure to develop the unity of the whole working class, city and land, prac- tically all the labor papers appeared in holiday dress this December, well filled with advertising, The East Bay Labor Journal (Oakland, Calif.) thus appears with a first page illustrated and printed in Christmas green. This was the rule thruout the Jand, rather than the exception, The inside pages were mostly covered with plate mat- ter to the same effect. . That the readers of these publica- tions are thinking of the farm prob- Jem is shown by communications published by the Denver, Colo., La- bor Bulletin, The ideas set forth in this correspondence may be con- fused. But that is the fault of the editorship that fails to present this matter properly and intelligently be- fore the readers. In the issue of Saturday, Dec. 18th, of the Denver Labor Bulletin there appears an edi- torial on “Cotton Over-Production,” in which it is declared that the over- production results from under-con- sumption, But it fails to point the way out, leaving its readers more confused than ever. It declares: “Farmers are like others who toil. They learn their lesson slowly and painfully, but it will sink deep once they learn it.” Not only the farmers, however, but the city workers as well must learn “slowly and painfully” in spite of their present leadership, that is so busy attacking the Communists and the left wing, thus actually join- ing the enemy class capitalist class in its war upon labor's progress. sete But in spite of the reactionary leadership, with its lip service to progress, the masses move to the left, forging ahead. Unity of the city and the land will be achieved. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY cialist flunkeys so they have been giv- en the gate. Later on if they are needed again and if a majority of the working classes still trust them, the capitalists will ask them to save the system again. eee ‘NITED STATES army officers hold regular conferences with local business men with a view to the ne- cessity of co-operation between the military arm of capitalism and the business elements in the next war. Those preparations are going on quietly and the masses of the peo- ple who will provide the targets for the guns pay no heed. The capital- ist papers tell them that the best in- surance against war is a state of pre- paredness, This is exactly what the kaiser told his cannon fodder before the world war, Armies and navies are built to make war not to preserve peace. And every capitalist war is waged in the interests of those who own the productive and distributive machinery. The worker's job is to do and die and ask no questions. How long? a: 28 f ipa? scramble for the juiclest may- oral plum west of New York City is now on in Chicago. This is a tough city but it is worth fighting for. Groups of business men are pick- ing their favorites. It is not surpris- ing that the “bonafide” labor leaders should be picking theirs, The officials of the local unions and of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor do not séem to be able to agree on their pony. It is said that Fitzpatrick and Nock- els are for Dever, .the pet of Julius Rosenwald and Big Business, Color is lent to this suspicion by the ac tion of those leaders in installing a microphone on Dever’s desk so that he may be in a@ position to express himself to the public. You see, ac- cording to Fitepatrick, the “labor” radio is for all the “peepul.” old hokum with the dollar sign on ILLINOIS STATE ATTORNEYS HEAR “DRY LAW ATTACK. Pardon Béacd Chairman Exposes ““Trades” The prohibition law has reduced the | hitherto awesome federal judiciary to mere police courts and revived the old state’s rights doctrine which nearly wrecked the Union before the civil war, State’s Attorney H. B. Ful- lenwider of Sangamon county told the State’s Attorneys’ Association of Illi- nois in convention here, Flays Laws, Fullenwider scathingly arraigned the prohibition law and the Mlinois search and seizure act. pages of our history,” wider, “no other legislation of con- gress and the individual states Naa been so much in litigation, so much discussed, and so much before ovr courts for interpretation and appli- cation as has been that dealing with prohibition, “In all the said Fullen- Reversed Morals, “No other law of a criminal nautre as ever before been so universally ind flagrantly violated. The law has ractically reversed the old and estah- lished order of living and made crim- inal. that which has been proper, un- der certain regulations, thru recorded history.” ‘ Hits Prosecutors, H. C. Clabaugh, chairman of the state board, declared many of the prosecutors were irked by the open hearings policy of the board because this practice hindered carrying out of “trades” with criminals. Clabaugh and members of the board were invited t© remain away from the sessions, Kip Awaits Verdict on Annulment of His Marriage to Negress (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Leonard Kip Rhinelander expects to hear Thurs- day whether or not the appellate court is coming to annul his marriage to his negress bride, Alice Kip Rhine- lander, The appellate court’s decision on Kip’s appeal from the jury verdict ~ that went against him in his suit for annulment of his marriage is expected tomorrow, according to Kip’s attorney, Leon R. Jacobs. Whichever side wins, it was said, a second appeal will be made, Aimee’s Attorney Was in “Mrs. X” Hoax Plot Is Latest Information LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Lor- raine Wisemar(Seilaff told District Attorney Asa Keyes here this after- noon that the mysterious “Mr, Mar- tin” who arranged with her to per- petrate the famous “Miss X” hoax, was Jack Woolley, a brother of Ro- land Rich Woolley, attorney for Mrs. Eimee Semple McPherson, Announcement to this effect was made by Keyes himself. Urges Government to Build Roads to Help Unemployment Relief WASHINGTON, Dec, 29.—Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania is urging the senate appropriations committee to approve a bill:-which would authorize $71,000,000 to be used for good roads during times of unemployment and in- dustrial depresgjon. He would have it attached as a rider to the agriculture supply bill, Movie and Dance at Brooklyn Celebrates Big Passaic Victory To celebrate the first victory of the textile strikers in Passaic, the Gener- al Relief Committee is offering the Passaic Victory Ball, and showing of “The Textile Strike,” on the screen, Saturday, January 1, at the Amaf- gamated Temple, 11-27 Arion Place, Brooklyn, The movie will be exhibited from 5 to 9 p. m., and dancing will hold forth from 9 till 2 a, m. A fine orchestra and Russian songs and dances by well known artists will com- prise most of the entertainment. Gen- eral admission is 50 cents. The pro- ceeds of this affair will be donated to American Worker Correspondent. * the strikers and their children. Every Worker should read The