The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1927, Page 2

Two /to Withdraw aise Demand in Senate Battleships, End War on Nicaragua (Continued from page 1) tmeir business; hands off.” Attacks Wall Street. Bing minced no words in frankly declaring that Wall Street imperial- ism prompted the attack on the Nic araguans. “Our nationals go into these countries and make invest- ments, and then they foment disturb- @mees and call upon us for ‘protec tion’,” he said. “Whether we ha tatervened or not, the result has been to atir up all Latin Amevica against ws. Uriticisms of our policy are be- ing made freely and the friendship which we haye striven to build is de- stroyed in a moment. Entire Policy Is “Blunder.” “The entire policy of the Harding- Coolidge administration has been a series of colossal blunedrs. While the @onstitution vests the conduct of for- ign affairs with the executive depart- ment, thank God,” he said, “the leg- Mslative branch is the real government efter all. “As soon as congress meets again we should keep our this will be made subject for discus-| eion on the floor of the Recalls Hait King attacked the policies of the state department toward Mexico, Bra- sil, Chile, Peru, and Haiti. “We in- vaded Haiti for the same reasons we senate. imvade Nicaragua now” he said, “and we killed 3,500 of those people. 1 have a resolution now pending rela- tive to our occupation of Haiti which I shall press. “The latest bungling in Nicar Nicaraguan Invasion Is Part of Attempt all,” he declared. “Wherever we look blunders and still more blunders.” Diaz Forces Retreating. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 30.— Defeat after defeat is being adminis- tered the Diaz forces by the liberal government's armies in a series of battles fought in the eastern half of the country. The only thing that can save the now tottering Diaz regime from im- ve parti- tes troops |here in fighting against liberals, it is seen. So far, the U. S. troops {have been giving only indirect aid to the Diaz forces, while the pose of neutrality. Soldiers Made Prisoners. In a three-day battle at Las Per- las the reactionary soldiers were completely vanquished. Many ofthe Diaz soldiers were taken prisoenrs and others have deserted to join the lib- eral ranks. The Diaz troops are being “pushed {rapidly further into the interior, At the present rate, it will be only a mat- | ter of a few days, it is predicted, be fore Sacasa will be able to march in to Managua, Diaz’ capital, | Get Strategic Locations. | The liberals have now gained ac | cess to the Hscondido river, whick |places them in a strategic position Fruta and De Pan, two towns near the river, are under liberal control. Ammunition shortage and dissatis |faction among the conservative troops because they have not been receiving heir promised pay are making the reactionary armies fairly easy targets for the Sacasa forces. They are re- } treating all along the battle line. assuming { to Build World Empire for U. S., Secretary of Anti-Imperialist League Warns Workers The All-American Anti-Imperiali League calls upon all of its b ches to protest against the intervention in Nicaragua by the United States im perialists and against all that the present intervention, signifies, Manuel Gomez, secretary of the United States section with headquarters in Chicago announces, The league will conduct a vigorous campaign against the Nicaraguan in- tervention, he declared, principally among the trade unions and other workers’ organizations. The league demands immediate withdrawal of American troops from Nicaragua, “~ U Gilson” Latin-America, immediate = of Admiral Latimer’s action, cessation of the U. 8S. state partment’s attitude toward Mexico. Gomez points out that the present invasion of Nicaragua is not an “ac- cidental” incident, but is a part of a long standing and well-developed tm- perialistic program of the United States to dominate entire Latin-Amer- ica, and to place all of the nations near the Panama canal, especially, in an indirect colonial status, U, &. Seeks World Empire. “The United States is using the Panama canal as an excuse to build world empire,” said Gomez, “It is as sensitive about the Panama canal as Great Britain is about the Suez canal, and is using it for the same purposes.” ‘This policy was evidenced in the ac- quisition of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the ‘@omplete domination of Panama, he points out, and the establishing of a virtual protectorate over all of the nearby states, Wants Servile Government. The United States wants control of Nicaragua because of its proximity to the canal, and because of the proposal to build another canal thru Nicaragua, * Gomez declared. As far back as 1916, | 1 t this policy was adopted, and then the U. 8. acquired the rights to build the Nicaragua canal, whenever it desires to do so, by paying the Nicaraguan government $3,000,000. The United States !s desirous of maintaining in Micaragua a government that will be @ Servile tool of the American imper- falists, and it is for that reason that Mt 16 attempting to crush the liberal Movement and support the Diaz regime, A government in Nicaragua which could not be controlled is seen as a block to the extension of Amer- iean imperialism thruout this conti- nent, and from here to the rest of the world. Threatens Latin-American. The action against Nicaragua is not only @ threat against the sovereignty of the people of that country, but is @ threat against the whole of Latin- America, Gomez points out. It is a flagrant violation of the agreements made by the United States with the ether countries at the Bolivarian con- gtess held at Panama in the summer of 1926. At this conference, to which the United States was invited, the Latin-American countries agreed una- nimously to a resolution that they would not make war on each other, and that if war is made on any one of the nations, the others would join egeinst the aggressor. The United States agreed to this. Tho Nicaraguan 4mtervention is clearly a violation of this, Gomez declared, and proves that { was @ mistake to allow the United tates to be a member of the con- Part of Moxioo Attack. action of the United States ha ponaldered apart trom tha te department’s policy toward Mex- », Gomez said. It is clearly a move oward war with Mexico, altho defi- nite signs of war are not yet evident. Latin-American Bloc Forming. he situation is now assuming the character of a Latin-American bloc against the United States, with Mex- ico taking the lead in Latin-America against encroachment of the North American nation, he said. The pres- ent incident will serve to precipitate the definite formation of this ploc, Gomez warned. Mexico Admittedly Active. Gomep declare@ that it could not be denjod, and he did not wish to deny, that Mexico has-been active in Nica- ragua and in other Latin-American countries as charged, Mexico, ‘he said, was forced into this position by the hostile actions of the United States. The United States is aware of the growing sentiment against it in Latin- America, he declared, and realizes that if there can be formed a real Latin-American defense, the American imperialists will have @ difficult time to carry out its program of acquisi- tion, The Nicaraguan action is an at- tempt to get control before the bloc is consummated, Gomez says, VOLUNTEERS WANTED: Volunteer committees are wanted to distribute Y. W, L. propaganda ma- terial at various working-class affairs this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Call at the district office Friday for supplies, It doesn’t Oh, you must wear them! matter what kind of pants you wear to the T. U. E, L. Masquerade on New Year's Eve—just so long as you wear them at Italian Hal! at 631 N. Clark street. CALLES SENDS ULTIMATUM 10 OL COMPANIES Refuses Request for Oil (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 30.—Mexico's petroleum and land laws will go into effect Jan. 1. President Callies has refused a request of American oil companies to give them an “exten- sion of time” to comply with the pro- visions of the law. Calles branded the request of the Association of Oi! Producers In Mexico composed of big American companies for a delay of six months In enforcing the law as re- bellion. In reply to their request, Calles said: “Your message confirms me in my opinion that it is not the ofl in- lustry’s own interest, but causes far distant which are the underlying mo- ives of the attitude of rebellion as- umed by some companies in comply- ‘ng with the law. Law Is Liberal. “The precepts of the law in ques- tion have been regulated and have been put into execution within the most ample and liberal spirit permii- ed by our institutions, clearly stat- ng in definite form the rights and ob- ligations in the best interests of the industry. “I consider the law good and just, as I consider that its rulings under the most rigorous legal interpretation, do not injure or destroy any rights legally acquired giving guarantees to the interests of the industry as well as safeguarding its development for the benefit of those who are cofnect- ed with it.” Must Comply Friday. Unless the companies make appli- | cations for concession rights to the land they now occupy on Friday, ac- lcording to the law, ownership of the |land reverts to the Mexican state, which can then dispose of it as it sees fit according to the best inter- ests of the country. Adequate time | has been had by the oll companies to comply. Sheffield Intervenes—Fails, The American companies, backed by the U. S. Department of State, have refused so far to comply, with |the exception of several companies, |because they maintain the oil and land laws are “confiscatory.” Ambassador Sheffield of the United States went into conference with For- eign Minister Seanz Thursday seek- ing to get the government to delay enforcing of the law, but the Mexi- can officials remained firm. ee @ Oit Companies in Sesaton, NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The Asso- ciation of Producers of Petroleum in Mexico, with headquarters here, have been meeting continuously in closed sessions since the receipt of Presi- dent Calles’ reply to its request for jelay in enforcing the Mexican oll laws. Meetings have been held regularly r the past two weeks on the situa- ion. The association, it is under- itood, is attempting to decide how Much pressure it wants the United bade government to place on Mex- New Haven Workers Entertain at Bazaar NEW HAVEN, Conn. — District 2, Workers Party, will give a Masque- rade Ball, Fair and Bazaar on New Year’s Eve and continuing for two nights thereafter, There will be in- teresting programe and events for all three evenings, It will be held at Labor Lyceum Auditorium, 38 Howe Street. Harrison and Tut Too Old, Carter Harrison, five times mayor of Chicago, was mentioned today as a potential candidate for a sixth term, but because of his advanced age politi- cal Observers generally ridiculed the report. ‘ These Comrades Have Been Challenged to State What They Are Doing to Keep The Daily Worker. WATCH FOR THEIR ANSWERS! Emil Honegger, Rochester, N.Y. J. Peterson, Stratford, Conn, Leo Hofbauer, New York, N. Y. Comrade Mendlin, Miami, Fla. Emil Niva, Frederick, S. Dak. A. D. Boroff, Juneau, Alaska. H, ¥'. Mina, New York, N.Y. DE. i, Ramey, Pocatello, Idaho, Theodore Suderland, Berkeley, Cal. 0. Buehler, Toledo, Ohio. Herbert Newton, Rowbury, Mass. David Milgrom, Philadelphia, Pa. Geo, Rupert, Blko, Nevada, Waino Mellin, Waukegan, Ill, HH, Hagenen, Houston, Tew. Sam Cohen, Chieago, IU. Nellie Katilus, Chicago, Ill, Jennie Gorshin, Ohicago, Il, YOU May Be Next. THE DAILY WORKE CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) dreamer, He does not realize the |great joy that is experienced by nor- {mal people in giving. It is second only to the joy of receiving. This department of The DAILY. WORKER takes advantage of this occasion to |thank the unknown reader who sent us greetings in behalf of the American working class. This policy of demo- cratic centralization saved us and the poor mail carriers a lot of agony and trouble. We respectfully urge Mr. Shaw to second our efforts in trying to make this policy universal, * * @t 2 ‘OE unto the man who ‘is not en- dowed with a liberal ‘supply of “gall,” which is composed 'of a mix- ture of conceit and amnesia. He is tated by nature to hidée‘his light in a barrel, unless he can afford to hire a barker to do hig yelpiug for him. A politician who can forget his past and is always right Will *sip honey while others drink vinegar.’ This type of mortal knows that most workers nave short memories ahd leaden ongues, The notorious: Scheideman, he German socialist, is of this type. 3cheideman served on thé Council of Seven that gave the kaiser political counsel during the war. |He helped o crush the revolution that followed he kaiser’s defeat and he helped save he capitalist system from a workers’, volution. One would imagine that Scheideman would not have the impu- dence to come out of afhole, in view of his treachery, a Ge ET he gets up in the reichstag and charges the Soviet government with being in league with the Ger- man monarchists to provide the latter with arms. This is thea gentleman who favored giving millions of dollars to the Hohenzollerns and restoring their immense landed properties to them. As for the charge of militarism against the Soviet Union, the follow- ing table shows how much per capita each one of those nations spend on militarism: England France United States ..«.. Italy .... Poland Finland .. Esthonia Lithuania NE of the greatest and deadliest battles ever waged.on the Ameri- can continent is now,dn. progress be- tween two sets of chemists, one lined up under the banner of the prohibition enforcement department of the United States treasury, the dthey hoiding the fort for the consolidated bootleggers. The prize is the great American guz- zler. He is also the victim of both. The government chemists are trying to poison the thirsty, while the boot- leggers’ chemists are trying to save them for the business, All the casual- ties to date have been on the side of the thirsty. It is always the case. The poor consumer gets it in the neck. STUDENTS WON'T FIGHT IN WAR OF U.S., THEY SWEAR Milwaukee Conference Attacks Capitalism MILWAUKEE, Dec, 30.— Students attending the national conference here ag representatives from univers- ities and colleges of all parts of the United States subscribed to a resolu- tion in which they declare they will refuse to fight in any war that the United States may take part in. Theological students batked the reso- lution. Won't Support War. “We believe that a higher patriot- ism to the United States and to hu- manity demands not only the refuta- tion and abolition of war but we do as a conference refusé tp sanction or lend our support to any future war,” the students declared. ” At the same time yoted to condemn compulsory mili- tary training in the leges, which exists now in many of the educational institutions, 7. Flay Capitalism and Church. Capitalism, narrow mm, in- equalliy of race and color, as they exist in the United States and in mod- ern society as a whole Were attacked by the conference. The students also attacked the "ns ca the church the students to capitalism and dec d for relig- fon which would not condone the cap- italistic system, The sex problem was injected into the conference by Dr, Edith H. Swift, field worker for the American Associ- ation of Social Hygeine, who blamed the parents for withholding essential facts on sex from their children as causing {mmorality, “We apologize for sex, and there is no apology necessary,” said Dr. Smith, “We have clothed it in mys- tery and speak of it dn whispers. ation of Social Hygiene, who blamed youth. to the understanding of sex when the mothers and fathers are ashamed to tell them the facts of life?” asked the woman doctor, “As a result we tempt adventubrous youth. The unknown always for explo- Mask from HIS is the season for celebrating the 150th anniversary of the suc- cessful battles of ‘Trenton and Princeton, “the turning point in the American revolutionary war for in- dependence,” and of recounting again the story of crossing the Delaware river in the cold of a mid- winter’s night to wage ttflumphant battle against the foreign enemy. The ‘occasion even called Prest- dent Coolidge from the White House, at Washington, to make a speech at Trenton, New Jersey, at the scene of the actual hostiliti And Cool- idge talked of “Peace!” But if the colonists were justified in their war against the growing British Empire, and they were, then every thinking man and woman in the United States must today throw all possible support not only to the struggling rebel government of Nicaragua and to the resistance of the Mexican Republic against for- eign aggressors, but must give every possible aid to all Latin-American nations resisting Wall Street im- perialism. The American colonists drove the troops of King George into the sea. Nicaraguan armies must be encouraged to do the same to the Hessian forces of Kaiser Mor- gan. The revolutionary war of 1776, when studied correctly, helps point the way in today’s struggles, * « The United States is the richest nation on earth today, thru the bit- ter exploitation of labor at home and the plundering of weaker peoples abroad. Therefore, its mouthpiece, President Coolidge, can afford to talk about setting “the Christian example of abstention from compe- titive arming while other powers arm.” That is the usual hypocrisy. Coolidge had nothing to say about Nicaragua altho he came to Trenton fresh from conferences on this im- portant matter at Washington with Secretary of State Kellogg and Sen- ator Borah, head of the senate for- eign relations committee. With Wall Street’s bloodhound warships, how- ever, patrolling Nicaraguan waters, and with large forces of heavily armed marines everywhere ashore, Coolidge delivered himself of thid characteristic mouthing: “I believe we are strong enough and brave enough to resist another domination of the world by the mili- tary spirit, thru our own independent action.” Thus Coolidge seeks to throw a fake peace camouflage over im- perialism’s ambitions. It was in his recent message to congress that Coolidge boasted of a great navy, a mighty army and an increasingly effective air fleet. Coolidge’s thin pacifist veil donned at Trenton is just about as concealing as the claim that the American forces are in Nicaragua to “protect American lives and property.” At Trenton, Coolidge, in. the true New England spirit that hides every crime under the meek and innocent Sunday face of religion, declared: “All humanity has laid aside the burdens of the day that they might rejoice in the glad tidings of ‘Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men,’” * At the moment that Coolidge was saying this, however, the editorial writer of the Minneapolis Tribune Was putting down the real version of dollar diplomacy’s position toward Nicaragua and all other intended victims of Wall Street greed. The Tribune, that supports the repub- lean party against the Farmer-La- bor Party in Minnesota, pleads: “Let us admit frankly that Amer- ica’s action in landing bluejackets in Nicaragua is strictly in line with America’s Caribbean policy. Our policy in the Caribbean has been, on the whole, pretty consistent. We in- sist that the Carlbbean countries be run in such a fashion as to give the maximum protection to Américan loans and investments. If we have any doubts about some new govern- ment that gets in, we promptly shovel it out. Our Cartbbean policy has been imperialistic, of course. No other adjective could possibly fit it, “The oddity of the American Carib- bean policy is that an effort has al- ways been made to foist it on the American people as non-imperialistic, All our state departments have act- ed imperialistically while denying that they acted imperialistically. In this respect the Nicaraguan landing impeceably te tradition. But the present state department is under fire. Why? Well, the answer is simple enough. Chiefly because its ‘moral explanations’ are a bit more solemnly funny even than usual, In fact they are so funny that they have made Senator Borah angry.” The Tribune, that supported Sec- retary of State Kellogg in his unsuoc- cessful effort to remain a member of the United States senate, urges a brand of dollar diplomacy without * War on Nicaragua Tears {Wall Street Imperialism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. the Beast of hypocrisy, or at least a “better hypo- crisy,”. It attacks the theory of Bolshevist interference in Mexico and Nicaragua ag “no stroke of genius.” It declares that it only “brought from the Soviet goverm the rejoinder that Russia had had no more to do with the revolution in Nicaragua than it bad had to do with the election of Will Rogers as mayor of Beverly Hills.” So the Tribune concludes that, “It would seem that the time is about cipe for America to divorce hypocrisy from {ts Caribbean policy.” . But the peculiar devélopment of the situation is that the Tribune's advice comes too late. The hypo- crisy of the White House, of the state department, of dollar diplom- acy itself, has been go shot to pieces that it is no longer effective. It has become transparent, revealing the real intentions of American im- perialism, , It was no accident that the whole Latin-American press battery turned loose an unceasing ink cannonade against the American invasion of Nicaragua. Every country south of the Rio Grande considered the prac- tical war decalred against this small Central American country as actual hostilities launched against itself. In a day the press of Chile, the Ar- gentine, Brazil, Mexico and other countries opened fire on the Wall Street-Washington government, giv- ing vent to long pent up fetlings. The unanimity of the outburst gives all courage. There has been no more bitter attack on dollar diplom- acy since President Monroe, more than a century ago, isaugurated the doctrine that the two Americas con- stitute exclusive fields of exploita- tion for United States capitalism. Similarly Buropean nations, vas- sals of the dollar, burst out with an- other broadside against “Uncle Shy- lock.” President Woodrow Wilson went to Paris with his “14 Points” and fooled broad sections of workers in many lands ag to the real nature of Morgan's empire. Herbert Hoover, with shiploads of food at his call, also invaded Burope as “an angel of mercy.” But Wilson was uncovered as an advance agent of the interna- tional bankers and Hoover un- masked as a scheming devil trying to appease the hunger and thus counteract the movement of masses of workers ready to overthrow op pressive inetitutions and establish their own rule, The broad sweep of denunciation that has greeted conclusively the Morgan-Coolidge-Kellogg attack on Nicaragua proves conclusively that the days of Wilson-Hoover camou- flage are over. Trenton and Princeton marked historic spots on the map in the revolutionary war of the American colonists against the British tyran- Order Now! The Life and Work of Lenin By E. Yaroslavsky A new authoritative work on our : great leader. 2 cents Oh te oe A Red Calendar with a striking picture of Lenin ané important revolutionary dates in his- tory. 25 cents 16 cents in lots of 10 or more. 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