The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1927, Page 5

Buyin + THE DAILY WORKER. ALEX. BITTELMAN. Editor. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in'The DAILY WORKER. A WEEK IN CARTOONS REMEMBER QUR SLOGAN, NO GOOD (N THIS diTY’” “THE RADICALS { ARETHE ENEMIES OF THE UNIONS ” In the Wake of the News ale UDGING by returns from local unions of the United Mine Workers of America, John Brophy, progressive leader from the anthracite district, car- ried the election by a large majority. Of course, this does not mean that Brophy’s election will be con- ceded by Lewis. Our cartoonist, Hay Bales, pic- tures Lewis advising his tally men to ignore the Brophy vote. This is exactly what will happen. We do not know of any bureaucracy in the A. F. of L. that hag yet surrendered to the will of the majority, unless in a case where the switch was made from one reactionary group to another, as when Grable of the Maintenance of Way Employes was dumped and an- other faker installed in his place. This is not @ suggestion to the members of the miners’ union to drop the policy of staying inside the union and agi- tating and educating the membership. The job is to teach the masses of coal diggers as well as all other workers that only a progressive leadership will help them in their daily struggles for more wages and better working conditions and that will finally or- ganize and Jead them to freedom from wage servi- tude. * . * * By appears that the Coolidge-Kellogg policy of in- tervention in Nicaragua has met with bad luck. After going to the trouble of establishing “neutral” zones for the benefit of Adolfo Diaz, the reactionary puppet-president of the republic, the United States Admiral Latimer found that the revolutionists had no more difficulty in chasing the reactionary forces than they had before the intervention of United States marines. The more help that was given to Diaz the more he needed help, The tanding of American armod forces on Nicaraguan soil not only fncensed the Nicaraguans, but a wave of protest swept all over Latin-America, protest against the wratal disregard of American imperialism for the fights of weaker nations, despite the fact that an ; BONS, A BROMY VOTE 15 “ANEW YORK LABOR~ FAKERS INTHE ROLE SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1927 Aew American president was the inventor of the once popular phrase: self-determination. s J & * T home the state department is under fire. While Coolidge passed compliments to Calles thru the medium of an aviation captain on an exploring trip thru South America, Senator Borah was asking Kel- logg embarrassing questions about the diplomatic intrigues in Central America. It is true that Borah doeg not seem to be inclined to go very far, but his raising of the question in the senate will smoke out the tools of American imperialism in the state department and the White House. Borah declares that the Nicaraguan interference is part of a plan to wage a “cowardly war against Mexico.” Fortun- ately for the South Americans, they are becoming in- creasingly able to take care of themselves as time goes on. If this government thinks it will have easy sailing in a war against Mexico or any other Latin-American country it will find out its mistake before long. ° o * * HE Cantonese are still advancing northwards and the task of consolidating China and expelling the imperialist powers is progressing rapidly. Shanghai is expected to fall soon. In fact the reactionary rulers of that great city are sitting on a powder bar- rel. The population is sympathetic to the Cantonese and are awaiting an opportunity to set fire to the powder, In the meantime we read that Chang-Tso- Lin has arrived in Peking and is planning to organize the reactionary elements for a concerted attack on the revolutionists. The reports state that the em- peror, whoever the devil he is, gave Chang a recep. tion on the latter’s arrival, Mr, Lin promises to stabilize the government, That’s a man’s job. He appeals to the foreign powers to save China from the Bolshevik infection. The Chinese had their ex- perience with the imperialists and with the Soviet 1 By M. P. Bales “PARK YOUR RIFLES Booz, AND BIBLES, AND UETOUT ! # ™ { Q pers y, is “We SHOULD Gwe THANKS FOR THE PROSPERITY GOD AS SHOWERED UPON US ' ten tacentlliciactanncpiiaelly By T. J. O'Flaherty government and it looks as if they prefer the latter, So, Chang’s head may be hanging on a nail unless he takes care. * . * 7 British having failed with the strong arm method are now resorting to a form of bribery ia China. The perpetrators of the Wanshien massacre now take the lead in urging the powers to allow the Chinese to dispose of the customs taxes as they see fit. The Cantonese are turning a fishy eye on these proposals. The guns of the Chinese have forced the British to talk peace. The Chinese are of the opinion that as long as they stick to their guns, the British wiil play the role of gentlemen. That the other powers are still following the policy of letting England fry on the Chinese pan, is shown by the cool tho polite manner with which France, Japan ang the United States received the British proposals, France went to the trouble of telling the world that the French government had no intention of inter fering in the domestic affairs of China. * * * . OVPRNOR FRIEND RICHARDSON of California will neither grant nor refuse a pardon to Tom Mooney, on the ground that his term of office will run out in too short a time to permit him to rea@ the 343-page document which accompanied Mooney’sa application for freedom. The Mooney frame-up is ‘one of the most b:.zen and outrageous crimes ever perpetrated on an American working class leader. That he has not already paid for his services in be half of the working class with his life is a tribute to the great fight put up by the left wing of the Amer- ican labor movement in his behalf. Unless the workers renew their efforts to free Mooney it is quite probable that he will spend the rest of his days be« hind the high walls of San Quentin. Capitalist poll- ticiangs are long on promises but short on fulfil, ment,