The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1927, Page 2

= Sees a “age Two THE DAILY WORKER TAKE DOWN ‘BIG STICK’ FOR USE AGAINST MEXICO Forces in the Caribbean Aimed at Calles (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. — The tra- ditional American “big stick” has been taken from its shelf and polish- | ed up for use anywhere below the Rio Grande, Mexico included. This view was universal accepted in Washington today in the wake of developments of the past 48 hours, which have included the concentra- tion of fifteen warships and 5,000 men in Caribbean waters, and the positive announcement from the White House | that the admin tion is prepared “to protect American interests where- ever threatened.” Aimed at Mexico, Imasmuch as President Coolidge amd Secretary of State Kellogg con- sider that nowhere are American in- werests so threatened as in Mexico. The White House announcement was regarded on every hand as a thinly veiled warning to the Calles govern- ment. It was directed at Nicaragua, but aimed at Mexico. Further evidence that the adminis- tration’s present vigorous policy in quelling the Nicaraguan revolution is im reality a demonstration of Amer- ican power to impress Mexico City was furnished by an analysis of the fighting strength which has been con- centrated in Nicaraguan waters— within easy striking distance of the Bast Coast of Mexico, where most of the American oil fields and large in- terests are located. 15 Ships of War. There are six light, fast cruisers, seven destroyers, a submarine tender and a mine sweeper now adjacent to Mexican waters, carrying a fighting complement of 5,000 marines and blue- jackets. The process is to be, according to information here, for Admiral J. L. Latimer to extend the “neutral zones” as rapidly as possible. American troops take possession of these zones, disarm both the government force un- der Diaz and the revolutionists un- der Sacasa. Eventually this process will succeed in disarming all of the combatants, and leave control of the country in the hands of Diaz, which is just where the state department wants it. Diaz was elevated to the presidency by the state department. Mexico Has Right, The greatest possibility of “trouble” is admitted to be in the efforts of Mexican gun-runners to get arms to the Sacasa forces. Sacasa is recog- nized as the constitutional president of Nicaragua by the Calles govern- ment of Mexico. If American naval forces intercept a Mexican vessel carrying arms to Sacasa an open clash may result that will have far-reaching effects. Mexico, if she chooses, can stand stiffly on her prerogatives as a sovereign nation and insist on being permitted, under international law, to sell arms where- ever she pleases. The belief prevails here, however, that the Calles govern- ment will proced cautiously to avoid open hostilities. Borah Opposes. Meanwhile, the senate revolt against the administration's “big stick” policy showed no signs of abating today, Senator Borah (R) of Idaho, chair- man of the senate foreign relations committee, has broken absolutely with the administration. And he is sup- ported by the republican insurgents, and by a considerable number of the democrats. A Few Boats Only Needed. If Nicaragua constituted the sole concern of the administration, it was pointed out, a mere fraction of this imposing force would be sufficient to take care of any eventualities, for there are but little more than 5,000 combatants on both sides of the Nic- araguan revolution. A couple of gunboats and a com- pany of marines have handled many Central American revolutions in the past, it was pointed out today. Yet for this particular, vhich is consider- ed no more serious than a dozen of its predecessors, the American gov- ernment has concentrated a force not incomparable to that which “took” Vera Cruz in 1914. Schoenfeld Returns, Arthur Schoenfeld, counsellor of the American embassy in Mexico City, has been summoned to Washington. He is due to arrive here by Jan. 21, ‘the date on which, under Mexico's new land and petroleum laws, all foreigners who have not complied with the laws are due to relinquish control of their properties. Join the war against the imperialist _ ware Communist Appeal to Fight the New War Danger Is Broadcasted to All Workers’ and In an appeal to the American Fed- ration of Labor, to the 5S ist Party, to the Industrial Workers of the World, and to all oth labor and to all farmers’ organiz: in this country, the central committee of the io: Workers (Communist) Party calls up- | on these organizations to unite to fight the developments of American imperialism in Nicaragua, in Mexico and in China that th ten the Amer- ican workers and mers with an- other war in which they will have to go out and fight Wall Street's battles. The Situation in Nicaragua, The situation in Nicaragua, the open letter points out, is a most flag- rant example of "dollar diplomacy.” American warships and marines are sent to a country to help maintain a reactionary puppet government against a rising tide of popular revolt just because that government guarantees the rights of Wall Street to exploit the country. The concentration of forces against caragua is also a demonstration gainst Mexico, the statement con- tinues. “Mexico is threatened with the tate of Nicaragua because its govern- nent has adopted a constitution which leclares that the resources of that ountry belong to the Mexican people.” The third field of the robber activi- ties of American imperialism support- ed by the American government is China where warships are being hurried to forestall the final victory of the people’s movement for freedom from imperialist exploitation, Wali Street Forces Mobilized, Everywhere the American govern- ment is mobilizing its armed forces to fight Wall Street’s battles and to suppress any movements of revolt Farmers’ Organizations against its exploitation. A situation like this is a diregt menace to, the American workers and farmers, and demands the united action of the workers’ and farmers’ organizations to fight it. Those who are exploiting the peoples of Nicaragua, Mexico and China and who are now swinging the United States government into action because the continuation of their ex- ploitation is threatened are the very same elements who are robbing the workers and farmers of America of billions every year. If a war now breaks out it will be the American workers and farmers who will be sent out to fight Wall Street’s battles and to protect Wall Street’s investments. The American workers and farmers’ organizations must act immediately, }the call concludes. “The Workers Communist Party... calls upon all labor and farmers’ organizations to join in calling a united front confer- ence in every city,.and eventually on ja national scale, to fight against Amerjcan imperialism and against the | sacrifice of American lives and wealth created by workers for Wall Street investments. It calls upon the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and all other Jabor and farm- ers’ organizations to join in with it calling such united front conferences. It calls upon the workers and farmers everywhere to join in the demand for the formation of such a united front of labor.” Copies of this appeal have been sent to the executive council of the A, F. of L., to the national executive com- mittee of the Socialist Party, to the general executive board of the A. F. of L. and to the leading committees of other labor and farmers’ organiza- | tions. i} “More Dangerous Than Imperialism of the Kaiser,” Says L’Humanite “The American imperialism of 19: 27 is more dangerous than Germany's was in 1914” says the Paris Communist organ L’Humanite in commenting on the present invasion of Central America by the United States, a senti- ment echoed thruout Europe by the Communist press and more or less mildly stated by the socialist and even the of the continent and in England. The New Statesman (London) re conservative journals in the capitals marks that “it will not do to imagine that the southward thrust beyond the frontier can be arrested.” While the conservative German press is commenting innocuously on the invasion, the Communist papers there are protestin ig vigorously against the “militant and armed extension of the interests of oil magnates and financiers at the ex- pense of the Latin American people.” The press of Latin America was States imperialism. All papers from never more outspoken against United Mexico to Argentine are castigating the Kellogg policies and declaring that a United Spanish America Is neces- sary to stave off the unbridled advances of the American expansionists, Popular Outburst in Pa nama Raps Shackle T1 reaty with United States PANAMA, Jan. 9.—Popular sentiment against the Panama-U, S. treaty signing away all rights of the forme peace, is growing thruout the republic r nation in war and most of them in . One of the leaders of the movement against the treaty, Dr. Harmodio Arias, Panaman delegate to the league ‘of nations, said in a speech in Panama City: “It Is quite evident that in all sections of the countryevery man, woman and child feels that an Injustice will event of its (the treaty’s) approval. be committed against Panama in the “Instead of remedying the hardships of Panama, brought by the treaty of 1903 and by its too stringent interpretation by the United States govern- ment, the new treaty establishes additional and even more serious burdens on Panama which will impede. or at least seriously hamper her progress and prosperity without materially benefiting the United States.” ALTIMORE.— Denounecing Secre- tary Kellogg as “a discredited for- eign minister,” the Baltimore Evening Sun demands that he resign. “In his dealings with the Latin- American republics,” it says editorial- ly “his diplomacy has proceeded reg- gularly from disaster to disaster. He was put to igpominious flight by President Calles. He has fumbled the Tacna-Arica affair so wonderfully that no one knows whether Peru, Chile, or Bolivia is most resentful against this country. His diplomacy has alarmed and irritated every na- tion in South America. “He intervened in Nicaragua appar- ently to put Diaz in power, and now apparently has abandoned Diaz to his fate. (This was written before Kel- logg authorized Admiral Latimer to seize the Constitutionalist supplies and to allow shipments of arms to Diaz only). i “His department was caught try- ing to put into circulation reports that Mexico is steeped in bolshevism, thereby drawing upon himself a wrathful castigation from Mexico, the stinging contemptuous sarcasm of the Soviets and the scorn of honest Ame- ricans. “Whipped by the diplomats of ev- ery banana republic, publicly ridicul- ed ‘by the bolshevists, denounced by candid men among his own country-;Newark Building Trades Baltimore Sun Demands Kellogg Resign to representatives of the press. He will no longer give to the people di- rect information about what he is doing in their name. “In any other great nation a foreign minister so consistently beaten at ev- ery turn, so humiliatingly exposed in trickery, so obviously vacillating in- competent and disingenuous, would | immediately tender his resignation or it would be demanded of him. “Why should the American people be worse servde in the foreign office than any other people? Our foreign affairs now involve half the national debt, incalculable private invest- ments abroad, and the economic and political systems of every nation in the world, Their importance makes it \ imperative that the man at the head of the state department shall be a | strong man, a wise man and an honor- | able man, “Therefore, Mr. Kellogg should re- | sign.” Newesk Building Trades Will “‘Test” F ive-Day Week Plan (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan, 9.—(FP)—Three months try-out in summer of the five- day work week is the plan of the Council, men, he now runs to earth and hides| Members of the business agents board in sullen silence behind a door closed| are unanimously agreed and the coun+ _ MEXICAN EMBASSY BRANDS REVOLT RUMORS AS OIL PROPAGANDA TALES | 1x0" p03" provisions. among cil delegates endorse the program and are taking details to their respective locals, Unification of holiday celebration Newark Building Trades Unions has ~ been WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The Mexican embassy issued a statement here| Provided by the council. The nine this afternoon, denying reports of widespread disorders in Mexico, and at- tmtbuting such reports to “propaganda” on the part of those opposed to the)» proposed to the New Jersey state mew land and petroleum laws. “The situation in Mexico ds perfegtly normal,” said the statement, .—— holidays chosen on which no work it to be done, unless for double pay, will building trades convention for generai acceptance, Hw MOVE TO KEEP VARE OUT OF SENATE BEGINS Wilson Challenges His Election in Pa. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—William B. Wilson, former secretary of labor, has filed a formal contest ¢hallenging the election of William §, Vare, repub- lican, as a senator from Pennsyl- vania. The Wilson petition paved the way not only for a battle to;bar Vare from the senate, but laid the {basis for a fight to seat a democratic senator from the republican « stronghold of Pennsylvania, ! Announcement of ithe filing of the contest was made on the floor of the senate by Senator Robinson of Arkan- sas, the democratic floor leader, Charge Illegal Election. The petition charged Vare was “not legally elected” in the November elec- tion and deciared Wilson! was chosen “by a majority of the votes legally cast.” It alleged that gross fraud and corruption had been mesponsible for the majority accorded Vare in election returns from the keystone state. Wilson Claims Office. Robinson declared that “Wilson claims in his contest that a thoro in- vestigation of the election will show that he was chosen as United States senator by the qualified voters of Pennsylvania and specifically reserves the night to amend his petition to state additional facts, an investiga- tion now being in process.” Hit Expenditures, The petition charged Vare had ad- mitted spending $71,000 “of his per- sonal funds” to obtain his nomination and that “this constitutes a violation of the corrupt practices act of 1925, which limits expenditures of a can- didate for senator in every case not to exceed $25,000.” Would Impound Ballots. Robinson introduced a resolution calling for the impounding of the bal- lots cast in the Pennsylvania election and declared the ballots would have to be saved by the government or in two state senatorial districts they will be destroyed shortly because of spe- cial elections. He charged specifically that Vane’s election was due to the manipulations of the Corrupt political machines in Pittshungh and Phga- ‘ i Cites Frauds. “In addition,” said Robinson, “it is charged that widespread registration frauds were perpetrated in Phila- delphia, Pittsburgh and other cities; that the registration lists were padded with the names of dead men and women; that the names of voters sick and in hospitals, with the names of minors and former residents, were voted.” He also referred to the “zero dis- tricts” in Philadelphia where Wilson received not a single vote, LEAGUE REFUSES U, $, CONDITIONS ON WORLD COURT GENEVA, Jan. 9.—Thirty-six mem- bers of the league of nations have notified the secretariat of their ap- proval of the league’s joint reply to the United States’ “reservations” on adhering to the world court. The league’s reply was that it could not agree to two of the five conditions. Approval of the document by the league members means that tho United States will not be accepted into the court on its own terms, Matter to Be Dropped. President Coolidge has declared that the United States will not con- sider modification of its present stand, and with the league members backing the refusal to accept the Washington conditions, the whole matter will be dropped, it is said. No new attempts to urge the U. S. to affiliate will be mi it is pre: dicted, unless the Washington gov- ernment demonstrates responsive- ness. Object to Two Conditions. The two reservations® refused by the league are: that*the United States insist on theprivilege to withdraw at any time, And that the statutes of the court’ cannot be amended without app¥oval of the United States; that American de- mands regarding publicity on advis- ory opinions be satisfied. The first is ‘objected to on the grounds that other signatory nations would be denied equality, and the second because the reservation is vague and needs spe- cific interpretation, Admit No Legal Relations, Reservations accepted were: that the United States by joining the court is not involved in any legal re- lation with the league or the Versail- les treaty; that ‘U. 8. representatives have equal power with tives of league nations, and that the “mount of money to be"paid by the U. 8. for court maintenatice be deter- mined by the UV. 8. congréss. GET A SUB, the banks that were looted representa: | MERICAN workers and farmers cannot help but instinctively re- sent the malicious lies being circu- lated about Leonid Krassin, the So- viet ambassador who died recently in London, The propaganda is so palpably false that it refutes itself, The most popular story, from the capitalist viewpoint, that was spread over the world by the kept news agencies and given big space in the subsidized press, declared that Krassin left an estate of from two to three million pounds ster- ling, which would total from $10,- 000,000 to $15,000,000 in American money, Soviet officials at London met this malicious propaganda by showing that when Krassin died his total assets amounted to five one pound sterling bank notes, or about $25. That sets forth the difference bé- tween the truth and the lie, se @ No effort was made anywhere by the Bolshevik-baiting press to show what Krassin, the Communist, would have done with the wealth he was alleged to possess. The reactionary Los Angeles, Cal., Times, that suddenly becomes con- servative also in figures, states that Krassin accumulated a “private for- tune of more than $1,000,000." The Times declares: “The things he (Krassin) con- demned publicly he practiced pri- vately. He helped to drive the capi- talists from Russia and became him- self a capitalist, one of the million- aires he so vehemently denounced. “He helped plunder his own peo- ple and enriched himself by the plunder.” *e 8 The Los Angeles Times, so close to the mimic world of Hollywood, infers that capitalism, like “drink- ing in private,” is something thet can be confined to a back room. It charges that Krassin “accumulated a private fortune” during seven years in the service of the Soviet government, and invested it in for- eign securities. It evidently thinks that this is a plausible story, i Mean In order to accumulate “a private fortune” one must possess the means of exploitation, Since pri- vate property has been abolished in the Soviet Union, Krassin could not come into possession of profit-pro- ducing resources. All the great nat- ural resources, the means of com- munication, the financial system, foreign trade, are all in the control of the Soviet government, owned by the workers and peasants of thi Soviet Union, Possessing more than the usual sagacity of a capitalist editor, the Times’ writer declares that the mil- lions imputed to constitute the es- tate of Krassin were “taken from and from private individuals, who were murdered that they might not com- plain.” The writer, of course, conve niently forgets ‘that the Kerensky and other makeshipt capitalist gov- ernments were in power from the time of the czar’s overthrow in March, 1917, until the Bolshevik triumph eight months later on Nov. 7, 1917. If there was any looting done, it was accomplished during those months by the Russian capi- talist friends of the Times. Boris Bakhmetieff, the Kerensky repre- sentative at Washington, with the aid of the United States govern- ment, openly maintained at great expense an “embassy” in this coun- try years after the Kerensky gov- ernment was swept into the dis- card. He squandered funds that be- longed to the workers’ and peasants’ government, Every effort of Soviet rule to recover these funds met with determined resistance at Washington. * Thus the United States govern- ment loves the grafters of its own Capitalist Press Fails in An Effort to Spatter Mud on Leonid Krassin By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, class; children it spawns how to graft. was the United States government, in the days of President Woodrow Wilson, that planned a loan to the Kerensky government “to continue in fact, teaches the profit It the war.” But the Bolsheviki came into power and took Russia out of the war. Bakhmetieff arrived in Washington in the meantime, and he was allowed to draw on this loan, which he did to the tune of several millions of dollars, using it in riotous living and anti-Soviet propaganda, Now the United States government is trying to collect this money as a debt owing to it by the Soviet government. But the Los Angeles Times has no space to give publicity to these damaging facts against its own class government in Washington, “ee This Times’ editor fails to state, however, how Krassin could have gotten millions in gold bullion suc- cessfully out of the country, and how he could have invested it in “foreign securities” without the fact becoming known. These reported riches in “Soviet gold” escaped the eagle eyes of the sleepless capital- ists for the sole reason that they never existed, 2 & When mirrors first came into ex- istence the excited possessors of these contraptions of the devil failed to recognize themselves in the re- flection. Believing they were look- ing at someone else, perhaps a foe, they would tell the truth about what the glass revealed. Thus it is with the mirror that the First Workers’ Republic holds up. before the capitalists of the world. Capitalism beholds its own ugly visage, but cries out that it is “Bolshevism!” because it hates the rising power of the workers and peasants, It is not Krassin who accumu- lated a private fortune, but the “Ohio gang,” with its Harding, Daugherty et al. that pillaged the government treasury; Fall, Doheny and Sinclair, who robbed the nation of its resources; Morgan, Rockefel- ler, Ford, Gary, Schwab and the rest, who garner great wealth thru the exploitation of the many, be- cause private property is held to be sacred, while human rights are spat upon. eee Great throngs of workers, in the shadow of the walls of the Kremlin, in Moscow, paid their last tribute to the memory of “The untiring rev- olutionary fighter, Krassin.” They honored the Krassin who had helped to destroy the social system—capi- talism—that alone makes it possible for the few to accumulate great wealth thru the agony of the many. That social change will in time win the many in the United States to its standards, in spite of the lies of the Los Angeles Times and the capitalist class that it serves, Capitalism has made a dismal failure of its effort to spatter mud on the memory of Leonid Krassin. GOAL INTERESTS SAY WOODS IS UNFIT FOR COMMERCE COMMISSION (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON.—Representatives of Kentucky and West Virginia coal interests appeared before the senate interstate commerce committee to oppose the nomination of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the inter- state commerce commission. They said that his connection as counsel ten years ago for the Pittsburgh Coal company disqualified him for the post because he would partici- pate in the lake cargo coal rate de- cision, GET A SUB. DAILY WORKER READERS AND STAFF PLEDGE SOLIDARITY TO KUOMINT ANG STRUGGLE IN CONVENTION GREETING Greetings from the editorial staff and readers of The DAILY WORKER have been sent to the Kuomintang, people's revolutionary party of China, convention now meeting at Los Angeles, Calif, The telegram sent to the convention pledges the fraternal solidarity of the staff and readers to the revolutionary movement in China, It follows: “Fraternal greetings to your convention from the editorial staff and the readers of The DAILY WORKER. We join with you in fraternal solidarity for the triumph of the national revolutionary movement in China against the world’s imperialists who oppose the workers in all “The DAILY WORKER.” CONSIDER CHINESE ACTION. LOS ANGELES, Jan, 9--With more than 80 delegates from important cities of the United States and Canada in attendance, (se Chinese national ist party (Kuomintang) began the first of a three-day session at the Los Angeles headquarters, 424 North Los Angeles Street. The party, known as the Kuomintang, is convening to consider what action it will take in the revolutionary crisis in China, BORAH HITS AT LOWDEN’S REACH FOR NOMINATION Digs Up Mud of 1920 G. O. P. Convention (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. — “There was a deliberate and well organized attempt to buy the nomination for the presidency in 1920 and those who were in that convention will never efface from their memories its sordid and covetous atmosphere. We are still dealing with matters hatched at that convention,” Slaps Lowden, This was part of a speech made in Washington by Senator Borah, repub- lican of Idaho, that is taken to be a direct slap at Frank O, Lowden’s aspi- rations for’ the presidential nomina- tion in 1928. In this speech Borah, in effect, declares his intention of raking up the mud that attaches to Lowden’s name as the result of the manner in which that politician and General Leonard Wood attempted to buy the republican nomination in Chicago in 1920. Borah’'s words are a direct reference to that scandal that became so odious that the republican bosses were for-" ced to pick a “dark horse,” Harding, in an attempt to lixp it down. Another interesting side in the case is that Borah has himself an ambition to win the next nomination and is trying to eliminate Lowden as a contender, Longworth Pleased. The partisans of Congressman Nich- olas Longworth who are booming him for the next convention are highly pleased with Borah’s speeches against Lowden in the belief that Lowden is a strong contender, In connection with Borah’s participation in Illinois poli- tics it is recalled that he came to Chicago to campaign for Frank L. Smith in the primaries when the lat- ter gentleman's campaign coffers were being swelled by utility magnates’ cash—for which he is now being barried from the senate, : New Madison Square * . Garden Will Witness . : A Big Lenin Memorial NEW YORK.—The announcement that the Lenin memorial meeting this year will be held at the New Madison Square Garden, the largest hall in the United States, with a seating capacity of 20,000, has aroused wide interest and enthusiasm among progressive workers of New York, Already demands for tickets are be- ginning to pour in. It is expected that this will be the biggest demonstration for Leninism yet held in America, An imposing array of speakers will address the meeting, including C, FE. Ruthenberg, William Z. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, J. Louis Engdahl, and others, Huge Attendance Seen for Lenin Memorial Meeting in Boston BOSTON, Jan, 9—The district exe cutive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party is arranging for a gigantic Lenin memorial meeting this year in Boston, on Thursday, Jan, 20 at Ford Hall, 15 Ashburton Pl. A large number of circulars and posters in all languages are being widely distributed and it is expected that the hall, with the capacity of over 1,000 people will be taxed to the full capacity. The principal speaker this year will be James P, Cannon, a well known and able speaker. A very interesting program will be provided by the vari- ous singing societies and other organ- izations, All friends and members are invited to come promptly on time. Breaker Boy Ground to Death on Job. WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—A nineteen- year-old breaker boy, Michael Mikit- ka, was ground to death in the ma- .chinery of the Loomis breaker of Glen Alden Coal Co. The young worker was caught in the scraper line and carried some distance before his fel- low workers noticed and had the ma- chinery stopped. Six younger broth- ers and sisters and a widowed moth- er are left without support. Loss From Spontaneous Combustion, STERLING, Hl, Jan. 9.—Spontane- ous combustion in shredded fodder caused the fire which destroyed a large barn on the John Ferris farm two miles south of Rock Falls, au- thorities said today, Thirty head cattle, three horses, a car, machinery and a large amount- of hay and grain were burned with a loss of $10,000, \ To Fight Corn Borer, SPRINGFIELD, Wl,—A fund of $60,000 to fight the onrush of the Buropean borer in Illinois may be appropriated soon by the state legis- lature. Assembly members are favor- ing the measure if state agricultural officers deem it necessary, Pittsburgh Can Men get Raise, PITTSBURGH, — Pittsburgh Rail- ways is paying motormen and con- ductors a cent and a half an hour more for 1927 than for 1926, bringing the rates to 61% cents minimum, 68: cents maximum, The agreement runs _ to May 1, 1928, beginning Jan, 7, 1927, , —