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BORAH SAYS ‘WE HAVE NO RIGHT IN NICARAGUA’ Thinks Sacasa Is Only President (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan, 9-— A con ference today, between President Coo- tidge and Senator Borah (R) of Idaho, thairman of the senate foreign rela- tions committee, failed to shake the {dahoan’s opposition to intervention in Nicaragua. “We have no business in Nicara- gua,” said Borah, as he left the White House, “Backing Wrong Horse.” He further expressed the opinion that the state department is “backing the wrong horse” in the troubled little republic. “In my opinion,” continued Borah, "Dr. Sacasa is the constitutional presi- flent of the country and should have been recognized under the five-power Central American treaty.” Dr. Sacasa is recognized by Mex- leo, while the state department re- tognizes Adolfo Diaz, and has dis- patched warships and marines to sup- port his regime and to prevent Sacasa from getting arms from Mexican sources, Made Own Treaty. “So far as the Nicaraguan treaty is toncerned, we made it with our telves,” Borah continued. “We sent marines down there in 1911, They killed 150 Nicaraguan_and set up a tlerk for an American corporation as president, It was with this president we negotiated the Bryan-Chamorro ireaty.” . Borah scouted the state depart- ment’s contention that the Sacasa re- rolutionists are menacing American lives and property. Got Letter. “IT have just received a letter from » business man who has been in Nicaragua for 17 years,” said Borah, ‘He has all his interests in the very heart of tite territory controlled. by Bacasa. He says he has never seen or heard of any American property being seized or damaged, and no American lives have been taken in fhe present revolution, nor have any American lives or property been threatened by either side down there. “We have no business in Nicara- ” Borah declined to discuss his con- terence with Coolidge. LOS ANGELES WORKERS 10 CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF DAILY WITH BANQUET (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Jan, 9.—Readers and friends of The DAILY WORK- ER will gather here at a banquet on Saturday, 15, to celebrate the third anniversary of the estab- lishment of the only militant work- ingelass daily newspaper in Amer- ica. The affair is expected to be one of the biggest eve inged by Los Angeles militants and will mark a new high point in support of The DAILY WORKER in this section, The banquet will be held at 8 o’élock Saturday night at the Co- operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn avenue. A plate dinner will be served. The banquet will cost $1 per person. An elaborate musical program thas been arranged for the evening and well known speakers will talk. Everyone is invited to attend this affair. Home . Can Be Without a Red Calendar A beautiful and character- istic portrait of Lenin, mounted on a handsome red cardboard, with a list of the most important rev- olutionary dates. Indis- pensable for your home or your headquarters, A lim- ited supply on hand, Order now before the supply is Price 25 cents each. 16 cents each in lots of 10 or more. Daily Worker Publishing Company 1113 W. Washington Blvd, © Chicago, Il. 4 THE DAILY WORKER CURRENT EVENTS| |GUN ELEVATION By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) 2 smialll section of the American work- ing class listen to us. But there are deserts in South America also, and American soldiers drawn from the loins of the working class may be pointing their toes ito the mid- day sun one of these days and their lips may be longing for a drink of lemon pop while their minds dwell on the question: Who the hell are we fighting for? se © ‘5 lads who fought in the world war and survived know what this is all about. I have yet to meet the returned “hero” who did mot realize that he was a sucker. Yet Kellogg will get “heroes” to fight against Mex- ico, if war there will be. And it looks almost like a certainly. American cap- italism, full of champagne and vinegar needs expansion. “Our” banks are bursting with gold. South America is “our” sphere of influence. There, profits can be made so that the daugh- ters of our ruling classes can marry impecunious Duropean aristocrats and afford the luxury of half a dozen divorces a year, a HAT right bas ithe United States to intenfere in Nicaragua? Only one. The United States has the power to interfere and get away with it. At least for the time being. That is what counts. But power is not eternal. That is, power exerted by any pantic- war class is not everlasting. The czar of Russia once had power to send Lenin into exile. And Trotsky, Zimoviey and Stalin. But it did not last forever. Neither will the power that is now behind Coolidge’s threats to South America, The people of the “packward” countries ane organizing. Look at China, Syria, Egypt and the Latin American countries! The Chi- nese are just now in the front of the fray and leading the vanguard against imperialism, Watch China! India will soon raise the standard of revolt and then imperial Britain will bite the dust. Egypt will follow. Then the colonies of France, Holland and the United States will step into line, This may be considered a pips dream, but the dreams of the optimist are usually more rea] than the skepticism of the pessimist. ses it surprising that world capitalism should hate the Soviet Union? The law of self:preservation is reckoned to be ‘the first law of nature and it looks that way. The capitalist system does not want to die. The capitalists and their parasites do not want to go to work, They find plenty of excuses to justify their existence. They can hire plenty of professors and writers to prove that without them the world would go to devil, And, as long as the masses can satisfy the desire for food, clothing and a place to sleep, plus other little things that are usual- ly megarded in connection with the noble aim of perpetuating the species, they will allow the capitalists to rule the roost. But when the belly begins to play a drum snare solo on the back- bone and the slave camnot afford to even think of the current Follies chorus, there will be @ different tale to tell, sete |AN the threat of war against Mexi- co be stilled? It ds doubtful. The American Federation of Labor official dom iis a servant of Wall Street, Therefore it will not be possible to mobilize the full power of the Ameri- can labor movement immediately against militarists. It is now possible to see how the strings that made the catholic agents in the American Fed- eration of Labor hop were pulled by the vatican. William Green turned against Mexico ostensibly because Mexico fought the catholic church. That was not the reason. It was be cause Wall Street gave orders to Green that it was preparing for a break with Mexico unless the Calles government surrendered to American imperialism. Calles refused to sur- render, a HIS war against Mexico and the liberal forces of Nicaragua is as shameless a piece of bullying as was ever pulled off in any section of the world. There is only one position for the American workers and farmers to take. That ds @ policy of unalterable opposition, Wall Street ds out to con- quer South America, but the buzzards will have the pleasure of picking many capitalist bones during the struggles, Our bourgeoisie will be making the merry spots in London, Paris and Ber- lin while the sons of the working class will be dodging the bullets and suffer. ing all the other hardships that are in- separeble from war. Young Lives Taken in Grade Crossing Crash SUPERIOR, Wis., Jan, 9—Four per- sons are dead, three are not expected to live, and fifteen others are being treated in hospitals today, following a grade crossing accident near here. The tragedy occurred when a Great Northern passenger train bound from Superior to Minneapolis crashed into a street car carrying 23 passengers. SUBSCRI TO The American Worker Correspondent 1113 W. aaeanaten Bivd. Chicago, Hh, ON U, S. SHIPS BRINGS PROTEST Violation of Treaty Is Charged LONDON, Jan, 9. — The old con- troversy over gun elevations has been revived here by reports of an Amer- ican congressional resolution to in- crease the elevation of guns on old United States warships. Violates Treaty, The admiralty apparently is un- concerned but the foreign office is pre- pared to protest that such a step would be a violation of the entire spirit of the Washington treaty. One admiralty official pointed out that, from the practical viewpoint of the most modefn school of gunnery experts, the limit of accuracy of big gun fire had already been reached before the Washington conference and added range would only mean a fur- ther loss of accuracy, Diplomats Worry. The diplomats, however, while ad- mitting that the question has not yet assumed practical importance, insist that any alteration of the American elevation would be a distinct contra- vention of the Washington treaty, Coolidge and Kellogg Are Urged as Targets (Continued from page 1) dangerous places to protect the oil interests, The American people ought not to be played with in this conmec- tion, It is a shame on this govern- ment, this senate, this congress and this president,” Started by Hearst, The administration was defended by Senator Edge (R) of New Jersey who said the present policy had protected the American lives and property. The debate came when Wheeler read jingo statement by William Randolph Hearst praising the administration's policy, The Coolidge administration is “deliberately and consciously driving toward war with Mexico,” Representa- tive Huddleston (D) of Alabama, charged on the floor of the house to- day. Not Casual. “These quarrels with Mexico over land and oil laws are not just casual,” he said. “These actions in Nicaragua are not just casual, They are only done for a purpose and that purpose is war.” Huddleston declared that business interests which-seek great profits in Mexico are behind the war movement, “They are augmented,” he said, “by certain ecclesiastical forces who be- lieve they have been abused,” Huddleston denounced “this false and contemptible statement that Mex- ico is a Bolshevistic nation,” which was carried in some newspapers after a state department conference, Coolidge Wants War, “That was not accidental, it was deliberate, and it seems impossible that any official would do such ‘a thing,” he said, “There isn’t doubt but that President Coolidge has yield- ed to the forces that want war with Mexico.” The administration of Admiral La- timer in Nicaragua was declared “out- rageous” by Huddleston, and Presi- dent Diaz of Nicaragua, who is being aided by the United States, is a tool of New York financial interests, he said, Latin-America Will Fight. “I fear that a war with Mexico will be so terrible that the sister nations of Mexico in Latin-America will feel that they cannot longer submit to a bully and an overlord in the western hemisphere,” he declared, N. Y. Dressmakers Want Agreement with Joint Board (Continued from page 1) methods to force their control upon the workers.” = His Fascisti Methods, The meeting was presided over by Anthony Ramuglia, who recently suf- fered a similar attack, It unanimous- ly passed resolution protesting against the “fascisti” methods of the International, and pledging those pres- ent to “refuse any financial support to the International, which would only use the workers’ money for attacks like this upon the workers them- selves. Ettore Frisina, Giovanni Di Grego- rio, Enea Sormenti, Francesco Coco, Charles Zimmerman, Ben Gitlow and Nino Capraro were other speakers at the meeting, It was one of the largest and most enthusiastic meeting of Ital- ian workers held in some time, JOIN THE ARMY AND LEARN HOW JONAH WAS SWALLOWED BY A WHALE HONOLULU—A pennant will be given by the wife of the command- ing officer of the 27th Infantry, sta- tioned at Schoffield Barracks, to the company which sends the greatest number of men to the Post Bible School, Kalinin Speaks to the Farmers OSCOW—(By Mail)—At the first Jewish peasants’ congress of the Soviet Union held in November at Odessa, Comrade M. Kalinin spoke in the name of the government, “I doubt whether in any other coun- try is there a possibility for a Jewish peasants’ Congress,” began Comrade Kalinin, “It is characteristic for our country; the only country in the orld where all nationalities and races have full possibility for development. No Oppression Now. “Trarigm tried to assimilate the Jews by'force and for that reason persecuted them, ‘The Soviet state does not oppress any nationality and therefore does not care to assimilate the Jews) |The Soviet state strives to liberate the working masses of all nationalities from all forms of oppres- sion, including national oppression. “The October revolution which brot freedom to the laboring masses at the same'time hit hard the main ma- terial base of the Jewish population; hit the Jewish poor living in the cities and villages by small trading. Praises Jewish Culture. “The Jewish population as an av- erage ig quite cultural, and should take its place in the upbuilding of our proletarian state.” Discussing the success of the Jew- ish laboring masses in agriculture, Kalinin said: “The success that we have in populating the Jews on land are microscopically small. It cannot be otherwise. The creation of a na- tional territory with an ggricultural base is a great undertaking. Agricul- ture does not provide immediate suc- cess. All great undertakings require great efforts. Is Next Problem, “A great problem faces the laboring Jewish masses: to turn a majority of the Jewish population into an agri- cultural mass, into farmers, and there- by preserve its nationality, The gov- ernment can not spend large sums for that purpose, but it is providing some money and is granting land. While selecting the land we took in consid- eration the habits and pecularities of the Jewish people. The land that was grated needs much effort and invest- ment, If we would grant this land to some other nationality, we should not have enough funds to make it a self- BIG POTASH RING UNITES FRANCO- GERMAN INDUSTRY LONDON,—A huge industrial merg- fer of great economic and political sig- nificance is soon to be added to the already long series of combines that have arisen in Germany in the recent period of the revival of imperialism. Following the dye-stuff, the steel and other industries, most of the potash mines are now to be combined into one company. The strength of this new combine comes from its raw material mono- poly rather than from its control of patents and special processes, as is the case in the dye-stuff and steel com- bines. ; International in Scope, It is especially noteworthy that this potash combine does not limit itself to Germany but includes much of the French potash mines. To conclude the arrangements on this huge inter- national cantel a series of conferences have been arranged in Paris. This monopolist venture is being financed from London, by a city bank with large German connections. It al- so has the unofficial support of the German government. It is expected that this new com- bine will co-operate closely with the recently formed dye combine. This is important particularly in view of the fact that the duestuff combine has had little control over potash. International Workers’ Unity Only Answer. This new move of German and French capitalism has obviously great international significance, The inclu- sion of French and German concerns in so important an industry as pot: provides one of the economic bases for the récent friendly approach be- tween Germany and France. The de- velopment of an international cartel of such , dimensions, moreover, in- creases many times the power of Frenech and German capitalism in its offensive against the French and Ger- man working class and points out again in more concrete terms to the workers, not only of France and Ger- many but of the whole world, the burning need for International Trade Union Unity. ly liquidated economically, The Jew- ish capitalists abroad feel somewhat guilty before the Jewish poor, Kalinin speaking at the first Jewish Peasants’ Congresss at Odessa. sustaining concern, While granting this land to the Jewish people we are aided somewhat by the Jewish capitalists from the bourgeois coun- tries, There are such interesting co- incidents of conflicting interests, Why the Capitalists Aid. “Our own Jewish capitalists we safe- which is similar to the relations felt by our former nobility to the peas- ants. If the Jewish capitalists be- leve in god, they are attempting to gain for themselves a place in heaven not far from Moses, and if they will not part with some of their money, they will be asked in the ‘other world’—What did you do while the Jewish people were creating their fu- ture, creating its own national terri- tory?’ That is the reason why they are giving money. Soviet Union Is Fatherland. “It is impermissible for the Soviet Union that from a proletarian coun- try the Jewish laboring masses shall gO somewhere else to look for their future. , (Applause). The Soviet Union should be the homeland of all the laboring masses, including the Jewish, and a greater homeland than any Palestine. (Great Applause.) “The Jews and the Russians have a superstition that the homeland of the Jews is not Russia but Pales- FATHER KNICKERBOCKER STIRS ETHER AND SAYS, “HELLO, JOHN BULL” (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The voice of the old world sounded across the Atlantic today and the voice of the new world echoed back, At 8:44 o'clock this morning com- mercial radio-telegraph service was inaugurated for the first time In his- tory between New York and London. The telephone conversation lasted five minutes and parties at both ends heard each other distinctly, altho there was some static. The price of the new trans-ocean telephone service is $25 a minute, Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, sitting in the telephone company’s office in New York, talk- ed with Sir G. Evelyn P. Murray, secretary of the general post office of Great Britain, for two minutes. Then Sir Evelyn Murray, in Lon- don, talked to Gifford for three minutes, “We could hear each other clear- ly,” said Gifford, “altho there was more static than during previous tests,” French Militarism Frees French Officer Slayer and Convicts Victims BERLIN.—An example of such ex- cesses of militarism as even the old kaiser’s army could not match has recently come up in a case of @ French officer in the army of occu- pation who was acquitted by a French court martial after he had shot one German citizen and wounded another. ih | The German who was so unfortunate as to escape death as well as other Germans concerned in the case re- ceived sentences of two years’ impris- onment. The greatest indignation is express- ed in the German press which seems to forget the unsavory details of Ger- man militarism, old and new. The German ambassador to Paris has also made representations on this head. Among the working class, French and German, sentiment is being aroused for the evacuation of all German ter- ritory occupied by French armies. Prospective Bridegroom, After Spending Freely, Pinched for Issuing Rubber Checks (Special to The SAN FRANCISCO—John J. Michael- son, buave young Chicagoan, is in the city prison on charges of passing worthless checks amounting to be- tween $5,000 and $10,000. ~ Michaelson was arrested after an orgy of apending in preparation for hie marriage to Miss Paula Blenio, after a whirlwind courtship, Charles Blenio, his flancee’s brother, had ar- ranged for a farewell dinner, follow- Daily Worker) ing which the couple was to have gone to Reno to be married. Blonio was notified of Michaelson’s impending arrest just before the din- ner. He persuaded officers to post- pone it. Michaelson wag taken into custody as he sat in his car awaiting Miss Blenio and her sister, who was to accompany them. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! tine. The Jewish people lived for a thousand years on the territory of Russia, The Jews, just as much as the Ukrainians and the Russians, have a right to consider the Soviet Union as their fatherland—their socialist fatherland. We are not afraid of na- tional supremacy (oppression) be- cause by building their own future the Jewish people are at the same time building the future of the Soviet Union. The Jewish people who are tilling the land in Crimea are not competing with anybody, but are creating new riches for the benefit of the Soviet Union. “Agricultural labor—creative labor —will finally bring about full equality of the Jewish people in all phases of labor. , Is the Beginning. { “So far the Jews have a small fatherland, just one volost (county), but they have the territory, the begin- ning. (Great applause). In all phases of public life, politics, science, the Jews take a proper place. I have no doubt that also in agriculture they will not take the last place. “The government considers of great importance the settlement of the Jews on land, and I may say in the name of the government, that if the foreign capitalists will cease to help in this, he Soviet government will help as much as possible to settle the labor- ng Jewish masses on land.” MOONEY PARDON REFUSAL SCORED BY FEDERATION A telegram expressing the regret of the Chicago Federation of Labor on the action of Gov. Richardson of Cali- fornia in refusing ‘to grant a pardon to Thomas J. Mooney, victim of the San Francisco bombing frameup, has been sent to Mooney at San Quentin by John Fitzpatrick, president of the fed- eration, and E. N. Nockels, secretary. “Is Rank Injustice.” “Your friends in Chicago regret sincerely the manner in which Gov- ernor Richardson treated your peti- tion for pardon,” said the message. “Surely, no intelligent person could possibly be without definite opinion a3 to Whether or pot you have been the victim of a rank injustice, The world is convinced that you were rail- voaded on perjured testimony. Nine- teen twenty-seven would have been more cheerful for you and for labor if your petition for a pardon had re- ceived the consideration we believe it Governor Sidesteps Issue. Gov. Richardson denied Mooney’s petition consideration on the pretext that, because his term of office ex- pires in two weeks, he would not have “enough time.” Mooney is serving a life sentence, imposed when he was charged with staging the preparedness day bomb- ing incident in San Francisco in 1916. Judge Fitzhenry Gets Evidence of Bribery of Sheriff Hoffman Jury Evidence in the alleged attempt to bribe the jury which acquitted former Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman of conspir- acy charges was laid before Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry. Besides Joseph Plunkett and Leon Tashjian, deputy federal marshal, both under arrest charged with con- spiracy to defeat justice, several other prominent officials were reported in- volved, Claims Banks Make Loans to Veterans (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. — Banks all over the country are now making loans on veterans’ adjusted compensa- tion certificates, Frank T. Hines, dir- ector of the veterans bureau, reported to president Coolidge, Already 1,500 banks have made loans totaling nearly $1,000,000, Hines said, Mild Quake in Philippines. MANILA, Jan, 9,—~ A temblor of short duration and of slight intensity, the second in three days, rocked Ma- nila early yesterday, The shock caused no damage, senvtoy inate yoo unten SSIS a PN = = Spee eee eee ene ene es Sess RO ee eee ee Page Three SAYS MELLON IS REAL INFLUENCE BACK OF WOODS And Back ak Mellon Is Pittsburgh Coal WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.— Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was named to- day before the senate interstate com- merce committee as the “real in- fluence” behind the appointment of Cyrus EB, Woods of Pennsylvania, to the interstate commerce committee. Voicing strong opposition to Woods’ appointment, on the grounds that he had been associated with. Pennsyl- vania coal interests, Senator Goff (R) of West Virginia, declared that Mellon, who has an interest in the Pittsburgh Coal company, was “more responsible than any one else” for the appointment, Opposition to his appointment grew after revelations that he holds more than $400,000 in railroad and indus- trial stocks and bonds, Woods, a former American ambas- sador to Spain and Japan, recently acted as campaign manager for Sen. George Wharton Pepper in the $3,- 000,000 Pennsylvania senatorial pri- mary. Woods Recommends Self. Woods said he had talked with Mellon as to his qualifications for the office, He did not discuss the lake cargo coal case, which is now pending before the commission, he said. “I did mot know ‘the case was pend- ing,” Woods declared. He assured the committee that if his appointment were confirmed he would not partic ipate in the lake cargo case, nor ia future phases of it. “I should oon- sider it in bad taste,” he said. Woods declared he did not seek the appointment; it “came out of a clear sky” to him when Senator Reed (R) of Pennsylvania asked him to take the place. The committe inquired into Woods’ activities as campaign manager for Senator George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania's recent $3,000,000 gsen- atorial primary. Woods denied ‘that he acted as “boss” of the combined campaigns of Pepper and John &, Fisher, who won the republican nomination for governor. He admitted he had acted as “moderator” between the two factions when each became suspicious of the other group, but knew nothing of the money collected or expended on behalf of either. Down With Tips, Up With Wages, Barbers Cry. wit NEW YORK.—Tipping must go is’ the ultimatum of James C. Shanessy, president International Journeymen Barbers’ Union. The union head is urging all members to fight tipping to death and raise wages instead. Tip- ping debases the ethics of barbering, Shanessy holds, and drives patrons to home and safety razors. 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