The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1927, Page 6

| { } } Seen Lacan Sa Page ox TH THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Washington Blvd., Chicago, M1. Phone Monroe 4712 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (Im Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 Ww. Washington Bivd., Chicago, tt, bells eR Bs: de a ee imi { mmm Editors F, DUNNE MILLER ... Business Manager 1113 W. nS Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1928, at the post-office at Chi cago, Il., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, Hearst the War-Monger That American,” William Randolph Hearst, whose ac- tivities range from the publishing of the most degraded and vicious “educating” movie actresses, has come <a 290 “virile newspapers in the world to out in support of the Wall Street-Coolidge policy in Nicaragua and Mexico. Hearst’s papers have baited Mexico consistently. They support- ed the bombardment of Vera Cruz in 1913, the invasion of Mexico in 1916. itself dare not jnow takes refuge behind the phrase By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, ‘ALL STREET and its government is preparing to force upon the United States a policy in Mexico and Latin-America for which it cannot get popular approval, It is a policy of waging war without a declaration of war, Secretary of State Kellogg, caught in a deliberate and particularly slimy attempt to poison the minds of the American people by means of a lying story for which the state department take responsibility, “not compatible with public interest” when asked to prove his statements, ™ ome. ice, used by every tyrant and war-monger, is like the flag, a cloak for conspirators against the lives and liberties of the masses, HE La Guardia resolution has fore- ed Wall Street government some- what more into the open but it has the weakness of all such documents, written by middle class spokesmen, which start with the premise that Back in 1898 Hearst sent Frederic Remington to Cuba to get pictures of “Spanish atrocities.” Remington could find no material of this kind and cabled Hearst to this effect. It was then that Hearst sent the message now famous in newspaperdom. “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” Hearst is said to own one million acres of land in Mexico and for this reason it is clear that his desire for a “firm policy” towards Mexico has a purely business basis. A multi-millionaire himself, he specializes in war-mongering and appeals to the lowest jingo in- stincts. Hearst’s papers. with their tremendous circulation, are a menace to the American masses. Their imperialist role is obvious in the present acute situation. More slimy and unscrupulous than the other capitalist sheets, Hearst builds up a huge circulation by advocating meaningless reforms and then floods the millions of read- ers with the special propaganda of Wall Street. Hearst is a cowardly and conscious plotter against the lives of the American working class and the workers and peasants of Latin America. His papers should be boycotted by the American labor movement and he himself, in line with the suggestion of Congress- American government is correct in protecting American capitalist inter- ests if they exist in colonial and se- mi-colonial countries. The Coolidge administration has taken advantage of this weakness and now states boldly, and backs up its statement by a further use of armed force in Nicaragua, that it intends to maintain its position of arbiter of the destinies of the Nicaraguan people by every means necessary for its pur- pose. Its excuse is the right of way for a canal purchased in 1916 for $3,000,000, HAT we are witnessing is the ex- tension of the conquest of Latin- America designed to encircle Mexico as the first step to smashing its lead- ership of the anti-imperialist move- ment in Latin-America. There is the further reason that, having secured the Panama Canal and man Huddleston of Alabama, should be lined up with President Cooli Secretary of State Kellogg, Elbert H. Gary, the Rocke- feller and Morgan males, and a few hundred of the other wealthiest parasites and made to stage their own invasion of Mexico in Nica- ragua unassisted. * The sudden cooling of their patriotic fervor would send the mercury down below zero for hundreds of miles around. The working class press must do its level best to counteract the war madness Hearst is trying to engender. The weakness of the working class press is most apparent at a time like this when the issue of peace or war hangs in the balance. But it is in periods such as this that the working class feels most the need of a powerful and militant press and can be rallied to workers’ papers which speak fearlessly and clearly in exposing the monstrous conspiracy which has been organized by and for Wall Street and its government— which Hearst supports. ge, Greetings to the American Kuomintang The American section of the Kuomintang Party now conclud- ing the sessions of its annual convention in Los Angeles can be of inestimable supjwrt to the people’s liberation movement in China part. It ean aid the revolutionary struggles of in two priretpal ways: First, by rendering material and support by mobilizing the Chinese population in hind the liberation’ movement, and second, by joining the revolutionary movement in this country in the strnggle against American imperialism. The United States has posed as the friend of China: An earnest of this friendship was given in the form of returning the Boxer in- demnities to educate Chinese in this country. But the friendship that the United States has displayed towards China with one hand has been more than counter-balanced by the imperialist scheming! and grabbing that the United States has been guilty of in common with the other powers who have their claws in China. The manner in which the United States has consistently main- iained an attitude of hostility towards the Kuomintang government of South Chi if it exists in the minds of Chinese residents in this country, all thought of assistance or even neutral- ity on the part of the United States when the Canton government is finally prepared to assert its complete sovereignty in China. In greeting the American section of the Kuomintang Tur Darcy Worker pledges to continue its work of exposing American imperialism in the Far East and upholding the movement in China that is carrying out the doctrines of the great revolutionist Sun Yat Sen, to whose memory the American Kuomintang dedicated its work at the Logs Angeles convention. and me America with be workers’ ia should dispel, Presidential Warfare The sole power to declare war is vested in the congress of the Union-——-so says the constitution of the United States, But this mandate of “our fathers” has been put aside so often that our well- meaning liberal friends will have another oceasion to gasp with hor- ror if Coolidge and Kellogg decide to land troops in Mexico, or any place else in Latin America to “protect” American oil and dollars. The great “war president,” Mr. Wilson, has done a great deal for dollar diplomacy not only in the matter of material aid but also in the legal matter of precedents. If any person with the illusion that the constitution means any- thing asks Kellogg what right he has to send troops to Latin America and thus put the United States in a position of war without the con- sent of congress, he will doubtless remind the person that President Wilson took Vera Cruz in 1914 and sent General Pershing into Mexico at the head of a large body of troops in 1916. He will, if he wishes to go further back, make note of the fact that President Roosevelt took Panama on the quiet and that a two-year campaign was conducted against the Filipinos without a declaration of war. But perhaps the best precedent he can fall back on is Wilson’s private we inst the Soviet Republic in 1919, Tt doesn’t require a vote of congress to make war on Mexico if Coolidge decides to make it. And for that matter who knows that congress, us if is al present constituted, won't sanction such.@ war? E DAILY WORKER thus divided Latin-America into northern and southern zones, Ameri- can imperialism intends now to con- trol all approaches to the canal. The next step will be to control the approaches to the approaches and so on until all Latin-America is a Wall Street colony, ‘P\HAT such a policy cannot be car- ried out in Latin-America without war, goes without saying. Just as Great Britain has warred on the Egyptian people and other nationali- ties in the Suez canal zone, begin- ning her bloody occupation of Egypt with the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, so does American imperial- ism begin a new phase of its conquest of all territory contagious to the Pan- ama Canal zone with the forcible overthrow of the popular government in Nicaragua and the armed occupa- tion of its capital. All this has been doné in the face of popular opposition, bat an opposi- tion which lacks cohérence, and in which the organized labor movement, the most effective force'in this situ- ation, has as yet taken no important part, The Communist Party alone has a clear program for combatting Ameri- can imperialist aggression which, with its danger of war, js a. joint men- ace to the masses of the United States and Latin-America, TILL another danger inherent in the Latin-American policy of Wall ‘Street is its threat to‘the living stand- ards—wages and working conditions —of the millions of low-paid workers engaged in the production of raw materials in the United States. In 1926 alone there was invested in South and Central America a total of $518,031,800. Speaking of these in- vestments Moody’s Investor's Service says: An interesting feature of Latin- American financing during 1926 is the trend of American capital into South and Central American enter prises, ESPECIALLY TO COMPA- NIES ENGAGED IN THE PRO- DUCTION OF RAW MATERIALS. (Emphasis ours.) Imperialism not only seeks fields for capital investment at rates high- er than can be obtained at home but also sources of supply for raw ma- terials which CAN BE OBTAINED CHEAPER THAN THEY CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME. OR a small privileged section of the working class this means par- ticipation in the profits of imperial- ism, For the great mass of the work- ers it means a more bitter struggle for a decent livelihood, The danger of war and the threat to the living standards of workers en- gaged in production of raw materials —thege are two main reasons for the working class, in addition to their duty to their comrades in the colonial and semi-colonial regions, to demand an uncompromising struggle by its leaders against the march southward by the American ruling class and its war machinery. E can be sure that no other sec- tions of the population except the workers and exploited farmers will raise any real and sustained opposi- tion to the Coolidge program. It is possible, however, to establish, on the basis of a struggle against such ar- rogant imperialist brutality as is shown in Nicaragua, and the war pre- parations against Mexico, a united front of workers, farmers, liberal in- tellectuals and middle class elements which feel the pressure of militarism, in opposition to the Wall Street-Coo- lidge program of aggression. Such a movement can have as its slogans, “Hands off Mexico and Latin- America,” “Self Determination for all Latin-American Peoples,” “Withdraw all gunboats and military forces from Latin-America,” “Neutralization of the Canal Zone,” “Wall Street investors shall not risk our lives for their dol- lars,” “No gunboats for Wall Street,” A Popular Movement Against Militarism and Imperialist War Can Be Built “Bankers fight their own battles,” “The Monroe Doctrine is a Wall Street weapon,” etc. HE open aggression against Nica- ragua and the less violent but just ag determined and deadly pressure on Mexico, the' “gunboat treaty” forced on Panama, all show the necessity for a broad popular movement to trace and expose the secret conspiracies of the state department and organize re- sistance to them. I do not believe that any great num- bers of the American people can be stirred to a high pitch of patriotic fer- vor by the prospect for war on the Latin-American republics. But many of these imperialist adventures which can culminate only in a war of major proportions can be carried out now by the professional military forces at the disposal of the state and war de- partments, The feeling that there is no immediate danger on the part of great numbers of the American mass- es in itself is of the greatest assist- ance to, the imperialists. UT the world war came as the re- sult of a.series of imperialist ad- ventures which made it inevitable but which were tolerated by the masses because it did not affect them direct- ly. The capitalist class learned many lessons. from the world war but the masses have yet to learn this one elementary lesson, the lesson that “every act has its logic,” and that lit- tle wars breed big ones, UNITED front of all elements opposed to imperialist war will tend to dissipate the inclination to dismiss the danger to the American masses as far in the future and fix attention, not only on such events as the invasion of Nicaragua and the clubbing of Mexico but on the continu- ous extension of militarization in the United States and the gradual but rapid spread of the internal activities of the war department. A popular movement: against mili- tarism and imperialism must be built. Calles Addresses the Mexican People The text of President Calles’ mess- _ to the Mexican people on New Year's furnished to The DAILY WORKER by Arturo M, Elias, consul- general of Mexico at New York City, was as follows: OLLOWING the practice estab- lished last year, I again take ad- vantage of the opportunity provided vy New Year’s Day to send cordial greetings to the Mexican people and deliver a direct message concerning the general situation of the country as well as the work accomplished and the tendencies followed by the execu- tive. “The adoption of methods and sys- tems for the development of our na- tural resources and the defense of our just national rights—methods and sys- tems with which the most civilized countries of the world have suc- cessfully strived for their econ- omic and _ political independence and their prosperity and full develop- ment—have aroused, because of sus- picion and opposition attached to every innovation, internal and extern- al difficulties; and the policy of strict compliance with the enforcement of the fundamental laws of the country have necessarily started the action of antagonistic forces, Domestic Agitation Fails. “Fortunately, the points of contro- versy abroad have been dealt with thru channels and by means of calm, technical discussion. The domestic agitation and opposition have not suc- ceeded in disturbing fundamentally the public peace we are enjoying, the government being able to comply strictly with all its obligations at home and abroad without the least obstacle to the task of reconstruc- tion that I plauned since I took charge of the administration, “Thus, in spite of numerous and complex handicaps, which are all of political or social character, the finan- cial stability of the country has been placed upon a sounder basis during the past year by means of a strict pol- iey of economy and administrative honesty. “The educational program for 1926 was carried out beyond its original limits, “All of the agricultural schools which had been planned were duly completed; irrigation projects in se- veral zones were finished and others begun and plans for those to be con- structed during the new year have been fully prepared; the selection, mobilization, outfitting and equipping of military forces have been con- tinued and the work of reorganiza- tion for efficiency in other depart- ments has made progress, Goal is Economic Betterment, “Thus we are striving, thru the united action of all, for the econo- mic betterment of the country and the social and moral uplift of the Mexi- can people, which constitutes the most earnest aim of my administra- tion, “Unfortunately, those purposes of redemption and economic and social betterment of the great masses of ‘| people, without detriment to the just guarantees and prosperity of the wealthy classes, thru lack of under- standing, or bad faith, or natural ill Dhe democrats? Well, Wilson was a democras | interpreted feeling of selfish interests, have been uy expressions: of & pro 4 gram of social disintegration, “A rancorous press campaign has striven to represent -. Mexico as the follower or supporter of exotic forms of government and a disseminator, at home and abroad, of political and so- cial systems wholly strange to our environment, and our tendencies. Mexico Has its Own Problems, “Firm as I am in my conviction that truth shall necessarily come to light, I have continued serenely in my task without heeding the calumnies and the insults hurled upon me. I have confined myself to state, whén- ever the opportunity came, that our problems, similar in their nature to those of all peoples in a stage of form- ation, present in Mexico a phase of our present condition for the consi- deration of which it would be illogi- cal to resort to the exotic measures of which we are accused, and the use- fulness of which in social environ- ments different from our own is not for me to comment. “For I am well aware that they are not applicable to the conditions of our country, nor do they fit our politi- cal organization or the unalterable policy of my administartion. Due to the unavoidable resistance of the antagonistic forces and inter- ests mentioned above, a natural re- sult has been the arousing abroad of unjustifiable mistrust notwithstanding that up to this day no harm has been done to any material interests thru the policy adopted by this govern- nent, notwithstanding that I have re- peatedly expressed my p purpose not to interpret the constitutional laws of Se Our. Challenge Answered EAR COMRADES: “This DAILY WORKER “poverty” is a terrible thing. I shudder in fear, patiently waiting how it will ena. Could it be that in the land of education, intel- ligence, that one canbe forgotten who so bravely spoke afd is so will- ing to speak against @ll oppression and tell the working niasses of their heavy positions? No one ever did but The DAILY WORKER! It led us itt splendid bat- tle, willing to lead if wé are true for its needs of life. We all know that it had no other purpose, and never will have, except to defénd those who must work for a livi: protect the unfortunate behind the iron bars— workers who dared say a word against the meanest exploitation of toiling humanity in smelter, mines and hundreds of other dugouts. No other press has whispered a word of any successful idea for the working class but The DAILY WORKER! All of us know by this time the conditions under which The DAILY WORKER is struggling for its own existence, Can we simply forget and say: The DAILY WORKER has made important maneuvers, taken a hand in all labor struggles, showed the way out to a better future? Dear comrades, wherever we are, we must make {t one ot pr first obli- gations, not only to wi till we are asked for a little donation for our Dally, but always be ly to give assistance because it ig for us, and that Is the only way we gan help our- selves in Mexico when those laws were en- acted. Capital Must Obey Laws, “On the other hand, I am willing, naturally, to accept the decisions of the supreme court in cases arising from a conflict of interests, and I in- sist that only an insidious propagan- da of inimical interest and the natur- al distrust of capital have been able to restrict or delay the benefits ac- cruing from co-operation between Mexico and the other countries, whose moral energies and capital shall al- ways be welcome in our country with the sole restriction of respect to our laws and the sole limitation that the external collaboration must not be- come an absorption, in prejudice to our national interests, The Church's Gross Untruth, “I also wish to avail myself of this opportunity to repeat, ten months af- ter the catholic hierarchy began its opposition to the Mexican laws, what I stated at the beginning, which has not been modified thru the attitude, seditious and rebellious at times, of the clergy: That my administration does not intend, nor has it intended, to oppose the legitimate exercises or development of any religious activity; that matters of faith or creed or dog- ma are absolutely outside the action and purposes of my government; that I hold the same sincere respect for all expressions of conscience or re- ligious beliefs; that it is a gross un- truth framed up by the clerical reac- the country in any manner that would injure legitimate interest established tion that the government has endea- I don’t want to challenge anyone nor do I want to be praised. It is my entire conviction that without our Daily we would be forced to do things tha we do not want to do, but we now have a Daily, and we should work and make it more powerful than ever. Come along, comrades, whoever you are, we all WORKER, Yours in the class struggle, Geo. Rupert. need The DAILY Lost Without It! EAR COMRADES: | herewith send you my renewal for one year for The DAILY WORKER. 1 would feel lost without The DAILY WORK- ER on the farm for it is just as good as a life saver for a poor farmer. 1 send you one dollar ($1.00) for your Third Birthday and in honor of my youngest son for he is also three years old. send $1.00. There is more real news in The DAILY WORKER in one day than there is in a capitalist paper in a month, Hoping you the greatest fighting spirit for freedom, . A Comra Chas. Johnson, Ashland, Wis. On the same day | will “The pen ts mightier than thé sword,” provided you know how to use it, Come down and learn now in the vored or desired at any time. to des- troy or combat any religious. faith. “Regarding this matter, as well as the others which have been the ob- ject or origin ef opposition to law, or of obstacles to the reconstructive work of my government, I have suc- ceeded in preventing the activities of our adversaries from turning us aside from our course of strict conformity to the law, and I have maintained my- self upon a level of perfect serenity, without allowing the course of doc- trine and law followed and ordered by me to be obscured by passionate feelings, or by a spirit of retaliation or by political ill-will. Thanks National Army. “The co-operation of the other ad- ministrative powers and the valuable assistance of order and respect af- forded by the national army have made and shall make it possible for the country to succeed in honorably going thru a season of true hardship and trial. “Notwithstanding the criminal. ma- chinations to alter peace and the in- sinuation made to army officers to pervert the noble aims of this nation- al institution, the preserver of the se- curity and honor of the country, all of its members have continued to this day in perfect discipline within the limits established by law, and my government firmly hopes that they shall thus continue for the prestige of the army and of the republic. “But should the interests and hat- reds intent upon reopening a new era of internal disorders, succeed in staining with the tarnish of treason what ought to be the highest and noblest of all the institutions of the country, my government is absolute- ly certain that the guilty shall receive an immediate and just punishment, “In order to attain an extensive ma- terial and moral development of the country as. well as a true collective prosperity, | asked in my message of January 1, 1925, for the earnest co- operation of every Mexican, who, for- getting ill feelings or personal am- bitions, and-with his thot bent upon the welfare and prosperity of Mexico, would wish to be with us. “The passionate feelings and an- cient hatreds stirred in the last year by conscienceless or malicious per- sons or by mere puppets in the hands of domestic or foreign interests would perhaps now render utopic a similar general call, Call For Co-operation, “But having in mind above all the welfare of Mexico, it is my wish to insist on such a call that all those who are still able to emancipate them- selves of malevolent influence, and those who thorough generosity, or patriotic feeling are able to free themselves of the heavy burden of prejudice, selfish interests or hatreds, come to us and willingly ac- cept as legitimate the aspirations of the rightful upliftment of the masses of our country, for which we have al- ways struggled and are ready to struggle always, being convinced that | dictment only the welfare of great masses of Mexico can establish the basis of a definite organic peace and promote ANEW NOVEL Gplon Staclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) These were all ranch fellows, out- door men, that had worked in the sun all their lives, and grown big and bronzed and sturdy; but now they were bleached white or yellow, dirty and unshaven, with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes. Jick Dug- gan was coughing, just as his wife had said, and there was not one healthy-looking man in the bunch, If Bunny had been able to say to himself that these men had done some vile deed, and this was their atonement, he might have justified it, even while he questioned what good it would do; but they were there because they had dared to dream of justice for their fellows, and to talk about it, in defiance of the “open shop” crowd of big busi- ness men! Bunny had sent them some books —they were allowed to have books that didn’t look radical to very ig- norant jailers, and provided the books came direct from the publish- ers, so that they would not have to be searched too carefully for con- cealed objects such as saws and dope. Now they wanted to tell him how much these books had helped, and to ask for more. And what did Bunny know about their prospects of getting a trial? Had he seen Paul, and what did Paul think? And what about the union—was there anything left of it? They were not “allowed any sort of “radical” paper, so they were six or seven months behind the news of their own world. Tl, Bunny came out into the sun- shine with a fresh impulse of des- peration. His father was half sick, but even so, his father must have this burden of pain dumped onto him! The last time they had dis- cussed the matter Dad had said to wait, Vernon Roscoe would “see what he could do.” But now Bunny would wait no longer; Dad must compel Verne to act, or Bunny would take up the job himself. He drove his father back to Angel City, and learned that radicals had organized a “defense committee,” and there was to be a mass meeting of protest, at which funds would be raised for the approaching trial. Paul was to be the principal speaker —despite the fact that it might cause his. bail privilege to be can- celled. When Bunny got that news, he served an ultimatum on his father; the meeting was to take place the following week, and un- less Verne had acted in the mean- time, Bunny was going to be one of the speakers, and say his full say about the case, Dad of course protested. But it was one of those times when his son surprised him by failing to be soft.” Bunny went farther . than ever in his desperation. “Maybe you feel I haven’t any right to behave like this while I’m living off your money, and perhaps I ought to quit. college and go to work for myself.” “Son, I’ve never said anything like that.” “No, but I’m putting you in a hole with Verne, and it would be easier if you could say I’m not living. on you.” “Son, I don’t want to say any such thing. But I do think you ought to consider my position,” “I've considered everything, Dad —considered till I’m sick at heart. I just can’t let my love for any one person in the world take the place of my sense of justice. We're com- mitting a crime to keep those men in jail, and I say Verne has got to let them out, and if he don’t, then I'm going to make it hot for him,” Verne was on his way back from the east, and Bunny demanded that he should phone the district attor- ney his wishes; he might phone the judge, too, if he thought necessary —it wouldn't be the first time, Bunny would wager. If he didn’t do it, then Bunny’s name would be announced as one of the speakers at that mass meeting. Upon Dad flashed the memory of that terrible meeting of Harry Seager’s; he saw his beloved son publicly adopting that same ferocious mob, clasping that sea of angry faces and uplifted hands and lungs of leather! (Continued tomorrow.) Kenosha Will Have Concert and Dance Sunday, ay, January bg An iGiaetdalitie’ tbo performance, and dance will be given next Sunday, Jan, 16, by the Russian Workers’ Mutual Aid Society of Kenosha, Wis. Chicago actors will participate, affair will be held at Tatra Hall, 17 N, Main St., Kenosha. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. Tickets in advance 35 cents, ab the doors 50 cents. To Dismiss Ormiston Case. — LOS ANGELES, Jan, 9, — The in- Semple McPherson case will Kenneth G, Ormix aoe conspiracy in the | |