The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1927, Page 1

organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40 Hour Week. oO. 2n't 705 Sy Demand | Entered at Second-class matter Septembe: Oo, by mafl, $8.00 per y cago, by mail, $6.00 U.S. NAVY TO av. Of Wheeler-Huddleston Resolutions ee tremens teormeremmee oor ear, Der year, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1927 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ultnois, under the Act of March $, 1879. <>” STARVE RE Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘That United States Get Out of Nicaragua SEAT oR WHEELER has introduced in the senate and Representative Huddleston in the house of representa- tives a resolution calling upon President Coolidge to imme- diately withdraw the American marines from Nicaragua and the American warships from the Nicaraguan ports, While these resolutions make the basis of the demand that the United States is violating international law thru its intervention, and not the fact that the government is play- ing the “dollar diplomacy” game of the Wall Street interests, the-workers’ and farmers’ organizations thruout the whole country should immediately adopt resolutions and wire their demand to the congressmen and senators from their ‘states, demanding the passage of the Wheeler-Huddleston resolutions. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE has sent to congress a special message endeavoring to justify his use of American warships and marines in Nicaragua on the ground .of the special interests of the United States in the new canal route thru Nicaragua and because Mexico has furnished arms to the liberals supporting Sacasa. According to the president it is alright for the United States government to permit the shipment of arms to the usurper Diaz and to use American marines and warships to support him, but it is all wrong for Mexico to permit the shipment of arms to Sacasa. Stripped of its specious arguments the president's mes- sage is an open declaration for the use of the armed forces of the government to protect the Wall Street investients in Nicaragua and wipe out any resistance to the continued ex- ploitation of Nicaragua by these interests. are fact that Mexico is made the target for the attack of the president is simply propaganda to help justify the attack on that country, because of its enforcement of the Mexican constitution against the American oil and mineral interests. The president is ready to intervene in Mexico, as he has intervened in Nicaragua, to maintain the exploitation of Mexcan resources and the Mexican people, on terms satis’ factory to Wall Street. The president's determination to continue the rape of Nicaragua, coupled with the attacks on Mexico, create even a more serious threat of this country becoming involved in an imperialist war in which the lives of the American work- ers-and farmers and the wealth they produce will-be sacri- ficed for the super-profits from the imperialist domination Borah and Kellogg Scrap Over War Policy Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, is seen leaving a conference with Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg whose present policy of aggression against Nicaragua and Mexico Senator Borah has declared against. Borah has sald that “foreign interests” stone make it poesible for the puppet President Diaz to maintain himself against the liberal rebels under Dr. Sacasa whom Borah thinks ought to be CURRENT EVENTS ASHINGTON has promised co-op- eration with the other powers to “protect” its nationals in Shanghai. This lends color to the suspicion that England took advantage of Washing- ton’s troubles in Latin-America to ex- act an agreement from the United States for a more benevolent attitude against China. Stories of looting by Chinese are increasing. Anybody who knows anything about how news is made will understand that there is probably not a scintilla of truth in those reports. In the meantime, the Chinese are getting along nicely with the task of getting rid of the foreign imperialists. Fae RTHUR BRISBANE is in disagree- ment with his boss, William Ran- dolph Hearst over the bullying of Ni- caragua and Mexico. While Hearst shrieks that Coolidge’s hands must be wereld, Brisbane is busy placing a ~ By T. J. O'FLAHERTY sharp tack on the presidential chair. Brisbane declares that Mexico has as good a right to support the liberal Sacasa as the United States has to support the reactionary Diaz, This disagreement is indicative of the great wave of protest that is arising thruout the country over Coolidge’s brutal assault on the rights of smail- er nations. A CRS Ye T is rather significant that at the time those lines are written there is not a peep from the officials of the American Federation of Labor against the latest Wall Street invasion of South America, It is not so very long since President Green officiated at laying the keel of a battleship.. That keel will some day be cutting south- ern waters on its way to collect Mor- gan’s bills or steal new oll wells tor Rockefeller, Internationally, re (Continued o& page & of these countries by Wall Street and Washington. At the same time the rushing of Am China create another similar situation in |the Far East in which there is the same danger—an im; ist war to fight for the investments and profits of the Wal} Street bankers. Thus there is being created a new powder-magazine which in blowing up will hurl the workers and farmers of this country not only into a war against Nicaragua and Mex- ico, but in which there are the aprons that the history of 1914-1918 will be repeated with the great! imperialist capi- talist nations lining up for a new trial of, strength as to which group of capitalists shall enjoy the juicy plums of im- perialist exploitation of the undeveloped countries of the world, } “EHE only force which can stop the United States from sliding into war against Nicaragua, Mexico and China, with a threat of greater war developing out of these aggres- sions in the interest of Wall Street are the workers and farm- ers of this country. . Now is the time to stop this development by calling a halt on the president’s Wall Street policies in Nicaragua and Mexico. An overwhelming demand by the workers’ and farm- ers’ organizations of the country for the passage of the Wheeler-Huddleston resolutions for a withdrawal from Nic- aragua will make plain to President Coolidge and Wall Street, that they have forces at home to reckon with in carrying on their imperialist aggression. ' Every workers’ and farmers’ organ mediately demand the passage of these r their demand to the congressmen and state. They should unite to form conferences of workers’ and farmers’ delegates to carry on the le against the threatening war, it DEMAND THAT THE UNITED STATES GOVERN- MENT GET OUT OF NICARAGUA! i NO INTERVENTION IN-MEXICO! 4 HANDS OFF CHINA! i, ei. TAKE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST R WHICH IS THREATENING Al IT THRU A THE UNITED FORCES OF THE Wi FARM- RS! CANTON MOVES TO TAKE OVER FOREIGN AREAS Fall of British in Han- kow First Step (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 10.—A far- reaching movement by the Cantonese national- ist authorities to take over all foreign concessions thruout China was seen in London today as the interpretation to be placed on the statement of Eu- government at an warships to ion should im- lutions and wire senators from their MEETING HERE TONIGHT TO FIGHT LAWS AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS The Chicago Council for the Pro- tection of Foreign-Born Workers will hold a conference of representa- tives from all trade unions and workers’ organizations, tonight at Machinists’ Hall, 113 South Ashland Bivd., for the purpose of organizing the struggle locally against the dan- ger of anti-alien legisiation now pending in congress. The conference will start at 8 o’clock. Scores of unions have al- ready elected delegates to the con- ference, Max Orlowski, secretary, announces, and many others will be represented by their officials. The conference will discuss ways gene Chen, foreign minister of Can- ton that the British concession at Hankow has “ceased to be a piecé of unredeemed China.” In this statement, cabled to London, Fo Minister Chen explained the nationalists’ attitude toward the for- eign population of Hankow, following the taking over by them of adminis- tration of the British concession there. Redeemed to China, “The extension of nationalist con- trol over the British concession in Hankow,” Minister Chen cabled, “is in itself the most ample guarantee that the lives and property of British and other nationals in the concession shall and must be protected by my government, “While the concession remained un- der purely British control it was not the duty of my government to attend to the protection of foreigners there. But now that the concession ceases to be a piece of unredeemed China, my government regards the effective protection of Englishmen and other foreigners in Hankow as a vital in- terest of the nationalist China,” Demand Hong Kong. The London Daily News said the real significance of Minister Chen's message rests on the implied inten- tion of his government to recover as soon as possible, and without waiting for laborious negotiations, control of all foreign concessions in Chinese territory. A message from Shanghai today said the Cantonese intend to demand the return of Hong Kong, holding Brit- ish subjects at Hankow as hostages until this is an accomplished fact. We wilt send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friende~ in thelr addresses. and means of combatting registra- tion and deportation bills, which may be passed by congress any day, it is declared. The Chicago: council is affiliated with the National Council for the Protection -of the Foreign-Born Workers. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! REED CONFUSED BY IDENTITY OF CAL'S SPOKESMAN (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Rising to confusion’ Senator JamesrA. Reed (D) of Mis- souri, this afternoon appealed to re publican leaders to tell him whether the White House spokesman are the same indi- vidual or whether “there is a third a question of “personal President Coolidge and party” who speaks for both. Senator Overwhelmed, Reed said he was overwhelmed the telling how the had = an- nounced that the United States would its every resource to defend American lives and property in for- with confusion when he morning newspapers, both President Coolidge “president’s spokesman” read and use eign countries. With rich sarcasm he asked Lie re- publicans to say whether “it is true that President Coolidge stands be- spokesman, or the side president's stands behind the spokesman, stands inside the spokesman, when the spekesinag speak” ARCH-JINGO HEARST SOUNDS DRUMS FOR NEW WALL ST. WAR William Randolph Hearst, who following out his war-mongering policy begun with the assistance his Papers gave to the provoking of the Spanish-American war has these many years been crying for inter- vention in Mexico. In the last weeks his twenty odd papers in all sec- tions of the country have been again raising the cry of a southern in- vasion with front page articles by Hearst himself leading the field for ‘bicod-and thunder honors. ° ¥ CLOAKMAKERS TO GO AHEAD WITH VOTING Shop Chairmen Issue Strong Manifesto (Special to The Daily Worker), NEW YORK, Jan.10—In a manifesto issued to all dress and cloak workers, the executive committee of 50 cloak shop chairmen and 35 dress shop chairmen, asked the support of the membership in their plans for holding impartial general elections in Locals 2,9 and 35. At the same time requests were sent to the joint board and to the executive boards of the various locals for their vpproval of the plans, which will place urangements for the elections in the hands of the committee of 85 shop chairmen, with an impartial body, such as the American Civil Liberties Union to oversee the election and in- sure it against fraud. The executive board of Local 2 has already ap- proved the plans. It speaks for its membership of 10,000 operators. The manifesto reports to the work- ers on the activities of the shop chair- men’s committee since its election at a mass meeting of cloak shop chair- men last week told of how a meeting to which only shop chairmen «were admitted was arranged and repres- entatives of the joint board and inter- national asked to present their point of view on the “internal war thet ie splitting our union.” Sigman Ignores Action. Altho Louis Hyman and others ap- peared to speak for the joint board, President Morrig Sigman of the inter- national refused to attend even when requested by a committee sent from the meeting. At a later interview, Sigman told the shop chairmen that he would not permit the regular elec- (Continued on page 5) 6 Killed, 18 Hurt in Moscow Train Crash (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Jan, 10.—Sixteen per- sons were killed and eighteen injur ed when a train on a siding near Moscow, jumped the track in the path of an oncoming express train. The exprese ploughed thru the de- \Congress Told of ‘Big Stick’ Rule In Nicaraguan War BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Jan, 10. — Secretary of State Kellogg declared this afternoon that Admiral Latimer had been given powers to stop food supplies, as well as ammunition, from reaching the liberals in Nicaragua. The food blockade, with its resulting starvation of children, as well as men and wo- men, was one of the weapons used by world imperialism against the Union of Soviet Republics in an effort to crush the Bolshevik Revolution. * * * . (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — Emphatically restating the Roose ' veltian doctrine of the “Big Stick,” President Coolidge sent a |lengthy message to congress today on the Nicaraguan and Mex- | ican questions that rivals in historic significance the famous 1904 | message of President Roosevelt declaring the intention of the | United States to exercise an “international police power" over Latin-America. : } The message in no way explains the presence in the Carib- thea waters of 15 first class ships of war for service in such a small country as Nicaragua but makes it thru the usual the unquestioned arbiter Latin-American destiny, Defends Occupation. “Deploring” the necessity for send- ing.troops to Nicaragua, the president ‘eafirms the policy of the Un é States that has resulted in armed i ervention (not to speak of H San Domingo, Cuba, Mexico and Nica- ~“ugua on previous occasions) and nakes it doubly clear that the Nica- raguan occupation is part of the of ensive now being launched against Mexico. “The proprietary rights of the Unit- 2d States in the Nicaraguan canal route,” says the careful message, “with the necessary implication grow- ‘ng out Of it affecting the Panama Canal, together with the obligations flowing from the Investments of all classes of our oltizens In Nicaragua, places us in a position of peouliar responsibility. I am sure it is not the desire of the United States to inter- vene in the internal affairs of Nica- ragua or of any other Central Amer- ican republic. Nevertheless it must be said that we have a very definite ind special interest In the maintain- nee and order of good government in Viearagua at the presert time and hat the stability, prosperity and inde- pendence of all Central American countries can never besa matter of in- t country is in complete sy difference to us. and harmony with the labe Slap at Mexico. ments of Tagua and that c “The United States cannot, there- fore, fail to view with deep concern any serious threat to stability and constitutional government in Nica- | Tagua, tending toward anarchy and |jeopardizing American interests, espe- \cially if such a state of affairs is con- tributing to or brought about by out- GREEN DODGES STAND AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM Goes to Council Meet- ing in Florida veil of diplomatic verbage, that the United States considers itself a 1 (Special to-The Dally we-ksey" = WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor and of the Pan-Amer- ican Federation of Labor, has gone to St. Petersburg, Fla., without Saying a word for publication concerning the Mexico-Nicaragua war which the Cool- idge administration has been bring- ing’on. Green Remains Silent. Andrew Furuseth of the Seamen’s Union tried to get Green to make a public protest, preferably by going to the White House and telling Coolidge that the organized labor movem t of nst whose cau e the Ame Green chose i to wait and consult with his inste: council. 01 mists saw ible plan of consul émissaries of laboi pos Nicaraguan er to get t possible i 8 tion with wh to make side inflwences or by any foreign power,” an appeal] for peace and non- Ignores Mexican Rights. intervention The president claimed he had “the | But others pointed out that by the @ council time th had di | most conclusive evidence that arms |” ‘ t and ammunition have been on several |'Ssue the seizure of Nice occasions shipped to the revolution- | completed, and an ists in Nicaragua. Boats carrying |have been provoked in these munitions have been fitted out | Would honk a pretext for the Amer- in Mexican ports,” ignoring entirely | '©@n fleet to seize the Tampico oll dfs- the privilege of Mexico as a sover- | trict. The oil field, after all, is the eign nation to ship arms anywhere it |0al toward which Coolidge and Kel- pleases under international law and |logg are sidling. also ignoring the fact that at present | Cringing to the Catholics. the United States is shipping arms | q f to President Diaz and preventing} The situation faced by Green in his (Continued on page 2.) | council is not easy, because certain jof the members are hostile to further affiliation with Mexican labor on ac- HEW ORLEANS LABOR count of its support of the campaign PROTESTS AGAINST U, S. NICARAGUAN INVASION |to separate church and state in Mexi- NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 10.— Pro- |co, Hence Green will not take the |Strong stand taken by Samuel Gom- tests against the “attitude of the state department in its conduct of | pers as to sympathy with Mexican na- | tonal aspirations as against the im- perialism of Washington and Wall Street. Mexican labor and tts government ions wih Mexico,” and the ine |#Te alike charged with having helped tervention of armed forces in Nica- |S#asa, the Nicaraguan liberal presi agua was sent to Senators Joseph E. Ranedeli and Edwin 8. Broussard Wednesday by the New Orleans Council of the Brotherhood of Rail- way and Steamship Clerks, Freight lent. Therefore clerical influences ite thrown against Sacasa. President Handlers, Express and Station Em- ployes. Coolidge knows that by his campaign to establish an anti-Mexican regime in Nicaragua he is pleasing certain ex- treme clerical leaders in the United States. Coolidge wants to beat Al Smith in the presidential race of 1926, and he hopes by his Latin-American war to divide the catholic vote, Auto Drive le Up. Next in dramatic interest to the f oa) Students Protest, BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 10.—Protests against the American policy in Nica- vagua were voiced at a meeting held here last night under the auspices of the “Anti-lmperialistic League,” a students’ organization. Several speak- ers, among them the Socialist Deputy Peroz Letros, severely aasailed the |Uetonal waivers by the various in- “{mperialistte paliey” of the United ;mstional unions, involved in the k * | ,Ceniinwed op pape Ba ye é Jects before the council at this Jam- Latin American war, among the eub- | uary meeting, is the approach to furis- | vautiinnndi