The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1927, Page 6

li H if i ee ¢age Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DA Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (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 W. Washington Blvd, Chloago, Il, J. LOUIS I WILLIAM BERT MIL HL DUNNE { OR... ——— Entered as second- lass mall September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi Il, under the act of March 8, 1879, Advertising rates on application, SED What pitas It, Mr. Green? Accordiug to a Federated Press dispatch, Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen’s Union of America, took up with President Green of the American Federation of Labor the question of protesting against the action of the United States gov- ernment in invading Nicaragua in behalf of the reactionary tool of American imperialism and of the threat of war against Mexico indicated by the recent statements of Coolidge and Kellogg and the provocative display of force in Mexican waters. We have already commented on the death-like silence of Presi- dent Green during this crisis. The small town baptist is not one who is accustomed to hiding his light in a barrel. He is ever ready to bleat his rotarian puerilities against Russia and the revolution- ary movement everywhere. He waxes eloquent in drawing false pic- inres of life under Soviet rule and poses as one of the foremost cham- pions of freedom. Why is Green as dumb as a mute on the question of Washington's bullying of the Latin American countries? President Green cannot draw the red herring of religious con- flict across the trail of American intervention in Nicaragua as he tried to do in his statement on the conflict ‘between the fascist catholic church and the pro ive Calles administration. The issue in Nicaragua is as clear as crystal. It is between the elements who demand Nicaragua for the Nicaraguans and those who would sell Nicaragua to the Wall Street money barons. The Coolidge admin- istration is supporting the Wall Street tools with warships and bayonets. What has Mr. Green to say? Nothing. It is a sad commentary on the depth to which the officialdom of the A. F. of L. have descended in their subserviency to big busi- ness that, while bourgeois politicians are raising their voices against the brutal policy of oppression followed by the snivelling occupant of the White House, there is not a word of protest from the head- quarters of the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. council meets this week in the sunny city of St. Petersburg, Florida. The eyes of the American working class will be upon their deliberations. A war against Mexico is a cer- tainty unless the hands of the Wall Street puppets in Washington are stayed. This war will arouse the deepest indignation in the hearts of the American masses. President Green and his executive council may yet come to realize that the A. F. of L. has no mil- lionaires in its rank and file. Every local union of the A. F. of L. should urge the executive eouncil to at once issue an immediate warning to the government: “Hands Off Nicaragua!” “Hands Off Mexico!” en A Fallen Angel Flashed by his victory in the United States court over those who would punish him for peddling government property to his friends, Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior in President Harding’s cabineff suggested that he might confound his enemies by running for election to the United States senate from New Mexico on the republican ticket next year. When the news reached the senate lobiby there was another scurrying for gas masks and disinfectants. Our senators—those of them who have not been caught in the quiz—are extremely virtuous nowadays and most of them are willing to crash party lines in-their haste to hurl bricks at those who would bring the chamber of mil- lionaires into disrepute. Several senators immediately predicted that Fall would no sooner be in than out again. If Fall sets out to win the senatorial toga from the natives of New Mexico in all probability he will be successful, unless the op- position has heavier artillery and can afford to travel on its belly, in the language of a great general. Money and guns are almost as invincible in that part of the country as in Chicago. If the Latin American countries had a sense of humor they would keep the wires burning with constant threats of invasion unless our elections ceased to infect the western hemisphere with the habit of surrounding elec- tions with the glamor of battle. Let us suppose that Editor McGee runs against Fall and falls dead before Fall’s bullets! Would not Oalles be justified in not recognizing the Fall election on the ground that it was won by force and violence? Of course, Calles is too much of a gentleman to interfere in our family affairs and in addi- tion there is practically no Mexican capital invested in New Mexico. It is getting to be so now that our senators are kept busy try- ing to fumigate the senate. There is a regular army of odoriferous senators-elect on the way. Smith from Illinois will inject himself into the August assémbly and is promised the bum’s rush. But Smith may play the role of Mother Goddam in “The Shanghai Gesture” and tell a few little stories about those who feel like tak~ ing the air when he approaches the clerk’s desk to take the oath. And no sooner will Smith either be seated or booted than Mr. Vare of Pennsylvania will roll his glue barrel into the chamber. There will be another chorus of indignation and amother bum’s rush. If this kind of thing keeps on, by the time Fall’s turn comes around he may have a majority of the votes in his own pocket. American democracy is indeed a sweet-smelling flower. It is ‘rather amusing to watch a set of capitalist flunkeys and hypocrites defend their own political corruption by rending the fox whose tail got caught in the farmer’s trap. The Britons in China are said to be humiliated over the action ef the Cantonese in chasing their forees out of Hankow. The fact that the hitherto despised Chinese were able to give them the “bird” will haye an effect in India and Egypt not conducive to the health of British capitalist interests there. After three years Tu» Dairy Worker is still on the job and as saucy as ever, “We are poor, but we are honest” and the fact that we never expected to be rich until we have our editorial offices in the Times Building enables us to grin at hardships. If thieves could agree, honest men would be doomed, The Japanese press is against co-operation with the British in China. The Japanese ruling classes have their owa axes to grind, t ic SR ORGAN MN A | an ve Pa By THURBER LEWIS. | L | DANAMA is a little country stolen | from the United States of Colom- | bia because the United States of Ame- | vica wanted to build a canal thru it, Nicaragua is a country a little farther |to the north that the United States |also wants to build a canal thru. So |the United States is taking Nicara- | ua, This is not the whole story with re- gard to either Panama or Nicaragua, but the example of Panama serves to show that the business of taking countries ig not new to the United States, The complete story is very involv- ed. The United States wants Nicara- gua for military, economic and polit- ical reasons. These are important enough reasons for any capitalist country like the United States to salve its conscience with. Military. pak milltary reasons are the pro- posed new Isthmian canal; the United States naval base in the Bay of Fonseca; the completion of the Pan-America railway, the Nicaragua leg of which has. not yet been built; and the use of Nicaragua base of operations for the defense of the Panama Canal. Economic. HE economic reasons are that American bankers already con- trol finances of the country and need a government that will do what It is told; mines, oi! wells, tlm- ber resources and fruit plantations are owned by American firms; the new canal and railway are also of economic importance to United States interests; and secure control will make Nicaragua an ideal coun- try for the further export of capl- tal by New York bankers. Political, Nae political reasons are that the United States must be assured of a willing government In a coun- try thru which it intends to build an essentially military canal and one so near to another important canal; contro! of Nicaragua assists the United States in checking the spread of the Mexican anti-impe- rlalist spirit thruout the rest of La- tin-America; and the country offers a political and military base for the acquisition of other Latin republics when the time is ripe. This explains why a little country with @ population smaller than that of Detroit or Cleveland and slightly larger in area than New York state can become so important, MERICAN interference in Central America is an old story. The present armed invasion of Nicaragua by United States marines is only the latest evidence of an adventure upon which the United States embarked many years ago. It begins with the Monroe Doctrine. “The American continents, by the free and independent conditions which they have assumed and main- tain, are henceforth not to be con- sidered subjects for future coloniza- ation by any European powers,” said President Monroe on Dec, 2, 1823, to WANTING A SECOND OGANAL, THD UNITED STATHS PRO- OLEDS TO TAKE NIOARAGUA—THH MONROP DOOTRIND AND ROOSPVELT’S BIG STIOK—TO MAKH THE OARIB- BUAN AN “AMERIOAN LAKH,” MPXICO MUST BH SUB- DUBD—LATIN AMERICA OONGHALS FOR RHSIST- ANOH—THH WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATHS ARH THE NATURAL ALLIES OF THH VICTIMS OF IMPERIALISM, THE WHY OF WAR WITH MEXICO THE war-like attitude of the United States being displayed in the recent moves of the state department, both diplomatic and military, raises the question of just how much American capitalists have at stake in Mexico. It goes it saying that most of the American invest- ment in Mexico is owned or controlled by the international bankers of New York City at whose disposal the United States government wi the last four or five presidents has placed its diplomatic power and its armed forces in practically every section of the world. This is particularly true of Latin Amer- ica where the various administrations have obligingly landed marines at the behest of whatever capitalist group desired “protection” of acquired interests or an opportunity to extend Robt. W. Diinn, in his book, “American Foreign Invest- ments,” estimates American interests in Mexico at $1,280,- 000,000. The investments are divided as follows: Government Bonds Rallroade .., Mining and Smeiting .... Oil lands and refineri Wholesale and retail stores .. Manufacturing ..... Plantations and timber . Banks and electric utilitles § 22,000,000 . 160,000,000 . 300,000,000 . 478,000,000 50,000,000 60,000,000 ~ 200,000,000 10,000,000 Oil is seen to be most important. The value of the Mexi- can petroleum industry is estimated at over one billion dol- lars. Inch pipe lines, land and equipment, Dunn estimates that, United States interests control 57.7 per cent of this. The leading American oil companies there are Standard the “Holy Alliance’ of European monarchists. et U. S. Bailiwick, I hai that time ‘én, the territory to the south has been considered the batliwick of the United States. It wasn’t many years after that the Mexican war ‘was fought and an- other state added to'the union at the expense of Mexigd. “It wasn’t much longer before Spain was kicked out of her last stronghold’ in the Caribbean and that sea made an “American lake.” ae At the time when the United States, under Roosevelt in 1903 and 1904, took over the minican Republic and stole Panama from Colombia, a reformulation of the Monroe Doctrine was found to be necessary. In his annual message in,1904 Roosevelt de- clared: a Chronic wrongdoing, or an impo- tence which results in. the loosen- ing of the ties of eivilized society, may in America as-elsewhere, ultl- mately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the western hemisphere the adherence of the Proposed New Canal in Nicaragua The map shows the line of the pro- posed new isthmian canal thru Nica- ragua to supplement the canal at Pan- ama for commercial and military pur- poses. Plans are to take advantage of Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan river leaving only a short space be- tween the lake and the Pacific ocean to be cut thru. Being much farther to the north than Panama, the canal saves several hundred miles in passing from New York to San Francisco, by boat. ‘The map also indicates, Puerto Ca- bezas on the Caribbean sea, the head- quarters of the liberals under Dr. Juan Sacasa which has been occupied 3 ® sowes. Honduras by American marines and established as a “neutral zone.” The real pur- pose of the landing is to cripple the liberals in their tight to overthrow the American-controlled President Diaz, The liberals are closing in on the latter’s stronghold, the capital, Man- agua, Marines have been sent there to assist Diaz in holding the town. Blueflelds is the center of Oil, the Doheny group and the Mellon group. United States to the Monroe Doo- trine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cas- €s of such wrongdoing of import- ance, to the exercise of an INTER- NATIONAL POLICE POWER, The Big Stick. Te was called the policy of the “Big Stick”. Events in Nicaragua show it to be very much in force. The Monroe Doctrine and the “Big Stick” are the high spots of the Bo- litical background of American ex- pansion to the south. The economic basis of the Mexican war, the first aggressive move of the United States towards the equator, was the desire of the slave states of the south to acquire new territory for the growth of the trade in flesh. The southern aristocrats even hoped for the annexation of Mexico and the concrete analysis of the tasks of the American revolutionary move- ment and of the American Communist Party from the Leninist viewpoint is the subject of the leading article (Bertram D. Wolfe, Towards Lenin ism) in the January issue of the Workers Monthly just off the press. As the author points out very clearly, ‘the leading position of American im- perialism in the scheme of world eco- nomics and politics af today as well ae the recent developments of the most modern forms of rationalization and class-collaboration in this coun- try have made the United States the center of the attention of world cap- ‘italism and of the world labor move- ment, reformist and revolutionary. This places a very serious responsibil- ity upon the American workers and especially upon the American Commu- nists which they can meet only thru @ better understanding and a more direct and concrete application of the Principles of Leninism. Comrade Wolfe sketches briefly the chief prob- lems and tasks of the approach to- wards Leninism in this country. Another phase of Leninism is dis- cussed by Max Bedacht (Position and Opposition in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) in an excellent ar- ticle explaining the fundamentals of the late controversy in the ranks of the Russian Communist Party, The article is by no means a narration of the events of the struggle; it is a fun- damental analysis of the basic prob- lems of the Russian: revolution and Post-revolutionary development from the point of view of Leninism. It should be read and studied by every Communist and every advanced worker, Very noteworthy in this issue is the article on the agrarian situation in this country by J, Louis Engdahl (Peasantry or Power) which ex- plains in a very clear way the recent American developments in the farming situa The January Workers Monthly operations in Nicaragua, The bay tion in America, reviews the various between Nicaragua and Salvador 1s | manifestations of the farmers’ move- called the Bay of Fongeca and {4 leas: | ments in the last period of time, and ed by the United States as @ naval | ‘wows considerable light on the rela- baa, { ona ot the government to agricul- i a j tk LY WORKER NICARAGUA TO FOLLOW PANAMA- THE EAGLE HOVERS OVER MEXICO West Indies not to speak of other ter- ritories in South America, This was not to be for the Negro slave traders, but it is still dear to the hearts of their successors, the traders in wage slaves and dollars. The events since the Spanish-American War have seen a steady grofth of penetration, economic, political and military that gives sign of stopping no place north of the Straits of Ma- gellan, Latin-America Balks, HTS is duly resented by Latin- America. Very few Spanish Ame- ricans have been fooled by the Mon- roe Doctrine. They may not have minded it so much in 1823. But with its Rooseveltian amplification and all that has transpired in the passing years, it is hard not to see its true meaning. A famous Argentine publicist, Man- uel Ugarte, epitomized the attitude of Latin-America towards the United States in an open letter to- President ‘Wilson just prior to his inauguration in 1913: We desire that Cuba be freed, We desire that Nicaragua. be permitted to become the arbiter of her own destiny, We desire that the abom- inable injustice committed against Colombia be rectified. We desire freedom for the heroic peoples of the Philippines. We desire that to Panama be oonceded the dignity. of a nation. We desire that Mexico should not continually see the sword of Damocles of intervention suspended over her flag. We de- mand equality; we demand respect; we demand, in short, that the Stars and Stripes cease to be a symbol of oppression in the Néw World. The words of Senor Ugarte, utter- ed in 1913, are more true today than ever as a picture of the resentment of Latin-America towards the en- croachment of the big northern pow- er. Every Nook and Corner. HERE is not a country in Latin- America {n which the power of the United States is not felt. Since the war, since the United States ceased to be a debtor nation and had fabu- lous sums of ‘capital for export, the bankers of New York have put their Also Bunny reviewed his threat about Annabelle. “You tell Verne; with my compliments, I’m going to lay siege to his girl, and take her to that meeting. I'll tell her he’s trying to keep her in a golden cage, and that'll make her go; and if ever she hears the full story of those po litical prisoners she'll make Verne wish he’d known when to quit!” Dad could hardly keep from grin- ning. Poor old man, in his secret heart he was proud of the kid’s nerve! ‘Whether Dad used the argument. fingers into every nook ‘and corner of the continent. Sugar, coffee, fruit, mining, oii, lumber and most import- ant of all, money trusts and com- panies with headquarters for the most part in New York have worked their way into the economic and political life of all twenty “republics in Latin- America some of them controlled out- right. Revolutions and counter-revolutions have been started and stopped at will. In Central America and the Caribbean, marines have been landed’ to control the course of elections or for com- plete occupation. In South America the hand of the bankers works in de- vious ways. The granting or with- holding of a loan, of itself, carries with it great political power. Vene- zuela dances to the tune of American banking firms and Bolivia is owned part and parcel. (Concluded tomorrow,) ture. The article closes with an an- alysis of the perspectives facing the American farmer in connection with independent. political action and the class struggle. The offensive against the feft wing in the trade unions is commented up- on and examined by William Z. Fos- ter (The Struggle’ in the Needle Trades) who explains the recent right wing activities in the needle trades unions from ‘the point of view of the advancing tide of company unionism, whether initiated in an open form by the bosses or in a hidden form by the right wing bureaucrats. From Com- tade Foster’s analysis of the situation in the needle trades conclusions are drawn as to what the tasks and ac- tivities of the left wing must be in or- der to saye and vitalize the trade un- Another phase in the development ment is. toughed wpon. by Earl. R. Browder (The Five-Day Week). The movement for the fiveday week is brought back by Comrade Browder to its economic basis, the unexampled increase in the rate of) produttivity in Among ‘the shorter articles the out- standing one is ‘the presentation of the problems facing the VII Enlarged Exeoutive of the C. I. written by John Pepper before the Plenum lopened and interesting now-to compare with the actual work of the Plenum. The an- alytical and statistical articles—by L, Plott on the Youth and the~ Labor Movement and the article on the sit- uation of the Soviet Economy on the Ninth Anniversary—present valuable for use and for reference. An interesting feature of this is- sue of the Workers Monthly is the article by HB. Kantor (Civilization— An Historical Category) in which the exact solentific meaning of the oft- misused term ‘clvilization” ig dis- about Annabelle, or what he said, this much is history—two days after Vernon Roscoe arrived from Wash- ington in his private car, carrying in his own hands the precious docu- ments with the big red seals of the department of the interior, the dia- trict attorney of San Elido county appeared before Superior Judge Patten, and entered a “nolle pros” in the eight criminal syndicalism cases. So Vee Tracy got back her ten thousand dollars, and the seven oll. workers were turned out half- blinded into the sunshine, and Bunny postponed his premier appearance in the role of that ill bird—what- ever may be the name of it—which is reputed to foul its own nest, Im. Bunny got the news before it was in the papers, and he hastened to take it to Paul and Ruth. Paul had got work as a carpenter, and they had rented a little cottage on the rear of a lot, not too expensive, Ruth had started her nurse’s course in one of the big hospitals, and Paul had got some bboks, and there was» a little paradise transported to a working-class part of Angel City, And oh, the happiness that shone in Ruth’s face when Bunny came in with the news! And then the strange mixture of anguish and Pride, as Paul spoke: “It’s good of you, son, to have taken so much trouble, and I do appreciate it; but I'm afraid you won’t think me very grateful when you hear what I’m going to do with my freedom.” “What is it, Paul?” “T’'ve decided to join the Workers Party.” “Oh, Paul!” Bunny’s face showed dismay. “But why?” “Because I believe im their tac- tics. I always have, ever since my time in Siberla. I waited, because I didn’t want to hurt the strike; and after I got arrested I couldn't do anything without compromising the other fellows. But now it won't hurt anyone but myself, so I’m go- oing to say what I know.” f “But Paul! They’ll only arrest you again!” “Maybe so. But this time they'll arrest me as a Communist, and they'll try me that way.” “But they’ve already convicted so many!” ‘ “That’s the way an unpopular cause has to grow—there’s no other way. Here I am, an obscure work- ing man, and nobody pays any at- tention to what I think or say; but if they try me as a Communist I make people talk and think about our ideas,” Bunny stole a look at Ruth: a pitiful sight, her eyes riveted upon her brother, and her hands clasped tight in fear. It was so that she had looked when Paul was going off to war. It was her fate to see him go off to war! “Are you sure there’s nothing more important you can do, Paul?” “I used to think I was going to do a lot of great things. But the last few years have taught me that a working man isn’t very important in this capitalist world, and he has to remember his place. A lot of us are going to jail, and a lot more are going to die. The one thing we must be sure of is that we help to awaken the slaves.” There was a pause. “You're quite sure it can’t come peaceably, Paul?” “The other side has the say about that, son. Do you think they were peaceable during the strike? You should have,been there!” 4 “And you've given up hope for democracy?” “No, not at all! Democracy is the goal—it’s the only thing worth working for. But it can’t exist till we've broken the strangehold of big business. That's a fighting job, and it can’t be done by democracy, Look at the boobs that Eli hag got in his tabernacle, and imagine them setting out to get the best of Verne Roscoe!” Bunny could not avoid a smile, “That's exacly Verne’s own state ment.” i ee (Continued tomorrow.) note the article provides a problenj for much consideration. A continuation of Heinz Neumann’ valuable discussion of the Ultra-Left offensive in the Cominters (Ultra-Left Menshevism), the editor’ review of two recent Marxian publications, Jay Lovestone’ discussion of another notable work the mm revolution, and tht usual quota of striking reviews cor clude the enumeration of the conte ‘rich number—-both in quantity. at 4 I. r 4 ti (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair)