The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1927, Page 6

5 i } ‘ a i f : / : ia Se Cage Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 ——— SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By rnall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months — ‘Address all mail and make out che THE DAILY WORKER, ks to 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, J, LOUIS WILLIAM BERT Editors Business Manager }DAHL DUNNE { MILLER —_—— Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. << 200 Advertising rates on application, More Tanks hay a Deadlier War The Chicago Tribune, as the chief mouthpiece of mid-west in- dustrial capital and some finance thrown in, is important enough to be used as a punching bag on our editorial page. It has a circula- tion of well over half“a million daily and over one million on Sun- days. In addition, the Tribune owners also publish a weekly with a circulation over a million and a pictorial daily in New York that has passed the million mark in circulation. The Tribune believes in the Nietzschean diplomacy, howls for a big army and navy, glorifies war and pictures those who prefer the ways of peace to the ways of slaughter as anaemic individuals who got mixed up with the female sex in nature’s laboratory before they saw the light of day. Yet we are told that the Tribune’s editor who writes the most savage of those jingo editorials has only one kidney, half a lung and is obliged to take iodine in his coffee to keep his thyroid glands from slipping down his throat. This is the material of which this hero is made. William Randolph Hearst and his “man Friday” Brisbane have a monopoly on the increased circulation that a continuous how] for more warplanes may bring. The Tribune being in competition with Hearst in Chicago and New ‘ork grabbed the tank issue and is now flogging it vigorously. The manufacturers of machinery than another period of war hysteria. make? We would have another crop of multi-millionaires. The stocks of the shipbuilding companies and the steel corporations would rise, and since the insiders would be in a position to predict a rise they could make an additional killing on the stock market. It would be a glorious era for patriotism. The Tribune is afraid that the “people” are not conscious of the dangerous state of unpreparedness in which the United States is alleged to be. The number of “people” that are conscious of any- thing except that they must have food, clothing and shelter is com- paratively small. The Tribune wants to make the masses uncon- scious, not conscious. It is mouthing the interests of the class that will profit by war; the class that will supply the guns, tanks, war- ships and warplanes. The working class, alias the “people,” will supply the corpses, the legless bodies and the eyeless heads. The Tribune is digging up the old bunk about the natural peace- fulness of America. When Elihu Root received the Wilson peace prize he indulged in the same hypocritical twaddle, the while United States marines were occupying Nicaragua and United States battle ships were steaming towards China. We are also’ told that military preparedness is insurance against ~war. Germany and France could tell different stories. Neither is the opposite true. Nicaragua has not a military machine big enough to make a decent Moose parade, but it possesses mineral resources which are coveted by our ruling classes. Mexico is weak militarily, but has oil. To contend that the United States is endangered by Mexico or Nicaragua is to set a valuation on public intelligence that would be resented by a moron. Not So Fine, Mr. Fine Nathan Fine, who until now was only known as an underground member of the socialist party, his task being to do friendly jobs for the 8. P. while posing as a farmer-laborite, has thrown off his mask and appears in bold print with the announcement that as a member of the socialist party, he has a perfect right to propose its liquidation. This amazing proposal was made in the New Leader last week. It is part of a symposium running in that paper which deals with the problem of what do with what is left of the socialist party. Most of the readers have hope for the patient’s revival, but not so Mr. Fine. “It’s dead,” says Fine in effect, “let’s bury the corpse.” Fine is almost right, but an embalmed corpse is worth some- thing as advertising in an undertaker’s window. The socialist party leaders are not going to take Mr. Fine’s advice until there is a prospect of a better paying proposition in sight. Just now there isn’t, outside the capitalist parties and most renegades have fared iH. in those parties. Having access to a research department Fine presents us with some interesting figures. He shows that, discounting the votes cast for socialist candidates in the vicinity of Aimee McPherson’s Temple in Los Angeles, in Victor Berger’s balliwick in Milwaukee and on the.east side of New York, the S. P. did not poll enough votes in 1926 to make « fire. And the vote was the sole whole and only ex- ruse the socialist party ever had for work in the trade unions meant butting in on the prerogatives of the labor leaders. The labor fakers thought this attitude very nice of them. Being no longer able to poll votes or find candidates to look for them, Fine proposes that the socialist party quit the field as a polit- ieal party and become a propaganda league, with only the aim of uniting with “friendly unions, parties and individuals for political action.” This action would not take place until 1928. Provided the pay check came along regularly, a socialist functionary would have a long rest between jobs even if not between meals. Fine would have the socialists first liquidate what is left of their party and then with the corpus delicti available for public inspection they could go to the labor fakers and ask for contribu- tions to a fund to unite with the labor fakers and other friendly individuals. They would assure the labor leaders that Commun- ists would not be allowed into this proposed charnel house either as individuals or as organizations. Despite Mr. Fine’s animosity towards the Communists we find ourselves in agreement with him as to the political bankruptcy of the socialist party. Mr. Fine wrote a lengthy article and covered the subject very thoroly with one exception. He forgot to say that the new united hash he proposes should have a policy. But what las the profession of vote-catching to do with policy? We wish Mr. Fine the best of luck in his praiseworthy aim, but we fear Messrs, Hillquit and Oneal will have sense enough not to throw away their old clothing until the propects of getting new garments are brighter.. ) pAs a comicygheet the New Leader is mre Life step lively. vee would like nothing better What a killing they could By THURBER LEwIs. (Continued from yesterday) IX hundred thousand American dol- lars started a revolution against the liberal president Jose Santos Ze- laya in. 1909, Zelaya was opposed to the United States acquiring control of Fonseca Bay for a naval base and per- petual rights for an isthmian canal. mining company, Adolpfo Diaz, the self same gentleman who {s consti- dered president of Nicaragua by the United States. The rebels were supported by Unit ed States marines who landed at Blue- fields. Their troops and ammunition were carried on American ships fly- ing the Nicaraguan flag. Thanks to this aid, American paid rebels under General Juan Estrada, beat the Zelaya forces, forcing the president to flee | ind set up a government immediately | recognized by the United States. Loan Flows. One year later, the U. S. state de- vartment arranged for a loan to be nade to Nicaragua by the American »anking firm of Brown Brothers and ‘company. From that time on, Nicara guans have not been able to call their land their own, Eventually, the railways and banks of Nicaragua were completely con trolled by American banks and the | by} American commissioners to pay off | the loans forced upon the country by | customs and revenues collected he banks thru pressure by the Brit jepartment. Dems and Reps Alike. All of these things transpired un- | der the presidency of William Howard | Wilson, | Taft, republican. President democrat, continued the brave work. In 1913, the population of Nicaragua began to boil with hostilities against the American controlled Adolfo Diaz. The chamber called for an election which was refused and the { unpopularity of the regime soon ex-| pressed itself in a revolt led by the| liberals. Hight U. S. ships of war with a complement of 125 officers and 2,600 men were sent to Nicaragua and took military steps against the rebels. Af- ter the marines had participated in all the important military engagements | and forced the liberals to surrender, an election was held with marines ‘guarding” the polls. Diaz was re- slected president. T was also under the democrat Wil- |" son in 1916, that a treaty was sign- ed with President Chamorro’s govern- ment granting the Fonseca Bay naval base and the rights to an isthmian canal for consideration of $3,000,000 to be paid by the United States. Nica- ragua, of course, didn’t see a red cent of the money. It was paid to the bankers in payment of loans which they had made to Nicaragua. Again in 1922 the Chamorro govern ment was threatened by an uprising With the help of the marines the gov ernment arrested 300 liberals, declar Press Criticism of Coolidge That even the capitalist press re- fuses to swallow the interventionist policy of Coolidge and Kellogg with regard to Latin-America is shown by the following editorial that appeared in the San Francisco Daily News. It ig a typical reflection of the attitude taken towards the present crisis by a large number of dailies thruout the country: BLUNDERS THAT MAY LEAD TO WAR America’s official policy with rela- tion to Mexico is in the hands of President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg. The latter seems to have made it or blundered into it; the former now asks the Amer- ican press and public to support it. ether they are leading the Amer- ‘cel people into war. That is what it means if they do not take warn- ing from the people’s attitude and abandon the course on which they are embarked. They may not know this. It may be one of the many things in the present situation which they do not know, But it is the fact. If reason does not supplant the present policy of our state depart- ment, this country. will soon be launched upon as shameful a mili- tary undertaking as ever besmirch- ed a proud nation’s history, 8.449 New Year's Eve, at midnight, with merrymaking reaching its height in Washington, a very differ- ent scene was being enacted in Mexico City. There the chamber of deputies, in an extraordinary ses- sion, was ringing with bitter denun- ciation of the government of the United States—the government, not the people of the United States. And the galleries roared their approval. These deeply-stirred Mexican legislators were not threatenipg war on the United States, They threatened only to defend their country and—to die fighting. The years have proved they will do just that, Do, we wish to put them once more to th¢ Proof? Or do we wish American govern- with the clear desire people? eg square fs NICARAGUA 1 THE EAGLE Hence the revolution, which was dl- | rected by an official of an American | President |. 4 DAILY WERKER WANTING A SEC CEREDS T0 TAKE AND ROOSEVEL BEAN AN “AMBRIC: DUED—LATIN AMERICA ANCE— i cage ed martial law mad sioveeved the rebellion, The same Adolfo Diaz who was sup- plied with American funds in 1909 un- der the republican Taft, saved by U. S. bayonets in 1913 ‘by the democrat Wilson, is being again protected by le republican Coolidge, with more merican troops than have ever land- d in the republic. The Liberals Come Back. HE most recent invasion by ma- rines came about in the follow- ing manner. Diaz was succeeded in 1916, the year of the canal treaty, by Emiliano Chamorro.. In 1920, the Diego Chamorro was made president and served until his death in 1923 when Bartolome Martinez came to power to finish out the term. Then in the elections of 1924 a liberal gov- ernment was elected with Carlos Sa- lazorno as president and Juan Saca- sa as vice-president, The Salazorno government was in "S BIG STICK—TO MAKE N LAKEB/ THE WORKERS OF THE ARE THE NATURAL ALLIES OF THE OF IMPERIALISM, O FOLLOW PANAMA- VERS OVER MEXICO ND CANAL, THE UNITED STATES PRO- —THE MONROE DOCTRINE THE CARIB- MEXICO MUST BE SUB- CONGHALS FOR RESIST- UNITED STATES VICTIMS trouble from its very inception, From the start it clashed with American in- terests because it presumed that Ni- “sovereign na- It made demands for the ad- caragua tion was still a ministration of its own customs, bank and railways and, in fact, regained nominal control of the latter two. Marines Go Away, URING 1925 the marines were withdrawn from the country, Heretofore, the marines had been pe- = b) aol stationed in the cite Ma- nagua, as a “legation guard.” From 1909 to 1925 the marines had been present with necessary reinforce- ments from time to time to maintain the various conservative governments in power. On every occasion upon which the liberals had attempted to overthrow the various American con- trolled governments of Diaz and the two Chamorros, the marines were on hand in strong enough force to pre- vent it. Why They Went, UT now the marines were sud- denly withdrawn. American pub- licists began “pointing, with pride” and announcing a new era in Ameri- can relations with Latin-America, But the Ifberals very soon found out why the marines left. The soldiers had no sooner shouldered their knap-sack’ than Chamorro started a revolution against the government. Salazorno resigned and Sacasa took charge in defense, of the regime. no marines to help him. ~ Thanks to secret Chamorro was at'length successful in capturing .Managua. With machine guns to back his demand, he forced a special session of congress to elect himself president. Later under pres- {sure from the United States Chamorro | stepped out and allowed an old friend | Diaz, more sympathetic to Wall Street to gét elected by another “packed” congress, Sacasa, however, refused to recognize the election and took to the field, ed with success, When the marines suddenly ‘reappeared on the scene. The Mexican Bogey. Then it was that Diaz, plainly under the inspiration of» the American charge d’affairs, Lawrence Dennis, is- sued his notorious statement in which he declared that Mexico was aiding Sacasa, that the country was threat- ened by bolshevism and that Mexico’s object in. intervening was to endan- ger the American canal, It was upon this flimsy pretext that Admiral Latimer’s entire Caribbean special squadron was reinforced and took virtual possession of ‘the coun- try. At this writing there are fifteen irst class fighting ships in Nicara- guan waters with 5,000 blue jackets and marines. The total number of troops in the combatant forces in Nicaragua is not more than 5,000. UT why all this array of force for such a little country as Nicaragua hat could easily be subdued with less han half as many troops?’ Besides | Nicaragua, there is still the question t Mexico. Intended For Mexico. YT is no accident that these forces are being martialed in the Carib- bean at the time when’ the contro- | versy with Mexico over the oi] and land laws has entered its critical stage. The fact is that this big naval power now off the coast of ‘Central America is put there for use, not only in support of the reactionary Diaz in Nicaragua, but as well in preparation for armed intervention in Mexico, Since the Mexican constitution of 1917 asserted the rights of that coun- try to its own natural resources and challenged the imperial expansion of the United States, the republic across the Rio Grande has been regarded by the people of Latin-America as their champion, The Stumbling Block. EXICO is the stumbling block to the American design for unquali fied control of the whole of Central America and the Caribbean. On top of this, the Mexican people are now asserting their soveréignty over the oil, mineral and other natural resourc- es out of which Doheny, Standard Oi! et al have made many cool millions The precedent for intervention in Mex- ico has been set, in 1914 ‘and again in 1916. The jingoes are again loos- ing their war cries, The oil men are demanding action. This explains why there are now so many ships in the Caribbean. HE whole of Latin-America is aroused. One of the contradictions of rampant imperialism is that'a sub- jugated people won't stay subdued. Most of the cards are now in Wall Street’s hand, But Latin-America has still a role to play and while there ts at ‘present no consolation for them in the dollar-drunk leadership of the American Federation of Labor, the fact still remains’ that the work- ing class of the United States is the natural ally of the victims of Ameri- can imperialism, Kellogg’s Navy Takes Nicaragua Hy Latimer is shown above with a ind-aft hat, He commands 15 men who are In Ni od 6h leships and 5,000 ave to keep the power, ft puppet President Diaz, also shown, In from time to time. A deck full of blue jackets | Bluefields, the Ameri naval head: shows how they deliver broadsides of | quarters. There is also shewn the small arms on rata a state house at the There were American aid, His arms were being crown- i, plenages, (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) “Well, he’s a practical man, and », I've a great respect for him. He wants to do something, and he finds ‘out the way and he does it. He doesn’t let the government get in his way, does he? No, he has over- thrown the government by bribery. By the way, son, have you seen Dan Irving’s Washington letter this week?" “The paper’s at home, but I did not stop to look at it.” “Well, you'll be interested. Dan says its known to all the newspaper: menin Washington that Roscoe and O'Reilly made a deal with the at torney general to buy the nomina- tion for Harding, on condition they were to get these naval reserve leases. They've been buying gov ernment officials right and left, and newspaper men also. There's clam- or for an investigation, but the gang , Won't, let’ it, happen,” There was a pause, Paul, watch- ing his friend’s face, saw an uneasy look, and added, ‘D‘on’t talk to me about it, son—I don’t want to know anything I’m not free to tell. But you. and I both understand—that é# capitalist government, and what has it got to do with democracy?” ie Again Bunny didn’t answer; and’ Paul said, “I think about Verne, as” you call him, because I’ve just had a run-in with him, and he’s the sys tem to me. I want to take his pow ers away from him; and how am’T going to do it? I’ve boxed the com“ pass, trying to figure out how it can be done legally. He’s got the courts, and they'll call anything legal that he says; they'll wind you up ine spider’s web of technicalities. He's got the machinery for reaching the masses—you can’t tell them any- thing but what he wants them to hear. He's got the movies—people say he has a movie star for a mist regs—maybe you know about that. And you've been to college— O'Reilly attends to that, Im told. We could never get a majority yote —because Verne has the ballot boxes stuffed: even if we elected anybody he’d have them bought be- fore they got into office. The more I think of the idea that he would give up to paper ballots—the crazier it seems to me.’ “But then, Paul, what can you hope for?” “I’m going to the workers! Verne’s. oil workers are the basis of his power, they produce his wealth and they can be reached, they’re not scattered all over. They have one common job and one common in- terest--they want the wealth that Verne takes from them, Of course, they know that only dimly; they read his newspapers, and go to his movies, But we're going to teach them—and when they take the ofl wells how can Verne get them back?” “He'll send troops and take them, Paul!” “He won't send troops because we'll have the railwaymen, We'll have the telegraphers and they'll send our messages instead of “his, We'll have the men in all the key industries—we're golng out to om ganize them and tell them exactly how to do it—all power to the unions.” Bunny was contemplating ones more the vision which his friend had brought back from Siberia, Ana Paul went on, with that condescend- ing air that had always impressed Bunny and infuriated his sister, “It seems dreadful to you, because it means a fight and you don’t want to fight—you don’t have to. The men for this job are the ones that have had the iron in their souls— men that have been beaten and crushed, thrown into jail and starved there, That’s how Verne makes the revolution, he throws us into jail and lets us rot, We He there and have bitter, black thoughts! All the Bolsheviks got their training in dungeons; and now the masters are giving the same course in America, It’s not only that we're tempered and made hard it’s that we become marked men, the workers know us; the poor slaves that don’t dare move a hand for themselves, they learn that there are fellows they can trust, that won't sell them out to Verne Roscoe! I’m going back to Para: (ise, son, and teach Communism,, and {f Verne has me arrested again, the Moscow program will go into the court records of fan Elide county,” (Continued tomorrew,) Kenosha Will Have Concert and Dance Sunday, January 16 will be given next Sunday,