The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1927, Page 2

4 ‘| en ~—pivilte—cpe of the costliest and long- workers and their families, Page Two AL SMITH AND JINMY WALKER PRAISE ‘RIGHTS’ Left Wingers in Unions Are “Un-American” By GORDON CASCADEN | (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK CITY, Jan, 12—Labor's | enemies are fast uniting in their war int New York labor, the poli- tioal heads of this state and city being the latest foes to. openly declare themselves as ready to do the bidding of their capitalist masters. “Un-American.” Declaring that all lef forces are “un-Americ and “un- patriotic,” Governor “Al” Smith and Mayor “Jimmie” Walker joined Wil-| liam L. De Bost, president of the} New York state chamber of com-} merce, in praising the generalship of | Henry H. nder, for two and one-| half years ident of the Industrial wing labor | Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manu-! facturers, | The o was a banquet in honor | of the anti-labor head of the cloak | manufacturers, held at the Hotel | Plaza, and attended by 500 pronounced | enemies of organized labor. Various speakers sounded the praises of the general who fought progressive labor thru alliance with reactionary labor groups. “Smith for President.” Governor Smith, who has been selected by the Knights of Columbus wing of the democrat party to enter the contest for the presidential nomi- nation of that party, explained the labor plank of the presidential pro- gram of the K. of C. This progra it is expected, will rally all the tionary forces of the American ation of Labor ma-| chine to the Smith bandwagon. | “Pressure of public business during the logislative session prevents my jattending the dinner in honor of your | president, Mr. Henry H. Finder,” Gov- tnor Smith declared in a letter read at the banquet. | “I regret this all the more keenly | as the problems of your industry are | mot unfamiliar to me, and as I have first hand knowledge of Mr. Finder's gourageous and sound leadership. Appreciates Strike-Breakers. | “I wish I could express in his pres- | @L0e my “ppreciation for his efforts to aver’ /and later to settle the recent ‘est in the history of your industry, . “Enlightened loaders realize that ‘avoidable industrial warfare is waste- 1 and profitless to employers and ig6 suffering and misery to the “Responsible leaders of the Amer- Gean labor movement have always shown a willingness to sit around a table with their employers to achieve their just demands by peaceful nego- | Nation before they resort to a strike. “Mediation.” “A Wabor leadership which discour- ‘ges mediation and voluntary arbi- | tration and which refuses to recog- nize the interest of the public in in- | dustrial disputes is short-sighted, and ‘when it concerns itself primarily with SECRETARY OF “YOUNG ASIA” SENDS COMPLIMENTS TO DAILY WORKER FOR ITS DEFENSE OF OPPRESSED PEOPLES 1a of America, to whose service of your great paper. As a reader, a }, and special | muttering the sentiment of the majo) articles that do not bear the ‘foul apologetics.” As a native of an oppressed nation in the East, | think | am LTHO not having the honor of being a member of the Workers Party The DAILY WORKER ig faithfully devoted, | take great pride in congratulating you upon the fourth birthday subscriber, and a student of Interna- | tional politics, | must express my sincere gratitude to you for providing me with news and information that are not distorted by venal imperialist bias smell of “impebialist pity of the oppressed peoples of Asia when | say, without hesitation, that every sincere anti-imperialist is, in- debted to The DAILY WORKER for the militant attitude it has main- tained and for the splendid work it hag done in the three years of its existence. Every morning, my mind often disturbed by the reading of the Chi- cago Tribune the night before, | have eagerly awaited The DAILY WORK- ER. Like a summer shower, it inv mediately brings me back to my senses. WORKER because | know It needs bly refreshes my intellect and im- 1 am not flattering The DAILY no flatterer. | am simply expressing my sincerest convictions and sentiments about your paper. | think it Is answering a definite demand and tho it does not boast of being “the world’s greatest newspaper,” | believe it is FIGHTING FOR THE CAUSE AND SUPPORTING THE VITAL INTERESTS OF THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE ON EARTH. From that it Is not merely American bu the nature of the paper I can judge it INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE, It truly BEARS A WORLD INTEREST and every conscious member of the oppressed class should contribute to its support and should be benefited by it. | am confident that as long as the cause for its existence remains, The DAILY WORKER has a mission to fulfill. extend my hearty greetings on its oppressed nations of the East are intetest as ‘class collaboration’ it is un-American.” Walker Echoes, Mayor Walker echoed Governor Smith’s sentiments about the “un- | American” attitude of left wing labor leaders, which the president of the state chamber of commerce and vari- are New York state and city politi- cians and antilabor leaders the only publicists attacking left-wing labor. “Yellow” socialists and reactionary craft union bureaucrats, as a matter of course, denounce every labor group favoring a solid labor front in the class war. Bedfellows. So do capitalist newspapers, such “liberal” publications as the New York World and the “fair” New York Times. carrying editorial tions under the cloak of stories. The extreme “right” capitalist press “news” | joins the A, F, of L. bureaucrats in their campaign against progressive unionism. The New York Commercial, recent- ly consolidated with the N. Y. Journal’ of Commerce, devoted one of its last editorials to an attack on the left wing and an eulogy of the right wing leadership of labor unions. Slight Quake In Kansas. McPHERSON, Kan., Jan. 12.—Resi- |dents of this city and farmers report- ed a slight earthquake shock was felt today. A keystone over an arched window im a stone building dropped out of place to the sidewalk in the business section of town. No other damage was reported, “Ma” Pardons 32 More. AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 12— Governor Miriam A. Ferguson today ran her clemency total for her two year term Warfare, and characterizes the public to 3,190 by announcing 32 full pardons. GREETINGS FROM STREET NUCLEUS TWO Oakland, Cal. to THE DAILY WORKER on its Third Birthday. SCRANTON, ATTENTION! DAILY WORKER ANNIVERSARY SUPPER SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1927, AT 7 P, M. M, Grudis’ “Rench Roop” Hall, 1610 Washburn St., Hyde Park, Admission $1, Children 600, All profit to The Dally Worker, i mca pueereee alae ous anti-labor leaders applauded. Nor | denuncia- | Therefore, allow me to fourth birthday and, with a thankful heart, permit me to assure you that conscientious representatives of the as earnest supporters of The DAILY WORKER as the most militant element of the American proletariat! Fraternally yours, L CH’AO-TING CHI, General Secretary, “Young Asia.” ee | |Kellogg Raises “Red Scare” to Cover “War” (Continued from page 1) imperialism has aroused resistance against it. This resistance is the bas- jis of our league, which fights for the withdrawal of all U. S. troops from foreign soil, the independence of U.S. colonies and semi-colonies and repud- jiation of the imperialistic Monroe Doctrine. - | “Just now we demand immediate withdrawal of U. S. forces from Nicaragua and hands off Mexico! Let | Secretary Kellogg mect these de- mands—the demands of all Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to | Cape Horn, as-well as of workers and farmers inthe United States—in- stead of talking about the Commu- nists. 1 “The All-American Anti-Imperialist League is by no ‘means a Communist | organization, but we certainly do not |Tepudiate the’ Communists, who stand by us in the ‘struggle against Ameri- can imperialism. Indeed, we freely admit that Communists are welcomed in our various national sections. However, it is’ outraged Latin Ameri- can nationalism, not Communism, | that supplies the great body of sup- | port for our mbvement. In the United | States itselfthe home country of | imperialism—things are somewhat | different. Here the Communists are | our most active support. We have nothing to apologize for about this fact. All organizations willing to take up the ‘fight against American imperialism ‘are welcome.” Tax Hearing on Ford Stock Sale Reveals Profits (Continued from page 1) amount of tax due, it was necessary to fix the 1913 value, as the differ- ence between this figure, and the price at which the stockholders sold their shares to Henry Ford, repre- sents the amount on which the taxes were computed. The figure set in 1913 was declared unfair by a subsequent regime in the bureau of internal revenue, almost five years later. Should the government's contention be sustained, that a commissioner of internal revenue can set aside the acts of his predecessors, and levy ad- ditional assessments, Mr. Davies de- clared “there would be no security in either business or property rights of the citizens of this government.” [=e Philadelphia! A historical struggle in a motion picture. THE PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE A stirring, thrilling, thought-provok- Ing movie of a great battle, Saturday, January 15 at MOOSE HALL, Broad and Thompson 8t. ALBERT WEISBORD Will Speak, Two Shows—7 and 9 P, M, Admission 60 Cents. THE DAILY WORKER CHICAGO FOREIGN- BORN CONFERENCE SCORES SUCCESS ‘More Than 100 Labor Bodies Represented Representatives from over 100 trade ‘unions and fraternal organizations at- tended a conference called by the Chi-! cago Council for the Protection of For- eign-Born at Machinists’ Hall, 113 Ss. Ashland Blvd., to protest the anti-alien | bills now pending in cOnmgress and like- lly to come up any day. Plans were |laid to conduct a permanent campaign jagainst any legislation threatening the |welfare of foreign-born residents in | the United States, Hit Aswell Bill. Delegates branded the Aswell bill which calls for the registration of all aliens living in the United States as an attempt to crush the organized la- bor movement and as part of an “open |shop” campaign sponsored by the Na- tional Manufacturers’ ‘Association and advocated by Elbert H. Gary and other large business interests in the coun- try. Also Holaday Bill. The conference was unanimous in attacking the new voluntary registra- tion bill offered by Representative Holaday from Illinois at this session and the argument advanced by Hola- day that thru this means the 8,000,000 | aliens living in this country would be | assisted to become citizeng as only | |8 sugar coating of the pill, the Aswell bill, which has been consistently | fought by labor. “They are deter- |mined to get this poison of police lespionage into our system of govern- ment. This is only another version of their pesistence to push these meas- ures thru,” the organizer of the Coun- cil told the delegates, Elect Committees. Committees were elected to conduct agitation work thruout the labor move- ment to rally members of organized labor in Chicago.in the opposition jagainst these measures. It was de- clared at the meeting that passage | of the Aswell bill will be attempted at any time and immediate action on | the part of labor organizations was urged. Resolutions were adopted and copies were sént to all IlMnols congressmen. Action was also taken in appreciation @ the favorable stand adopted by the Chicago Federation of Labor in sup- port of this campaign. Meetings of the conference will be held once a month. Part of ‘ce ot the coun- cil is to aid ‘become na- turalized. Clarence Darrow, Chicago attorney, is legal adviser of the council, 4 Mass 15,000 Troops on Mexican Border (Continued from page 1) Arizona—tst battalion of the 25th in- fantry. Fort Hauchuca, Arizona—10th caval- ry, commanded by Colonel L. C. Scherer; 700 men. Camp Stevens D. Little, \\Nogalez, Arizona—25th infantry, commanded by Colonel Andrew J. Daugherty; 700 men. ' Troops in the 9th corps area avail- able in an emergency include 600 men of the 11th cavalry, stationed at Presidio, Calif., and commanded by | Colonel Leon B. Kroner, and ‘800 men jot the 4th and 13th cavalry regiments jand_the 76th field artillery, stationed at D. R. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Air Corps Ready. These troops are augmented by the usual auxiliary units such as head- quarters companies, quartermaster de- tachments, medical units, machine gun squadrons, ete, In addition the aid corps has machines and pilots at Fort Brown and Fort Clark as well as at the various flying fields in Texas and other southern states. Another force that could be called PPOSITION to the imperialist aggressions of Wall Street's government at Washington against the peoples of Latin-America comes from cert®in well-defined sources, It ig no accident that Huddleston and Heflin, of Alabama; Caraway, of Arkansas, and other “southern- ers” in congress are in the lead of the fight against the “war policies” of the Coolidge-Mellon administra- tion, ** “The South” is far divorced from the great banking centers of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, It has no great war munitions produc- ing industries. It is not drawn strongly into the imperialist cur rent, It wants a foreign market for its surplus cotton crop, to be sure, but it turns a cold shoulder on Wall Street’s financial conquest of Latin- America, eee This is quite a change from the days ante-dating the Civil War when “The South” directed its land- hungry gaze toward the West Indies and South America as possible new slave territory, The protestant South is not inter- ested today in the religious phase of the Wall Street-catholic attack on Mexico. Oil and rubber passes it by, as well as Mexican land laws hostile to alien profiteers, It was different, however, when the slave-holding South, in control of the national government at Wash- ington, launched an unprovoked war against Mexico to force the annex- ation of Texas and a large extent of other territory. But the bounds of possible expansion were soon reached on continental America, Even much of the land taken from Mexico was closed to chattel slavery by the encroachments of the wage labor society of the north, se It was then that the chattel slave oligarchy in desperation turned to the tropical countries and islands further south, The southern states- men talked in Napoleonic terms of a “manifest destiny” that was driv- ing them on to the possession of Cuba and the Valley of the Amazon. DeBow’s Review, Vol. 280, containg a report of a conven- tion held at Memphis, Tenn. in 1853, where a long resolution on the opening of the Amazon was adopted, ‘beginning as follows: “Resolved, That the interests of commerce, the cause of civilization, and the mandates of high heaven, require the Atlantic slopes of South America to be subdued and replen- ished.” Thus envious eyes turned toward Cuba at this time, and the deserip- | tions of the atrocities of Spanish rule in that island, according to A. M, Simons, “Social Forces in Amer- ican History,” read very much like the writings which appeared upon that same subject almost 60 years later, when Northern capitalism was, in its turn, struggling for ex- pansion” and launched forth on the imperialistic adventure known as the Spanish-American War. Today, however, the South is not much concerned with Wall Street's “manifest destiny” as the financial kaiser of the world and Huddleston, Heflin and Caraway make their anti- war speeches knowing that they will not be opposed at home, Of course, when war actually breaks they will be out selling “liberty bonds” along with the rest. Such is their loyalty to capitalism, . o- Farmers are inherently anti-im- perialist. They look on the interna- tional bankers as their enemies, It upon in am emergency is the army’s “good will” filers who recently started on a South American air voyage. These airmen were reported today as being in Salvador, Central America. is easy, therefore, for Sen. Wheeler, (democrat of Montana) professing belief in the destiny of capitalism, to make anti-war speeches, thus catering to the farmers and main- | Greetings to THE DAILY WORKER as it starts its third year of service to the working class. From the Business and Editorial Staffs, Breathe the Spirit of Class Struggle Into the Opposition to “the War” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, taining opposition to the republic- | ans. Wheeler was in opposition, to some extent, to the world war. Sen. Norris (republican of Nebraska) responds in the same way to the agricultural interests of his state, that are concerned more with sell- ing wheat and corn than with the protection of “vested interests” in Latin-America, se The playing of politics within the old parties, however, can be seen as an effective gag on the war op- position in congress, Senator Borah (republican of Idaho) seems to have hamstrung his usual anti-imperialist attack with his presidential ambitions, now being nursed again in anticipation Boner eae Saturday, January 15 e+ [HE next issue of The New Magazine will be a special anti-imperialist number in con- nection with the observation of the third anniversary of Lenin's death. eee THE Communists do not observe the anniversaries of outstand- ing figures in the revolutionary of next year’s elections. He cannot get the treasured nomination with- out some assistance from the moneyed Kast. The LaFollette group has been basking for a few weeks now in the warm sunshine of Wall Street’s “Old Guard” and seems to like it. No one has heard any great cry against the threatening war from Senators Frazier and Nye, of North Dakota; from the farmer-labor sen- ator, Hendrik Shipsted, of Minne- sota; from Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin. They have all been strangely silent; silenced, it seems, with favors either already delivered or hoped for, Laurence Todd, the Federated Press representative at Washington, points out that, “When Senator Shipsted of Minnesota, farmer-labor, member of the committee on foreign affairs, said he had been unable to get information as to why the arm- ed expedition (against Nicaragua) was sent, or where it was to lead the country to, Senator Copeland (democrat of New York) suggested that since Shipsted had been eating breakfast at the®White House he ought to inquire there. Shipsted replied that he had gathered no in- formation from the president at these meetings.” Nevertheless, Shipsted seems to Jean much closer to the White House than he does toward the workers and farmers of Minnesota. & ee eae The large foreign-born popula- tions thru all the middle western states, in addition to the fact that they are agricultural states, made American entrance into the world war extremely unpopular among them, The elder LaFollette was the leader of this opposition until he was threatened with expulsion from the senate. Then he*pulled in his horns sufficiently to hold his seat. The younger LaFollette evidently does not intend even to run the risk of being thrown out of the senate. se Victor L, Berger, the socialist congréssman from Milwaukee, is also very much mum. Berger has looked on with approval at past in- terventions in Mexico, He has taken the position that Wall Street im- perialism’s conquest of Mexico and the other Latin-American countries would hasten the development of capitalism in these countries and thus better prepare the soil for the particular brand of socialism that he espouses, It is on the same theory that socialists fight the Com- munist effort to establish socialism in the Soviet Union, claiming that “Russia is not yet ready for it. Russia must first pass thru the cap- italist stage of development.” The situation is complicated for Berger, however, by the fact that the Hill- quit-Cahan section of the socialist party halls the Calles government in Mexico as a socialist regime. Therefore, Berger is in a dilemma, o¢ 8 The mere fact that voices are indicates that there are broad sec- raised in congress against the war, tions of the population opposed to the war, The opposition must be deepened and broadened. The Wheeler-Huddleston demand for the withdrawal of Wall Street’s battle- ship armada from Nicaragua must be supported. If war comes, the war opposition in congress will be quickly submerged by a jingo wave of flag-waving hysteria. But the op- position, weak ag it is and while it lasts, offers an opportunity to carry the anti-war message to broad masses of the American workers and farmers, The most advanced section of this struggle against the imperialist war will crystallize itself about the un- wavering Communist opposition, that not only opposes war, but enters into death grips with war- breading imperialism itself, strug- gling for its abolition. Communists foster the working class war against the imperialist war, Communists ‘breathe this spirit into every op- position that is raised against the imperialist slaughter, | Join the war against the Imperialist movement merely by delivering eulogies of their service to the working class as ig customary with sectarian worshippers of dead words. eee LEN, the greatest revolution- ary leader that the subject masses produced im all history, was the first to scorn the academic phrase mongers and platform strutters who loved to show off their erudition to the masses, but would not for the world take ad- vantage of the occasion to enthuse the masses for renewed activities against the. capitalist class and help to organize them for the battle. - eee LENIN was @ man of action as well as a master theorist, the strategist as well as the organ. izer. He caught the last historical wriggle of capitalism on the poimt of his pen and turned the ray of, his powerful intellect on it. His analysis of capitalist-imperialism is one of the many services he rendered to the working class. a. oe r is fitting that on the third an- niversary of Lenin’s death The DAILY WORKER, organ of the American section of the interna- tional party of labor that Lenin organized, should focus the atten- tion of the American workers on the operation of world imperial- ism, in Ohina, in South America’ and all over the earth. see HE next issue of The New. Magazine will contain articles on Imperialism in Action, ex plaimed with the key provided by Lenin. Among the writers who will appear in the next issue are C. E. Ruthenberg, Max Bedacht, Manuel Gomez, Thurber Lewis, Max Shachtman, John William- son, T. J. O'Flaherty, and others, ede: Special Feature WE ARE FORTUNATE IN SE- ©URING A REPORT OF A SPEECH DELIVERED BY JOSEPH STALIN, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COM- MUNIST PARTY OF THE SO- VIET UNION, BEFORE THE CHINDSE COMMISSION OF THE LAST SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE OF THE ©OM- MUNIST INTERNATIONAL ON THE SUBJECT OF THE CHI- NESE REVOLUTION, ee @# N addition to articles, our poets and artists will be on the job, each one driving a nail in his own way into capitalism’s coffin. Put power behind the hammer by sub- scribing to The New Magazine. Gary Workers to Hear re on Events in China a on Jan. 16 GARY, Ind., Jan, 12.— “What in Happening in China?” will be the sub- ject for a lecture at the Gary Labor Temple on Jan, 16, under the auspices of the Gary Workers’ Co-operative Restaurant. Chao Ting Chi, a Chinese student at the University of Chicago who is well qualified to spéak on the Chinese situation, will give the lec- ture. Admission is free, This is one of a series of the co- operative. The organization is grate- ful to the management of the Gary Labor Temple for the use of the build- ing. Sixty-five Below, ' MOSCOW, Jan. 12.—Twenty per re Pgh frozen to death today at isk, Siberia, during an unusu- ally cold wave sweeping that seotion, The thermometer registered 65 de grees below zero, Fahrenheit. :