The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1927, Page 1

The Dally Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un organize For a Labor Party. For the 40 Hour Week, Vol. IV. No. 2. nw ws, a 0 &p% £9, td 7 Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, IET UNION KEL. JGG’S REAL “RED” HERRING Master and Man Disagree—Coolidge says, ‘We are in Nicaragua to fight for American property.” Kellogg says, “We are fighting ‘Red’ plots!” By C. E. RUTHENBERG General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. HERE is one capitalists, the little capitalists and the fringes of so-called progressives in the two capitalist parties. That is by creating Communist “plots” against the government—a “red” scare. This method was used in Great Britain against the Labor Party in the last elections, by injecting the forged “Zinoviev letter,” and resulted in the return to power of the Baldwin (con servative) government. Evidently the Coolidge administra- tion has learned by the experience of other countries, foritis the identi- cal method which Secretary of State Kellogg is using in an endeavor to break the growing opposition to the policy of the government, of driving this country into war in. support of Wall Street imperialism in Latin America. Kellogg appeared before the senate committee on foreign relations to pre- sent a mass of documents purporting to establish Communist “plots” to overthrow the American government by stirring up opposition to it in Latin America. Promptly some of the oppo- sition in congress to the imperialist policies of the government in Nicara- gua and against Mexico wilted, and began to run for cover, Master and Man Disagree. 'N this instance the trick is a little “~*~ too transparent, however. © M: and man disagree. President Coolidge in his message to congress told of the big American investments in Nicara- gua and that “there is no question that if the revolution continues Amer ican investments and business inter- ests in Nicaragua will be seriously af. fected, if not destroyed.” And further along: “It has been and remains the policy of the United States in such circumstances to take the steps that may be necessary for the preserva: tion and protection of the lives, the property and the interests of its citi- sens...” In other words, Coolidge tells us that he is following the time-honored policy of the government of using the “big stick” to protect the property and investments of the Wall Street bank- ers, and then Secretary of State Kel- logg comes along to say: Oh no, this is something new and different. The “reds” are plotting against us in Mexico and Central America and we must protect ourselves against the at- tempt to overthrow our government! Coolidge openly declares that it is the policy of the government to use American naval and military forces and to sacrifice the lives of the Amer- ican workers and farmers to main- tain the exploitation of Latin Amer- ica by the Wall Street bankers, Then Kellogg comes along with a real red herring to drive to cover the opposi- tion to this policy which has been manifested in congress. The Communist and American Imperialism. HE Workers (Communist) Party does not deny that it is part of its program to carry on a fight against American imperialism, The Commu nists have endeavored and will con- tinue to endeavor to mobilize the American workers and farmers against the policy of the government which is leading this country inio By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, D*. IVY, professor of physiology at Northwestern university has In his laboratory a dog who lost his stomach (not his appetite, mark: you) two years ago and yet lives a happy and carefree life, eating, drinking and wagging his tail like an aristocratic poodle, If the dog had to work for a living it is not so certain that the ex- (Continued on page 2.) usually unfailing “*~ method of uniting with the big war in order to fight for the invest- ments and profits of the Wall Street bankers, The Communists will con- tinue to point out to the American workers and farmers that, first, the American capitalists rob them of a large part of the wealth they pro- duce, and then the profits from this exploitation of the workers and farm- ers are invested in other cbuntries to exploit the natural resources and peo- ple of these countries and when the exploited people revolt, the American workers and farmers are called upon by the American government to sac- rifice their lives to fight for the in- vestments and profits of the capital- ists. The Workers (Communist) Party believes that the people of the coun tries who are together with the Amef- ican workers and farmers, the vic- tims of this imperialist system, are the natural allies of the American workers and farmers in the struggie against it, and therefore call upon the people of Mexico, Nicaragua, and wherever American imperialism has its tentacles, to unite with the Amer- ican workers and farmersinthe fight against Wall Street imperialism. Kellogg’s red herring story about secret plotting of the Communists and of the Soviet Union is, of course, pure nonsense, The “mass of docu- ments” from which he quotes, are the declarations of the convention of the Workers (Commynist) Party, held a year and a half ago and published in the Communist press and in booklet form for everyone interested to read. Substituting Effect for the Cause. HAT Kellogg has tried’to do is to substitute an effect for a cause. The cause of the present situation in Nicaragua, Mexico and Latin Amer- ica generally, is the exploitation of these countries by the Wall Street bankers. The effect is the revolt of the people of these countries against the grabbing of their natural re- sources and the exploitation of their people by the Wall Street bankers backed by the “big stick” of the gov ernment in form of American war ships and marines. Coolidge has stated the cause in his message. He has declared for the right of the Wall Stret bankers to exploit Latin America. He hag de- clared, in effect, that the government is ready to go to war to protect this right. If the Wall Street bankers did not plot to overthrow governments in Latin America in order to create pup- pet governments which would grant them more favorable terms for reap- ing profits, if the government and Washington did not support the oil, mining and other interests in Mex- ico in the attempt to set aside the Mexican constitution, there would be no revolt of the people of these coun- tries, and no need of the American workers and farmers fighting to pro- tect themselves from the results of the imperialist policies of the gov- ernment, The workers and farmers of this country should not permit themselves to be deceived by Kellogg’s red her- ring. The imperialist policies of the Coolidge administration are leading them into the shambles ofa new im- perialist war, with all the sacrifice and suffering which follows in its train. The fight against intervention in Nicaragua and against the threaten- ing war with Mexico jis the fight against this war for Wall Street im- perialism. The Communists are ready and will fight together with the mass of work- ers and farmers against this new war which threatens to engulf them. They call upon every workers’ and farm- ers ‘organization to unite for this struggle and force the government to withdraw from Nicaragua and pre vent the war with Mexico, + BUILD THE UNITED FRONT OF THE WORKERS AGAINST COO. LIDGE’S WALL STREET JALISM. IMPER- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered at Second-ciass matter § ember by mail, $6.00 per year, Why Rockefeller, Morgan, Mellon and Doheny Are Anxious About Mexico Shaded Area-Metal- Mines Shaded re OjL 11240 Following are some facts on why Wall Street ig so concerned aboux Mexico: The Doheny controlled Mexican Petroleum Co. wag purchased by Stand- ard Oil of Indiana in 1925. Its properties are estimated to be worth $125,000,- 000 including some two million acres of land with a daily production of 150,000 barrels. é Standard Oil controls, in addition to the above, ‘eight more large com- panies which in turn control a number of smaller Mexican petroleum con- cerns. Sinclair Oil has more than a million acres of petroleum land. The biggest oil company in Mexico is the Huasteca Co, Owned by Doheny in- terests. Andrew Mellon’s Gulf Oil corporation contr@ls three Mexican com- panies, one of which, Mexican Gulf Oil, is among the Jargest in the country. The Morgan interests own the majority of the stock of the Maryland Oil Co., which, thru control of three other companies, has concessions on 15 million acres. There are several hundred American companies operating in Mexican SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927 oil all told. CANCEL LENIN MEMORIAL AT DETROIT ARMORY AS KELLOGG MAKES CHARGE (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Jan, 13.—Direct- ly after Secretary of State Kellogg made his charge that “Bolshevist influences” were responsible for America’s difficulties in Latin Amer- ica, the post commander of the Michigan. National Guard here can- celled the Lenin memorial meeting scheduled to be held in that build- ing on Jan. 23 under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party. A new hall is being procured and will be announced at a membership meeting of the party to be held next Monday evening at 1343 East Ferry Ave. Admission by card only, is announced. Huddleston Raps Cal Coolidge as War Maker in Latin America By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—(FP)— ‘Mexico has a perfect right to ship arms to the Nicaraguan government which she has recognized,” said the Alabama member. “We know that the United States shipped arms to Russia—$4,000,000 worth were sent to Kolchak, who was seeking to over: throw the government of that coun try,” said Rep. Huddleston of Ala bama, democrat, who was the first member of either branch of congress to take the floor in reply to President Coolidge’s message explaining the raid on Nicaragua and threatening like violation of the sovereignty of Mexico. Huddleston showed that Coolidge had obscured the issue of imperialisin in Latin America with a “haystack of words,” and that he had misrepre- sented the essential facts. Bull in China Shop. “Secretary Kellogg is acting like a bull in the diplomatic china-shop, and (Continued on page 2) Appeal Against War of All-America Anti- Imperialist League on Page Three Today. reported preparing to entrain for Ni Col. Henry Lay, commanding officer, refused to discuss the report. CONGRESS TODA | WITHDRAW ALL U.S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! a * NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! HANDS OFF CHINA! Nicaragua Bound Marines Leaving Here A company of 100 marines stationed here to guard the mails was (Data from Dunn's “American Foreign Investments.) U.S. IVASION BREAKS MONROE Says Coolidge Should Withdraw Forces (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—The direct charge that American warships had been sent to Nicaragua “not to pro tect American lives, not to protect American property, but to protect a loan that was obnoxious to 80 per cent of the Nicaraguan people,” was made in the senate this afternoon by Senator William E. Borah, republican of Idaho, chairman of the senate com- mittee of foreign relations, in the course of an attack on the admin- istration’s present policy in Latin America. “Withdraw Marines!” He suggested that President call for a new presidential election in Nica- ragua and withdraw the marines from that country, and that the dispute over the Mexican oil and land laws be referred to arbitration, President Calles of Mexico has already ex- pressed willingness to take the dispute to the Hague. Against Doctrine. American intervention into the civil affairs of Nicaragua, as represented by the landing of marines there to sup- port the Diaz government, does not uphold the Monroe Doctrine, but, on the contrary, violates that doctrine, he said. Senator Borah began his speech with a display of pussy-footing by stating there was nothing “of a per- sonal controversy in this situation,” between himself and the president, or between himself or the secretary of state. “Dear to U. 8.” “In this situation, the Monroe Doc- trine does not apply. The doctrine, dear to the American people, was born of a controversy between hemispheres. It was designed to stop Suropean meddling in affairs of this hemisphere, “In this situation today, there is no non-American power seeking to ac- quire territory in Central America, nor (Continued on page 2.) icaragua today. at thé Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION ee a"? Soviet foreign office. elsewhere, the English know it is a lie, but when Americans hear we are plotting against them in Central America they actually believe it. “As a matter of fact ninety per cent of the Soviet citizens never heard the name Nicaragua. “We have no representative in any ‘Central American state save Mexico, vhere Mme. Kollantai has just ar- activity. “What a have, “We are quite helpless against such fabrications. There is nothing to reply except ‘nonsense.’” long arm Moscow must Kollontai Answers (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13.—“Absurd!” said Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet am- bassador to Mexico when informed of Senator Kellogg’s statement to the senate committee regarding “Bolshe- vik” activities in Latin-America, “Mr. Kellogg can not have information relative to a thing which does not exist.” While a strict silence was main- tained in Mexican official circles re- garding Secretary Kellogg’s charges, Madame Kollantai, sole minister of the Soviet government in the Amer- leas, was outspoken in her contradic- tion of the charges. Look for Break, A severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Mex- ico at.an early date was regarded. as. inevitable today, as the reaction here to the publication of Kellogg's char- ges to the senate committee that the Soviet government of Russia was operating here and in Central America against the interests of the United States. The secretary of state’s charges, coming on the heels of president Coo- lidge’s message to congress, was re- garded as a clear declaration of the Coolidge administration’s determina- tion to carry out its imperialist policy for the “protection” of American in- terests in the region between Panama and the Rio Grande, NEEDLE TRADES LEFT WING HAS HISTORIC RALLY NEW YORK, Jan/ 13.—Nearly 200 delegates from needle trades centers all over the United States and Canada attended the needle trades left wing conference just concluded in New York. It was the most successful confer- ence of the needle trades left wing ever held. It planned out a definite policy against the splitting and expul- sion tactics of the reactionary burean- eracy and for the maintenance of unity, and the building up of the needle trades unions, the struggle against the Sigman bureaucracy, the issue of amalgamation, and struggle against Beckermanism, were among the main issues. Full support of the loan to save the Cloakmakers’ Union was voted with the greatest enthu- siasm. Organization Drive. A plan was adopted for an energetic campaign to stimulate the unions for a big organization campaign in the various trades, with the left local unions setting the example. A most thorogoing discussion took Place on the question of class col- laboration and company unionization, tendencies of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ bureaucracy. Work Among Italians. The energetic upbuilding of the left wing amongst the Italian needle work- ers was characterized as one of the chief tasks of the left wing in the (Continued on page 4) ived. She is credited with incredible j Published Daily except Sunday 1 PUBLISHING CO., LASTS KELLOGG’S 1 i 3 DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, lL. Price 3 Cents ES ‘Absurd” Say Foreign Office and Kollontai (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. 13.—“‘The height of absurdity” ... This was the reply of the Soviet foreign office today to the charges of United States Secretary of State Kellogg that the Soviet Union is fomenting trouble in Central America. “Only Americans could be naive enough to credit such a yarn,” said a high official of the “lf England charges us with fomenting trouble in Syria, Sumatra and American Workers and Farmers Can Stop Wall Sirest’s War! HE armed forces of Wall Street government are to stay in Nicaragua, the preparations for breaking off diple- matic relations with Mexico are to go on with the ultimate object of making war on this republic and its people, and pro- test against the whole conspiracy against the lives of Latin Americans and Americans is to be drowned out by a sten- torian cry of “Bolsheviks at work in Mexico,” This much is apparent from the Arabian nights tale with which Secretary of State Kellogg caused the 100 per cent American hair of congressmen and senators, attending the session of the committee on foreign affairs, “to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine.” It was a moving narrative of ‘‘secret’’ plotting—so secret that The DAILY WORKER has been giving it first page pub- licity for the last two weeks—which Kellogg unfolded to justify the mobilization of the Atlantic fieet and its dispatch to the Caribbean, his continual.insults to the Mexican gov- ernment and his rape of the constitutional government of, Nicaragua and his involving of the people of this nation in a Wall Street war. The DAILY WORKER, the official organ of the Workers (Commitnist) Party of America, has made no secret of its support of the Latin-American masses against Wall Street aggression. Neither has it made a secret of the fact that it believes that Coolidge and Kellogg are instruments of Wall Street, as is the whole mechanism of the federal government. Every intelligent person in the United States, both those who support Wall Street’s policies and those who are opposed to them, is of the same opinion. Whether congressmen and sénators are to be included in the category of intelligent persons depends upon the extent to which they believe in the validity of Kelloge’s and Coo- lidge’s excuses for making war in Nicaragua and preparing war on Mexico, Dr. John Latane, professor of history at John Hopkins university and an authority on Latin-America, is not one of those who have fallen for the puerile propaganda of the Wall Street-Coolidge administration. After considerable difficulty, Dr. Latane was allowed to address the foreign relations com- mittee. He said, according to Washington dispatches: The president’s statement that his action in Nicaragua was necessary to protect our canal rights is an absurdity. When @ man adopts such an excuse to justify our intervention, ét raises the belief that there is a real reason which he does not want to give. There IS a real reason which Wall Street's spokesmen in the White House do not want to give: It is that Wall Street is getting ready to conquer ALL of Latin America, by bribery and treachery if possible, by force of arms if necessary. Mexico is to be the first target of attack. The conquest of Nicaragua is part of the conquest of Mexico, Nicaragua is needed for a southern base against Mexico. If the real reason for the invasion of Nicaragua was made public there would be such a popular outcry that the (Continued on page 2.) BUKHARIN SOUNDS WARNING AT MOSCOW COMMUNIST MEETING AGAINST NEW DANGERS OF WAR By JOHN PEPPER. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., January 13.—Reporting on the international situa- tion of the Union of Soviet Republics at the Fifteenth Party Conference of the Moscow District, Nikolai Bukharin arrived at the most serious conelu- sions on the dangers of war. The conference passed a resolution containing the following passage: In bourgeois international politics actively hostile tendencies are com- ing to the foreground. A number of states under the lead of the British con servative government are manifesting growing tendencies to break off peace- ful relations with the U. S. S. R. and start war (Poland, Lithuania, Roumania), This is evidenced by the open and hidden preparations for war and interven- tion against the Soviet Union, by diplomatic attacks, by the military agente sent to the border states, by the shameless campaign of lies of the social democrats, and by the series of fascist coups and upheavals. All this is causing great anxiety among the broad masses of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union who want to use all their forces for peaceful reconstrue- tion. The conference calls upon the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union and upon the world proletariat to watch most carefully every move of the imperialist enemies. The working class of the Soviet Union will pursue a policy of peace without neglecting the necessity of strengthening the de- fensive capacity of the republics. The conference, noting the war danger threatening the Soviet Union from the side of the imperialist s' 8, brings to the foreground the task of strengthening the red army and calls upom the working masses to concentrate attention on the problems of defense of the DON'T DELAY! ‘at x 5