The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1927, Page 2

‘Page Two RAPS COOLIDGE AS WAR-HIAKER IN NICARAGUA Rep. Huddleston Hits Administration (Continued from page 1) while the administration claims that it is protecting American property . down there, no evidence has been of fered by the president to substantiate his charge that this property was en- dangered. Until proof is forthcoming 1 shall fer to believe on. Borah ADMIRAL LATIMER GIVEN POWERS OF DICTATOR OVER NICARAGUANS WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer, in charge of American naval forces in Nicaragua, has authority to establish a censorship there whenever he deems it necessary, Secretary of State Kellogg said to- day, with reference to reports that censorship had again been clamped down on Nicaragua ports. Latimer had not advised the department, however, of the reported re- newal of the censorship, ANOTHER CRUISER ON WAY. 13.—The cruiser Cincinnati, to Nicaraguan waters, has been ordered to Corinto on the west coast, the WASHINGTON, Jan. navy announced today. | CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) periment would work out successfully, ince the animal has_ to take twelve ours out of the twenty-four for gas- who de: that it endang ered. Borah at “Are and a into war not. The volved, and mitted in | Mythical Spokesman, Yhite House, the mythical | a man like nd of the capitol! nd here sileni | t to drive u I for one am | i is not in-} are com-| what crimes name!” the » would give the Amer! in degree tion to prope in China as h ronemic purpos This would never suit the capitalist system, The work- |ers might be willing to dispense with stomachs rather than have to rk filling them, but darn it the old appetite seems to hang on, if the dog st true. B EBALL is saved! It could not be otherwise, The players accused »f unethical conduct have been exon- evated with a slight tap on the wrist. It would never do for the magnates to ave the fans under the impression when they go to a ball game, t re watching is not a sport- ing ntest but a gambling orgy. The interests of those who rule are usual- THE DAILY WORKER recently dispatched! ‘ By T. J. O'FLAHERTY are being deported. A youthful rebel launches a brand new _ rebellion against the Mexican government from American soil, No doubt half a doz- en other aspiring presidents of Mex- ico will itch to insert their daggers into this noble patriot’s heart. Those Mexican counter-revolutionists remind one forcibly of the czarist brigands who vie with each other in their de- sire to “restore Russia to civilization.” But they would hang separately rath- er than hang together and nothing came of their good intentions, except starvation for the patriots. HE unofficial reply of the Mexican foreign minister to the bullying propaganda speech of President Coo- lidge is up to the high standard of exican diplomacy. The Mexican re- does not leave Coolidge a leg to (Continued from page 1.) demand for the impeachment be sor It is be of President Coolidge would hing more than an agitational slogan. : cause of their knowledge of this that Coolidge and Kellogg soek to divert attention from Wall Street's mur- derous program by putting forward the ordinary, every-day activities of the Workers (Communist) Party of America in Support of the Latin-American lization of the Atlantic fleet, the excuse for meobi workers and peasants as an regular army and the invasion of Nicaragua and preparation for war in Mexico. But one valuable fact has been disclosed by the bombast of the state department. It is the insincerity and weakness of the opposition in Washington to the Wall Street Coolidge program. {t has needed, apparently, only some cock and bull story, some bogey-man tale which would not frighten any child who has discarded a belief in San’2 Claus, to discour- age such sturdy statesmen as Senator Borah. Washington dispatches tell us that after the meeting of the foreign relations committee: Senator Borah is inclined to think that nothing can be done noaw, however, to remedy the wrong which he believes has been done by the administration in Nicaragua. He con- LETTING IT GO AT THAT. _ templates making a speech on the subject in the seaate AND (Emphasis ours.) Senator Borah, like Senator Johnson of California, is undoubtedly concerned over the loss of American prestige that would follow a withdrawal of armed forces from Nica+ ragua now. - agua, he replied that in safeguarding'| . ‘American property abroad the gov-| ernment would do the best it could} with the resources at its command. | Secretary Kellogg, to the same que tion, replied that he had not heard the} issue raised. | Dr. Vaca, Washington agent of the} Sacas& constitutional government of | Nicaragua, which Coolidge has appar-| ently determined to wipe out by forde, issued a statement refuting | many of Coolidge’s claims as to the | legal, political and financial situation. He showed that the constitution does | mot, as asseried Coolidge, autho ize its own congress to elect a presi. | deni to complete the unexpired term o leaves the coun- r it is “extremely | to des: e Sacasa as having | ed his office, when in fact he | Was driven out by armed rebellion. | butive vw of an ex Bankers Control. | As to Nicaraguan finances, Dr. Vaca| declares that instead of being less ‘n! debt now than in the beginning of the | American occupation, or in 1917 When Coolidge said she owed $22,0(),- 000—her debt is now $6,600,000 mor than in 1909. And she never owed $22,000,000 at any time. He recites the heavy cost of the fiscal contro! }o&-the country by Seligman & Co. ‘and Brown Bros., bankers, who made ‘Mg comparatively enormous amount in undue profits” which was borne by » heavy ‘taxation. The railroad prop- erty was not kept in good condition by them, Vaca asserts, and not a sin- gle locomotive was purchased for the Pacific railroad of Nicaragua after they took bold of it, about 1912. Sta- and tracks were left in dilapi onal condition, Yet dividends were regularly paid, while heavy increases in freight rates and big salaries to Managers selected by them bled the #oeonomic strength of the country. “) CONGERT AND BALL | FOR DAILY WORKER AND FINISH DALY NEW YORK, Jan, 12. — For the benefit of The DAILY WORKER in the United States and the Workers’ s Daily. in Finland, a big concert and will be given at the Finnish kers’ Home, 764 Fortieth 8t, lyn on Jan. 16th. A splendid jusical program will preceed the ince, Admission is 50c, ly served by any decision with which the notorious Landis has anything to do. HARLIE CHAPLIN’S wife is out for the champion golddiggership of America, She has beaten “Peaches” Browning by several millions, It ap- pears that she is a very virtuous wom- an—she certainly sets a high valua- tion on it. objection to her artistic husband was his contempt for the present marriage institution. When this fact forced it- self on the consciousness of the mayor of Quebec, a catholic cidatel, he or- dered Charlie’s films off the screen, What would the clergy do if the peo- | ple ever got it in their heads that the hocus pocus of priests aand ministers had as little cementing effect on ma- trimonial relations as the incantations of a medicine man would have in bringing rain from a cloud, HAPLIN is one of the few artists on the American screen that puts thot into his work, and thot méans propaganda. The respectable deacon in one of his films who slips on a yanana peel thereby ruining a pint of whiskey which was parked in his hip socket had a powerful anti-clerical sock, Indeed, in most of his work nidden away in the slapstick, there is 4 healthy cynicism towards capitalist conventions. Perhaps most of the aplin admirers saw little but the ‘unny shoes and the little mustache. Those are the morons who will now sive their former idol the raspberry because a female dumbbell objected to the kind of literature he read. Ww have the expected crop of re- volts in Mexico. Catholic bishops IN CHICAGO! This lady’s most serious | Workers and Farmers Can Stop Wall t \ This is an old trick of cap sional outbursts against specific acts seek to give the im- pression that they are not part of the machinery of impe- rialism. But once the question of “prestige” is involved they complacently tolerate the most brutal acts of aggression against weaker nations. LC, C, NOMINEE ADMITS LARGE RAIL HOLDINGS Woods, Coolidge Man, Grilled by Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Cyrus E. Woods, who hag been nominated by President Coolidge for the interstate commerce commission and now seek- ing approval of the appointment by the senate, admitted before the sen- ate interstate commerce committee that he held large holdings in various railroads and coal companies who are and would be directly affected by rul- ings of the commission. Wood's appointmen{ is bitterly at- tacked by senators, one of the prin- cipal reasons is that he is attorney for the Pittsburgh Coal company. Huge Killings, Woods listed his various corpora: tion stock holdings ds'follows: 100 Shares of Pittsburgh Coal Co, $50,000 in bonds of Pennsylvania railroad. $25,000 par value each: in bonds of Norfolk & Western, Atchison, Union Pacific railroad and Northern Pacific railroad. 500 shares common. stock of Penn- sylvania railroad, ri 100 shares of West Moreland Coal company with holdings in West Vir- Street's. War italist statemen who by occa- The workers and farmers of America must be able to see thru the monstrous fakery of American capitalist govern- ment. They must depend upon themselves and their organ- izations to bring pressure upon the dictators in the White House and in Wall Street. hey, and they alone, have the power to stop Wall Street wars. They can stop the war against Mexico and Latin-America whleh Wall Street and its agents are preparing if they will refuse to be fooled by government officials and a capitalist press, schooled to and skilled in raising false issues with which to deceive the mass- es and distract their attention them gains headway. The plot which concerns while the conspiracy against the workers and farmers of this country is a plot against the Latin-American and Ameri- can masses—a plot to involve them in war with one another in the interests of Wall Street the aid of its Coolidges and Kelloggs. which robs both groups with ¥ The workers and farmers of this country have the task of DRIVING such weak-kneed and hesitat ng imperialists as Borah into open struggle against the conquests of Mexico and Latin-America and the launching of a war whose bur- den of blood and tears will rest upon the shoulders of the toilers of two continents. stand on. It meets the threat of war with an offer to discuss matters over which the two countries are at odds and at the same time insists that Mexico. was thoroly justified in recog nizing the legitimate government of Nicaragua rather than the puppet gov- ernment set up by United States bay- onets, HE exchange of courtesies between the factions of the Cook county republican party promises to make in- teresting spring reading. The boys are quarrelling over the mayoralty spoils, Former bosom pals are now rending each other’s shirts in an effort to prove that there is a dirty piece of underwear beneath many a white front, Edward J. Brundage, formerly a wheel horse in the Crowe-Barrett faction is now out for Crowe’s feath- ers. Brundage charges Crowe with the use of sluggérs in elections and divers other crimes and high misde- meanors, We believe Mr, Brundage is telling the truth, UT listen to the retort courteous of Mr. Crowe: “Mr, Crowe is a po- litical merchant. He offered his wares to Thompson the Monday after Christ- mas and they were rejected. He is offering them to Litsinger now; and if Litsinger refuses them, he'll offer them to John Dik Robertson, He com- plains of bi-partisanship, but he didn’t mention it at all the time he was drawing compensation of $12,000 a year from the sanitary district as a result of a bi-partisan deal . . . He objects to me now, but I was alright as long as I maintained members of his family in lucrative positions on the payroll.” Take your choice, IN CHICAGO! INTERNATIONAL KARL LIEBKNECHT MEMORIAL DEMONSTRATION Sunday, January 16, 1927, 8 P. M. at the NORTH-WEST HALL Corner North and Western Avenues ADMISSION 25 CENTS Auspices Young Workers (Communist) League, District No. 8. re eer ee en ginia and Kentucky, 1,000 shares of United States steel preferred, $35,000 in bonds of H. C. Frick Coal and Coke company. , Is Sounded Out, Woods was asked by the senate investigators what position he would take on various cases to.come up be- fore the commission, should his’ ap- pointment be confirmed. Woods an- swered that he had not “preconceived ideas” in regard to commission de- cisions, In answering to the question, “Is not the Pittsburgh Coal company known as the ‘coal trust’?” Woods, counsel for that company, said, “I don’t know.” He was also asked if Secretary Mellon did not own a con- trolling interest of the company and again he expressed ignorance, Reed Suspects Him. Senator David Reed, reactionary Pennsylvania congressman, is uphold- ing Woods’ appointment. He declares that in cases involving Woods’ own interests, “he would not sit.” The hearing is to be continued and the committee will report its decision to the senate. The decision is ‘expect- ed to be unfavorable to Woods. Theater Swept By Fire. FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 13,—Em- pire Theater, a vaudeville and motion picture playhouse, was swept by fire today at a loss estimated at $200 000. Actors and actresses who had run *rom nearby hotels into the buraing theater saved most of their prsoual belungings, 9 SPEAKERS: Max Bedacht H. Zam John Williamson ‘and a Pioneer Appropriate musical and entertainment Prograaa CORRESPONDENT who signs himself R, A, Smith, has sent a letter to the Los Angeles, Calif., Record that was published Jan. 8, 1927, in which he says: “Editor, The Record: State Sen- ator Charles Lewis shows a sur- prising amount of guts when he lambasts war so vigorously, It’s dangerous business, senator, for a public official to say such things. “Be careful or the Better Amer- ican Federation or some other of these red-blooded, he-men organiza- tions will be after you! “I'm a veteran but, at any rate, senator, I think you'll find there are a lot of us who'll never do it again. Keep on kicking! We're the reserves.—R. A, Arthur,” This is an individual expression of a veteran of the last war against the next war. Cay Mery It was Representative Huddleston (democrat of Alabama), who joined with Senator Wheeler (democrat of Montana) in demanding the with- drawal of United States battleships from Nicaragua, who declared in the senate that: “I believe 99 per cent of the people of the United States are op- posed to war with Mexico. I believe that if it were left to a vote of the people of this country at least 99 per cent, if they could get proper information and were permitted to express their will freely, would de- clare their opposition to it, And now I wonder whether that 99 per cent are to be hippodromed into an international war.” aH There are two big facts seared‘ deep into the minds of the whole American people that makes “the new war” set uneasily upon their stomachs. There are many others, | But these stand out prominently. They are: First:—The “gold brick” handed to the world war veterans in the | form of the so-called “bonus certifi- cates” instead of the cash bonus. On Jan. 1, this year, many penniless veterans took their “certificates” to the banks in an effort to raise the promised loans on them, but found that they were merely carrying around “scraps of paper.” The banks refused to grant the loans claiming no provisions had been made to reinburse them. The insurance cer- tificates were dated Jan. 1, 1925, with» the promise that two years after their issuance, loans would be allowed on the insurance policies up to 90 per cent of their value. But there is no money provided to make the loans. Second:—Broad masses of work- ers and farmers cannot forget the deflation and unemployment years of 1920-22, when the “Liberty Bonds” forced upon them during the war dropped to low levels at just the time when they were forced to sell in order to raise funds to meet their immediate needs. The farm- er had to fight off mortgages and bankruptcy. The city worker had to pay rent, buy food and clothing, and the “Liberty Bond”-that was sup- posed to be redeemed at 100 cents on the dollar, was disposed of wher- eyer possible at much smaller amounts, **e While the Coolidge-Mellon-Morgan. government at Washington, there- fore, plots news wars, the two facts stand out like sore thumbs, ‘that the government, thru the fake “bonus certificates” perpetrated a swindle upon those who actually fought the war, while the great bankers have made untold millions out of speculation in war bonds at the expense of those who actually paid for the war, the broad produc- ing masses, the workers and farm- ers of the nation. * et © This question got an airing in the senate the other day with Senator Heflin (democrat, Alabama) stating the case from his viewpoint as fol- lows: “The veterans favored a cash bonus . . The republican party refused to give them a cash bonus. Finally this certificate plan was of+ fered; it was all you would give them and then, rather than have ‘nothing, they, said, ‘We will take it.’ “They have not been treated right. Those who bought Liberty ‘bonds during the war and paid 100 cents on the dollar and who were told that they would always be worth 100 cents on the ddllar and that they could obtain money on them at any time, were driven dur- ing the panic of 1920 and 1921 to sacrifice them for 80 and 85 cents on the dollar after having been turned down by the banks with a flat refusal to loan money on them. Here is what I fear is going on—a scheme amongst some of the bank- ers to bandy these certificates around and refuge to loan on them until these boys in sheer deapera- tion will say, ‘How much will you core ve Gove! and these New: York AOLTATS dal one There’s;) Opposition to Wall Street’s War But It Must Be Organized By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, | to prayers, bankers will buy them at a miser- able discount that would be dis- graceful, as they bought the Liberty bonds.” ** * At this point Senator Curtiss, of Kansas, the republican floor leader, tried to heckle Heflin, claiming the Liberty Bonds had depreciated dur- ing the democratic administration and that the Wilson regime had en- tered the open market and bought up the bonds at a discount. Hef- lin refused to get off the subject, however, continuing: “Iam talking about the bonds that had been botght by and were in the hands of the people of the South and West; they were gotten by the bond sharks of Wall Street for 80 and 85 cents on the hundred; and they will colect the money on them from the government at 100 cents on the dollar. They are now clipping their coupons while the farmers of the South and West are suffering from the losses they sus- tained.” AI, pa Yb 2 Evidently failing to appreciate the fact that Wall Street recognizes no god except the “almighty dollar,” Heflin cogtinued as follows: “I am praying to god that those brave boys who went abroad, 3,000 miles from home, to offer their lives at the battlefront for the rights and Ifberties of the world will not be treated as the hundreds and thou- sands of patriotic bondholders were treated. I am hoping and praying that something will be done to take care of those boys to meet the hon- est obligations this government owes them. What a shameful spec- tacle to have one of these brave, upstanding, manly young Americans walking up and down the country with a government certificate in his hand begging somebody to relieve his distress by loaning him somg money . . . If we owed to thése boys this amount, we ought to have paid them in money instead of giy- ing them worthless certificates to peddle about the country. It is a shameful outrage.” *e#* Heflin’s hopes and prayers will be in vain. Capitalism does not respond Its sense of hearing is attuned only to the clink of dollars. All capitalist nations have plunder- ed and will continue to plunder the many to pay for capitalism’s wars. The capitalists everywhere treat their cannon fodder the same. Sol- diers are paid low wages to murder. When the slaughter is over the maimed are thrown on the human scrap heap with other social out- casts, Many of them becoming beg- gars upon the streets to ward off death by actual starvation, eee Workers and farmers of the Unit- ed States are opposed to the impe- rialist war that threatens. Veter- ans of the last war oppose the next war. That opposition must be crys- tallized into effective resistance, If Wall Street wants war, let it fight its own war. In the moment that imperialism cannot find soldiers to blindly fight its profit cause, at that instant it must crumble. . ne Arthur Brisbane, in the ‘Hearst press, comments on the declaration of the Giornale d'Italia that says, “United States policy may be call- ed one of authority and foree, When necessary there are cannon behind American dollars.” Brisbane truly says in comment that, “Dollars without cannon be- hind them are feeble things, like flabby jelly fish. It is the cannon ‘that transform flabby dollars into yertebrate dollars.” With the masses refusing to fight the wars of the dollar owners, the whole capitalist structure built about the dollar crumbles and the triumph of the producers, the work- ers and farmers, must inevitably ensue, U.S. WARS ON LIBERALS, SAYS REBEL LEADER Dr. Sacasa Replies to Coolidge Message PUERTO CABAZAS, Nicaragua, Jan. 13.—Charging President Coo- lidge. with entirely misrepresenting conditions in Nicaragua and in effect, declaring war on the liberals in re- volt against the uncons' president, Diaz, Dr, Juan B. Sa sued a statement in reply. Denies Mexican Officers’ Charge. “The assertion of President Coo- lidge that Mexican officers fight in our army and that the Mexican gov- ernment protects us is absolutely er- Toneous,” he said. “Not a single Mexican gunboat is on our shores, but many more warships from the United States are announced to ar- tive shortly, ‘and are being sent to Nicaragua to sustain the Diaz gov: ernment against the constitutional president and the Nicaraguan peo- ple.” Regarding continued U. S. support to Diaz Sacasa said: “If this declara- tion is confirmed, it would be tanta- mount to a declaration of war againét the Nicaraguan people, whim I legally represent, Bankers Behind It All. He declared there exists “in New York a great financial force which actively develops intrigues fm favor of the political group in Nicaragua. That group is in bad favor with the majority of Nicaraguans, and since 1912 it has been penmitted to exist only thru the support of the state de- partment at Washington. “Even now Chamorro and Diaz are defeated in the military struggle as they were defeated two years ago at the polls in a popular election. Diaz himself has stated that it is impos. sible for him to sustain himself with- out the aid of the United States gov- ernment, ef 8 “Explain” Constabulary. WASHINGTON, Jan, 13.—An expla- nation was made by the state depari- ment today of its connection wita the recent effort to have an Ameri- can soldier command the Nicaraguan constabulary. The explaantion set forth that the constabulary was a “non-political po- lice force” and that President Diaz, recognized by the state department, asked the department to suggest a man to act as “instructor” of the force, Accordingly, several names were discussed, the department said, - including Major George K. Shuler, a retired marine officer, but nobody has been named, Workers’ Press Ball at Garfield to Show Appreciation of Daily GARFIELD, Jan. 13.—With the slo- gan “The Workers’ Press Helped Pas- saic—Let’s Help the Workers’ Press!” a Workers’ Press ball will be held where Saturday evening, Jan. 15, at Bel- mont Park Hall, Proceeds will go to The DAILY WORKER, only labor daily in the English language. Admission is 25 cents. All workers in this district are urged to attend in order to demonstrate their apprecia- tion of the work of the militant labor papers in the recent textile strikes. Minssapolis Daily Party Arranged for January 15 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 13, — To celebrate the third birthday of our fighting paper, The DAILY WORKER, the Workers Party in the Twin Cities has arranged a banquet for Saturday night, Jan. 15, in Labor Lyceum, 1426 6th Avenue, North, Minneapolis, The DAILY WORKER, born three years ago, has raised a lusty voice and rend- ered important service in the strug- gles of the workers, and therefore our enthusiasm for this, the third birth- day party, is only exceeded by our determination to keep our paper safe for further service. —— OO Borah Shows U. S. Invasion — Shatters the Monroe Doctrine} (Continued trom page 1) does any non-American power seek to overthrow existing government there, “Under the Monroe Doctrine, we have no right, moral or otherwise, to interfere in the internal affairs of the nations of Central and South America, “If the Monroe Doctrine be con- strued so as to include the right of the United States to interfere with the independence or sovereignty of these small South and Central American countries, it becomes a dagger and not a shield. Those who uphold this doctrine are doing it a great injustice to invoke it in defense of any at, tempt to dominate the countries south of us.” Borah declared the United States “had no more right to interfere’ in the question of the form of govern- ment to be maintained in Nicaragua, “than we should have in any'of the powerful nations of the world.” Borah sharply accused the state de- partment of fostering the 1909 Estrada revolution in Nicaragua, He said the department was informed of the revolution by American Consul Moffett a day before it started. “This Moffett aided and abetted the revolution of 1909,” said Borah, “ad- vised us in advance, helped the men to be the head of it and was part of it, “ee WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Appear- ing before the house foreign affairs committee, Representative Huddleston of Alabama, declared that the forces in Nacaragua are there for other pur- poses than the “protection” of Amer- lean Hfe and, property, Regarding Mexico he said the U, 8. should ask for no more privileges for Americans than are accorded to Mexicans, He advocated recommendation of his res- olution demanding the immediate withdrawal of U, 8S. armed forces,