The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1927, Page 2

ane, Page Two SUPPORT CALLES| mi REACTIONARIES Farmers Ask Arms to| Fight Charch (Bpecial to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. Calles today called upon the agr jans to aid in suppressing the rebe tion of “clericals and reactionaries” | and sent Secretary of Agriculture Luis | Leon to Guanajuato to distribute 1,000 | rifles to farmers in the neighborhood. The presiden agrarians who h self-defense, 17.—President | | wrote arms for | ed that ste action will be taken to put down the} uprisings thruou country. | Defend Revolution. “Thes yvernment arms e sent to susta uti of the re-} clerical and | Public now menaced reactionary groups whe: serious | he said. | id serve only and life and protect the honor of the homes of farmers and to save once more, y defending the government, the principles of the revolution.” ss 6 Get Injunction, MEXICO CITY, Jan, 17,—All oil ia- terests opposing the Mexican pe troleum laws on the grounds that they are retroactive and confiscatory will be accorded ever: Wefending their opportunity of the courts, Aitorney Genera an- nounced, following nee with President Calles, 2 Ameri for application of rations appl ainst the the new laws. LENIN MEETS AT FRISCO, OAKLAND AND SAN JOSE A series of Lenin memorial meet- ings has been arranged by the Workers Party in northern Cali- fornia to be held at San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose: All meetings 1927. in San Francisco the speakers will be Comrade Owens, who will speak on “Lenin as a Leader of the Working Class,” and E. Levin, who wilt Bpeak on “Lenin and the Com- a & munist International.” The. meeting will be heid at 225 Valencia street, at 8 p. m. In Oakland the speakers will be B. Douglas and E. Ettlinger. | At San Jose Comrade C. Pilgrim will speak. In addition to the talks by these comrades an elaborate program has been arranged including excellent musical numbers and the unique feature of hearing Lenin’s voice by means of phonographic records. tt is expected that these meetings | will draw large masses of workers to them and will be a rousing demonstration of working class mil- itency on the bay district of the Pacific coast. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! | SSeS esses ees Speakers: Cc, E. RUTHENBERG WM, Z. FOSTER SCOTT NEARING MOISSAYE J. OLGIN J. LOUIS ENGDAHL = AE a SAM DON ‘MADIS wili be held on Sunday, January 23, | | | WILLIAM WEINSTONE Auspices: Workers Party of America, District No. 2. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) vala, for instance, the Communist | mber of Battersea, is not on the} ored list of the foreign office. He] s now on his way to India and wished | to stop off in Egypt, but the foreign | office refused to give him permission | > land in Egypt. Saklatvala fs mot respectable! It is obvious that Miss Bonfield, while mildly criticizing the tory government, speaks as an im- perialist and not as a class conscious worker. se United States marines are in HE F Nicaragua to stay, according to v 1ington reports. The navy depart- ment has drafted plans to establish a naval base on the Bay of Fonseca in gua. The ostensible purpose of base is the protection of the canal that is to be built thru that coun Mexico is now nicely hedged in by American military and naval forces and this should help console our oil magnates. “The Calles plot to extened hegemony over Central America has been thwarted,” writes ne correspondent. Note the word this “ARBITRATION” | ‘TALK COVERS UP KELLOGG DESIGN Capital Takes Interest in Mexican Reaction (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Having!/ stated their policy towards Mexico} and reiterated their decision to keep | the marines in Nicaragua, President | Coolidge and Secretary of State Kel- logg have again drawn the veil of} secrecy over the Latin-American| maneuvers of the administration. | Meaningleses hints, for public con-} sumption, that arbitration might be | considered in Mexico and Nicaragua are entirely overcast by the tighten- ing of the blockade around Sacasa’s forces in Nicaragua and the extreme jinterest being taken in the reacttion-| ary rebellion in Mexico that, of itself, can offer an easy excuse for interven- “plot.” When Mexico desires to ex- tend its influences over other coun- 3 it is a plot, When the United utes does the same thing it is a atriotic act! ee ae) HINGS continue to pop in China. The foreign concession in Hankow |has been taken over by the Chinese and the Cantonese are getting ready to perform a similar operation on Swatow. Missionaries and other s tlers who have had their own way in China in the past are getting nervous and are howling for warships. In a report to the cabinet on the Chinese situation, Austen Chamberlain, foreign ‘secretary, made it quite clear that he |had come to the conclusion the pro- |gress of the Cantonese could not be | y impeded by amything the je e could do, and that the use of \force on a large scale would only |make matters worse for the British. \Cannch Tours Mass. for Lenin Memorial The following meetings were ar- ranged with James P. Cannon as the principal «peaker: Jan. 17, Lowell, Mass.; Jan. 18, Maynard, Waltham St., Hall, 35 Wal- tham St.; Jam. 19, Lawrence, Lithu- anian Hall, 41 Berkeley St.; Jan. 20, Boston, Ford Hall, 15 Ashburton Place, 8 p. m.; Jan, 21, Chelsea, La- bor Lyceum, Bellington Square; Jan. 22, Norwood, Finnish Hall, 37 Chapel ‘t.; Jan, 23, Brockton, Eagle Hall, 3 c |p. m.; Jan. 23, Boston, New Interna- t ional Hall, Roxbury, 8 p. m. On Sunday, Jan. 23, in Brockton nd Boston, Cannon will speak on the ‘White Terror in Burope.” All the other meetings are Lenin memorial meetings. There will also be the following Lenin meeting®; Jan. 15, Gardner, Casino Hall, 85 Main St. Speakers at this meeting will be Harty Canter of Boston, and William Janhonen in Finnish. Jan. , West Concord, N. H. Rich- ard Pesola, speaker. Jan. 28, Quincy, Mass., 7:30 p. m., | Aro Hyrske, speaker. Workers! Attend the Lenin Memorial Meetings! Cn nn a ee te ‘enin Memorial Meeting and ew York Daily Worker Welcome Musical Program: Moscow RUSSIAN FREIHEIT Chorus o! ON SQUARE GARDEN 50th STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUE SATURDAY EVE, JAN, 22, AT 8 P.M. Tickets in advance at Workers Party headquarters, 108 E. 14th Street; Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 University P1., and all party papers. MISCHA MISHAKOFF Concertmaster, N. Y. Symphony IVAN VELIKANOFF Tenor, Musical Studio Vocal Quartette, tion, | Excuse for Invasion. | The agents of Wall Street that are | swarming in the capital as well as \the representatives of foreign powers are taking an exceptional interest in | this angle of the situation. Observers |bere recall that it was during a revolu- tionary period in Mexico in 1914 that | Woodrow Wilson found an excuse to bombard Vera Cruz. There is sufficient evidence to show that the catholic rebellion in Mexico |which is gathering under the banner jot leaders who wish to abolish the constitution of 1917 that the U. S. |takes exception to, are being financed and supported by interests within the United States. Opposition Grows. While the opposition in the senate still continues and telegrams of pro- test against the administration policy pour into the capitol and the White House, Coolidge and Kellogg have drawn into their shells-for a time to let the storm blow over. In the mean- time the court fight being waged in Mexico by the oil companies to put jaside the constitutional requirements |they object to are going forward to a revolutionaries are stirring up discord in the outlying states of Mexico and attempting to co-ordinate a force that At the same time the catholic | can make a stand against the federal troops. Would Invite Intervention, If the reactionaries can mobilize a force large enough to take over por- tions of a state like Tamaulipas or Vera Cruz where foreign oil interests are thickest, an excuse for interven- Ition can easily be found by the state department. The catholic hierarchy would invite intervention to achieve their purpose of reverting to the reac- tionary constitution of 1857, destroy- ing the labor movement and settting up again a Diaz regime. | Quake Near Tiflis, TIFLIS, Jan. 17.—An earthquake is reported from Shusha Agdama Zan- | sigur, a hundred miles from Tiflis. The populace fled from its homes and spent the night without shelter de- spite extreme cold. The earthquake was also felt in Tiflis. No casualties are reported. j Art Theater. MASTER SINGERS SINGING SOCIETY tf 800 Voices. Admission‘ 50c, 75c, $1.00 fHE DAILY WORKER Nicaraguan Labor Must|/SHOP CHAIRMEN Oppose Slavery “Peace” CONDENIN SIGMAN Urged By Wall Street SELL-OUT PACT By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. GIRL DIES IN‘OVERALL FACTORY FIRE; 20 JUMP FROM WINDOW 10 ESCAPE (Special to The Dally Worker) ROCKY MOUNT, Va. Jan, 17.— One girl was burned to death and twenty others saved thelr lives by leaping from windowa when fire destroyed the factory of the Black Prince Overall company here. Protest New’s Scheme For Patronage Gunmen. WASHINGTON.—Protest against Postmaster General New’s scheme to organize a force of 2,000 armed guards, outside the: classified civil service, to protect the mails, has been made to congress by the National Civil Service Reform League, All union- ized postal employes are required to | pass civil service examinations, RYAN, N. ¥. LABOR HEAD, REJECTS WOLL'S CHARGES Protests to Green at St. Petersburg, Fla. (Continued from page 1) under charges arising out of his strike activities, “We protested vigorously to the Police department agatnst the brutal attacks on the workers on strike. We brought these wanton attacks of the New York police against the workers to the attention of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York, which elected a special committee to investi- gate these bestial police outrages against the striking fur workers, Accounted For All Funds. “The statement of the executive council of the A. F. of L, insinuating that the union cannot account for $600,000 is a malicious falsehood. The cost of the strike was $340,000, out of which over $600,! “was paid out as relief to the strikers, for which vouchers are in possession of New York Joint Board,» The so-called in- vestigation committee of the A. F. of L, had access to these vouchers dur- ing their investigation. “The union has accounted for the funds received an@ spent during the strike at a me rship meeting at Cooper Union to Mr. Woll was invited to present his facts, which he did not dare to do. A complete report was publi: ie organ of the New York von ee ‘The Strug- gle, and was mailed to every member of the union. The membership of our union who are the real judges of our action have expresséd their unquali- fled support of our conduct during the strike.” ,y How It Siarted, The original ivestigation was be- gun by the A. F, of 14, on the request of the right wing heads of the Inter- national Furrier’s Union who had been repudiated by the bulk of the member- ship and who sought to gain control of the New York Joint Board. The winning of the forty-hour week and wage raises, thus making the long strike a distinct success, solidified the leadership of Ben Gold and ihs New York associates who have made no secret of the fact they are Commun- ists. The “investigation” was de- signed to weaken this prestige and at- tempt to frame-up the strike leader- ship, But Matthew Woll’s enthusiasm ran away with him, In his haste to make the frame-up complete, he presented his so-called “facts” to the executive council at St. Petersburg, His main indictment of the furriers was the charge that they bribed the police. The executive council immediately broadcast the bot of the case, thinking to aim a th blow to the turrier’s joint board by the “ex- posure,” Forgot Tammany. But they forgot that Ryan and the heads of the Central Trades Council who were on the imvestigating com- mittee were bound by close ties to the Tammany machine which was sure to’ be hit by even mythical charges of bribery. Tt was this fact that caused Ryan to issue hig» repudiation of Woll’s “facts” and cause the whole frame-up to fall to the ground under pressure of his Tamtany friends, The close alliance between Tam- many and the Central Council is.made particularly evident in the following statement of the hae ac designed to defend the Tammany police: “Ridiculous Position.” “The Central Trades and Labor Council and the membership in Great- er New York now feel that they have been placed in a ridiculous position by the action of the executive council, which practically means that the bona fide labor movement itself has now made charges of graft against the New York police department, and will have to depend on men like Gold, Cross and others, who already have denied making those statement’ “Unionists On Force.” “Mr, Ryan himself does not believe that one. member of the New York police force received or has been paid one penny of graft, cause he is a resident of New York and knows what the police force is iposed of, espe- cially members the Industrial Squad, many of are former members of local unions of this city.” AR IAA NO ROME dm mn mp ‘ALL Street offers “peace” to Nicaragua. It 1s urged by the bankers’ puppet, Adolfo Diaz, presi- dent by the grace of the shooting irons of the Coolidge-Mellon-Morgan navy, ‘ The “peace proposals” reveal the sinister ambitions of American great finance not only toward Nicar- agua, but toward all Latin-American countries, The suggested “peace” cannot be placed as a noose about the neck of the Nicaraguan people without also strangling the rights of all countries south of the Rio Grande, further enslaving them to the tyranny of the dollar, These slavery terms offered the Nicar- aguan rebels are as follows: 1, Agreement that Adolfo Diaz and his government, subservient to * Washington, remain in power for nearly two years more, until Dec. 1928, 2. Promise to “select” represent- ative “liberals” for executive and judicial posts, giving the party a “fair participation” in the govern- ment, 3. The holding of free elections in 1928, for which my (Diaz) gov- ernment accepts in advance Amer- ican supervision to be requested of the United States government. 4, A mixed claims commission, with equal conservative, liberal and American representation, to settle impartially all revolutionary claims. 5.. I (Diaz) hope as soon as peace is re-established the American gov- - ernment will grant our request for the ‘detail of an adequate military mission to reorganize and discipline our national guard. see ‘These are terms that only an ar- rogant profit taskmaster, secure in his place of power, could impose on his beaten slave. They are not the proposals of Diaz. They are the of- ferings of Wall Street imperialism itself, that Diaz meekly and obe- diently serves as catspaw, The Diaz government, that has been placed over Nicaragua by a huge war fleet and thousands of marines, demands that it be allowed to remain in power two years, This demand is a guilty confession in it- self, that Diaz has no mandate from the Nicaraguan masses. Wall Street is again playing the game of 1909, 1912 and 1925, when it fought to keep Diaz in power. The American marines “guarded the polls” in 1912, just as Diaz now proposes to hold “free elections.” The story of 1912, taken from “Dollar Diplomacy,” that Diaz at- tempts to repeat in 1927, is as fol- lows: “On Sept. 4, 1912, the state de- partment (at Washington) notified the American minister at Managua (Nicaragua) that ‘the American bankers who have made invest- ments in relation to railroads and steamships in Nicaragua, in con- nection with a plan for the relief of the financial distress of that country, have applied for protec- tion.’ “The American marines at once took drastic action against the re- yolutionists, According to the report of the United States secretary of the navy for 1913, the following naval vessels with approximately 125 officers and 2,600 men partici- pated in the subjugation of the rev- olution: California, Colorado, Cleve- land, Annapolis, Tacoma, Glacter, Denver and Buffalo, The officers and men participated in the bom- bardment of Managua, a night am- buscade in Masaya, the surrender of General Mena and his rebel army at Granada, the surrender of the rebel gunboats of Victoria and Ninety- three, the assault and capture of Coyotepe, the defénse of Paso Ca- ballos Bridge, including garrison and other duty at Corinto, Chinan- dago, and elsewhere, The most notable event during the campaign was the assault and capture of Coyotepe which resulted in entirely crushing the revolution, The leader of the rape gees forces surrend- ered to Rear Admiral Sutherland and was exiled to Panama aboard the U, 8. S. Cleveland, The part of the American minister in crushing the revolution consisted in sending notes to its leader, General Mena, to surrender the railroads which be- longed to the American bankers, In this line of action he was assisted by the bankers’ representatives, “Following the defeat of the rev- olutionists AN ELECTION WAS HELD IN WHICH THE AMER- ICAN MARINES GUARDED THE POLLS. On Nov. 2, (1912) Diaz (the same Adolfo Diaz ‘again serv- ing American financial interests) was re-elected for a term of four years.” see ‘Wall Street might just as well ap- point Diaz permanent dictator, for the rest of his Ife, as to @uggest that rebellious Nicaragua si it to him for two years more, until Dec. 1928, and then acquiesce in-a so- called “free election” under ican supervision.” The Coolidge crowd in Washington could prob- ably send down some of the, Vare henchmen from Philadelphia, who forget to count the opposition vote. As for selecting some “liberals” to enter, the Diaz government, it is always possible to find wolves to be dressed up in attractive and harm- less looking sheep's clothing. es ¢ @ Something of the spirit of the class collaborating National Civic Federation is breathed into the fourth proposal for the “mixed claims commission.” It is stacked two to one against the rebels, just as employer-employe-public commis- sions in this country always find the representative of the public on the side of the exploiters, The U, S. government representative can be depended on to back the Diaz spokesman, its own mouthpiece, Diaz also wants an American “mil- itary mission” to reorganize and discipline the national guard. A bunch of handipicked Hessians, drill ed by “100 per cent American” West Point graduates, ought to provide a soldiery satisfactory tq the preda- tory American fruit, mining, rail- road and banking interests. But why attempt to play such a ghastly joke on the Nicaraguan people? It is like giving them a rope to hang them- selves, or poison to commit suicide with, The present day Wall Street profit pirates have outdone the buc- caneers of old in demanding that the Nicaraguan people walk the plank, precipitating them into the loving death of imperialist slavery. Nicaragua can only tear up these proposals made by the political agent, Diaz, of the Wall Street Plunderbund. To do anything else will be merely to enslave them- selves still more until extreme des- peration drove them to new strug- gles, eee Diaz has another brilliant pro- posal. He says that as soon as the measures already enumerated are initiated, he hopes that “It will be possible for my country to secure in the United States a large loan for construction of a railway to the Atlantic Coast and highways needed for development of the country.” It may be taken for granted that the railroad and the highways will never be built, not with Diaz as president. The money will be used instead to defray the expenses that have been incurred to keep Diaz in power. The Nicaraguans. will thus have to foot the bill of their own enslavement. There is good prece- dent for this. In “Dollar Diplomacy,” p. 165, speaking of the suppression of the 1912 revolution, we find the following: “The expenses incurred during the revolution forced Diaz to apply to the American bankers for an- other loan, The terms on which the bankers offered to make the loan were protested by Diaz as harsh, but they were backed up by the state department (at Washington), and were incorporated in the loan agreement on Noy, 4, 1912.” ef @ | Diaz does not complain any longer. He is an obedient puppet, and brazenly puts forward the ne- cessity of a “large loan,” to be hoisted with warships upon the backs of the Nicaraguan people. But Nicaragua is not as docile now is 1912, Nicaragua also. has allies among the Latin-American nations. It is finding an increasing number of supporters among American workers and farmers. That has Washington Wall worried. and Street Functionaries’ Class to Start in Boston (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Jan. 17, — The fast func- tionaries’ meeting in Boston decided) to open a class for functionaries to be conducted by G. 8S. Shklar, district organizer, The class for functionaries will start on Monday, Jan, 24, and will continue until the course is complet- ed, Memorial BOSTON, ATTENTION! Lenin is Dead, but Leninism Lives! LENIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1927, 8 p. m. Ford Hall, 15 Ashburton Place, Boston Speaker: JAMES P; CANNON of Chicago. Auspices Workers Party of America. — Demand Explanation of Concessions Made (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—The shop chairmen of the dress industry, in a meeting called at Webster Halli, Thursday night, condemned the ac- tion of Morris Sigman of the Inter- national @Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and pledged themselves not to recognize the agreement In thelr shops. More than 800 shop chairmen gath- ered at one day’s notice to hear the details of the dress agreement se- eretly negotiated by the Interna- tional. The information was secured by the joint board in spite of the al- tempt of the International to keep them secret under broad announce- ment that “the old agreement will be renewed.” . Expose Concessions. Julius Portnoy, C. S. Zimmerman, and other joint board leaders spoke briefly, outlining the concessions be- ing made to the manufacturers by Sigman in return for their dealing with him instead of with the regu- larly constituted authority, the joint board. The concessions include, ac- cording to the information received, the abolishing of the minimum guar- antee for piece workers, the practical abolishment of the schedule for price settlement, the permission to manu- facturers to change the system of work in the shop from week ‘work to piece work without consent of the workers, the extension of the. dis- charge clause giving employers addi- tional rights of discharge, no pay on holidays that fall on Saturday, and loss of 15 per cent additional pay for temporary workers. Many shop chairmen from the floor spoke on the situation, condemning the agreement as a sell out to the employers. Sigman Meet Fiat. A meeting called in Beethoven Hall by Sigman was attended by aboit three hundred people, in spite of a week's advertising of the meeting tor liscussion of the agreement. Shop chairmen who were present de nanded explanation of Sigman’s ac- ions and stated that they knew that the membership would be opposed to the concessions made, according tu chairmen who attended. Gangsters Shoot. An unidentified passerby was shot and seriously injured on Friday morn- ing shortly after eight o’clock, wher gangsters fired a volley of shots at some members of Local 22 who were passing in a machine on 23rd street near 6th avenue. The gangsters escaped when chased by police, lear- ing their abandoned machine, which was confiscated by police. The gang- sters were the same bunch who were seen hanging about the garment cen- ter on Wednesday and Thursday and threatening workers sympathetic to the joint board. STATE PIERGES PARSON'S STORY IN MURDER CASE AUSTIN, Tex., Jan, 16.—Efforts to show that Ref, Frank Norris killed D. BE, Chipps, Fort Worth lumberman, in a room other than the one in which the body was found were made, Rev. Norris, claiming he killed in self-de- fense, is on tfial charged with mur- er, Found Blood Stains. Cc. D. Bush, Fort Worth detective, was used by the state in an attempt to show that officers who went to the scene of the killing on the afternoon of July 17, 1926, had found blood- stains on a carpet in an ante-room. Bush first-testified that he had found a bloodstain, but on cross ex- amination admitted the stain might have been “sputum and. blood.” Four Wounds, O. W.. Phillips, Fort Worth embalm- er, testified he had found four wounds in Chipps’ body. The defense did not question Phillips. F. W. Spreen, am- bulance driver, testified Chipps died while being placed on a stretcher. Meeting