The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1927, Page 1

| WORKERS! DEMONSTRATE! ATTEND THE LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS! FULL LIST ON PAGE TWO! HELP FIGHT IMPERIALISM: 23, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, =>” The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party, For the 40-Hour Week. NEW YORK EDITION 1879, red at Second-class ry September 21, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1927 TRIUMPH FOR CLASS ACTIO (Special to The Dally Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 18—The farmer-labor conference this morning categorically repu- diated the propaganda spread over the country that the Minnesota workers and farmers were | / S, vw, toel oO in ready to give up independent political action and return to the republican and democratic par-| ties by adopting a strong resolution supporting the farmer-labor party. | On Calles With ‘Chi id F U.S va. | China Aid From JU. $. - At the same time the conference adopted resolutions taking a strong stand against the | Ca imperialist policy of the government and demanding the withdrawal of American naval forces | Pree gwar tom meee cio” | AI Leading Archbishop Takes Prepares for War _SIRIKE CLOUDS CHICHERIN AID | Field Against Revolution A second fesolution urged the im- ia Jans WLeotmolale, EXPASES AIMS MEXICO CITY, Jan. 18.—Despite its innumerable protests peachment of Kellogg as the tool of SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 18.—Offici internati i int , maroliecc! the: ipsaroqnanal | of innocence, the Mexican Catholic hierarchy has gone definitely 19: R In reg by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Ask («ers for Army...“ 7,000 Published Daily except Sund: PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W Vol. IV. No. 6. Price 3 Cents Subscription Rates: NiHierarchy Wars , Wv Nicaragua, The resolutiqn supporting independ- ent political. action brands the repub- lican and democratic parties as the servants of the special privileged in- terests ‘points to the achievements of the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota Wall Street because of his actions in settlement here yesterday sent out a call to the powers to rush . ; i an army of at least 25,000 into Shanghai before the city could be lon a war footing against the Mexican government by the action captured by the approaching Cantonese nationalist forces. of Archbishop Jiminez of Guadelajara placing himself at the Simultaneously the French legation at Peking has protested head of detachments of armed Catholics in the state of Jalisco. ; Lenin Memorial Meeting | | j in regular form to the Peking government, dominated by Chang Tso-lin, “War Lord of Manchuria” and a Japanese hireling, against the anti-Christian propaganda being circulated in Foo- chow, a city under Cantonese control. The French protest, and the appeal for troops of the local foreign concession administration are considered here to be two steps in the preparation of a case for foreign intervention on a large scale, in support of Chang Tso-lin, who will now be repre- sented as undertaking an expedition against the Kuomintang and South China, in the interests of peace, order, and the pre- ———————— a Borvation. Of treaty. rights ‘and lives of foreigners. Arm To Save Loot. The foreign imperialist forces in Shanghai are actively preparing for war with the Cantonese army. The foreign concessions are being turned into fortresses, Huge gates are being swung Across all streets leading into the French concession, Barbed wire entanglements are under construction along the borders of the foreign settle- ment, and are being built also across streets inside the settlement, for street fighting in case the Chinese at- |tempt to assume the administration of the territory so long occupied by foreign armed forces. American Consul Clarence S. Gauss is active in organizing into the militia of the foreign settlement all able- bodied male Americans; missionaries and women are being inducted into hcommittees for service back of the ling. The European and American in- Cecrrer% Sten By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, E. is worthy of note that most of President Coolidge’s recommend- ations to congress are contemptuously relegated to the waste basket by the lawmakers, yet this same Coolidge can engage in war on a friendly country like Nicaragua, threaten war against Mexico and dispatch warships to China on a hostile mission, and get away with it. Intellectually, Coolidge is a greater nincompoop than his predecessor, Warren G. Harding. He owes his power to Wall Street. As long as he acts the part of a willing errand boy the so-called opposition in congress may rave, but Cal may go ahead with the work. eee . ET there are some people who are still under the delusion that the citizens of this country are in a posi- tion to exert decisive influence on governmental policy. In no other country in the world is government terests which “have been prospering 80 long on Chinese labor and Chinese trade have annolnced that they will not abandon their toe-hold in. Shan- ghai without desperate fighting. 4,000 Marines to Land. The harbor at Shanghai is crowded dustrial commercjal and religious in-| Board of Mediation Failed So Far By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press). WASHINGTON —(FP)— Twenty- two thousand members of the Broth- erhood of Railway Trainment and the Order of Railway Conductors, em- ployed on all class 1 railroads in the Southeastern region except the South- ers Railway, are completing a strike vote. It is indicated that this vote is almost unanimous, or at least is overwhelmingly In favor of authoriz- ing a strike in case the executives of the two brotherhoods shall be unable to secure a satisfactory adjustment of the pending wage demands. Ask $1 a Day More. Efforts of the U. S. board of media- tion, created under the Watson- Parker law, have failed to budge either side. The unions’began by asking that the wage scale be revised to give an increase of about $1 a day. The management, led by the “hard-boiled” Louisville & Nashville and the Atlantic Coast Line, refused to discuss wages unless rules were also thrown into the debate. As the rules are nationally uniform, and. as the roads in Eastern territory have recently granted a wage increase without insisting upon changes in the working rules, the brotherhoods’ rep- resentatives have declined to talk of modification of the rules. The dead- lock grimly declared by the managers led to the taking of the ballot on au- thorization of a stoppage of work. in electing two United States sen- ators and polling a quarter of a mil- lion votes in thé last election and then declares: : “Resolved, that this conference of the representatives of the workers’ and farmers’ organizations of the state of Minnesota denounces those persons who Would lead the work- (Continued on page 2.) SHOULD PAY PROFESSORS AS MUCH AS GHAUFFEURS AND COOKS, DEAN PLEAS Low wages paid college instruc- tors is blamed for the ills existing in the college system by Otis E. Randall, dean of Brown University, in an address before the Association of American Colleges in convention here, “Not until the American public is willing to pay its college professors as much as its cooks and chauffeurs will it obtain the best education for its sons and @aughte said the dean. 4 Because of ‘wages paid pro- fessors, capable men are not at- tracted to that ‘profession, he said. “We shall have to continue with many in . Instructors who “could not ¢ y’for any industrial or office position,” he said. In 300 colleges, the average pay is $1,400 to $2,000 for instructors, $2,000 to $2,500 for assistant pro- fessors, and $2,300 to $4,000 for full Litvinoff Tears the Veil | from Kellogg Tale (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. 18.— Acting Foreign Minister Litvinoff, in the absence of George Chicherin, has undertaken to reply to the Kellogg memorandum recounting the grue- some details of an_ all-devouring “bolshevist” plot to steal Latin-Amer- lea away from Wall Street. The So- viet Press ‘also pays its compliments to the nervous secretary of state and takes particular exception to his dis- tortion of Chicherin’s pronouncements regarding America. “Statement of capitalistic tries,” said Litvinoff, “lately have taken the habit of covering their incompetence in internal affairs or ag- gressive aspirations in the field of foreign policy by playing up ‘bolshe- vik intrigues,’ or ‘plots,’ of the Soviet government,” he said. “Whether the question at issue is a miner’s strike in England, an attack by the Ameri- can navy against the independent re- public of Nicaragua or the shooting of people in Java and Sumatra, there is always the same justification in the ‘plots and intrigues’ of the bolshevist government. _» Blame for Floods... “{ shouldn't be surprised if the en- Hghtened politicians of the great powers one day set out to explain an earthquake in Japan or floods in America by such ‘intrigues’ of the bolsheviks. It would simply be an in- sult to public opinion if I were seri- coun- Sera bishop Orozco y of the Mexican hierarchy. |to flee to the United States where he spent two years. Connected With Oil. The decision of the clergy to throv off the veil of religious passivity Jabandon intrigue for open warfare against the Mexican revolution is r¢ garded here as closely connected with the crisis over the oil and land laws and more particularly with the finar cial and moral support being given the Mexican hierarchy by the Catho Knights of Columbus in the Unit States. The government has accepted the challenge and has mobilized troops t the bands of catholics who, under the leadership of priests and local reac- tionaries, have been marauding the countrysides and attempting to rally the more fanatic religious elements to their standards. “The federal troops have so far been completely success ful in their operations and their cam paign is being supplemented by ag jan supporters of the government and the revolution in the outlying states who are asking Calles for arms. Not Fooled >y Lull. Mexico City circles view the present lull in the crisis between Calles and Coolidge’ as “merely a tefiipovary watchfulness on the part of Washing ton and the oil men who are pushing the oil land dispute to a crisis in the Mexican courts and are encouraged by the revolt of the clergy. There is no question but that the Since the deportation of Archbishop Pascual Diaz, Arch- Jiminez is regarded as the outstanding leader On two previon has led revolts against the Mexican revolution, once under Car- |ranza and again under Obregon. He was forced on one occasion ; occasions, Jiminez Famous Tenor at New York Lenin Meet sw YORK — The announcement Ivan Velikanoff, principal tenor ow Art The Musical 1 sing at the Lenin Memor: g, to be held on Saturday a at the new Madison Garden, 5 and 8th has aroused much interest in and has brought a steady of workers to the various tick hastening to get tickets in aul Meet vening, quar in the with the Musical o, which appeared in sev- eral citi in this country last year He is remembered particularly for his orgettable pe mance in “Car- mencita and the Soldier,” which was cclaimed by leading critics and pro- ducers as the Studio’s best production Velikanoff sung the part of “Jose,” the soldier, opposite Olga Baklanova, brii- liant star of the Moscow Art Theater Musical Studio, who played as “Car- mencita.” His performance was Very nighly praised by the entire New York press. No worker will want to miss hear- ing this splendid singer, who is rep esentative of the new forms of art which are being developed in Soviet Russia, He will sing, among others, jess subject to popular will than in| with war craft of every country hav- ously to repudiate such fantastic ex-| alles regime so far enjoys the con-line following numbers: “Son of the the United States, with the exception |ing “interests” in Chinese trade, or planations. fidence of the large mass of peons,| ark Forest,” by A. Borodin, and of fascist dictatorships such as Italy, | whose nations own factories or mis- “I am familiar with the resolutions |0t to speak of the overwhelming bulk “pring,” by Rimsky-Korsakoff. sions on Chinese soil, American and Japanese ships are included in the total. The fleet is ready to land marines and blue-jackets without wait- ing for the 25,000 troops; the officials of the foreign settlement have asked for 2,000 British, 1,000 American and 1,000 Japanese from the battleships as a preliminary, They were inspired to this action by the outbreak of strikes in the tex- Spain, Poland and others of the same brand. In France, Germany or Great Britain a government quits when its important measures fail to receive 2 substantial majority in parliament. In the United States the administration stays put if congress ‘turned against it to a man. ee HE Knights of Columbus believe in educating the Mexicans with bullets. At the convention held by the Knights in Philadelphia a million dollar fund was launched for “educa- tional purposes.” The Knights would explain the position of the catholic church on the Mexican question to the sudden tytsg up of the entire street railway system yesterday thru a strike against low wages and the bru- tality of the foreign inyestors and their underlings, Reports continue to come of wide- tile mills a few days ago, and by the | American people. It now develops that this money is being used to finance fascist revolts against the Mexican government. The Mexicans have had « enough of papal education. eee HE labor fakers have gotten them- selves into a nice méss Over the investigation into the expenditure of funds by the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Unton during the (Continued on page 2.) spread anti-Christian movements thru- out China, and missionaries who place no reliance on the “rice-christians” they have produced as a result of un- limited funds from American and European churches, feeling the gen- eral resentment towards them of the native population, and “anxious to provide a cause for war, are “fleeing” to the seacoast cities. In some cases they tell of “escaping” (Continuea on page 2) NICARAGUAN LABOR HEAD CHARGES U. S. CONTROLLED CONSTABULARY BROKE UP LABOR UNIONS IN 1925 3 WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—(FP)—Salamon de la Selva, secretary of the Nicaraguan Federation of Labor, who was recently sent to Washington by his organization to protest against “the unwarranted use of American forces in the internal troubles of Nicaragua,’ has issued a caustic reply to the Bol- - shevik plot” document made public by Secretary Kellogg. When Chamorro seized the government in the fall of 1925, de la Selva declared, a section of the constabulary, under Major Rodriguez, an Americ: officer, went to the city of Leon, stronghold of the labor unions, and destroyed the unions’ offices, others to do unpa work, and drove jacked the homes of the leaders, flogged some, forced others to flee for their lives. Extracts from Lenin’s Writing —E must be careful to separate the oppressed and subject na- tions from the dominating nations, in contradiction to the bourgeois democratic lies concealing the. en- slavement of the vast majority of the population of the earth by an in- significant minority of advanced capitalist nations which is peouliar to the epoch of finance, capital and imperialism. - os It is the policy of the Communist International to bring about an alliance of the proletariat of the ad- vanced country and the working masses of the colonies for a joint revolutionary struggle against im- perialism, a * © Communiet parties must give ac- tive support to the movements for liberation in the colonies and semi- colonies, etc. sf @ The duty of supporting the revolu- tionary movements against imperial- ism is to be imposed in the first place of the workers of those coun- tries on whom the subject nation is dependent in a colonial or financial way. ef One of the chief sources of strength of European and American capitalism is in colonial possessions and dependencies. Without the con- i th LENIN. trol of the extensive markets and the vast flelds:of exploitation in the colonies, the big capitalist powers would find it hard to maintain their ‘existence, er @ Super-profits gained in the col- onies and semi-colonies is the main- Stay of modem capitalism, ae By exploiting the mi colonies European capitalism is in a position to give conc jons to the aristocracy of labor at home. of the Third international. Unfortu nately I am not for the moment in a position to verify the quotations from them by Mr. Kellogg. I am also fa- miliar with the malignant resolutions the American Federation of Labor has diredted against the fundamentals | of the sowiet regime of Russia. It is as ridiculows to explain the attacks of the American navy against Nicaragua by criticisms of imperialism contain- ed in the resolutions of the Third in- (Continued on page 2.) RELIGIOUS EDITOR FACES JAIL FOR EXPOSING GOD OF BIBLE AS ‘MURDERER’ (Special to The Daily Worker) TORONTO, Jan. 18.—Because he wrote disparagingly of the biblical God, Ernest V. Sterry, editor of the Christian Inquiry, has been ar- rested under an ancient statute charged with “blasphemous, inde- cent, profane libel concerning the holy scripture and the Christian re- | ligion.” Sterry was granted a week in which to prepare his defense against the charges. Sterry’s “scandalous” articles were quoted In the court hearing. One of them refers to the God of the bible as “this irate old party, who thunders imprecations from the mountains or mutters and grouches in the tabernacle . who has mas- sacred hundreds of his chosen peo- ple... makes one feel utter con- tempt for the preachers and un- feigned pity for the mental state of those who can retain a serious cou: tenance as they pursue the stories of his peculiar whims, freaks and fancies.” of the city workers, that any attempts at revolt are doomed to failure. The fear here is that, while it is certain the armed bid for power being made by the hierarchy and the reactionaries cannot possibly succeed without out- side help, there is danger of U. S. intervention involved in the possibil- ity of the catholics extending their operations to the oil fields. Fear Provocation. It would be one of the first acts of the counter-revolutionary forces to provoke difficulty for the Calles gov- ernment by attacks upon American property which would offer an excus' for U. S. intervention. It is no sec ot | paper, This singer is 0 one of the at- tractions at the Lenin Memorial Meet- ing. The list of speakers and artists who will appear make this meeting the outstanding event of the year which no New York militant can af- ford to miss, The commemoration of Lenin's death this year, will mark the rally ing of all forces of New York’s pro- gressive labor movement in a mighty for Leninism—which militant trade union ism, for ama ation and organiza tion of the anized workers, for an English working class daily news- The DAIL WORKER, and demonstration means a fight f here that Wall Street interests ha ainst American list ventures on many previous occasions financed |in Central Ame “hina, etc, the catholics and the reactionaries} Admission Ic., , and $1.00 and there is no doubt but that the| There are only 5,000 s at 75c., and million dollar fund raised by the|2,000 seats at $1.00. Workers should Knights of Columbus in the United | get their tickets in advance at the of- States is finding its way into Mexico | fice of the Workers Party, 108 Bast to aid the catholics. 14th Street; Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 Unive y Place; Freiheit, 30 Union Square; and all Workers Party papers. Send in a Sub to The WORKER today. DA'LY Young Communist International Calls on American Youth to Take Up Fight Against Wall St. Invasion By JOHN PEPPER. (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. 18.—The Executive Committee of the Young Communist International has issued a manifesto to the young workers of America and all countries declaring that the struggle of the people of Nica- ragua against the robbers of Wali Street is the struggle of all peoples of Latin-America and must be supported by all those exploited and oppressed. The youth who are the first victims of exploitation and imperialist wars are called upon to rally to the fight against the strangling of the Nicaraguan people and the threat of war against Mexico by the rapacious imperialism of the United States. and | New York Daily Worker Welcome ‘ MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 50th STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUE SATURDAY EVE,, JAN, 22, AT 8 P.M. ADMISSION: 50c, 75c, $1.00 Tickets:in advance at Workers Party headquarters, 108 Past 14th Street; Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 all party papers, « yY miversity Place, and Speakers: Musical Program: Cc, E. RUTHENBERG WM. Z. FOSTER SCOTT NEARING MOISSAYE J. OLGIN J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM WEINSTONE FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY SAM DON Chorus of 300 Voices. Auapices: Workers Party of America, District No. 2 MISCHA MISHAKOFF Concertmaster, N. Y. Symphony IVAN VELIKANOFF Tenor, Musical Studio Moscow Art Theater. RUSSIAN MASTER SINGERS Vocal Quartette. ge 5