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2 é a a: STILL FOR OPPOSITION TO WORLD WAR Objector Elected to Of-| fice Must Fight for It WASHINGTON (FP.). Troy Deacon, of Glen Rose, Tex., who elected county attorney Some yell county, t state, last Novem- per, has appealed to Rep, Victor =| , for information as war-time conviction | under the espionage law will bar him| from serving a county officer. Deacon was an oppo-| nent of the war policy of the Wilson adminis ny other pacifists , and he J mths in end of| . Now his} for nvicted They e he} m he ¢ was not pardor Deacon inq er there was not--issue n y which restored ¢ i to all po- litieal p | No Amnesty Granted. No such was ever grant- ed. Prisone paroled, not par- doned, although pardons were se-| , afterward, on} | cured by si peal for of Eugene V. Debs s sent to President Cool- idge, he ferred it to the Depart- ment of Justice, which unofficially detlared that tence had no ship. It clain prived of the i in his state la Deacon will blank on which pardon to clear ship record. But him in Texas will rest if there be any depriye t if he were de- » vote or hold hat would be due for a the state law, U.S. Waits British O. kK. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The American gove T ready to representatives ¢ and to Canada h government appointments are aid at the state € concerning reports | don that Frederick A, Sterl- llor of the American em- id be selected as the Amer- y to Ir ument is Goethe’s Hair For Sale. BERLIN, A lock of hair} that hclonged to Goethe will be auc- tioned off at Leipzig February 8. It is valued at $125. } Frame Radio Bill | Feb, &- Watemce * WHITE Radio is no longer a scientific marvel, neither is it going to be al- lowed to become a child’s toy. It is recognized as a powerful means of propaganda and large amounts of capital are invested in it. There- fore, a bill now before the Senate to regulate and license it more severely, abitowenen' =~ | ruled } nedy' | oppe j tt Lewis stepped up to him. jis restored. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW_ YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1927 PERSECUTED 'A PEEP AT THE LEADING ANIMALS IN JOHN L, LEWIS’ HIPPODROME ' By JACK KENNEDY | INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. Emper- or Lewis’ machine, woefully weak at the base in this convention, derives much of its power from the boss’s big lieutenants. Phil Murray of Pittsburgh, vice president of the in- ternational, is the main push next to Lewis hims Drilled thoroughly n Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh poli- tical gang methods, Murray is a mas- ter hand at the throttle, He chokes off debate with neat dispatch, but can bellow as loudly as the big bull himself when some obstreperous young delegate stands pat on his par- liamentary rights. The gavel pounds lustily, the head flies off into the audience, but Murray keeps on pound- ing with his fist, making the prog- voice inaudible in the ressive’s hubbub, Seeretary Thomas Kennedy, green on the job, is not the brutal conven- tion boss. But give him time. He the anthracite with a heavy hand in the d before his elevation to take Bill ¢ n’s former job. Ken- is the “liberal” front of the Miners’ Union, as Frank Morrison is of the American Federation of La- bor. A former socialist, he speaks impressively of “even the socialists” ining the war against the left. Ken- jy does the anti-red stuff nearly effectively as Murray, although both fall far behind the Emperor, Hall a Favorite Son. ident Lee Hall of Ohio is being d tor advancement. Chairman ot the committee on officers’ report, he licked Lewis’ boots with louder smacks than any other administra- tion hound. Nevertheless he falls far below the master’s level of general- ship. he uproar following the $12,000 y grab for Lewis, Hall peremp- torily cut off all demonstration, But the tumult on the floor gathered in inte y until the air was blue with tion. Hal! floundered badly un- “Give ‘em a chance at a roll call,” the mas- ter whispered, But a roll call of 500 delegates, consuming a day and a half and costing some $50,000, is spect faced with reluctance by nt determined enemies of the machine. So the demand for the roll call is asked, an insufficient number respond, and once again order is re- stored. President Harry Fishwick of Mlin- ois is another pinch-hitter for Lewis. A point of personal privilege, when a progressive has been accused of the worst crime in the union calendar, means nothing to this czarlet. He points the gavel at the progressive, a half dozen plug-uglies make a flying tackle, and “order”—such as it is—| Fishwiek is also given to cussing, and with an appalling ig- norance of the radical movement, he makes a slashing attack with all the finesse of a bull in a china shop. Featherbrained Capellini. President Rinaldo Capellini of An- thracite District No. 1 is an impetu- ous gangster whose mental lightness rules him out altogether as a top- notch machine leader. But how good he is on appeals to personal violence! Being one-armed, Capellini has an un- doubted advantage in this sort of thing. He is cordially hated in his own district by progressives and re- actionaries alike for his vitriolic tongue, his unscrupulous fascist-like tacties and his utter lack of any trace of personal honor. The big machine men have undoubt- ied abilities, in marked contrast, to|ing the Cantonese out of Shanghai. President Pat Fagan of District No. the copy of a memorandum which he delivered to the British charge O’Mal- iey on January 22, stating that “it is not and never has been the intention of the nationalist government to oc- cupy the international settlement at Shanghai.” r |. This memorandum pointed out that the Lewis gang in all its reactionary) {hough the Japanese and Americans red-baiting and anti-militant moves.|haye large interests in Shanghai, Alone they remained faithful when) their governments have not found it all else had deserted the Lewis ban-| necessary to resort to the massing of ner on the issue of democracy in the ed troops. It also states that the local unions on the two-year election) nationalist government desires that proposal. Massed in a solid body di-) »}) questions relating to treaties shall rectly beneath Bittner’s table on the) pe settled by negotiation and agree- platform, they followed hiza blindly} ment, including an agreement as to into the one smashing defeat sus-|the future of the international set- tained by the machine. tlement. Bittner Foozled Weakly. Bittner himself fails to measure up to the Lewis crowd either in brow- beating or cunning. He foozled weak- ly on the local union election ques- tion, Reading his proposed constitu- tional amendment, he moved adoption. Hindmarsh, the aggressive’ independ- ent. from Illinois, asked him very de- cently to state his reasons for the Apparently the British government is instructisg O'Malley to parley with Chen pending the arrival of the ex- pedition which is being sent to China by Great Britain. — Draft Was Submitted. The preliminary negotiations be- tween Chen and O’Malley were con- cluded last Saturday and on Sunday a draft agreement was submitted for change. 4 iat correction: At this time Chen stated It’s none of your damned busi-| (not unforseen events prevented his ness,” Bittner retorted, in effect. signing, On the following day he ex- plained that the nationalist govern- ment was unable to sign such an agreement while troops were being concentrated at Shangha Thevimpression prevails here that after having received severe jolts from both the Northern and Southern governments of Chingy that the Brit- ish government ~has ‘io instructed charge O'Malley to enter into nego- tiations with the nationalists in an attempt to explain eway the dispatch ot British troops to the number of 20,000 to China. Again Hindmarsh pressed for a real answer. Bittner flew into a rage and appealed to the chair to “preserve order.” That» started the fireworks which led to the machine's derail- ment. A dozen minor figures fought ac- ely for yecognition in Lewis’ as capable machine lieutenants, tried to out-Lewis Lewis in attacks on the progressives, on union demo- cracy and on the rank and file. Petty men, they seemed puny Mussolinis trying to catch the eye of Big Benito himself. tiv yes Outline of British Proposals to Canton (Continued from page 1). that it is not willing to submit the Chinese dispute to the league of no intimation that it is considering meeting the Chinese demand arid or- dering the recall of troops already sent to China, Another British Denial. The foreign office issued a state- ment denying that negotiations be- tween Eugene Chen and O'Malley were broken Of. ‘They simply stopped discussing the foreign office explained. Lord Robert Cecil’s explanation of Great Britain’s refusal to submit the Anglo-Chinese differences to the lea- are not “confiscatory or discrimina- to * Since there is as yet no “recog- nized” government in Southern China, Great Britain proposes that these pro- s be incorporated in local agree- ments until such a time ds it is pos- sible to draw up a treat ognized” ‘government. se 8 EDITORIAL NOTE The DAILY WORKER calls at tion to the “catches” in the British | proposals by putting the key words in quotes. The word “revision” can mean anything that superior milita power can weave into it. The Bri are willing to “share” the adminis tion of British concessions w Cantonese. The latter simp! John Bull “Get out and stay out!) We'll run our own country.” Great | Britain is willing to trust the lives of hier subjects to “mpdern” Chinese courts. This is an evasion. British subjects shall pay taxes provided they are not “cenfiscatory or discrimina- tory.” Of course. And another pole cat among the picknickers is the fun- damental fact that Great Britain fails to recognize the Cantonese gov- ernment. Britain was sparring for time hop- ing that it would inveigle the Can- tonese into an atmosphere of delusory peace while its armed forces were speeding to Shanghai. Britain knew | that an engagement between the Can- {tones and Sun Chuan-Fang’s forces | was impending and hoped for a Can- | tonese defeat. This hope is now blast- ed. Perhaps the Cantonese will be too | Busy between now and their arrival {in Shanghai to talk to the British, }except with cannon. | There are persistent reports from | Washington that Coolidge is prepared to cooperate with the British in keep- posa I jest in London’s most fashionable eat- ing and drinking places today. The noble lord declared that China | was in a state of civil war and was unduly influenced by the Soviet un- ion, and since the Soviet union was .» | Hostile to the league of nations, two and two makes five. Predict Flood Disaster. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Delay in buiiding the /proposed boulder “canyon dam on the Colotado: River may lead to a flood disaster “of gigantic pro- portions”, Dr. Elwood Mead, director of reclamatio#, told Rep. Smith (R) idaho, chairman of the house irriga- tion committee, in a letter today. Photo-Engravers Win $7 Raise. BOSTON, (FP)—Boston photo-en- gravers, Local 3, win Wage increases of approximately $7 in a new con- tract, placing minimum wages for 1927 at $50, with $52 for the first six months of 1928 and $55 for the second six months of that year. May Tax Gas. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 2.—Indi- cations that the legislature of 1927 will pass a bill imposing a tax of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline, came to- day when such a rgeasure was intro- dueed by Senator J. Griswold Webb, So far France has not taken a po-{ Republican of Dutchess. Great Britain has clearly indicated! nations, and thus far ‘there has been| ; gue of nations isa topic for ribald! 5, a Pittsburgh alley gangster who) sition one way or the other and Ja- resorts to crude beat-’em-up methods| pan is reported to be conducting in- at any and all times for want of a) dependent negotiations with the Can- brain to think up anything better.|tonese. From what we know at the The progressive movement. has at-| present time the capitalist powers tained its greatest strength in his{have not yet arrived at a common district, western Pennsylvania. Work-| policy towards China. What they may ing in close collaboration with the de-| Go when the revolutionary armies partment of justice, he engineers| teach Canton remains to be seen, tho drives on the lefts far outstripping|#ll Washington reports indicate that efforts along this line in other dis-| Coolidge is determined to ets Ay tricts. A low type of Irish ward poli-| the implications of his secret deal with tician, he attempts to spread terror| the British. among the South Slavs so numerous} around Pittsburgh. The degree of CantonForeign Minister It Has Two HE international race of arma- ments has received another im- petus in the decision of the United States senate to start. construction work immediately on three more scout cruisers, British imperialist statesmen, Japanese advocates of “an adequate navy,” the “bigger naty” politi- cians of France, with the support- ers of Mussolini’s cutthroat gov- ernment developing an éxpansion- ist program, will all clamor a little louder, as a result, for more battle- ships of their own. lishing the pictures of the latest pattern war cruisers of Great Brit- ain and Japan, so the war hysteria breeding press of London and Tokio will now reproduce the like- nesses of the new American bat- tlers for “dollar diplomacy,” thus ng the’ native appetite for human slaughter. | The armament struggle between Great Britain, France and Germany, in the days before 1914, is thus expanded to world proportions. * * @ The senate vote is heralded as a “defeat” for Coolidge’s economy program. While Coolidge holds his hands in Old New England fashion on the purse strings of the treas- ury, the bigger navy crowd, that controls the senate, feels that it can swill away as it sees fit the money exacted from the’ masses of the nation. Incidentally the vote is just another nail in the coffin of Coolidge’s presidential ‘aspirations for 1928, by which time the war preparations of American imperial- ism, with the rapidly developing situations in Mexico, Nicaragua | and China, will have called for many more than the-three insignifi- cant scout cruisers now favored, Maik ata The president was defeated by an alliance of democrats and republi- cans. the larger share of the votes against / the White House. The measure was passed with 25 democrats and only 24 republicans voting for it, thus allowing the so-called anti-war op- position party (democrats) in con- gress to dictate the “greater pre- paredness’ program of the Wall Street government. Pepper, the steel-coul-railroad senator from Pennsylvania, votes with Tammany Hall's Senator Copeland, from New York. Cou- zens, the Michigan progressive, Just as the | American jingo press has been pub- | In fact the democrats cast | side-by-side | to One Grip on United States Senate By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, nests with Hiram Johnson, erst- while California progressive, in the new battleship program. Farmers who pass: resolutions against militarism will learn that Senator McNary, of Oregon, who was selected to introduce the Mc- Nary farm relief bill in the senate, stood side by side with Senator Steck, the democrat, from bank- rupt Lowa, in spending more money tor death-dealing floating fortress- es. Only 18 republicans, along. with eight democrats, voted with the president. , This included most of the farm bloc, with a scattering of democrats, from all sections of the country, and Shipsted, the farmer- labor senator from Minnesota. This aggregation includes thése who are the most vicious critics of the president on other issuos, altho the teeth of their anti-White House at- “tack haye been almost completely drawn, * * The vote indicates the weakness of any real anti-war sentiment in the United States senate. The war group has a majority, on this show- ing, of at least two to one. An in- creased number, including Borah, Capper, Deneen, Ernst, Gillett and Lenroot, among, the republicans alone, who voted against the cruis- ers, can easily be beaten into line for the open declaration of actual war against Mexico, Nicaragua or China. Workers and farmers, theretore, who harbor the illusion that con- gress will “stop the war,” should awaken from their comfortable dreams and realize the actual situ- ation confronting them. /Congress is one of the least obstacles in the path toward the new slaughter abyss. ee See The biggest obstacle that can be otfered to the mailed fist of U. S. imperialism is the might of the working class, The favorable vote of the senate for more cruisers is a danger signal to all labor to or- ganize for greater struggles against the approaching war. No cannon fodder for the imperialists. No more battleships for “dollar tions to the new battlefronts. Thus labor develops the strength to de- feat the next imperialist slaughter. | CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1). Indeed there are many business men who would swap places with our $10,000, $15,000 and $25,000 a year “honafide” labor leaders. The road paved with nickels and dimes. the workers will take this road be- cause it is the only one out of the wilderness, anti-Communist currents into other! channels, * ALF a dozen conflicting propa-) * * } ganda agencies are sending their) subversions of what is taking place in) U, S. Sends Flood Relief Boat on Ohio his i ed by the sturdy | left movenient which the South Slava| Cables British Workers and other miners of other nationali-| ties have created under his very nose. | The Prize Boot-licker. | British Troop Concentrations. LONDON, Feb. 2-—“A settlement Van Bittner is probably the most, can be reached at once ff there is disgusting exhibit that clings to Em-|@ cessation of the war atmosphere peror Lewis’ machine. This boot-/ snd the war neurosis created by the licker’s slobbers over Lewis out-| menacing concentration of British slavers all other sycophants, He or-| troops at Shanghai”, declared Eugene ganized the packed West Virginia delegation. The entry of those 166 delegates into Indianapolis was the most pitiable spectacle furnished by! A motley the entire convention. crowd of unsuspecting, peasant-mind- ed mountaineers, they trudged along the main stem from the railroad sta- tion in the wake of a brass band blaring patriotic airs. Dog-tired by the long ride in day coaches, they slouched in irregular formation too weary even to fall into a marching step. Bittner marshalled them into a cheap hotel, where vile bootleg flowed steadily. They were coached to the limit of their abilities to back notre? mamernmtbee Chen, Chinese nationalist leader, in a \eablegram to British labor published here today. Guaranteed Protection. “The object of these war-like mea- sures”, said Chen's cablegram “is said to te to guard against British lives and property being put in jeopardy by the forclble seizure of the inter- | national settlement at Shanghai. If | this is the real aim and purpose of the British concentration there ought | not to be any longer any anxiety or fear in view of categorical statements | L have made today to the British rep-~ resentatives,” Chen appended to his cablegram dine iin eiwanileh wa Get Your Union to Telegraph Congress Today! V0 wane to Communism is not even always! gotten that it was the Associated | China over the wires, not only from China but from London and Washing- ton. The busiest of the lie foundries is the British agency, The American government uses the Associated Press which is quite willing to do any dirty work the state department may re- quire of it. It should not be for- | Press that peddled Kellogg’s yarn jabout a Communist “conspiracy” in And’ they swill switoh ‘the! South America as well, as if the Com- munists of all countries and the Com- munist Internationg! do not put their propaganda on the air whenever they get a chance rather than consign it | to the cellar. ene 52% OR a long time the Britich press agencies sought to make it appear that Japan was willing to join the wolf pack. For good and sufficient reasons of her own, it appears that Japan is not. ‘This may not be palatable reading material to those who demand a monotonous howl of rage instead of facts. We cannot de- | termine the fate of the Chinese revo- lution by saying that black is white. So Japan is out to grab her. loot where she can find it and with the least loss, Neither is France willing to do much more than twist the Paris- ian mustache, A Japanese dispatch retention of her Chinese concessions. Perhaps, and perhaps not. ie SCR: diplomacy.” No shipment of muni- | | says that France will not insist on the) _ Big Navy Crowd Shows NEWS IN BRIEF New Mineral Water Amazes. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. Anew mineral water has been discovered here. The water was found in the garden of Genera] Theoderico Fler- ambel and has caused a lot of excite- went. The health department has lanalyzed it as “iron mineral water,” Crash With Ash Train, Seven men were injured and scores of passengers in a Ninth Avenue wooden car “L” train were hurled to the aisles today in a crash with an ash train just south of the Battery Park station of the I. R. T, , Shaw's Lettérs Come High. LONDON, Feb. 2.—The letters of George Bernard Shaw have a higher market price than those of any other living author, acording to experts here, following a sale of some docu- ments, Two of his letters and a postcard were sold, with a copy of Hender- son's critical biography, for $350 and ere intended for resale in New York. Has Cure for Rickets, BERLIN, Web. 2—After years of research, Professor A, Windaus of the University of Goettingen has suc- seeded in isolating and producing ar- titicially elusive vitamina, absence of which causes under-nourishment and rickets, no matter how much the pa- tient eats. Correction——The Lenin memorial meeting previously repoxted as hay- ing been held in Frewsburg, N. Y., actually took place in the neighbor- ing town of Jamestown, Firebug Is Busy. ANN ARBOR, Mich, Feb. 2.—: “firebug” today was believed respon- sible for fires which desttoyed the convalescent ward of the University General Hospital and damaged the Jennings House nearby, last night. The loss is $150,000. Blast in Film Plant. WEST FORT LEE, N, J., Feb. 2 Three men were seriously burned in a mysterious explosion today which wrecked the two-story film reduction plant of ‘the Cello Film‘ Company, here, showering the studio and labor- atory ef the Universal Pietures Cor- poration with burning debris. Ten Firemen Near Death. Ten firemen, including Fire Chief Kenlon, miraculously escaped death when the top floor collapsed at a blaze which did $1,000,000 damage to a building on Broadway, opposite the Hotel Ansonia. The place was oceu- pied by Milgrim, exclusive women’s clothing store. Leather Factories Burn. WOBURN, Mass., Feb. 2.—This city was thrown into a furore of ex- citement today as two leather factor- ies burved and sparks started fifty roof fires. Fire officials estimated {that the fire damage would be over $100,009. Kill To Raise Bus Fare. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 2.—If a bill, introduced into the legislature by As- sembleman Dy¢kman, Republican of Kings, should be enacted into law, ‘bus fares in greater New York, might be increased from 6 cents, it was declared today at the capitol. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. Sacasa Reported Ready To Accept Mediation Offer in Nicaragua WASHINGTON, Feb. 2,—Dr. T. C. Vaca, representative of the Nica- Tagua liberal government, alleged at the state department late today and announced he would accept in the name of Dr. Juan B, Sacasa, liberal resident, the offer of Secretary Kel- ‘ogg to mediate the present trouble in Nicaragua. As a condition, Vaca said both Sa- casa and Adolfo Diaz, whom the United States reeognizes as president, ‘oust retire from the scene and a new veesident ‘selected. * * * WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The American government will not recog- nize Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, claimant to N critical times like this the news-|the PYesideney of Nicaragua, even | papers will publish any yarn no}'hould he be completely successful in |matter how fantastic knowing that it! his revolution against the Diaz gov- | will be at least read, if not bolieved.|¢™™ent, Secretary of State Kellogg Exclusive photo of the’'U. S. S, “Kankankee,” coast guard ves- sel, departing from Evansville. Ind., for flood relief work on the lower Ohio river, as the stream tops its banks, becoming miles wide in many places, isolating numerous settlements and driving people. : from their homes, ALL U. S. WARSHIPS NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! a ao nen amg During the world wir every allied government had hired men on the Ametican capitalist press engaged in ‘the manufacture of lies, Gearge Creel was our own master liar. He was sinking submarines and destroying the German navy jn the middle of the Atlantic, when the haiver’s vrarships were safe in Kiol, Should a war with China break, it will not end there. The seeds of a world conflagration have been gown on Chinese soil by | world imperialism, ‘season for liars arid maybe their last. ‘the DAILY FROM NICARAGUA! HANDS OFF CHINA! eee es eh as Tt will be a big} enid today. The state dspartment, he said, would recognize any president of Nic- aragnua, however, who gained the po- vition by “constitutional means.” Sa exsa is considered a revolutionist. s * @ Adolfo Diaz, recognized by the state department as president of Nicaragua, is # personal friend and long time as- seciate of the usurper, Chamorro, who seived power by revolutionary means. The United States refused to recoe- nize him, but recognized his agent, ‘o Whom hedetlvered the presidency. Sacata is recognized as president by - Mexico end othet Latin American re- publics, PE SERBS

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