The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER) 4 merican Oilmen in Mexico Daily, Except ‘Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1927 -—— England has followed the same country has been conscious of the 0 . : * fi 4, —— te aul ndalnadie OREIGN publicity during the| policy of concentration, English] vastness of its oil deposits, internal SUBSCRIPTION RATES last few months quotes Ameri-| capital invested in all Mexican indus-| political revolution has held Mexico By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): ean capital investment in Mexico as| try is approximately 877,614,199.00] in its ee Dae ce Libs $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | follows: Mining, approximately| pesos or 26% of the whole, with 856,-| ment after the other. On! Ml ee $2.50 three months $2.00 three months $300,000,000 American dollars; Oil in. 6,199.00 pesos or 95% of this going) the last two administrations, those o ARCW —_— — ——— — “ A ds, approximate! to the exploitation of ‘oil, the re-| General Obregon and President Calles Address all mail and make out checks to thine pean alae wile maining $20,838,000.00 or 5% being} has there been opportunity to think THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. the entire amount of American in-| left for mining and small industries. | at all of economic development to ; Bier Fy LOUIS NAnG _ sd vegtments in Mexico is quoted at} Capitat Invested In Oil, _| undo the wrongs ee ist has suf- ‘ WILLIAM F. DUNN Viet et . Editors some one and one half billion Ameri-| Cupital invested in oil in Mexico fered for four hundre years. BERT MILLER Business Manager can dollars or three billion Mexican| amounts to $1,065.548,110 pesos or| Helped Very Little, aan sanding eer, oe ‘sit pesos. approximately 73% of the total capi-| And American and English capital} Si 1 ir Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. These figures ave circulated abroad,| tal invested in industry in the pana have really helped very little toward| on Anciar the act of March 2, 1879. not in Mexico. They are given unof-| lic. Of these oil investments, Ameri-| the real commercial and economic de- : ‘ication,| cially and no attempt is made to/can capital controls about 60% and| velopment of Mexico, the United) ne same old Dad! her cave Advertising ions, and the most elegant society, The Soviet Union and the League of hen the fallacy prevailing in oreign count that all commercial ctivities in co find their basis n American capital and that once hav. | American capital’s interest in all min- ling activities averages about 37%. | England about 10%; these countries’ interest in all other varied industrial ;}prove them. They are meant to| British capital about 34%. North) states giving today—over and above | her enormous investments in oil— ‘only a scant 8%, of which 6% goes into mining, and England only 5% te mining and varied small industries each other hugs and squeezes; there were tears in everybody’s eyes, even the secretary, and the maire and Lis clerks, who had never heard of such fees for a wedding—marvel- flashing jewels and costly gowns— five thousand dollars per female person would have been a modest estimate for evenings in the dining saloon, And very soon the tongues f nations considers the Soviet Ur y |ng dealt with ojl and mihing in-| activities are approximately &% for! which affect the daily life and stand-| ous people, ces Americans! And | of gossip began to buazz—“Hig _ The league of nations considers the Soviet mon fn Intek | ‘ustries all is said and done with that| North American capital and 4% for| ard of living of the Mexican people.| Bunny said for Dad to write all | father’s the California oil man, Rational nuisance and the feeling +s reciprocated. There is no -y’s commercial activities. These! British capital. : The distribution of all capital in-| the news, and Dad’ said for Bunvy | they say he owns whole fields out love going to waste between the social systems represented by the figures are not only borne out but) Over against oil and the mere hand-| o<teq in industry in Mexico toda: | to write all the news; and Bunny | there, but one of them is ageing Soviet Union, the fatherland of the oppressed of all countri ind} are absolutely denied by ‘the official) ful of companies cage ape “ oil exploitation .with’ Mexican| ie Wee eae gos a Von ncccnaing vo the mene ~ thich stands for 2 j rests of robber imperialisr igures of the National Statistical) all Mexican commerce wi undreds| eapital proper having only 1% in th si , 1 > r s in t . the league, which stands for the interests of sg seo ea aslecomily ffices of the Mexican government. |of importers and exporters of all 7% foodstuffs; 6% textile in-| Come to America, and Dad said he | remember, he’s hiding abroad, been The league does not consider the Soviet Union fit for en- nations: involved; ‘The ‘present’ dif: ; 6% mining; and 8% other in.| WaS sure Verne would have it ail | here nearly a year, but the son trance into the sanctum ctorum of the league. But the Soviet ; ei . a, {ficulties between the United States) auctries, However, of all capital in-| are uy are ae rR ong ie cane hii in ee Union is not losing any sleep over this display of cold shoulder | The sie abgNe ge aes ant one Sot ash Si lest ue vested in foodstuffs, 60% is Mexican) 7 7'then he hugged Dad againnant’| Vitis Tenby: but satis. chucked tite When the powers pull off a fake disarmament conferenc< / Bureayy show the ‘tal igure a interpretations of the oil and land 2W| in the textile industry 13% is Maxie) tach: shook hands sith’ thuhaseee: anil qiarHlad the ‘Rouraninnerince. hee re ve aeticioate, ba pital (including Mexican owned regulations and the resulting uncer ng 45% is Mexican and in “ 1 debadclivok aii Catch hi the. rekouke thru the league they invite the Soviet Union to participate, bu: | -apital) invested in all the industries| tainty which the strained situation) J auuall: tutiaathen “GHG: tal EAN regul -, sore a the Catch him on the rebound, my insist on holding their parleys on Swiss soil knowing that thc] 5 the country at $1,447,043,010.00/ draws in. its wake depresses alll; meaning that Mexi.|) “weet sorrows of parting, ‘wi e | dear! Amount Of Capital. Soviet Union is not willing to trust its representatives to th« ssin government of Switzerland which gave : clean bill of health to the fascist murderer of Vaslav Vorovs Soviet envoy at Lausanne in 1923. The courts of this same gov- ernment punished a Hungarian liberal a few weeks ago for slap- ping a Hungarian tyrant in the face in the corridor of the league mercies of the a of nations. The latest invitation extended to the Soviet Union by the league was too much even for the placid Tchitcherin, Soviet for- eign minister. The invitation was for a conference to organize an international relief union to aid victims of great disasters, not including war of course. The conference was to be held on Swiss soil. Tchitcherin not only sent a caustic refusal to attend, but he returned the letter of invitation inside its original cover, and de- clared that the Soviet government refused categorically “to con- sider itself as invited to any conference called to meet on Swiss soil.” We are informed by a Geneva capitalist correspondent that league officials do not know whether to laugh or to cry over the refusal. We are willing to wager that Seviet foreign officials are not shedding any tears. Chang Tso-Lin Is a Candidate. The bandit dictator of Manchuria, Chang Tso-Lin, who now dominates the futile Peking government, has made his bid for United States cash in a lengthy interview to American correspond- énts. Chang knows his carrots, and since he stopped slitting the throats of unwary travelers in the wastes of his theatre of high- way robbery, he has never failed to come forward with a plausible excuse for murder and pillage after the fashion of his more respectable contemporaries. Of this amount 46.4% is \mer economic activities throughout the an, a high figure indeed when! Mexican Republic—not only oil but it is considered that only one nation) al! commerce—and even with a solu- is involved but not, however, the pre-| tion entirely in' favor of the oil com- ponderant percentage which the lay-| panies but a few would benefit. man is led to believe because of the) While, as a matter of fact, under nfluence these American investors in | the most strict legal enforcement of ‘lexico have due to their small num-| the law, the Mexican legislation on oil er and their concentration in one particular field—that of oil. and land does not in any way menace or endanger the existence of the big American capital in Mexico divides) oil companies, on the other hand, s 46.4% of the whole amount ap-/ smaller commercial activities in Mexi- roximately in this wise: Oil 92%,|co stand to be ruined by the present nining 6% and various small in-| crisis provoked by and for the oil in- ‘ustries 2%. $614,487,263.00 pesos of| terests. The home governments of he entire amount of the $671,399,- 63.00 pesos which are North Ameri- |these entrepreneurs which feel strongly the responsibility of p; an capital’s interest in all industries tecting the few powerful companies n Mexico is devoted to oil exploita-| and talk loudly about acting in the tion, interests of their nationals abroad And according ‘to the records of the|.Permit the ways and means of the oil Department of Industry, Commerce | companies to precipitate the ruin of nd Labor of the Mexican” govern- vent, only twenty American oil com- anies are interested in Mexico. The omplete figures for all companies and private individuals exploiting oil fields in Mexico (foreign and Mexi- can) amounts to 120. Some half doz-| | hundreds of manufacturing importers | and small holders caught in the mael- | strom but who are in no way inter- | cussion about the supposed menace to the oil interests, Government Trust Controlled. on of the twenty American companies} American manufacturers who are are subsidiaries of the Standard Oil | just beginning to work up an appre- company thereby reducing the num-|ciable import trade into Mexico can- ver ultimately interested to about/ not permit that the State Depart- fourteen. It is the high concentra-| ment at Washington consider the mat- tion ofsthis compact nucleus and their} ter as one concerning exclusively. the tbility therefore to act practically as|oilmen and the Mexican government. 1 single unit which makes for their) By this attitude, they play directly power with the State Department at into the hands of a few Americans in- Washington and gives them the pos-| terested in oil. sibility of standing out against the! | Mexico is only in the beginning of uws passed by the Mexican govern-}the development of its small in- ested in the outcome of the legal dis-| {can capital is really invested in all | general industries from which the} | public at large must live. | In imports into Mexico, the United | States leads, having imported during |the first half of 1925 about 71% of} | all goods brought in—foodstuffs, live- | stock, building material, machinery |and so forth—all figures for oil be-| ing. excluded. Manufactured iron! | goods, implements of all kinds, ma-| |chinery for which Mexico’s need is | very great at present came from the | United States in the amount of 80% | during that same period with notable ‘°/ increase since. Motor-cars made in| the United States, and tires outrule, | all competition, the use of autos, auto- busses and tractprs having increased} |enormously. While during the first | six months of 1924, 3,157 motor. cars| | were imported irito Mexico from the United States, the figure covering the same period for 1925 had risen to 11,544—some 300%. Here again | later increase has been at the same rate. And while only a few proofs of the trend of the United States import: trade into Mexico are mentioned, the premise is true for most every article coming in. American business can ill afford to allow to continue a crisis which will loose for them this trade or be responsible for turning the tide toward European channels which are | each day pushing more and more into Latin American markets. There is at the present no military problem in the republic aside from the Yaqui uprising in the northern state of Sonora and this situation is now officials and a crowd of street urchins standing by on the’ side- walk, staring at the grand rich car and the grand rich Americans, Bunny was glad to look back on it in after years—at least that once the old man had been happy! All the chatter, and the messages, and the flowers, the baggage to be seen to and the robes to be tucked in, and then at last they were rolling down the street, amid waving of hands and cheers—headed for a Spiritual- ist seance in Frankfort-am-Main! Bunny took a train back to Paris, and wrote out two messages an- nouncing that he was sailing for home; one to Ruth Watkins and one to Rachel Menzies—playing no favorites!!_ Then he bought a pa- per, and read a brief despatch— “Great California Oil Fire.” A bolt of lightning. had struck one of the storage tanks of the Ross Con- solidated Oil Company at Para- dise, California, and as a high wind was blowing, it was not thought possible to save any portion of the tank-farm, and possibly the whole field might be destroyed. When Bunny got back to the hotel, there was a cablegram from Angel City. It was impossible to make any guess what the damage would be, but they were fully in- sured and nothing to worry about, “A, H. Dory”—still Verne’s signa- ture when he wanted to be playful. Bunny forwarded the message to his father, and asked if he should wait; but Dad’s answer was,’ no, whatever he had to say could be said by letter or cable, and he So everybody was lovely to Bun- ny; so many charming young things to dance with, until any hour of the morning; or to stroll on deck and be lost in the darkness with, if one preferred. All day they flitted about him, casting coy and seductive glances; they were inter- ested in everything he was inter- ested in, even the book he was read- ing—provided he would talk about it instead of read it. There were some who would say that they were in- terested in’ Socialism, they didn’t know much about it, but were eager to learn, Until the second morning out, when the young socialist received a wireless which entirely removed him from fash- ionable society: “Your father very ill with double pneumonia have obtained best med- ical attention will keep you inform- ed deepest sympathy and affection Alyse.” So then Bunny walked the deck alone, and suffered exactly those torments of remorse which Vernon Roscoe had predicted for him. Oh, surely he could have been kinder, more patient with that good old man! Surely he could have tried harder to understand and to help! Now fate was taking him away, five or six hundred miles every day —and at any moment might snatch him to a distance beyond calen- lation. His father himself had felt it—Bunny went over what he had said, and realized that Dad had faced the thought of death, and had been giving his son such last advice as he could. : Y ‘ i = ‘i ; ‘ ; ‘ Id be glad to have Bunny on the At first nothing but remorsi Chang is now playing the role of saviour of the Orient from} ment for the best regulation of Mexi-| dustries. Even a cursory glance into| entirely controlled by the federal babe £5 pi is le. | the “Bolshevist menace.” Chang has the men and the guns but} :0’s oil industry for all concerned.| the history of the country will explain| army. i care: seisiiaay® warn ‘ie ceases ba thee ‘ld, pfra thea Bear bo y nen, by jingo he hasn’t got the money, unlike the Downing Street mis- The American State Department in the situation. ‘ Up to the time and Some Persons interested in oil are —the last that Dad was ever to |. B aah 4 in half, Was it . " . +, ; J oressing its policy of protection for| during the first part of Porfirio) making propaganda among fanatics say to his son, t thi h ti dohnens« aati aan - braid. sionaries who have all three. Chang has a long hand and it is American interests abroad is actually) Diaz’ regime, foreign capital in any| in order to stir up revolution with, it channel of pein aya rough the | sible for men to r barceg doing what now stretched, palm up, in the general direction of Wall Street. n the present difference with Mexico| appreciable amount was not encour-| is said and apparently with sufficient) ~ 4 steamer tok Betay out to sea ts ghar aa tia ate Lahr atr Chang is willing to do anything for the dough provided he can get] lighting the interests of the whole| aged and was not interested to come] truth, the backing of the State De- —one of those floating hotels, like natloti pian ing the beats, oa peck away with it. He would sell every square inch of China under er hee seni bes neigh-| to vont we cet Ad oil) pervient - es and especial-| the one he had left in Paris, fitted purchase of government? No, | ree i exis pea oe Dee's reneemnatne Bene Stine Se Salton ad the oe oe tordeahly, Dractaty - skies : the Kellogg. Apr tigndoas es. Ao a Palace, mahogany | Bunny told himself; but, then—he- | wi ive . finish and silken draperies and cush- should have tried harder, more lov- \ 3 tea —~ ingly, and persuaded his father to Chang agrees with the purpose of Kellogg’s proposal tc a8 - bed tT Bat at eae eae? e: neutralize Shanghai but he fears that the Chinese masses woul¢ a the Ge Bra, baLtainesd pig Seg London Trades Conn} Fee es ppceslrmn gr - Steer | not take kindly to the proposition, therefore Chang urges Kellogg |5¢ Great Britain, London presents the ‘metropolis will look to, gos tis gene since: Bunny coolt cemettiper, | | to take a broader view of things, give Chang a lot of money, keep| problems which do not exist in any United States troops out of sight and depend on Chang to clean] ther part of the country. THE PROBLEM OF LONDON entire trade-union movement of the purchased goverment a big-Sne- fighting representative body for the| °° _% little boy. All the oil men | up the Cantonese. These problems arise out of the! Says the public spirited bandit: “My responsibility is great and I am ready to sacrifice myself to save not only China but the peace of Asia and the whole world from the Russian menace. I hope for American sympathy since the American government is fighting to combat the same evil in Mexico and Nicaragua.” Wise bandit. Thus in one short paragraph, the brigand of Manchuria places himself on the same level with Calvin Coolidge, What is the difference? except money, battleships and fifty years of industrial develop- the New England Puritan. ment. ag, s Hail Chang Tso-Lin, the heathen bandit, the unofficial ally of our christian government! The Communists on the Sea. The intelligence department of the French government an- nounces with amazement and to the horror of the government that the Communists who hitherto did not exhibit any enthusiasm for service in either the army or navy are now applying for service in the naval branch of French imperialism’s war machine. This sudden spasm of “patriotism” instead of bringing a thrill of joy to the hearts of the government officials sent them scurrying to revolutionary history and particularly to naval rebellions from the famous British “Mutiny of the Nore” to the Black Sea mutiny when Andre Marty, a French sailor led the crew of a French warship in refusing to fire on Soviet forces during) the early days of the Russian revolution. Communists are accustomed to seeing their comrades ex-! pelled from the reactionary trade unions. York we have a socialist committee organized to “preserve” the trade unions from the radicals. to its aims that of preserving the army and navy from Com- munist infiltration. Perhaps, after, all, the “bloodthirsty Com- munists” will be redyced to a condition of enforced pacifism. Tf the Communists are not allowed to bore’from within the armies and navies the capitalists may drive them into “dual” militarism. Think fast capitalists! Think fast! In fact, here in New This committee may soon add great size of the city, with its seven nillions of population, and the resi- Jential distribution of its workers. In the earlier days, London was not often mentioned as an industrial cen- tre. It was promirent, in working- class politics, as the political centre of the country; but, when it came to a consideration of industry, one heard more of South Wales, as a mining area, of Glasgow and the whole Clyde, for its engineering and shipbuilding, or of Manchester, and near-by towns, as_a textile centre. Yet, London is one of the greatest industrial areas in Britain. The only reason why we do not think of it as such, is because it is mixed, in its in- dustrial nature—not confined to any one specific industry—and also be- cause its industrial character is often overshadowed by its importance as a financial, commercial and political centre. Yet, a visit to the great East End of London, with its miles of dingy streets, will convince any observer of the immensity of its proletarian pop- ulation. The docks of London—the greatest port of Britain—alone pro- vide employment for thousands of dockers; and it is a particularly suit- able place for propagandist approach to seanien—a class which has been |more misled, perhaps, by reformist trade union leaders, than any other— who, in their thousands, are to be found in the dock-yards district of the city. In London, again, there reside and work more railroad employees than in any other city in the country. The great passenger and freight stations, like King’s Cross, Euston, St. Pa eras, and others, employ thousands of railway workers of all types and grades. Among these members of the National Union of Railwaymen, Congress there is an urgent need of a properly organized campaign, in order to en- lighten them on the character and actions of their leaders, Thomas, Cramp and others. Here, alone, is the opportunity for a considerable and valuable task, for the London organ- ization of the National Minority Movement, General manufacturing is also widely spread in London. A visit to the East End will reveal the surpris- ing number of factories—of chemical products, furniture, clothing, and other goods—whose gigantic buildings overshadow the neighboring streets of small and unhygienic houses. Engineering is an industry which has greatly grown in London, during the last ten years. There are suburbs, notably Chiswick and other’ western sections, where engineering works, in- cluding large automobile factories, have appeared in large numbers. The task of providing adequate or- ganizational expression for the great trade-unionist population of London has been poorly performed, so far. One of the obstacles is the fact that the workers live so far from the scene of their daily labors. For instance, it is not uncommon for workers in Lon- don to have to travel six or seven kilometres, by train or tramway, to their work. When a worker has fin- ished for the day, therefore, he. usu- ally desires to leave at once for his home; and it is difficult to get him to remain in the neighborhood for a trade unions or other meeting. The result of this is that many workers are organized in trade unions accord- g to residential area, rather than according to the place where they work, The drawback of this system may instantly be observed. A worker belongs, perhaps, to a branch of his y! By CHARLES ASHLEIGH union where there is no other mem- ber working in the same firm. London Divisions. This same evil applies partly in the case of the trades and labor councils. London is divided into a number of boroughs, for the purposes of civic administration. The labor councils, local bodies to which are affiliated the local trade union branches, follow the same divisions. Thus, each bor- ough in London has its own labor council. Often, the militant worker, who is elected by his trade union branch as delegate to a labor council, must travel for an hour or two hours, to and from the meetings of that body. Besides the various labor councils in-the boroughs, there is also the Lon- don Trades Council. This body is sup: posed to function for all London, but, for a long time, it has been only im- perfectly ‘representative of the Lon- don trade union movement, because of poor affiliation. Of late, however, the London Trades Council has in- creased its affiliations, and its activ- ities. Whereas only local branches of trade unions affiliate with the bor- ough trades (or labor) councils, bodies representing the entire London mem- bership of unions—such as district committees—affiliate ,to the London Trades Council. Building Up Councils. The London trade-unionist militants, organized in the National Minority Movement, seek to make the London Trades Council a really powerful body, properly representative of the whole London trade-union movement. This can be done by seeing that every Lon- don trade union body is afffliated, as well as the borough trades and labor councils, Also, it is necessary to in- crease the activities and stimulate the WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! city. To Modify Organization. In order to cope with’ these tasks, the Minority Movement in London has been recently compelled to modify its organizational structure. The London District Committee has formed a num- ber of borough sub-committees, formed of local comrades, which will undertake the general propagandist activities of the Minority Movement in each borough, and also direct the activities of the Minority Movement members who are delegates to the va- rious labor councils. Yet, care had to be exercised not to interfere with the industrial sections of the minority movement, which carry on agitational and educational work within specific unions throughout the whole London district. The co-ordination of the two aspects of the work—industrial and local—is now going on successfully. Must Be Adaptable. The intricate and difficult problem of London—and the special provisions made by the Minority Movement to deal with it—show that the revolu- tionary working-class movement must always possess a certain capacity for adaptation, a very necessary flexibil- ity which, while in no way modifying the steadfastness of its principles, en- ables it to cope with the special prob- lems which arise in huge, congested areas, where a variety of industries are situated, rather than one predom- inant one, The creation of a well-organized London district committee, and of the local sub-committees, is the answer of the Minority Movement to the fa- talistic despair of many disheartened militants, who were discouraged by the immensity of the task confronting us, And, already, it is apparent that the new me’ are practical, and that progress will be made. FROM NICARAGUA! them fergive them all.! 5 iness men did it, either before or after election. And at what stage of life shall a boy say to his father, your way of life is wrong, and you must let me take charge of it? There was no new thought that Bunny could think about all this; any more than in the case of Vee Tracy. Just the grief, and the ache of loneliness! Old things go- ing; they kept going—and where did they go? It was a mystery that made you dizzy, at moments like this; you stood on the brink of a precipice and looked down intoa gulf! The most incredible idea, that his father, who was so real, and had been for so long a part of his, being—should suddenly disap- pear and cease to be! For the first time Bunny began to wonder, could Alyse be right about the spirits? Another message in the evening. “Condition unchanged will keep you advised sympathy and affection.” These last words never failed in the messages; the next day, when Dad’s condition was the same and ‘the crisis expected tomorrow; and then tomorrow, when Dad was sinking; and then, the morning af- ter, when Alyse wired, “Your fath- er’s spirit has passed from this world to the next but he will never cease to be with you he spoke of you at the last and promises that if you will communicate with a good medium in Angel City he will guide your life with love and af= feetion as ever Alyse.” And then & mesaage from Bertie: “I was with Dad at the end and he forgave me will you forgive me also,” When Bunny read that, he had to hurry to his stateroom, and lie there and ery like a little child. Yes, he would forgive her, so he wired in reply, and might whoever had made - le renege Se