The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 5

4 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927 TRAINED DIPLOMATS FOR POSTS BORAH MAY LEAD INVESTIGATION IN NICARAGUA Resolution in Senate Likely to Pass WASHINGTON, Feb, 23.—-A sen- ate investigation of the administra- tion’s Latin American policy during | the“summer--conducted by a travel- | ing cammittee of senators headed by} Wm. E. Borah—appeared probable to- day. i | The purpose of such an investiga- | tion is two-fold, it is designed to throw! a searchlight on the activities of ‘MEXICAN RULERS BLOGK MEETING. ON IMPERIALISM Calles Swings Back to} Reactionary Position MEXICO CITY, Feb. 28. — New evidence of the Mexican government’s determination to repress radical manifestations, particularly when di- | rected against the United States, is | seen in an order issued by the authori- | | ties forbidding the holding of a m | | meeting called by the “All-Amer ican | In the old days the diplomatic service was treated as political spoils.) Anti-Imperialist League,” for the| " ki of That was before American imperialism assumed its present form. Now the|#Vowed purpose of attacking al American corporations below the Rio | competition with European imperialism demands of our Big Business admin- | United States. ata Grande, with particular reference to istration more efficiency. Wall Street tells Coolidge that he can't just send| The effort to stage the anti-United | the hanking and oil groups, and it is| his friends to important foreign posts. Here are some laterday appointments. | States demonstration was frustrated | even more significantly designed to| Left to right: Leland Harrison, now assistant secretary of state, goes to|When ,the authorities blocked _ all enable the senate foreign relations} Sweden; J. Butler Wright, also assistant secretary of state, goes to Hungary; | moves to assemble the meeting point- committee, to have a deterring influ-| Hugh R. Wilson, chief of the division of current information, state depart-| ing out that no permit had been is- ence on any “war-like” activities in| ment, goes to Switzerland. sued permitting the gathering and in- Washington while congress is not in dicating that it was unlikely that session. such permission would be forthcom- Against “Rig Stick.” | ing. Borah sponsored the resolution in | the senate after first assuring him-| self of the support of most of the democrats and the insurgent repub-| i licans, who are wholly out of sympa-| _ By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). y _ | The Mexican government recently thy with Secretary of State Kellogg's}; _, The huge price the Pennsylvania railroad has been paying for its anti-| warned agitators that it would not “big stick” policy in the Caribbean, Union policy is revealed in a study of the notorious Atterbury system. The | tolerate efforts to stage demonstra- A coalition of democrats and insur-| Commercial & Financial Chronicle publishes figures indicating that the extra itions against the United States. gent republicans has shown itself cap- cost of non-union operation has cut down profits the last 5 years by possibly | Simulaneously, the government moved able of controlling the senate on a| $250,000,000 and certainly more than half of that enormous sum. |to check the activities of Commu given’ occasion, and hence the outlook % Z ) “The demoralization which the| among the workers and fermer: for authorization of the investigation /Train Crews Doing | Ponnsylvania maces ghey of the | various sections of the republic. appeared bright today, ¢ . | war,” says the Chronicle, “was great. | A. Oa Almost unlimited sweep would 7 190 Mile Run While |All carriers suffered acutely but onl ey 1 d M tin t necorded the committee in the inves-| Arbitrators Argue the Pennsylvania where the havoc wae evelan A es ° 0 tigation. It would have the right to! at ron daaithits eg toc Faipetey by| Denounce Imperialism travel throughout Central America,! BOSTON, (FP),—Another rail la- ‘he complications of establishing a} hold hearings at which witnesses! bor Meath Bie e arbitration under|"€¥ labor policy that differed radical- Hears Talk of Revolt could be subpoenaed and sworn, sub-| the federal Watson-Parker act with |'Y from that of its competitors.” St RM te ge tennis Boers xecords, anil dorumenis,. anvil submision” Of the: Heaton & Malis) ny kobe Uae, | CURVE. Fob oh Wane ol vis archi ‘a ‘ eal e radically different labor policy| five years there wi therwise conduct a most searching! firemen and engineers case. The rail- was really nothing new on.the etd World War or there will be revolu-| sylvania. It meant breaking the unions | tion,” said Benjamin Marsh, of the} becarpaath Spas ‘ road ordered these workers to run owards i H a re ee) The scgntttin ghar eine be-| Hab gp galle tay pte Weck |that had gained a foothold under gov- | People’s Reconstruction — League, at) cause of the evident drift of the state, *!ernment control, It meant ramming | the anti-imperialist meeting arranged department’s policy toward the es-| ee a company union down the throats of by the Cleveland Committee on tablishment of a permanent protec- Officials of the Brotherhood of | its employes. It meant flouting the| American Imperialism with the assis: | torate over Nicaragua—a development Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen transportation act, disregarding the/ tance of the People’s Reconstruction which will inevitably inflame Latin. | P7otested that the 190 mile extension U, S, rail labor board and in general | League. American sentiment against the | ¥#5 excessive and a hardship for the hecoming a law unto itself t. accomp-| Mr. United States from the Rio Grande | * oFkers. There are 83 stations, none |1ish these ends. ‘the to Cape Horn. | protected by intertrack fences; over! The Chronicle does not deliberately | driving America into a new war. He, There have also been numerous 220 signals governing the train move-/|set out to show the effects of this | showed up the plight of the farmers | rumors in Washington to the effect | ments; 130 grade crossings; 34 or} policy. But its comparisons between ; of this country, exposed the futility | that the Mexican situation will be-| Te speed regulations and numerous the Pennsylvania system and the New | of the MeNary-Haugen bill, which | come “acute” again soon after con-| SPecial rules for operating trains on York Central, which has kept up rela-| will only aid the big farmers, and | gress adjourns. These*rumors have} this run. tions with the unions, completely ex-| stated that the foreign investments | intimated that the state department | Vote Strike. | pose the Atterbury road. The Chrofi-| of the American bankers are of more is marking time in the Mexican situa-| An affirmative strike vote was } icle’s figures show that the percentage | coneern to the government than the tiow until Secretary Kellogg's sena-|taken by the 3,000 firemen and en-|°f operating revenue required to meet | welfare of the gore ea ee torial crities have scattered to their! gineers on the road to support’ the | °XPense on the Pennsylvania has risen | Speaking of Mexico, Mr. Mars’ homes and that this policy will be| 10 men directly involved by the pas- far above the New York Central. It! said that Mexico would be foolish to abandoned for a “more vigorous” one senger run. extension. G. Wallace | says, “Nothing in contemporary his-| submit her dispute with the United soon after March 4. They have cre- | Hanger, federal rail mediator, failed to | tory is more_ striking than the shift | States to arbitration. “What Mexico ated a feeling of distinct uneasiness | bring settlement by negotiation be- in relative position of the Pennsylva-|should do is to defy the United on the part of many senators who are | tween the road and the unions. D. §, | nia and the New York Central.” | States government.” , S.1 | A i " cpposed to the Kellogg policy, as re-| Brigham, assistant general manager, | ‘The cone ee i Caueioek | What China Wants. Committee Squabbies. | chief of enginecrs brotherhood, is ar-| § veare of abnormal conditions The Borah resolution was the sub-! bitrator for the me: These two will) (915 ta 1920) an follaws: ject of a warm discussion today at! choose a third, Soston & Maine ts | a meeting of the foreign relations| under control of New York, New | percent of Expetise Pennsyl- N.Y. committee behind closed doors. | a ‘UNION BUCKING COSTS PENNSYLVANIA ROAD ins. manent § LARGE SUMS OF COLD CASH; DEMORALIZATION 22s bing i | headquarters of the league. Mass., a half-way point. | picted the horrible conditions under | which Chinese men, women and chil- jdren must labor in ‘owned by Chinese and foreign capi- re t | Haven & Hartford R. R. | to Gross Revenue vania_ Central | talists, and stated that only one thing Administration regulars strongly ae ma aemeeanmcmerased 1905 T1AG 73.4% | would solve the question, both in opposed the investigation on the! Read The Daily Worker Every Day 1956 70.8 75.6 | China and elsewhere, and that is ground that “it would embarrass” ‘ecaticipeelaraiaerccalsts 1907 . 136 | “world revolution.” Secretary. Kellogg in the conduct, of cee, ¢ pres tang 70.4 He told of the formation of unions Mexican and Nicaraguan policies. ‘Intrepid Voy ageur 3909 5 | of: weambans eat Peasants Wherever Age Leaeoha Ue seks Gleb ace in Cheated Gut of Pay bad 4 7 the Canton army advances, thus in- the resolution, an orah later said fy tasty 73.2 | suring the rea: uard of workers and | i? they continued to give him their As Prospector—Claim 1912 73.9 Perea a gs rel with the Can- solid support the resolution would be ——- 1094 117 iton government, “They have taken reported out in spite of administra- TORONTO, Ont., Fe Gabriel tate 16.7 | the masses of the people, 90 per cent Lion objections. |. G. Smyth. who paddied a b m1 87.6 | of whom are illiterate, and ate teach- | Once on the floor, its passage is| bark canoe from London to Rome, is yy 82.3 jing them to read and write,” considered certain unless the admin-| suing the Patricia Airways and Ex- 1923 81,8 | What Finatice Nedis. istration filibusters against it. ploration Compsny. d., for- three 1924 80,2 | 1. Amter, district secretary of the Cee ay months alleged wage: was revealed | 1925 78.5 | Workers (Communist) Party, ex- | today. | Smyth charges the company hired) . U. S. Arms Trains. ¢ CORINTO, Nicaragua, Feb. 2°. Machine guns, manned by U. S. ma- _Tines, have been placed aboard all trains running between Managua and Corinto, in Nicaragua, the state de- partment announced today. , | plained the real role of finance capi- In the first 3 years expense ab- | tal in the coming war. “It will make n month and grubstake to go pros-| ating revenue on the Pennsylvania. bill passes congress or not,” he said. pecting in the interests of the Red than on the New York Central. But | “This bill is supposed to prevent the Tako Mining Company. Smyth al- | costs were steadily rising on the Penn-|.president from declaring war when jleges he waited for orders for three | Sylvanié so that ‘by 1914 the anti-| congress is not in session. Wilson cha | months and finally was forced to seck | union road had fallen behind in eco- | rept us out of war, and six months Read The Daily Worker Every Day | other employment. \nomical operation. In the 5 years | later, after using the press and every é | 1921-1925 the difference becomes) other. agency, he had us in war.” | amazing. Russia Deals Fair. j In Money Terme, Turning to China, Amter declared | 'The Chronicle explains the signifi- | that the reason the Chinese people leance in money terms of the differ-| re sympathetic to the Soviet Gov- ¥ ‘ence in operating ratios in the last 5| ernment, is that Soviet Russia is the ie 4 |years, It says, “Each year the Penn-| nly country that has renounced all jsylvania has collected more revenue concessions und special privileges, — |than the New York Central and each| Albert Coyle, who acted as chair- |year the yield to the owners of the|™#n of the meeting, appealed to the Women Enter Industry; This One Drives Crane operating income has been le: Mr. J. Jeong, of the Chinese Sty-| last decade had been made the cen- Mr. J. , | | Chinese revolutionists want, He de-| ties ostensibly to make a sailor a fit | ‘ | the factories |@"d bring him under the immediate him as a mining prospector at $650; sorbed a smaller proportion of oper-/ little difference whether the Wheeler | |property in the form of net railway | #udience to be on its guard, for the | In| danger of war was ever pregent. A Miss Minnie C. Peterson operates a 20-ton crane at the Worth- ington pump plant, Holyoke, Mass. She got her “chance” during the war. ‘ tt _the 5 years taken together the Penn- \sylvania management has collected | $652,000,000 more of gross revenue, |and turned back to the owners $126,- |, 000,000 less of net rgilway operating income.” i Had the Pennsylvania been able to maintain the same operating ratio as | the New York Central system its total ‘net income for the 5 years would have been about $645,000,000 instead of {$401,000,000, an increase of nearly $250,000,000, | British Plan Pacific Flight. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb, 23.— | Beating Americans with the “first | flight across the Pacific to Sydney. Australia, is the prime objective of |four Britishers, tiee of whom are here today planning the plane now | being built at New York, It will saih 9.400 pounds and will have a flying speed of 100 miles an hour. Vancouver to Honolulu would be the first stop, the only others being the Fanning Islands and Suva in the Fiji Islands. The aim would be to cover the 7,000 mile journey in ten days. Read The Daily Worker Every Day ment organization, and Mr, Coyle wag j empowered to appoint a committee of five to draw up a plan of organiza- | tion and program of work.” New Organization, Yetta Land, secretary of the com- mittee, explained the origin and aim ‘of the organization, and stated that the All-American Anti-Imperialist | League had offered to co-operate, and that the Cleveland Committee on it is “non-sectarian and non-parti- | san,” | A resolution dealing with Ameri- |¢an imperialistic designs in Nicara- gua, Haiti, Mexico and China was unanimously adopted, The meeting was most enthusias- tie, all of the speakers meeting with a splendid response. Greater activ- / | Koo Has Resigned. | LONDON, Feb. 23.—The ‘Pekin | correspondent of the Daily News re- ports the resignation of Wellington Koo, acting head of the northern gov- ernment of China, motion was made to form a perma-| | ity is contemplated by the oe The. republican party, organized expression of big business on the political The only questio: sulting occasionally in House with anybody who will promise plenty of suitors. WAITING AT THE The heat back of the recent congres CHURCH to love, honor, and. obey. ional arguments, under senatorial noses, is not entirely due to differences of opinion on farm it is caused by personal rivalry. y to go to the Whit with whom? There are s being shaken bills, branch bank bi ete. na CHURCH AND OIL GROWD ON SAILORS Seafarers Escaping Clutches of Holy Mission Outfits and Subsidized Man Catchers By FRED HARRIS, | New York’s South Street is coming into its own again. As the center of the world’ shipping and the main hangout of the sailor crowd, South Street during the tered object of various church activi- subject to go to heaven, but actual! to disconnect him from union activity | eontrol of the shipping interests. If there is anything which is ob- noxious to a sailor, it is a parson with his everlasting tale of the sweet life hereafter. Hard boiled skippers ‘and two fisted mates, greasy eooks and leaky ships may cause him to utter a curse from his tobacco-juiced lips, but the sight of a parson will without exception, send a sneer to his face and prompt him to speak words of contempt. Much as he has despised and evad- ! crowd”, yet it is|to be provided for and every encour- ed this “glory anomolous that no one else has shown | }of reading m | for gant book in his hand. He has been made safe for the Standard Oil Co, and the Morgaw line. The church, this much despised enemy of his, has stepped in and laid out a complete rule of conduct. It has provided standardized rooms, meals and religious readings and out- side of that there is nothing left for him. It is therefore with a s lief that South Street has comed the establishment of the International Seaman’s Club at 26 South Street, a place where a sailor may meet his own kind in own way, It has a lunch counter where he may’ eat at his heart’s content, at a price within the reach of his yfocket book. There are tables with the greatest variety er ranging from the Seaman’s Journal to International spondence, Also a few tables to pass .the time away. ; educational meetings are gh of re- Regu agement is fhade to stimulate, their such persistency in following him, or |OWM thought. Men from all four cor- has attempted to control his life more |ners of the world assemble here to completely, than have the various seamen’s missions. Those worthy crusaders have now |completely encroached upon his | everyday activity, When he is broke, | there is only the inevitable church | mission to which to turn, If he wants |to look for work then there is no | other institution but the mission and |the Y. M. C. A. | At these places he will sign for ‘his job whenever he gets one, and it \is precisely at these missions where jhe will sign off and get his pay | when his trip is completed and when he is thrown out of work again. It is a complete circle around the church during his entire life. Standard Oil Subsidies. Powerful as these seamen’s mis-_ | Sions are, with rich endowments and Standard Oil backing, the seaman { | | ing by, subject to a rigid inspection {by his “christian” boarding house | j keeper. If he behaves well he may get a job, if he shows sigys of in| | dependence and sasses the policeman | in the lgilding, then he is likely to} go to jail but will never get a job. Gone are the days when, after hay-| \ing come to the home port from a American Imperialism welcomed the trip around the Horn, he would get | est. active co-operation of all groups, for }Paid off to enjoy himself in his own| ~~ |way. Drunkeness may have been | part of his life, but then these were ; clean drunks, indulged in as free and | independent man. It was his way of jliving as a man who leads @ hard) | battle against nature and men, and he least had the right to do battle, i Gideons Are Busy. ‘ow he hardly earns enough to get jaid off on, and his occasional spree as become a thing of the past. The ‘church has. now taken its place. | Where formerly he had a right to choose his own way and usually pre- ferred to go to hell with a bottle of whisky in his pocket, he is now com- pelled to go to heaven with a prayer | during his idleness is just kept stand-! discuss the topics of the day and a congenial atmosphere is thus created to make the men feel at*home. As soon as it is possible to the job control, now exerted b; missions, an attempt is to be made to have the men provided with work, |} and to send them off to their seafar- ing work without carrying a grudge against the place which harbored them last but with a thought of re- gret and wishing to return soon. Plans are also now being made to rent two more floors above the pre- sent location, fgr the purpose of es- tablishing regular sleeping quarters, so that, when in port; the sailor may have avregular place where he can completely feel at home, come and go of his own convenience, and not get thrown out of his bed at six in the morning as is the case in the halle- lujah place, the Seaman’s Mission. The International Seaman’s Club was ésteblished on the model of other such places in European ports, which have been given great support by sailors over there, and which has helped a great deal to break the eon- trol thus far exerted by the ‘s church, whose program is to rivet the. sailor solid to the shipowner’s inter- Violin and Viola Lessons Given by expert. teicher, For reasonable rates, write to , JOHN WEINROTH 6156 LARCHW AVENUK, PHILADELPHIA, PA, a READ THE } BOLSHEVIK Mi ces eecemmnenmanm rama sen lp neste anti gt qeeee--- +--+ + +--+ + "Sess omc rtm: SEAMEN'S CLUB BREAKING HOLD OF ([Piests Git Ponies In Leisure Class Now by Inheriting Big Estate | Margaret De Long kept on working for Father Me- Connell until her dying day without putting aside a penny. But today she was ensconced in a swell up- town hotel, heiress to $3,000,060. Bedecked in the latest creations, attended by her secretary and flanked by flunkies, she talked with reporters concerning plans fer en- tering the leisure class. On the floor above her was Father McConnell, there to “protect her innocence.” Organize Pocatello Branch Labor Defense; Activity Begun Now POTACE , Feb. 23.—At an organization meeting held a few days ago at the home of Allen Blom- local branch of the In- or Defense was or- ternafional ganized. The branch will and fourth meet the second aturday of each month and will ¢ y on the regular work of the I. L. D., securing aid for those persecuted for political opinion or at- tempts to better their conditions through labor strikes, organization, 'y and secure the r Union hall for a head- Chairman, y-treasurer, organizer and litera- agent, Lenore Ritzman. When replying to these advertise- ments mention The DAILY WORKER. t+-----. All Workers but particularly Irish workers will want to read “Jim Connolly and the Irish Rising of 1926,” by G. Schuller with an intro- duction by T, J. O’Flaher- ty. “Connolly,” name of the military leader of the Easter Week Rebel- lion, is a magie name to every Irish worker who has within him a single spark of the divine fire of reyolt, PRICE 10 CEN The Daily Worker 33 First Street New York City oe t 5 Sa a cr ’ ‘ a 4 )