The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE j Editors $8.50 six months AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 Ni By WILLIAM F. DUNNE HE occupation of Nicaragua by American troops under which the country becomes a protectorate like Panama, closes another chapter in the | history of intimidation and interven- | tion which has been made by the U. |S. state and war departments in the | last 17 years, | The history of American-Nicara- | guan relations during this .period |consists of a series of warlike acts _ phere. cet ua BERT: MIGLER es csicnsesectekcune Business Manager onthe: Dart ok ‘Ammavice, acta perpe- Y., under! trated behind the thinnest veil of jus- | tification, and on the part of the Nicaraguan masses, of heroic sacri-| fice in the brief periods of peace and | unhesitating bravery on the field of oo. ° . \° *, ° battle facing overwhelming odds. An Imperialist Rival Appears in the Nicaraguan Situation. CtissiGation of Nicaragua as a Now that Great Britain is sending a battleship to Nicaragua |» ‘aha policy of ‘eoaeebigemroracest 5 is Maiestvy’s subi 3. wi screte f State Kellogg |ialism begins coincidently wi e to protect His Maje sty’s subjects, will Secretary of Si I Es | sogatsidort of leiPiaccrcaalcone please have one of his bright young mien explain how American uiMeritiie Rocwevalé etiiiniatratlonc| intervention has prevented interference by European powers? |which is another sordid chapter in This, it will be remembered was one of the principal reasons | American history. ; given by Kellogg for armed intervention. The Monroe Doctrine Taft carried out the policy of the Si Pats ‘ding this Coolidge appointee; if America “big stick” which Roosevelt merely was in danger according to this Coohdge app i named but did not originate—it took | did not act decisively we might lose prestige overseas. |on its militant form under M¢Kinley | The protection of lives of American citizens and other na-| with the ousting of Spain in 1898 and tionals is not necessary now nor have any foreigners been injured | the establishment of complete Amer- or even menaced during the whole course of the recent struggle. |!" hegemony of the Caribbean area. | A letter from an American in Nicaragua read by Senator | Ae ee tee Shen Niner Borah to the Foreign Relations Committee puts the case thus: dente ngineer’ oie te dae eapacicn No Americans have any cause for complaint. We are | to Panama’s—is the main reason why treated with consideration. The only Americans who are | American imperialism began to look complaining are a few who secured certain concessions on bk Past * we ie wes little 2 . . 2 country. ince a ime merican mahogany lands from Chamorro and Diaz and which they will [i terects in Mexico, Central and lose*if the Diaz rule falls. IT WILL FALL UNLESS HELD | South ckvnesih: have: tacrenbed: tien. UP BY OUR MONEY, FOR THE PEOPLE ARE AGAINST. [endously and Nicaragua now is a DIAZ. (Emphasis ours.) | pivot for the wheel of imperialist en- The protection of lives of nationals who are in colonial re-| te'Prise in the remublics to the south. | gions trying to get rich always comes in handy when larger| faked aitlg a aly eeabues sed issues, such as the control of a canal route and the establishment baat ber gicy mY en Mehsana Spree e | . iy % A * re asis for a duplication of this feat | of a base of operations rae Mexico and South America are) ith the Nicaraguan route as the the real objectives of imperialism. prize. The dispatch of a warship by Britain to the scene of con- Taft ele ah the aggression be-| flict is no mere routine matter. It has a direct connection with) &u" by Roosevelt. Wall Street’s drive into Latin-America and also with the situa- tion in the Far East. Just as the United States sends battleships to Chinese waters Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ng rates on ,application. — Advert them, as follows: “The North American Government, | -as a display of sea power to impress both the Chinese masses | interested in preventing the possible | — . ‘esas seas andog bon tng Great Britain send. one of Aer nal thru isetabas nent a aa a ‘ ‘ pene ae |ron into Nicaraguan waters in April, | Only a fool will believe that Great Britain is concerned over | 1908, composed of the cruisers Wash.| persona! danger of her subjects from Nicaraguans with peice Sa —— cheer os mal can battleships off both coasts of Nicaragua and with all the} >@ny, etc., with a contingent of 4, principal cities held by U. S. marines. acting He Peas te adie Te The dispatch of a British battleship to Nicaragua, in spite president of Nicaragua, who at that of the effusive denials of the state department of any political) time was Don Jose Santos Zelaya, significance attaching to the incident, means that the occupation ie i resting Sas ago of Nicaragua by American forces has now become of first class | chet yee he th saa, importance internationally, that Wall Street and its state de- rag Moffat, the Neots Auuiieah partment meet rival forces in a field of politics which the most consul at Bluefields, on the Atlantic strenuous efforts have failed to confine to the western hemis-/| coast of Nicaragua, supported an in-| | surrection led by the governor of this | The invasion of Nicaragua has sharpened the imparialint |S pen coearacs raters Fea rivalry between America and Great Britain. |note which aroused much comment | |in Latin America, declared the revo- | | lution legitimate, and handed Senor | | Zelaya’s representative in Washing- ton his passports. In the course of | Cooper Union Meeting Wipes Out Pretensions of Right Wing |the struggle, General Toledo,. who! Lt Furriers’ Union commanded the lawful Nicaraguan The overflow meeting called by the left wing Joint Board of | forces, had shot two Ameriean sub- the Furriers’ Union for Cooper Union Thursday night, was a/ jects (citizens—the writer evidently brilliant contrast to the small and gangster-ridden meeting held| asin mind the imperial character | % of the U. S. government—W. F. D.) by the right wing the day before. |whom he had eanght in the act of| 2,500 furriers—all who could get into the hall—cheered and| trying to dynamite the deveenacats| applauded Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, and Louis | ships. | Hyman of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union| “This threw light on the character Joint Board. The spirit of the meeting was militant and ad tke etikag Secreted eesirad poll timistic. It pledged'the full support of the left wing majority in| himself “to confirm this later, by i the furriers’ and cloakmakers’ unions to the strikers who are|claring in the New York Times of | being persecuted by Sigman, Beckerman, Schachtman, Woll,| September 10, 1912, that this move- Rosalsky and Co. and contributed $5,000 as a first payment. jment had received financial aid from | Unity for defense of arrested strikers, unity for atganiia: |e the nea Ae doe Wh ee. tion of the shops, unity in the Struggle to prevent the right wing | which contributed $200,000, and Sam- destroying the unions—this was the program voiced by all the/uel Well, who gave $150,000. Con-| speakers and this was the program endorsed by the rank and file. | vinced that the revolutionaries would No one can fail to understand, after reading the report of | teceive every sort of aid from North 4 ‘ : r i be America, the president of Nicaragua, this meeting that the right wing pretensions to leadership in the not to prolong the struggle, thought Furriers’ Union in New York are of the same character as those | it patriotic to resign, and left the of the grand dukes to power in the Soviet Union. jcountry on board the Mexican gun- - —— | boat Genera! Gverrero, after handing over his powers, in accordance with RAISE $5,000,000 TO FEED CULTURE © ssss"'sx‘su°s sais ¢ jurist, having no connection with pol- | ities. This government was recog- j T0 WORKERS THRU CHAUTAU UAS nized by many nations, but not by the ‘United States, which continued to support the fictitious revolution. When Senor Madriz gave orders to attack Bluefields, he was met by the fact that the harbor was defended by North American sailors, and that the Awfully Anxious to Keep Workers Out of Mis- chief During All Their Leisure Time we NNERRCINTf jcruisers of that country were block- A $5,000,000 fund for the large-, The National Community Founda-jading the coast. Realizing that it seale dissemination of bunk is being|tion proposes to raise $5,000,009 to {would not be a civil but an interna- raised. | subsidize chautanqnas and correspon-! tional struggle, he renounced his Expert bunk-shooters like Edward | dence schools throughout the country. ; mandate on August 26, 1910, and left Bok, Ida Tarbell, Dr. S. Parkes Cad+/The great increase in the amount of | for Mexico, where he died shortly af- man, William Hard and Simeon D.| leisure time that we all are acquit: | tarwards. So the U. S., under the Fess, Ohio standpatter, are support-| ing,” says a statement issued by Mac-| presidency of Mr. Taft, took posses- ing the move. Hard boiled capitalists | Robert’s office at the Chatham &|siox; of the customs of Nicaragua, who know their onions—like Charlie| Phenix National Bank yesterday,|and thus was started the regime Schwab, Otto Kahn, Henry Morgen- | “presents a situation that is fraught|which still continues to this day.” thau and Samuel Macitoberts, chair-| with danger unless adequate educa-| (Manuel Ugarte—“The Destiny of man of the board of the Chatham & | tional programs of the popular type! Continent’—translated from the Phenix National Bank, are supplying | are furnished.” : Spanish—Fdited by J. Fred Rippey, the coin. The scheme is one of which many! Agsistant Professor of History, Uni- One would think that the schools|employers have found so effective.’ versity of Chicazo, in a most arro- aml the capitalist newspapers are sap- | Feed the workers jazz, Fourth of July grant and insulting manner. (—Em- wlying all the bunk that it is neces- | rations, and a picnic now and then phasis mine.) ary to keep the American worker |—and keep ’em quiet. THe Nivstgaten, Matinnal’ saat ee-ile. But the Nacional Comninnity ‘ Merndation thinks «i*ferently. owed to New York bankers, was Read The Daily Worker Every D: Cet Your Union to Telegraph Congress To sStruggle for Freedom {overdue and this was the public rea- son given for the conspiracy against Nicaraguan sovereignty and the ap- plication of the doctrine of “force without stint or limit.” The answer of the Nicaraguan | masses was one of the most touching evidences of their willingness to sac- | rifice personal welfare for freedom from imperialist domination. The peo- ple began to raise money by popular | subscription to pay the debt. Ugarte says: “Nothing could be more painful and moving than these lists, in which were to be seen the tears of a nation- ality. The newspapers of Nicaragua of March 12, 1912, set aside wide columns in which the most humble of- ferings could be read side by side | with the contributions of the moneyed | | classes; Samuel Gavarrete, his whole | | possessions; Louis Delgada, the pro- ceeds of the sale of her bed; Juana | Gutierrez, the house where she lives; Laura Roque, her sewing-machine; Manuel de Aragon, day laborer, the value of twelve days’ work; Raman Robleto, his cart with two oxen; Joaquina Velasquez, licensed mendi- cabt, her day’s collection, 20 centa- vos.” OLUMES have been written on the subject of the sacrifices the French populace made to pay the in- demnity demanded by Germany after the war of 1870-71. Particularly in America was a paean of praise to the French sung when the house of Morgan drove this against Germany to protect the loans made to France and the other allied powers. But no American writer has yet felt inspired to write the epic of the sacrifices noted above. But the efforts of the Nicaraguans | were not confined to attempts to pay} off the American usurers in gold. Many Nicaraguans gave their blood and lives in the struggle against “the | colossus of the north.” | NJICARAGUAN exiles “in Costa| tinents unite their forces against the | Rica, Julian Yrias, Rodolfo Espin- A Latin-Ameri-|osa, Alejandro Bermudez and Gen-| can writer describes this series of eral Zeledon organized and led an ex-! struggles against imperialist aggres- “incidents,” as the diplomats call| pedition to assist the national revolu-| sion, like those in Nicatagua, show | tionary movement headed by General) that the American masses need not Mena. American troops were landed to de |construction of a new inter-oceanic|fend the puppet government set up| the fight, by the American state department, the town of Masaya was bombarded, Zel- edon killed and the revolution crushed. NOTHER Latin-American writer has described this affair: “The battle began with sustained artillery fire (North American) which the marines kept up for twen- | ty-four hours against the light and improvised fortifications protecting the town of Masaya. An assault was afterwards made on them. The re- sistance was-weak owing to lack of | munitions, especially for artillery. VIL It was long after midnight; and Rachel sought to draw Bunny away. There was nothing more they could do, either for Paul or his sister. There was a small hotel a few doors away, they would get a room there, and rest, and the hospital nurse would notify them if there were any change. And Bunny yielded; he must not be un- fair to Rachel. He knew there was something unnatural about his own devotion to Paul, the subjection of his mind t6 everything that Paul thought, the exactness of his mem- ory of everything Paul had said. Yes, Bertie had told him that, and then Vee--and now Rache!! He could not sleep. So, iying a- bed in the hotel-room, he explained it to her; how Paul had come when Bunny was groping for something different and better in his life. Paul had given him an ideal—some- thing stern and hard—self-suffi- ciency, independence of judgment, determination to face life and un- derstand it, and not be drawn away in pursuit of money or pleasure. Bunny had not been able to follow that ideal—no, he had lived in lux- ury, and gone chasing after wo- men; but he had hod the vision, the longing to be like Paul. And then, at each new. crisis in his life, Paul would come along, a sort of standard by which Bunny could measure himself and what he was doing, and realize how lit- tle success he was having. Paul had taught hitn about the workers, and how they felt; Paul had been the incarnation of the new, awakening working-class, Paul’s mind had nation to war| NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! “The fight was continued in the | plaza with the aid of the forces. of President Diaz, and after a few | hours, Zeledon gave it up as his mu- | nitions were exhausted. Owing to |Mena’s surrender he had not been able to receive those he expected nor. the reinforcements from Granada, “Zeledon was pursued, overtaken, captured, killed. How? The patriots maintain that he was captured and assassinated. Those on ‘the other side say he died of his wounds. His- |tory, which will take possession of | the victim’s name to honor it as it deserves, will clear up this point; for | we do not wish to take this task upon | us, even with the documents before us, for fear of being blinded by ad- miration for the hero and indignation against those who were the execu- tors, both of him and of his ,coun- j try” (Doctrina” Wilson—By Poli- jcarpo Bonilla, ex-president of Hon- | duras.—Emphasis mine.). (THE press of American imperial- | Lism pictures the Nicaraguan | masses—all Latin Americans for that | mattér—as pliant instruments in the| |hands of unscrupulous politicians. | |The record shows, however, that | Latin-American populace has been | fan, mére discerning in this respect | than the American masses. The fact | that war can be waged on a nation | of 600,000 people by Wall Street's | government, that it has been waged | off and on ever since 1908, without | any effective protest in America, and | with millions of people believing that | no protest is justified, is proof of | the ease with which the American masses have been deceived and the| need for agitation to bring action. | | MERICAN armed forces are in| Nicaragua to stay and to make| | similar forays on the neighboring re- publics when it suits the purpose of | | Wall Street to have this done. They will be withdrawn only when | | the workers and farmers of both con- | ;common enemy. The history of the determined |fear that their Latin - American brothers-in-arms will be backward in All over Latin-America the work- ers and peasants form the great ma- jority of the population. The increas- ing necessity for resistance to Amer- ican imperialism will tend’ to give their organizations and- economic struggles an increasingly revolution- ary character. In Mexico, Central and South America are the allies of the Amer- ican masses. Together they will write the next chapter in the history of the struggle against imperialism in the Western Hemisphere. A NEW NOVEL Upton Ginclair ; been a searchlight, illumining the world-situation, “ showing Bunny what he needed to know. Now the light was out, and Bunny would: have to see by his own feeble lan- tern! “Dear, he may get well,” Rachel whispered; but Bunny moaned, no, no, he was going to die. Like a jagged flash of lightning before his mind was that X-ray picture of the crack at the base of Paul’s skull. The light was out, at least from this world; a brute with a piece of iron pipe had extinguished it. Rachel put her arms about him and sought to beguile him with caresses.. And she succeeded, of course; he could not refuse her love. So presently he slept a lit- tle. But Rachel did not sleep, be- cause he would jump and start in his sleep, his limbs would quiv- er—just the way she felt when the great guns went off! What was Bunny doing? Fight- ing those brutes with their clubs and hatchets and iron pipe? Or back in the old days, when he had hovered over Paul and Ruth, watching events that wrung his soul? Watching Dad deprive the family of their land; watching the oil operators crush the first strike; watching the government tear Paul away and make him in- to a strikebreaker for Wall Street bankers; watching Vernon Roscoe throw Paul into prison; watching capitalism with its world-wide system of terror drive Paul here and there, harry him, malign him, threaten him—until at last it hired the brute with the iron pipe! (To Be Continued). FOOTNOTES33: —Za—- BY EUGENE LYONS aasasesmen First Person Stuff.—The great American confessional is under way, folks. Souls purged of secrecy. Hidden corners of a million lives ventilated by publicity. Sorrows spread where all may see and be forewarned. Everybody tells every- thing. The Catholic confessional is a joke by comparison. The psycho-analysts’ confessional doesn’t shine in. Cham- bermaids, prime ministers, “society”? matrons, plumbers, jazz babies, evangelists, captains of industry, yeggs, stumble over each other in the crush to exhibit their private lives. An epidemic of frankness rages in our midst. Any of us may be hit by the contagion. Eminent novelists tell why they hate their wives, why they didn’t become carpenters instead of writers, how they sweat to create. See the Cosmopolitan, McClure’s, the Amer- ican Mercury, ete. Ex-feminists and ex-radicals tell how they got that way. See The Nation, The New Republic, The New Leader, ete. The housekeeper of the White House tells the bed-room secrets of our Presidents. - Fat millionaires tell what they did with their first nickle or dime, how they got their first jobs, how they made their first billion. See Suc- cess, The Nation’s Business, etc. And the great anonymous mass of humble stenographers, prostitutes, shop girls, chorus steppers, understair heroes and heroines reveal their One Voluptuous Nights, their Fast and Furious Romances, their Babes Out of Wedlock. Heart-throb. Simners in Satin. Purple Pleasures. Sticky, gooey romance. Fifteen-cent, 20-cent and 25-cent thrills and adventure. Tons of it spawned by the presses every day. Bernarr Macfadden —the greatest Father Confessor of all time. True Stories, Romances, Experiences. True Ghost Stories. True Lies. I Confess, Marriage Stories, Secrets, Sex. Still they come. Then there are the tabloids and their full-sized imitators. By Peaches Herself, Daddy Himself, Charlie Chaplin’s Best. Friend, Valentino’s Sweetest Sweetheart. By Gilda Grey, Houdini’s Ghost, the Murderer Himself, ete., etc, Each of them guaranteed, sealed with the picture and the original signature of the author. Confessions, revelations, inside stuff, the Whole Truth at Last Exclusively in This Paper. No newspaper or magazine, however solid and respec- table it purports to be, can escape the sweep of the confes- sional urge. And the reading public believes. It matters nothing that Peaches and Daddy testify in court that they had not even seen their “confessions” before publication. It matters nothing that conscience-stricken hack writers admit that they are the authors of the first-person outbursts of mythical sinners. It matters nothing that the confessions of the supposedly uneducated cabaret singers, department store - counter girls, etc. lapse into excellent English. We believe. There can be no confessional without Faith. The capital I has come into its own. It is to the new con- fessional what the cross is to the Roman brand. Unless the epidemic is stopped the third person will be eliminated from American grammar. Only the first and the second will re- main: I for confession, and you for accusation. * * * First person dope for the masses. An opiate and sopor: ifie. To give them make-believe thrills and to keep their minds off other things. To keep them satisfied while at work and to prevent them from thinking in their leisure. W. Reynolds of Detroit writes: , ‘ “Riding around our fair city in our somewhat less than fair transporta- tion system I have observed groups of foreign-looking persons feverishly tearing up our streets and throwing up barricades of paving stones and other debris. This activity is accompanied by an open and flagrant display of red flags. Most ominous of all, I have noticed swarthy Mexicans among them obviously inspiring this assault on our institutions. Do you think Mr. Kellogg should be advised of these goings on?” * * * Yes, Comrade Reynolds. Any ditch-digger who works feverishly for the wages he gets in Detroit deserves to be denounced. LETTER TO A LUNATIC. Dear Lester: Lester dear, I always keep my promise. I promised to tell you all the latest news as best I can. I mean that I don’t know it so well myself, but will do my best. I know how awful hard it must be for you, dear, in that lovely asylum without papers to cheer you up. So here goes, Both the president, Coolidge, and the head of the navy, Wilbur, have been saying things about naval armaments. First Coolidge sent a letter to other presidents and kings in other countries. Then Wilbur made a speech about preparedness. Near as I can make out they think that we ought to get together right away and reduce our navy because there may be & world revolution any day and we need the largest army and navy in the world to put it down. Two countries, France and Italy, refused to talk about smaller navies. The answer for France was made by Briand, the same fellow I mean who got the noble prize for peace. Japan and England and the United States will therefore have to talk it over between themselves. them and save them a lot of trouble. Also I know you will be very glad to learn that there are only 5,000 Communists in our country. It’s a wonder there are enough to go around. I mean the way thousands of them are in every union, such as the miners, the cloakmakers, the fur workers, the carpenters and so on; and a lot more are needed to spread poison in the army, the navy, the women’s clubs, the public schools, and so forth. At one meeting, in Madison Square Garden, there were 20,000 according to all the papers, so it all goes to show, doesn’t it? Lester darling, a woman took up swimming to reduce and she swum the Catalina channel. Well, she didn’t so why should the papers make so much fuss? I mean she dil succeed in re- - ducing, as I saw her picture. Also you will be to be informed that our nation’s income last year was $89,682,000,000, and that there are 200 Americans insured for a $1,000,000 or more. Isn’t it won- derful, Lester? Also a young he was hungry and needed |. The picture papers have started | a drive to clean up the stage. The sta; papers print awful pictures from those 's to prove it. That's about all for this time, honey, but I will write real soon. Always, always yours, i * Sincerely yours, P. S.—Dear Lester, I forgot to tell you also that sent a letter to Soviet Russia saying that he would Sa rete Bhat ei teen nt ina er pal impire, w! is isn’t it darling? I mean the same Chamberlain that also peace. / of 12 killed a storekeeyfer because f is dirty. All the picture | eRe