The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 3

eS | } NICARAGUANS BEG AMERICAN LABOR TO SAVE LIBERTY Promise Guerilla War On Yankee Marines SAN JOSE, Costa. Rica, Feb. 27.— | Calling upon Latin-Americans to unite as one man, to arm, to-carry on guerrilla warfare against the Wall Street conqueror of Nicaragua, “to kill from ambush and in the dense- ness of our forests” the American mercenary troops brought to main- tain Adolfo Diaz on his presidential throne, 5,000 Nicaraguans driven into Costa Rica have signed a petition to the people of Nicaragua and organ- ized labor all over North America. Appeal, To All Labor. j The petition was composed by Luis Felipe Ibarra, president of the Nica- raguan league of Costa Rica. It is addressed “To the Constitutional Re- volution, To the People of Nicaragua, and to the Federation of Labor of Central America, Mexico and the United States of America.” The workers of the United States are es-| pecially appealed to: “ If the sover- eignty of your’ great republic rests in you, why don’t you help this ‘Pro- letariat people (of Nicaragua)?” Slavery or War. The petition recited that the Nicar- aguans have to choose only between holding out their hands for the fet- ters of Wall Street, or marching to battle, and continues: “To our brother workers and to the people of Central America, we say: Be with us in this hour of our cruci- fixion; if you canot help us with your blood, because those who govern you _prevent it, help us nevertheless by giving us courage and moral support in the pulpit, the press and by peti- tion and protest; for we are brothers in race, in language, in location, in our common aspirations and ideals, and finally, in the socialism of the present day which joins all men of all races in their anxiety to live a better life, materially and spiritually. Mexico—Big Brother. To the workers and people of Mex- ico we say also: brothers racially. From your watch- tower you have discovered the tor- tuous road that the Yankee conqueror follows to surprise these peoples, and you have sounded the alarm to all Latin America. Help us to defend our constitution, our justice and our dignity, that have been scorned by the present Government of the United States, for you are greater and more powerful than we are and very scrupulous about liberty. Your voice is heard by all the people -of this continent and of the whole world. To American Labor. Workers and people of the United States: You know what liberty is worth. The. lamp of the statue which you have in.New York harbor seems to say to all the travelers of the earth who come to your shores: “Here liberty reigns.” If. this is true, why do you allow your bankers and public men to impose the shame- ful slavery of capitalism upon a small, weak country like Nicaragua? If the sovereignty of your great Re- public rests in you, why don’t you help this proletariat people, who are your brothers in name, by their de- mocratic institutions and by the ideal | which unites all the workers of the world in the fight against centralizea capitalism ? Your representatives in the United State senate can divert the course of the imperialistic policies of your busi- ness men with respect to these coun- tries of Latin America, if you but ask it. Your future lies/in our virgin lands. Here you can come with every confi- dence, if you come with your civili- zation, your industries and with the lamp of kindness in your hand; but do not allow the “money-changers in your temple” to come to us to pur- chase our liberty with millions of gold, for the sovereignty of the most unfortunate people of the world can- not be bought with money, upless at the cost of blood and dignity, To you, constitutional soldiers, we say: Stand firm in your places be- neath our flag; the time has come to put your Valor and patriotism, to the test, for the moment approaches ‘to avenge the blood which American bullets made us shed in 1912. At that time we were an army, shat- tered, iil-fed and unarmed, but in that hour of sacrifice our last bullets shed the blood of those hired soldiers which the same Adolfo Diaz, himself, caused to be disembarked on our hores. =~ Today we are armed And with jus- tice as a shield on our breasts, If the Yankee outrages us again, let us unite as one man and do not pre- sent ourselves in one battle, Carry on guerrilla warfare, kill him from ambush and in the di of our forests, in order thatythis time he may know how a dgnttied and free Je values liberty, If you suceumb by reason of their greater strength, have * faith that after you, there will be others of our brothers who shall be able t the traitors to their eran those foreign diplomats who, our with Ajelte Dine tor om bale of ‘CHINESE, LATINS, HINDUS, IN CALIFORNIA | HELP EACH OTHER IN FIGHT ON IMPERIALISM | | By HOWARD HARLAN | PALO ALTO, ‘Feb. 27.—The Chi- | other national groups in California are beginning to assert themselves |nese of California, are waking up to | Penly in respect to the recent ae | the necessity of opposing American | 11° of American ae Bee a > |imperialism. Under the leadership of | local representatives of the Mexican |soyne Chivene’ students at Stanford | Government have addressed political | University, a paper is published en- gatherings and taken part in public |titled the “Chinese Guide in Amer-| debates in order to make clear the ica.” This past week an English sup- | motives behind the recent attitude of x * | the plera has ¢ enced publication. ; gmk red gae sini oll Southern neighbor. The object of the new paper, ac- cording to its editors, is to dissemin-| The Hindustan Gadar Party, the ate knowledge concerning the nation- | nationalist party of India, has recent- alist movement in China. They urge | ly passed resolutions, copies of which jall groups to unite their forces to| Were sent to all our local papers, prevent the intervention of Wall | sympathizing with the Chinese in | Street in Chinese affairs. They in-| their attempt to establish national |tend to stimulate a friendly and co- | sovereignity in their own country and operative feeling between the Chinese | calling upon the Indian people, both |and American workers. eat home and abroad, to lend every | In his opening statement to the | possible assistance to their neighbors |publie the editor explains that there | in China in their efforts to elimin- jis no paper in America, with the ex-| ate the concessions and extra-terri- }eeption of The DAILY WORKER, | toriality inflicteq upon them. | that prints the news concerning the | Even the few representatives of Chinese crises in a favorable and in- | Nicaragua that reside among us are telligent way, so: that the new Eng-| giving expression to their dissatis- lish supplement of the Chinese Guide | faction with American interference in must be utilized to supply the defi-| their domestic business, and are lin- ciency and present to English read-|ing up with the other national groups ers an expression of Chinese expe-|to oppose the extension of modern American Government to our | You are our big) rience, aims and aspirations. It is pleasing to note that the| imperialism into the colonial sections of the world. ae | Britain Answers Cal By Creating Another Navy: “Royal Indian” LONDON, Feb. 27.—Proposals for a new arm of the British navy were officially announced today. The British government, it is an- nounced, will ask parliament to enact a law creating the Royal In- dian Navy, in which Indians trained as naval officers and seamen, will serve. This navy would be ayail- able for the use of the British ad- miralty when a state of emergency is declared. The government, it is stated, has receiyed some dominion replies on President Coolidge’s disarmament | proposals but its reply will be held up until all of the dominions have | expressed their opinion. Government Operation Of Shipping Board Not | A Loss, Says Senator | WASHINGTON ment operation of the Shipping} Beard mercantile fleet has been emi- | nently successful, and has contributed | powerfully to the industrial prosper- | ity of the nation, Sen, Fletcher of | Florida tolq the, senate in reviewing | the needs of the fleet for new con- struction arf! a permanent policy of public ownership and operation on all the seas. There is evidence of the success of | the Panama Railroad steamships, and | of the fleet operated by the Canadian! National Railways. The loss from | operation in 1926; Fletcher said, was | “fifty times less than the benefit to| American commerce, In fact, many of our commodities, surplus products, | could not haye been moved to market | at all in these times of peace if the| government had not owned this re-| serve fleet which we were able to put, into service and carry to foreign | markets our wheat, corn, cotton and | other products.” | Wants Passenger Liners: | His recommendation was that con-| gress declare a “fixed and permanent | policy” of public ownership and op- | eration, not. only of freight cargo! vessels on many trade routes, includ- | ing refrigerator ships for the perish-| able fruit trade, but should operate passenger lines on the Atlantic. ) Fletcher bitterly condemned the| shipping board’s action in selling for $100,000 a ship on which the govern-| ment had spent over $2,040,000 in re- conditioning and furnishing since the war. He instanced another sale of $40,000,000 worth of ships for $4,-| 500,000. These sales, he thought, came “almost within the criminal law.” Jews Want Protection From Cruelties Marie Inflicts Upon Them WASHINGTON (FP) —Protection | from persecution for the Jews in | Rumania was asked of the American government by resolutions adopted by the American Jewish Congress, in session in Washington. Speakers told of the cruelties and crimes inflicted on their brethern in Rumania by fanatics who haye the encouragement of the government of Queen Maric. The resolution denounced the ht: manian sayniten for failing to punish anti-Jewish criminals, for con- ducting a proeranda of hate, and for conspiring to deprive 1,000,000 Jews of their political rights. De Valera On Way to New York to Testify | “Sormenti | praise. Labor Rallies in New York to Save Sormenti (Continued from Page One) ond in opposing it in. America, where Mussolini is most anxious to win favor and support. American labor must not allow Sor- menti to be sent to his death any more than it must allow Sacco and Vanzetti to be sent to the electric chair, he argued. “Has the United States government still some sense%of shame and dignity,” he asked, “or has it relinquished all that at the demands of the monarch of the blackshirts?” Labor Can Keep Sormenti Here. Brodsky kept the audience laughing by relating some of the stupidities of the state department in dealing with deportation cases of radicals. “If the voice of labor can sound loud enough to be heard through the locked doors |of the state department,” he asserted, and the other political refugees will uot be deported.” “Tilegal entry,” according to Gitlow, is a convenient phrase under which the government ousts radicals, but which doesn’t apply when U. S. mar- ines quell mass uprisings in Latin- America and China, “If it is illegal to enter the United States without (FP).—Govern-|a permit, why isn’t it illegal for U.| S. marines to enter Nicaragua with-| out a permit,” he demanded. “Recently the Chinese masses arose in arms against imperialist exploiters. li the United States is opposed to il- legal entry, why does it send’ battle- ships and-forces to defend Shanghai? | That’s because there are U. 8. bank- ers and U. S, investments to defend in China. Nobody in Washington is worrying about the ‘illegal entry’ of $1,500 marines in China, but when one man, Enea Sormenti, enters this country to escape the bloody tyranny of Fascism, the government tries to kick him out. Capitalists Praise Mussolini. | “The U. S. government, like the| government of Mussolini, is for the protection of capitalists, exploiters, and bankers. It recognizes that} every enemy of Mussolini is also an enemy of Wall Street. That's why all big capitalists, like Judge Gary, come back from Italy with glowing They like Mussolini because | he has outlawed the eight-hour day and labor unions, and because he has organized a band of hoodlums to ter-| verize all opposition. / “This is what our big Italy-loving| capitalists call ‘a peaceful revolution.’ | They are blind to the fact that ‘revo- lution’ was made with brutality, tor- ture, and the murder of the best fighters in the real revolutionary movement.” Gitlow predicted in conclusion that | Pascism will eventually be destroyed by the solidarity of the workers. Enea Sormenti; Pietro Allegra,| seeretary of the Anti-Fascist Alliance, and Carlo Tresca, editor of Il Mar- tello, spoke in Italian, Albert Weis- bord, former Passaic textile strike leader, was a surprise speaker at the end of the meeting. ‘ A resolution was passed calling} upon the government to re-establish America as the “champion of the downtrodden the world over,” and de- nouncing the rule of Fascism for “its record of murder and terrorism” and its “spies who swarm through Ameri- ea and have enlisted the support of the U. S. department of labor under the direction of John J. Davis.” The Commands Wall Street Army in Nicaragua Brig. Gen. Logan Feland of the Marine Corps has been ordered to assuine command of all United States Marines in Nicaragua. Letter Indicates Judge Himself SuggestedPlan For Booze Provocateurs WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — R. Q. Merrick, federal dry administrator, today submitted to the house judiciary committee a letter he said he received from Federal Judge Frank Cooper, Northern New York, in which the judge himself suggested a conference to devise a plan for entrapping boot- leggers. The letter was filed upon demand of Rep. La Guardia (R) of New York, who has brought impeachment charges against Judge Cooper. Merrick testified that in response to that letter he called up Judge Cooper, and laid before him a plan, whereby federal agents masqueraded as bootleggers and bought and sold liquor from bootleggers. Later the arrested “higher-ups” in the out- lawed traffic. Merrick said Judge Cooper approved the plan. |Blames Waste On Boss ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb. 27.— | Arthur E. Foote, of the United States | Department of Commerce, iz an ad- dress today before the Twelfth An- nual Convention of the Wholesale Sta- | tioners at the Ambassador Hotel here, | dustries averaged 49 per cent. Le attributed 60 per cent of this waste to bad management, and less than 25 per cent to labor. The public could eliminate some of this waste by de- manding less variety, the. speaker said. Pilsudski Poles to Subsidize Institute To act as Pilsudski publicity agent for the fascist government now rul- ing Poland an Institute of Polish Cul- ture has been formed at Columbia university. One of the instigators of the in- stitute is Dr. Nicholas Murray But- ler. Among other founders are the Polish minister and the president of ithe American-Polish chamber of com- merce. A fascist “Italian House” is nearing completion at Columbia for Italian students. Senate Committee Votes Cash for Peace Bluff WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, — The senate foreign relations committee today reported favorably on resolu- tions, already passed by the House, appropriating $75,000 and $15,000 respectively for American delegations to the League of Nation’s disarma- ment and economic conferences at Geneya this summer. Both appro- priations had been requested by Pres- ident Coolidge. Obregon to Run Again For Mexican Presidency MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27.—General Obregon has agreed to become a pres- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927 WORKERS OF POLAND, PERSECUTED BY FASCISTS, THANK NEW YORK BRANCH OF LABOR DEFENSE The International Labor Defense in New York has re ing letter from the International Red Aid section in Wa . * * ( | Dear Comrades: We are sending) you a receipt for the collection made} by you for the political prisoners of Poland. We thank you in the name of our brothers who are buried be- hind prison bars by Pilsudski’s fgs- cist government. You do not know perhaps that your offer came just in time; the government locked up the} best enlightened, the most sacrificing | fighters for a peasant-workers’ Po-!| land. Two weeks ago, about six hundred | White Russian peasants were thrown into prison, among whom were four from the White Russian Peasants-| Workers Branch, and Felix Holowicz, | from the Independent Workers’ | Party. Then again the government struck against the party by declaring Syl-| vester Wojewoda a “spy.” The gov-)| ernment took this inhuman means of | fighting, for the reason that it saw} that the more people they seized} from the workers’ and peasants | ranks, and threw into prisons, the | more people rushed to take the places of. those removed; and even to swell} | eived the follow- vy, Poland: those ranks. For this reason this | despicable means was used for the “political”. battle that they might em- barrass the leaders before the masses and blackmail: them as scoundrels and spies. Pilsudski Put it Over. This was mostly done by Pilsud- ski’s party, whose very presence is one of the greatest crimes against the workers of Poland. But in the future everything that is just and revolutionary in Poland will hurl back the contemptible and weak attacks of Pilsudski’s follow- ers, and defeat every attempt against, the truly radical peasants’ and work- ers’ movement, Be with us comrades in these diffi- eult times and do not stop sending } help to those who, if not today then tomorrow, will be taken from our ranks ang thrown into cells. Believe us, that the growing revolutionary strength of worker-peasant mass, and your wide support, moral and material, we hope, will speedily burst the bourgeois jail gates, and all the martyrs for the workers’ cause’ will be free to do creative work in a New \Foote, Commerce Dept., | declared that waste in six major in-/ resolution “demands the same right | idential candidate in the next election, of asylum for the present refugees according to messages received here as has been accorded so many dis-|today by prominent politicians. It is WORKERS WAIT HOURS FOR PAY FOR SHOVELING Stand in Line to Get Their Insult 2 Within the shadows of Grace Church, on Broadway and 10th Street, where the ministers of the Lord sling | the bunk for fat salarics, stand a| long line of men. It’s eight-thirty now | and they’ve been standing there since | five, waiting for their pay. | They’re snow-shovellers and their} pay is fifty cents an hour. They’ve been working ten hours a day, so that the Rolls Royces may ride the more easily down the streets of New York. Every now and then, the cop on duty, a two hundréd pound bruiser, strides down the line, flourishes his club, and bellows, “Get the hell in line, there.” The men swear under| their breaths and get. Hungry Kids Waitiag. They’re an odd lot, these men. All ages, all sizes, and all nationalities. | | 1 | i |of me, is an eighteen-year-old boy! who has just bummed in from Arkan-| sas. “No jobs down there,” he says with a heavy drawl. “Farmers are having} around there loose, waiting to be picked, and farmers can’t hire any- body to pick it.” Tomorrow som¢ of these men will |return to Bowery missions or will| stand in long lines in front of em- | ployment agencies waiting for dish- | washers’ jobs at $14 a week. The| others will sit on park benches and | wait for another snowfall. | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS Food Prices Down as Farmers’ Surplus Is Dumped on Market According to the retail food index furnished by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the eost of living dropped 3 per cent in the period of December 15 to January 15 in New York City. There was a decline of 1 1-2 per cent for the country as a whole. Although the decline in price was general, the metropolitan communities were fa- vored. While the retail price of food in New York City is 62 per cent higher than is was in pre-war days, it was 3 per cent lower on January 15 of this year than on the same date last year. Chicago shows a 72 per cent increase over the pre-war level. Wash- ington tops its ante-bellum mark with a 68 per cent advance, Among the commodities that show- ed a decrease in price are fresh eggs, 14 per cent; oranges, 5 per cent; stor- age eggs, 4 per cent; pork chops, but- ter, oleomargarine, lard and rice. 2 per cent; bacon, ham, leg of lamb, canned salmon, fresh milk, navy beans, | canned corn, canned peas, coffee, prunes and bananas, 1 per cent; vege- table lard substitute and macaroni Behind me is an old Italian, the; father of three hungry kids; in front | concerned, Poland.—Chairman of the Committee. (Sing Sing Prisoners | Don’t Have Easy Life, Says Former Pen Czar OSSINING, N. Y., Feb. 27.—Upon his retirement from the office of state commissioner of corrections, James L. Long, is out today with a statement explaining that the prison population doubled in his eight years supervising state prisons and hos-+ pitals for criminal insane, that he be- | lieves in rational prison reform and that Police Commissioner George Me Laughlin of New York is wrong in hinting Sing Sing inmates are cod- dled. “I still believe in prison reform as I did when I first came to under- stand the work of the department,” he said. No Coddling at Sing Sing. “I firmly believe in prison reform and this talk of there being coddling of inmates in Sing Sing or any ether! New York state prison is ridiculous. “IT wouid be willing to bet that most of those, who say there is, have never visited Sing Sing or any other New York state prison to find out the truth or they would not talk that ‘way. Little Service for Condemned. “So far as Commissioner Mclaugh- lin’s statement about the letter Peter Heslin wrote from the death-house is of course the inmates there get service. They have to be kept in solitary confinement, under the law, and very carefully watched. “If they are kept locked up most all of ‘the time then someone must a hell of a time. The cotton’s lying} wait upon them as they cannot look j after themselves. What would Com- missioner McLaughlin take away from them that they now get? The food? The sleep? What do they get that anybody would deny them before the high court has passed upon their guilt or innocence? “If a condemned man, while exer- cising for a half hour a day with a guard standing over him, plays alone with a handball for exercise, that could not be called coddling. “There is no sentimentality wasted upon- state prisoners. They are treated humanely, and that is all. |The prisons are run all right and keep good order.” Read The Daily Worker Every Day Senators Ack G. 0. Of Muscle Shoals WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The Norris resolution, providing for the government operation of Muscle Shoals for ten years, and authorizing | $13,000,000 for putting the plants in| shape, was approved today, by the senate agricultural committee. The resolution originally called for five-year operation, but was extended | hy the committee. Eggs Down to 30¢, More than 8,000,000 dozen eggs flooding the New York market has resulted in the prices dropping to its lowest mark since 1916. Fresh eggs are retailing at 30 cents a dozen, while cold storage products can be obtained for 24 and 25 cents. MRS. ROGIN announces to her friends and patrons that she has opened a new tinguished rebels in the past.” Brodsky announced that the Inter- national Labor Defense will hold a bazaar from March 10 to 13 inclusive at the Star Casino, 105 East 107th St., to aid political prisoners. The 16 striking cloakmakers sent to jail ly Judge Rosalsky for terms up to six years for picketing is a new ef- fort to break the labor movement, the International Labor Defense an- nounced. They ask that articles and | q, funds be sent to the Bazaar Commit- tee of the Defense at 799 Broadway, Room 422, New York City. Levy Case Postponed. Justice Samuel’ Levy, in children's conrt today again postponed the ar- raignment of Michael Ponkrashow, he Gs i, who recently shot and killed Bal aera Ope believed that if Obregon stands he will win. Expect Clerical Coup In Kovno Before Long RIGA, Feb. 27.—According to latest information received from Kovno there may be expected in the near future a coup to be executed by the ristian demoerats (the right cleri- cal party), in order to seize power. Buckner Quits; Low Pay. auras a Ns oy R. uckner yest open 9 sum- tion to the jury at the Daugherty- Miller conspiracy trial with a of his administration and a declara- he would quit office in about murkbain aris ense |Partment’s increasing the prices dropped Jess than five-tenths | of 1 per cent. Ten products increased in price— cabbage 12 per cent; onions, 10 per cent; hens and granulated sugar, 3 per cent; plate beef, tea and cheese, 1 per cent; and sirloin steak, rib roast‘ ‘|Buy Cigars, Cigarets, Candy and wheat cereal, less than five-tenths | Ice Cream Soda and Stationary at of 1 per cent. Twelve food articles showed no K. J 8. W. Cor. 7th & Green || | |AF F E Sts. PHILADELPHIA ||| change in price: round steak, chuck Violin and Viola Lessons roast, evaporated milk, bread, flour, | cornmeal, rolled oats, corn flakes, po- Given by export, tonvher, For reasonable rates, write to Vegetarian Restaurant at 249 E. 13th Street, N. Y. C. 4 tatoes, baked beans, canned tomatoes and raisins. There is a si ation that prices will tend to an ineline in the war de- ro- tion allowance from-thirty-six to fifty conts a day, Raed Tha Daly eos Bore Day Page Three Pope’s Dope Joint” Seeks Alliance With League of Nations PARIS, Feb. 27.—Diplomatie circles are abuzz with reports that the Vati- van is bribing its way into the League of Nations. A prolonged ‘eonference was held late this afternoon between Monsignor Maglione, the Papal Nun- cio here and Foreign Minister Briand. They talked for more than an hour and the utmost secrecy was main. tained relative to the question discus- sed. A report persists nevertheless, that Monsignor Maglione’s missien was to sound out the possibilities of the Vatican’s actively affiliating it- self with the league. Close political observers hold the helief that the French foreign minis- ter favors the Vatican’s adherence to the league and undoubtedly will lend support to such papal ambitions. The pope will probably ask M. 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