The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1927, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1927 Borah Learns That It Is Dangerous to Challenge Lies of Secret Diplomats By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, + eg are the chief stock in trade of secret diplomacy. When pushed into the open, the secret diplomats continue with their lies. It is, therefore, easily understood why Secretary of State Kellogg peddled alot of buncombe when he was forced to give some information to the senate foreign relations committee relative. to what proportion of the holders of oil lands and cofcessions have complied with the new Mexican land laws which the Wall Street gov- @xnment at Washington holds are confiscatory. Kellogg was merely peddling a lot of diplomatic propaganda, in the form of brazen falsehoods, in order to bulwark the imperialist aggressions, not only against Mexico and Nicaragua, but against all of Latin-America. | eee ee, Kellogg has been caught in the mesh of his false-| hoods. Senator Borah sent a little cable down to Mexi- eo City and got the facts from President Calles. The | New York World is forced to comment: “The discrepancies between Secretary Kellogg’s re- | ident Calles are glaring.” “Nervous port and that of Pr At War With Kellogg dicament in which he has been caught by claiming he has a “bad cold,” which necessitates his rushing off to Florida, where the more balmy and quiet atmosphere is supposed to aid in after which ‘he can be expected to re- turn. Kellogg. is brazen in these little matters of diplo- matic prevarication, so he has a very dif- ficult time of it put- ting up a brave front. Care ae Vose. Senator William E. Borah. however, the whole bankers’ press and Wall Street’s parliamentary hirelings in Washing- ton are all roaring in chorus at the outrage that has been perpetrated. Senator Borah is denounced for daring @ leap over the hydra-headed Coolidge-Mellon- Morgan-Kellogg government and communicate with the officials of a foreign power with which Wall Street rule has a dispute. Senator Borah is all but attacked as a traitor who ought to be taken out immediately to face a firing s tack. A war time atmosphere is created n which Borah’: cable to Calles is put in the famous category of? “trad- ing with the enemy.” + * * ° This whole tumult merely reveals the great difficulty encountered im getting at the facts in the present im- perialist maneuvers against Latin-America. It ‘wai early shown that the state department did use the As- sociated Press Service, and tried to use the other capi- talist news services to spread its lies against Latin- America, especially the falsehood that the troubles in Nicaragua grew out of a Communist plot hatched in Mexico City to drive a Bolshevist wedge between Con- tinental United States and the Panama Canal. The half- hearted demand made in congress that this whole pro- cedure of Wall Street’s secret diplomacy be investigated was quickly squelched, even Borah quitting this par- ticular front of the struggle with the state department. It was Kellogg’s victory in scotching this attack on his department that no doubt gave him courage to make Admiral Latimer supreme dictator over Nicaragua, es- tablishing a censorship over the Central American re- public that the state department at first denied but, being caught in another lie, had to openly admit. Again | the anti-administration senators failed to take advan- tage of this new opportunity to rake the White House | and the state, war and navy departments as mere ac- cessories of Wall Street imperialism. & * * * It is no wonder that now, with a straight face, the administration spokesmen and the bought press denounce Senator Borah for his alleged audacity in communicating with a foreign power. Borah is supposed to take his information from Kellogg and be content, is the view taken. In the words of The New York Times, speaking of Mexico, “Abundant material is not lacking to the inquisitive senatorial mind,” with the addition that, “Secretary Kellogg has offered everything relating to the matter in the archives of the state department.” That, of course, is the worst possible slam that’ The Times could take at the state department, since it has offered nothing of value as yet. All the old “war stuff” is trotted out, that Borah’s action tends to encourage Mexico in its opposition to} Wall Street rule, that it “throws discredit” on the Coolidge-Kellogg policies, while a law dating back to| 1798—the so-called Logan law—is uncovered and dusted off for use in the effort to discourage this treason. | Dr. George Logan, of Philadelphia, a Quaker and a} democrat, who had been a member of the Pennsylvania | legislature and afterward a United States senator, had | gone to France where he had had interviews with) Talleyrand, minister of foreign affairs, and members of | the directory, in an effort to heal the breach that pre- vailed at the time between this country and Paris. | George Washington, then president, resented this} course, as an interference with his own job. TM The best that Senator Borah can do is to reply that there is an almost unbroken record of the chairmen of Senate Foreign Relations Committees communicating | with foreign officials, from 1798 down to Senator Lodge. Borah cites the conspicuous precedent set by Charles| Sumner, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Re- | lations Committee from 1861 to 1869. Throughout the | whole. of the Civil War he conducted an almost con-| tinuous correspondence with, members of the British eabinet on subjects that were in controversy between the two natioris. He also pointed out that he wrote to} the heads of other governments. * * * | | But that was in the das of the infancy of American | capitalism when it had not yet launched upon its world | imperialist ventures. Borah faces a different day than that which confronted Sumner. The only question that remains is, “How far will Borah go in his fight against imperialism.” It seems that so far he has merely blun- dered into every struggle he*has been compelled.to make. The real fight will not be waged until militant spokes- men of the working class—the class enemies of the im- perialists—are sent to Washington to take up the at-| , that burns Borah’s fingers every time he ¢omes | within hailing distance of it. ry Nellie” | Kellogg openly con-/} fesses to the pre-| his recuperation. Congress will ad- journ on Friday,! In the meantime, | zad, or at least be subjected to a mob at- | KHRISTIAN KULTUR = vost “Civilization” According to Wall Street. Bloody Struggles of the Chilean Masses | By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. tion of big land owners |]2 ULED until 1920 by a combina-{of the brutality practised during the | more nervous than) and| election, -the workers coalition de-| A Proletarian Life By MARK STONE. | ACK PATRICK woke up in his miserable room on East Broadway. The snow was streaking the dirty | | window pane and outside the wind was whining down the | |ptreets. It was cold out and he felt very weak. But one | gan’t be particular with three dollars in one’s pocket. | He’d have to get out of bed, ‘and wait in line for a} | snow-shoveller’s job if he wanted to eat. He'd have to} |go out with a gang of fellows in the same position as| | his and shovel snow ten hours a day. It wasn’t a very pleasant prospect but what else could he do? * * * Jack Patrick had no relatives, no one to whom he | could turn in a pinch, His father had been killed ten | years ago in the coal pits. It was then that he had be- come the mainstay of the family. He wasn’t very strong then either, but he had to work very hard to support the family. Finally he broke down. His,frail body couldn’t stand the damp air of the pits, the long hours, continual under- | nourishment. } The doctor told him that he needed a long rest. He! was run down, the doctor said. Jack Patrick couldn’t afford a long rest. That was the | privilege of the rich. Instead he left the small mining | town where he was living and got a job on a nearby| | farm, Two months later he returned to’ the pits, where | ‘he could earn more money. But he was still rather} | weak. Now his mother, a frail woman of forty-seven, went | to work. She toiled in a laundry—and between the two | of them they supported the family. Then came the death of his mother and sister. They were living in a match-box shack owned by the coal com- pany. One night a fire broke out in the shack and his mother. and sister were burnéd to death. Jack Patrick escaped, He couldn’t stand the Illinois mining town now. It} {was saturated with blood. The coal barons had taken | {his father; now they had murdered his mother. He} | couldn’t stand the town where he had lived his whole life | ;—and he lit out. He was through with mining. He bummed east and landed a job on a farm outside of! | New York, | | In the fall when the hay had been stacked in the barns, | |his job was over. He hit out for New York, the Golden City, where jobs are to be ‘had for the asking. But Jack | didn’t get a job. 2 | * * | | Jack got up and waited on line for his job. He was assigned to a squad at 23rd street and 6th avenue. He} shovelled snow. No gloves,-his shoes all shot and a bit- | | ing wind whistling down the street. | ,He had eaten one meal in the last three days and he wealthy city elements in alliance| manded that the electon be annulled} ¢.i; weak. Too weak to lift the heavy shovel clinging to | with the clericals, the Chilean work- ing class has been forced to travel a bloody path since it in combination with the middle class, elected Presi- dent Alesandri. Mifiing, producing mostly nitrates and copper, is the principal industry of Chile: The workers engaged in | this industry, form the backbone of the Chilean labor movement. At a canference held April 26, | 1925, there were represented dele- | | gates from other organized groups, such as railroad and transport work- ers, printer, teachers, salaried work- | ers, ete. | The clash between the rising Chil- {ean labor movement, the stronger sec- |tion of which, the labor federation, \is affiliated with the Red Interna- |tional of Labor Unions, which has |some connection with farm workers, and the old semi-feudal landlords, na- |tive capitalist and American inves- |tors represented by the powerful | Guggenheim and Anaconda Copper Mining Company interests, produced first the alliance with middle class elements resulting in the election of President Alesandri. Alexandri was expelled sybsequent- ly by the reactionary forces, but was returned as a result of mass press- ure on the government. He was wel- comed back by the masses in Janu- ary, 1925. | In June of the same year a great | strike against low wages and inhu-| Anaconda Mining’ Company is said | tions? man living conditions occurred in the nitrate felds, and new elections held. Strikes and demonstrations took place and a state of siege was pro- claimed in the two provinces of An- |tofogasta and O’Higgins on October 27. | The police and military fired into | the crowds of workers who were ‘holding a huge demonstration, | wounding 23, A two days protest | general strike followed in Santiago. Since these occurrences there have been sporadic strikes and uprisings | with the labor and revolutfonary | movement developing a wider base jamong the Chilean population at about 4,000,000, Detailed information, is lacking but there is little doubt that the Tbanez dictatorship which is now ter- rorizing all opposition elements of | the population—more than 300 ar- | rests and deportations of trade union and Communist leaders and even among the middle class groups hav- ‘ing been recorded to date—has the backing of the big industrialists—na- | tive and foreign. The great bulk of Chile’s trade is with the United States. Exports to the United States total more than to all other countries combined. Chile in 1923 ranked second in cop- per production, The low labor cost in enterprises supplying raw mater- | ials is shown by the fact that the able to deliver |to be copper The gunmen of the|from its Chilean properties in New | abuses of the “capitalistic interests” thru labor leaders, | | the nitrate company managers had/ less than 11 cents per pound. companies acted with unprecedented York at six cents per pound whereas brutality and fired on the headquar-| it claims that it cannot produce cop-! ters of the unions. Before the strike| per from its Montana properties at blacklisted and deported all active| Copper and nitrate in Chile take} unionists. |the place of oil in Mexico as an in-| Labor ‘and Communist papers | censive for imperialist penetration | were suppressed. and conquest and as in Mexico where Yhert the -Aiesandri government, | the working class is in a minority it} which the workers had believed will be necessary for the workers, friendly te them, sent troops and ar-|the most decisive section of whom | tillery to the nitrate fields, bom-| support the Communist Party, to barded the workers’ quarters, shoot-|make the closest. possible alliance ing women and children indiscrim- with the peasantry in the struggle inately and murdering many of the| against American imperialism and strikers after they had been made its fascist puppets. prisoners. ; ete It is necexsary also that the Amer- ; A trade union commission which | ican working class pay more atten- investigated the massacre reported tion to the struggles of the Latin that there had been 2,000 deaths— American labor movements and in mostly women and children. | the present case by determined pro- Alesandri was forced to resign on) test to the Chilean dictator and the October 1, Fs | United States government — whose The workers formulated their own! agents are fully aware of the bloody program and ran their own candidate | persecution of the Chilean working for president. \class—prevent the execution of the The elections were accompanied by leaders, the Chilean masses and stop | terror and displays of military force what is far worse—the living death —the workers’ candidate being given | to which Ibanez would consign them 70,608 votes as against 171,25¢ for| by deportation to Easter Island, 2,- the reactionary candidate. Because | 000 miles off the Chilean coast. + LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Dear Friends: I congratulate The At socialist, farmer and scientific DAILY WORKER at having come to| lectures, where workers assemble New York, the centre of world im-| (such as Cooper Union) it should be perialism, and where the trade union | represented. movement is being attacked by the 2.—Squads of workers to’ distri- yellow bureaucracy, aided by police | pute Jeaflets in subway and elevated and gangsters. 3 trains, and all places where workers I have a few suggestions for the} travel to work. improvement and building up the eir- 3eLarge ‘posters (with glaring parks ay, subantt Shane) t0r Ose | headlines of immediate problems) at all news-stands where The DAILY should Ren adectakee to canmiee| WORKER is sold, and at all public for The DAILY WORKER (also other meetings of the working class, which militant working class papers of for- | should “be placed in a conspicuous el languages). At trade union | Place. pan The DAILY WORKER! I believe when, these suggestions should be sold and, if possible, de-| re put into operation and persist- bated upon, \ently continued the result will be at At labor councils and conventions | least double the present influence The DAILY WORKER should be) 2nd circulation within a short time. | his hands. | Slowly the shovel slipped from Jack Patrick’s hands. | | He slumped down in the snow which he had been shov-| elling. : | 1 * * * The foreman sent for a policeman, who called an| ambulance. The young interne, with the carefully waxed mustache, who accompanied the ambulance, found him | dead. Babson Wants to Know By ROBERT DUNN. 'D° you see signs of a tendency of the capitalistic in- terests abusing their power? ‘This question is be-| \ing asked by the Babson Statistical Organization of Wel- | lesley Hills, Mass., in a questionnaire being sent to (clients all over the country. As the prophet, of the business class Roger Babson_and his statistical staff always have their ears to the ground. They think they hear a “wave of radicalism” as they call it rumbling somewhere in the distance. Now a wave of radicalism, Babson argues, “is always bad for legitimate business.” And he continues, “waves of radicalism, however, are always reactions from pe- riods when the capitalistic group has taken “undue ad- vantage of its power.” Is that happening now? If so, Babson wants to know. For “if such a bitter feeling is being fostered it should be known and, so far as pos- sible, eliminated.” In what direction might this abuse of capitalistic power become evident? Mr. Babson suggests a few on his questionnaire. His queries on this point run as fol- lows: “Among the banks? Thru the newspapers? By means of trade associations? Thru fraternal organiza- Thru labor leaders?” | Just what Babson has in mind when he hints at the | is not clear. | Does he mean to inquire if Matthew Woll is abusing | the power of the “capitalistic interests” when he wars | on the Left Wing? Does he refer to the corruption in| the high places of the United Mine Workers? Does he! refer to the labor leaders who are acting as informants | to the Industrial Squad and private espionage agencies? | When the questionnaires are all in Babson will publish the results of his investigation in a later bulletin, Workers in Paris protest against the death sentence | imposed on Sacco and Vanzetti. Why not in a hundred cities in the United States? The best way for Senator Borah to split with Presi- dent Coolidge is to get out of the republican party that boasts them both. The United States Supreme Court has declared the Doheny oil lease fraudulent. But Doheny is still on the outside of prison walls. That is the result of having friends inside the government. -THE BUGLE CALL lide ae eo Se SS Be there. MARK STONE, New York. ; / : Te ¢ FOOTNOTES i! B?/ EUGENE LYONS A LITERARY MENU.—More and more people are get- ting into the habit of reading at their meals. Comrade M. G. thinks that this tendency should be regulated. There should be some sort of harmony between the food and the book. As a beginning she suggests the following list, and asks that cus- tomers of this column make additional suggestions: 1, Any standard anthology makes excellent reading while eating hash. 2. If the hash is served by the Ritz-Carltons, read “Mys- tery De Luxe” by Rufus King. 3. For a spaghetti dinner get Dorothy Parker’s new vol- ume, “Enough Rope.” 4. With the dessert—“Little Pitchers,” by Isa Glenn, 5. James Oneal’s book on American Communism should go well with calves’ brains. 6. For the average one-arm beanery: “I'll Have a Fine Funeral,” by Pierre La Maziere. TO THE NEWS Another Authority on Communism.—Here is Arthur Brisbane in a pungent commentary on Marxian economics: “Even the good Communist who believes that everything should belong to the people and be divided will admit that it is better to have one man of intelligence gather a thousand millions and spend the money intelligently, than to have a million people get it and spend it in small driblets for soda water and ice cream, with nothing to show for it afterwards.” All this as an apology for the Rocke- feller accumulations. The intelligence with which John D. spends his millions is dramatically exhibited by some such incident, from time to time, as the Ludlow massacres, the Western Maryland ‘strike, ete. Business Is Business—An insurance company in Budapest which has been paying an annuity to a retired banker has stopped payments because the gentieman went through a gland operation. It argues that it is a | breach of contract for a customer to prolong his life artificially. ANOTHER LITTLE VAUDEVILLE ACT FOR THE NEW JERSEY CIRCUIT A gentleman with a long (but strictly Nordic) pre-war nose. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, music by Bob Dunn, and eurythmics Nearing, assisted by Gilda Grey. I’m from the National Security League, Words by by Scott Shhh! Shhh! My nose is long for smelling intrigue, Sniff! Sniff! I keep sniffing here and keep sniffing there, I can sniff a plot in the very air, I can tell a red by the cut of his hair, * Shhh! Shhh! I believe in the U. S. Constitution, Ray! Ray! / The foe am I of all that’s Roosian, Booh! Booh! Cal Coolidge is my God on earth, The less he thinks, the more }e’s worth, His thoughts are slim, and so’s his mirth, Ray! Ray! A thinking man’s a dangerous thing, Grr! Grrr! He's sure to belong to the Red left wing, Ssss! Ssss! ; Workers are dangerous, scientists too, Beware of the alien, the nigger, the Jew, The Security League alone is true, Grr! Grrr! A nation of morons is what we need, Dumb! Dumb! A moron obeys when he’s told to heed, ’Tention! ’Tention! In Wall Street wars he totes a gun, ‘ He never argues with any one, The moron’s the real Americun, Dumb! Dumb! I’m from the National Security League, Shhh! Shhh! My nose is long for smelling intrigue, Sniff! Sniff! I keep sniffing here and keep sniffing there, I can sniff a plot in the very air, I can tell a red by the cut of his hair, Shhh! Shhh! —ALKALI AL. Sex Appeal in Advertising—Over a theatrical ad in the Washington Fost announcing a program which includes Mischa Elman, Giovanni Mar- tinelli, Will Hays and John Barrymore, appears the general descriptive head- line: DON JUAN HAD “IT”! Since 1921 the Roumanian courts have twice tried and sentenced to death one Christian Georgievitch Rakovsky, Soviet diplomat, and are now a third indictment. As Rakovsky has been happily ab- sent from these trying scenes we wonder just what form of aberra- tion this activity indicates. Can it be called Juro-mania? tk, Pav Events in and about Shanghai the fundamental- should bolster up ist’s belief in the bible story of the complete stoppage of a Sun in its course. + ¢ ‘ * * the sculpture of art is like saying egg,” claims Mar- * “To say that Brancusi is not an egg is not an An Authority on Destiny.—For some refreshi: antidote to the hypocritical piffle coming out of cel Duchamp, painter of the Nude Descending. Staircase picture. We wonder if Duchamp ever tried a breakfast in Harlem. * * * Senators who believe that Sam Insull has shown contempt for them should reconsider. Pi over $172,000 for a sample is not our idea of showing contempt for any line of goods. - * * * Policemen in New York do lead the life of Riley. They raid the sex plays which they are compelled to watch till after they get knocked out of their seats with a fast one. And then this job of guarding Gigli / fi } So pau dei ut silo —RALPH WINSTEAD. } honesty, and a an ‘ashington, turn to “Liberty” magazine. It makes no bones about American imperialism. It makes no apologies. It stands four-square on the inalienable right to rob our In an editorial it recalls the glorious American conquests in < past, concluding: “Our conduct was possibly vicious and depraved, morally—but it was progress, Destiny was at work be- hind the selfishness of immoral politicians. Destiny is still busy, and seventy-five years from now the inhabitants of Nicaragua, al. will be singing the Star-Spangled Banner and that anyone would return to the old governments.” The Mexico, at the idea — hopes of — se liberals, the lukewarm sentimentalities of social-democrats, the self-. delusions of progressives—how futile and funny they are when faced with the reality. i A Sentimental. Trifle-—Mrs. Irving Berlin lost a platinum wrist watch set with pearls and diamonds, valued at $18,500. The Times dispatch Palm Beach recording the loss explains why she is worried about this trifle. The watch was given to her by her husband soon after their elopement, and therefore “was highly prized by her for sentimental reasons.”