The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1927, Page 6

? Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU! AY, MARCH 24, 1927 J. LOUIS SDAHL, HILE successful 's enthusiasm mounts over the of the, Chinese People’s Armies, from Hankow to the Sea, in this case the Pacific Oeean, working class vigilance regarding the situation in Mex- ico must not be relaxed. Ame Sinister motives are attributed to the United States government in ihe announcement of Secretary of State Kellogg that the so-called smuggling treaty with Mexico has been terminated. Senator Norris (rep., Neb.) flatly declares his inter- pretation of this hostile act against Mexico to mean: “It seems to me that it simply means we are going to permit the shipping of arms and ammunition into Mex- ico without any restriction. “Tt is notice to all who want to overthrow the govern- ment of Mexico that the United States will put nothing in their way. | “THE BARS HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN TO DE- STROY THAT GOVERNMENT. IT MEANS REVOLU- | TION IN MEXICO.” That is plain speaking for a republican senator. Amer- ican workers and farmers may well take warning. ‘ * * This is merely new testimony showing the relentless | Manner in which the United States proceeds to carry out | i its imperialist policies. It is part of the attack on Mex-| ieo’s 1917 constitution that seeks to preserve the na- tion’s natural resources, especially of oil, land and min- erals for the people, There is no doubt about the state department’s intentions. It does not even try to hide its | motives in the usual diplomatic subterfuges. | * * * | Mark Sullivan, veteran of the capitalist press Brass Jf Checkers, in his special dispatch to the New York Herald-Tribune, openly states that: “As soon as the state department announced it would | terminate the smuggling treaty with Mexico the pre-| vailing interpretation in Washington was that this meant a step toward the raising of the embargo on shipments of arms from the United States into Mexico. Since this was the immediate and prevailing interpre- tation in Washington circles distant from the govern- ment itself, and since this is the most sensational of the possible interpretations, one may infer it is the in- terpretation that will appear generally in the headlines thruout the country.” This is certainly the interpretation that the dollar diplomats and their masters would like the press to put | on this new move that is directed not only against Mex- ico, but against all Latin-America. The move against | Nicaragua developed the fact that the American masses | were in no mood for war. The imperialists feel, how- | ever, that if the tom toms of slaughter are beaten loud enough and long enough, the people may answer to the eall of wholesale murder in the interests of profit. * * * There is no question that every new effort to stir| up counter-revolution in Mexico has been smiled on by the Wal! Street money crowd. The possibilities of new | uprisings against the present Mexican government have been thoroly reviewed and the possibilities glowingly painted in the bankers’ press. It is taken for granted that the slightest uprising, or even an imaginary uprising, may prove sufficient as a basis for new interventions in Mexico “for the protec- tion of American lives and property.” * * * That is the “easiest way,” the path that “dollar diplo- | macy pursued and is still pursuing in Nicaragua and} in China.” ! | * * * | The conflict in the road ahead is clear. It does not | need the conference of the various organizations work- ing with the Committee on Peace with Latin-America/{ to declare that “the termination of the treaty at the instance of the United States would be an unfriendly act toward the government of Mexico, would constitute | an unjustified use of pressure in forcing concessions from the Calles government in the dispute over the oil and land laws, and WOULD LEAD TO ENLARGED ACTIVITIES BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS (which means counter-revolutionists) IN MEXICO. | An Associated Press dispatch from Mexico City even | fecalls that President Calles himself, in receiving Hubert C. Herring and a “Good Will Mission” of Ameri- | eans early this year, declared that lifting of the arms | embargo immediately would precipitate revolution against his government by making it possible for rebels to obtain arms from the United States. we * There may be some significance in the fact that R. B, Creager, republican national committeeman from Texas, is expected to urge President Coolidge and Secre- tary of State Kellogg to withhold pressure pending a! decision of the Mexican supreme court on the land laws. No doubt, fully knowing that the right kind of pres- sure dictates the decisions of the United States supreme court, the Wall Street imperialists and their agents feel | that there is some way to get the “correct decision” | from a Mexican supreme court. | The threat of inspired uprisings, financed and fur- | nished with arms by agencies this side of the Rio| Grande, is no doubt looked upon, in Wall Street, and | in Washington as well, as a powerful weapon to make the Calles government and its courts bend to the im- perialist will. ante) * Labor in the United States, therefore, has the dou- ble task: (1) Of keeping the grip of Wall Street’s mili- tary machine off the throats of the Mexican people, and | (2) demanding tha the Mexican government, typified | by.the rule of Calles today, do not surrender to the | exploiters of the United States, | There are indications that the Cailes government may | seek an opportune moment to make peace with the | United States. Such a peace can only be at the expense of the Mex- | ican people, whose interests parallel those of the work- | ers and farmers of this country. The Chinese people fight valiantly against both na- | tive and foreign oppressors. The Mexican people must do the same. In this they require the fullest aid and co-operation of the workers in the homeland of the op- pressors—the United States of America, * * - The termination of the smuggling treaty with Mex-| ieo, which is the phophecy of new interventions against | the Mexican masses, should be the signal to all Ameri- | can workers for new struggles. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day Mrs. Kathleen Rochelle. The first woman member of the Wyoming legislature in 12 years is Mrs. Kathleen Rochelle. She is an advocate of equal suf- frage and is the mother of six— four sons and two daurhters. Boston Women to Fight For Child Labor Laws; Celebrate Woman’s Day BOSTON, March 28.—For the first time in the history of Boston women of various nationalities and races | have gathered together for the cele- bration of Woman’s Day. Before the International Woman’s Day celebra- bration at Paine Memorial Hall work- ing women of Boston celebrated Woman’s Day in national groups. At the Paine Memorial Hall meet- ing women of all races and nationali- ties stood shoulder to shoulder and voiced their determination to fight their common battles together. The fight against child labor and for the government maintenance of working women before and after childbirth, the organization of work- ing class women and agitation for better housing and sanitation were among the campaigns which the women decided to wage. A resolution expressing the grief of Boston women at the death of || Charles E, Ruthenberg was also unanimously adopted. Hoffman were other features of the meeting. Women Sparing No Efforts to Make Ball This Saturday Success The working class women have spared no efforts to make their con- cert and ball a success. The time of the ball is Saturday evening, March 26. The place is the Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., near 3rd Ave, Well known artists will participate. The Ukrainian Chorus in national cos- tume will sing. A good union band will play. The young folks will dance until early in the morning. Refreshments are being prepared at reasonable prices by the women of the United Council of Workingclass Housewives. Tickets are only 50c. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Jeff Ashworth, buried alive for thirteen hours in a seventy-foot well under tons of stones and debris, in Chatham County, North Carolina, near Fuquay Springs, has recovered. In cleaning the well, it caved in. Ash- | worth was jammed into an arch. He never lost con- sciousness while his rescuers worked. Top photo shows |the rocks which were lifted out of the caved-in well one | by one by means of the windlass at the right. picture shows the entrance to the well. Ashworth after the rescue. Voiceless Man Uses Radio Lower Insert shows Speeches by|:\ Bertha Lieb, G. S. Shklar and Eva}! H ie | A. C. Mahon, left voiceless by an operation in which ‘his entire larynx was removed, is shown “talking” over the radio at an Atlanta, Ga., broadcasting ‘station by means of a newly perfected device, an “artificial throat.” SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters from its readers stating their views on the issues con- fronting the labor. movement. It is our hope to de- ‘| velop a “Letter Box” department that will be of wide interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family. Send in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” The DAILY WORKER, 88 First street, New York City. y ‘ x | Ask Me Another! Haiti? \| ( ; \|of the New Leader; (2) speaker of | fat was in the fire now. |My Country “Tis of Thee By NAT KAPLAN. | How’ many companies of marines are necessary to protect one Ameri- can’in China? In Nicaragua? In} @ * | What country in what state holds| the record for lynching Negroes? Cent ae cities in Scotland and England. lord than mere rent laws.. Ed.) * * * By DONALD McKILLOP What are the Bronx? * * * Yonkers? | Besides the Official Spokesman,| with whom does Mr. Coolidge play| solitaire? | Pan wa) How many miles (give within five) |was who from what scene of action! {when he said: “It is cheaper to re-| place a soldier than a machine-gun”? | I * * * | | Where was who when what went | jout? | eel, Ae What humorists are: (1) editor | {the House of Representatives; (3) | \editor of the Saturday Evening Post; | | (4) president of the American Fed-| eration of Labor? | ne ee Ain’t It The Truth? It’s getting so that you're a social | | flop if you haven’t been called upon to sign a yeast or cigarette testi-| monial. | * * * American self-sacrificing _politic- ians are getting tough breaks. If| they don’t spend enough they’re not elected, and if they spend too much they’re investigated. Cee One’s faith in dear old Massachu- setts, especially the Bay State’s brand of tailoring, is renewed by the| fact that Mr. Coolidge has not torn the center seam of his trousers for all of his straddling. * * » Will Roger’s experiences in Russia | while viewing the practice of bathing in birthday garb didn’t bring a blush to the cheeks of the esteemed diplo- mat. He used to be with the “Fol- lies.” Isn’t it about time for the papers to report that Mussolini is again dan- gerously ill? * . * Professor Otto Kahn discovers that jazz is the soul of American life. | Roger Wolfe Kahn has the wealthiest press agent in the world. But all that John D. has to do to land on} the front-page is to give one lone! dime to an admirer. | * * * 1 One sound rap by John Roach Straton and a book goes into its sec- ond edition, ° * It looks as though Borah has been reading The DAILY WORKER’S! editorials, . * * What are the soul-savers doing? One more student suicide and not a single New York sermon. * * * Perhaps the gent who tlaimed that the tabloids cause crime is used to mixing cause and effect. * * * Love And Marriage In Moronia. Moronia’s “comic” magazines, “art student’s” monthlies, the movies, the stage, the newspapers, all bear wit- ness to the esteem in which bourgeois | and high-hat love and marriage are | held. Mage I Indeed, one is almost forced to be- lieve that it is a wise Moronian child who knows its own father. * * * As for the movies—a “drammer” will flicker into still-born being un- less it is impregnated with at least! one suggestion of illicit love. * * On the vaudeville or musical com- edy stage, the bare mention of the apocalyptic word “ice-man” will bring down the laughter of the house, in- cluding that of every Moronian hus- | band and his good frau, neither of | whom would condone the use of the word “bastard” in their homes. * * * The honeymoon tales told before and after a wedding would bring a blush to the face of the young bride were it not for the fact that she had heard the same genis several years before. re ent And the modern, go-getting eccle- siastic is not above bestowing a mod- est grin to greet the marriage-bed ig of every wedding party’s humor- ist. For some reason or other, my copy is delayed in the mail, probably because some one is interested and reads it. More power to him or them. Worker Can Easily Starve. Today I am sending in to you a clipping. from our estimable San Francisco “Examiner,” telling very tersely about how a worker can very easily starve. (He encloses a news- paper story of the starvation of a 25-year old Mexican laborer who died in Oakland hospital.) For general information, I wish to state here that altho a strong union city, San Francisco has now today over 35,000 unemployed and no relief in sight. The same facts are for all of tthe whole Pacific Coast. “Louse” Angeles is open shop and the worst, Your correspondents there can give you the facts, Since it is The trouble all arose over a tech- nical blunder of the factors (land- lords’ agents). They issued the usual notices, demanding an increase of rent, without, apparently, conforming to the letter of the law. A certain individual in Glasgow named McBride, refused to pay the demands, pointing out that the claim was illegal. He seemed to know what he was talking about, and the news spread like wildfire that the factors had blundered. McBride versus the factors was made a test case before the Sheriff’s Court. The sheriff de- cided in favor of the tenants. The Demand Increase. When the workers went to pay the usual rent, the factors would not take it without the increase, so nothing | loathe, the workers decided to sit rent free, pending developments. But the factors were not beaten yet. They took the matter to the high court and lost again. There was still the House of Lords, and there they went. alas! Days have changed since the lords were absolutely dependable. The fight might have been won*had the proper lords been chosen to sit on the case, but, unfortunately, Lord Hal- |dane, a member of the Labor Party, and two others sympathetic to labor voted against the two for the factors’ association, The workers were jubilant, but they reckoned without their masters. They forgot that the rat when cornered will fight, and not be particular how. House of Commons To Rescue. At this point, the House of Com- mons came to the rescue, and then, any workers that still believed in the delusion that the right could be won by constitutional methods, had the veil lifted from their eyes. For that body of gentlemen set at naught the |decision of the highest tribunal of the land by passing a bill legalizing the illegal action of the factors. It was decided the factors had to get their pound of flesh. Man proposes but cir- cumstance disposes. By this time, the workers had fallen behind in rent But | The Rent Strike on the Clyde | (Donald McKillop, a student at the Labor Journalism Class |of the Workers School tells of the great rent strike of the British Isles that began in Glasgow in 1923 and spread rapidly to other Rent strikes like these are more powerful blows at the land- about a year or more, and some of them, far from being able to pay back rent or increase, couldn’t pay any at all. Here is where the tragedy and the fun comes in. The housewives de- cided among themselves that anybody who came to put poor people out of | house and home because they couldn’t |pay rent would get a run for their money. The women decided that on | the appearance of the sheriff’s officer with his men, a bell should be rung to {summon the district to the scene of action. The children were not going to be left out of the fun, and always seemed to have plenty of ‘mud or |stones handy for the occasion, The |ejectors found that it is better to face the devils in hell than a crowd of | working women raised to a pitch of | fury, Scalding The Ejectors. If the sheriff’s officer and his men |managed to survive the barrage of | stones set up by the kids, and reach the entrance to the building, they | there got scalded with buckets of boil- ing water from the windows above. Even if they achieved their object, it turned out to be a case of love’s labor lost, for as soon as they departed amid the jeers of the children, who followed them far enough, the neigh- bors simply. forced the door of the house, put back the few scraps of furniture, and reinstalled the poor worker and his family. Things reached an awful pitch, labor representatives raised hell in town and parish council, refusing to let business proceed until the powers- that-be would decide to pay the rents of the more poverty stricken workers, which they eventually did. Tenants Organize. The factors’ association won a par- tial victory through the unconstitu- tional action of the government, but at what a price. It cost them thou- sands of pounds, and they will be a little more careful in future about try- ing monkey tricks with workmen who know the rent act as well as they. The tenants’ association received an influx of members nothing else could have brought, and now almost every worker’s wife has a card. Textile Union Breaks Passaic Employers’ Association By ROBERT DUNN (Federated Press). (The open shop Industrial Council of Passaic Wool Manufacturers—the local employers’ association—has disbanded. The death of this union-fight- ing organization is of such significance to the labor movement that the Fed- erated Press asked Robert Dunn to write the post-mortem. Dunn studied the spy and blacklist system. in Passaic while preparing material for “The Labor Spy.”—Ed.) * * * HE dissolution of the Industrial Council of Passaic Wool Manufac- turers and the closing of its employ- ment and blacklisting bureau may be called one of the important’ achieve- ments of the Passaic textile strike just ended. No local employers’ association in the textile industry has a blacker rec- ord of anti-union activity. It was not only a centralized blacklisting burean but its seeretary J. Frank Andres, ex- N. Y. newspaper man, was for many years the leading lobbyist in Jersey against bills introduced by organized labor and the National Consumers League to abolish night work for women. Andres always succeeded in killing the measure, until two years ago when it was passed. (Court ac- tion instituted by the Wool Council blocked enforcement of the law.) Andres’ favorite tactic when fighting |the bills was to hire several mill women to appear before legislative committees in . Trenton to testify against the law. They would all swear they loved to work nights and con- sidered it highly beneficial. EN Alice Barrows, specialist on adult education for the U. S. Bureau of Education, investigated that subject in Passaic in 1920, she called at the office of the then exist- ing local of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America. She spoke with Andrew Pluhar, head of the union, and the writer, and inquired into the educational classes then being con- ducted by the union. This innocent visit of Miss Barrows’ was reported to the Wool Council’by an undercover man, Sam Basevitch, a Russian Jew, who happened to be in the office when Miss Barrows called. Basevitch pre- OUR READERS my firm belief that education is the medicine the worker needs why not give us some about money-licking churches and their blue laws, evolu- tion-banning, etc. Tell the workers, your readers, just what these mean to him. Give fact publicity and keep up your broadside every day. Meet lies with truth, Take up censors, churches, and stop yelling about red this, that, and red Russia, Talk, write, shout, yell— United States. Use ink and powerful words, photos of strike locations, conditions, living quarters of work- ers, where they work, how, number of hours, pay received, ete., and yell your editorial head off that the work- er—you, me, everybody, must organ- ize and stick together to get results. And keep at it!—E. J, A., San Fran-| cisco, f tended to be a radical, a member of the Bund in his home country. He frequently assisted union organizers to distribute circulars. However, he was not a textile worker and was sus- pected by some of the union leaders. Last year the writer happened to find his name on a long list of local spies furnished by a certain detective agency. Opposite his name were the initials P. W. C., meaning Passaic Wool Council. A dozen others were similiarly marked. ‘SING Basevitch’s exaggerated re- port Andres attempted to discred- it Miss Barrows with the local school authorities, who, however, refused to be frightened. Miss Barrows subse- quently turned on the Wool Council and exposed its undercover system in the Passaic papers. Andres in turn tried to get her ousted from her fed- eral post. Powerful influence was | brought to bear through Washington |politicians but P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner Education, stood by his expert, Andres also spied on Agnes De Lima of the National Consumers League who reported on “Night Working Mothers in Passaic in 1921. He directed his chief fire, however, against the Amalgamated. In this connection he issued mimeographed sheets of lies and half-truths concern- ing the union and its officials includ- ing A. J. Muste, now Dean of Brook- wood and Cedric Long, now secretary of the Co-operative League of Amer- ica. The bulletins, distributed at the mill gates, appeared in 4 languages and were signed “Workers’ Intelli- gence Committee,” a sort of paper dual union operated from the office of the Council. Cone of instructions to spies fell into the hands of the union. They revealed how workers were turned in- to stool-pigeons by threats of dis- charge or by special rewards. The instructions told undercover men {fo watch closely what each mill wo said, what meetings he attended,/and all his affiliations. Dezne the strike last year # com- plete story of the card cafalogue and blacklist system was mad@ public by one John Sherman of Ga: had served as clerk and int for 7 years in the office of cil. Sherman, under oath, described the employment card system used in the mills. No worker who was even suspected of “agitation” or who had received the “can him” code-number on his quit card could secure a job in any of the Passaic mills. Mr. Sherman was among the Coun- cil agents who helped Andres spy of Justine Wise, daughter of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, when she took a job in one of the Passaic mills in 1924, During the recent strike the Wool Council acted as scab importer, —————