The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER (orcial CALL FOR THE CONVENTION OF| 1 $30,000,000, It is needless to say| that it nearer $5,000,000 than $30,- | 000,000, | What then was the reason for the Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday WORKE M N T | almost unintelligble stupidities of ica 85 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Phone, Orchard 1680 I 2 PA 1; LY 10 melee in oe Sey a : = | eing uninformed about matters | KLER SUBSCRIPTION RATES 2 RDI TPRGELE | there and depending upon such au-/ AS the Season Wanes ___HUGH BUC — By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Com- ||thorities as Morgan, little better ad-! Another Comedy Here! aes — | vised and imperialistic in outlook and attitude, Kellogg found himself in- “He Loved the Ladies,” a comedy volved in a mistake and rather than| by Herbert Hall ‘Winslow, has just admit it and lay himself and Coolidge: onened at the Frolic Whestie (atop open to derision undertook to main-| the New Amsterdam Theatre). Tho 26.60 per year $8.50 six months munist) Party, with approval of the Executive Committee of $9.00 three months the Communist International, calls a convention of our Party to convene on Monday, July 10, 1927. Details concerning technical arrangements, basis of representation, etc., will 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.60 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 hen. Riecen siamese owe BERT MILLER....... . business Manager <derneme oe Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. | >. Get American Ships Qut of Chinese Waters! Screeching head!ines in the reptile press declare that three vessels, flying American flags, two warships and one merchant- man, were fired upon by soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking. The yarn goes that the firing started from Nanking and was fol- lowed by volleys from Pukow, across the Yangtze river, adding that the warships “replied with machine gun and rifle fire until the Chinese were silenced.” Two damning points stand out in this story. Firstly, it is a confession that again American warships have indulged in a mas- sacre of Chinese. How many were murdered is not known, and it is questionable if the number will ever be known. Secondly, the motive for this new “incident,” is plain to any- one who understands the elemental facts of the conflict raging in| China. We can say without fear of successful contradiction that if the firing started from the shore it was at the behest of the British agents who are ged with carrying out the policy of the Baldwin-Chamberlain tory government. Deeply chagrined at its forced diplomatic retreat because the United States refused to join in a second note to China, infuriated because its conspiracy tor joint intervention to regain its territory on the Yangtze was blocked by the rival power of American imperialism, Britain now tries to achieve intervention by provoking attacks upon both Brit- ish and American ships on the Yangtze. The fact that Chiang Kai-shek was unable, even with the backing of the imperialist powers, to consolidate anything resem- biing a government, doesn’t mean that he will not be used by im- perialism. if he cannot succeed in establishing a government, he can still be used for some other vile purpose and the unscrupulous agents of British imperialism have found another role for him. He is now playing the part of a provocateur. The fact that Nan- king forces fire upon gunboats in the Yangtze proves conclusively that Chiang Kai-shek openly or secretly ordered it. Now it is pos- sible for Austin Chamberlain to state before parliament that the ore man whom he hoped would be able to bring “order out of chaos,” has failed and that a more aggressive policy must be pur- sued. The assault also will serve as an excuse for those American agents in China who have been doing the dirty work of British imperialism to appeal for a reversal of the décision against more) aggressive joint intervention. It is also quite probable that these | identical American agents of the MacMurray calibre shared in the! British conspiracy to incite Chiang Kai-shek to fire upon foreign} ships in an effort to provoke an open war against China, in place} of the hypocritical subterranean war that is now being carried on in an effort to throttle the nationalist revolution. If there are people so credulous as to doubt that this govern-| ment or the ruling class of Britain would detiberately hire Chiang) Kai-shek, or any other gunman of imperialism, to fire upon their| own ships and risk the lives of their own men, they should recall | the lessons of history. They should realize that if the United| States capitalist government did not scruple, nearly thirty years| ago, to send to the bottom of Havana Harbor the battleship, | Maine, with its human cargo, and blame it on the Spaniards in order to provoke a war in the interest of the Havemeyer sugar trust and the American tobacco company, the present day impe- rialists, with still more at stake, are capable of even more in- famous crimes. } What do the capitalist governments of the world care about shortly be transmitted to the units. The convention, already overdue, has become especially urgent in view of the unprecedented offensive of American imperialism in Central and South America and China; in view of the growing danger of world war; and in view of the of- fensive against the trade unions begun thru the attack upon the vanguard of thé labor movement as represented by the left wing and the Party. The problems created by this situation must be properly analyzed by our Party and the entire membership mobilized successfully to meet the tasks that they impose. The Polcom will prepare theses on the above questions and other tasks before the Party and submit them to the membership for discussion. The Party must not slacken its work during the discussion period but must rather use the discussion period to intensify its work in meeting the task before it and in mobilizing the entire Party. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. COOLIDGE-KELLOGG POLICY IN NICARAGUA MAKES SHAMELESS RECORD OF UNPRINCIPLED OUTRAGES (By A Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 15.—The in- cidents surrounding and leading up to the latest developments in the Coolidge-Kellogg policy in Nicaragua are but one more item in the long list of lies, stupidities and brutalities that has featured the course of their conduct of affairs in that haples and helpless country. Destroyed Government. | gotten away with—is unbelievable. These men have time and again said one thing and done exactly the op- posite. Kellogg for a week denied that there was a censorship oz the wires in Nicaragua and then fina!'y admitted it, explaining that he “knew nothing of the matter.” Which may have been true; it is un-| believable how little’ he actually | knows of what is going on. This characteristic applies to the entire | tain his position, Blamed “Mexico. | In doing so he was compelled to find someone to lay the blame on. Mexico was convenient and useable. The fact that the present Mexican government under Calles inclines | toward the Left was added reason to Kellogg for embroiling it in the con- | troversy. Also, Mexico was very |much against Kellogg’s choice for | president of Nicaragua, rightfully |holding that he was illegally chosen land was illegally holding office | Most other Latin-American Republi \likewise dissented from Kellog; choice, but that didn’t bother “Ne: ous Nelly,” or if it did he didn’t ¢ | it swerve him from his course. Desire More Territory. To have admitted their mistake was conceived by Coolidge and Kel- logg as giving away the whole show. Once the myth of the “strong silent ;man” in the White House is tam- |pered with, the whole structure of the Administration will topple. So, the merry game of lies, equivocal and sophistical statements, stupidities, blunders and brutalities went on. To what lengths it might have gone is still uncertain. This much is unquestionablethat there is a very among certain powerful financial and political leaders that the United States should extend its borders to the Panama canal. Harding had the | dream, and while it is too much to say that Coolidge Has any dreams, other than continuing himself in of- fice, there are those who control his | political destiny who have such ideas. | strong conviction | | bearing so frivolous a title it really takes itself very seriously. It is a | sermon disguised as a comedy and re- | minds one of the efforts to make re- | ligion and the church palatable to a | Sophisticated people. It warns the women of Babbitry not | to indulge in the dangerous pastime |of writing love letters, that sin is |bound to be found out and it strives |to show that the sins of the parent’s jare visited upon their children. It ever strains to call for that subtle emotion | known as pathos, in the portrayal of the, antics of Aubrey, the illigitimate daughter brot up in the slums of Chi- cago, trying to make an impression on the snobs of Waynesville. | The story is that of a wealthy | batchelor, Hamilton Wayne, who was the Don Juan of the small town of | Waynesburg. He is a pillar of so- | ciety, respected and admired. After jhis death it is revealed that all the | women of his circle had at some time hata love affair with him. There is |the incriminating evidence of love jletters written by these women and | thei, lives become one mad pursuit to get those letters before they are read by their husbands. Aubrey, the snubbed outcast of Babbitry, saves them by burning the letters. With the exception of Louise Car- ter, in the role of Margaret Jellicoe, devoted doormat housekeeper to Mr. Wayne and mother of his illigitimate | daughter, the cast is very poor—N. M. The Palace program of the week State Department. Manufacturers of Lies. Then both Kellogg and Coolidge dragged out a “Red” scare. Com- munists were afoot and plotting throughout Central America. When this blew up, weeks were spent in Time and again the president and his secretary of state have denied or given assurances of a certain course only to have it turn out, within the next few days at the most, to be exactly the opposite. First, they vio- lated every shred of decency by Kellogg, of course, would merely be includes: Elsie Janis, William Faver- | puppet in their hands. He is|sham and Co. in “The Sponger,” a totally and completely lost in the!comedy by Edwin Burke; Rrisie Fri maze of international affairs and|ganza; Jay C. Flippen; Three Giers- events, Newspapermen who attend | dorf Sisters; Dave Apollon and Co., his press conference can relate num-| and the Manila Orchestra; Ray Hul- erous instances where he in answer- | — | Plays the role of the hero in “The Ladder,” J. Frank Davis’ play of re- |incarnation now in its seventh month |at the Waldorf Theatre. ing; Reck and Rector, and the Five ;De Cardos. Albee’s Theatre in Brooklyn has’ a bill headed by Will Fyffe; Aileen Stanley; Gracella and Theodore; Vox and Walters; Shaw and Lee; Nash & O’Donnell and Ora. Clare Eames will direct a play for the Civic Repertory Company next season, “Invitation au Voyage,” by Jean Jacques Bernard.- She will not act in it however. Margaurita Sylva, the prima donna, will be co-starred with Louise Hunter in “Golden Dawn,” the operetta with which Arthur Hammerstein will open his new Hammerstein’s Temple of Music next fall. ‘ Eugene Walter whose playwright- ing activity has been nil for several years, has a new drama, called “Dif- ferent Women,” which will be pre- sented in Chicago next month with Frank Keenan in the leading role. backing Diaz, who was responsible for the overthrow of the legally elected government, and obtaining his election to the presidency. Then they |sent down American marines to keep him in office. Finally, they sold him several hundred thousand dollars worth of government arms with which to crush the ever mounting revolt. And even this expedient fail- ing, Coolidge sent down a special emissary, Colonel Henry L. Stim- son, Secretary of War in Taft's cabinet, to deliver an ultimatur: to the rebellious Liberals. Dumb State Department. These events reach through a period of some seven months—seven months of operations by and Kellogg that are staggering in the enormity of the brutalities per- petrated and the almost complete in- difference of the general public. The list of literal lies, bunk, blunders and stupidities that Coolidge and Kellogg have gotten away with—absolutely Coolidge } finding “reasons” for their opera- tions. One after another they re- leased such alibis as, “the protection of American lives,” “protection of property,” “protection of ‘canal rights,” “defense of the Panama Canal.” All were let loose and all used, severally or singly from time to time. All the while marines and more marines were being dispatched until there were some twenty-five mar- ines in Nicaragua for every Ameri- can cltizen. Just how much Ameri- can capital is invested in Nicaragua | even the State Department does not | know. Stokely Morgan, chief of the | Latin-American division of the State | Department, an authority who has never been down there, when ques- tioned about American capital in} Nicaragua told the senate making | the inquiry that he did not know.| He added that to the best knowledge of the State Department it was somewhere between $5,000,000 and ing questions concerning certain in- ternational matters displayed the grossest kind of ignorance. The Stimson Threat. When the story came out of how hostilities in Nicaragua, by threaten- ing the Liberals with the use of American marines _ three incidents took place in Washington which were perfect examples of how Coolidge and Kellogg do things. The first was a denial by the two that a was a_ statement by Coolidge, through his alter ego, thé White House Spokesman, that if peace was | established by Stimson that most of the marines would be withdrawn and | the third, a distinctly characteristic | Kellogg action, was his confidentially | infor:..ing the reporters that Stimson | had made the threat of using mar-| ines because General Moncado, com- mander of the Liberal forces, had) asked him to include such a warning, in the terms he made them, Stimson was forcing a cessation of; threat had been made; the second} IN | BS. €QOLON Y BROADWAY | toss’ THEATRE GUILD ACTING CO, MR. PIM PASSES BY GARRICK 65 W. 35th. : Mts. 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After first denying that any threat had been made, Kellogg in the slinking | More Rotten Lies. { The following letter has just been | imitation by every unit in the party, received from Comrade Leon Litwin, | First of all a few comrades borrowed DAILY WORKER Agent of Section|this money from certain sources and a few hundred or a few thousand men and boys, human cannon Pear in the guise of international burglars before the British} way that has so marked his publie) 2. then they pledged themselves to re- fodder, if they can gain advantages over their rivals and make secure the capital they have invested in foreign countries? So amazingly rapid is the development of conflicting interests in China, so ominously hang the clouds of another world war, that every event, every report from that war-torn territory heralds in letters of fire the day when the last shred of diplomatic intrigue | will be swept away by a whiff of powder afd the grim and ghastly | reality of rie world war will demand of the working class the sacrifice of its all in order that the imperialist bandits may, with oceans of blood, again endeavor to tip the scales to decide who} shall exploit the world. | Against these monstrous provocations, this prelude to whole-| sale death, the working class must prepare to hurl its power. We must insistently fight against the war in China. Demand that the United States government get its gunboats, its merchantmen, its soldiers and marines out of China and keep them out. British Imperialism Acts in Desperation. . “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,” is an- cient saying which applies with crushing force to the present imperialist government of Great Britain. : No madder enterprise was*ever launched by frenzied ruling| class than the raid onthe offices of the Soviet Union Trade! Mission in London under auspices of the British foreign office. _ A political act of the most far reaching importance, the raid, on “Arcos” has been staged with all the dramatic trappings avail-| able in order to create an atmosphere of mystery and hostility. The excuse given is that a document. or documents are missing from the foreign office and the enterprising Sir William Joynson- Hicks, whom the Sablin exposure showed to be working closely with ezarist refugees, thinks they may be in the offices of the Soviet Union Trade Mission. ‘ : This frantic hunt for non-existent documents on which to base charges of “a Communist plot” began with the raid on the} Soviet Union embassy in Peking, continued with the siege of the | Soviet Union headquarters in Shanghai and now reaches London. It is a desperate move by a desperate tory government confronted | with a solid front of the working class at h and in its colonies and spheres of influence. | The first target of the raid of course is the Soviet Union. The second is the British labor movement and the third is the Chinese liberation movement. The raid has been timed to coincide with the attempt of the tory government to enact the bill for the suppression of the trade unions and is an effort to divert attention from this colossal plot | against the British working class. All signs point to the fact that the raid is part of the preparation for a general election which 4 5 oe ea i oma ‘masses. An agreement for a credit of $50,000,000 for the Soviet | Union, had just been reached with the Midland bank. The carry- ‘ing out of this agreement would have alleviated unemployment to some extent. In addition to this the peaceful attitude of the | Soviet Union in the face of continued imperialist provocations’ has aroused world wide sympathy and support among the masses. Great Britain has beer exposed jointly with American impe- rialism as the enemy of the Chinese liberation movement and this, coupled with the drive on the British working class, has tended to isolate the tory government. Its raid 6n the Soviet Union Trade Mission brands it as an international outlaw jeopardizing the lives of millions with a threat of war to preserve its tyranny intact. British imperialist government will not be able to repeat the forged Zinoviev letter incident. Its purposes are by now too well defined before the eyes of the masses in its offensive against them while it spends huge sums to crush the liberation movement in China. The raid on “Arcos” will cement the bond between the Soviet Union, the British working class and the colonial peoples. The recklessness of British imperialism makes doubly nec- essary the united front of the working class in defense of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union. The “Dynamite Plot” Against Fuller. No one with brain-power slightly above that of a gnat will | believe that the package of alleged dynamite addressed to the gov- ernor of the state of Massachusetts, accompanied by a threat that more of it would be used in case Saceo and Vanzetti are executed, was sent by anyone other than some of the culprits who are try- ing to prevent an investigation in order to cover up their own crimes in connection with the frame-up against these two victims of class justice. cigs Such stunts are too crude to be effective, The creatures who are now trying, by concocting new perjury, to avert an investiga- tion into their own acts hope to enrage Fuller by crudely designed threats of dire disaster so that he will refuse to intervene in the case. No sane revolutionist ever resorts to such methods, despite the fiction to the contrary so carefully manufactured by the hack writers for patriotic societies. It is not by individual terror, or the stupid propaganda of the deed, that these two workers will be rescued from the shadow of death and restored to the labor movement, but by the mass pressure of the millions of workérs who are convinced that the whole case is one of the most monstrous conspiracies against labor in the history of the country, and every revolutionist knows it, |career, tried to get the newspaper- {men to put out the story that the | Liberals were anxious to quit fight- ing and wanted an appearance of foree and coercion before laying their arms. Moncado has been fight- ing Diaz and his marine supported }gang of crooks and traitors for fifteen years. For him to give way in so cowardly a manner is un- believable. As was proved by later developments, when Stimson in re- porting. on his operations frankly declared that he had demanded of the Liberals that they lay down their arms or the United States would disarm them. And that Mr. Stim- son was not talking through his hat, was evidenced by the fact that two days later, Mr. Coolidge, who only the week before has solemnly spok- en of withdrawing marines, and Mr. Kellogg who had glibly observed that it was all a piece of posturing, both ordered in 800 more marines to aid in the foreible disarming of the revolutionists, The fact is that while Coolidge and Kellogg are giving out assuranee of not having imperialistic designs in Central-America that they are pur- suing exactly such an imperialistic policy there and that the Central and Latin-American governments are aware of it. The record of their ac- tivities in Nicaragua, regardless of what they may yodel for home con- sumption, is a record of forcible in- tervention. So ardent a reactionary journal as the New York Times, in ‘a special dispatch from its pet |“trained seal,” Richard V. Oulahan, i said just this only a few days ago. This and much more, to the effect that not only is the present United States government using strong-arm methods in Nicaragua but that it is developing a policy toward Central- American countries that will mean an ever increasing and widening seope of interventionist operations down there, In another three months Nicaragua will be another Haiti, The next thing on record is a wholesale killing of Nicaraguans by brave American marines engaged in “disarming” them. | DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New, York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: I am sending you herewith the sum of two hundred dollars for the De- fense and Sustaining Fund of The pay it in installments. Meanwhile the money has been placed at the im- mediate disposal of our paper. Our comrades feel that at the present time, it would be the most juntenenay thing which could hap- DAILY WORKER. This money was! pen to our-movement, if the patriotic raised through the activity andJ|societies would succeed in their at- energy of the comrades in Units 1F|tempt to suppress The DAILY and 2F, of Subsection 2B. You may}|WORKER. That is why they are be interested to know how this|making this great sacrifice. The money was raised. Many comrades} comrades have further instructed me are needle workers and are being|to challege the other units of the called upon repeatedly for the great-| party, and especially of our section, est sacrifices in connection with their}to do better. Let us. see whether struggle against the reactionary of-|there are other units which can beat ficialdom. The contribution of such] this record. a fine sum of money at this critical time must therefore be looked upon as a notable achievement, worthy of | LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Leo Litwin, Ege DAILY WORKER Agent,.. Section 2. After Effects of Gas, Editor, The DAILY WORKER: before the Southerners, In reading an article in The DAILY| When German airplanes’ came WORKER, Friday April 15-27 (Cur-| over the Allied lines it meant bombs, vent Events) I note General .Fries,|or that they were the eyes of the |U. S. A. in addressing the American | enemy’s artillery, and that the Allied | Chemical Society says “that war gas| trenches were to get hell from Ger- sis not poisonous, does not contain} man guns. germs and leaves no lingering after} In North Russia when those Red effects.” Well if the General told] Army Planes went up (the first time) that to the War Vets, I think he] the boys expected hell again, but when would get one tremendous razzing. How about the “after effects?”|asking, “Why Are You Here?” the Look at our buddies, thousands of | officers (who would rather be back them gassed, horrible human wreeks,|in Paris with wine and’ women) said ‘frail shadows of the men they were.|“how in hell do we know we ain't To write this letter is a waste of | stuck on this iceberg stuff!” time as far as soldiers go. No per-| Well general, when the next war son who has the slightest knowledge | comes I think that after it gets ster- of war-gas would believe the general, | ted, if it is between capitalist nations The most fierce and bloody destruc-|it will be fieree and bloody for a tion is between capitalist armies,| time, then the soldiers will get wise Yankee soldiers did not flinch before | like the Russians did. If it is be- the battering ram of the most|tween capitalist armies on one side has ever known (the Imperial German | other | am firmly convinced that no Army). : capitalist ind sy hi sseati 4 and But they stacked arms and balked fight a whming fight. sk any at fighting the Russian Red Workers’ paella ga Pn on Army. What soldiers could stand up (the front lines at any one time) re- against the stuff the Bolsheviki| main loyal to Nationalism when they soldiers handed out? Also look how|are up against International truths, ‘ the North China Armies erunipled pieces of paper came sailing down | efficient fighting machine the world|and Communist or Red armies on the