The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1927, Page 3

MEXICAN LABOR UNIONS SURE TO ELECT OBREGON Reactionary Generals May Try Insurrection WASHINGTON, June 30, (FP).—| That General Alvaro Obregon, former president of Mexico, will be elected with labor support to succeed Presi- dent Elias Calles is the unofficial prediction of Santiago Iglesias, sec- retary of the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor who has just returned} from Mexico City. The Mexican Federation of Labor (CROM) has taken no action yet on indorsements in the coming national elections, but it is felt that the rec- ord of Obregon while president from 1929 to 1924 as well as his recently announced program against religious dictation and ruthless imperialism will win him labor suffrage again. The Calles-Morones regime was the friendly successor of Obregon, who could haye been reelected in 1924 Order N OW Your bundle of the Special 4th Of July Number of the DAILY WORKER o This Special Number of The DAILY WORKER will be devoted chiefly to Great Brit- ain and its role in the pres- ent world situation. This issue will contain special ar- ticles on the relations of Great Britain and America, England as the Mad Dog of Europe, a study of conditions of the British Working Class. This number will be of great historical importance and will contain a number of yery valuable articles of the most timely significance. It will also contain material to coun- teract the jingoistic propa- ganda which usually accom- panies the July 4th Celebra- tion. Your unit cannot afford to miss this opportunity to arrange a special distribution of The DAILY WORKER and increase its circle of readers. BUNDLE RATES FOR THIS ISSUE $1.50 per Hundred $9.00 per Thousand ORDER NOW DAILY WORKER 33 First St., New York, N. Y. Inclosed find |Se ty i r | doseph Stalin. had it not been for constitutional pro- visions standing in the way. Gomez Reactionary. Two other candidates have offered themselves for the 1928 election. Gen- eral Gomez, commander of the Vera Cruz garrison, has just resigned that post to announce his candidacy while General Serrano, comr Federal District garri likewise. Gomez, it felt, is a can- didate of the busin and oil inter- ests which want Mexico’s protective legislative bars let down to permit the ready exploitation of her great natural resources by foreigners. Serrano is running on on, has done He insists that Obregon’s candidacy lviolates the spirit if not the letter | of the constitutional provision against reelection for successive terms. Ser- rano is also well regarded by the business interests. 5 { ants are still the strongest group in theless the army still remains a prob- lem for constitutional government to meet. Either of the two army men contending for the presidency might conceivably receive foreign or domes- tic financial support. With this they might organize a coup d’etat, one or the other capturing central cities and setting up a dictatorship. Workers Partly Armed. Workers and peasants, through ing to isolate the army from politics and place it on a proper footing as a defense force solely. Arms are widely distributed among the trade unionists and each able-bodied mem- ber has some knowledge of military drill and discipline. whose membership also composes the ficially announce its indorsement of Obregon until it meets in annual con vention in September in Mexico City Iglesias says. However, its action ean be ‘virtually predicted, unless there is some remarkable political change in the meantime. The Mexican government is mak- ing fine headway in the economic strengthening of the country, Igles- jas declares. Irrigation projects, road building, founding of rural schools farms as individual producers rapidly ahead. Andy Mellon Sails for Visit to Fascist Italy Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, and his son, Paul, sailed for Italy today aboard the liner Conte Biancamano to join his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Bruce, in Genoa. go the private yacht Venetia, which they have chartered, Mellon said in re: iterating that ke was taking a vaca- tion and that business did not enter into the trin. SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! 100 F==—lO y 10th BUY YOUR a9 Money. must be sent in today—50c to the National Office WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. ASSESSMENT STAMP TODAY! your unit organizer has none— your unit organizer has not sold them— your unit organizer has not sent in the money for them— your unit organizer is not pushing the sale energetically— NOTIFY THE NATIONAL OFFICE! Jt is the only way to finance the Convention and prevent you from losing your right to vote. 50c to the District Office ing payment. SECRETARIES: Be sure to mention invoice number when mak- ander of the| an anti-| Obregon platform of “no re-election.” | While labor and the organized peas- | Mexico, according to Iglesias, never-) The Mexican Federation of Labor, | bulk of ‘the Labor Party, will not of-| and the establishment of peons on4 They will cruise for two months or} cretary of All-Union COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL TAKES UP QUESTION Communist Par feverish war preparations are being pushed forward and fascist elements find active support from the “| ary governmental power. clusions of the British resolution are! in part as follows: “The Plenur Committ i tional) Party of Great Britain shall continue to eonduct with greater energy the campaign of exposing the General Council (of the British Trade Union Congress) in connection with this dis- graceful and unprecedented ultimatum (the letter of March 25 of the General Council to t ades Councils declar. ing they mus n a document de- manding the brea gz of all relations jwith the minority movement) and shall undertake a campaign among the Trades Councils and in the trade un- ions with a view to this document be- ing rescinded at the first opportunity. Fight Against British Imperialism. “This executive declares that all the tasks of the British Party in the pres- ent period should be subordinated to the fight against the aggressive pol- icy of British imperialism, which finds | its expression in the anti-Trade Union | Bill, in the war against China and in the preparations for a new war and! the support which this po! is re- | ceiving from ‘the reformist leadership. “In order to mobilize the workers for a successful struggle against the Baldwin Government the Communist Party of Great Britain must carry out an intensive struggle against the | Right Wing policy of the Labor Party |veformists and trade union bureau- crats and the splitting anti-Communis |decisions. The immediate tasks are as follows: “Intensive fight against the anti- |Communist decisions particularly in |the trade union movement and the | developme! lin the local labor parties, the Trade | Unions, etc., etc., in order to secure |the reversal of the anti-Communist decisions, thereby clearing the way for la struggle against the imperialist cor-| | ruption of the Labor Party by the |bureaucracy. In this way the Labor |Party will be made a more effective linstrument of working class struggle. “The more active co-operation of penctration of all districts, are striv-|the Communist Party members with jother count |the Left Wing workers. | Campaign Against the War Danger. | “In connection with the War Dan- lger the Communist Party of Great Britain must: (1) carry out in its press and pamphlet literature a more \exhaustive expos of the aims of | the British imperialists with regard to the Soviet Union, showing that the breaking off of relations is a part of |the campaign of provocation leading |up to the war against the U. S. 5, R.; 2) must force the labor movement to link up its campaign against the anti- trade union bill with a campaign against the war on China and the war- |like attitude of the British govern- | ment against the U. 8. S. R., under | the slogans of ‘A war against the | Soviet Union is a war against the British workers!’; ‘War on the wage- | cutting, union-smashing government |which is preparing war!’; ‘Prepare ‘mass action to defeat the war- |mongers!’; ‘Force resumption of dip- |lomatie relations with the Soviet | Union!’; (3) Must explain to the Par- ‘ty members more fully than hitherto \the role of the Communist Party in | the struggle against war; (4): Must ‘expose pacifist slogans and policy, | particularly those of the Indepzndent |Labor Party, and the so-called Left | Leaders of the trade unions; (5) Must |eXplain to the workers the principal methods of fighting the war danger.” Must Urge Unity of Workers. The very important section dealing | with the Anglo-Russian Trade Union | Unity Committee is as follows: “The Communist Party (of Great Britain) should continue to explain to the workers the importance of unity between the workers of Great Britain and the workers of the U. S. S. R., which becomes imperative in face of \the militarist policy of the British | government. The Party must explain to the workers that it is due to the sabotage of the whole General Coun- cil from Hicks and Purcell to Thomas, that the Anglo-Russian Committee has not so far aecomplished its great | task. “The General Council has always played a double game on the question of unity with the Russian workers. It has defended unity in words, while hampering the establishment of a real alliance between the workers of both countries. The policy of the Gen- jeral Council was clearly demonstrated during the last sessions of the Anglo- Russian Committee, especially on the questions of the General Strike, the fight of the miners, and the fight against the intervention in China. “The Communist Party must espe- | cially explain the real meaning of the ‘last Berlin conference, when the Gen- ‘eral Council, instead of enlarging the | functions of the Anglo-Russian Com- | mittee, insisted on, and carried thru, \the restriction of the constitution of the Committee. | “The Comintern fully approves the istatement of the British Communist | Party which places the blame for the results of the last Berlin Conference on the shoulders of the General Coun- cil. The history of the work of the Anglo-Russian Committee for the last year fully justifies the position taken by the British Communist Par- ty in explaining to the workers that the General Council is responsible for. the concessions made by the Russian Unions, while those concessions pyoy anew that the Soviet Trade Union | of a powerful campaign | is sincerely in favor of real jun same time the Plenum ap- of the campaign which the h Communist Party is conduct- ing among the mine to establish unity between the British miners and the Soviet miners. The criticism of the miners’ -leaders, who are in prac- | tice preventing the establishment of an Anglo-Russian Miners’ Committee, is fully fied. ‘Those leaders not sed to set up a Joint Miners’ Committeé, but they even conceal from ish miners the proposal of the u an miners to that effect.” The resolution forth that the British Communist Party must con- tinue its efforts to establish the clos- est relations between itself and the workers, peasants and nationalist gov- ernments in the colonies and to assist the colonial peoples in their struggle for independence in every possible way. It is pointed out that “in view of the great role which the youth hes to play in the struggle against impe ism, war and militarism, the Party must give assistance to the Young Communist League to carry out its tasks. It is demanded that, “a special ef- fort must be made to iner number of factory groups and |papers. The political education of the new members must be undertaken in the most energetic way, with a view to consolidating the recent gains of the Party. The fight against the anti- trade union bill and the danger of war must be made the basis of the most energetic recruiting of new members. “The following practical activities |must be engaged in around the slogans already enumerated: (1) a careful ex- |posure of the British Government’s| campaign of forgeries and provoca-j tions directed against the Soviet| Union and an explanation of the mil-| : . itary and diplomatic measures already | oviet non our undertaken by Great Britain in pur- suance of its policy of encirclement; | (2) an explanation of the achieve-} to six days. An advance of the closing date for | ments of the Soviet Union in the! the six weeks’ tour to Russia, which|tal of the world, ‘accor INDIANS ON 480-MILE MARATHON Eleven Indians are snapped starting from San Francisco city hall on a 480-mile race to Oregon—the only break being the ferry ride across the Bay at San Francisco. held on the Pacific Coast and was scheduled for completion in five It is the longest race ever Visas Are Assured Moscow Theatrical Those Who Join in World Capital, Says Director of Guild Moscow is now the theatrical capi- ng to the| building up of Socialism and the im-| leaves July 14th under the direction | very foremost authorities of Europe} portance of the growing strength of| of the World Touri Ine. \the working class in Russia which| Union Square, has been made pos-| |follows this, {workers to as in |against oppression; (3) the demon-| formation. stration of the fact that the govern-| \fensive of the employers, and intro-| tions with foreign countries, World jducing the bill to smash the trade) Tourists has been guaranteed Russian junions is now proceeding to disorgan-| visas for all members of its party. e the trade of the country by creat-/Going with the World Tourists in- jing unemployment; (4) the Party/sures entrance into Russia, and in no must link up the campaign against! other y ean Americans be certain the breaking off of diplomatic rela-|of getting into the U. S. S. R. this \tions and the danger of war with the summer because of the absence of a} campaign against the trade union bill| consulate in either the United States }and insist that the Labor Party and) or Canada. the Trade Union Congress should con- Everything Arranged. duct a joint campaign against the ss Anti-Trade Union Bill as well as the| vantage of a solution of the Russian breaking off of relations with the U.| visa problem, the six weeks’ trip of |S. 8. R.; (5) the Party must empha-| the World Tourists offers a moderate- jsize the necessity of the workers in| priced vacation with all preparations jthe localities setting up Councils of! made in advance and every detail of | Action to prepare the struggle against | travel cared for by experienced guides the bill and against the war danger and interpreters. Rooms are engaged, jand must intensify its agitation for a/ meals ordered at every point of the |General St ke to force the govern-| tour, reception committees arranged ment to resign. | at the various factories, children’s This brief summary of the British | colonies, nurseries; theatre tickets are resolution is being written as news-/ bought (and paid for by the commit- |boys in the stréets cry “Extras!” of|tee), and all that the tourists hav |the “Rabotchaya Gazetta,” one of| to do is enjoy the sights and investi Moscow’s afternoon dailies, contain-| gate all the novel points of interest. ing the news that a Polish court has!” ‘Tell your friends about this and jmerely “sentenced to life imprison-|haye them write immediately for fur- jment” the assassin of the Soviet am-|ther information to World Tourists, jbassador, Voikov. Thus does the Brit- | Inc., Room 803, 41 Union Square, New lish reaction pull the strings, the Polish| York. Stuyvesant 7251. {puppet obeys and the murderer. es-| sii aceon tials « ‘eapes the death penalty. But, at the y ‘same time, Great Britain moves an-| lother step nearer the war against the| oye eave ene |Soviet Union. Against this war the| | British working class prepares. Russian Seamen by | . * | age . While Working at N. J. British Captains ‘State Military Camp Workman Electrocuted By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press) Somewhere west of Suez is the somewhat worse port of Alexandria, where villainous liquor is freely dis- pensed to visiting sailors. Ameri- can, British, Belgian, French and all other Jack Tars can fill their goblets with all the poison they can pay for —but a Russian sailor can’t buy a drink, He can’t buy a drink because he can’t get shore leave, since the Bald- win government broke with the So- viet Union. An American sailor told the Federated Press what happened when a Russian cargo boat came in- to Alexandria with several thousand tons of wheat. “The port authorities threw a panic,” he said. “They made the Russian ship anchor way out in the harbor. And there were more cops | than longshoremen on the boat. The cops were supposed to be protecting the Arabs against propaganda, and every night when the workers left they were frisked for possible litera- ture. “Day and night a police launch kept running around the ship to pre- vent anyone from leaving it. This SEA GIRT, June 30—Andrew Kaminski, 41, of Toms River, a line- man empluyed by the Jersey Central Power Compaay, was killed y<sterday afternoon while at work atop a pole at the State Military Camp here. Kaminski was electrocuted when he came in contact with two charged wires, 4600 volts passing through his body. He was thrown thirty feet to the ground. His neck had been brok- én and his head crushed by the fall and his face and body badly burned. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Fascist Finance Chief Warns Foreign Friends Lira Won't Rise Again ROME, June 30.--A warning to foreign speculators against gam- bling in Italian lire was contained in an interview with Count Volpi, finance minster, appearing in Po- polo D’Italia. The minister says the Italian government does not in- tend to bolster the price of the lire to new levels, but plans to maintain the present value «for some time. Observors think this a guarded admission that the gov- ernment has reached the end of its financial resources and is los- ing its grip on the valuta, | | again for the Black Sea with a cargo of long staple Egyptian cotton. The bosun of the American ship had the same bad luck. Though a naturalized citizen of the United States he happened to have emigrated from Russia some 25 years ago. He was forbidden to go ashore. The police had orders to shoot to kill if did not stop till the boat sailed away | enabling the Russian] sible by the receipt of a cable from | cow’s theatres, ist the workers in all) Moscow today extending the time for | dure any theatr their struggle | the filing of required Russian visa in- | weeks By special arrangements thru the when he returned from Russ jment after supporting the wage of-| U.S. S. R. Society for Cultural Rela- | ¥¢ of 41|and America. After I had seen acting in Mos-} Id not en- I simply cou said Lee Simonsot to of the New York Theatre Guild] ia last} Mr. Simonson, speaking to a group} of artists and musicians in New York said he never saw such remarkable} things happen in any theatre as he} saw in Moscow during his brief visi There was so much experiment—ne thrilling realism; remarkable with political significance like on the revolt in China; the Je Kamerny Theatre with futur’ |}combination of music, singing, danc-| eb jing, acting. Tn addition to this tremendous ad- | | Colorful Variety. Instea uniformity, d of having a dead level of} with a dozen shows nearly alike- is usually the case| on Broadway—in Moscow you find} one theatre after another trying out! jsomething new in theatrical enter- | tainment. | Sometimes this “now” performance | is a revival of an old play, single} in a manner so perfect} iv: ballet done that it is a marvel to all who see it. Sometimes it is a novel modern pres-| entation of a well-known fF that | has been familiar to the whole au- dience from. childhood. Theatrical Ex Anyone who is at all intere the theatre will find the of | Moscow, the most thrilling adventure. | In planning a six wee¥s’ tour to see| |the sights of Leningrad and Moscow, the World Tourists of 41 Union| Square arranged with the Cultural| Relations Society of Russia to take} the tourists to the theatre three! times a week during their visit so ‘that they may see this most in- teresting phase of the art develop-| ment of new Russia. The six weeks’ tour York July 14th on the American liner “Gripsholm” for Len-} ingrad, and the party will spend three weeks in seeing the art museums, factories, old cathedrals, schools, nurseries, other sights of the U.S.S.R. | Reservations for the tour close on| July 9th. The party is limited.. but to all those accepted by World Tour- | ists, visas for Russia are guaranteed | and there will be no diffievlty about entering the country. Further infor-| mation can be obtained by writing at, once to World Tourists, Inc., Room 803, 41 Union Square, New York. | he stepped off the gang plank,| Finally the skipper himself inter-| vened and personally guaranteed the bosun as a hundred percenter. The Yankee seaman who ing the story has sailed over the Seven Seas, but he s that it wa: not till.he visited Alexandria that he realized how tough the world can be. British law and order has not saved | many a sailor from a fatal rap over the head for his roll. | Opium Sale Lawful. | Opium selling is a legal) oceupa-|" Ition, at least it is openly practised. | Cocaine is illegal and bootlegged, but subject to raids as opium is not. The American saw a cocaine raid from the street. As each inmate was dragged out of the den by the cops) a superior officer brought a doubled up whip down on his head. “Women have the worst working conditions in Alexandria,” said the sailor. “As I was passing a big onion warehouse I heard some women getting beaten inside. The bosses speed them up with a whip.” a s tell-| F. War! June 30, 1927 In view of the acts of aggression of the American imperialists against the workers of the world, and the attempt to involve millions in a new World War, in view of the attacks which are being made against the trade unions, on behalf of the workers of this country, “we hereby declare a state of war against the capitalist class of this country. On and after luly 1, 1927, there will therefore be waged an intensive campaign against our common enemy. The campaign will be waged with the most powerful weapon at our command, The DAILY WORKER. Our objective will be to secure an army of new readers for The DAILY WORKER, an army of new fighting recruits ir the fight against American Imperialism, against the danger of ¢ new World War, agains! the attack upon the trade unions, against the enemies and the oppressors of labor. THE DAILY WORKER Grand Jury Indicts U.S, Attorney JamesOsborne On Stolen Bonds Deal James W. Osborne, former assist nt United States attorney: Eugene McGee, disbarred attorney, anc ymond Conway, a bondsman, wer ndicted by the grand jury yesterda) n charges of criminally receiving stolen property. The indictments were made in con nection with the return of $131,00( in securities, stolen from Taylor B and Company last May for ; 5,000 reward. McGee was formerly a member o: the bucketshop firm of Fuller an McGee. McGee was the partner of the lat William J. Fallon. Conway is al leged to have been presen? when, ac |cording to Osborne’s story, Osborn was asked by McGee to return th: About $1%8,000 in securities wer stolen from Taylor, Bates & Co. o May 5 last when Julius Berman, part-time messenger, was returnim with them from a bank.