The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1927, Page 6

Page six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927 WORK FOR LATIN-AMERICAN UNION TO FIGHT U.S. | By HARVEY O'CONNOR (Federated Press. WASHINGTON, 11 (FP).—Of the two predominant issues in Amer- can foreign policy, the government’s Ss.) involved—although manifestly neither Mexico, Venezuela nor Colombia, ag- 7 al nations, have very extensive needs for oil. The Board entirely yverlooks the Latin American objec- relati with Britain and with Latin tion that cil natural resource, Ame: , the latter is causing more en by and from which all and more concern. Although Gen the people should benefit. has brought the growing, cocksure i That oil is the major factor in| perialism of America face to f: the declining but still arrant impe rialism of Britain, officials in both the state and commerce departments view Latin American developments with more anxiety. Meeting Br y claim of supremacy on the mere matter of money and ships, k the Latin American question is far more subtle and less amenable to solu- tion by simple superiority of guns and marines. The hollow apology of the Federal Oil Conservation Board that it really did not mean what it said when it urged full state department support for naked oil imperialism in Mexico and South America instances the deli- eate relations between the “Yankee Colossus of the North” and the appar- ently weak and divided nations south of the Rio Grande. Said the Board in a recent report: Urges Oil Imperialism. “The fields of Mexico and South America are of large yield and much promising geological oil structure as yet undrilled. That our companies should vigorously acquire and explore such fields is of first importance, not only as a source of future supply, but @ supply under our own citizens.” i Naturally the Latin oil-producing countries—Mexico, Colombia, Vene- zuela—have interpreted that as mean- | ing that American oil companies should monopolize the Latin American | fields, driving out foreign, i. e. Brit- ish, competitors and preventing the nations involved from exerting any control over their own greatest natu- val resource. In the phrase “under control of our own citizens,” they visualize American _ battleships and marines supporting American exploi- ters in obtaining and keeping a mo- nopoly of a product which the Latins regard as belonging to all the people, rather than to a few powerful foreign corporations. Oil Diplomacy. The Board’s labored apology speaks | of respect for the needs of the nations! * WASHINGTON, (FP) July 11—, From one small nest of legal reaction in St. Paul the Harding-Coolidge ad- niinistration has drawn four retainers to.make the government safer for big} finance and industrial capital. With) Solicitor-General William D. Mitchell | now acting attorney-general and) Robert E. Olds, assistant secretary of | state elevated to the position of un-| der-scretary of state, all four now occupy posts of utmost importance. | Mitchell was chief of the Minnesota law firm from which Harding drew} Pierce Butler, to sit on the Supreme} Court. Butler was a railroad lawyer. | Frank B. Kellogg, after the people threw him out of the senate occupied offices in the same building with Butler id Mitchell. Coolidge re- warded Kellogg for his faithfulness to standpattism by putting him in charge of America’s foreign affairs —about the worst move Cal ever| made. Kellogg invitéd his partner, Olds, to come east and enjoy the clover in the state department’s pas- ture. Now Olds is under-secretary and may succeed Sheffield as am- bassador to Mexico. Thus three of ce with A * n diplomacy in Mexico and the| sbean, becomes more apparent! every day. The entire Mexican prob- 1 the hands of undersec- e Robert E. Olds—he sued the famous don’t-quote-me | view regarding Mexico, challeng-| ing American hegemony of the Carib- | bean, which inflamed Mexican-Amer- | lations last spring and brought tion so close that enthusiastic militar here almost smelled the gunpowder. Olds may go to Mexico as ambassador himself, so important) in the eyes of the state department is the struggle over who should control Mexico’s oi it herself, or the Mellon-Doheny-Sinclair-Standard Oil combination, Work for Latin-American Union. The oil struggle in the Caribbean is approaching a crisis expressed best in the words of Jose Bejarano, secretary of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce of New York in a speech before the} anti-imperialist conference of the Peo- ple’s Reconstruction League in Wash- ington last week: “A period is rapidly approaching in the history of Mexico which will final- ly decide the fate not only of Mexico, but of many Latin-American coun- tries; it will either be the epoch of economic emancipation or the begin- | ning of the collapse of the entire Latin-American race. American im- perialism will not be mainly to blame. To protest against the imperialism of the United States because of Amer- ican invasion—political, commercial, economie and ideological—into our countries, is like protesting against the clouds when it rains and our roofs | are leaky.” In that last line is a prediction either of Mexico’s slavery, or of a Latin-American union for defense against American imperialism. Prob- ably Bejarano sees the apparent in- evitability of the “collapse of the Latin-American race” in the unequal struggle against American oil barons and battleships. ican re interve Governor-General Wood will never| return to the Phillippines to take up the reigns of dictatorship again.| While the President has salved the broken old man’s pride with public assurances that he will be allowed to return to Manila, it is certain that he| will not. Wood and Coolidge are in complete disagreement over military rule in the islands. Carmi Thompson, who sleuthed through the archipelago for Coolidge, reported sharply on Wood’s “cavalry cabinet” and urged civilian rule under the Department of the Interior. The Filipinos, short of complete independence, would prefer Department of State rule, in order to | recognize their “foreign” status. Per-| haps Secretary Hoover, who has cor-| ralled nearly everything loose in| Washington, will capture the Philip- pines for his Department of Com- merce. Disgraceful tales of “cavalry cab- inet’”’ rule continue to pour out of Manila. Acting Governor-General E.! A. Gilmore is even more crass in his| military despotism than Wood. He barred Filipino reporters from a din- . J. Glintenkamp, E the Four Rough Riders of Reaction in Minnesota find themselves in charge of American foreign policy| mer. One cameraman succeeded in and federal prosecution—a strategic| entering, but a member of the position considering the Ohio gang—| cavalry cabinet kicked over his cam- with the fourth, Butler, regarded as| era and smashed it to bits. A fight a dominating force in the. Supreme/ followed with police and secret ser- Court. “4% ' vice men called. STRIKE OF PHILADELPHIA PAVING CUTTERS STILL | STRONG DESPITE BETRAYAI. OF THEIR “LEADERS” ner given the third congressional | party to visit the islands this sum- By JOHN ANDERSO: elish friendly relations with the Union| The striking paving cutters are still/ Paving Co. and not stop work until | holding out against Union Paving| we had tested it out.” In éther words, | Company in spite of that they are|to compromise in the matter. It was betrayed by their leaders. This firm|a good lesson in class collaboration. | has employed scabs imported from the; Then a committee went to see Mr.! south to take the places of the or- Hannah, International president of the ganized workers. A new minister Pavers’ and Rammermen’s Union with| was sent down to Virginia to recruit) headquarters in New York, in order etrikebreakers by the Company. The! to get the pavers (those men who put men were promised steady jobs and) the blocks in the streets) to quit pav- union wages ($20.00 per 1,000 blocks)./ing scab blocks. Hannah promised When they arrived here they were|the committee to come here and see paid $15.00 per thousand—25 per cent! what he could do, and he did. He ar- veduction. Most of the men are un- rived here one day last week and had skilled in the work. Fifty per cent of a meeting with our committee, and ths material of the old paving bloc} are spoiled in the act of recutting! them and the work that is done is| very poor. This means a loss to the| city because the city furnishes the| blocks, and the blocks that are pro-| duced are of poor quality and make | bad streets. | They refuse to recognize the union; they want to hire and fire whoever| they please according to good Ameri- can plan! They want to crush our organization, and the city officials are behind them, All this is very clear to most of the paving cutters. Some of the Negroes brought here from the south were taken in the union, but there is still about 50 wowking and it is said that more are coming dom the south. \ _ The secretary of the central labor! union had been requested to give his here is the result: The committee re- ported to the branch: (1) That Han-| nah refused to call off or forbid his men to pave scab blocks (that in spite of both organizations belonging to A. F. of L.). The pavers are allowed to continue to pave scab blocks. (2) Hannah suggested to the paving cut- ters to take a 15 per cent reduction | in wages. (3) That the expenses for | this labor “leader” in coming here | were to be paid by the union. The} spirit of the men is still strong and| in spite of these corrupt labor “lead- | ers” they are determined to fight even if they are going to stand alone. BUY THE DAILY WORKER advice, He told us we must j‘estab- AT THE NEWSSTANDS Reformism in the Far East By A. MARKOV. World reformism has of late years been following with | keener and keener alarm the successes of the left trade union movement in the Far East, The fears and alarms of the reformists are perfectly comprehensible: they have been evoked by the steady growth of the revolutionary class trade union movement in China, covering as it al- ready does about 3 millions, i. e., almost all the organ ized Chinese workers, by the successful struggle going on in Japan in the Hiogikai (the left trade union centre) for the winning over of the masses, and, finally, by the progress made by the class trade union movement in Indonesia, where more than half of the trade unions are under left influence. Unions Red. The reformist position is particularly weak in China, where the trade union movement from the very beginning assumed a definitely revolutionary character. The work- ers are not to be tempted into the yellow trade unions in China, despite Chiang Kai-shek’s zealous endeavors to naturalize the latter. Neither do prospects smile upon the reformists in Indonesia, where the trade union movement has already begun to assume a definitely revolutionary tinge. Their affairs in Japan also are far from brilliant despite the existence in that country of many big reformist organiza- tions, for the left and centrist elements in the latter are becoming more and more pronounced. , The reformist Japanese Federation of Labor—the hlatantly right Sodomei—has been forced to put up with the loss of more than half of its members so as to preserve appearances as a hundred per cent trade union centre. In India alone, where the trade union movement is chiefly under the influence of right nationalist bourgeois element, has reformism been able to get the upper hand. But even here a tendency to form a left wing in the trade union movement is noticeable. The Reformist Trick, In their search for ways of impeding the steady revo- lutionization of the trade union movement in the Far East, the reformist leeders—always at the service of imperialism—raised the question at the International Conference of Labor held two years ago in Geneva of calling a Pan-Asiatic Labor Conference. They hoped thus to be able to link up the activities of the reformists in | Japan and India and above all to involve the Chinese trade union organizations in the reformist net. The con- voeation of the conference was entrusted to the well- known reactionary and Sodomei leader, Sudzuki. The revolutionary Chinese trade union movement, however, by refusing to take part in it, cramped the reformist style. Instead of seeing the realization of their plans they were forced to be the witnesses of a Pacifie Ocean Left Trades Union Conference, planned several. years ago, held on the 26th of May in Hankow. ists, however, decided -not to give up without a struggle. Chiang Kai-shek’s counter-revolutionary coup d’état opened to them new prospects. The question of the crea- tion of a single Reformist bloc in the Far East was again | The reformists | consider it now more important than ever before to get { brought forward on an ambitious scale. the upper hand of the Chinese and Indonesian trade union movements, to destroy the influence of the Higokai, the left trade union centre in Japan and to stem the tide of the left trade union movement in India. Judging by press statements the Japanese opportunists, together with the right yellow Kuomintang unions in China, are again working up towards the famous Pan-Asiatic Conference. This time the International Labor Office and ‘Sudzuki and Co., working under its instructions, may be able to bring it off, having at last found traitors at their service in the Chinese trade union movement. Sudzuki Plots. As early as April last, directly after the Chiang Kai- shek’s coup d’état, Sudzuki (on his way to the Interna- tional Labor Conference, now being held in Geneva) re- mained in Shanghai for the special purpose of arranging with the right Kuomintang leaders and yellow unions about the calling of the Pan-Asiatic Conference. Soon after this the right Kuomintangites and the so- called Socialist-Nationalist Party entered into close rela- tions. They contracted a mutual agreement to struggle with Communism and decided to support Sudzuki’s idea of calling a Pan-Asiatie Conference by every means at their disposal, Finally, according to the Japanese paper “Myako,” a secret journey was made to Shanghai and Nanking in connection with the conference by Natzuoka, secretary of the Sodomai. It is obvious that the Jap- anese reformists are developing their activities all along the front in China. Appealed to Bosses. Sudzuki of course also raised the, question of the Pan- Asiatic Conference at the International Labor Conference in Geneva, emphasizing the necessity of its convocation for the struggle with the destructive influence of the Communists in the Far East, where they have “poisoned the minds of the working class and are undermining the trade union movement.” While he was still in Shanghai he declared that he would discuss the conference with delegates from India, Australia and other countries. Un- fortunately for him, he had great difficulties in his Geneva negotiations. He declared, not without reason, sented at the labor conference and western reformism did not pay them due attention. Eastern reformists themselves relations were somewhat the Indian reformists, insisting on a campaign for the in Japan, were quite ready to reconcile themselves to a 10-hour day for their own country. that the Far Eastern countries were very feebly repre-/| Even between the Far brittle, as is obvious from the complaints of Sudzuki that ratification of the Washington treaty on the 8-hour day The general object of Sudzuki’s participation in the | | | | By TILLIE LITINSKY. | The Conference of United Council of | Working Housewives, which took | place on June 25, 1927, at the Little| |Hungary, New York, was indeed a | phenomenal one. To see some two} | hundred women, the erswhile kitchen | |drudges, sitting through a seven | |hour session and pondering vitai,| | very vital problems, was truly inspir- | | ing. | The problems confronting the con- |ference and its constituency were of |no mean or petty calibre, either; resolutions on: 1, War. Realizing that the pol cal horizon is getting cloudy and the peace of the world is threatened once} again, and with a full knowledge and| understanding that, if was ensues,| the working class will pay the heavy | war toll, while the munition manu-| facturers wax rich and fat. The dele gates unanimously passed a resolu tion against war. 2. Playgrounds. Past experience had taught the workingclass mothers that summer, which should be a sea- son of joy and freedom, brings ever more tribulations and worries to the worker’s children. On their parents’ meagre funds they cannot afford va- cations, so they are exposed to all streets of the city. The Conference, thereforé, passed a resolution, re- questing the municipal government! to make playgrounds on every ten blocks of the whole city, so that the little ones might at least play un- molested and without direct exposure | to danger. Many Resolutions. Many other equally important resolutions (two numerous to be given in detail) on housing, school, picketing, nurseries and education, were taken up and discussed pre-| cisely, painstakingly, with depth and a broadness of vision, which was a tribute to woman’s capability to do things, and which fully vindicated| her well-earned right to take her place as man’s equal in the building of the future. Delegates from the Joint Furriers Board, from the Workers’ School, the International Labor Defense, the Ladies’: Council and others greeted the United Councils and acknowleged our participation in the workers’ struggle wherever the need arose. Proud Record. Kate Gitlow, secretary of the U. C. W. H. then read the report of our last years’ work, and it was one to make any organization proud, Fraught as their winter had been with calls for relief, the Council’s re- sponse to every call was immediate and carried, along with its financial aid, the warmth, understanding and class solidarity of the councils’ mem- bers to their fellow-workers in the front trenches. The report follows in brief: | In Passaic. The Councils’ relief work in Pas- saic alone amounted to $20,000, not |morally and financially. sorts of accidents on the congested |, Annual Conference of United Council of Working Class Housewives to mention the invaluable work done in the kitchens and along organiza- tional lines. To the paper box makers s the Councils’ contribu- tion was $2,500. The plumbers’ helpers, \when they went out on strike, were boosted, and their spirits sustained by the Coun- cils, held out and have won a $6 in- stead of the $4 day, although they are as yet not acknowledged by the F.:of L, Exhausted But Active. When the danger call from the oint Cloakmakers’ and Furriers’ was ounded, we were well nigh exhausted with previous intensive work, but, nothing daunted, and true to the Councils’ mission, we rallied to their support, realizing as we did that they were fighting the decisive battle for the progressive workers. Deter- minedly we plunged into the work nd our aid was of ample value, The Coun- cil ed $38,000 in cash from a baazar, which $1,000 in pledges are still outstanding. Gives Much Relief: To summarize, the U. C. W. H. has done $30,000 relief work in the past year. Is this not a colossal achieve- ment? So much for relief work. But the U. C. W. H. does not stop at spon- soring the workers’ cause financially only. The education plank in our program received the undivided, at- tention of the delegates. All seemed to be consumed with a desire to launch a cultural program, wide in scope, in every local, in order to raise the cultural status of the con- stituency. Relative to this question, Rachel Haltman, editor of our bulle- tin, spoke on the prospects of the | paper and outlined its work. On sug- gestion from one of our delegates, a | section of the bulletin will be de- | voted to children, when it has grown considerably. It was unanimously decided to give special attention to education in the coming year. Dr. Movskovitz then spoke on the bakers’ situation and the successful organization of the bakers’ wives in- to a very active council. She asser- ted that the awakening class con- sciousness of the women comprising the councils, was in itself an in- valuable cultural achievement. Adopted Constitution. Adoption of the Constitution and By-laws @of the organization fol- lowed, after which the conference ad- journed with a firm resolve to do even better work next year. It may be mentioned thatthe U. C. W. H. has risen in membership from 300 to 2,000. To all those who are interested in the labor struggle, we wish to say, pass the word along to all women folk of your acquaintance, to join the U. C. W. H., and to become a factor in the active work which this organ- ization is doing, for let us not forget that when Woman sponsors some- thing, she does it devotedly, ardently and truly as befits a Real Woman. Cur. rent Even tS oy 1.3. oFLAERTY j (Continued from Page One) Mss Marie Kryl of Lexington, Ken- tucky, narrowly” escaped losing $100,000 when she fell in love with a count who sported a name that ousted deacons to return. One in par- ticular can repose in a soft crevice of Straton’s heart. He once expressed the opinion that Straton was the Labor Conference at Geneva was the organization of an attack by world reformism on the revolutionary trade union movement in the Far Eastern countries. The Am- sterdam International had, however, already reckoned with the necessity of exerting greater energies in these throat gargle. It Kyriacos. sounds like the trade mark of a is Spiro Hadgi- Her wealthy father left her that sum provided she would not The -reform- | Thus:the Reformist: International Transport Workers’ Federation, to which the railway workers of Yava, the Railway workers have belonged since 1926, decided to develop activities in Japan also. With this object its secretary, Nathans, addressed the so-called Yokohama Dockers’ Mytual Aid Society (Yokohama-Nakasi-Koisai- kai) in May last with a formal proposal of affiliation, which was promptly accepted. Although this society cannot be called a trade union, and has only a few hun- ; dred members, it now intends to embark upon intensified transport workers in Kobe, Osaka, Otaru, Hokodate and other ports. Thus Amsterdam, which quite rceently was content that the reformists’ role in Far Eastern coun- | tries should be chiefly that’ of theoretical inspiration, is now alarmed by the reinforcement of the left trade union movement in the Far East, endeavoring to change its | tactics and get direct hold of the Far Eastern trade union | organizations. World -reformism will, however, have great difficulty in striking roots in the Far East. LONOORY | CHAMBERLAIN, WHO HATES ASIATIC MILITANCY. countries and embarked upon activities in this direction. Indian Seamen’s Union and the All-India Federation of organizational work among dockers, loaders and other wed before thirty, but while picking her way cautiously thru swarms of European counts the fellow with the gurgling cognomen almost ruined her, financially. The American Le- gion should do something about this. If one American is the equal of half a dozen foreigners why is it that this branch of a flourishing industry is al- lowed to fall into the hands of out- siders? * “@ * Totes will be no extra session of congress to consider providing re- lief for the victims of the Mississippi flood. The hundreds of thousands of poor farmers whose homes were de- stroyed by the swirling waters can scratch themselves under the rays of the sun and meditate on the callous- ness of a government that is ready to expend billions for new battleships to protect the investments of Wall Street. This is the government of ALL the people! Like the devil it is. * * * HE Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton is a shrinking spiritual violet. Public men as a rule can ill afford this luxury. The careerist whose lips are not attuned to a booming horn| | must engage the services of a clever press agent if he expects to keep in| the spotlight. But extraordinary per- sons like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Doc. Straton do not need press agents. Their good deeds break thru the paper walls of the continent despite their aversion to self-praise. * QTRATON runs a crazy house known as the Calvary Baptist Church.| Here, the menagerie indulges in weird | hair-raising rites, under the auspices! of the holy spirit. Several of the Dee's deacons could not see any fun in those antics so they tried to slip the skid under him, but Straton was first at the skid and the deacons slid out on the axle-grease. But a victor can afford to be magnanimous. So the bighearted Doc has invited the greatest man in America. “That showed a sapient man and an under- standing heart” observed the blush- ing Straton. * : Li (OHN D. ROCKEFELLER has passed his 88th birthday. The money wizard’s picture indicates that if he had to depend on his appearance for a living he would not be worth a dime outside of a circus. Yet he is one of the wealthiest men living, be- cause he possesses the cunning of the fox and the cold-bloodedness of the hyena. A faker selling a health book on the street corner a few even- ings ago attributed Rockefeller’s cess in dodging the undertaker to abstemious life. As soon as health fraud got thru with his speech he went’ thru the audience selling books and puffing a noxious weed. Foch Predicts New World War Within Next 15-20 Years LONDON, July 11—A new world war “within the next 15 years or 20 years” on a vastly larger scale than the last, is Marshal Foch’s prediction which was printed in today’s issue of the Weekly Dispatch. “Such a war will be a world war and will not be localized in any sense of the word,” Marshal Foch is quoted as saying. “Every country will take part in it and the combatants will in- clude not only the manhood, but the women and children of every nation. “Younger women probably will take an even more active part in the war of the future. The nation in arms will comprise not only every available man, but every woman and child, since all will have allotted to them some definite task. “Battles will be fought not only by land and sea, but in the air, where planes will fight not singly or in squadrons, but in series of masses.”