The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1927, Page 6

EDITOR'S NOTES (Continued from Poge One) workingclass of Vienna will not forget the lesson of last week. The workers will now see more clearly than ever before, that there can be no peace with capitalism, that the policies of the social-democratic party are designed to help the capitalists and not the workers, and that the hope of workingclass lib- eration lies only in militant revolutionary struggle The Communist Party of Austria will from now on grow much faster than before and thus build up a power strong enough to lead the workers to strug- gle and eventual victory. * * * Peace in Nicaragua reigns supreme. In order to prove this to everybody’s satisfaction, the military forces of American imperalism in Nicaragua have staged a little “peace party” which resulted in some two hundred Nicaraguans being wounded, murdered or crippled for life. The American imperialists must be feeling very proud of their accomplishments be- cause these latter show that the “young and inex- perienced” imperialism of the United States is fast mastering the arts of colonial oppression and al- ready has nothing to learn from the older colonial robbers such as England, France, Belgium, etc. Coolidge very likely continues to enjoy his “vaca- tion” without much being disturbed by these happen- ings. What are several hundred lives of Nicaraguans in the seheme of conquering Latin-America for the big capitalists of the United States? Nothing, of eourse. And as to the good will of the Latin-Amer- ican peoples, this again means nothing to the Amer- jean imperialists. The ruling class of the United States is out to subject the Latin-American coun- tries to its domination and is proceeding to accom- plish this end by all means at its disposal. The fact that these developments are leading straight to war is only an additional reason in the eyes of the American imperialists for strengthening its military forces and for suppressing the labor move- ment at home. American imperialism is hecoming a menacing and cruel reality not only for the peoples of the so- ealled colonial countries but also for the American masses themselves. Militarism and navalism are beginning to show their teeth. The conception of civil liberties of the old, pre-imperialist days is los- ing all meaning. Big capital is establishing itself supreme in the economic and political life of the country as against the overwhelming majority of its toiling population. Imperialist war has become a costant everyday danger. The Nicaraguan developments camnot be ignored as they signalize the approach of serious dangers. The Coolidge administration seems to feel quite safe in proceeding with its present course and will un- doubtedly go te the whole length towards large scale imperialists wars of eonquest. The anti-im- perialist and anti-war elements in the United States must make haste in their preparations for struggle if their efforts are to be in any way effective. But most of all does this condition call for preparation on the part of the American working class and its organized labor movement. * * * At this writing, the fifth congress of the Pan- American Federation of Labor is about to open its proceedings in Washington, D. C. It will be ex- tremely interesting to see what this congress will do—ify anyhing—in the matter of Nicaragua and American imperialism in Latin-America generally. The real nature of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, as far as its dominating influences are coneerned, is by this time well-known. Suffice it to mention the fact that-its president and treasurer are William Green and Matthew Woll, respectively of the American Federation of Labor. These two worthies are carrying on the, Gompers policy of making the Pan-American Federation of Labor serve the interests of American imperialism in Latin- America. And it is for this reason that the working masses of Latin-America are viewing with the great- est suspicion the activities of the leaders of the Pan-American Federation of Labor. The burning need for joint struggle by the work- ers of all the Americas is beyond question. Never perhaps in the history of this part of the world were the workers of the American countries in greater need of a common organization and common struggle against the native and foreign exploiters, particularly against the imperialist oppression and exploitation of the United States. But the reac- tionary leadership of the Pan-American Federation of Labor has been developing the organization in an entirely different direction, In the hands of these reactionary leaders, particularly those representing the American Federation of Labor and dominating the whole movement, the organization has become an instrument for the’ subjugation of the Latin- American countries to the rule of American imper- ialism. The fifth congress of the Pan-American Federatjon of Labor is meeting at a time when it becomes im- possible to ignore the growing aggressions of Amer- iean imperialism (Mexico, Nicaragua, the Philip- 6B JUSTCAME OUT TO SCRAPE. UP 2-7 AN ACQUAINTANCE Uden Sila lbccel amas pines, etc.). Despite this fact, William Green and Matthew Woll will undoubtedly make an attempt to sidetrack the congress from these important mat- ters or to becloud the real issues with some such proposition as the “red menace.” Should they suc- pa in doing so, they will again have succeeded in exploiting the Pan-American Federation of Labor in the interests of American imperialism. It will be the duty of the delegates from the Latin-American countries to be on their guard against any such maneuvers by Green and Woll. - What will be the attitude of the congress towards the conspiracies of American imperialism in Mexico? What will the congress do to stop the murder of Nicaraguans by American military forces? What policies will the congress formulate for the libera- tion from under the yoke of American imperialism of Cuba, Santa Domingo, Venezuela, Porto Rico, Haiti, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Peru, Costa Rica, Salvador, ete.? It is by these things that the workers of Latin-America and of the United States will judge the work of the congress. It can be stated quite definitely that the present reactionary leadership of the Pan-American Fédera- tion of Labor will not permit the congress to do its duty by the workingclass. It is also obvious that as long as the Greens and Wolls dominate the organi- zation, as they do, it will continue in its role of agents of American imperialism in Latin-America. A militant struggle against these reactionary influ- ences and for genuine unity against American im- perialism by the workers of the American countries is one of the most essential and urgent tasks of the hour. Capitalist Justice in Sunny Florida “RTAND up nigger! Stand up damn you, stand up!” blurred out the Burley Cracker cop, a re- cent recruit to the Jacksonville police force from the sand hills of Georgia. One of the many expro- priated cotton farmers who have been pushed off the land and into the city. “There stand up now,” again urged the cop as he presented his nigger to the chief at police head- quarters, “Boss I can’t stand here. I’m shot, Boss—I’m sick—I’se feel so weak. I can’t stand up.” “What! You'll try to run from an office again, will you? You, damn black son of a b————! There now stand up. and shut up!” The poor black-faced victim, with bruised and bloody features—was now forced to stand on one leg, between two white husky cops, who supported ‘him from either side. The Negro’s other leg was limp, apparently paralyzed by the bullet that had so recently pierced his body. The Negro, on of the hundreds of jobless ones in “Wonderful Jacksonville,” had been caught stand- ing before a grocery store, his hungry eyes gazing curiously at the “eats” in the show window. “What're doing here, nigger, Fixing to break in, I guess?” interrogated the cop. The poor hungry Negro was frightened and almost speechless, well knowing that an arrest meant a severe clubbing from the cop. For it’s a kind of an unwritten law here in “Wonderful Jax,” that the first thing to do on arresting a “dangerous” nigger is to club him into submission. “No, Sar Boss, I was just-—————.” “Shut up you black skunk, I. know what you were getting ready to do,” broke in the cop. The crowd began gathering, brickbats and stones in. hand, as the officer further questioned and abused his suspect. The Negro, aware as only a Negro can be, of his precarious position under such circumstances, broke and ran, only to be pelted with brickbats and stones from the white crowd, and finally to be felled by a bullet from the policeman’s big automatic, The officer after signaling for aid and for the patrol, now walked over to his victm. “Yowd ran away from an officer, would you? You damn black devil!” As the cop spoke, he began tS freely use the butt of his big gun on the face and head of his victim, while the blood spurted forth. The torture continued spasmodically, accom- panied by an occasional kick, until the arrival of the patrol wagon announced - the approach of the sergeant. “Get in that wagon, nigger, we'll put you where you belong,” said the cop as he gave his victim a final kick. “What? You ain’t going to do it? Very well” Whereupon the cops and a couple of white by- standers seized upon their sick and bleeding victim, picked him up as.a farmer would a stuck hog, and threw him sprawling into the wagon. And the crowd feeling rather disappointed, slowly dispersed into the night as the sounding gong died away in the distance enroute to the police station, “Stand up, nigger, stand up!” Thus was the bleeding and bruised victim, held up on one foot between the two cops and presented to the Jackson- ville law and order gang, at the headquarters of the white tribunal of capitalist justice. “Lock him up till morning,” was stern com- mand of the captain. “Come along,” said the ser- geant, “we'll put you where you won’t Pm fren an officer again soon.” Thus speaking, th-; Tiae-y a By JEAN VALLEJO was dragged over to one of the cells, thrust him in thru the door while the cop turned the key and dis- appeared. Thus ended the first act in the tragedy. I do not know what the outcome will be. There are many cases on the police docket, but of course in due time the case of our victim will come up for hearing. The next morning a good old Negro mother, who had witnessed the affair the night before, and now returned from an early morning visit to the jail was telling the neighbors the story of the brutal arrest, when a colored sky-pilot coming along stopped to join the group. “What!” he interrupted, “you say he ran from the officer.” “Yes,” answered the woman, “he saw the mob gathering and he broke and mee “Served him right, served him right,” urged the reverend dope dispenser, as he moved on down the street to get away from the remarks of the women. “Tt is very strange,” said my informant, a young —- man from the north, “our women are rave and are willing to stand up and fight for their rights. But our men-folk are completely cowed, and our churches seek to heep them that way.” “Yes,” I added, “and so long as the Negro work- ers are unorganized and uneducated, the chureh will probably continue to keep them doped on the opiate of religion, and as meek as a lamb, while their white capitalist masters and their flunkeys ruthlessly ex- ploit and fleece them, and at the same time bru- tishly oppress and abuse them in the name of Law and Order.” “Yes, sar, the nigger must be made to know his place and stay in it,” says the cracker capitalist in Dixie. Well some day the Negroes of the southland will know their place in the ranks of the revolutionary proletariat, and they will stay in it, and fight in it, forgetting the preacher’s “pie in the sky” opiate. And then the southern capitalist bastilles will cease to receive victims like the one whose tragic story appears above. 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