The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUES! , JULY 26, 1927 Page Three PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE CLOSES WITH APOLOGIES FOR IMPERIALISM Venezuelan Delegate Forces Red-Baiters to De-| fend Predatory Policy of Wall Street By MANUEL GOMEZ. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23 (By Mail).—The convention of | the Pan-American Federation of Labor closed today, with an ex-| pression of satisfaction voiced by President Green for the com-! plete harmony which, he said, prevailed thruout the gathering. Scarcely were the words out of his mouth when delegate Ricardo A. Martinez, the grim young Venezuelan who single-| handed and in one day had transformed the convention from a dis- gusting dumb-show into an arena of conflict around the issue of American liberalism, was handing out copies of a statement in reply to Green’s vicious counter-attack of yesterday. Martinez put up a great fight, altho ;}————_—___— = he allowed more than half the pro-/SuSPicion should be removed. ceedings to pass before he got started, | 27¢ to develop commerce, trade, under- { | | If we, Ay - ) Standing and confidence among the a sheeted gt Tada Bee acpiee of the American continent, it must be removed. The Pan-American | Federation of Labor can serye in a onderful way in removing this sus-| picion, in creating a common under- standing. The influence of the A, F.! of L. in the United States will be di-| ¢ experienced much difficulty in get- ting the fleor during the closing ses- sions, and when he did get the floor) the interpreter did not always trans- late what he said, he succeeded never. theless in making Green and Woll ex- pose themselves as hypocritical apol- ogists for the policy of Wall Street and Washington in Latin America.} His fight also brought to light the| fact. that most of the Latin-American delegations to this so-called labor con- | | American peoples may be won. |can be accomplished thru a policy rec- | rected toward inflwencing an adminis- tration of government so that the friendship and good will of the Latin- This i . | izi justice, fair dealing and vention were sent here by their respec- | Q8™Zin& justice, 2 ‘ ak 9 |friendship between nations. It is the yk ae ear Fone bY Ene Sagi of the working people of the merican-bossed dictators who boss United Stat h beak . the particular governments concerned. | © Mite tates, the membership of | | Reactionary Mexican Generals Confer Conspiracy Against Workers. It is almost unbelievable in a gath-| ering claiming to represent the work-| ers of the Americas, that in spite of the fact that he directed his fight against the imperialistic exploiters of those workers, he got practically no real support. The other Latin-Amer- icans were the first ones to attack him when he pointed out that all was/| not well with the dictatorships oper- | ating in their Monroe-Doctrine coun-} tries. | Martinez was the only out-and-out | dissenter in a convention which! amounted to a conspiracy against the | workers of the Americas. | Would Disarm Labor. | President Green’s closing remarks | on harmony clearly betrayed the es- | sential purpose of the thing as a sus- tained attempt to disarm Latin-Amer- | ican labor in the face of U. S. imperi- | alism—instead of preparing them for | concerted resistence to it. Defends U. S. Imperialism. “What is needed most of all,” he said, “is confidence, trust and faith among the peoples of Latin America and the people of the United States. A large percentage of Latin-Ameri- cans have a suspicion and distrust of the United States. That distrust, that | more than 5,000,000 of the A. F. of L.,' |expressed here and, inspired by those | |to which I have referred in these re- that such a policy should be pursued. “May I suggest that on your return} home you remember the sentiments) distributing prizes to athletes. sentiments, you become ambassadors | to promote this spirit of co-operation Mexican.” ago announced himself as candidate marks, Raise the standard of citizen- ship in all the nations on the Amer-| ican continent. For all this we can unite, laying aside our prejudices and, our suspicions.” | Attacks Argentine Labor. The committee on officers’ report} announced its conclusions in the clos- ing session. In addition to commend- | sent delegates to the convention, even the new conservative-socialist body finally refusing to iecumb to the blandishments of Green and Santiago Iglesiz Cr icism of the Guatemala labor ing the officers “for their intelligent | Conscription law was not allowed to, and untiring efforts,” it denounced | stand, and a special committee w the labor conscription law in Guatem- | Structed to draw up something re ala, said some unkind things about | Suitable. _ Delegate Tribollet of Gua the dictatorship in Venezuela (the | temala objected to the critic! m mos’ Venezuelan dictator having no dele- | St"enuously and he had his way. gates at this congress), and then) Lackey States Views, launched into a subtle attack upon the) “I don’t know if the reporting com- organized labor movement of the Ar-| mittee is well ormed on the sub- gentine Republic, the impression being ject,” he told the delegates. “We | conveyed that it is necessary to de- lieve in Guatemala that we are stroy the present relatively powerful free now. Laws sometimes Argentine unions because of their rad- perfect when they are promulgated icalism, and replace them by “a leg- itimate federation affiliated to the|out. We already have a Labor Bureau Pan-American Federation of Labor.” |in Guatemala. This is a great stride None of the Argentine federations forward, and we are now working to jhave it made a department of full Attractive Offers for New Readers of the Daily Worke FREE With Every Annual Subscription to The DAILY WORKER | or } through payment of only $1.50 with 20 Coupons clipped from the Newsstand Edition o: | Offer GOODWIN No. 2 (Ansco) CAMERA Regular Price $2.50 akes an Standard Roll Pilm, Pictures 24%x8%. This model is finely finished and complete in every detail. Has two finders for Vertical or Horizontal Pictures, Adapted for Time or Snap- shot exposures. Highest quality Meniscus lens. With book of instructions, No. 1 7-15-27 DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N, Y. 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Any One of These Splendid Books lating to Mexican-U. §. relations, It Each Worth $2.50 |f read as follov Tey ie ae |Y - \betetd Mexican Policy of U.S: STORIES, PLAYS “Relations between the United | States and Mexico have been such REVELRY General Francisco E. Serrano, above, in a pre-election stunt. Serrano has just announced his candidacy on a platform of “peace with the United States” on a basis of yielding to American oil barons, and of “protection of capital, both foreign and He therefore rivals General Arnulfo Gomez, who some time | but time and experience round them} To Soviet Union Note About Voikoff Murder MOSCOW, July 25.—It is re- ported that the Polish government has answered the government of understood to deny Polish govern- mental complicity in the murder, by permitting white-guard organ- izations to organize for that pur- cuse is given for the ineffective prosecution of Kowerda, the mon- archist, who admitted that he was “ordered” to kill Voykoff. declined. Morones took his leave of the convention with a parting speech, | inviting all the delegates to be present | at the eighth convention of the C. R.| O. M., which takes place in Mexico City on August It was yesterday's discussfon on im- perialism that brought about the big clash between Martinez and Green, and which exposed other Latin-Amer- icans. Martinez had introduced a gen- He is against the liberal, Obregon. Below is a photo of Serrano, right, conferring with Gomez, left, in an attempt at a united front of all reactionary forces in Mexi {against ‘smuggling, a platonic state- ment on immigration and commenda- tion of the Mexican Federation of La- bor (C. R. O. M.) for its stand “in de- fending itself against the insidious ac- tivities of Communist propagandists.” Not a word against the bullying at- titude of the United States govern-, ment in connection with Mexico's oil and land laws. idious efforts of Wall Street mag- nates to create counter-revolution in exico. No mention of the desertion R. 0. M. by the Pan-Amer- Federation of Labor (which ns‘the A. F. of L. officialdom) g the height of the conflict inst subsidized Catholic reaction. Members Will Ask Questions. Unlike the other Latin-American Mexican delegation repr fide national labor federation, having hundreds of thousands of members. Those members will want to know, when the delegates get back home, how it was that not a single one of| Persecuted under Leguia’s beneficent | ers at the McCormick plant, the outstanding and overshadowing |"egime except those new anarchists, ing for .a change in these elec U. S.-Mexican i: ward for dise’ ues was brought for- ion, They will want to know, furthermore, why the Mex- ican delegation did not present to the convention a single resolution of any significa: except one asking the Pan-American Federation of Labor to|that it had detached Panama from | plo send a cablegram of greetings to the congress of the Amsterdam Interna- |tional (carried, like nearly all others, | unanimously). I have a theory regarding this un- precedented attitude of the Mexican delegation which I intend to make the subject of an article in The DAILY | WORKER The M an delegates, led by ; Morones, departed for home last night, the election of Pan-American Federa- tien of officers being pushed forward to enable them to participate. Of |course all the officers were reelected, |unanimously. Martinez of Venezuela suggested Morones for president in place of Green but the Mexican leader Otte |g é |to promote the welfare of the masses No. 2 >¥ Samuel Hopkins Adams | of the people of both countric d remniniee, Havatee: pont such as to exert a powerful influence Coolidge, An inside view cf ,f/ upon the governmental and diglomatic Bees oats American political life, |relations between the two countries.” | That was all, except for a brief ref- offer ELMER GANTRY ‘erence to the termination of the treaty No. 3 by Sinelair Lewis The famous author of Bab- bitt has given a fine rendi- | “on of the hypocrisy and . sham of the American clergy. Offer EMPEROR JONES No. 4 by Eugene O'Neill and other plays fore Soviet Court. Includes the popular plays | MOSCOW (By Mail).—Shortly the vil eal aon ekg asada | rial of Druzhilovsky, notorious forg- ifjer of anti-Soviet documents, will be- , y | in before the Supreme Court. At the MARXIAN CLASSICS i ieee s hearing Druzhilovsky de- otter ECONOMIC THEORY OF fjclared, “I was only doing the tech- no. 5 PHE LEISURE CLASS \Pi nical work. The composers of the : by N. Bukharin documents were the governments of Thoughtful Marxist reaa- J |the bourgeois countries which are ers will tind in this book a f{carrying on a campaign against the ee euinES Shs Cae |J/U. S. S. R. under the supreme lead- ern bourgeoisie, The book is |f ership of Great Britain.” Riek eo be the deer } Druzhilovsky is the son of a district | Rupict 34 ¥ head of police, and ex-officer in the otter LITERATURE AND lezarist army, In 1919 he flew from \the U. 8S, 8. R. | peared in 1924, His first forgery ap- It was an instruction 5 REVOLUTION by Leon Trotsky A. brilliant of | present day literary group- ings in Russia, and a dis- cussion of the relation of art sto lite. criticism addressed to the Executive Committee |of the United States of America. That ‘document, together with the second Offer MARX AND ENGELS | {pas Lil on pg stip as va a Hie ‘Izvestia” was bou e Berlin sire een rary cH office of the “Chicago ‘Tribune? and lives and eheseiee nnd Meee |published by that paper and the “New ism, by the Direetor ot the |} | three other experiments Druzhilovsky ee eeeee Marx-ingels Institute. received an order from the Bulgarian \ " i ih de pe consul in Berlin, Popov, to produce LTE I RO Loe NRNNNREN documents which would justify the bloody terror of the Tsankoff gov- ernment and would enable’ the Bul- garian government to appeal to the Council of Ambassadors for a permit to increase its army. Druzhilovsky produced a letter of the Comintern to the Communist Peyty of Bulgaria " eee: | These Offers Are Good Only | Until August 31,1927. jabout the organization of elections in) |the Executive Committee of the RILU | News from the U.S.S.R. ieorgen of Anti-Soviet Documents Be \ with instructions about the intensi-{port for the wounded soldiers of the fication of party work and forged a money order n the Comintern to Pastermadgiev, to the amount of 10,- 000 dollars, tion of the Comintern about an arm- ed insurrection in Bulgaria of April 16, and many other forgeries were produced. All forgeries were used as evidence in the trial about the explo- sion of Sophia Cathedral as genuine documents and on their evidence the Tsankoff government waged white terror throughout the country. The documents were shown to |Druzhilovsky and he admitted that |they were his creations. Druzhilovsky was arrested in June, 1926, while |erossing the border to the U. S. S. R. The Electrification of the Ukraine. At the present time municipal elec- trie stations are in the process of con- struction in 9 or 10 Ukrainian cities; the stations in 11 other cities are be- ing enlarged. Within the next 2 or 3 years new electric stations will commence work in the Ukraine with the capacity of 50,000 watts. The Electric’ Planning Commission adopted a program of electrification for 1927-28. The pro- gram considers the building of new stations in Konotop and Kamenetz- {Podolsk. Apart from that four rural electric stations will be completed next year. Trade Unions Come To The Assistance of Wounded Hankow Soldiers. The appeal of the AUCTU for sup- No criticism of the in-; Then the famous instrue- | eral resolution reciting all the crimes jof American imperialism against |Latin America, attacking the Monroe !Doctrine, repudiating dictators such as Legiua of Peru who serve as in- struments of Wall Street and Wash- ington, and proposing a number of |concrete measures, Matthew Woll’s resolutions committee had used all) |sorts of stratagems to get Martinez) ‘to withdraw this resolution, but he re- | fused to be budged and the resolution | finally came before the convention on} the day before adjournment. The com- | mittee of course refused to endorse it, joffering a substitute which made no charges whatsoever against the Unit- \ed States government, which did not |mention imperialism and which merely | stated that the Monroe Doctrine had| been sometimes used wrongly. The substitute was adopted, Martinez be-| ing the only one to vote against it. | Green’s Apologetic Speech. | In reply to a bitter indictment of} Monroe Doctrine imperialism by Mar- tinez, Green delivered a speech which was an apologia of the doctrine. More eager to answer than Green| were the Peruvian delegates, both of | whom protested indignantly against the characterization of President Leg- | uia of Peru as a dictator. “There is no tyranny of any kind in| Pure,” said delegate Benavides. “We | F ees si | control over these representatives, delegations at the convention, the | Who have just cofhe from a land where | ong 7 : pa nts a bona|labor has the grefttest freedom of ac-|"0 matter how grossly they may hr tion will not congent to the statement |that the president of Peru is a tyrant. No one who has eVer striven to do any-| ithing for the people there has been/ the Communists.” | Another Imperialist Defender. One of the Panaman delegates had |Something to say also. He defended |the United States from the charge, | jeontained in Martinez’s resolution, | Colombia and made her an American dependency, “T say (he said) that Panama is just as free and sovereign today as any! country on earth.” | Next came a Cuban delegate who} defended the Monroe Doctrine, Platt | Amendment and all, declaring eee “as a result of this doctrine, we have | today such a sterling President in| Cuba as Gerardo Machado.” (N. B.} Machado is known thruout Cuba as} the assassin of Cuban labor). | The next convention of the Pan- | American Federation of Labor is to| be held (Machado and the American! sugar trust being willing) at Havana, | | Cuba. | revolutionary Uhan armies found an vecho in all Soviet trade union organ-| \izations. The Central Committee of the typo- | graphical workers gave 500 roubles, |The Central Committee of the build- ing workers gave 300 roubles; the Central Committee of the liaison workers gave 500 roubles; the Cen- tral Committee of the food workers’ union gave 1,000 roubles. Collections are made in the local) organizations. The first donations, have already reached the Central! Committees. i Arrival of Austrian Worker Sports-| men, | A delegation of 18 Austrian work-| er sportsmen arrived in Kiev, Local| sport organizations greeted the dele-| gation at all railway station. They/ were given a tremendous reception in| Kiev. | The trip of the Austrian delegation to the Ukraine is a return visit to the Ukrainian sportsmen who vis-| ited Austria. The delegation will visit several large Ukrainian towns. Strike In Private Enterprises. The Moscow Executive of the Em- ployes Union decided to declare a strike in 18 private firms which re- fused to sign an agreement with the union in Kitai-Gorod, Moscow. The employers will be presented with an ultimatum to sign the agreement. pose, as charged by the Soviet || tion of worker representati Union, It is not known what ex- || industrial council of the Inte tional Harvester Co. This industria! | representatives. le | Poles Evasively Reply EXPOSE COMPANY: UNION FRAUD OF HARVESTER TRUST i | Company the Soviet Union in regard to the Can Stuff the assassination of Ambassador Voy- |} Ballot Boxes koff. The answer has not been |{ ig officially received here, but it is By CARL HAES } CHICAGO, (FP) Ju contention of the American Federa- tion of Labor that employe repre- | sentation plans are controlled by the | boss is reinforced by the rec council was instituted soon after the war to hold down genuine unionis and increase production. Wage cuts, instead of being merely announced and carried through from the front office, are debated and considered in the industrial council by representa- tives of the company and of the em- ployes. The result is the same, with one difference. The cut is accepted. but some of the workers feel bett about it because they think their representatives had a v in it. Field For Stool Pigeons. In the last year however a group of Harvester employes have carried on a campaign of enlightenment, ex- posing the inner working of the in-| dustrial council machinery. When the election for worker representa- | tives was held at the McCormick! Works in Chicago it provided a text! for a sermon on company control of the council system. | The company not only selects its| own council members but it sets the stage so that its stool pigeons and bootlickers make the grade as worker No meetings are lowed at which candidates can be cussed or become known to the vo ters. Instead, the company time- keeper and another company man make the rounds in a sort of primary | and oblige each worker to write the name of his nominee on a paper which is dropped into the ballot box. Company Counts Ballots. The company counts the ballots announces the results, with no chec on the count by anyone else. The men have to take the company say so | on who got the most’ votes. Then they vote again in the same way without a chance to find out who the} nominees are and what they stand for. The company counts the ballots once more and tells the workers | whom they have elected to the in- dustrial council. The men have no betrayed by them. Factory Paper Assails Scheme. The Harvester Worker, a fact« aper issued by class conscious work driy methods, which, it says, “turn uncil into an instrument aga workers and for the interest the company,” Its program calls f 1, Election of ‘worker cou representatives at a meeting of em es where the issues have be discussed and formulated. The mec ing to have its own machinery for col lecting and counting the votes. 2. Meeting of the employes in ad vance of every’ meeting of the in- dustrial council so that their repre. sentatives may be fully instructed on the men’s demands. 3. Machinery for recall of worker representatives who violate their in-| structions. | “The manner in which the election of the employe representatives is carried out now,” says The Harvester | Worker, “shows that they are nothing but a fraud and deception.” ‘Preach Austro-German Union to Crush Soirit) of Vienna Revolution VIENNA, July 25—The growing | revolutionary character of the Aust- rian working class movement is be- ing capitalized by counter-revolution- | jists in both countries for Anschluss —that is for the political union of| Germany and Austria. | The Viennese revolt clearly proved | that the hold of social democratic} leaders on the Austrian working class | is not as strong as had been com-| monly supposed; that the Commun-| ists despite the relatively small vote | which they won in the last elections | are rapidly gaining strength; that the Austrian class conflict is rapidly | growing sharper; that the Austrian | bourgeoisie would have been far too | weak to cope with the working class | had it not been for the reformist | leadership of the social democrats. | The union of Germany and Austria | is advocated in both countries as a} means of preventing a successful | workers revolution in Austria in the| near future. | ® * ° | Saddle Workers With Loan. VIENNA, July 25.—After crushing the Vienna revolt the Seipel govern- ment is planning to saddle the work- ers of Austria with new foreign loans. Using a pretext the damage done to reports, is preparing to open negotiations for a new foreign loan. The serious economic situation is shown by a report issued in June which places the number of unem- ployed at 162,499. The entire popu- lation of Austria numbers less than seven million, & Salute the New Recruits to the Daily Worker Army in addition to the newsstand readers of the Daily Work- er, the following new subscribers have been secured: Ra ox x a Ko) Subs from July 1, 1927, DISTRICT I. Massachusetts. Henry L. Gage, Brockton. Samuel Yaffe, Brockton. M. Engleman, Boston. G. Galany, Boston. The Workers’ Bookshop, Boston. Anna Chess, Cunnington. S. Williams, Fitchburg. i). Frederick, Haverhill. \. Baron, Hudson. J. J. Skakan, Hudson, ‘ohn Sereduk, Methuen. }, Galzansky, Norwood, hard H. Kidder, No. Billerica, }, Humimik, Peabody. Martin Sillers, Pittsfield. H. C. Fillmore, Taunton. zenpain Co-op. Soc., Worcester Ginsburg, Worcester. nsburg, Worcester. ael Zieper, Worcester. Mich Rhode Island. A. Hedstrand, Providence, DISTRICT 2. New Jersey. Homer S. Trecartin, Bloomfield. N. Lifshitz, Elizabeth. C. Spitatny, Elizabeth. S. Sasaki, Keansbury. Harry Weisberg, Newark, Donald Munso, Peapack. George Pispinkos, Ridgewood. New York. W. H., Glen Cove. Alaf Bord, Hempstead. J. S. Weiner, Newburgh. Nathan Axelrod, Bronx. John Carmelo, Brooklyn, Empros, New York. J. Gallis, Bayside. Joseph Kertesz, New York, Kluchen, Brooklyn. Miller, Brooklyn. Obrana, New York. Mrs. E. M. Rosenstein, Brooklyn. Shockman, New York. Ellen Thayer, New York. B. Turehinsky, Brooklyn, John Wilks, North White Plains, Harold Green, Ossining. . Schramm, Port Jefferson. feld, Round to P. Green Go. ane, Yonkers, Keep the Army Growing. Make It Five Thousand. REE