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Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 8S First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1980 Cable Addrezs: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year 96.50 six months $2.00 three months By mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.60 six months $2.60 three months Address all mail and mske out cnecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ILLUAMOE, DUNNE (°*7*720rStesecten Editors BD BERGE Pl R eo is:c 0:0 bv a's s bats business Manager ee Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., undez the act of Merch 8, 1879. E> 2, Advertising rates on applicatiom® | The Sicck Market Responds to Geneva. Half a hundred reached their best prices of the year third day the market at the of the week witnessed the movement of more than two million shares. With such velocity were stocks moving that the close presented a bewildering spec- tacle. When the 1 et closed and the movement v analyzed it presented interesting and instructive as well as frightfully ominous developments. The cause of this rapid movement and sky-rocketing of stocks is not to be found in any present streak of prosperity in this country, but is solely due to speculative investment in certain kinds of stock—STOCK IN WAR INDUSTRIES. This dealing in futures is due to the collapse of the Geneva naval conference, or what might more correctly be called a war conference. The disagreement between the United States and Britain over rela-| tive strength of naval cruisers and the break-down of the Geneva conference is the signal for the most ambitious competition in| armaments the world has yet witnessed. This competition will| not be limited to cruisers, but will be extended to include Soni instrument of destruction. The orders for armor plate for battle- ships will mount to millions of dollz the manufacturers of high concentrated explosives will work over time, the chemical indus- tries will produce ever more deadly gases and perfect its devas- tating liquid fire, arms manufacturing industries will turn out millions of guns to belch forth the message of imperialism on a thousand battlefields in every part of the inhabitable globe. At this moment the imperialist powers and their agents are} waging war against the Chinese revolution and conspiring to} wage war against the Soviet Union, which stands as the outpost of the world revolution and as the one formidable enemy of im-} perialism. But at the same time Britain and the United States and their vassal nations engage in predatory wars against the workers and peasants of the colonial and semi-colonial countries they strive for supremacy against each other. This policy must! imevitably lead to an open conflict between them. When they can no longer carry out their imperialist ambitions through diplomatic } tricks the fight will break forth with the elemental violence of another and more frightful war. In preparation for the conflict the war industries will work full blast and the stocks in those) concerns will continue to soar ever higher. The munition prof-| issues of investment stocks have on the market. For the separate close Se iteers see visions of mountains of gold—blood money—flowing | into their hands. Simultaneous with the announcement of, the!) ‘determined stand of the British war-mongeys ‘against any com-! promise at Geneva there occurs in America the merging of United | States Steel, the E. I. du Pont de Nemours ammunition trust and| the General Motors concern; the manipulators of this giant merger are also heavy stockholders in chemical and dye concerns. This is a 100 per cent war combination. It will be recalled that two years ago Elbert H. Gary, head of the steel trust, initiated | the program of reorganizing the great industrial plants of the nation so that they could be changed from a “peace time basis” to a war basis within forty-eight hours.> General Motors accepted the proposals, as did also Henry Ford; the powder trust is al- ways on a war basis. Friday’s rise in the market on these stocks is indicative of | ~—$he fact that the war-mongers have drawn the proper conclusions | for their class from the fiasco at Geneva. It is up to the working class to draw its conclusions and pre-| pare for the most determined fight against these new conspiracies | against us. We cannot effeetively oppose war by mere pacifist | yearnings, by longing for peace in a world in which there yet re-| mains too much that must be destroyed by blood and fire. We) must prepare to fight against war by creating organizations that will make it impossible for the conspirators to carry out their) dastardly conspiracies against us. Thirteen years ago the world | was plunged into the last world war by the conflicting imperial-| isms of Europe. Today we face another war situation and it is| the imperative duty of every revolutionist and every class-con-| scious worker to help to organize for the fight with every weapon at hand or that can be devised against the imperialist master class ot his own country in order to weaken and if possible cripple them so that they cannot enter into the arena for another world war. P “pr pcm yeh Sacco Warns Against “Blind Optimism It is amazing to see the childish confidence that many people calling themselves radicals place in Governor Fuller and his com- mittee that is supposed to have investigated the Sacco and Van-! zetti frame-up, when even the most paltry understanding of the case ought to convince one that the whole proceeding has been nothing but a farce, a shabby pretense, in order to shield the criminals responsible for the torture of these victims of class | vengeance. Altho many of the so-called friends and supporters of Sacco and Vanzetti yield to the illusions that the class enemies of these men will give them a fair hearing and liberate them so they may return to the ranks of the labor movement, the condemned men hold no such illusions. Nicola Sacco, in reply to one of these sentimentalists who wrote him that “tho the suffering be long and weary it will soon end in freedom,” wrote a document that will stand high in the history of labor. Sacco branded the opinions of the correspondent as a “legend of nonsense,” and asked, “Do you not know the ends to which the defenders of this decrepit old society will go? Un- der the circumstances it pains me to see such blind optimism in a comrade. Are you waiting to see them kill us first, so that you ean build as a monument,” That reply, printed in full in another part of The DAILY WORKER, should be food for thought on the part of all those de- fending Sacco and Vanzetti, who have expressed some degree of confidence in Governor Fuller of Massachusetts and his advisory committee. Even the Federated Press has been guilty of such puerile utterances. Only last week it reported that the president ‘af the Massachusetts state federation of labor thought he had ' a Government Agents Speak as Labor Delegates | day | under THE DAIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, MOND AUGUST 1, 1927 MANUEL GOMEZ. By (This is the second of a series of ar- ticles analyzing the Pan-American Federation of Labor and its recent conyention at V hington.) 5 . M sks Pan-A. F. of L, The Washington convention would be a memorable one if only because it | furnished the unprecedented spectacle of the rising anti-imperialist protest of Latin America finding its wa even o the Pan-American Federa- abor, where everything ‘was against it. f Ocota e provided the setting but a omplishment must be credited argely to the championship of dele- gate Martinez of V , whose convention fight, ated, could not be annulled. Martinez’s stand the rest of tant and faltering but to in the convention was hesi- opposition 1 have it w deep-going. consequences. For not only did Martinez say his , at least momentarily, but he obliged Mr. Green and the others to defend their own position. Their replies to the Venezuelan “hot head,” as they called him, constituted as perfect an ex- ample of self-exposure as has ever been witnessed. Delegates Were Fakes. Before the- convention was four y it had become pl. that the greater part of the participants were not labor delegates at all but a choice collection of government agents and toadies! Most of the evidence came out in the discussion on Martinez’s general resolution against the Monroe Doc- trine and American imperialism. Martinez had attacked Wall Street and Washington for their consistent aggressions against Latin America, pointing out among other things that they’ had robbed Colombia of the Pan- ama area in 1903 and continued to tyrannize over the republic of Pana- ma to this day, that they held Cuba the Platt Amendment, that they had violated the sovereignty of Haiti, Santo Domingo and Nicaragua, that they had repeatedly conspi oO j against Mexico, that they were sup- porting the most flagrant and re- pulsive dictatorships in Latin Amer- ica: such as that of Gomez in Vene- zuela, that of Leguia in Peru and that of Machado, the notorious assassin of trade-unionists, in Cuba. As soon as I ‘heard the reading of Martinez’s resolution I knew it was going to mean trouble, but I wasr‘en- tirely unprepared for the ‘exhibition that followed. It-was not Green or Woll but the,“Latin-Americans who jumped first to their feet with eager replies upon their lips! Peruvian Traitors Loudest. “T understood the report of the resolutions committee was to be ac- cepted unanimously,” one Peruvian delegates declared: indig- nantly. “This resolution is an insult to all of us. There is no tyranny of any kind in Peru. I believe the only tyranny that exists is in the hot head of the delegate from Venezuela. who come as delegates from a land where freedom reigns, where labor has every legitimate right, cannot d convincingly of the, We, | consent to a statement being made| that the is tyrant. Now the dictatorship of Leguia in Peru has long been one of the scan- dals of South America. To anyone even vaguely familiar with the con- Pr sident of Peru a ditions in that unhappy land—where | there is a labor conscription act un- der which practically the entire Per- uvian working class is conscripted to work a certain number of days each year without pay on the construction jobs of the Foundation Co. (owned by Wall Streets interests, with Presi- dent Leguia himself holding some of ; the shares)—this speech of the Per- uvian delegate is a tell-tale one. That it was no chance utterance was proved the next minute, when the other delegate from Peru rose and elaborated upon it. The Peruvian delegates had much to say in the convention, both in support of Leguia’s government and in support of any reactionary meas- ure that came up for consideration.| with U. S. Ambassador Crowder and To complete the mission for which|the Sugar Trust. | OR six days delegates claiming to represent the organized workers of! North, South and Central Amer guans had been slaughtered by the echoed thruout the world but it did Why? the Americas? What is this “Pan- against American imperialism. while such attack? | ican working class co-operation in re | tion of Labor”? These and other | Gomez in the present series of article: Gomez | Imperialist League, having sectio continent. He attended every sess | io1 a number of years. espectful petition” to President C How is it that the convention did not take up a single important | matter-of practical trade-union co-operation on behalf of the workers of | how is it that reports of its convention filled the newspapers with attacks Labor and its convention, written especially for The DAILY WORKER. | is secretary of the United States section of the All-America Anti- | close touch with the affairs of the Pan-American Federation of Labor for | rica met and debated. On the first! day of the convention the associated press reported that 300 Nicara-| | | . marines in Nicaragua. The news! not shake the convention, presided! | over by President William Green of the A. F. of L. A resolution of protest | ubmitted by the Nicaraguan delegation was quietly brushed aside, a! Joolidge being adopted in its place.) | American Federation of Labor” and) | the convention itself engaged in no) What did Latin America learn as a result of the opposition | of a single delegate at the convention? What is the future of all-Amer- lation to the “Pan-American Federa- | questions are answered by Manuel| | s on the Pan-American Federation of | n twelve countries of the American} m of the convention and has been in| ° presented by the two Peruvians at| the Washington convention. Their credentials bore high-sounding names: the “Universal Uuion of Confederations of Artisans and Lab-| orers of Peru” and the “Assembly of United Societies of Peru.” This is the first time that either of them has been heard of. I overheard one of the newspaper- men asking delegate Luis Roberto} Rios Castell of Peru exactly what| kind of organization it was that he represented. The query was a puz-' zler, but he answered: | “Oh, a general organization.” i “Is it a trade-union organization?” | “No, it isnt’ a trade-union organ- ization.” | “Ts it a cooperative, then?” “No, it isn’t exactly a cooperative.” “Well, then, what can it be’ “You see, it is an organization friendly to the working people.” The Peruvian attack on Martinez did not lack delegates to second it. A degelate from Panama took a hand in the debate in order to reply to the } insinuation that the United States | government had ever interfered in| Panama, and declared proudly if un- that “the repubdiic of Panama is just as free and sovereign | as any country on earth.” | - Dominican Delegate Terrified. Then came delegate Pozos of Santo Domingo to say that although the | Dominican delegation had originally | signed Martinez’s. resolution it was} under a grave misapprehension and | to request that the dlegstion’s name | be “erased from a document which | details a long lis) of unproved charges and which attacks govern- ments.” (President Green arose from the chair to say graciously that the request of the Bominican dele- gate would be granted.) | It should be stated) here that the Dominican Confederatipn of Labor is another one of the ed the the conventio: F. of L. There movement in Santo has been a small bod als there known as t Brotherhood” which seit delegates to the 1921 and 1924 conventions of the P. A. F. of L. It is now announced that this “Nationalist Brotherhood” | has been merged with the mythical! “Dominican Confederation of Labor.” | Cuban Delegates Defend Dictator. | But for unadulterated depravity | the prize must go to the Cuban dele- | gation. Unlike most of the other! Latin-Americans, the Cubans carried | credentials of a bona fide labor or-! ganization, even though it is an or- ganization operating in a single in- dustry and including only a part of} o real labor ningo. There | of intellectu- | “Nationalist | | r | the workers in that industry. | To have representatives of this! one organization — the Railroad, Brotherhood of the North of Cuba—j| speak for the Cuban labor movement | is, however, a cruel joke. The great | mass of the Cuban unions have re- peatedly denounced the Pan-Amer- | ican Federation of Labor and refuse | to send delegates to its conventions. | Cuba has been much in the news- papers of iate, owing to the brutal attacks against the workers and peasants carried out wholesale by President Machado in connivance Trade unions have j veloping their work while their ac- | undoubtedly they had been sent to! been destroyed, their offices scuttled Washington, they introduced a chau-| and their leaders jailed or assassin- | vinistic resolution on the ORE ated. So vicious has been the anti- question, denouncing the population] labor tyranny of President Machado of Chile and demanding that the/ that trade-union periodicals in every Tacna-Arica territory be handed over) country in the world have protested | to Peru, in “accordance with the patri-| against it. Even the A. F. of L. has | otic insistence of the Peruvian gov-| felt it necessary to sénd out through | ernment.” | its officials news service a series of | Peruvians From Paper Organizations | articles by Chester M. Wright de- Inasmuch as the Federation of La-| nouncing Machado in the roundest bor of Lima, the only labor body in| terms. | Peru having any substantial strength, Yet the Cuban delegation to the |has refused to have anything to do| Washington convention of the Pan- |with the so-called Pan-American} American Federation of Labor was Federation of Labor, it is worth while} so brazen in its apologia for the asking what organizations were me Machado government that some of persuaded Fuller” on certain points regarding the credibility of testimony of witnesses for the defense. Such uncritical interpre- | tation of news only aids in lulling the workers into a false sense ‘of security regarding the enormity of the crime against these | two workers that will be carried out, unless the protests and or- | ganized action of the workers of this and other countries assumes within the next week such gigantic proportions that the malig- nant powers now conspiring against Sacco and Vanzetti will not |dare carry out their plans. | Sacco is aware of the situation and is perfectly correct when he declares that ‘only an international protest can free us.” Let us spurn further insipid twaddle about the “fairness” of | Fuller and thé rest of the jackal pack who want to destroy these two victims of class justice in order to terrorize other workers into submission to capitalist despotism and let us exert every ounce of energy in order to mobilize the masses for action in be- half of freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti. the pseudo-degelates from Central America felt obliged to “warn the gathering against accepting the Cu- ban proposals without the most care- ful study. Guatemalan Tells Truth About Cuba. | “T don’t want to cast any suspicion | ever upon the Cuban delegates,” sid Quintana of Guatemala, “nor do I want their proposal defeated, but | I would suggest that the executive committee of the Pan-American Fed- | eration of Labor should act very cautiously and investigate conditions carefully, so that we may not be vic- timized and taken by surprise. In} our brief stop in Cuba on our wayg) here we saw many things that did| not look very lovely.” The Cuban delegates—who allowed | a message of greeting to the conven- | tion to go into the minutes without | objection—had a number of obviously governmental proposals to present. T shall take them up in suJ sequent articles | ficiert to reproduce the following | resoluticn submitted to the conven- | tion by the delegation: Yellow Resolutions Fail, | “Whereas, considering that the del- | egates of Cuba to this Congress have heard read attentively and with great \interest, the documents and com-|q resolution when we have nothing |mentaries referring to the labor situ- | to complain of.” atien of their country, which are in- serted in the report of the Executive Corneil, and “Whereas, considering that oppor- | tunely they sent reports to the Pan. American Federation ‘of Labor in re- | lation to the Inbor events in Cuba, | and the ati‘tude that tne government | of President Machado has observed, | and maintains at the present time; | therefore be it | “Resolved, By this Congress that | its -attitude toward the Cuban gov- ernment be determined by the fol- lowing: “J, The Congress declared that it | atisfied to know by the declara- s made by the labor delegates of | Cuba that the workingmen of that | Republic are not at present restrained | er prevenied from organizing freely | any unions or syndicates or in de- £7 tivit‘es\have the character and aim of favoring labor conditions, civiliz- ing industrial conditions and estab- lishing social and economic reforms, | when they do not employ practices and precedures against the public or- der, or the institutions of the gov- | ernment. The Congress remains inform-/ ed also that the genuine organiza- tions and labor leaders of Cuba have | had to contend at all times with dif- ficult situations created by the action, of the government, while opposing | several times the extemproray radi- | cal movements whose deeds gave place to sitvations of violence whic! affect the true activities of labor in the country as a whole; and the con- | gress has the hope that the difficul- ties which have arisen in Cuba in| the functioning of the genuine labor | organzitions will disappear com- | pletely, these labor unions having | the guarantees and protection of the law ani of the constituted govern- ment from which they await protec- tion and constitutional opportunities without favor or privilege.” This resolution was not adopted,’ but the mere fact that it could be, presented with the unanimous ap-/| proval of the Cuban delegation | speaks volumes as to the integrity. of that delegation. | Support of Machado was, fitly enough, linked up with support o: American imperialism. Joining in th condemnation of the resolution sub: mitted by Martinez of Venezuela, one | of the Cubans remarked: | Platt Amendment “Blessing.” “All the Cubans without exceptions | whatsoever owe a debt of gratitude | to the United States. We are in favor of the Platt Amendment, which | has made possible the present suc- | cessful regimen under President Ma- chaao. There is perfect liberty in Cuba except for trouble-makers and Communists. Our freedom from Spain was due precisely to the Mon- roe Doctrine which the Venezuelan delegate would have us reject.” | A word about the Guatemalan del- egation which did not like the Cubans’ | support of Machado. As soon as the | Guatemalan conscription-of-labor law | was criticized the Guatemalans wax- | ed indignant in their turn. The law, | they said, was not so bad. Guate-| mala was the freest country on earth except for reds. Labor was well | taken care of. Why, only a short | time ago the government put in a | Bureau of Labor and will soon ele-} vate it to the rank of a department | i tmmor, “Why should we pass such } \present cameraman. “The Russian Revolu- tion” Coming to Cameo) Saturday Beginning next Saturday the Film Arts Guild will present for its Amer- ican premiere at the Cameo, follow- ing the current showing of “Passion” a sensational film-document, ‘The Russian Revolution,” in which the actual events leading up to and the persons involved in the great up- | heaval which shook the world, are pictured. We see the roots of the re- volt, and the tremendous uprising ewlminating in the foundation of the Soviet Republic. No part of the film is “studio.” This film will cause as much discussion as “Potem- | kin,” and perhaps more because of its | estounding realism. On the same program will be pre- | sented another unique document, “The | |Log of the U-boat 35,” which took | a heavy, onimous toll in the last war. The film, which has in some manner found its way from the private ar- chives of the German admiralty carried a cinematographer and sent home the actual celluloid report of its activities on the high seas. Following “The Russian Revolu- tion,” the Film Arts Guild will pres- ent at the same theatre “Potemkin,” which has just been selected by the critics of Germany as the greatest film made in 1926. The Guild also announces the ac- quisition of the American rights of Ossip Dymov’s play “Nju” featuring Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt and Elizabeth Bergner. European critics have pronounced the acting in this |film the peak of naturalistic screen | artistry. Other films quired are Molnar’s recently ac- “The Guards- At present it wili be suf-| man” directed by Robert Wiene, who} responsible for ‘“Caligari.” and ower of Darkness,” “Warning shadows,” with Kontier and Granac! Palmer” “Loves of an Artist,” based on “The Life of Rembrandt,” “Follies Bergere,” in colors, direct from Paris. is “p, Guatemala Backs Down. The offending resolution was po- litely withdrawn and nobody was hurt except the workers of Guatemala. It is scarcely necessary to add that the “Guatemala Federation of Labor,” | in whose name the delegate spoke, has about the same standing in Gua- temala as the “Nicaraguan Federa- tion of Labor has in Nicaragua, which means that it is neither a federation nor is it ‘of labor.’” Unfortunately Martinez introduced | only one resolution or the exposure might have been too exhaustive for a dozen articles. Dear Comrades: East Lauderdale, Fla. July 26, 1927 You urge farmers and workers to write letters. Here is my short one; let comrades think it over. Besides all nations being governed by their governments, the world today is ruled by an International Criminal Associa- tion. Nufsed. Yours truly and fraternally, —Frank Voigt. 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