The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 6

4 Page Six eee The Purpose of the Pan-American Federation of Labor By MANUEL GOMEZ. This is the sixth of ies of articles analyzing the so-called Pan-American Federation of Labor and its recent conyéntion at Washington) Unden session < ton cont spect that wi Gon augural jaliy sed to et Us Have Peac: und the not Wa of peace,” igton con- vention, The following ps report of the execut agraph from the} ommittee at} third convention of the P. A. F.] , held at Mexico City, is char- tie: th The collective action of the na- | tional labor movements of all the American countries thru the medium of the Pan-American Fede- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927 On War and Danger of War (Continued From Last Issue) {has again acquired the hegemony ij Theses adopted at the Plcaim of the| European affairs. It holds the initi E. C. C. I. on May 24 1927. } tive in international colonial policy, iS 4. The epoch of. relativ +; | dominates the League of Nations, if gutg, both sone tre ive sani) tends the tmited capitalist fro: powers themselves on the one hand,| ®%@inst China and the Soviet Unio and between the imperialist powers | China and the Soviet Union As th and the Soviet Union together with | Key Positions of the War. the liberation movement of the semi-|. 5: All the antagonisms among thi colonies (China) on the other, is in-| Capitalist states themselves recede ir) terrupted by open military conflicts;to the background before the dividin) which mark the approach of the con- | line that divides the whole world int clusion of this epoch and the develop-|two camps: one, the Soviet Union an ment of conditions for a new im-|revolutionary China, the other, th) perialist war. In all parts of the|whole of the capitalist world. Chin! world inflammable material is being | and the Soviet Union are the ke omp ; : a pe ration of Labor will be an important accumulated ready at any moment to|positions of the whole internations internat obstacle to the enthronement of explode on contact with the firgt|situation. It is at these points tha events rism on the _American con- | spark that reaches it. The Italian-|the clouds of war are gathering mos eration WHEREVER IT MAY Yugoslav conflict, the aggression of | thickly. China and the Soviet Unior) hand vocably opposed to the use of arms and will contribute much ization of that noble de- ment of the most cordial rela- | Italian imperialism in Albania, its|occupying the greatest part of th! menance to Turkey, the strained re- gle for the road leading to the African two enormous markets, The fig! “We believe in the : 4 ie e S : |territory of Asia and half of Europ) mination of nations... .” “The 2 h has been manifested on Boston Police driving Sacco and Vanzetti sympathizers from Boston Common. | lations between Italy and France, the! with their unexploited economic re people of every country have a | ll sides since the ‘European’ war— — a Se economic war between Poland and| sources and hundreds of millions of right to handle their own domestic | the ervation of peace in the | Germany, Anglo-French antagonisms| population, represent two inexhaustit gepbiainn 2 22). “We! are). feve.4 Westen hemisphere and the estab- | Minnesota Fe jin Asia Minor, Great Britain’s strug-|ble reservoirs of raw material and or declaration of war in any dis- dispute with our neighbors of Latin America. The These ted that t 3reen Doctrine.” ans indica- s American Federation of Labor Ny to ons between the American coun- tries.” Is there any suggestion here that fic menace to pe. American imperia menace must be r 1 that th: ed energetically? si trary, in Held in Most Northern and Wettest Town in State, State Convention, While Sacco and Vanzetti = Awaited Death and War Danger Grows, Dominated by Reactionary Of On the con-|Making War on Progressive Section of the Labor deration of Labor on a Spree ials, Spent Its Time in Movement—High Point of Hysteria Was | | | colonies, for domination inthe Mediterranean, the aggressive role of imperialism of the U. S. A. in the Pacific, its suppression of Nicaragua which clears the road for the sub- jugation of Mexico and South Ameri- ca, the menace of Japanese imperial- for these two immense markets is / life and death struggle for interna) tional capitalism and will proceed continuously until the world prole} tariat overthrows the internationa, bourgeoisie. San the defender of pred the report goes on to hint that} Reached When William Mahoney, Editor of “The Union Advocate” of St. Paul Was Branded a ism tl the peoples of Asia—all these (To Be Continued.) ; i ; ; |the main trouble in this part of the @ : ” 3 S “ ‘ali are but separate pages in the san- PERE GEES ational sovereignty against U. Russian Agent.”—But Minnesota Labor Is Waking Up. ; ‘ : Bitoperialise, TEEN cecal e caused by the fact that im- : ele guinary history of approaching wars.| MONTPELIER, France, Aug. 23.— H recognition of the fact that the dox Gompers method h: ailed to get results for the P. A. F. of L. in ca and that some pretense h to the point of view of the Latin-American labor movements d dictatorial governments atin America (which is the given by the imperialists! themselves for their interventions “to! restore order’). The real reason for imperialist intervention is hidden, (By a Worker Correspondent) EFORE I take pains to show that the convention of the Minnesota Federation of Labor held at Interna- *\ tional Falls on August 15, 16, and 17, | The Duluth delegate, very white, | bill, but I wish to have publicly con- | broke into a bitter diatribe against! gratulate him on his bitter raking of jthe “Reds,” Emme, and Mahoney,|Cal and Wall Street. Murphy’s eco- when they began to criticize Hall for| nomics are a bit weak, he seems to} his class-collaboration policy, declar-| forget that the farmer is suffering ‘ing that “there you go, boring from/ because of the “fine old institutions | at the present time is Great Britain. But without doubt the factor repre- 4 A bomb was set off near a Sacco anc senting the greatest menace to peace Vanzetti protest meeting nere. Con- siderable damage was dene but none of the workers were injured. The new feature of the international situation is the fact that Great Britain must be made if anything like a bona aS ee Faun ce Ane as a travesty on the labor move-/ within, attempting to destroy our!of our gov'ment,” over which he| COME TO MY ARMS! | fide antecua one trade-union federa- ia the “democracy” ‘of ithe Uanea meus I will quote, to create the | rty.” | Waxed eloquent in praise. All of the | 4 tion is to be created. States, which our Latin-American|Proper atmosphere, that hilarious! pin affair became a comedy when |2dministration delegates praised our| The essential content of the Gom- pers and Green policies is the same of course. And Green’s bland hypocrisy, no less than Gompers’ lofty preoccu- pation, has operated to serve the ends of Monroe-Doctrine i rialism. a st ni f Ihe ; oat “The Grsen Doctine os ane of nation by name but ‘nevertheless byte want to thank you for | within policy. jhite workers, bitterly attacked child} the Nicaraguans termed it at Wash- leaving imputations which are so} idle ‘rip. | It is only necessary to recall the|labor, and bitterly denounced the} ington, fits neatly into place with the whole past direction of the Pan- American Federation of Labor and actually reveals the aims of the or- brothers are advised to confide in and} emulate. | Here is the language of the report itself, skillfully refraining from men- tioning the United States or any other plain that no one can mistake them: In Praise of Democracy. “But in order to make this in- | fluence (for peace) more effective, it poem by Comrade Jim Waters, “An Administration Delegate Reports”: * * * “Well brothers, . I got back from the convention We all had a good time... Most of the boys spent their time in. . .(Fort Frances) That’s sure some town... | “fine old institutions” in the same! « ” mi | | even. “comrade” Mahoney was de-|yyeath that they attacked the force clared to be subsidized by Moscow, | that created these institutions. \ and that his labor journal “The Union| i Advocate” was used by the Commu- nists to further their “boring from part Mahoney played in the Farm- Labor Convention at St. Paul a few years ago. And in the current issue |he devotes the columns to the agonized URKE, president of the Interna- tional Brother of Pulp and Sulp- ‘legislators. that failed to ratify the}| jchild labor amendment. He spoke in |defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, tho |very briefly. He further declared ganization more clearly than ever be-| is necessary to impress upon the They don’t have keys in that | appeal by the Sigman-Hillman clique|that the greatest historical event in| fore. Thanks to the opposition of, peoples that they should demand of | town... |to be true to the old “union,” de-|labor’s history was the rise to jc-wer| Martinez of Venezuela, Green was| their governments the application Whiskey . . . two dollars a quart |nouncing the handful of paid Russian of the workers in . . . England, evi-| obliged tq elaborate his “doctrine” at} of the modern principles of true . good stuff... |agents, always referred to as ridic-| dently referring to the labor premier of old, MacDonald. He burst into an| the Washington convention in such! democracy... .” Plenty of beer... ulously small in numbers in one para-| 9% | | detail that the abstract generaliza-| As a matter of fact the point of We sure had plenty to drink ... | graph, and in the next, what a hell | epiler of eloquence when he spoke| t tions of his inaugural address took on! view put forward in every statement And women... a man’s a hog of a lot of trouble these Lenin agents | a Sam, good old Sam Gompers. | flesh and blood. Indeed their features| of the P. A. F. of L. on international) that wants better variety. .. . do cause? Mahoney in an editorial (he he paused for applause, but the | stood out so sharply that no one who|Trelations,—expressed sometim in Pa aia ‘rather gloomily comments on the dark ,@Ucience was strangely unresponsive, caught a glimpse of them at Wash- ington can fail to recognize them again. What is the purpose of this “labor instrument of the Monroe Doctrine” which goes by the name of the Pan- American Federation of Labor? The character of the organization, its methods and some of its secondary aims have been dealt with already in the course of these-articles. The the mere turn of a phrase, or insinua- ted in the general tone of address— is that the United States government is the loving elder sister of the Latin- American nations who should be looked to for guidance and leader- ship. Sister may make mistakes in her treatment of her rds, she may ad- minister too harsh a thrash and then, occasionally she hibit a fleeting egoistic tenden Also refer to the three brilliant car- toons by Bob Minor entitled, “The Slave Auction at El Paso,” “Gompers at the Gates,” and “The Dead Hand.”| UST the fact that the convention was held at International Falls, almost the most northerly point in the state, is an indication of the calibre of these labor lieutenants of imperial- ism. Bear in mind that Ontario, across disruptive head (unnamed) that has destroyed the equanimity of the old Minneapolis gang. Yet this Mahoney was labelled as a Red agent! ! ! 'N Monday a mass meeting was held | at the local theatre, addressed by the venerable Farmer-Labor con- }gressman, Carrs, éspouser of the Watson-Parker Law, on what Con- until Hall, who presided began to} clap), (See the three cartoons men-| tioned above, especially ‘““Gompers at the Gates.”) | HE state of labor must not be} judged wholely by the Minnesota | Federation of Labor. Labor here is! undergoing a painful process of} {waking up. | | N_ Anti-war and Sacco-Vanzetti! - ; ¥ . i ti 1 whi y got . 4 present article is an attempt to set/she is essentially good-hearted andthe jine, has just repudiated its pro- eatin, ope File ag aa = pemonatretion was held in the | * forth the central purpose of the in-| generous. : B hibition laws, and that beer, wine, and/ ghow- him! | city » wel _ attended. Lundeen, | | strument which we have been de-| Naturally the elder-sister attitude! pichey i a Not 1 jpartner with “Lindy’s” father during} y ABE a Soke SE ha whiskey are in abundance. Not long) 54 understand of course Congress th Hee Mge N REET cos f -saaieac does not jibe very well with the/ago a local Elmer Gantry, attending 1... the “sole” right to declare war:| cine sr ners Prick throwing) 4 _The Panaman Treaty. theory of “equal responsibility” ex-\ a °convention of Baptist Rain-makers,| 275 at ciies costo? them is not | period of the world war, gave a} Considerable illumination is pro- pressed. in the resolution of the) poferred to International Falls as the! |powerful speech on the present war| t vided by the action of the Washington convention with regard to the pend- Washington convention regarding the Panama treaty—but it is only another wickedest town in the state, abound- that this peaceful (?) war is one of the foulest events in United States | trends. Mahoney made a speech that! | was passable and aroused the ire of | : i vith brothels, blind-pigs, speak- |}; ei sant : ing treaty between the United States aspect of a uniform general method| ® Se kee immoral’ stamping | aseory at Na oe see consult! one local 100. per center who de-| : and Panama. Readers of The DAILY which the P. A. F. of L. uses without | CA's) Oe OM Oo them about it. If slaughtering is to| manded if Mahoney was in the pay of | i WORKER will remember that the particular regard to outward con-| be ‘done.’ Congress. wants to at least) mi cia Duncan, ex-mayor of Butte, | ' new treaty which the United States Government has been trying to fasten upon the already mutilated “Republic of Panama” would destroy all serious pretense of Panaman_ sovercigniy and is so abhorrent to the people of sistency. Those “Unfortunaté Blunders.” The P. A. F. of L, does not simply ignore the manifold aggressions of American imperialism. That would be impossible. It endeavors to ex jprowvabiy seem, we sarge paper mill, 100 per aple wool vj a. W. pacKus (42 aM wut luce aeclupung Vo vrend ve 10Cal scaaers wonouesty — taey are nonest enougn, vue us | hold the pail to catch the blood in!!! | 'URPHY, somewhere from the Min- | nesota steppes, made an impas- |sioned plea for the McNary-Haugen jtalked on Sacco and Vanzetti. | |@O passed another convention. (The | | Anti-war demonstration was not, | |r believe, sanctioned by the Federa-| [bill, declaring that it was the great-| tion it was a radical offshoot of the! same body). The administration | Panama that even the servile Pana- man legilature has thus fap refused to ratify it. The Pan-American Fede- ration of Labor convention—in which | tjnited States government as delegates from Panama were supposed alist tienes “ee " Pp ist instrument. s to be participating—took up the incidents as the mass of 300 question of the treaty and passed a Nicaraguans at Ocotal are presented resolution upon it. »” or “the .. Here is the resolution: “WHEREAS, a new treaty is pending between the United States -and Panama, negotiations concern- ing ,which are still in progress; therefore be it “RESOLVED, plain them away, always avoiding the course of laying responsibility at of the the door of imperialism or as the result of a “mistake, klessness of a subordinate,” “bad and interested advice.” | The effect to conceal from the workers in the United States as well as those in Latin Amer that it is not mere “excesses” which must be that we express our earnest desire that the new ; ‘ialist development in which| pay or Moscow. ‘Lhe enactments are| modity was silk, product of mulberry cultivation. At ‘A ¢ tantd may help to cement the ada aleiasen? pi by no means|vecoming stricter each year. ARTICLE Il. the beginning of the century China was the greatest silk hina A Pn aerd Bike ii shi : z a ; A gen 5 - ‘s what was expected o: i = raternal friendship between the | accidental. que only way a Communist Union Insuch slight attention as has been given to: the producer, exporting twice as much as Japan. By 19165, gata: thitend Satta i Ea two peoples, leaving untouched the Told to Shut Up. or| combatted but a systematic course of | i*eaeration’s chet fascist, hall, in the movugniy imefrectuai, since wey 40! were aroused, and that any man who vt muyw the ieasi lung abouv We! bongs for Coolidge had better go Gass-sMuggie) Baye Soluce jusUtICa-| bok and tell Cal what we think of won Tor tne cuoile, but remeniver that! yi cven iabor Takers must presence a re-| > ; : WILL exeuse Murphy’s evident spectamie iron, iy. LL AC a previous convention the con-} idealization of the MceNary-Haugen jest bill yet created, that the farmers | |tion—it was a radical off-shoot of the | | good beer in, Fort Frances, the wild) {women in International Falls and Ranier, and of the drubbing they gave | the Reds, especially that Russian agent, Mahoney. | —Moore in Moscow Pravda. ilow thankful the capitalists are to the socialists of Vienna for their suppression of the revolt. selvacives pusned thru an -enact- mene that virtually exciudes all mili- tance savor Members. ‘his enactment} was aimed primarily at matnaway or Wie MacNiMow UMlun and his pand oF porces itym Wicnin,’ put all progess- ives are OI course, in the eyes Oo. tne; man, tor instance, can take his plight of the Chinese peasant in the ‘Decline of Ch By EARL BROWDER. i sovereignty of the Republic of Panama; and be it further “RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be sent to BOTH gov- ernments, asking that THEY take “While the Latin-American repre- sentatives may feel that they are suffering from many injustices,” de- clared President Green in a rebuke to delegate Martinez at Washington, | seat, is if he disavows, berore the en- |tire delegation, his party member- ship. HF wty-nine progressives, a rew lof them Communists, did gain seats, and these fitty-nine progressives were since 1911, The trouble, however, is has been customary to blame his ills upon the militarists and upon the civil war which has raged intermittently American press, it much deeper than inese Agriculture The second most important agricultural export com- Japan had taken over so much of the silk trade as to equal China. By 1918, Japan supplied 44% of the world silk supply, while China had dropped. to 31%. loss of the silk market had catastrophic effects in the Province of Kwantung, contributing materially to the growth of the revolution in the South, from whence it } (Continued from columa 2) paralyze their resistence and have the way for complete subjugation—not only to Green and Wofl but to Wall Street and Washington. Green’s closing speech at the Wash- ington convention told the handpick to struggle against American im- perialism it insisted in the most de- liberate way, on the necessity of dis- arming Latin-American suspicions! Green’s Final Instructions. China’s this. Militarism and civil war have simply intensified a-tendency already existing. Chinese agriculture en- tered into a deep-going crisis simultaneously with the final breakdown of the self-sufficing economy of the countryside under the impact of foreign machine-civili- zation. This may be dated somewhere in the last quar- ter of the 19th century. Data on Crops. It is very difficult to get reliable statistics on any it into consideration when negotia- ting a new treaty.” (Emphasis “mine.—M. G.). Equal Responsibility. No protest is registered he fe against the outrage which Wall Street and Washington have proposed to perpetrate against the people of; Panama. There is not a hint that the} United States government is to blame, for the treaty that was drawn up.! has flooded over all China. The Food Staple. And now consider the basic product of the land—rice. China is predominantly agricultural, 85% of her people living directly upon the land. Yet she cannot produce | enough rice to feed her own people. Not only that; the shortage is increasing year by year. Rice productién is declining. In 1910, China was already importing rice to the amount of 24 million taels per year; in 1925 this | This last word of Green’s so clearly betrays the purposes of the so-called Pan-American Federation of Labor that I shall let it be the final word of the present article also: “What is needed most of all is confident trust and faith among ~ the peoples of Latin America and + the United States. A large per- centage of Latin-Americans have a suspicion and distrust of the Uni- “the Pan-American Federation of La- bor is not a clearing house for all the political grievances of the Latin- American countries.” And further along... . “Never would the people of the United States support any adminis- tration IF AT ANY TIME IT AT- TEMPTED to seize one foot of territory from any Latin-American sponsible tor most of the militant solutions. ‘hey introduced a strong condemnation or Governor #uller ang | lasked for the immediate pardoning} ‘of Sacco and Vanzetti, this resolution |was accepted at the rirst draft. | [bey also introduced a strong pro-| test on the high-handed way the| !“strong and silent cowboy” was con- ducting affairs in Nicaragua, Mexico | The fiction is maintained that the’ "ation. But the American People /and Cina, which was also accepted.| phase of Chinese economy; this difficulty is especially | °*¢ inctessed to 62 million taels. | ted States. That suspicion, that Ritidi Righes aud) Pansvia.aee onan 0 me kegs oe atl oy ate. | Betore adjournment, however, the es - abut i nt The cause of this decline of agriculture lies in the distrust should be removed. If we f equal basis in this matter, and BOTH| aaagge 7a ABAG a ake qomenes fd | conservatives woke up to the fact that| 8™eat In case of agriculture. ut enough is known to | fact that for years, since the invasion of foreign eco-| are to develop commerce, trade, un- _ governments are ed to work out| ely TCARAG ete, against | the “Reds” (including brother William! trace the broad outlines of this, and of most of the major { nomic forces broke up the old economic balance, the derstanding and confidence among { aggression on the part of any Euro- pean nation.... But instead of denouncing our government it seems to me that the representa- tives of every weak nation in Latin |Mahoney) had put one over on them, problems. We know definitely that Chinese agriculture So Oe et Geek sole: ©! has been breaking dow). ‘lor more than thirty years. This can be most clearly’ {itaced in the export crops, be- HE Sacco-Vanzetti resolution be-/ bis Nast ‘ 3 came if the final draft, a very | ¢ause customs statistics are the most comprehensive fee hacer arctan pitta ea | humble plea for clemency; the “strong | and reliable. stand firmly and squarely behind | and silent cowboy resolution became | the Monroe Doctrine. . .. We have \a futile watery and craven “protest.' i many wrongs that must be righted |This you understand, was done pri- | of course. We have not reached marily as a slap at the radical bes the milennium.” lority. The Sacco-Vanzetti case con- } To Disarm Latin-America. cerns, at this time, more than be | I think we can now answer the | thing else, barring Pe Bc Soviet | {question posed at the outset of the | Russia, the workers vitally, yet these | en ticle\ | political and labor shysters castrated [2eamG cursus ot tha’ deieatied Pare the resolutions of all effectiveness Asieicas Federation of Labor is to|®imply because they were “engendered ¢ : dlaavin ‘the Latins American “workers| 0% one: eae! been in the yearn 1907-10, China is thus rapidly losing THe greater part of the convention| one of her principal agricultural markets—the world tea in the face of American imperialism, (Continued on column 7) was spent in attacking the “Reds.” trade. _& peasant has been more and more robbed of all his sur- plus and accumulations, which has step by step taken away all his incentive to produce more than barely | enough to exist upon. The forms of this robbery have been peculiar to China, In the next article I will ex- plain how the peasantry have been stripped by their native exploiters. someth:ng satisfactory in the future! ! In other words, instead of taking steps to defend Panama against imperialism the P. A. F. of L. covers up the crime by a hyprocritical as- sumption of joint responsibility, and, with a pious wish that everything} may be all right, leaves tiny Panama) to the mercy of the United States| government. The crime is not only} covered up but it is excused in ad-| vance, for are not both governments | negotiating on an equal basis? In much the same way, the P. A. F, of L. expatiates in general on the necessity “of peace and friendly re- | lations on the western continent”— i as if international peace in this part of the world were something depen- dent on the attitude of all nations in equal measure the peoples of the continent, it must be removed. The Pan-American Federation of Labor can serve ina / wonderful way in removing sus- picion and creating a common un- derstanding. ... “May I suggest that ON YOUR RETURN HOME YOU REMEM- BER THE SENTIMENTS E PRESSED HERE, and inspired b those sentiments, YOU BE Al BASSADORS TO PROMOTE TH SPIRIT OF COOPERATION TO WHICH I HAVE REFERRED IN THESE REMARKS. Let us raise the standard of citizenship in all nations on the American continent. For all this we can unite, we Amer- icans laying aside our prejudices and you Latin-Americans your sus- picions.” The Tea Export. Tea has long constituted one of the chief agricultural products of China, In 1880, 45% of all China’s exports | was tea; by the end of the century it had dropped to 18%; in 1919 it was further reduced to 8%, while by 1921 it was but slightly more than 2%. Great Britain purchased 16% of hor tea from China at the boginning of the century; in 1926 her purchases dropped to slightly more than 2%, The money valuo of toa oxports, aver- ago per year for 1928-25, was loss than half what it had SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters from its readers stating their views on the issues con- fronting the labor movement. It is our hope to de- volop a “Letter Box” department that will be of wide interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family. Send in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” The DAILY WORKER, 38 First street, New York City.