The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1927, Page 2

ave Two MEXIGAN TROOPS CORNER GOMEZ, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1927 WALL STREET'S AGENT OF REACTION (Continued from Page 1) Obregon Defies Reaction. General Obregon has issued the fol- owing statement: “The Calles government has had eloquent opportunity demon- strate to the world that its policies have merited sa whole country, bec n Gomez-Serrano revolutionary move- ment being attempted, the entire nation with very rare exceptions condemned the movement, prot ed adhesion to the government readiness to uphold with arms necessary the institutions th the government represents and has known so successfully how to de- fend. “Tf the Gomez-Serrano effort had an echo in the public con- Science, its movement would not have been confined to half a dozen faithless army supported by their subordinates, but, imstead, th would have been many outbreaks which would have Surged spontaneously among the Civilian elements of the te@ns and rural district , “But now the nation will be cof- Gomez Incapable. yinced that among the the revolution has br the incomparable bene impossible that ce) not even i fruits us of making umph of is the tx military revolution can be a deci- sive factor in our political paigns, but, on the contr: ing that such questions a settled by a democratic campaign, judged exclusively by public opin- cam- ion. “With regard to Gomez, there never was any danger that he would succeed in grouping around his personality any significant nu- cleus of members of the army. His vanity caused him to consider him- self superior to everybody else, for which other army officers could not pardon him for the errors into which false friends led him. “These friends profited so much while Serrano was governor of the federal district, that they figured hew much more would they profit if Serrano were president, and so they proclaimed him their candi- date. Serrano Misled. “Serrano, despite his graciousness and talent, had not had contact with the popular soul and spirit of the nation, nor had he ever done anything which constituted a guar- antee of the interests of the prole- tariat of the towns and country, as \C., directed by J. M. Alvarez del Cas-| Bureaucrats of A. F. L.| Opposed to the interests of reac- | tion within or without our countr “The recent tragic developmen may surprise foreign and superfi- cial observers, but not those of us who being in the fight for all these years, know the elements opposing the triumph of the Mexican revo- lution. “Those “elements succeeded in alluring Gomez to their designs, understanding that they could not control public opinion enough in a fair democratic election and de- termining to resort to an attempt at arms. “T told friends early in the presi- dential election campaign that within ninety days my opponents, seeing their inability to win in a but that, because of the organiza- | Hermosillo which Serrano encountered by not heeding my warning quickly enough. “Upon my arrival in this neigh- borhood I was at on nucleus of faithful friends and lat- er by a strong detachment of fed- eral troops, who revolted under the leadership of Ge joined by a | ral Hector Ig- | nacio Almada as a protest against | the illegal imposition of Obri nd the attempt to assassinate F: and myself, “With these supporters I propos to undertake a campaign in defense of the principle of anti-re-election- ism. I expect soon to make my headquarters in the city of Vera | Cruz, and will at once issue a mani- festo to the Mexican and American people and to the world at large, nt events, making it appear as ones responsible.” The text of the telegram Gomez was given out at the head- quarte and clerical group in Wa hington, D. tillo. Another telegram sent by the reactionary Mexican senator, Ugarte, making apparently unfounded i i suce of the was also given to the pre: of Senator Ugarte’s teleg “Marked prog: past four hours from military stand- point, Forces in State Vera Cruz now exceed 6,000 men, which are executing a major movement with secret objective, having completely eluded Bolshevik (meaning the Callies) columns in vicinity Perote. “In Jalisco practically all impor- tant points are in our hands, with ruadalajara cut off and its capture le. action, am reads: twenty- 1 possession of region in the south and rapid concentration of elements progr throughout border states, where in Sonora and Coa- huila we expect engagements take place within next few days. “Although this resort to arms was forced upon us by the atro- cious actions of Calles, Obregon and Morones and we had made no preparations or dispositions for warfare, the forces of General Gomez throughout Mexico now ex- Tehuantepec ceed 15,000 men and are growing | hourly in a movement destined to | sweep Bolshevik clique into oblivion and place Mexico again within the pale of ¢ivilization.” + * Gomez Troops Fleeing. EL PASO, Texas, Oct, 9.—Federal troops, under General Jose Escobar, have occupied Triunfo Ranch, near Orizaba, but found that the Gomez- Almada troops had fled to the east- ward, according to a Mexico City of- ficial dispatch received here. Federal aviators are now scouting striving to locate the reactionist forces, General Jose Moran, General Luis and Colonel Barrios Gomez are reported to have been exe- cuted in Mexico City. Obregon Leaving For West. Federal troops have been sent in pursuit of Jesus and Antonio Azurar, e i }who are reported to have taken the fair election, would resort to arms, | tion, discipline and high sense of | duty of the army, very few mili- tary elements would follow them, and the effort would be a complete failure. My prediction verified.” has been Gomez Fulminates. The statement of the counter- tevolutionary general, Gomez, as sent abroad to his agents there is as fol- lows: “Perote, Vera Cruz.—Please in- form the American people that my present attitude has: been forced upon me by intrigues hatched by Alvaro Obregon, who has taken ad- vantage of the weakness of Pres- ident Calles, whom I have always | considered sincere. “Tt is well known among Mexi- «ans that if I had prepared a revo- lution, the present events would |tions of certain United field at the head of a band of reac- tionary elements. General Obregon has informed his wife that he is leaving Mexico City for Sonora and the west coast. Federals have seized a thousand rifles at San Felipe, San Luis Potosi, claiming the arms were intended for supporters of General Gomez. Editor Charged With Treason. ining the methods through | 1 Obregon precipitated the Serrano and myself were the |his wif of the reactionary landlord thru he | } Veen banged on the table too hard. King of Bootleggers | | | | 1 | | | | | : , | PRT | Geo, R r his money. | Persecute Mexicans (Continued from Page 1). Communists. An instance of red baiting is the} ref from the local Cleaners and Dyers} Union, the other from the Bookkeep- ers, Stenographers and Accountants nion. They were charged with being} Communists. Rotten Wood in Calif. The gavel, which was so ceremoni- ously presented to Green with the r mark that it was made of “Californi. wood by California union labor, ete.”, did not stand much abuse. It is a| wreck today as the result of having} Green made good use of this incident Lauds Growing Power Baldwin Praises Yellow | of British Communists The Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica has sent its greetings to the British Communist Party Convention at ( |ton Hall, Salford, Manchester, Eng-|of the Communist Party of the U R., shows by Premier Baldwin’s| land. The complete text of the message follows: Text of Message. October 8, 1927. Communist Party Convention. Caxton Hall, Salford, Manchester, England. Comradely greetings to the Ninth s, who recently murdered} Congress of the British Brother Par- | he made big money in|ty, which thru its tremendous striig-| |moonshine whiskey, and lost it to a|¢les of the past year and a half has} from Prohibition agent who not only put/taken its place in the foremost ranks | |him in jail but stole his wife, and|of the Communist International. The general strike and the coal strike, left trade union and labor party lead- ers have nevertheless pushed forward ithe class history.of the British work- | bligations signed by them in 192 ers and raised the tasks of the Com- munist Party to a higher stage as an The text | left wing in the unions, and all known | example of the struggle against the trade union. bill. This must arouse unprecedentedly isal of the crednetials committee | wide masses, helping to disillusion the | neidatiate ee : ito seat two left wing delegates, one| workers to the role of the state and | Petialists along the whole front of the so-called British democracy, the | role of the treacherous left reform- s and showing the need of revolu- tionary leadership, which only the! Communist Party can supply. The} British Party now has riper experi ence and equipment for. the impera | tive fight against the war danger and | in defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese revolution. A successful Chinese revolution | means the great and immediate ac- celeration ‘of the British revolution; | therefore every blow struck now in| |and exused himself in a most subtle| the defense of our proletarian broth- | |manner to the effect that he had not/ ers in China is additional impetus to- | yet rid himself of the ways in which) wards the liberation of millions cf | | he formerly hardled a pick while} working in the coal mines. That no} one of the delegates seemed to re-| British workers and ®ppressed col- onial peoples. Greeting you from the present cen- | |member the days of the dim past|tor of the most militant reaction, EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 9.—Felix| Pallavicini, founder of the Mexico! City newspaper El Universal has | been arrested at Mexico City and in-| = dicted on charges of treason and fo- menting rebellion against the Calles government. Adolfo De La Huerta, former pro- | = visional president of Mexico and in- timately connected with the opera- States busi- ness interests in Mexico, has openly | the when he actually was a miner did not} seem to disturb Green in the least. Lewis Lies Low. There is much speculation among! the delegates as to the conspicuous! absence of John L. Lewis. The dele- “Labor” will be addressed by Gen-| eral Summerall, commander-in-chief | of the military forces of the Califor-| nia division, Asks U. 8. For More Naval Bases. The Metal Trades Department will) ask the U. S. government to establish | permanent naval bases at San Diego. |In a speech before the convention, President O’Connell advocated that} unions inaugurate benefit schemes to} counter-act the benefical schemes | that some employers put into effect | among non-union men. | President O’Connell and John P.} | Frey, who succeeded A. J. Berres, as secretary of the department when the latter resigned to take a position with the motion-picture producers were re-elected without opposition. Frey was the A. F. of L. delegate to| Geneva Economic Conference, | where he sneered at the Russian dele- | gation’s “intellectuals, who profess to | be for Labor.” | Patronize Our Advertisers. | where Wall Street issues its challenge |to the workers of the world in the cold-blooded murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, the American (Communist) Party trusts you will aid in exposing the unexampled bru- dangerous enemy of the toilers of all countries. AID IN BRITISH Imperialist Lackeys MOSCOW, U.S. “y Oct, t | reactiona leaders of | trade unions, Pravda, official organ S. | speech at the conservative par |gress that his compliments addressed to the reformists deserves special at- tention of the working class of the world. MacDonald, other leaders con- Thomas have and shown by the all their actions that they are reliable | ideologists of British imperialism, blaming in words but supporting in fact the latter’s policy in regard to the U. 8. S. R., China and India,” declares Pravda. Support War Mongers. “Nobody can doubt any more that jin case of war with the Soviet Union \altho betrayed by right and so-called | the reformist leaders will give active }support to the British government. |The trade union leaders break all | binding them to fight against capi- |talist offensive and war danger, to | struggle for unity of the world trade junion movement. These obligations jare broken only that their hands ma be free to join with their own im- the class struggle. Most Shameful Betrayal. “The internatjonal labor movement has never seen more shameful treachery. This treachery is named | socialist imperialism. But the move- ment against this betrayal is already WORKERS’ PARTY MACDONALD & C0, cro unt esi GREETS BRITISH PARTY CONGRESS WAR CONSPIRACY’ )— Rip-} ping the hypocritical mask from the} the British| Declares Hunger Strike, Want Immediate Release | (Special Cable to Daily Worker). SHANGHAI, Oct. 9. Reports from Tsinan state that the crew, of the Pamiat Lenina (U. S. S. R.) vessel confiscated by the northern, strike to protest against the re-| jfusal of the Chinese authorities | either to release them or set a date for trial. t || Reports received here state that} driven from Kichiang (forty kilo-| meters northwest of Swatow) and! |yetreating from the neighboring | villages still attempted to offer) resistance, As Chaojang is oceupied by gov- | | ernmental troops, Holung’s army, some five thousand men, retreated | to Wei-koo, where they were: ‘at-% |tacked by Kwantung troops. “He-} {lung himself is said to be severely | wounded. { Patriotism Stimulated By War. Says Pershing That the World War, in which ap- proximately fifteen millions of peo- | ple were killed and permanently in- ripening in the ranks of the British| proletariat and history is already dig- ging grave wherein social imperial- jism will be forever. buried with im- perialism.” ANTED — MORE READERS! IT A NEW READER! WwW G \ red, was worth while for America, because under its “stimulus the Amer- ican people rose to the sublime heights of patriotism” and that they fought that “tl government might endure” is the message offered by General John J. Pershing to mothers who lost their sons in the war in the No- vember issue of McCall’s magazine. The article contains a violent at- tack, against those who are seeking to prevent a new world war. Houghton To Sail Soon. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Ambassa- dor Alanson B. Houghton will leave England for this country on board the Leviathan on Tuesday, the state department announced yesterday. BUY THE DAILY WORKER Current Events m } | T. J. O'FLAHERTY | | (Continued from Page 1). | munication between Washington and | Mexico City possibl.e. Coolidge, Kel- Workers | oigg, Sheffield and Morrow are all servants of the same system, no mat- ter how different their temperaments |gate list does not show him as having) tality of Americim imperialism which } nay pe. jbeen elected as a delegate from the | heside British imperialism is the most } | miners’ union. | * * * HE reason given by the Hearst correspondent for the alleged in CENTRAL COMMITTEE, /tention of the United States for re- Workers (Communist) Party. Lovestone, Executive Secretary. Clash Between Poland” | and Lithuania Likely As Situation Tightens WARSAW, Oct. 9.—The situa- tion between fascist Poland and fascist Lithuania is more tense fol- lowing today’s visit of Dictator Marshal Pilsudski to Vilna to at- tend the celebration of the anni- versary of the Polish occupation of Vilna. Serious developments, including open hostilities are considered pos- sible. Several frontier incidents are reported. BY Register Now! for JUBILEE TOUR B | | fusing to recognize Obregon, should 'he be elected, is as flimsy as it is {sinis r., The United States govern- iment’s policy is not to recognize any {Latin American government that | gains power by force! This is surely ;worthy of British diplomacy in its palmiest days. What about Nicara- (gua? There the usurper Diaz has been protected in his trickety seat {by United States bayonets and thou- | sands of Nicaraguans have been (slaughtered by American marines to ;make Nicaragua safe for the fascist | dictator. Shes ee | HERE is political dynamite in the present Mexican crisis. The polit- jical machine of the catholic church is working on two hemispheres against |the Calles regime. It wants to re- |store the government to the feudal tools of the wealthy landowners, and to win back for the papacy the im- ‘mense wealth that was confiscated |for the nation by the revolution. The papacy has made an alliance with Wall Street. It is a powerful com- ‘bination. It is an unprincipled al- lance, as are all combinations be- tween elements that flourish on the exploitation of others. It will never cease conspiring while there is hope of success left. : * iN the face of this danger, there is hardly a peep of opposition from those American eleraents that are sy usually in opposition to Wall Street, | at least on the surface the Com- despite its shortcomings and its many sins against the workers, it is holding the “thin red line” in Mexico against American imperialism and feudal reaction. F ® * Becauey, George Washington Cooke, founder of the Central La- bor Union of Hudson County, New Jersey, was not given a union funeral, charges have been preferred against the district council of the Painters’ Union of which Cooke was a member, That there is at least one union un- dertaker in New Jersey can be gleaned from a notice sent to mem- bers of organized labor by a former member of the teamsters’ union who solicits the patronage of his former fellow workers on the ground that it is more soothing to be borne to one’s last resting place by a union chauf- feur than by a non-union driver.. We suggest that if there are any union undertakers that find time hanging heavy on their hands to start an embalming process on the labor busi- ness men now in session at Los Angeles. Tee do it on you every once in a while! The International Con- gress for Psychic Research was about to finish its deliberations in the pleasant city of Paris when Theresa Neumann, a blind girl of Germany, succeeded in getting the congress’ ear with one of the most remarkable yarns of a miraculous cure ever spawned out of a fertile brain. The girl is said to have regained her eye- sight in 1924 after a period of in- tense religious devotion, but on every Friday since then she has shed tears of blood with red spots appearing at the same time on her side, the palms of her hand and her feet. A con- vention of callused longshoremen would have treated this tale to a squirt of, tobacco juice, but the psychics decided to visit the girl. * * * * * *« TE ease with which confidence men ‘THREE BATTLES IN CHINA WILL established the nertheast of Kwangtung. MENACE PEKING ‘Peasant Insurrection war-lords) have declared a hunger) | Also Spreads in South PEKING, China, Oct. — Heavy fighting is reported south of Peking between forces of Chang Tso-lin and | Holung’s troops after having been| | hose of the governor of Shansi, Yen an. The government Chang has here claims that their repulsed the prov: ial army at Paotingfu, eighty-five miles from this city. Another Battle Soon. The authenticity of these dispatches is not established. Chang has not in the past hesitated to issue misleading statements. At the Nankow pass, where Yen’s army is within thirty miles of Peking, there was reported relative quiet, at Nankow regular en- trenchments are being dug by both armies. Fighting néar Tsangchow, in south- jeastern Chili province between a has- tily embled army of Chang Tso- lint’ ly. Chang Tsung-chang, the present tyrant of Shantung province, and Feng Yu-hsiang, is expected, « ¥ More Peasant Revelts. SHANGHAT, Sept. 26 (By Mail). — The advance army of the rovolution- ary armies of Yeh-ting and Ho-lung towards the frontier of Kwangtung has caused great peasant it.surrections in the Chaon and Meikang districts, whose aim it is to support the advanc- ing revolutionary armies. The troops of Reh-ting are advancing at the mo- ment in the direction of Chauchow to The troops sent.from Canton by Li Chi- shen are retreating rapidly in face of the revolutionary armies. The rev- olutionary peasant movement is grow- ing in the neighborhood of Changsha and in the eastern part of the Hunan province to which governmental troops have been dispatched, The execution of Communists in Wuhan (Hankow) is being continued. The latest victims of the white terror are Comrades Wang Shi-min, Li Hai- cheng and Chau Lung. Starts Paris-Buenos Aires Flight. PARIS, Oct. 9.—Lieut. Costes will leave tomorrow morning on his 7,000 mile flight to Buenos Aires. He exe pects to make the journey from France to South America in four hops. The first leg of the journey will bea to St. Louis, in Senegal. A a Ready Now! { Lenin’s great work appear- ing in English for the first time Materialism and Empirico- Criticism Volume XIII in the only au- thorized English translation, made from the revised and edited texts prepared by the Lenin, Institute in Moscow. ‘munists and the Communists sym- | pathizers excepted. The A. F. of Lic! ‘convention is busily engaged attack- \ing the radicals and belly-crawling to the capitalists. The socialists are (Seratching Al Smith’s midriff with | admitted his alignment with the coun- | ter-revolutionary attempt. Huerta is at present in Los Angeles and it is not known if he intends to cross the |border. It was his brother, Alfonso, | who was executed by federals at No- | and small-bore swindlers get away with the nickels and dimes of the , workers can be seen any day on the city’s streets. Here is one fellow selling a “little book which I hold be- tween my forefinger and my thumb, have developed in a very different manner—given my military capa- ety, my experience and knowledge of the ground on which I find my- seli. Ing revolution: figures fell ini reactionary tosophy that proy- ed a positive SOVIET RUSSIA Few Reservations Open “But my conduct since I first ac- cepted the nomination of the anti- re-electionist party for the presi- dency of the republic has been one of strict legality and observance of ovr democratic code. “When, in spite of this, I learned shat there was a plot on foot to as- galee, Sonora, yesterday. The expected battle between the counter-revolutionaries and federals| in the mountains of the state of Vera | | Cruz “has” not yet’ developed, accord- ing to word received here. The fed-| erals are said to be moving slowly | Sailing October 14th, 1927, via Cunard liner “Carma- nia” and return Dec. 15th (8 weeks) to LONDON — HELSINGFORS one hand and slapping Tammany’s red-light. posterior with the other. Or else they are worrying about what Obregon may do after he is elected. Dr. Norman Thomas, is hearing dis- quieting rumors about Obregon. parently Wall Street is listening at the same keyhole. The liberals can- ‘and swept Germany four years ago. x _in your pocket and show it to nobody Ap-) that was translated from the German I will sell it to you only on one con- dition and that is that you place it until you get home. And if you are a married man please don’t purchase The yokels will produce their ger to the re on. 4 Lenin exposes this atti brilliantly, in a ke a of dialectic material its relation to other sys: of philosophy. For the first time this great communist classic is present- ed in English for Amertcan workers, It is sure to be used in all worker's schools and ms through the mountains in an effort to encircle the enemy. | A Federal Eight-Hour| Law for Women Sought 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—A woman | | member of congress has carried to sassinate both Serrano and myself, in oreer to clear the way of Al- varo Obregon to the presidency, I warned Serrano and fled from Mex- co Citys thus esca) e fate For $10.27 Money Order I will ship to any worker and it should be in every worker's library. In a beau- tiful edition, cloth bound, $3.00 Also by LENIN LENIN ON ORGANIZATION STA ‘not get their minds off the dead re-,dimes thinking they are getting an |actionary militarists that dropped to) eye-full of Boccaccian literature, and ‘the music of Calles’ firing squads.|sneak away to the nearest alley to Only the Communist and militant! take a look at their buy. The book |Left Wing in the labor movement—) turns out to be a collection of cheap unfortunately yet weak—call on the| Jokes. The salesman laughs when he American masses to give their ut-jexhausts the purchasing possibilities most support to the Calles govern-{of his crowds and prepares for the ment in the present crisis, because next batch of boobs. - LENINGRAD — MOSCOW ae. Gala Tenth Anniversary Celebrations ENTIRE COST $600.00. $1.50 AND ~ =. - REVOLUTION 25, 25 Ibs. best dried Prunes President Coolidge a proposal for a Lo DAPRRALION Be 25 Ibs. Sultana Raisins | new constitutional amendment guar- ! CORRECTION IN DRESS OF NATIONAL OFFICE Fae co << Pepgyeed Sotho 25 Ibs. Figs | anteeing an eight-hour work day for Appl To d a i : A 4 CKNE: 25 Ibs. dried Peaches. women in industry. ¥y y . The National Office of the Workers (Communist) Party was origin. ally reported to have been moved to 33 Hast 125th street, New York City. This address is incorrect. The correct address of the National Office is 43 East 125th street, New York City, All comrades should make note of the change because much mail is going astray as a of the incorrect address. All mail intended for the National Office be addressed: Workers Party, 43 East 125th | New S eeietneieeienetitetneteateeedl ne All new pack and fine quality. LOUIS BERGOLD Roseburg, Oregon. . | The author of the proposed amend- | | ment, Mrs. ‘Edith Nourse Rogers (R),| of Massachusetts, declared that she) would introduce her resolution on the | first day of the new session of con-| gress. ) World Tourists, Inc. 69 Fifth Ave., New York ‘YELMPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 y 4 ,