The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1927, Page 6

elements. Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Phone, Orchard 1680 Cable Address: “Daiwork SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months $2.50 three months 2.00 three months Address and mai! and make o THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER...... mail at the post-office the det of XN 8 Editors Business Manager under yay Counter-Revolution in Mexico In Mexico an effort at counter-revolution_ i Mexican leaders on ‘the payroll of United States capital is being} made. The latest evidence is the public statement of the notor- ious agent of American oil speculators, Adolfo de la Huerta, once a Wall Street president of Mexico through assassination, who ad- mits his connection with the revolt led by Gor The state-| ments of Gomez, and more especially the telegram of the reac-| tionary Senator Ugarte, published in yesterda DAILY WORK- ER, in which Ugarte refers to the Calles’ armed forces as “Bol- sheviks,” show that the appeal of the de la Huerta-Gomez group is more or less frankly to American imperialism. De la Huerta lays his emphasis upon “property rights” and Ugarte, speeking on behalf of Gomez, calls for war against what he calls she “Bol-| sheviks.” The statements of Obregon and those officially given out at the government headquarters in Mexico City, on the other hand, } show that the present petty-bourgeois nationalist government of Mexico has at least some perception of the fact that the menac-} ing counter-revolution of landlord-clerical elements can be effec- tively resisted only by an aroused and armed mass of workers} and peasants. Obregon speaks of “the interests of the proletariat | of the towns and country, as opposed to the interests of the re-| action within or without our country,” and speaks against “ele-| ments opposing the triumph of the Mexican revolution.” * * * In the Gomez-de la Huerta movement counter-revolution is clearly to be seen. | But it is clear that on the other side we have weakness, vacil- lation, and a fear of the masses of workers and peasants even at| the moment when this fear is mixed with the knowledge that only these masses of workers and peasants under arms can defeat the} counter-revolution. Statements by Calles and Obregon say that} the government has known for months that the reaction was pre-| paring for a coup d’etat, and yet the Calles government did noth-| ing. The Calles government repressed the workers as in the case of the railroad strike. It tolerated the preparations of the coun- ter-revolutionary generals. * What is the policy of American imperialism’ The former ambassador, Sheffield, a representative ef United States oil promoters in the crudest sense, had become useless as umbassador. Calles had complained that the oil capitalists were using the method of bribery of petty officials instead of dealing directly with the state; and Calles’ remarks were practically an invitation of American capital to deal directly with the state in- stead of employing such primitive methods. The appointment of a partner of the great Morgan as ambassador fits into this view. While it is probable that just at this time the Morgan group hesi- tates to bring about open intervention, nevertheless its object is to weaken the Mexican government, playing at the same time upon Calles’ fear of the mass activities of workers and peasants, and to bring Calles down to a still more humble willingness to concede to the demands of American capital. There was an attempt to make.a coup d’etat before the ar- rival of the new ambassador, so that a new condition of affairs would be created in which American imperialism would carry on its criminal operations against Mexico. Even if the coup could not be successful, the conditions created by the civil war would be expected to weaken the government and so make the Calles government more willing to compromise with United States im- peérialism. : There is no “new deal” in the replacement of Ambassador ; Sheffield with Ambassador Morrow. There can be shades of difference as to the relative value of immediate intervention on the one hand, or the slower process of intimidation and corrup- tion on the other. But the objects of the United States in Mexico are essentially similar to its objects in Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Porto Rica. The policy of the United States remains what it was before: blood and iron, exploitation on the colonial basis, intimidation and corruption of Mexican petty-bourgeois officials exercising mock “power,” and still more attempts to weaken the €alles or any other government by organizing counter-revolution- ary attempts among the most reactionary landlord and clerical * | | ii | * * * There is absolutely no way of effective resistance to the United States bankers, oil thieves and land looters except the rapid and wholesale rallying and arming of the masses of Mexico's exploited population, the workers and peasants. Only in this way will the counter-attack against the reactionary insurrection as- sume the necessary volume and energy, the necessary willingness to go forward unhesitatingly beyond the limits which petty- bourgeois timidity always fears to cross. The crushing of the counter-revolution must be carried to its logical conclusion with the distribution of the land to the peasants, the improvement of the conditions of the workers and real revolutionary self-govern- ment of the exploited masses. Otherwise the limited gains of seventeen years of intermittant revolution in Mexico will be lost. The Mexican masses will rally for the ruthless extermina- tion of the counter-revolution. Let the American working class open its eyes to the shame- less role of the Green bureaucracy now meeting in the A. F. of L. convention at Los Angeles, which boasts that Mexico has not a labor government and no arming of the labor forces, and which asserts with pride that Mexican labor is being corrupted away | from a program of socialization. The Green bureaucracy only thinly veils the policy of “labor imperialism” under which Amer- ican labor is made a supporter of American finance-capital for the enslavement of Mexican labor. The counter-revolution in Mexico must. be crushed with iron, and the American workers must be made to understand and support the action of the masses of Mexico in the struggle. Vic- tory of the Mexican masses against United States imperialism will be victory for oof labor, 0 meer 5 : | reactionary | |sador, James R. Sheffield, who used “We will sweep the Bolshevik clique into oblivion and piace Mexico again within the pale Mexico in the Good Old Days of civilization.”—Senator Ugarte. By H. M. WICKS. 1 se MORROW, pariner of the} House of Morgan, who has just been | sworn in as ambassador to Mexico, | held a conference at the state depart- ment at Washington with President | Coolidge, Secretary of State Kellogg and former ambassador James R. Sheffield immediately after the first news of the suppression of the revolt against the Calles government came over the wires on October 5th. What conclusions were arrived at} will be known only as the history of the next few months unfolds. But there is one thing certain and that is | that the conference did not deal with | questions favorable to the people of Mexico or to the Calles government | that has heen consistently reviled by all the organs of Wall Street, the | oil barons, the land holders and the} other imperialist ravagers. The na- ture of the conference was sufficient- ly indicated, however, by the publica-} tion of the remarks of the ex-ambas- the American embassy as headquar- | ters for the forgery plots and other | conspiracies against the Calles gov-| crnment. This lackey, who covered himself with infamy by his base at- tacks against the Calles government, declared that the Mexican people were all right but that he had encountered difficulties with the government in his capacity as ambassador. Although the only inkling of what transpired during the conference, it is very significant and clearly indi- cates that the policy that has been pursued toward Mexico was one of trying to incite the Mexicans against the present government, not in their own interests but in order to aid the designs of American imperialism, It was Sheffield who furnished Kel- logg with the flimsy inventions upon which the state department officially intimated that the Mexican govern- ment was fostering “Bolshevist ac- tivities against us in Central Amer- ica.” This was nothing more nor less than official public notice to the ene- mies of the Calles government in Mexico that its elimination would be favorably received in the United States. Obviously an ambassador whose po- sition had forced him to such extreme measures in an effort to destroy the} government to which he was sent could no longer be of service, so he was removed, as his hostile role was perfectly clear, . * * * MEANWHILE the Calles government appeared to gain strength be- cause of the fierce campaign of the United States government against it. So important has Mexico become as the keystone of American imperialist. policy in Latin-America that Wall | Street decided that one of its own men should take charge of the situa- tion.. replacing the ordinary diplo- matic flunkeys. Instead of determin- ing the policy and tactics to be used the United States government hence- forth will simply endorse the Wall Street policy that will be made in Mexico by Morrow. i The conference at the state depart- | ment last Wednesday was a sort of post-mortem on the counter-revolu- tionary attempt of the Gomez-Ser- rano forces. From present indications it is only a question of days until the last remnants of the revolt y will bc jwiped out. The collapse of the in-} surrection assures the election of Ob- regon, who will be no less distasteful to the Wail Street government than is Calles. Morrow, as the trusted spokesman for Wall Street, will now use his of- fice in an attempt to persuade the Mexican government that its one guar- antee of security lies in yielding to the demands of the imperialists. Unquestionably every adroit diplo- matic trick will be used to try to persuade the Mexican government that the insurrectionary attempt was! the exploit of certain small, inde- pendent interests and did not meet with the official sanction of the House of Morgan. Of course, in carrying out the policy forced upon it because of the series of defeats it has met, the Wall Street gang will feign friend- liness for the Mexican people and the bitter struggle between the two gov- ernments over the land and oil laws will be conducted for a time in a mild- er form. But it will be the same pol- icy carried out with new tactics. ei * 'HE real mission of Morrow as an agent of Wall Street ought to be apparent to anyone who professes to understand American imperialist pol- iey. It is to be expected that the capi- talist press will continue to eulogize the appointmert of Morrow and pro- claim a new peaceful era in the de- velopment of relations with Mexico. But that labor writers should harbor such reactionary illusions is almost ineredible. Yet, the Washington cor- respondent of the Federated Press re- leases a news story regarding the Morrow conference that can in no way be distinguished from the dangerous illusions spread by the capitalist press. Says the dispatch from Wash- ington: 3 “Dwight Morrow, just resigned as a-partner in Morgan & Co., to become ambassador to Mexico, had a ‘conference with Secretary of State Kellogg in the latter’s office on Oct. 5th. They talked over the news of the prompt suppression of the latest revolt against the Calles regime and discussed Morrow’s plans for winning the good-will of the Mexican people. “That Morrow will be welcomed in Mexico City because he stands for a new deal in Mexican relations, is tacitly admitted in the depart- ment. He has declared that the military power of the United States | should ‘not he used to collect for- eign debts. Mexicans are waiting to see whether his influence upon Mexican policy will lead to with- drawal of American armed forces from Nicaragua and Haiti.” A more complete misconception of ;the motive behind the selection of | Morrow as Mexican ambassador could | hardly be imagined. It seems that the | Washington correspondent, Laurence | Todd, is so gullible that he actually takes for granted the alleged resigna- tion of Morrow from the House of Morgan, instead of perceiving that the public announcement of the resig- nation was a mere gesture to comply with the custom prohibiting an am- bassador being connected with a com- mercial or financial enterprise. Not even the ordinary liberal, of the Na- tion or New Republic type, would credit Morrow with the platonic de- sire to win the good-will of the Mexi- can people, as does Todd, Most revolting’ is the eulogy of | Morrow because he once declared that | |“the military power of the United] | States should not be used to collect | foreign debts.” When and where and | junder what conditions has any gov- jernment of the United States ever | admitted that it used armed force to defend the interests of the loan-mong- ers or any other creditors? It is one of the functions of capitalist diplo- macy to conceal its military aggres- {sion behind humanitarian slogans. When an expedition is launched to collect debts, or pillage oil !ands, or grab territory or for any sordid mer- | cenary purpose whatsoever, the gov-| ernment does not make a public an-| }nouncement of the fact, but resorts {to’atrocity tales while the reptile press | sereeches about defending the inter-| ests of civilization, justice, liberty, | | saving the lives of American citizens, | avenging insults to the flag and other ‘hysterical yarns. | In the realm of capitalist diplomacy lis most fully exemplified the observa- \tion that “language was invented to | conceal thought.” One must indeed be | bereft of even the slightest degree of | acumen to believe what statesmen say of themselves and their motives. It is not what the agents of American) imperialism say, but what the im- perialist forces do that counts. Can it be possible that the Washing- tom correspondent has forgotten that past master in ‘sophistry, the late Woodrow Wilson, whose pacifist twad- dle and lofty rhetoric entrapped all the liberals of the country and many of the alleged revolutionaries at the very moment he was preparing to deliver the country to the war-mong- ers of the House of Morgan? When a particularly vile and dirty | piece of imperialist criminality is to be perpetrated it is precisely the mas- ters of exalted sentiment that are chosen for the job and Morrow be- cause of his talents in that field has been chosen to prepare for the -con- quest of Mexico by Wall Street. If Morrow and Sheffield speak of | “winning the good will of the Mexican ( people” it is only to disguise their | predatory designs against them, the same as Woodrow Wilson expressed sympathy for the Russian people while American troops were invading Soviet territory in order to destroy the | workers’ and peasants’ government. ;¢an government to Wall Street. Most laughable is the concluding and Haiti. get out of these two countries it will | | be because they are forced out or} because the agents of American im- perialism have corrupted a sufficient- ly large number of native mercenar- ies to carry ont their predatory policy without the aid of armed forces, but certainly they will never withdraw because of any benevolent sentiments on the part of Wall Street. * * * 4 Te fact that the appointment of Morrow does not-at all signify friendliness of the Wall Street gang toward the Mexican government is proved by the intimation from the state department at Washington on Friday that the “government has reached the conclusion that it is best to remain absolutely neutral.” This can only be interpreted as a friendly}, Morrow’s Conference at the State Department on Mexico gesture to the opponents of the Mexi- can government. As if in preparation for the in- surrection against Calles as early as last. January the government at Washington placed an embargo upon arms shipments to the Mexican gov- ernment, an embargo that remains} in foree to this day and that the “neutrality” of the governments will} continue in operation as long as there is a faint hope of achieving the down- fall of the present government. If it is removed it will be only after there has faded ,the last wan hope of the success of the present movement and then it will be a palpable deception, an empty gesture of friendliness to the Mexican government, in order to pave the way for further intrigue. There is, of course, another pos- sibility involved in the lifting of the arms embargo by the United States and that is the surrender of the Mexi- This is an eventuality that is certaintly not to be minimized. The Calles-Obregon government, like all petty bourgeois governments, is vacillating and, in face of danger of the situation de- veloping favorably to the workers and peasants of Mexico can be expected to make an alliance with the im- perialists against the native masses, The arms embargo policy of the Coolidge-Kellogg outfit is in direct conflict with the policy carried out by Charles Evans Hughes who, as secre- tary of state in 1923, when the then president, Obregon, faced a revolt led by Adolfo De La Huerta, permitted thousands of rifles and a number of airplanes to be placed at the disposal of the Obregon forces. At that time the oil speculators and land grabbers hoped to avoid the enforcement of the 1917 code that has since been en-| forced by the Calles government. The free export of arms from the United States at that time proves that Obre- gon had the support of the American imperialists precisely because he did not take an aggressive stand against its ravages in Mexico. (To Be Continued). ‘Workers Poisoned by Food ‘but Court Lets _ Restaurant Owner Go (By Daily Worker Correspondent). LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 10.— Twenty-two workers taken sick here days suspended sentence. So far as contents, of the lunch boxes, put up by the numerous indi- viduals ‘and concerns, are concerned, they -are practically the same. The real difference is to be found in the color and trade names on the boxes. Appealing to the eye, rather than the} eres seem to be the thing strived Or. Peddling lunches in Los Angeles has in recent years become almost as common a way of making a living as peddling real estate. It is mostly girls who are used in selling lunches to the workers on the streets and jobs. For two bits one receives ina little paper box: two or three small sandwiches, a small piece of pie, a ps Batata suey an apple, ange, anana, vei i ter is often included, rte j ees = Ean 7 | Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty ge AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN is on '“ a visiting tour in Europe similar to |that which occupied the spare time ‘of King Edward VII when he was the instrument selected by the Brit- ish government of the day, in the \policy of organizing a hostile ring ‘around Germany, which at that |period was Great Britain’s foremost jcommercial and naval rival. Navies \have a way of following sea-borne ‘commerce. The British lion never \ceased to growl at Germany until \the German fleet was either sunk or divided among the victors and Germany’s magnificent commercial |navy almost entirely driven from the | sea. se eos ‘THE “courtesy calls now being made by Mr. Chamberlain on the \foreign offices of European govern- |ments have for their object the for- {mation of a steel ring around the {Soviet Union. The demand for Rakovsky’s recall made upon Moscow | by the French government is in large | part of the réesult-of British pressure |on France which does not feel strong enough -to resist. Britain is playing Italy against France and Chamber- llain’s present tete a tete with Primo de Rivera is undoubtedly related to the British anti-Soviet policy. | * * * HE sudden development in the Chinese civil war which has brought the nationalist forces of General Feng and of the Shansi governor almost to the walls of Peking has created |a near-panic in the chancellories of Japan and Great Britain, the two |governments whose immediate inter- ests are most seriously affected by jerisis in China. It is a matter of life and death for imperialist Japan |to hold on to Manchuria, and Britain lis vitally concerned in the loss of ‘her spheres of influence in China jand in the damaging effect a victory for the Chinese revolution would have |on the oppressed peoples who are \exploited by British imperialism in |India and other Oriental countries. | pa ee RITAIN attributes the Chinese na- | tionalist revolution to Soviet in- |trigue. Not that the British gov- ernment believes this, except in so |far as it is true that the Soviet Union is in active sympathy with the ef- |forts of the Chinese workers and peasants to throw off the yoke of the foreign imperialists and the na- tive militarists. Britain knows that the Chinese, masses would revolt if the Soviet Union had never come into existence. But it also knows that but for the existence of the Work- ers’ Republic, the Chinese revolution would be erushed by the imperialist |power with little difficulty. |It is aware that the Soviet Union pursues no imperialistic aim in | China; that it is true to the principle |on which it based itself when it came jinto being in 1917, the right of the workers, peasants and all oppressed peoples to all that life can give them, without having to pay toll to ex- ploiters. * * ieee the influence of this gospel of freedom the foundation of im- perialism in the Orient has begun to crumble. As German commercial competition threatened Britain in the world’s markets until 1914, the anti- imperialist policy of the Soviet Union threatens her colonial empire today. In 1914 her struggle was against a rival imperialist power, that was it- self rotten at its social core. Today her problem is more serious, because unlike the German government of the Kaiser, the Soviet Union has al- lies, as well as enemies in all capital- ist countries, in Britain as well as in India. So, Sir Austen Chamberlain is visiting the officials of European governments, threatening, cajoling, bribing. He wants a united front of |European capitalism against the U. \S. S. R. When this object is ac-_ complished the war against thé |Soviet Union will be opened with /all ‘the latest implements of war. “ * * | * 6 } |66AS safe as in a bank” does not | mean much any more, if it ever ‘meant anything. The president of jan Aurora, Illinois bank, who rose | ebservation of the correspondent that | the other day after eating box lunches {"0™ a lowly position to head the Mexicans are waiting to see whether | put up by a local restaurant owner, | institution, disappointed his friends Morrow’s influence will lead to the} He pleaded guilty in Municipal|®nd particularly those who used to withdrawal of troops from Nicaragua | Judge Haas’ court to having unwhole-| “point with pride” to~his meteoric ;Some and adulterated foods in his |Tise, by embezzling $400,000 of the If ever the American armed forces |P088ession and in turn received a 60|bank’s money. Or rather of the |money thrifty citizens deposited in |the bank for safe keeping. The er- ring president was a member of the |Knights of Columbus, shot craps jand played poker. In fact he was a ‘100 per cent American, which means that besides practising the above- named virtues he did not entertain lany radical ideas and he devoutly ‘believed in the sanctity of the home. How many of our biggest and best bank presidents are speculating on the ups and downs of life and the time that may elapse before they are caught, as they read about the misfortune of their co-worker in Aurora? i THE BUY Z