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Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1927 More Encouraging Contributions To Our Emergency Fund. Jos. Hamrle, (collected) Chicago, Tl. y James Kant ss 00|S. Pahjanen, Newberry, Mich. . Louis Berman, Baltimore, Md. ..2.00|S. Rosenfeld, Los Angeles Calif. 4.0¢ The Siegel Family, Ontario, S. Herman, Los Angeles, Calif. 1.00 Cc : -1.00} Z. Scherron, New York City 1.00 M. Mar (collected) Long (collected. Bronx, Cove Gard Boston, Mass. Brooklyn, N. 1.00 1.00 | sie Weisman, A. Whittier, Williamstown, Hastings-on- glia, Brooklyn mes Rechnagel, New Y Golub, Brooklyn, N. Y. ... i Brooklyn, N. Y. muel Kass, New Culhone, Kel ine, Minneapc Denver, C co, Idaho . eet) - 1.00 1.00 pho 5.100 - 1.00 1.00 (collected) Tomkow, Detroit, Mich. Bukatchuk, Detroit, Mi iak, Detroit, } h, Detroit, HIE, =. (collected) Chi , Detroit, Mic n, Wis. . on, M: »ckton, Ma »s Angeles, C , Calif. . and, Calif. Fritz Fiedler, Oakland, Calif. . |C. Hoffman, Oakland, Calif. .. !Bruno Nielson, Oakland Cal |Henry Volkes, Oakland, Calif. land, Calif. ... |M. Yudin, New: York City . L. Cohen, New York City .... O, J. Arness, Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. James Robbins, Riverside, ! Calif. 4 A Friend, Toledo, Ohio . | A. Epstein, Hartford, Conn. Dan Walta, F urtleford, Canada nt, Mich. . Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio ..2.00/ Frank Valasek, Flint Mich. ... C. Duds, Cleveland, Ohio |James Krajeik, Flint, Mich. .. Anna n, Cl and, Ohio..1.00! Jos Pekar WB Cleveland, Ohio ....1.00{ Anton § | John Feraner, ew York City 1.00 - 10.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 ey : 1.00 the signal for General Hector Ignacio . -1.00 Detroit, Mich. ..1.00 EDITOR’S ar- ticle by one of | the ablest members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Mexico was received by ail, which accounts for the delay in publication. It is valuable in- asmuch as it explains the class | forces involved in the Mexican | struggle. ae ie By RALBERTO ROSCHEZ. | At midnight of October the second |terminated the military maneuvers |of the Mexican army in the Federal |district. The moment the order was | given to return to the barracks was Almada to order 3 contingents to fol- low him. Instead of marching to the | barracks he steered them to the road oit, Mich. . -----1-00| leading to the State of Puebla. ey ldeno? Rees plied tha action of General Almada o, Idaho ..5.00}D. Kostiuk, Detroit, Mich. ......1.00 3 {obeyed the plans of Generals Gomez and Serrano, who having lost all hope {in the political campaign decided to abandon the struggle on the political field in favor of the armed struggle \for power. Before going into detail it is neces- ry to give a brief review of the nts leading up to the present re- | volt in order to better understand the |final aims of Generals Gomez and Serrano. (collected) C |Louis Oross, Berkeley, Calif. .. . .1.00 anil, F Julius Bermann, nd Calif. 1.00 Bren rete Ea Dae ea Otto. Withoyfe, Oakland, Calif. 1.00| Almost two years before the next iy Becnine Oakland, Calif. 1,00 | Presidential elections of Mexico (July Simon Hein, Oakland, Calif. ...1.00| 1928) began the preparations for nom- inations. After much political bick: ing three candidates emerged: Gen- eral Alvaro Obregon; Arnulfo Gomez and Francisco Serrano. The political field was thus divided into two sec- tions: Gomez and Serrano represent- Sv Che. dae Sean uy ing the reaction and Obregon the na- ay oe ~....6,00| tive bourgeoisie and the petty-bour- Nec ene ae Ol geoisie. The first two candidates Wm. Beiersdorfer, Vineland, busts. i ne| | first, hwo. “candidaver | Ria eect ere ey ee 1.00 during their entire political campaign KGohaaeb aon Wom Glubls Cone hid behind the principle of “no re- leeaee Cie. oe "10.00 | clection”—with which slogan they Clinton C. Green, Barrington, Il. 1.00| ‘Tied to win the sympathy of the Aci Ghatbuen [Naw Work GC (00 |™masses of workers and peasants throughout the country, but without success. The Communist Party Stand. The Communist Party of Mexico after carefully studying the situation issued a manifesto candidacy’ of Obregon, based on the following considerations: To treat the question of the presi- dential succession from the point of view of “re-election or no-re-election” is aS absurd as to treat the present situation as a struggle of principles instead of a struggle of classes. Mon- |John Kalat, Flint, Mich. 1.00 Every political struggle is a strug- ES See 1.00} John Pastra, Flint, Mich. ....... 1.00 | Sle for power of one class or another, G. Peso, onda, Montana ...1.00; Anton Huil a, Flint, Mich. .....1.00| of a determined faction within a - Horn, Anaconda, Montana ..1.00|Rudolph Huilica, Flint, Mich. ...1.00|Cettain class. For that reason the '. Gregurich, Anaconda, Montana .50|George Huilica, Flint, Mich. ....1,00| Present struggle between Generals naconda, Montana CEa0G eats eiait Flint, Mich. ......1.00 Gomez, Serrano and Obregon is a » Los Angeles,Calif. 5.00|Anna Huilica, Flint, Mich. y & Confectionary Local Loretta Tebo, Flint Mich. .... 201, Philadelphia, Pa. ....10.00}Theodore Huilica, Flint, Mich, ..1. Bloxam, (collected) Spo- Victor Luviza, Flint, Mich. .....1. 1 aes -10.00| John Luviza, Flint, Mich. . Frank Hormick, Flint, Mich. .. Thomas Lister, Flint, Mich. .... Walter Klimek, Flint, Mich. .. ski, icago, Ill. ..5. Herman, (collected) Detroit, Mic ae fiD WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND a What have you done to help the Workers (Communist) Party campaign? What has your organization done to supply the funds with which to carry on our campaign? What have you done to raise money amongst your shop- mates? The Workers (Communist) Party needs your help at once. There are just a few weeks more. Much work must be done to print literature, arrange indoor rallies, get out special editions of The DAILY WORKER and Freiheit, etc. Don’t wait—do it at once. Fill out the blank below with your contribution and forward to the Workers Party District Office, 108 E. 14th St., City. William W. Weinstone, 108 East 14th Street, City. Enclosed please find my contribution of ..for the election campaign. My name is Address .. union affiliation Make all checks payable to Wm. W. Weinstone. struggle of classes, a struggle to de- fend certain economic interests. Class Forces In Struggle. Upon close analysis of the social forces of Mexico one can establish the following division: In the first place stands the rural aristocracy or, let us say, the large landowners allied with the clergy and foreign capital, principally Eng- lish capital, American and Spanish and a part of the national bour- geoisie. In the second place, are the ele- ments of the national bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie, the wealthy ranchers and some of the “progres- sive” elements among the land- owners; the small property owners, public employees, the group of intel- lectuals and the labor aristocracy which shares its power with the petty bourgeoisie, In the third place stands the pro- letarian class, the workers in indus- try, in the factories and mills, the huge mass of peasants without lands and the peons in the fields. The struggle for the presidential succession is a struggle between the above mentioned classes and between various groups in those same classes. The relation of the forces within those classes will determine the victory or defeat of the present struggle. The triumph of the past social revolution in Mexico—of the liberal elements against the conservative elements was made possible only through the calliance of the petty bourgeoisie with the large masses of yj |workers and peasants. 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All orders cash * and filled in turn as received, jand would have instituted a conserv- supporting the} the present petty-bourgeoise govern- ment, it is the duty of the proletariat to support the candidate of the na- tional bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie, or the candidacy of Gen- eral Obregon. It is no mystery to any one that compared to the candidacy of Obregon, that of Gomez and Ser- rano represented the interests of the reactionary conservative groups. For these reasons, and carrying out the resolution passed in convention by the M. C. P. at the end of May port the candidacy of General Obre- gon for the presidency. But the party is not “Obregonist,” nor-does it expect from Obregon the solution of the fundamental problems of the dispossessed classes. The Party supports the candidacy of Obregon without agreement or com- promises, only as a means against the common enemy, against the re- action and the chureh. In addition to the Communist Party of Mexico General Obregon has suc- ceeded in winning the support of im- portant groups of workers and pea- sants, who see in Obregon an op- ponent to the reaction. Politics of the Mexican Labor Party. The clear political position of the Communist Party contrasts strongly yith the polities pursued by the La- bor Party. This body waited until September to declare itself behind Obregon. And it was decided in the following manner: When the moment arrived for the discussion of the presidential candi- dates the assemblage composed largely by lawyers, state governors or their secretaries and some busi- nessmen, expressed itself almost one- hundred per cent against the princi- ple of of re-election, thus ideologically taking the position of reaction. But at the moment of voting, the over- whelming majority voted to port Obregon. But the executive committee was empowered, in case of necessity, to alter the resolution supporting Obregon. This was a move of the leaders of the Labor Party and a bargaining point to be used to wrest concessions from Obre- gon. The Communist Party of Mexico has analyzed these actions of the La- bor Party in the following manner: The belated support of Morones and his followers of the candidacy of Obregon was not determined only by personal hostilities between them, the Party declares that it will sup-| sup- | WHAT THE DAILY WORKER MEANS TO THE WORKERS ‘The Present Rebellion in Mexico but by the fears of the ‘“Vaqueta” (the inner group of the Labor Party, the same group which runs the Mexi- can Federation. of Labor) that the politics of Obregon will not lend themselves to the strengthening of this inner group, but on the contrary will strive to diminish their power and influence. The politics of Obregon, capitalistic, although embodying a vague dream of national reconstruc- tion on a higher economic level, will undoubtedly diminish the power, polit- ical influence and prestige of the leading figures of the Mexican Labor party; Obregon’s polities will expose the opportunist character of these leaders to the masses. Morones, Minister of Indust: Commerce and Labor in the govern- ment of Calles, member of the La- bor Party and whip of the Mexican Federation of Labor, declared railroad strike illegal and sent in scabs to break it; he declared the |} militant miners’ strike of “Piedra Bo- | la” in the state of Jalisco, illegal. Morones and his Vacqueta are the in- stigators of the murders of the lead- ing left peasant leaders. It is the Mexican Labor Party which supports | the forcible disarming of the pea- santry, knowing full well, that the armed peasant is the strongest force the revolution has against the men- acing attacks of reaction. El Excelsior and El Universal are the two leading dailies of Mexico. All through this campaign they have been carrying articles and editorials the purpose of which has been to mystify and confuse the workers and peasants on the real issues of the campaign and to support the reac- tionary candidates Serrano and Gomez. The Mexican Federation of Labor which through its strongly or- ganized printers and newspapermen’s union could control the publication of such reactionary material, tacitly permits this to continue, thereby once again betraying the interests of the working masses. The Mexican Communist Party, o: the other hand, held a special emerg. ency meeting as soon as the revol ‘rolke out and passed the following} :esolution: “To call upon all workers | of the Federal District to fight the ising reaction with any means in power; to appoint Emergency Committees in all localssfor the de- fense against the rising of Gomez and Serrano. By KORSUNSKY. PARIS (By Mail.)—Working class immigrants from Spain have long formed a considerable proportion of foreign immigrants in France. Ac- cording to the French ministry of la- bor, 467,156 of 2,845,214 foreigners in France on the 1st of January, 1925, were Spanish. In general it is safe to say that Spanish working class im- migrants in France are numerically second only to Italians. Driven out of their own country by cruel need, the Spanish toiling masses have found in France not-only a means of earning their daily bread (difficult enough, to be sure), but also a respite from the perpetual repressions of that reactionary clique known as Primo de Rivera’s government. General Primo de Rivera, Rivera’s terror seizing power on the 13th of September, 1923, at once made all political freedom obsolete, and, with the aid of the well-known butcher of the masses, Martinez-Anido, embarked upon a regime of stifling the labor movement, The press, _ strictly censored, is quite unable to print the slightest serious criticism of the gov- ernment’s actions or to allow any re- volutionary agitation to slip into its columns. The Spanish toiling masses being unable, however, to refrain from a public declaration of their feelings against Primo de Rivera, the Spanish labor organ coming out in France, has had to undertake the exposure of all the repressions of the labor move- ment, al! the acts of violence and violation of the law committed by Primo de Rivera’s government. This was the raison d’étre of “El Prole- |ative regime. tario, and organ for Spanish workers | Alliance Against Reaction. |in France.” We are therefore justified in main-} It was reorganized in the beginning taining that the alliance between the|of 192) from “L’Emigrante,” two | national bourgeoisie and the petty | pages of which used to be in Italian !bourgoisie and the proletarian class! and two in Spanish, and made into a constitute the dominant force in the country; sufficiently strong to suffo- cate any attempt at a reactionary dic- tatorship. however, does not signify that On th proletar », and its alliance with the » is a temporary affair compelled by the fo which even to- day the reaction is still able to com- mand; and by the present weakness of the proletariat. Dis-united and decentralized, the Mexican proletariat has not yet been able to bnild a strong organization, nor one unified political leadership. Without this indispensable cohesion and political leadership, the masses of workers and peasants’ are unable at the present time to launch an in- dependent struggle for the conauest of power, For this reason, faced with the forces -of reaction and th church bent upon the destruction of the interests of the national bour- geoisie and the proletarian cla | the same. vious the special organ, edited by the Com- | munists, who from this time began |to be very popular among the Span- ish immigrant masses. It was at once a trade union and political paper. “Tl Proletario” fulfilled great edu- | cational and propaganda functions and was read with enthusiasm by the | Spanish workers. It waged a_ per- |petual campaign to win over Spanish immigrants for the French Unitary General Confederation of Labor, and continually fought for their material interests; it has thrown light from a | revolutionary angle upon events all over the world and especially in Spain, end propagating the principles. of |Leninism, it afforded the Spanish working class the fullest possible in- formation regarding the Soviet Union. Suppression. The military bourgeois dictatorship however, oppressing the Spanish seople, could not be indifferent to this abor organ so courageously exposing ts black and illegal actions. Its at- with sympathy from Sarraut, the pres. FRENCH GOVERNMENT PERSECUTES SPANISH IMMIGRANT WORKERS tempts to get “El Proletario” shut | down by the French government met | ent Minister for home affairs in| France, and were crowned with suc- | cess in the summer of this year. By a| decree of the 28th of June, Sarraut, fulfilling the instructions cf the Span- ish imperialists, shut down “El Prole- terio”, and, not content with this, for- bade the publication of any sort of | Spanish organ “cf a similar tendency” in the whole Seine department. The Press Re-appears. The Spanish immigration however, did not lose heart, but emparked upon intensive collections and began to pub- lish a new “Bi-monthly organ for Spanish workers in France”—“Vida Obrera” (Workers’ Life) in Chartres, | the first number of which came out | on the 31st of July last. Primo de) Rivera’s government, however, now | celebrating its victory over the prole- tariat with cynical derision, achieved the prohibition by the French govern- ment of this organ also in the begin- ning of September last. Iegal Press Necessary. Only one course remains open to Spanish immigration—the illegal pub- lication of its organ. upon its rights to expound its political views freely and will never cease from the struggle with the illegal dictator- ship strangling the Spanish people and inhaling the incense of self-praise. It will not be dismayed by those illegal repressions practiced against it by the French “democratic” government, which, at the bidding of the Spanish despots, refuse to Spanish imm i freedom of sneech and the press. Women Discover Pan. American League Is Agent cf Finance WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.-—When the Washington representative of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom called upon Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director of the Pan- American Union, to promote a plan for neutral supervision of the com- ing election in Nicaragua, Rowe dodged the issue. He said that the union deals only with “constructive things.” Kellogg To Pick Man, Nicaragua, whose liberal govern- ment was overthrown by a military coup, and whose liberal attempt to restore constitutional government Was repressed last winter and spring by an American fleet and land force, has been promised a presidential elec- tion in 1928. Secretary of State Kel- logg is considering plans for running that election, frankly | the | # The Golf-Bug’s ne Frank Craven in “The 19th Hole” at Cohan’s Pleases the the Pill Chasers 1 IAN MACLAREN HIS is a story of a perfectly nor- | |" mal professor who strayed: from | ithe path of domestic fidelity when | jhe joined a country club after taking | ja chance on two high balls, in’ the | company of several ; golf bugs who golfed | in order to drink and drank in order to golf. When Mr. Verno } Chase (Frank Cra- ven) rented a sub-| urban home his time | was occupied writ- | ing articles for the | Frank Craven magazines and stu-/ i dying the history of | stained glass windows. His wife was | jproud of him and loved him for his gence as well as for his erudition. | When this pair arrived among the | golfers they had considerable diffi- culty in) making themselves under- |} |stood in the English language and | j |since the other members of the com- | ss |munity were 100 per cent Americans,| [Im “The Ladder’ at the Cort The- conversation in any. other language | 2tre HOW Reering a years anon did not seem likely to produce any,| DTeacuay: better results. “| be held at the Hotel Astor, Saturday The vocabulary of a red-headed | evening, November 12. girl sounded strange but intriguing | to the tamed professor and on her} Gilbert Miller definitely announces jsuggestion he took a walk in the|that Max Reinhardt had signed the direction of the golf grounds. Jeal- | final contracts for the New York ously set in in the Chase family | Reinhardt season which is scheduled which condition prevailed until the | for next month. | professor, after degenerating into a |golfing fool, almost ruined himself The 400th performance of “The |financially but finally got out of all| Squall” was celebrated at the 48th |his scrapes by winning a cup in a | Street Theatre on last Thursday tournament making up with his rival | night. - he uncrowned king of the Harmony | | | | | fe ee olf Club and producing a lover for | he red-headed girl thus restortng | harmony in the Chase home. There are several laughs in this Walter Hampden, who is playing in “An Enemy of the People,” at the Hampden Theatre, tells us that the Ibsen play is doing very well, and the rowds are enthusiastic. play but not a single idea that has) fe not been taken out of the morgue} “Apbio’s Irish Rose” will close its many times before. Frank Craven | engagement at last, and the Republic earries his histrionie burden like a} Theatre, where that perennial comedy gentleman, Mary Kennedy as_ his /has been making history for more than |wife acts like the wife we are all|five years, will have another occu- | supposed to know and Kitty Kelly, as/ pant. The successor is Edward Knob- the red-headed girl who ushered the | ]lock’s comedy, “The Mulberry Bush,” lgreen-eyed mother into the Chase|which A. H. Woods will. present in |home, presents an attractive figure | association with Charles Dillingham, jand wags a wicked tongue. }on Oct. The last play to occupy If this play ever gets to “The 19th |the Republic Theatre before “Abie” Hole,” golfically speaking, I will ad-j™oved in in May, 1922. was also | with “The Good Hope.” Tt will insist |” that the golfing population of New York is not to be laughed at. Broatway Bri) (TES | The Civic Repertory Theatre will) open their season this evening at) their playhouse on Fourteenth Street | The Heijer- | repeated on) Thursday and) }man’s play will be | Wednesday matinee, Saturday evenings. Two other plays | | will be given this week, “The Cradle | | Song,” Wednesday night and Satur-| |day matinee and “La Locandiera” on| | Friday night. The Actors Equity Annual Ball will pny Woods’ production, “Lawful Larceny,” by Samuel Shipman. Betty Linley has joined the Garrick Players for the modern dress pro- duction of “The Taming of the | Shrew,” which opens at the Garrick Theatre, October 24. Laurette Taylor is to be starred in a new play by J. Hartley Manners. The play’s present title is “Delicate Justice.” The Acting Company of the Amer- ican Laboratory Theatre has com- menced rel:zarsal on “Dr, Knock” by | Jules Romains, and “Much Ado About direction of N I othing” under the ichard Boleslavsky. k ‘| WALTER in Ibsen's comedy | “AN ENEMY OF THE PF 2, Thea., B’ Hampden’s ""S; ening: Mati Wednesday and The Desert Song with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buszet) 1ith Month 62nd St, snd Central Park Century Wes. venings at 8:30. Mats, Wed. and Sat., 2:30. “Spr pant Theatre, 41 St. W. of B’ National .8:30, Mts. Wed. MPD ip CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W. 14. St. CHELsea 0054 Opening The Theatre ad Presents PORGY i Th. W. 62d. Bys, 8:3@ Guild Sinise Thurse Sat, 2:08 LITTLE |HELEN MacKELLAR ‘tig RALPH MORGAN “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN Wm. 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