The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1927, Page 6

Page Six SE OY ME OOO A Na ONO RR te PRA RNG I a THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. +6 Phone, Orchard 1680 Cable ess: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES ? A By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New pom): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six mon $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address and mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 Fir: "J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE $ BERT MILLER Entered as second-c “Daiwork” the act of March 3 The Polish Loan—Wall Street Forges Another Weapon Against the Soviet Union An American “adviser” goes along with the new American | loan to Poland. Charles S. Dewey, one of Mellon’s bright young men, “has accepted an invitation” from the Polish government tofill this post. One of the assistant secretaries of the treasury, Dewey is to be elected a director of the bank of Poland. Wall Street is plunging deeply into the internal affairs of Poland—the principal buffer state between the Soviet Union and central and western Europe, and that there is here a direct con- nection with the Polish differences with Great Britain expressed at the recent executive session of the league of nations there can be no doubt. | Polish fascism expressed at Geneva a-sudden desire for) peace—as did other small nations which need loans. This desire} for “peace” on the part of the Polish government coincided with} Communist election successes in a number of industrial centers} and with a general rise of left wing sentiment among the masses. It was generally agreed by the European press that the Pil-| sudski government was on its last legs. For months there has been talk of an American loan to Po-| land but the general opinion in financial circles has been that | the economic position of Poland was too insecure and the hold of the Pilsudski government too precarious to make the loan any- thing else but speculative. In this interim a loan of $15,000,000 was raised in the. United States—presumably to enable the Polish government to pay running expenses. There has been no improvement in the economic or political | position of Poland recently. Nevertheless a huge American loan} is made. Pilsudski is being popularized once more. | The only conclusion that can be reached is that while for-; merly the instability of the Pilsudski government made such a} loan ‘unwise from the financial standpoint, its increasing insta-| bility has made this absolutely necessary from the political stand- point. Two factors therefore have been decisive in determining the} action of Wall Street in this matter. First, the fact that the loan) is accompanied by an agreement with the Pilsudski government | which vastly increases American imperialist influence as against | that of Great Britain in Poland, and second that the defeat of the Pilsudski government by a left bloc and the continued rise of Communist influence would greatly increase the power and pres- tige of the Soviet Union. It would make much more difficult for the time being the further use of Poland as a weapon against the} Soviet Union. | At a time when Standard Oil backed by the state department | is trying to force oil concessions from the Soviet Union to be used in its struggle with its British competitor, Royal Dutch Shell, it| does not want the Pilsudski government either to continue its role of an agent of British imperialism or to be defeated by a combination less openly hostile to the Soviet Union. | American imperialism, thru its predominant part in the re- cent loan and its appointment of an American adviser whose powers are such that he becomes practically the dictator of Polish finance and industry and consequently of Polish politics, thus} takes into its own arsenal for use against the Soviet Union, the government of a country which has been used at various times by both Great Britain and France. Wall Street wealth again has saved a fascist government— a government whose suppressions of workers, peasants and na- tional minorities are exceeded in brutality only by those of the fascist government of Bulgaria and Rumania. Wall Street has forged another weapon against the Soviet Union. The front of American imperialism is now at the borders of the Soviet Union. It can be prevented from advancing further only by the pretest and action of the American working class, acting with the workers of Poland and the rest of Europe in de- fense of the Sovieh Union—the fatherland of the world’s work- ing class. i i Heroic Nicaragua After every exhibition of frightfulness by the gunmen of American imperialism against the supporters of the liberal gov- ernment of Nicaragua the state department assures the world that the last vestiges of opposition to the Wall Street usurper, Diaz, have been destroyed. But just. sc often there occur new outbreaks that prove that the population of that heroic nation! are not yet beaten into abject submission by the mailed fist of| the invader. What the actual conditions may be in Nicaragua is a matter to be calculated on the basis of the bestial record of colonial vandalism on the part of the armed forces of American im- perialism. News reaching this country indicates that there have just been killed or wounded 67 supporters of General Sandino who still refuse to turn the country over to the native politicians in the service of Wall Street. [t seems that the American occupa- tional forces are training a so-called native constabulary com- prising the most backward elements of the country, under com- mand of United States marine officers. Marines, supported by this constabulary, are guilty of the latest atrocities. The excuse for the latest massacre is that an airplane is said to have crashed to the ground and the two marine aviators who had manned it ran from the wreck and have not since been seen. The theory is that native forces are holding as prisoners these flying “birds of Wall Street” who soar above the towns, dropping murderous bombs which kill alike men, women and children. The marines are said to be out to “rescue” these two bomb-throwers from the hands of some of their victims. Whether the version of the “captured aviators” is true or not is of no consequence. It may be a plain lie. If the aviators “NOW, WHAT THE HELL WILL I DO?” WASHINGTON, (FP) Oct. 19.— Herbert Hoover’s presidential cam- paign has become so entangled in the power trust fight in the capital, even that the Secretary of Commerce is going to be kept explaining his rela- tions with the power crowd from now until the Republican national conven- tion. If he wins the nomination he will have to start explaining all over again. For the power trust, speaking through its chief lobbyists—Josiah Newcomb and Stephen Davis—has de- clared war against construction of a government power plant at Boulder Canyon. Hoover, who last year favored con- struction of Boulder Dam with the power plant included. In General Electric circles, Hoover was suspected of wanting the government to sell the power from this proposed plant at rates which would reduce the general price of electricity in southern Cali- fornia and Arizona. Lately, Hoover’s friends have declared that he will do nothing to offend the power com- panies. Mellon Names Hoover? Gov. Fisher of Pennsylvania, a Mellon agent, has just visited Wash- ington and has told newspaper men that the Pennsylvania delegates in the 1928 convention can be lined up for any one of the five leading can- didates—Hoover, Dawes, Lowden, Hughes or Longworth—offered by the conservatives. He named Hoover first. Fisher is anxious that big business be served, He knows his Hoover. Again, there is ex-Governor Camp- bell of Arizona, named by Coolidge as high Commissioner to an exposition in Seville, Spain, who is touring the United States to ask state govern- ments to send exhibits to Seville. He is reported to be organizing Hoover groups in all state capitals. Of course he could not do this unless he had the tacit approval of Coolidge and Mellon. Further, two politicians assert that Coolidge has privately suggested to them that anything they may do this will be in the right direction. \Whats What*Washinsto before the assembling of Congress, | Davis is a close associate of | winter to develop Hoover sentiment | Smith, Vare Breaking In. In Illinois and Pennsylvanid the party bosses are trying to figure out ways to seat Frank Smith and Bill Vare in the U. S. Senate. Sam In- sull, one of the power trust barons, financed Smith’s campaign. Power companies were back of Vare in Pennsylvania, where the trust has just achieved the great Conowingo merger. The battle over delivering their purchased Senate seats to Smith and Vare will be made by all the forces. that General Electric and In- sull can command in Washington. Here arises a problem for Hoover, the presidential candidate. He has just been given a tentative endorse- ment by the Scripps-Howard syndi- cate of moderately liberal daily news- papers. These papers are committed to defense of the public against the power trust’s, exactions. They favor public ownership and operation of power plants at Muscle Shoals, Boul- der Canyon and the Great Falls of the Potomac. They also denounce corruption of public life by the buy- ing of Senate seats. If Hoover fails to indicate his friendship for Smith and Vare he will lose some of his big business support; if he fails to de- nounce them, and to work for the Boulder Canyon power plant measure, he will alienate the most powerful press syndicate in the country. Borah Wants to Be Regular. Senator Borah, after two weeks of prominence as spokesman for the new western agrarian Republican organi- zation in the Senate, has indicated that he looks upon Hoover as nearer the western type of candidate than is any other of the men favored by the conservatives’ crowd. Borah is tired of his brief enlistment as a pro- gressive. He thinks the progressives cannot get anywhere. It is evident that Norris, Nye, Frazier, Brookhart, LaFollette, Howell and McMaster and Blaine must go on without real en- couragement from him. But Borah is jagreed with them in opposing Smith jand Vare, in fighting the power trust, jand in making it difficult for Hoover |to get through the next six months without taking a stand on these is- tsues. should be forced out. The presence of American limit. Z upon the country. They have no businéss in Nicaragua and imperialist forees in Nicaragua should arouse the masses of all Latin-America to concerted action against the imperialist monster of the North, and American labor mist. be EEE to support the anti-imperialist struggle to the “The Paid Liars of William Randolph Hearst Having long aye set the standard for the most depraved journalism on earth, the publications of William Randolph Hearst | jealously guard their chosen position. or can sink lower in plain mendacity than the Hearst publications. | These observations are banalities and well known to every- No newspaper has sunk CHICAGO, (FP) Oct. approach of armistice this year re- calls to labor memory a working-class tragedy on that day in 1919 that still commands the attention of the labor movement for which one life was given‘and 8 others are being slowly snuffed out in Walla Walla prison; Washington. It was on Nov. 11, 1919 that an American Legion raid on the Centralia hall of the Industrial Work- ers of the World ended in a shooting affray, a lynching, the railroading of 7 members of the I. W. W. and the condemning of another to insanity. It was because the lumber trust of the northwest resented the organizing activities of the I. W. W. that the first raid on their hall was engineered by the “Citizen’s Protective League,” a boss controlled organization, on April 30, 1918. The hall was de- molished. workers built another hall about a mile away. It was then that the lo- cal chamber of commerce, at the be- hest of the lumber companies and in conspiracy with the heads of the American Legion, planned a second raid on the new hall. Lynching of Wesley Everest. The attack was timed to occur as the Legion armistice day parade passed the headquarters. This time the union men were determined to de- fend their hall after police protection had been denied. Four members of the American Legion fell before the gunfire of the workers who had one capable of even the slightest mental effort. But we reiterate our contempt for Hearst and his scavengers just now because of the publication in the feature section of the Sunday New York American of an article purporting to have been written by Com- of English speaking nations as a guarantee of world peace. harin is further made to state that no revolution is possible in Britain or America because the great masses are not “world revolution minded.” Not only does the Hearst sheet concoct a plain lie and sign Bukharin’s name to it, but it even publishes a Moscow date line to make it appear to originate in the capitol of the Soviet Union instead of in the Hearst editorial offices. This brazen fake is so obviously an invention of some grovel- ling lackey, some forlorn pen prostitute, that further comment is superfluous. The creature who wrote it is just a plain paid liar, and its publication by the Hearst chain of smut-sheets is deliber- ately designed to misinform their readers. are held prisoners the liberal forces are to be congratulated for refusing to release them,4gain to shower death and destruction 4 The last place to go for correct information is the columns of the reptile capitalist press. rade N. Bukharin, in which the noted revolutionary leader is! made to endorse certain vagaries of Hearst regarding the unity | Buk- | stayed in the hall to risk their all in defense of their right to meet and organize their fellowmen. Eleven members of the I. W. W. were im- mediately arrested and placed in jail. That same night, Wesley Everest, a marked man as an efficient organizer in the lumber camps, was taken from his cell and lynched. His body was taken back to the jail and lay in its blood for 2 days in full sight of the remaining victims as they were submitted to a brutal third de- gree, The conduct of the trial was in the same spirit. The Seattle Central La- bor Council called upon the trade unions of the northwest to select a “labor jury” to hear the evidence dur- ing the trial and pass its opinion. The jury in the box found 6 of the de- fendants guilty of second degree murder; acquitted 2 and declared an- other insane. The labor jury un- animously decided that all the de- fendants were innocent of any crime save self-defense. Sentences of 25 A Shaky Monarch hc II ih 0) Gentleman with the military collar hasn’t done any fighting. He is the King of Spain, and according to re- cent statements smuggled out of the country his throne totters. Prof. Julian Besteiro, also head of jof the Spanish Federation of Labor, says that the Moroccan war has so injured his prestige that a revolt may be expected any time. He also de- clares that Premier Primo di Rivera “has something on” King Alfonso, and that the latter is now merely a flunkey for Rivera. But the I. W. W. lumber} —By Fred Ellis Defense Speeds Up Struggle To Free Victims of Centralia 19.—The¢to 40 years were imposed by a highly prejudiced judge. The usual mythical “bombings” were staged during the trial. At the instigation of the prosecution a com- pany of infantry was camped on the courthouse grounds. Newspaper men who didn’t send out the right kind of stories were excluded. The whole procedure was saturated with the identical war-time, prejudiced hys- teria that convicted Sacco and Van- zetti in the same year, 1920. Since their conviction, repeated ef- forts have been made to secure their release. The last appeal for clemency made to Governor Hartley of Wash- ington on Sept. 9, 1926, was signed by a majority of the original jurors, wit- nesses to the tragedy, and a great many labor unions. Defense Continues Battle. The 7 convicted men and the boy | who was declared insane are serving their 8th year behind bars. The Washington branch of the General Defense Committee at Box 1873, Seattle, Wash. is leading the defense and is asking cooperation under the slogan, “The Centralia Victims Must Be Freed in 1927.” INDUSTRIAL DUSTS By DR. B. LIBER. ‘HE, worst of, industrial causes of diseases—dusts—have many kinds |of irritating effects on the skin, the eyes, the digestive tube, the breathing organs and, through all of these, on the blood and the nervous system. Dusts often produce itching, red- ness, eczema upon those parts of the body with which they come much in contact, like the face, ears, chest, but particularly the hands and the fore- arms. The eyes may become inflamed through mere mechanical irritation, and the result may be constant tear- ing, conjunctivitis, real sores, ulcera- tions, If the dusts are poisonous and dissolve in the liquid of the eye, they may attack it deeper and form pus and even destroy parts of the organ. A good deal of the dust that sur- rounds a workman enters his mouth ‘and is swallowed with the saliva. Much of it, however, is indifferent. But the dust of some poisonous ma- terial, particularly that originating from minerals, is dissolved and causes various.diseases according to the kind of mineral. Probably all or almost all the cases of industrial lead poison- ing are caused in that way. The first of the respiratory organs to receive the shock of the dust_is the nose. To be sure it eliminates most of it, but in the face of an abundant invasion it.is forced to let much of it pass the barrier. The nasal mucous membrane itself is irritated, often swollen through dust. The throat is the next station, and catarrhs of the larynx, the latter characterized by hoarseness and cough. Further in- halation reaches the air-pipes and we have chronic bronchitis, with another kind of cough.’ When the lung tissue itself is affected the way is paved to tuberculosis, which is one of the fre- quent effects of working in dusty trades. Indirect infection accompany- ing the dust may produée lung ab- scess, : Fortunately or unfortunately the organic tissues become accustomed to the irritation of the dusts so that the effects are less visible in the course of time, but sooner or later they break out in the form of a real dis- ease. Organized labor should have its own industrial health inspectors and should enlighten and instruct its mem- bers as to their rights and duties in regard to industrial preventive meas- ures. It should fight energetically for the proper improvements and for fun- damental changes. f Current Events By T. J. 6'Flaherty tess little war of American imperial- | ism in Wall Street is progressing nicely. The latest report reads sub- stantially like this: ‘Sixty-seven bandits killed or wounded. Four members of the Guardia National killed. No casualities among the American marines.” Translated into intelligible language this means that |American marines killed or wounded 67 Nicaraguan revolutionists and that 4 members of the Nicaraguan militia, organized, drilled and paid by the United States, were killed during the engagement. This war is getting to look more like a picnic for our gal- lant’ marines every day. It is now almost as safe as an election cam- paign in Chicago, As long as the casualties on both sides of the strug- gle are Nicaraguans our heroes can devote their energies to raising the cultural level of the survivors. * * * §° the Nicaraguan revolutionists are bandits! This is funny, but no for the Nicaraguans. For them it is a tragedy. And not the least im- }portant feature of this tragedy is the apathy exhibited by the American | Workers in the face of this criminal | assault on the rights of a small na- tion by the erstwhile “defender” of small nations. The Nicaraguans are declared bandits by the real estate hi- jackers who are stealing their country with the aid of warplanes, battle- ships and marines. This is hypocrisy with a vengeance. . * s (ONGRESSMAN Victor Berger of Milwaukee, the new national chair- man of the Socialist Party is en- thusiastie over Al Smith’s prospects United States, provided he receives the nomination from his party. While Al is officially as dry as the 18th amendment, rumor has it that he does not look at the foaming beaker with a jaundiced eye. Berger knows that his own chances of occupying the white house are slim, so he feels that he stands a better chance of being in- vited to the white house cellar if Al is the janitor, than if a fellow like Hoover holds the keys. Berger is not much of a socialist, but he likes sociability » * * ir it is true, as The DAILY WORK- ER had it yesterday, that “Little Augie’s” casket cost only $750, Morris Sigman ought to be ashamed of himself. If such an insult were offered to the body of a+ deceased Chicago gangster the offender would pay for it with his life. It appears that the standard of dying among gangsters in this city is as low as the standard of living is high. In Chi- cago it costs the gangsters nothing to live well, but a helluva lot to die decently. Ingratitude is one of the most detested of vices. “Little Augie” was one of Sigman’s most reliable lieutenants in his fight against the Left Wing. $750 for his cosket! Odds bodkins! He could not have treated a lowly scab with more contumely. * * * ANOTHER gangster trial is getting under way in Chicago with great |labor and pain. “Lefty” Lewis was in- dicted for the alleged murder of a junkman who refused. to join a “anion” which was being organized by “Lefty.” Not a single juryman has been secured yet, tho the trial opened two weeks ago. The judge is inclined to believe that tulesmen are afraid to serve. Circumstantial evidence tend- ing to support the judge’s suspicion is the bombing of deputy-coroner Dorfman’s drugstore, and the home of a junk dealer who supplied some of the information on which Lewis was indicted. The assassination of a ward politician who refused to con- tribute to Mr. Lewis’s defense fund may also share responsibility for the avidity with which jurors seize on any old excuse to avoid jury duty. Evidently the jurors have not even one life to give for their country, * 2 © Cas A. LEVINE the fighting “flyin’ fool” had his municipal re- ception, tho our street sweepers will not have to labor overtime denuding the thorofares of bits of torn tele- phone directories and ticker tape, to express popular joy over the ar. rival in. our midst of foreign lumin- aries or the return of citizens who have deserved well of their ec ry. The populace was cold to the fig! ting junkman, but city hall wa8’ torrid. Our Hibernian mayor recolle the sojourn of his own race in a walley of tears, before it discovered the sidewalks of New York, sympathized with Mr. Levine because of the Nor- die snap evident in the social atmos- phere, on his return from Europe where he made his presence felt, to put it mildly. His honor, with an eye on the Hebrew vote attributed this coldness to the prejudices of those who dislike Mr. Walker as well as Levine for the things they are loyal to, meaning their respective superstitions. If those two gentlemen are loyal to anything besides the dol- lar we are willing to be shown. Oi ae [PSTER D. VOLK, republican, of Brooklyn, is almost as disturbed over the presence of his name on the socialist party ballot in Brooklyn as Judge Panken is over the endorse- ment of his candidacy by the Workers (Communist) Party. Volk has applied for a court order to compel the Board ‘of Elections to remove his name from the ballot. Must Judge Panken resort Jto an injunction to restrain the Com-, munists from voting for him? | of being elected president of the - with which our avenues are littered ¢ ; { j