The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1927, Page 6

Att House, and whom the oiP’graft j ) Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1927 6 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: ° SUBSCRIPTION RATES on ‘ 2 (in New York‘ only): By Mail (outside of New York): $4.50 six months 50 monthe »0 three months, Phone, Orchard 1680 jaiwork x Address ar idm THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Str New York, N. Y. far Bator. ois ise ay T MINOR Assistant Editor Entered as second-class mail at the post-offic the act of March 3, 1 Marcus Garvey and Calvin Coolidge Chere is good reason to believe that Calvin Coolidge person- ally made the decisions by which the Negro leader, Marcus Gar- vey, after being sentenced to a long prison term in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, was refused a pardon or parole hen the demand for such was made by wide masses, and finally sent into perpetual exile from the United States, his home and the place of his work. i } Thus ends a faree—and thus should end also an illusion w has distorted the lives of many sincere men and women in Negro ‘beration movement who took their leadership from Mr. Garvey head of the Universal Negro Improvement Associa ion. Garvey goes to exile, not alone as the result of the capitalist government's fear and hatred of everything that smacks of or- gan f the Negro masses, but also as a result of Garvey's own metheds of fighting for his freedom. From the time of his i of the most glaring “frame-ups” that William ich the lon pigeons ever per vey has persisted in thinking that he could becoming an obsequious servant of every reac- mi the ku klux klan to the little Coolidge him- Pror 1g io “be good” became Garvey’s policy. That is he forgot the masses of suffering Negro workers and Ly whom he was once idolized—forgot that Garvey’s im- orisonment was not Garvey’s affair—forgot that his liberation could have been made a rallying slogan for a tremendous mass movement of the Negro masses against slavery. That side of it he forgot, an@he remembered only that sometimes a victim may get off by persuading his tyrant that the prisoner is not doing the tyrant any harm. : Thus Garvey became at least a tacit supporter of the ku klux klan (refusing to let his organization condemn it), and an open, vociferous, wning advocate of “white man’s America” which was offset a platonic program (in words only) of a “Negro Africa.” Garvey has his answer. First prison, then. exile. Toward the last after having been imprisoned and after his | plea for unconditional release had been rejected, Garvey even | agreed to accept deportation from the United States, according to ‘eports. This was Garvey’s final capitulation as a leader. But the fact remains that Garvey was imprisoned, and is to be exiled, not for any crime, but as a measure of the American \ ruling class and government against the Negro masses. Coolidge and his government do not send anyone to prison iselely for crime, nor do they send all criminals to prison. The United States capitalist yovernment and Coolidge, the ally and colleague in the Harding cabinet of multi-millionaire oil thieves and their servants, do not send all criminals to prison, but cnly selected persons, some of whom are not criminals. men seni to prison have records much more innocent than that of the “‘scle survivor of Teapot Dome” who s 1 the White ’ graft business, and we veniure that Marcus Garvey is one with relatively a record more innocent. Garvey was selected for priscn and. exile because, in the eyes apitalist rulers, he symbolized the organizatioa of the Vegro masses. aid that Garvey had at the time of his conviction, and a large fortune stowed awa: This sounds improbable. Harding’s and Coolidge’s “Ohio ‘boys’ were in charge of the gov ernment machinery at the time. Jess Smith was still doing busi- ~g'ss at his desk in the department of justice. We don’t believe that anybody with money and willing to play the game would! ‘have been very likely to go to prison at that time. ~The victimization of this very faulty Negro leader must be be made a lesson to the maases struggling for freedom. In it the _,Negro workers and farmers should learn that it is not by sur- “rendering. nct by “being good” to appease the wrath of the : enemies of the Negro masses, but by fighting and willingly going _ to prison or dying for their caus, that victory is to be won. ” Above all, it is not by accepting meekly a “white man’s America of Jim Crow laws, disenfranchisement, lynching and super-ex- ploitation that the Negro is to be freed and carried away to a magically liberated Africa. Not that there is any illusien in thinking that Africa will be liberated. On the contrary, the revolt of the millions of Nevro ‘population of that continent will be one of the most magnificent chapters in the history of the liberation of the world from capi- talist imperialism. An independent Negro republic, or.a federa- tion of independent Negro republics of Africa may be e: vected as ‘a product of a not far distant, titanic struggle. But no freedom comes from surrender of the Negro’s rights in one country with platonic promises of liberation by magic abroad and steamship companies to get abroad. You can’t be a lion in Africa and a kitten in America. May the Negro masses learn, and struggle, and build their org?nizations bigger and better and more militant than the Uni- versal Negro Improvement Association finds itself after Garvey got thru “getting liberated.” ‘The appearance of the delegation of the Soviet Union at the disarmament discussions in Geneva is about as Welcome to the imperialist bandits,as the presence of a bill collector at a, spend- thrift’s wedding. When James Cox Brady died he left $55,000,000 behind him. Which means that his beneficiaries need not move a muscle to earn their bread for the rest of their lives, provided they don’t buy up too many European dukes, or- -what is more important— if the capitalist system continues to function. . * 8 There are two murder cases competing for public attention just now, so William Randolph Hearst can save up on his forgeries until the competition is reduced to normalcy. i _ John VY. MacMurray, the United States ambassador to China| ill remain at his post in Peking. Apparently his government is satisfied with his past efforts againet the Chinese masses. shite 2 a “ asialouy rated in alliance with a capi- ‘ Many | alled “the principal’ in the oil, DEATH SEES THE JOKE "Oil and the W ar Danger a ee By Fred Ellis By William F. Dunne Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell Write a New Chapter for Louis Fischer’s “Oil Imperialism.” The Struggle for the Oil Markets of Central Europe—The “Friendship” Between | | British 2nd American Imperialism Fight for the Oil Resources of the Soviet Union— Teagle and Deterding—The Relations of Royal Dutch and Standard Oil— | THE Soviet Union will sell to the | | * Spanish oil monopoly one-half of the total supplies this Spanish govern- trust will purchase in the world | rding to recent dis- hus the “great moral issue” of |buying oil from the Soviet Union, which in connection with other strug- gles between the giants of the 4m- |perialist oil world—Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell—has agitated the Suropean and American press in con- nection with the Spanish deal, is settled by a capitalist nation getting! half its oil supply from the cheapest |available market. | This is the latest advance of the ‘oil supplies of the Soviet Union into |the world markets. There have been ‘others and in connection with them |has been carried on diplomatic and |commercial maneuvering which has | had a decisive effect on world politics. Inseparably connected with the | British imperialist offensive against |the Soviet Union and with the danger \of imperialist war, it will be useful to |review the imperialist struggle cen- | tering around oil. *. * * Tae recent heated controversy be- |“ tween’ Walter C. Teagle, head of |the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, on one hand and the heads | of the Standard Oil Company of New | York and Vacuum Oil Company—a |Standard Oil concern—on the other, following the conclusion of an agree- |ment by the two latter companies for |the purchase of large quantities of oil from the Soviet Union govern- ment, will be easily recalled, | Psa ots it will be easy to recall the blistering remarks liberally |made and given to the press by Sir |Henri Deterding, head of the Royal | Dutch Shell Company, British domi- |nated, and the chief competitor of |the Standard, relative to the iniquity ‘of Standard Oil or any other concern dealing with a government which Sir Henri has frequently claimed was |composed of “robbers and murder- |ers.” y {ALTER C, TEAGLE, “a warm per- sonal friend” of the Royal Dutch | Shell head, so the capitalist press; stated, would undoubtedly patch mat- | ters up because of this same “warm | personal friendship” for Sir Henri | and the fact that Teagle, a big busi- | ness man of unquestioned integrity, | famed for his loyalty to America, | would never subordinate his hatred | |for the Soviet regime to sordid profit | |for his company. | The capitalist press gave no hint, of any other motives underlying | Teagle’s opposition to the contracts | with the Soviet Union concluded by | the two Standard concerns, Teagle | gave a statement to the press mak- | ing his position clear, and sailed for Europe. 0% August 18 the Berlin correspond- ent of the New York Herald Tribune sent his paper a dispatch of such importance in connects with International Polities—The Decre Sharpening of the Struggle—Oil Companies and State De- partments—Oil and the Jingges—Imperialism’s Need for Oil—How the Dang asing er Will Be Remfoved— Latest Developments. a ase best proof of the importance of Russian oil is the efforts of the powers and the powerful oil trusts to get hold of it. If the petroleum resources, of Mosul first shape mi then precipitate a serious diploma and Great Britain, and subsequently in active’ hostilities . .. it is not ary. camp in the World War, ic crisis between the United States almost involve Turkey and E difficult to imagine the | which nations and oil magnates would go in order to acquire the petro- liferous lands of Baku, Grosni, Emba and Maikop in Russia—lands which contain as much oil as will national flag. be found anywher: udder a single FURTHER, there are compilations of the United States Geological Sur- vey which suppose that the petroleum reserves of southeast Russia, southwest Siberia and the region of the Caucasus amount to 5,830,000,- 000, barrels, while those of northern Russia and Sakhalizn are estimated at 925,000,000 barrels. In other words, a total of 6,755,000,000 barrels. The same authority credits Persia, Turkey and Mosul with only 5,- 820,000,000 barrels, while, according to the recent report of the Federal Oil Conservation Board . . . the available resources. in the United States amount to no more than 5,500,000,000 barrels. As no one will deny the growing importance of oil, so no one can gainsay the role which the Russian resources are destined to play in world economies and, therefore, in world polities. c will be sad to see how the magnet of oil draws great armies to the Caucasus; it will be fascinating to examine how the oil companies mobilize the forces of diplomacy to fight their battles across green tables and behind the scenes of Genoa and Hague conferences; it should be enlightening to study how far the foreign policies ‘of nations, in the matter of reeognition, credits, ete. lubricant and irritant—oil, and to wi Dutch, and between the Standard affected by the oil resources of Soviet Russia. —Quoted from the introduction to “Oil Imperialism” Louis Fischer—International Publishers, New York City. the international oil war revolving around Russian oil deposits that we are forced to quote it at length. The dispatch deals with two different phases of the struggle between the Royal Dutch Shell and the Standard but which nevertheless have a direct connection with each other i. e. the! clash for the acquisition of the crude oil, centering around Baku and the Near East on one hand, and the strug- gle for the ‘markets, principally European, in which to dispose of the refined product, ReATWE to the first question the Herald Tribune correspondent said: “The Royal Dutch Shell Company -, are influenced by that universal hat extent relations between the two greatest petroleum trusts in the world—the Standard and the Royal and Sinclair companies, have been by has denounced its agreement with the Standard Oil Company for coopera- tion in exploiting the Persian oil fields, the “Borsen Courier” declares today. Henceforth the British com- | pany will look after its own interests | there. | i “The interpretation put on this\ re- | port in financial circles here is that it iis a development of the oil war be- |tween the Dutch Shell and the Stan- | dard Oil Company of New York, which began when the latter company en- tered into an agreement with the Rus- sian Naptha Company for ‘the pur- chase of Russian oil. “It is also believed to be a sequel American Supply—The to the severing of the Anglo-Russian diplomatic relations and the awarding |ef the oil concessions in northern | Persia to the Soviet Government by jthe Persian government .... . Royal Dutch ; “The action of the 3 | Shell group, both in denouncing the | Pe an agreement and the plan to |found refineries there by the Roxana | Petroleum Company, an offspring of the Royal Dutch, is arded here as an aggressive measure by the Bri |interests in the oil war that has sud- |denly broken out between the leading | petroleum interests of the United | States and Great Britain.” | | @O much for the struggle for oil in |“ the Near East between these two| gigantic concerns, each a decisive fac- | |tor within its respective imperialism, | las a result of the Standard’s agree- | ment to purchase Soviet of] against | the opposition of its chief competitor, | as related by the Herald Tribune cor- | respondent. } It is evident that Walter C. Teagle’s | “warm personal friendship” for Sir| Henri Deterding did not serve to tone | down to any extent the antagonism between Royal Dutch and Standard. NEHER did friendship of the head of the Standard Oil of New Jersey for Sir Henri deter him from dealing Royal Dutch Shell a body blow in the for oil is taking place—markete. In the same dispatch from which we quote above, the correspondent jment between the Standard Oil of New Jersey and the German dye trust. He says: “The agreement between the Ger- man and American interests, whereby the Standard Oil acquires the right manufacture of ‘synthetic petroleum extracted. from coal and other valu- able patents and to sell the German dye trust products, is regarded AS A SEVERE BLOW TO SIR HENRI DETERDING’S COMPANY.” (To Be Continued.) second field on which the struggle | tells of the conclusion of an agree-| to use the Bergius method in the) a person died as | _Red Rays | ifs URICE CONNOLLY, president | of the borough of Queens, denies |the charge of “reckless grafting” in the building of $16,000,000 worth of sewers in the borough. It was al- leged by a political oponent of Mr. Connolly that nm one to four times |more was paid by Queens officials for wer pipe as was paid by other boroughs. -erhaps Mr. Connolly is right. The grafting may not be “reckless” when we learn that it has been going on for seven years with- out anybody getting caught at it to date. * ; NYHOW, if the Queens officials swiped the entire sewer expendi- jture of $16,000,000, it could not be regarded as a monumental contribu- tion. to the sum total of an average jdecade’s toll from grafting in the United States. “Boss” Tweed who {did his looting many years ago would have sneezed at $16,000,0u0, and probably would have kicked out of | Tammany Hall any democrat so lack- |ing in respect for the dignity of his |profession as to allow himself to be }eaught with such a paltry sum, | * * * ‘HAT one can look with ~ perfect equanimity on the trampling on of‘ a stranger’s pet corns while a similar painful indignity perpetrated jon those of a friend would draw forth | from the same person, expressions of jsturdy indignation, has long been }common knowledge. We can forgive ;methods used by those with whom |we agree in the furtherance of a par- |ticular policy, while calling on the |gods to witness the heniopsness of | similar methods used by those with | whom we are in disagreement. No- in any political organi- | body has beer jzation without knowing that many people are naive enough to attach more importance to the means than to the end. * * * D so we find the leaders of the British Labor Party, all good. so- cialists, congratulating Calles, the so- cialist president of Mexico, for putting bullets in reactionary counter-revo- lutionist Icaders who organized a military revolt against the govern- ment in the interests of the feudal landowners, the catholic church and |certain American imperialist in- |terests. But when the government of ihe Soviet Unjon was obliged to stand wenty Czarist agents of the British government up against: a firing squad, those same socialist labor leaders expressed their horror and |indignation at such “uncivilized” ac- tion, Is it because the Mexican re- actionaries were tools of American imperialism, while the Czarists were |doing the bidding of the British eas Office? | * * ie IS reported that a reporter for |“ one of our morning papers got fired |for falling asleep during a Rev. John | Roach Straton sermon, This religious |maniae seems to wield more power jin this city than “Scarface Al” Ca- pone wields in Chicago. The head of an organization for the advance- ment of atheism is held in $500 bail for having “bothered” the dominie by * |sending freethot literature to him by mail. The judge held that there was not the slightest possibility of con- verting Straton to anything, and that therefore the atheist propagandist was guilty—until proven innocent— of pestering him. Well, as Arthur Brisbane would say, our atheist friend is lucky that he did not mail copies of an atheist magazine to Straton when the latter was walking on all fours, and was president of the Gorilla Inquisition. + * © | WHILE on the subject of preachers, | I wish to comment on a criticism | made by a reader on my review of | Paxton Hibben’s life of Henry Ward | Beecher, pafticularly the part that jdeals with the preacher’s seduction of the wife of his friend Theodore Tilton. A council of methodists gave their fellow skypilot a vote of confi- dence and that settled the matter as far as the Encyclopedia Brittanica was concerned. Possibly seventy-five per cent of the gathering that gave Beecher a coat of whitewash had seduced the wives of fellow-preachers or were seduced by them. The point; is that history is not so much con- cerned with the seductive triumphs of outstanding personalities as it is | with their success in helping to in- fluence the course of events, Whether Be echer was guilty of the charge pre- ferred against him or not does not prove much beyond his hypocrisy, And this,vice we take for granted in preachers, * * * |§OMEBopy’s Thanksgiving speech must have reached the heart of “Red” Savage, a Rhode Island gang- |ster who was wanted for a $252,000 {post office robbery, His mother’s home was mortgaged as securi r * $10,000 bail bond on which ace jfree on another charge of 1 y. |When “Red” failed to show on ig court the bond was declared forfeited, So “Red” experienced a change of heart after Thanksgiving and he walked into the arms of the police to Save the mortgage. This used to be good for a tearful vaudeville sketch not so long ago, . # * COMING on the heels of the death of Lady « Victoria Bullock, the prince of Wales added to the royal sorrow by falling off his horse. The a result of a week, ‘ —T. J. O'FLAHERTY, fall from a horse last it