The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1927, Page 6

: selass in these nations, stand for militarization and prepare for Page Six THK DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927 “Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Dai Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Cable Addre: Phone, Orchard 1680 By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year 50 months | $2 2 months. By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months. ae “Address and mail out checks to — THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, ... ROBERT MINOR oo Woks Be NE Assistant Editor Entered,as second-class mail at the p ‘. ¥., under Geneva, Disarmament and Imperialist War The Soviet Union delegation has focused the attention of the whole world upon the sessions of the preparatory commission for the league of nation’s disarmament conference. For once in its life the league is forced to deal with the ques- tion of disarmament on a basis which will leave no room for doubt in the minds of millions of workers as to what nations, and what imperialist war. In this session of the league, where the representatives of the imperialist nations and their satellites face the spokesmen of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union, Maxim Litvinoff has raised the question of world disarmament in terms so simple and understandable that the imperialist diplomats are left breathless—and fearful. The proposal of the Soviet Union delegation is that all na- tions abolish their armies, navies and fortifications. It proposes that a disarmament conference for arranging details convene not later than March, 1928, and that disarmament shall be completed | within a four-year period. The league of nations, that instrument of world imperialism, WHERE THE CONSTITUTIO?} REIGNS SUPREME: has been turned into a forum for the time being for the discussion of the war danger. So keen have the conflicts between the imperialist nations become, that the Soviet Union is able, by its insistence upon the necessity for struggle against imperialist war, to deepen the di- visions in the imperialist ranks and appeal over the heads of the imperialist rulers, directly to the world’s working class. Will the imperialist nations disarm? Does the government | of the Soviet Union believe that the imperialist nations will dis- arm? Certainly not. | Imperialist and capitalist ~stions arm not only against each other but against the workin_) class and the colonial peoples. Armies and navies are-first of all instruments for the suppression | of the masses. Ec Navies especially are *-struments for the conquest of co- lonial countries. pes : (Continued from Last Issue.) In the invasion of the wW-.et Uni-n which followed the revo- | THD dhe ects Wet to oer Ta lution, and in which all imperialist ¢ ons took part, we have a veal purpone of the Muropean. vinit classic example of the use on a huge scale of imperialism’s armed |of Walter C. Teagle becomes clear forces against those millions of the working class who were in | and the substitution of the doctrine of + fs i h | ‘warm personal friendship” for the the first line trenches of the class struggle—the attempt to crus! laiccan, of UAbes | Geuchaete is (Gee by military force the working class of a whole nation AFTER it | schaeft” makes itself apparent as we had defeated the native ruling class and taken power. es | read on: on : : The invasion of the Soviet Union by American, British,| “The most astonishing thing of it iz i as Si ly the ex- | all is the way the Royal Dutch firm, French, Japanese,’ German and Italian armies was simply the e: soutaalle- ia alliance with: tnaistene tension of the policy of the use of the armed forces of imperialist dard Oil Compeny of New Jaraey, jis government to smash strikes, prevent organization of workers, | completely ignored ... . THE BAR- ete. |GAIN WAS STRUCK BY eee : ; £ ; i C. TEAGLE, PRESIDENT OF TH At one end of the chain are. the wt of Colorado siniters | NEW THRSEY COMBANE andl and the use of coal and iron police in Pennsylvania, at the other \Duisberg, head af the German dye end are the invasions of the Soviet Union, the armed aggressions | trust, and came as a surprise to in- against the Chinese revolution, the conquest of Nicaragua, etc. | d etal oe nets Poanee it sets . oe 3 e . i |aside the German Gasoline Company The intensity and scope of the class struggle determines the | 38 the telling corporation akctha Taye lengths to which imperialism goes in mobilizing its armies and hanna new iorcesiees: navies against the working class. |” “his company,. in which both the The imperialist spokesmen will reply to the proposal of the|STANDARD OIL AND ROYAL Soviet Union by attacks on its motives. They will say that the DUTCH -FIRMS POSSESS A ;, ; j ; St. urs aa | QUARTER INTEREST, has been ex- Soviet Union maintains a huge army, that it will not disarm even wected to sell dlisee Seid ee Be tho the imperialist nations do, that it conducts a continual CAMl-|tne Heidelberg agreement THE paign against the imperialist governments, etc. STANDARD GROUP WILL BE EN- The social-democrats will join this chorus and by so doing;ABLED TO DRIVE THE ROYAL - FF s g DUTCH SHELL FROM MANY OF will prove once again that they are enemies of the masses and of TTS MARKETS IN CENTRAL the social revolution. However, the social democrat leaders are | mj3popE AND ELSEWHERE.” great supporters of disarmament—in words. if . : But by giving verbal approval to disarmament proposals | Doe ee ee Tengle these leaders seek to substitute words for struggle against im- Ito the contract for the purehase of | perialism and the war danger. Just as in England MacDonald and _ soviet oil by the Standard had noth- | the right wing leaders of the labor party are the worst enemies | ing whatever to do with his hatred of | : 3 ‘ | the Bolsheviks or with his “warm of the Chinese and Indian peoples, so in France Jouhaux supports | ‘i ae : 4 * . --«y » | personal friendship” for Sir Henri, imperialist government while French Communists go to jail for | head of Royal Dutch, but was based fighting its bloody program in Morocco and Syria. | solely on certain delicate business ar- Imperialism is the period of wars and revolutions and to be- | rangements which Sir Henri was at lieve that imperialism will disarm is to believe that the imperi- | that time in a position to upset. alists will surrender to the working class and acknowledge the | QO the head of Standard Oil of ae " i 'W Jersey, who had objected to the supremacy of the revolution. ‘ nad ol ) But the imperialist spokesmen at Geneva must explain why rial ab a Ere ere they are against disarmament and upon this point the imperialist | ang competitor-—Sir Henri, after re- spokesmen will twist and wriggle for upon this point they have been impaled by Litvinoff’s accurate thrust. Here too will the leaders of the second international do some ceiving the encomiums of the capital- ist press, rushed to Europe and pro- ceeded, unquestionably by the pres- ‘sure of American finance-capital !discussion on Russian oil, he indicat- for Oil—How the Danger Will Be Removed— Latest Developments. Standard Oil Head 'HE Herald Tribune correspondent ! proceeds to submit proof that Sir Henri and the Royal Dutch actually | suffered a defeat by saying: | “It has been noted that Sir Henri Deterding, who actyally talks freely, ; has said nothing of the Heidelberg } agreement. Altho SIR HENRI WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO INTEREST HIMSELF IN THE PROCESS OF | PROFESSOR BERGIUS for making oil from coal and to HELP FINANCE THE EXPERIMENTS, OF LATE HE HAS BEEN SPEAKING SKEP- TICALLY CONCERNING ITS VALUE. Sir Henri obviously is crying sour grapes. ND now for:some still more recent history: Walter C. Teagle «eturned from Europe on September 9. On Septem- ber 10 the New York Times said: “Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, | declined upon his return from Europe on the Aquitania yesterday to inject himself or his company further into the controversy over the purchase of | Russian oil products. Returning after six weeks abroad and after a state-| ment by him on the eve of his de-| parture for Europe disapproving of | trade relations with the Soviet gov-; ernment had provoked a world-wide Walter C. Teagle. * * Royal Dutch Shell Head of ed that the subject was dismissed as far as he and his company are con- cerned.” | ‘HE “moral” issue raised by Teagle before his departure seems to have evaporated. The Soviet government has not changed, the Standard Oil of New Jersey headed by Teagle is get- ting its share of the Soviet oil pur- chased by, other Standard subsidiaries, ; the contract with the “government | of robbers and murderers” still stands, | there is even talk of increasing the | amount of oil to be purchased. H ‘What has changed the attitude of! Walter C, Teagle? | Certainly he has not become a con- | vert to Communism, It must be that his company has improved its position Sir Henri Deterding. painful squirming since the proposal of the Sgviet Union delega- | tion is designed also to expose these hypocrital hangets-on of the imperialist entourage. , It is not for such an impossible attainment as the abolition of imperialist armaments at a time when imperialism rules the world outside of the Soviet Union, and the main line of struggle working thru the Dawes plan, to club the German dye trust into delivering to him the Pyrgius petroleum process, excludir sir Henri and the Royal Dutess «om the markets and in gen- eral doing his “warm personal friend” up brown in the most approved Yan-+ kee style. in those fields where it encounters the opposition of the Royal Dutch Shell, headed by Teagle’s “warm personal friend”, Sir Henri Deterding. 'N the same story from which we ments in a somewhat puzzled way as follows: F “Mr. Teagle’s trip to Europe has heen described as A PEACE MIS-| SION undertaken with the idea of ~, Re Six miners were killed and over twenty wounded when the Colorado state police fired on a strikers’ demonstration in front of the Columbine mine of the Rocky Mountain Fué] Company. ~ Oil and the War Danger |Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell Write a New Chapter for Louis Fischer’s “Oil Imperialism.” British and American Imperialism Fight for the Oil Resources of the Soviet Union.— The Struggle for the Oil Markets of Central Europe—The “Friendship” Between Teagle and Deterding—The Relations of Royal Dutch and Standard Oil— International Polities—The Decreasing American Supply-—The Sharpening of the Struggle—Oil Companies and State De- partments—Oil and the Jingoes—Imperialism’s Need GAs E By William F. Dunne. bitter in his hatred of the Soviet Government. | The real question is: Whose concern is buying Soviet oil and what effect does this have upon | their polities in the present period? We know that the Standard Oil is purchasing Soviet oil in large quanti- ties and we also know that Walter C. Teagle who at first joined with Sir sue, no longer opposes the contract entered into with the Soviet govern- ment by the Vacuum and the Stan- dard Oil of New York. | MORE than that he went to Europe Bergius process and the German mar- kets for its product. Having drawn Sir Henri’s teeth, Teagle seems to | have forgotten about the iniquity of |dealing with the Soviet Union—altho | it was only some two months ago that |he had a united front with Sir Henri jon this question. | But what of Sir Henri? Has he too discontinued his attempt to organize the great oil companies of the world against sinful business agreements with the Soviet government? UITE the contrary. Sir Henri is | ‘€ still righteously indignant and so |The Times reports: “So far as could be learned, Mr. Teagle, if he went abroad to placate Sir Henri, failed to accomplish his purpose. Within the last few days the Royal Dutch Shell head HAS CON- TINUED HIS ATTACKS ON THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT and his at- titude of antagonism toward the Stan- dard of New \York and the Vacuum has not altered.” - Sir Henri is up to his old tricks, as we will see a little later. His attacks on the Soviet government are first a part of the general offensive of Brit- \ish imperialism against the Soviet Union and second a method of attack- ing and embarrassing Standard Oil— the chief competitor of Royal Dutch Shell. . This new phase of the world strug- gle for Soviet oil is thus both a cause Great .Britain against the Soviet Union, | og we pass to another, phase of the struggle for oil and its ef- fect upon international politics, we | | Henri is raising a great “moral” is-| | and squeezed Sir Henri. and the | Royal Dutch out of their share in the | and an effect of the offensive led by | Several e cures for this scourge have | been announced at various times dur- |ing the past few years, but none of |them rang the bell on test. Now we |have doctors engaged in the business {of frightening the populace with nightmares of impending disaster junless they submit to periodical ex- |aminations. Like tuberculosis, once |the most popular of our mapy | plagues, cancer will have its day and |then will give way to diabetes. | eae te 7 | {HE United States Chamber of Com- merce would bring pressure to | bear on the administration in the mat- ter of tax reduction. Business wants | a $400,000,000 tax slash, but Coolidge j Will not let them have a dime more j than $250,000,000. The differenee be- |tween the two sets of figures will | cover the cost of the Nicaraguan jelection, Anyhow, business will not |make much of a’ fuss about it. ce ai HE House of Haldeman Julius is not entirely satisfied with the publicity that accrued to it as a re- sult of the alleged “companionate” |marriage of its daughter to an em- ploye of the publishing firm. So Mr. Julius has decided to remarry and buy his wife another ring. We will never sbe fully convinced that Mr. Julius is a die-hard devotee of the |art of publicity until he dies once to | test the popularity of the man who | tried to put a little classical knowl- edge in every dome. if * * * HOR the benefit of those who are empty of stomach as well as of pocket the following story is told. During a recent midnight, while gayety was at its height in a popular Broadway cafe, smoke was seen is- suing from a flue. Policemen ap- peared and ordered the guests to the | street. The management protested |that the diners had not paid their |checks. The big-hearted policemen, however, would not see human lives |placed in jeopardy because of con- |siderations of filthy lucre. Out the guests went. A few of them re- turned and paid their bills, but it was suspected that they forgot their over- coats or their hip flasks. * * * INLESS the Soviet delegates to the fake disarmament conference at Geneva are permitted to express their full views on disarmament they will pack up and beat it back'to Moscow where they have plenty of useful work awaiting their attention. Eng- land, France and Italy are thoroly |frightened at the prospect of their |fakery being exposed to the world |by the Soviet representatives. It is reported that the three powers have entered into an agreement to prevent a complete discussion of the vital subject, to discuss which, the confer- ence was allegedly called. * * * | pe New York Times yesterday |* carried a lengthy and obviously faked story about a revolt in the Ukraine. The story was date-lined | from a Roumanian city. The probable |fact is something like this: A revolt had been planned which wps con- nected with the attempt to beat down the chervonetz, discovered by the Ger- man police and in which Sir Henry Deterding, the oil magnate, who is backed by British government, had a hand. The press agents of the con- spiracy were tipped off to releasa their stuff on a certain date but found themselves in the same pre- dicament as a famous dramatic critic who reviewed a play while visiting hig sweetheart, instead of the theatre, only to learn on the following morn- ing, that the show did not show up. He was fired which proved to his material advantage, a fact which has nothing to do with the press agents of the Ukraine “revolt.” * * * Waite HALE THOMPSON de- nies that Chicago is the nation’s most popular criminal resort. In a lengthy telegram to\ New York edi- torial critics, the mayor suggests that; stories of bombings and shooting are part of the British propaganda which |has for its object the discrediting of the headquarters of the general staff of the war against King George. It Thompson’s police did not talk -so much and if his undertakers were not | busy his denials might be more con- vineing. | * * * | POLICE chief Richard 0. Zober, of |" Passaic, one of the most heroic of the patriots who beat up men and women in the interest of law and or- |der during the famous strike, may be {he next patriot to bite the dust of | humiliation. The gentleman is now is imperialism versus the Soviet Union, that the Soviet Union quote above The Times oil expert ‘ PREVENTING SIR HENRI DE- indulges in some speculation. He com- | TERDING .... of the Royal Dutch must call attention to the manner in under suspension and on trial charged which Teagle, upon his ‘return to this| with buying and selling five stolen delegation to Geneva is fighting. The Soviet Union delegation is in Geneva to throw all possi- ble obstacles in the way of the imperialist offensive against the workers’ and peasants’ government, to expose the brutal anti- workingclass character of the imperialist governments, to make it harder for imperialism to drive the masses to the shambles of imperialist war, to force the social democrat leaders either to support the struggle against imperialist war or by their refusal to do so to convict themselves before the working class of aiding the imperialist murderers, At Geneva the Soviet Union delegation does not put the ques- | tion as “peace under imperialism,” which actually means peace with imperialism by the surrender of the working class to it. This is the formula of the social democrat leaders who put forward dis- armament as a specific remedy for war. The Soviet Union delegation by bringing in a practical pro- gram of disarmament force the imperialist governments and their reformist agents to say that disarmament is impossible be- cause of the lack of “security” guarantees. By this they mean that if the Communist International will cease to organize and lead the revolutionary masses of the world, if the Soviet Union will become a capitalist nation and cease to aid the colonial na- tions in their struggle against imperialism, become a government of the imperialists permitting the unrestricted robbery of the Rus- sian masses, that the imperialist nations might arrange to decrease their armed forces to some extent. If the government of the Soviet Union will betray the revo- lution the imperialists are willing to give to it the same guarantees, against war that they give each other. As the Geneva conference continues it will be made plain that }? the imperialist governments fear nationalist revolutions in their colonies and the social revolution at home more than they fear each other. i : Shell group . .. ..from retaliating | against the Standard of New York} jand the Vacuum FOR THEIR PUR-| | CHASE OF RUSSIAN OIL AGAINST } HIS WISHES.” | “O come ye in peace or come ye in| |war?” the wedding guests inquired | |of bold Lochinvar as he rode out of | the west, The bold Teagle quite evidently came out of the west to make war upon his little playmate as we have | already seen, and in spite of the naive |comment of The Times oil expert who resurrects the old myth by saying: “Mr. Teagle and Sir Henri are élose riends and their two organizations re allied in their opposition to the Soviet government.” c is not necessary to argue as to which of these bosom pals is mara country, rubbed salt in the» wounds t) of his “close friend.” The Times reports: “Mr. Teagle confirmed réports that his company had entered into an agreement with the German Dye Trust for the exchange of patent processes and rights, but indicated that no plans have been developed for any immedi- ate use of the “German processes in this country.” Quite so. These processes are to be used for the present in those Euro- pear. countries where Mr. Teagle’s company is fighting Royal Dutch Shell and the purposes of Teagle’s . statement is to let the oil world—and incidentally the state department— know that the war with Royal Dutch is on and mobilization of all forces of the Standard the order of the day. (To Be Continued.) automobiles. ’ “ * ANOTHER patriot is a big beer and booze man of Cincinnati, Ohio, who killed his wife because she con- sorted with his favorite prohibition agent. The mammoth bootlegger, Remus by name, came to this country from Germany with all his worldly goods ‘wrapped in a bandana handker- chief, or whatever kind of a nose towel the Germans prefer, Had ha quit the business when he made his first million and made. way in the overcrowded bootlegging business for other deserving republicans, his in- fraction of the criminal law might be overlooked. The G. O. P. of Ohio has no reason to love wives. They would swap a dead Roxie Stinson any time for a live Jess Smith. te isa ] i | i