The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER CONGRESS OPENS Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | Daily, Except Sunday $3 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 | of New Yo: st Street, Sntere d British Hardly Less So. . .” —Geneva Dispatch. @ Bsa|2 | 4 | & s ods i the great imperialist powers are now engaged in trying to! overcome the effect of the proposal to destroy all war machinery, made at Geneva by the Soviet Union d tion. As we predicted, there is a barrage of publicity and propaganda designed to cover up the fact that the imperialist nations hav e no intention of dis arming and that their previous gestures in this direction have had but one purpose—to confuse the masses and create the impression that imperialist armaments are for “defense” and not for the sup- pression of the working class and the colonial peoples and war upon the Soviet Union. ; But the imperialist propagandists are not meeting with signal success. In the first place there is no denying the interest in and sympathy with Soviet Union proposals among millions in alk coun- tries. Second, the contrast between the proposals of the Soviet Union and the manner of their reception by imperialist spokes- men is an enlightening one. Third, the proof of this wide interest is to be seen in the fact that the imperialist representatives in Geneva did not dare to reject the Soviet Union disarmament plan introduced by Litvinoff but had to resort to trickery in order to avoid open refusal to endorse it. The New York World Geneva correspondent’s description of the political situation created by the Soviet Union proposal con- tradicts directly the view expressed by The World editorially. It is to be assumed that this contradiction is not confined to The World but runs to some extent throughout the capitalist press. The Geneva correspondents feel the full force of the struggle in Geneva and are influenced by it. The editors of the capitalist press are consciously trying to overcome the favorable attitude | toward the Soviet Union induced by the news from Geneva. | We find The World’s correspondent saying: | “Hitherto disarmament discussions, military and naval, have | been between state victorious in the late war and possessing large | armaments. The views of the defeated states have been ignored.” “Yesterday and today changed all that. However uto ian the Russian scheme may be, the effect on world opinion of such a great territorial power, now accused of possessing the largest army jn the world, offering to disarm completely if others will agy< is bound to be profound.” But the editor of The World has a different opinion and say “If the Russians really thought they could embarrass the other governments they were profoundly mista. They have merely justified those who insist that it is impossible to do busi- ness with the Soviets because they are always playing some game.’ Well, what game is the editor of The World and the imperi- alist spokesmen playing? Quite obviously the game of imperi- alist war. Their appeal is to the masses of the world to continue their support of the war program of the imperialist nation The appeaLof the Soviet Union delegation st imperialist war. ‘The world wil! never abol a s the editor of Ihe World. Quite so, but this is not exactly what The World * editor means and it is certain that The World is not going to help the world “abolish armaments.” § Of course “the world” is not | Ba Hel cad aod the ache going to abolish armaments. This term includes imperialists 25 | cdaen machinery. well as workers and colonial peoples—“the world” is ruled by im- | Soiele Aiige cla a ce perialists, outside of the Soviet Union. : : F re ena tet But imperialism will be disarmed in the struggle against it. \scodacdnn Way: ahtce sere edd there It will be disarmed by the working class and its allies and the ex-|G,eat Britain and America ievicaiie. posure of the inherently warlike character of the impreialist na-/ must continue to be world rivals for tions that has been made at Geneva is a part of that men cae ‘ee joi aeenyet: Me ea ieee Since the disarmament proposals of the Soviet nion have both topetkce, wil havecGh do. with been made public the imperialist nations are forced to appear | |i) development in one country after more openly than ever before as robber nations armed against the lanother ... one or both will be in- er cceplen world’s population—the workers, farmers paren ay Jogel 8a enemas es. : . . erati nd the fairness they That this is no small accomplishment is to be seen from | Vow WILL, DETERMINE TO % Geneva dispatches stating that “the French are furious and the |, aRGE EXTENT WHETHER THE British hardly less so. . . .” These of course are the French and |\CONTROL OF THE WORLD'S OIL British imperialists. The French and British masses are well Ree eoaea ee an ae IN- pleased and their pleasure is heightened by the fury of their rulersg °~"*» : . os \RJE may dismiss the pious wish for | “cooperation and fairness” as a ;means for the prevention of imperial- = Gil: Dawes Endorses His Stalking Horse, Lowden Pegetigtaed ocean ARiog Vice President Charles G. Dawes announces that he endorses \it soa only Baek pleut thru 20m ry 7 ie n e 7 inojc, | bination of Grea’ ritain al ie the candidacy of Frank 0; Lowden, former governor of Illinois, [United Staten’ spainsy thd “Soviet for, the republican nomination for president in 1928. To recall! pion which would mean an imperial- Lowden’s public record as a political corruptionist in the Missouri| ist attack upon the fatherland of the 920 republican convention at Chicago | world’s working class. scandals Bead RNG tee < i font a T e Like other writers, Brokaw sees the is to realize that the republicans dare not nominate him. LOW? | eeakaih cha Heaatn oie ba ecine the den’s agents were exposed for bribing delegates from Missouri. | United States and Great Britain in Not that Lowden was doing anything that was not done by other | proportion as the domestic oil supply candidates. He was simply unfortunate enough to be caught. bere eee fie es Bae ‘ jcounter re: For more than two years Lowden has been busily engaged as re Savied Wate “alm dectnive ctor a stalking horse for Vice President Lowden in the corn belt. Both |in international diplomacy. He con- he and Dawes were champions of the McNary-Haugan “farm | tinues: relief” bill. Their alleged political platforms are identical. “No doubt America will feel no It is perfectly logical for Dawes to endorse one who is playing | small irritation when she is no longer att in his behalf. able to supply her own demands from eee is behalt, : P 5 . _|domestie production, and when this This is the game: Lowden will enter the republican primaries | moment comes THE CONTROL OF in those states holding primaries. Those that he carries will sup- FOREIGN SOURCES OF SUPPLY port‘him at the republican nominating convention. At the proper | MAY Ree ER GaRE GES patel time during the contest Lowden will withdraw and throw his hand: BRITISH “OPINION sipport to Dawes. Those states that he loses will be free also to .FOLLOW DETERDING support Dawes after they i:ave formally cast their votes for the PROTESTS AGAINST THE favorite ons during the first ballotting. Meanwhile Dawes, him- N_ EFFORTS OF STAN- self, will be spared the humiliation of losing scme states in the primaries, while at the same time he profits through Lowden’s ARTICLE V. (Continued from Last Issue.) ROKAW estimates the annual pro- duction of the decisive oil fields | for the next ten years as follows: United States, 500,000,000 to 600,- 000,000 barrels; Venezuela and Co- lombia, 150,000,000 to 200,000,000 bar- rels; Russia, 100,000,000 to 150,000,- 000 barrels; Persia and Mesopotamia, 100,060,000 barrels. The estimate for Russia is far too low since the Soviet Government is electrifying the F have seen previously that Royal Dutch Shell as a reprisal for the Standard’s contract with the Soviet Union had repudiated its agreement with the Standard for joint exploita- tion of the Persian fields. (Quotation . WHICH MAY AP- A CHALLENGE TO N in the regions she domin- victories. llenge that will seem in This is a flagrant piece of political chicanery in which Dawes ei oe as tear ee lite and Lowden and the big bankers and industrial ts they represent | 11, jierican operators to par- will try to capitalize the plight of the exploited and oppressed | ticipate in the development of Irak farmers of the corn belt and enlist the support of those working | under a sort of British hegemony.” ‘Class elements who can still be deceived by twaddle about “repub- W liden prosperity.” : ‘WThe only effective rebuke to such capitalist trickery is the | +‘ anization of a class party of labor defending the elementary ui asts of the workers and farmers. © THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927 nger for Oil—How the Danger Will Be Removed— Latest Developments. By Fred Ellis And Mr. Coolidge, going to deliver his message to congress, figuratively walks over the bodies of coal miners and their wives, | murdered in Colorado and Pennsylvania. Will he mention them? Watch and see! | ¢——— ep N Oil and the War Da | 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 pe cmabo§ By William F. Dunne tame Berlin dispatch to the New York | Herald-Dribune, August 18.) We can expect news of difficulties |in connection with the*Irak joint! | 2greement any day. The British gov- jcrnment, by the way, only agreed to} the Irak proposal after « long and sharp exchange of notes in 1120-21, after a threatening speech by Walter | C. Teagle to the Washington meeting | of the American Petroleum Institute | and after the matter had been the} subject of jingoistic speeches on the/\ floor of the senate. qT seus statement as quoted by| Fischer is significant, especially in view of the fact that later, as we have seen, he appeared as apparently | in agreement with the head of Royal | Dutch Shell on relations with the} Soviet Union. On the occasion men- tioned Teagle said: “Our British friends, in endeavor- jing to’ explain the position their gov- | ernment has taken since the armistice, have argued that if the United States is now’ supplying 70 per cent of the world (oil) production, we should be content with things as they are. THIS IS AN ENTIRELY FALLA- CIOUS VIEW. Is it reasonable to ask that Americans go heedlessly on to the quick exhaustion of their own supply and then retire from the oil business? The American petroleum industry cannot except such a con- clusion. IT MUST LOOK TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PETROLEUM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.” UICK to take their cue from their overlords, Senators McKellar and | Kellogg leaped into the fray. On January 6, 1921, McKellar stated that “Gf Great Britain is not permitted to feet oil, front. this country her navy (will be severely handicapped, and ineny shipssof-her-mereantue mayino will bo“pat out of commission. SHE WILL BE OBLIGED TO COME TO TERMS.” 3 Senator Kellogg, now secretary of state, went so far as to speak of “re- taliatory legislation if Great Britain refused the square deal to Amer- icans.” Thus does oil anoint the tongues of the patriots. AS Brokaw says: »“We may look with more or less equanimity upon a trade war between two American companies, but a trade war IN THE OIL INDUSTRY BE- TWEEN A POWERFUL BRITISH GROUP AND’ A POWERFUL AMERICAN GROUP holds within it the possibility of a struggle for the dominance of CONTROL OVER THE SUPPLY BY THE NATIONS THEM- SELVES AND THAT IS. °. .MORE SERIOUS.” Oil holds the center of the field wherein is taking place the three phases of the imperialist struggle: 1.—The struggle between the Soviet Union, typifying the revolu- tionary struggle of the working class, and the imperialist nations. 2.—The struggle between the im- perialist nations themselves. will from time to time come to certain OLONEL CHARLES R. FORBES, |¥ former head of the Veterans’ Bur- |eau which directed the spending of jhalf a billion dollars annually was |recently released from prison, where jhe was serving a two-year sentence imposed on him in Chicago for mis- |appropriation of funds. Forbes was | one of the many grafters that feath- jered their nests during the Harding |regime. Instead of spending the |money entrusted to his care on the unfortunate victims of Wall Street’s war, he shared it with grafting con- tractors, * * #2* FORBES is now having his say— \* for cash, His story in one of the | metropolitan papers yesterday reads like a chapter from “Revelry.” Daugh- erty is the goat. In a way Forbes’ |story remind8 one of Nan Britton’s yarns. In both tales the president is | represented as the victim of design- ing individuals. But Warren Gamaliel Harding was just as crooked as the rest of the gang. * * * RCEBES does not criticize Daugh- erty for his red-baiting policy or his efforts to crush the labor move- ment by means of injunctions. His anger against the former attorney general was due to the feeling that he had been double crossed. Forbes tells of seeing seventy-five one thous sand dollar bills on Jess Smith’s desk |in the department of justice: Smith said they belonged to Daugherty. | Harding was “truly spiritual” says Forbes. While looking into the crater of a Hawaiian voleano the president remarked: “This is God’s work and he alone can quiet the flame.” * * * FTER a three-year investigation into the traffic in women and chil- dren for immoral purposes conducted by a committee of the Council of the League of Nations, the report is ready but because certain powers that are represented in the league council are involved, it will be published only in expurgated form. Among those pow- ers are some of the most active in the crusade to save civilization from the “Bolshevik menace.” > | A NEW YORK society girl lost.an \** ear in an automobile accident. While the fashion was to have ears hidden the lady did not miss it, but: | it is rumored that a woman who has * * * 3.—The struggle between the im- | agreements with the government of ears must be prepared to show them perialist aggressors and the colonia! and semi-colonial peoples. ‘OR industry, for commerce and for | But so long as imperialism remains war, oil is indispensable. Around|the danger of war on the Soviet it develop both imperialist and class antagonisms. Its importance over- shadows that of other raw materials | and outside of the United States it is found in those countries, the Soviet Union particularly, and dripping lips. Louis Fischer has done a great ser- vice for the revolutionary movement, | Brokay ede and without access to the original | “Foreign Affairs” we quoted: sources (which is out of the bounds of possibility for the average person) Union will likewise remain. Not until imperialism has been erushed by the might of the working |elass in alliance with the colonial peo-/ z | Ples will the menace of imperialist | towards which the | war disappear, imperialists look with longing eyes} NOM one word more to substantiate the prediction made by Albert D. Brokaw when he said in the article in “The control of foreign sources of oil sup- ply may become a popular issue in cr a thorough study of his “Oil Im-) American politics.” perialism,” the complicated processes That this era is approaching rapidly by which such an apparent contradic- | can be seen from the following extract tion as Standard Oil acting as a buf-| from a news story carried by. the New fer between the Soviet Union and the | York Times on Sept. 29: present offensive against it by Great | Britain, oceurs in the present period, cannot be understood. The same holds true for an accurate estimate of the forces which together place the danger of imperialist war in the first place on the order of busi- ress of the working class. AS Fischer says: “The close doyetailing between the |. interests of oil trusts and the policies) of diplomats is one of the most sig- nificant and absorbing political de- velopments of the last decade. The desire for expansion into foreign fields on the part of Standard Oil,} Anglo-Persian and Royal Dutch Shell Companies has and will to an ever-| increasing extent put its mark on the international relations of Great Brit- ain and the United States. . .The United States must maintain its pow- erful hold on the oil industry of the world ig it is to remain economically | ndependents And the state department will have to blaze the way tp the oil Jands abroad which the Standard and its subsidiaries are to conquer. THIS FORM OF OII. IMPERIALISM CAR- RIES THE MOST DANGEROUS SEEDS OF WAR.” ONTIGUOUS to the huge markets of Europe and the Near East with cheap water transportation to the in- dustrial centers, the tremendous oil deposits of Baku are a constant source ;of temptation to the imperialist na- tions. For reasons of expediency, the oil trusts of the two gteat imperialist nations, Great Britain and America, PITTSBURGH “An echo of the trade rivalry be- tween the Royal Dutch Shell petrol- eum interests. .\.and the Standard Oil interests. . .reached the financial district yesterday in the form of a report that the Shell. . .had taken from the Standard Oil Company of California ITS LARGEST FUEL OIL CONTRACT, that. . .of the Matson Navigation Company. “Sir Henri Deterding. -has in- timated his intention of making war on the Standard Oii Companies.. . which are PURCHASING OIL FROM THE RUSSIAN SOVIET GQVERN- MENT OVER SIR ‘HE: T'S PRO- | TEST. =~" “THERE HAVE’ BEEN MANY HINTS. 4. THAT”. THE *- ROYAL DUTCH SHELL’ WOULD INVADE AMERICAN MARKETS. .AND WOULD ATTEMPT TO TAKE BUSI- NESS FROM THE STANDARD ” TANDARD OIL, with the power of the United States government at its command will not submit'to the active competition of Royal Dutch on American soil which sigh regards as its own in fee simple. We can expect that the “control of foreign sources’ of oil supply” will very soon become “a popular issue in American politics.” A holy war for oil is in the making. Against it must be opposed the whole force of the labor movement. Failing this the working class will be drowned in a surging sea of mingled cil and blood. THE END. , Oh, town of steel! What do you forge in fires That paint with dread your smoke beclouded skics? What do you melt from man’s insane desires? Out of your crucible a sphinx shall rise! HENRY REICH, JR. | the Soviet Union for purchase of these |this season. So the rich society girl oil supplies. jadvertised for an ear for which she | was willing to pay $2,500. A Chicago woman who is burdened with a child and owes some money will let the so- ciety girl have one of her ears for $4,000. Gold can even buy brains | nowadays. * * * MORE about that fake’ uprising in "the Ukraine: Last summer, a@ | Roumanian foreign office official told \8 correspondent that “On the 16th of June there will be a meeting of the chiefs of a counter-revolutionary gov- ernment at Kharkof to raise the Pan- Ukranian flag.” The correspondent replied: “If you know it so does the Cheka. They wil] be dead before they meet—it is simply absurd.” * * * How little regard capitalist editors have for the reliability of what they publish was demonstrated last week when they spread those rumors over their front pages. Even yet, Rou- manian papers are furnishing their readers with lurid détails of “re- volts” that never took place. * * FENCE: with a population of less than 40,000,000 has a standing army of 539,000 men while the Soviet ;|Union with a population of over 140,- 000,000 and territory that covers one- sixth of the earth’s surface has an army numbering only 562,000, ac- cording to the figures given out by a French deputy, while proposing ‘the appropriation of the enormous sum of 6,158,000,000 francs for the upkeep over five billion francs on her a: last year. ; { ORD ROBERT CECIL who | is 4 credited with pacific intentions de- lared in a speech before the National Peace Congress at Manchester that the Soviet disarmament program was impracticable. Of course! What else * * * f could one expect from the noble lord? 5ritain must have enough battleships, soldiers and poison gas to keep the Mindoos and Egyptians in slavery, be in a position to wage war against the Soviet Union and also to defend her imperial position against any other power that may contest it. ‘NE. hesitates to apply the rather lengthy and ugly word to Katherine Mayo who wrote the anti-Hindoo book “Mother India” for the British Yoreign Office as a justification of British rule in India, Katherine Mayo is an American and the same virtuous female who wrote another vicious book against the Filipinos for the American government. Like Madam Goddam in “The Shanghai Gesture,” dollars and pounds have the same rating in this imperialist lady’s moral Bradstreet. —T. J, O'FLAHERTY. ee of the army during the year 1928./° Another deputy said that Italy =