The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1927, Page 4

t { i Page Four ¢ THE DAILY WORKER, ~ Does the World Court No Longer Play a Role in Calvin Coolidge’s Peace Offensive? By H. M. WICKS. ee DENT Calvin Coolidge, in his message to the seventieth congress did not even mention the principal issue that was fought out at the sixty. ninth congress—-the adherence of the vernment to the per- ational justice t court ¢ ni two short yea sag the Coolidge admini: h-shod ation ver the opposition ing one of the storm- history records. s broken dea com et democrats and |! republicans off de- bate when t o longer r to the crit of the Coolidge pol and jam e propos world ec down t sition led by the republica f the sen foreign r committee, W ho, and the d Reed of Mi Never was there a more determined eampaign than that waged to place this country in the world court. The democratic majority that had been the principal support Wilson’s war on behalf of the investments of the House of Morgan and who supported the league of nations program were a unit for the world court, which they idered the first step on the old of the league of nations. The old guard of the republican par- ty, since 1 , had been pledged to the the old | ltions it was turned down on the Noopliage asserts that the “size of the; southern republics is taken up. Cool-! road building, only suggested by Cool- at-|navy which America is to have will|idge says that “private enterprise is senate resolution by the \be solely for America to determine.” | showing much interest in opening up led by Borah and Reed {This announcement of a big navy pro-| aviation service to Mexico and Cen- grounds that the reservations tached to the irreconcilable were unacceptable, So, the victory that was denied the opposition here when the Wall Street coalition of republican and democratic | oid guard shut off debate and forced through its resolution of adherence to the court, was given them by the European imperialists who feared domination of the court, legal instrument of the » of nations. So the Coolidge ernment was forced to abandon it deSigns wu e world court, which se as an instrument of and vengeance. That part of the pi » offensive of American peria evidently forgotten. At st the adniinistration is so anxious t hoped to conquest vi to forget it that the presidential mes- sage did not even mention the league or the world court—in fact in the section on foreign relations did not|Pennsylvania, Colorado That section | other place where labor struggles for even mention Europe. 'W YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14, 1927 ' gram concludes with the customary | pacifist twaddle: “Wherever our flag | goes the rights of humanity increase.” | s United States is viewed with horror, its presence is regarded as an omin- ous sign of rapacious tyranny, as the herald of imminent calamity, the sym- bol of murder and slavery. The in- habitants of the Philippine Islands stir restlessly under its frightful des- potism, In Europe it is recognized as the oriflamme of Uncle Shylock, the international pawnbroker, who desires to hold in his greedy clutches the in- dustries, the natural resources and the working mas of those coun- tries. To all those except the Ameri- | can imperialists, whether in Europe, | or A a, or A or even among the working class of this country in and In all Latin America the flag of the | ever of the message was confined to China | decent conditions, it is recognized that and Nicaragua, scenes of the most re- cent exhibitions of American imper- ialist frightfulness. With the most jarrogant cynici Coolidge declared \that the naval and marine forces were lin China to “protect the lives and |property of our citizens,” and added jthat “their simple presence there has been sufficient to prevent any ma- |terial loss of life.” Similar condi- | tions ‘on a small scale in Nicaragua’ “wherever the flag goes the blights upon humanity increase.” * * From beginning to end the Coolidge | message was a document designed to strengthen the military might of American imperialism. Not merely does he demand a more efficient army and a big navy, brazenly and openly »|under the head of national. defense, but the sections on the merchant mar- tral and South America,” and adds ignificantly: “We are particularly | licitous to have the UnitedStates | take a leading part in this develop- ment.” The full malevolence of this alleged pacific desire to encourage commercial aviation and air mail routes is revealed in this sentence: “The post office department should be granted power to make liberal long-term contracts for carrying our mail, and authority should be given to the army and the navy to detail aviators and planes to cooperate with private enterpri in establishing such mail service.” Here, under the guise of developing air mail service to the Latin Ameri- | can countries is an attempt to build| air bases so that regular routes can | be developed and army and navy avi- ators eperating planes designed for | bombing purposes can become famil-| iar with all important points in prep- aration for bombarding helpless cities to force the population to yield to the predatory interests of Wall Street. There can be no other motive. The} necessity for air mail routes to Mex- ico, and Central and South America | is not so pr ing that such intensive efforts are needed for these so-called peaceful aims. The use of army and navy fliers in | “States to the court came before a spe-| will call on us for more ships.” and the Spanish War.” The author is said to have devoted himself almost exclusively during the past ten years to the study of “Teddy’s” life and to the Roosevelt Memorial to learn all the things that could be profitably jammed between the covers world court, jalso confronted the benevolent and Under the guise of pacifisfh, con-| pacifist government of the United | cealing the malevolent designs of the| States, If the shelling of Nanking | imperialist plunderers under the most|and the ravaging of Nicaragua by | exalted phrases, the political spokes-| American armed forces are trivial | menof the great powers of Europe, | things from the Coolidge viewpoint, had used the world court to throw the | jt would evidently require the exter- mantle of legality over their plunder-| mination of nations and mountains of ing expedit against the colonials | corpses to reach the proportions nec- and semi-colonials. Not only was the|essary to evoke serious notice from | court the legal apologist for the|the Wall Street government at Wash- | league of nations, but there were un-| ington. | mistakable indications that powerful| In only one place is a European| European nations were striving to use| nation mentioned and that is under | it as a rallying point for resistance | the heading of national defense where to American imperialism. | Coolidge places the blame on Great The imperialists of the United|Britain for the failure of the recent} States wanted this country to enter | tri-partite conference at Geneva and the world court in order to be in a| uses the collapse of the conference as position to wage a fight to wrest con-| a point of departure for the observa- trol of its machinery from the hands, tion that “no agreement can be reach- of European nati and secure for| ed which will be inconsistent with a} itself complete domination thereof. | considerable (naval) building pro-| At first inclined to look with favor| gram on our part.” Not only would | upon American adherence to the/'the United States continue its pro-| world court, the debates on the floor | gram for a larger navy regardless of | of the senate revealed the real mo-|any treaty that may be devised, tive of the United States, and when|but the message specifically states the question of admitting the United | that “any future treaty of limitation In cial commission of the league of na-|the absence of any treaty limitation BARONS OF INDUSTRY. CERTAIN RICH MEN. By Meade Minnigerode, $3.50 \ LMOST twenty years ago, Gustavus Myers, one of the most indefatig- able and interesting muckrakers of the time (now become respectable, unfortunately) took hold of a score or more of the best known American men of wealth. He stripped them of their dignified elothes and haloes and exposed to the sight of all the pirates’ clothes and boots and the Jolly Roger under which these buccaneers had amassed their unheard of for- tunes. Underneath his exhaustive and conclusively-documented work was buried the myth that the famous American Captains of Industry and « Princes of Finance had come by their immense riches by honest toil, en- terprise, thrift and judicious public service. One after another, he showed them to be nothing but glorified hi-jackers, boodlers, masters of bribery and corruption, crude, blustering, high class thieves who were without even that honor that exists among common second-story men; some of them were actually illiterate, while others knew no more about the indus- try or finance they controlled than they did about the man in the moon. The post-war muckraker, now known by the more respectable name G. P. Putnam’s Sons. | ine, commercial aviation, air mail, and | the development of new air routes ex- good roads, are also demands for |P0SeS the real purpose of commercial greater war preparations. jav tion—only a pretext for war prep- | arations. The message advocates merchant) joyally sinister is the section of ships as an auxiliary of the navy and|+n6 Coolidge message dealing with the pe cecag that the possibility of in- apparently innocuous, beneficial and cluding “their masters and crews in | peaceful pursuit of constructing good the naval reserve with some reasona-| roads. But when we come to the ble compensation should be thorough- | yr aeticai proposals for such roads ly explored.” Thus, Coolidge declares | gain we perceive the gfim visor of | that government operation of the mer- the war-monger. Coolidge states in chant marine is not a success and that | hie me: sage: 3 the private capitalists should build up | ‘Gud hiite calles eel vata paths tines the system under the direction and} ing’ good roads is SBE las é, the with the aid of the government and] «desire for improved hi Rees : that the officers and crews should be | not limited. to our 4 tae , so trained that at any time they can/| eee eae take their places as part of the navy. | ae ae ua Beat This vicious proposal means nothing | HEMISPHERE The rincipal more nor less than the militarization | Dents Wr CAGEAK ase Ginna 7 of the merchant seamen, preparatory | cessible. We ought to ett a to conscription whenever it suits the} i: S encouragement in any vw. purposes of the government, \ ie ya : ; _ | ¢an for more good roads to all The sections on commercial avia-| the principal points in this hemis- tion and western hemisphere air mail| phere south~of the Rio Grande. are equally militaristic and indicate| It has been our practice to supply the determination ofthe imperialists these countries with military and to further. penetrate Latin America| naval advisers; when=they have with the objective of completely sub-! requested it, to assist them in na- duing every vestige of opposition to! tional defense. The arts of peace dollar despotism under the iron heel |: are even more important to them of militarism. After suggesting the’ than to us.” necessity for increased activity in| Even the slightest understanding of commercial aviation in the United| the American imperialist policy to- States and a large number of new air| ward Latin America is sufficient to bases, the question of air mail to the| convince one that this program of QUESTION NO. 1. HAT would you answer, for instanos, to this question the first American Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia asked of Jos. Stalin, leader of the Russian Communist Party: “What are the new principles Lenin and Communist Party practice in Russia have added to Marxism? Would it bé correct to say that Lenin believeu in ‘cre- ative revolution’ whereas Marx was more inebined to of biographer, or historian, have received a recruit in Mr. Meade Minni- gerode, who, on a smaller scale than in Myers’ work, takes seven of the last century’s buccaneers and implies that, compared to them, Jesse James, Deadwood Dick, Wild Bill Hickok, and Al Jennings were the veriest ama- teurs. Of course, being a post-war historian, Minnigerode is very polite, but he fills his pages with enough juicy facts, tastefully arranged, for anyone to draw his own conclusions, make his own characterizations and do his own name-calling. The dead pirates whose gold he traces to its origin are Stephen Girard, John Jacob Astor, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and James Fisk. When the author is through with them, even after he sometimes covers the mangled bodies with a little squirt of the dish- water of sentimental respects for some philanthropic deed, or the *cheese- eloth of some “human-interest-that-appeals-to-the-finer-sensibilities” anec- dote, he leaves pretty little of the reputations that have been systematically wait for the culmination of economic forces?” Can you answer this? A Communist must know the answer— especially in these days of attacks on Communism made exactly on this point by Max Eastman and others. You will find the answer in Questions and Answers to American Trade Unionists 25 Cents—Five Copies for One Dollar THIS BOOK IN GERMAN—JUST RECEIVED—SAME PRICE built fp into a part of American folk Jore. He is very careful, auite au- thentic, and the bock is worth reading. | A reviewer has already remarked about this book that it is true and too bad that there were such evil days; and, glory be! (he continued), those days are gone forever to make way for menof integrity, probity and intrinsic worth, If anything is true, it is the contrary. The Girards and Vanderbilts were at least the instruments of history who directed the building up of big industries, centralized banks; who built a nation with | the iron bands of railways and dotted the world’s waters with a merchant | marine. Their modern successors are even more murderous in their rule, | and they have developed completely into a parasite class, without the slightest pretence to a useful function in ty. As for the Sinclairs, Dohenys, Schwa! Words, Bakers, Mellons and Morgans being any more honest and honorable than their rougher-shirted ancestors, the anderbilts, rs, Drewes, Clywses, Hills, Sages and Goulds, it would have been just as dirty and futile a trick to send Diogenes and his jantern among one gang as among the other. MAX SHACHTMAN. A ROOSEVELT NOVEL FOR BOY SCOUTS. THE ROUGH RIDERS. By Hermann Hagedorn, Harper & Bro. 82. ‘PUIS is just the kind of a*book one would expect about the personality of Theodore Roosevelt. It is labelled “A Romance of Theodore Roosevelt perpetuation of his memory. AS ‘secretary and executive director of ociation he no doubt had unusual opportunities a book fox the benefit of the youth of the nation who are liable to see he hero of San Juan Hill the patron saint of the Boy Scouts. In 1917 wpers asked Roosevelt to cooperate in the writing of a story of his life s and the colonel agreed with the proviso that Hermann Hagedorn -T. J, O'FLAHERTY. PRU, OPES PARR). FREE DIMER ro ak Workers Lirrary Pusiisurrs, 39 E.125 St. NewYork =F CELTS See = Telephone ORCHARD OOD. print- ing of all description = at a fair price, 5 Let us estimate on® your work, eAcTIVE PRESS FC. OR PLOY Rear oD $3 FIRST STREET NEW YORK | from a military point of view in or. twentieth eentury enlightenment. |soever to the Union of Socialist Sov- \iet Republics, idge, is an ambitious project for the 'Claiborne Foster Walks Away with “Trigger” purpose of constructing a system) of | military highways over which infan- try and artillery can be rapidly eae Be a LULU VOLLMER'S new play. “Trig- : ger,” is the story of a hot-tem- pered and untamed hoyden of the Carolinas who introduces _ herself somewhat emphatically to the au- dience by hitting a yokel on the head with a piece of iron| and putting him out for the count. | Claiborne Foster as Trigger Hicks is a combination of mountain wildcat and evangelist, now eursing in all directions and in} the next moment praying crudely to} her deity for fa- vors for herself or friends. The inhabitants of the little moun- tain village believe that witches have cast a spell over it, tho a spell that keeps death and sickness away. “Trig- ger” is suspected of having broken | this spell because of her misdeeds and finally she is threatened with de- portation by an indignant populace, but is saved from violence by a super- vising. engineer who has found in “Trigger” the girl that he spent his life looking for. “Trigger”. decides to leave the mountains, but finally promises to re- turn to the engineer. . The author of “Trigger” is re- sponsible for “Sun Up” which enjoyed a long run on Broadway. The honors of the evening. are carried off by Claiborne Foster to whose efforts the author should at- tribute her good luck if the show turns out to be a box office success. Walter Connolly as John Stafford, the..philandering engineer, gave a good account of himself and Minor Watson as George Fleetwood, the cul- tured rambler was more than tolera- ble. The play is much ado about nothing and yet it helps one to forget the clock—T. J. O’F. In discussing the. Panama. canal | Coolidge advocated additional im-| provements in that zone. However, he did not mention the proposed ‘Nic- araguan canal, which is the” principal | cause of the rape of Nicaragua, and |§ the construction of which is desired in order to increase the effectiveness of the United States navy. Not only is this second canal far better situated der to carry out imperialist conquests in the southern republics, but it will enable the Atlantic fleet to join the Pacific fleet for any emergency that | may arise in the Pacific. In all these plans to “aid” the|f southern republics, the point is| stressed that American private ap- | ital should stimulate the work and as. surance is repeatedly given that the | government will furnish all necessary aid. Lulu Vollmer Behind this constant reference to private capital taking responsibility is a sinister political motive. Cooldge and the Wall Street war-mongers know that an attempt to carry out the air, naval and road building program, financed by the government would entail bitter conflicts in congress, and result in exposing the malevolent de- signs against Latin America. So he uses the executive department of the government as a forum from which to proclaim the policy that the prelim- inary work of imperialist conquest must be carried out by private capital with the aid of such government forc- es as already are available. - Opposi- tion to this program will be stigma- tized as attempts to impede human progress and interference with the in- alienable rights of the peoples of the southern republics to enjoy the bless- ings of humanity, civilization and * * * Noteworthy among the problems of foreign relations ignored by the Cool- idge message is any reference what- The pressing question of recognition of the Soviet Union by this nation will again come up in both houses of congress. Since the last session many elements hitherto hos- tile to recognition now openly advo- cate it. It has at last dawned upon some of the most powerful interests The new list of principals in “The New Moon,” Schwab and Mandel’s new musical production includes Robert Halliday, Ruth Thomas, William Wayne, William O’Neal, Marie Calla- At the Little Theatre hi Esth in the cquntey. thabagiey cannot pak: an, Esther Howard, and Margaret manently ignore one-sixth of the: in- EDDIE FOY. ME Is the headliner at the Broadway Theatre this week, appearing in a new playlet by Tom Barry. ‘Arthur Hammerstein has’ a new one. Yesterday he acquired rights to a new play entitled “Frankie and Johnnie,” written by Jo Swerling. Four attractions under the direction of Schwab and Mandel—the New York Company of “Good~News,” the Chicago comparty~ of the ‘musical comedy, “The Desert Song” and “The New. Moon,” will unite and give a Christmas benefit at the 46th Street ‘Theatre, Sunday evening. George M. Cohan has taken over the comedy formerly called “A Holly- wood Party,” from Max ‘Marcin, has renamed it “Los Angeles,” and will offer the play at the Hudson Theatre next Monday evening. The opus deals with the motion picture business and was written by Max Marcin and Donald Ogden Stewart. /. “Jedermann,” the Hofmannsthal verson of “Everyman,” now being Watson as George Fleetwood, the cul- the Century will continue all this week. On Monday evening, December 19, Max -Reinhardt will make the third production, with “Danton’s Tod,” the spectacular drama of the French Revolution by George Buchner. Paul Hartmann, who played Theseus in “Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be seen as Danton. Irving. habitable globe and refrain from’ en- Zz deavoring to secure a;share in the (0.8) benefits to be derived from trading} with the Soviet Union. While some} 4 of the more far-sighted capitalists - = NYY Ai SZ BOOTH 45 St, W. of B'way Eves. 8:40 BOOTH ‘fatinees Wed. @ Sat at 2:40 ‘Winthrop Ames ESC APE Presents John Galsworthy’s with Leslie Howard New Play realize that the Soviet system is in- vincible and that to protect their own interests they must come to terms with the revolution onthe basis of international business, the immediate bosses of the puppet president have evidently not decided upon the policy to be pursued by the state department, hence the silence on this point. However, it is not at all surprising that the message also omitted to merf- tion the bombshell that the represen- Ja ti Theatre, 41 St. W. of B’way National Dysiigv. mts Wed.asat2-30 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with ANN HARDING—REX CHE i— The Theatre Guild presents PORGY je Ths, W. 42d. Bvs.8:40 Republic jrais!Wea esac, do Bernard Shaw’s Comedy = DOCTOR'S DILEMMA * Th., W. 52d, Eys, 8:20 Guild yratsrhurs.eSat.2:20 tatives of the Soviet Union dropped into the camp of the imperialists at Geneva’ when the demand was put forth for immediate and complete dis- | with Leonard Gectyeand Eddie Buzzell armament. After the vapid ravings ne Os i of the militarists of Europe and Sec- | IMPERIAL *#4: 45 St.Wof Biway retary of State Kellogg in this coun- Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:30 try who proclaimed that world disar- mament was impossible as long as the Soviet Union maintained its powerful WALI S Z " fet Pied ithe Hers ya nothing with MUNS WISENFREND ‘or Coolidge to say, so he remaine Th,.W.58 St.Mts. silent. He could not defend and re- John Golden “Wediaesat. 2:50 peat the Kellogg credo; likewise he could not, as the agent of imperialism, agree to the Soviet proposals. At Geneva the Soviet Union stood pointing an accusing finger at all other powers, whose statesmen had been talking peace to conceal their war preparations, and who had been declaring in unison that the menace to peace was the armed workers: and | The Desert Song Thea., 65 W. 85th. By. 8:30 GARRICK yrats’ Thurs. & Sat 2:30 BASIL SYDNEY and MARY ELLIS with Garrick Players in the Modern TAMING of the SHREW in’s Majestic Th.. 44th, W. of B’y Majestic Th sn te | Winthrop, Ames THE MERRY MALONES : 4 é Mats. Wed. and Sat. peasants’ state. The lie was given to | Thrilling Music Play of the Golden West | all the imperialist powers of the world | when the Soviet Union offers complete | disarmament of its mighty fore welded together in defense of the! revolution. The Soviet Union knew coe Max Reinhardt’s “Jedermann” (Everyman) ‘Thea., Central Park West CENTURY @'Gzina’st.. — Evs. 8:00 Mats. Fri. and Sat. at 2. / Chanin’s W. 45 St. Royale. Mts.Wed.,8at, All Performances Except Mon, & Thurs, Gunee! Eeutivon . “Mikado” Mon. Eves. Only—“IOLAN'THE? ‘Thurs. Eve. “PIRATES OF PENZANCE” ERLANGER’S ‘Thea. W.44 St.Evs.8.30 Mats, Thurs. & Gilbert & Sullivan with GEORGE M. COHAN ‘Hapig Thea.,W.43 St.E 4.1.8.80 Henry Miller’s yratinees Thurg.& Sat. Grant’ Mitchell %3ee/h. eesre American Farce THE BABY CYCLONE DRAG Wed.&Sat. 2.3: Save Greco and Carrillo! when the Soviet Union proposed: di ae eS 4 armament. The Soviet Union knew | when the proposal was made the re-} ception it: would ceive at the, hands of the imperialist powers. It! was under no illusions regarding the} nature of the predatory power But | the proposals of the workers’ and| peasants’ representatives unmasked | to countless masses of workers and | farmers and colonial peoples living | under the blight of imperialism the real nature of the monster. The dis-| armament proposals sent the diplo- mats scurrying to tReir studies in or- der to concoct more sophistries in or-! 10% REDUCTION ON ALL der to justify their militaristic poli- cies and to try to evade the scorn and | derision of the workers of the world. In presenting his military program the president of the United States performed a real service to his mas-_ ters by refraining from becoming in- volved in the discussion of the short session at Geneva when the bloody: mask of imperialisnt was ripped off? the faces of its European statesmen. * ” * C7 (Coming—An analysis of. the agri- cultual proposals in the president’s | message.) a DAILY WORKER OFFICE, 108 E. 14th STREET. “THE CENTURIES” The Fall and Rise of:the Hast Side Masses » A Beautiful and Thrilling Play at * The New Playwrights Theatre > 40 Commerce Street Performances Every Night, Except Sunday Matinces Saturday Afternoon + A New Playwrights Production TICKETS BOUGHT THRU; é 4