The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Mexican Press i sear THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1928 — GOOLIDGE HELD GUILTY OF WAR IN NICARAGUA: Sandino Says He will) Never Surrender One) mountain Page Libera!s on their fortified stronghold, El Chipote. Dispatches from Managua re that the marines are we reinforcements which have | (Continuea from p g for the; in the long journey thru the treacherous | jungle and mount country between | Managua and Quilali. Every day lost by the marines in attacking is a ed by the Liberals who are intensive preparations to car- ry on a guerilla war in the moun- tains for an indefinite time, the de: patches state. The so-called marine “rescne” col- umn from Managua under the com- mand of Lieutenant Hunt reached Quilali without participating in any serious fighting. Their presence in the town is merely regarded as an additional drain on the supplies which have to be brought by airplane or over the difficult mountains roads. * * * Ship More Marines. A small detachment of 2€ marines have sailed from Brooklyn on the first leg of the journey-that will take them to the fighting in the Nicara- guan hill country and perhaps to their graves. They will make part of the 1,000 marines who will be shipped to Nicaragua as fast as transports can be got under steam. Just Plain Murder. The despatch of U rines to Nicaragua plain murder,” according to Harold Leavey, 158 Avenue O, Brooklyn, whose son has been ordered with other marines to fight against the Sandino independence forces. “The boys are going to fight for the Wall Street bankers,” he said. “I’m only a poor milkman and I need my son more than they do.” . * SANTIAGO, Chile. Jan. 6.—Com- menting on the Nicaraguan situation, the conservative El Mercurio attacks the recent despatch of United States i eit eis ngptar nie Proclaims Republic “Nicaragua shall not be the patri- mony of imperialists and traitors, and I shall fight against them as | el J i | Post, which is known to be the unofficial voiée of Coolidge. long as my heart beats,” declares Gen. Augusto C, Sandino, the mine worker who is leading the Nica- raguan liberation movement. SANDINO PRAISED FOR LEADERSHIP Vaca Says Diaz Rule Is Imposed on Country (Continued from Page One) disarmament, he hastened to arrange a secret treaty with the more prom- inent Liberal leaders. This was the so-called agreement of Tipitapa which .| was no more than a conversation be- tween Col. Stimson and General Mon- cada at which there was not one wit- ness present and which was never even put on paper. Marine Murdered Liberal. “Three of the military chiefs who were operating against Diaz refused to obey the order to disarm. One of the three was murdered in his own \ editorial 2 Exposes Pretensions Of Havana Conference “El Universal,’ Leading Daily Calls Meeting “Proud Gesture of Imperialism” Latin-American opposition to the Sixth Pan-American Con- ference that will be staged at Havana on January 16, at which Coolidge will appear with a retinue of Wall Street’s proudest diplomats, and to which Col. Lindbergh will fly in a circus stunt to drama ch appeared in “El the “moral conquest,” is evident in a sensational Universal,” the leading Mexican |conservative daily, on December 29. Altho the “El Universal’ is a conservative paper, standing somewhat to the right of the C ‘alles government, it attacks the forthcoming Havana conference as a Wall Street maneuver. Mass pressure coupled with the recent United States campaign in Nica- ragua have madé even the conservative Latin-American press \react unfavorably to the pet imperialist scheme of the Coolidge | government representing the interests of Wall Street. The “El Universal” editorial is a reply to the Washington The | Post, owned by Edward J. McLean, famous slush-fund payer in |the oil scandals, and bosom friend of Coolidge, has been leading ‘the attack on Latin America in the capitalist press. An English translation of the complete text of the editorial is now given for the first time by The DAILY WORKER. 8 # | “We have for some time been obr {serving and calling attention to all |the favorable predictions that have been indulged in, in connection with \the coming Pan American conference |which is to*meet in the capital of Cuba next month, and we are in a | position to say that throughout Latin America, there had been successfully created, if not a perspective of great illusions, at least an atmosphere of tolerable good will. The first anti- cipation of cold water springs from where it was least expected. An im- portant American newspaper, The Washington Post, prints an editorial, not very good-humored and not re- |motely optimistic, warning Latin | America that the Monroe doctrine will neither be abolished nor modified in the Sixth Pan American Conference, Editorial from “El Uniyersal,” of Mexico by any Latin American country. However, if the conference is to be cemented by good faith and lofty in- ternational honesty it is certain that some matters might come up in con- nection with resolutions defining and limiting the declaration of principals issued by President Monroe. In the nebulous form that the Monroe doct- rine has preserved up to today, it could just as easily be amplified as limited, and as easily used as an in- strument for the defense of the Panama Canal as for the right of U. S. intervention in Nicaragua. If such matters, even indirectly re- lated with the Monroe doctrine, are admitted for discussion, one might imagine the most sensational renova- tion of this international fantasma, converted into an international agree- {and that any attempt at modification | ment spontaneously arrived at, and home by a sergeant of the United would be a complete failure. States marine corps a few days later./ This declaration is made still more Sandino and Salgado, the other two.| emphatic by the statement that the marched into northern Nicaragua! Americans are resolved that the good where they declared themselves in| relations among the republics of this state of rebellion. hemisphere must not be disturbed, marines to Nicaragua. “This repetition of the episode ‘that seemed definitely buried in the rec- erds of, international errors is not “General Sandino with astute stra- | tegy withdrew to the mountains to- gether with those who remained loyal, taking with him nearly a third of the | war materials of the constitutional the. Latin Americans should not de- ceive themselves with, false hopes. “Proud Gesture of Imperialism.” Reference is then made to the Juri- even presented as a nobly inspired crusade to do good by force of arms, but rather appears as a punishment and menace against a defenseless people that have done nothing other than to exercise in good or bad form its rights and duties.” * * > Mistake to Back Diaz. CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—‘“General San- dino the rebel leader should have been the man supported by our govern- ment,” declared Horace G. Knowles, former United States Minister to Nicaragua, in an informal debate with ‘ onal | dical Congress which met in Rio de army and openly defying American Janerio in the Spring of this year, intervention. |and in which, according to the same “General Sandino is a young man |newspaper, there was formulated a in his early thirties. He declares that | project for transforming the Pan- he will fight so long as he has a man| American union into a political league alive and declares that while he recog- | with specific arbitral jurisdiction and nizes the seriousness of his situation | regulations to guarantee the sover- in defying the power of the United |eignty of every country in America. States, Ke is strengthened by the con-| And the editorial ends with a proud viction that he is defending the in-|gesture of imperialism, affirming tegrity of his countrymen and his na-|that the United States will not per- tive soil against the exploitation and | mit discussion of a League of Amer- conquest by a foreign invader. jican Nations because it does not wish Sandino Unambitious. |to consult with any other nation re- Professor William Hass of North- western University last night. “T feel sure that the United States has made ‘a mistake in recognizing President Diaz. * * WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Major General John Lejeune, command- ant of the marine corps, will go to Nicaragua aboard the cruiser Tren- ton, which sails Monday from Charle- ston with a detachment of marine * } reinforcements, it was learned late 5 today. 1 Gen. Lejeune’s trip will be a visit 1 to enable him 1 lf” at first hand ; ] with conditic in aragua, He will be ied by Brig.- 1 Gen. Logan Feland, who is to take 4 command of th rine expeditionary i 1 ua. Gen. Lejeune forces in Ni will spend “s: he said. time” in Nicaragua, “Sandino has no personal ambitions and is not a presidential candidate which allows him a certain liberty of action. Better yet, he represents the men ot his race and can unquestion- ably count upon the sympathy of most judicious Central Americans who by intuition clearly realize the peril which American intervention in Nica- ragua represents for them without be- ing deceived by those resounding phrases and word-plays which occur with such frequency in foreign proc- lamations. “The marines will be rushed to Nicaragua with the purpose of crush- ¢ Sandino. This will present an al- sad and disquieting spectacle against which to talk friendliness and brotherhood in the way projected at the coming Pan-American confer- ence.” BOOST TH& DAILY WORKER me (Special to the DAILY WORKER) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 6.—} Friday, January 13th will be a gala) - day for the militants in San Francis-| co, On this evening the Workers! (Communist) Party will hold a cele-' bration in honor of the 4th Annivers- | ary of the founding of The DAILY} WORKER. The celebration will be held in the headquarters of the} Workers’ Educational Club, 1212 Mar-| ket St. | Eats Galore. San Francisco’s celebration will take the form of a proletarian ban- quet with viands that will appeal to every palate. The Committee on Eats has sent its emissaries to the wide open spaces for which California is properly famous to assure a bounte- _ ous repast. Mountain streams will be searched, ocean depths explored, and the forest primeval induced to stand and deliver in abundance of their ten- der and juicy morsels. No effort will be spared to make this banquet worthy of its proletarian origin. And it will all be FREE. Attractive Program. _ Of course there will be music. This ? - Western Labor Plans Mighty Meal on Daily’s Birthday feature of the progam will be sure to please. There will be violin, vocal and piano solos by real artists. The string orchestras of the Junior Sec- tion of Nature Friends and the South Slavie Educational Club, which al- ways make a decided hit will also par- ticipate, Ben Gitlow Guest of Honor. Ben Gitlow, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Work- lers’ (Communist) Party, now making a nation-wide tour, will be in San Francisco on the 4th Anniversary of The DAILY WORKER and will be the guest of honor at the celebration. The occasion will afford an opportunity of becoming better acquainted with Com- rade Gitlow whose fighting record in the militant section of the American labor movement brought from the trial judge who sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment a characteriza- tion of “Red Ruby” of the revolu- tionary movement, All friends and well wishers of The DAILY WORKER are urged to at- tend this 4th Anniversarv celebration of the founding of The DAILY Worker, |garding problems which relate only |to its security and independence, nor {does it wish to receive suggestions \regarding the manner of carrying out jits duties, nor associate itself with janyone else for the carrying out of |the Monroe doctrine, which is not an |instrument of aggression but of de- fense. A “Crude Warning.” It is not possible to decide off- | hand if this crude warning is in any }sense due to internal political con- | siderations, as might well be the case ‘when we take into consideration that one group of Americans has actually | been trying to infuse false hopes in }Latin America. It may be that this lis merely newspaper gallery play. In {any case it In the fi |Pan Americ eace has developed an; on the part of the peoples of Latin America. With regard to international relations and >an Americanism, the attitude of ‘panish-Americans has long been one resolute skepticism, the much- bruited Assemblies not being consider- }ed more than decorative formalities. What has been announced and what some people have tried to make us believe is that in the Havana confer- ence this attitude could be modified because the United States intends to re-establish an authentic cordiality among the nations of the continent and institute a system of policy based upon good-will and mutual respect, in benefit of peace, commerce, and inter- national justice. In consequence, what they are trying to achieve is the sup- pression of the skeptical sentiments that prevail in Latin America in con- nection with imperialism. And such illusions ‘as are built up in connection with the Havana con- ference consist in notions of the pos- sibility of brushing away and dis- solving these hostile sentiments. “Monroe Doctrine Never Confirmed By Latin-America.” As for the discussion of the Mon- roe doatrine, we believe it had not been proposed in any concrete form. If there is no initiative for such dis- cussion on the part of the United States, there could not very well be one on the part of the Latin American delegation, inasmuch as that doctrine is a unilateral declaration and has never been recognized nor confirmed { he Sixth not | . confirmed by the people of America, to use the words of ex-President Wil- son, “Suspend Conference. Fortunately we cannot believe that the path indicated by the reckless declarations which we have commented on is\to be followed. If that is to be the case it would be much more practical to suspend immediately the preparations which are being made on such a grand scale for the Havana Conference. The brilliant and numer- ous delegations, the advisory corps and the good predictions, the exce]- lent projects and the showers of cour- tesy, will be entirely nullified if the Sixth Conference is reduced to a so- cial event, or a simple discussion of secondary matters and an interchange of information regarding education and hygiene. In this sense the illusions that have been expressed are not merely of North American nor of Latin Amer- ican interest, but have a real import- ance for civilization and the world at large. The peace of America, a basic and assured continental peace, the development of the resources of the new world in an atmosphere of mutual respect and of justice among nations, interests directly all the peoples uf the earth. Lewis ‘Mine Meeting Ends Without Action (Continued from Page One) said William Collins, “but will be guided by developments.” { Headquarters were opened today at 1702 Keenan Building, Liberty Ave. and 7th St., from which the organ- ctéd. The plans made by the conference were not made public but statements by Collins and others are taken to mean that a general attempt will be made, thru speaking to union meet- ings and other methods of publicity, to secure more support for the strike thruout the state, That no change was made in the program of. supporting “friendly” can- didates on the democrat and republi- can tickets adopted by the previous conference on November 14 last is in- dicated by an official statement on this subject given out by Collins. The statement says: “We call upon the organized labor forces of Pennsylvania to enter the field of political activity with renewed vigor and determination, based upon the non-partisan political policy and program of the American Federation of Labor, to the end that the grievous and tragic situation now prevailing in nd niatiae may be speedily right- ed.’ i Expect Big Crowd For Liebknecht Meet CHICAGO, IIl., Jan. 6.—A capacity crowd will jam Temple Hall, scene f the Liebknecht meeting on Sunday, Jan. 8. Advance sales of 600 tickets have been made. A fine program has been arranged, which includes an anti-war play, a Pioneer graduation, and a 50 piece young Workers Orches- We rs remaining in the -field will be | \ Calls the Havana Confab “Proud Gesture of Imperialism 39 UNEMPLOYMENT! EFFECTS TALK OF CANDIDATES Smith, Fuller Differ In Tactics By ESTHER LOWELL, (Fed. Press) Against a background of growing unemployment, wage cuts over- balancing wage gains, and trade unions facing a struggle for legal existence, two possible candidates for the presidency of the United States have made their respective views to- ward labor plain. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York and Gov. Alvan ft. Fuller of Massachusetts offer al- most opposite attitudes to organized labor in their annual messages to legislatures. Smith, who is perhaps closer to the Democratic nomination than Fuller to the Republican, incorporated most of the New York State Federation of Labor’s legislative program in his message. Fuller urges restriction of labor news while Smith advocates “liberalization.” Fuller flouted the request of Massachusetts state fed- eration of labor officials for an ex- clusive state compensation insurance fund. Initiative petitions of the state labor body have been repeatedly re- jected by Fuller’s state attorney gen- eral, Arthur Reading. Fuller Remains Fuller. Fuller may have hopes of riding to the White House on the death chair of Sacco and Vanzetti. He congratu- lates by name the three official ad- visers he chose in the case: president A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, president Samuel Stratton of Mass. Institute of Technology, and former judge Robert Grant. He publicly thanks his private counsel, Joseph Wiggin, but never mentions the names of the two innocent workers whose death warrant he signed. He recom- mends changes in the law which would prevent future governors from the painful necessity of reviewing a case as he did that of Sacco and Vanzetti. Unemployed Raided. Behind Smith’s message is less un- employment than in Massachusetts and the only small wage gains eastern unions have made in the month: $1 a week for the pressmen and job print- fers, the latter getting an annual: $1 raise for 5 years, Unemployed in New York City, however, are under attack by com- missioner of public welfare, Bird S. Coler, who admits there are more homeless and jobless than any winter since the gepression of 1921, The first raid on the Municipal Lodging House brought 14 vagrancy convic- tions. A Fuller gloats over defeating old age pensions and asks for tax reduc- tions for bay state mills. CONNOLLY QUITS AS PROBE NEARS (Continued from Page One) into Connolly’s grafting activities during the past few years. In announcing the appointment the Queens president said that the action would leave him free to “conduct the defense” of his administration. -_ _ Records Stolen. In an effort to determine how some of the records in connection with the sewer scandal were stolen last week from the offices of the Awixa Cor- poration, at Islip, L. I., Justice Town- send Scudder, in charge of the quiz of Connolly’s reign, yesterday sub- poenaed a large number of witnesses. ' Defy Scudder. Joseph S. Frank, 27 William Street, |Manhattan, attorney for the Awixa } Corporation, said yesterday he was \sending to Justice Scudder a letter signed by James Richardson, vice president of the Awixa Corporation, and Clare E. Schlemmer, president, saying they would not appear before Justice Scudder in Brooklyn in re- sponse to subpoenaes served on them, because the law provides that all hearings must be held in Queens. The official hearings at which all the facts regarding the graft orgy in Queens will be revealed, is scheduled to commence at the Long Island court about Feb, 1. Remus Must Stay in Waiting for Food & | Scene in Chicago during the holi- days when capitalist charity agen- cies become “benevolent.” During the freezing weather hundreds of people depended on outside aid for ARREST 30 MORE. NINE. STRIKERS Colorado Pickets Were Beaten by Militia By FRANK L. PALMER. (Special to The Daily Worker.) DENVER, Colo., Jan. 6.—Meeting the violence, lawlessness and mob- bing by the state with a policy of picketing in all important coal fields has resulted in more arrests and more enthusiasm than has been seen for weeks heretofore. Charging they were picketing, miners on the road to the Columbine were attacked by militia this mor- VARIED GROUPS, MANY WORKERS GIVE MINERS AlD Penn-Ohio-Colo, Com- mittee Reports Funds The Polish Committee for the Aid of Striking Miners has laid plans for the organization of Polish Aid Com- mittees in New Jersey and Connec- ticut, to be followed by a national organization campaign, according to the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Min- ers’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway. Various members of the comm tee reported on their relief activity immediately following the Provisional | Conference of last week. Most. of |them had succeeded in collecting sub- stantial contributions, totalling $280.- 48. During the session a representa- tive of the Polish Red Cross entered and. announced a contribution of $150 from that organization. A vote was taken as to.the disposal of the dona- tions. It was decided to send a check immediately to the Penn-Ohio Min- ers’ Relief Committee of 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. * * * Women Collect $170. The Women’s Committee for Min- ers’ Relief has collected $170, this being their second large contribution. The money was turned over to the Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broad- way yesterday. The Women’s Coun- cils thruout the city are actively en- gaged in collecting funds and cloth- ing and are mobilized strongly for the special collection today and Sun- day. * . * Early this week the New Masses circularized its subscribers in an ap- peal for aid to the striking miners. The first return came in yesterday in the form of a check for $20. . * 8 Painters Take Lists. The Lithuanian Women’s Progres- ning. A group of 30 strikers were sive Alliance of Brooklyn ‘is taking arrested including Paul Seidler, Nick Sanchez and William Snow. Others were brutally attacked and kicked, the militia cursing them. The miners of Northern Colorado are aroused to new spirit of loyalty by the experiences they are facing. Arrested at Mine. Arrests at Walsenburg yesterday wrongly reported as made at hall. They were actually made just out- side Walsenburg mine 6f the Colo- Re Fuel and Iron Company at Edge ity. Six hundred strikers swarmed around jail all day following arrests} causing great fear among state police who placed eight machine guns out- side to protect themselves. Four hundred strikers marched to the mine in the afternoon and returned when ordered by state police and Rockefel- ler thugs. This mine is heavily guarded by professional gunmen of the usual Rockefeller type. Comes from Jail, The industrial commission hearing at Canon City was interrupted this morning when Martin Kattnig, brot from jail where he was held for lead- ing pickets yesterday, was placed on active part in the campaign for funds, its members, few in number, having raised $20 as an initial step. * ee The Brotherhood of Painters, Lo- * cal “25, Brooklyn, has also raised $20 for relief. Its members have pledged themselves to work vigorously with donation lists. 2 ae the witness stand and was greeted by long, loud cheering by strikers. Chairman Annear had to threaten to clear the room before demonstra- tion could be quieted. Meeting is Held. State police attended a meeting here last night but did not carry out threats to arrest speakers though students offered to go to jail in strik- ers’ places and police were cailed murderers for part in Columbine mas- sacre. The large theatre was packed to capacity. Many had to stand. “Solidarity for Ever” was sung re- peatedly and could not be stopped in the tremendous demonstration, The leaders repeatedly warned the strikers against any violence and ex- pressed themselves as willing to go to jail as victory is now believed possible within a few days. LECTURES AND FORUMS AT COOPER UNION (8th ST, and ASTOR PLACE At 8 o'Clock ' SUNDAY, JANUARY 8th Mr. EARL BARNES |\“Phe New Turkey Transferring a | Civilization by Decrees.” TUESDAY, JANUARY 10th Mr. W. B. CURRY | “Michael Faraday.” | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13th | Mr. EVERETT DEAN MARTIN ‘The Psychology of the American Public—* ‘Andrew Jaeksoninm’ and | the Agrarian Mind.” \ ADMISSION FREE. | Open Forum Discussion, Tomorrow night at 8:30 sharp BERT. D. WOLFE Jail Pending Appeal CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 6. — George Remus, bootlegger king, or- dered permanertly to the State Asy- lum at Lima following his trial for wife murder, must remain a prisoner at the asylum pending the outcome of his appeal against the jury’s decision. This was decided when an application by his attorney for a writ of habeas corpus was denied today at Common Pleas Court. At the trial for the killing of his|, wife, Remus entered a plea of tempo- rary insanity, but was ordered perma- nently locked up. This effectively prevented Remus’ threats to expose | national graft among Prohibition en- | forcement officials, as the testimony | of an insane man is held invalid. | BUY THE DAILY WORKER will explain “The Trotsky Expulsion” (Lenin vs. Trotsky—the unprinci- pled alliance with Zinoviev.) BRONX OPEN FORUM }! 2075 Clinton Ave. (near E. 180 St.) } | NEXT SUNDAY—wm. F, Dunne will speak on “Our ‘New’ Policy Toward Mexico.” Under the auspices of the BRONX WORKERS’ SCHOOL. ————— Street & md Ave, LABOR TEMPLE 14 SUNDAY, JANUARY 8th 15 P.M. Int. Church * B. B. Chaffee—“Can We Achieve an Ethical Soctety by Unethical Methods.” 3:30 P. M.—Forum AT THE, NEWSSTAND Edgar Wind—“Art and the Com- ||| mon Man,” THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE Muhlenberg Branch Library (209 WEST 23rd STREET) At 8 o'Clock MONDAY, JANUARY 9th Dr. HELEN D. LOCKWOOD | Tools and the Man—“The Utopia of Craftsmen: William Morris,” WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1ith Dr. SCOTT BUCHANAN Mathematical Thought—*Arithmet- ie: From Things to. Numbers,” THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th DR. E. G. SPAULDING Questions People Expect a Philoso- vher to Answer—*Can Nature Re- peat?” SATURDAY, JANUARY 1ith Dr. RICHARD P. McKEON Some Questions for Pilate—“The World of Pertections and the World of Causes: What Are Things and How Do They Come to Bet” Tomorrow Night 8 o'clock MANUEL GOMEZ y will speak on “Our War With Nicaragua” Nicaragua as the spectre which will haunt the United States at the Pan-American Conference at Havana * At the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM} 108 East 14th Street Admission 25c. ‘ NEXT SUNDAY: William W. Wein- stone will speak on: “Has the Revolution Failed?” Badger DELAY WALL ST FLI 4 TAMPICO, Mex., San SoH ant storms raging on the mountains of Southeastern San Luis Potosi kept the two Houston, Texas, “good: wiil planes” which are enroute to Mexico City, on the ground “here yesterday. The flight will be resumed as soon as weather conditions are favorable. BUY THE DAILY WO! AT THE NEWSSTA 1| fa \ —e Seer See % |