The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1928, Page 3

| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY S2™® 2s FO MEXICO CANNOT MEET PAYMENTS TO WALL STREET Representative in N. Y. Reports on Tribute Mexico will make its semi-annual payments -due for 1927 to the inter- national bankers, but has made it clear that it will be unable to meet $35,000,000 payment due to the bank- ers by the terms of the Pani-Lamont treaty of October 1925, it was learned yesterday. ¥ernando de la Fuente and Fer- nando Barroso, two financial expert representing th Mexican govern ment, have been conferring in New York with bers of the Inter: national Committee of Bankers on Mexico. 25 Stating the po- SignedPact ition of the Mex- ican representatives following the conference, Arturo M. Elias, financial agent of the Mexiean government in New York City, said: “The Finance Minister’s repre- sentatives have finished their pre- liminary discussions in New York, and, although completion of the Gov- ernment’s 1927 remittances under the International Committee agreement has been somewhat delayed on ac- Albert Pani, mem-| § AMERICAS GROWS MOSCOW, (By Mail).—In connec- tion with the organization in Argen- tina of the “Yujamtorg” Co., Litd., whose statute was recently approved by the president of Argentina, the count of a great decrease in the in- come from ‘the oil industry during the last two years, these payments, will be completed in due course and the International Committee will make another half-yearly payment to bondholders on or about the end of February. “The Government has pointed out. to the committee that it is not in a position to resume, as of Jan. 1, 1928, the full service of interest and sink- ing fund on its entire direct debt as contemplated by the existing agree- ments, and has invited the Interna- tional Committee to appoint experts to visit Mexico City in order to ex-. representative of this company in the U.S. S. R. gave the following infor- mation on the organization of the company. The company has headquarters at | Buenos Aires. The shareholders of the company are the U. 8. S. R. Bank for Foreign Trade, the Argentine Bank Garkrobo, the “Derunapht Co.. Ltd.,” and a number of other organi- | zations and persons, The paid-up capi-| tal amounts to 1.5 million Argentine | pesos. The sphere of “Yujamtorg’s” operations covers all South America. It is further proposed to open | 1 amine the situaton more fully and 'to| bTanehes of the company in the cities | make to the committee a report con- taining -such information as would enable the committee to consider a new agreement for the bondholders. Such agreement, it is hoped, would furnish within the Government's capacity a basis for annual payments external debt.” NAVY DEPT, WILL HELP IN OIL WAR WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The oil war between the Standard Oi! of New York and the British-controlled Réyal Dutch Shell interests has extended to the naval cil reserves of the United States government. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur an- nounced today that he had appointed a board of three admirals to recom- mend legislation which would pre- vent the future sale of oi] from the naval oil reserves No. 2 at Elksville, Cal., to the Sheli interests. The oil which is now being sold to the foreign concern is. coming from of Montevideo, Ric de Janeiro, As-| sumpcion, and, eventually, also a! branch office at Santiago. Soviet trade with South’ America amounted to 18 million dollars in the | year 1926-27, while for the first quar- | nts} ter of the current economic year it. of interest and amortization upon its' has already reached: 10 million dol-| lars. 20 COMMUNISTS: JAILED IN RIGA RIGA, Latvia, Jan. 24.—For ‘be- longing to a Communist organization, five persons were given a minimum sentence of five years at hard labor. Fifteen others were sentenced to terms ranging from two to four against the twenty was that they had attempted ‘to “overthrow the present regime” and set up a workers’ dic- tatorship. | this city are said to have a wide in- fluence. \ the leases of ‘the Honolulu Consoli- dated Oil Company of California, the secretary ‘said. TO FORM DUMMY PARTY IN ITALY GENEVA, Jan, 24.—Reports from Itome state that Mussolini is consid- ering the founding of new party to be called the “National Socialist Party.” The leaders of the new “party” will be the socialist trade wnion leaders, D’Arragona and his fellowers who have sold out to the tascists. - The growing ferment among the masses of oppressed Italian workers with which the fascist unions are re- ported to be unable any longer to cope is given as the reason for the es- tablishment of the “National Social- ist Party.” Charges “Rottenness” Rampant in Veterans’ Bureau; Investigate vestigation was launched by the Vet- erans’ Bureau today into charges made by Rev. Thomas FE. Boorde, a loeal baptist minister. Boorde said that “rottenness” still prevails in the bureau and that “the last rascal was not sent to the peni- tentiary when Forbes wenjj:there.” Charles R. Forbes, ex-director, served two years on conviction of conspiracy. WINDOW WASHERS’ RAISE, CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (F'P).—Building managers are debating the demand of the Window Washers’ Union for a new wage scale of, $160 a month, WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.—An in-| | Anti-Imperialists to See “International” | The various national groups en- | gaged in anti-imperialist work thru |the All-America Anti - Imperialist | League will gather in a social eve- | ning ata theatre party to view a per- | formance of “The International,” the | much discussed play by John Howard Lawson, at the New Playwrights’ | Theatre on Friday evening, Feb. 3. Chinese, Japanese, Hindu, Filipino \.and other workers and students are | now busy on arrangements for this | evening which in addition to the regu- lar performance will include other | features in keeping with the occasion. An invitation has been extended to the brother of General Sandino, Nica- and is asking for the support of American workers in their, struggle. Supporters of anti*imperialist work are asked thru the various groups | Participating to assist in this eve- ning’s ¢performance by — purchasing tickets at the office of the Anti-Im- perialist League at 39 Union Square, the Jimmie Higgins Book Shop and other centers of ticket sale. Victims Will Testify At Injunction Hearing WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (FP). — Hearings on the Shipstead anti-in- junction bill will start Feb. 8. Scores of national and international union executives, summoned to Washington for conference on this legislation, will be present. Vietims of notorious injunctions in the coal fields and stonecutters who have suffered from the injunetion. in | the Bedford Stone Go. ease in Indi- ena. will add their testimony, years. The technical charge lodged | Secret Communist. organizations in | raguan leader, who is in New York) \ Wall Street’s Government Keeps Fit for Next Imperialist War USSR TRADE WITH sap core Ss: The © Uz*'8. Saratoga, huge plane carrier, guarded” by a de- tachmert of fifty- six marines drawn up on the forward deck of the marine airport. The Sara- toga, the type of floating flying field, is part of the huge a tion construction campaign which is being carried-on by the navy depart- ment. Jatest With a, new im- perialist war loom- ing, the United States is approp- riating huge sums for the construction of military planes. The Saratoga is only one of the mammoth carriers being constructed for the planes. aragua Exposed by Vaca Eero nnsevenies.. HE (This article was written es- pecially for the feature service of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. The author was confi- dential agent of the Niearaguan government in the United States up to the time of the exile of Con- Sstitutional President Sacasa from Nicaragua, virtually decreed by Coolidge’s personal representative, Col. Henry. L. Stimson.) ay, By Dr. T. 8. VACA. There is no better specimen for the study of American Imperialism ‘than the case of Nicaragua. Any dis- sector of average ability can easily go through the anatomy of this dying little nation without losing the trail of the deadly Dollar Diplomacy that for 18 years now has been injected into its vitals. The strategic situation of Nic- aragua for the domination of the Yich and important territory between the U. S. and Columbia has ever been the primary cause of outside aggres- sion against Nicaragua, first by the English pirates who time and again invaded the country on both ‘sides leaving a ‘trail of blood, ruins and smoke from ocean to ocean, then by the English government which es- | tablished a protectorate over the At- | lantie Coast which the liberal govern- i | | aragua | | ment of Zelaya in 1895 terminated and lately by the inroads of Dollar Diplomacy since 1909 which cost Nic- its bloodiest struggles, re- cession in the path of progress and untold political degradation of the ruling classes and hardship to the masses. The control of the isthmian portion of the Americas means, eventually, under the system of economic im- perialism of the present age, the un- disputed and permanent hegemony | over the Western World. From ths standpoint aloné, the Nicaraguan question, assumes world-wide im- portance, gespecially for the labor forces which face the creation of the most powerful economic empire in the history of humanity that will exert its dictatorship, benevolently or not, upon the weaker national units the world over. The Dollar Invasion. It is only upon a landscape of this magnitude that the conduct of the policy toward the southern countries can be explained. It matters not that principles of human liberty, individual and national, cdnsecrated by the founders of this Republic may be scattered to the winds or viciously trampled upon; it matters not that blood may be wantonly shed now and the seeds of bitter strife in the future sown; the spirit of Mammon is loose and no outside power can stop it, only the wisdom and power of the ‘Ameri- can people. Hence, tho undeterred and skillful propaganda to explain away the Nicaraguan policy by boldly flash- ing false issues before the public in order to maintain at all cost this all- important foothold. This is the most salient characteristic of the situation. Nicaragua was first assailed by Dollar Diplomacy in 1909, under Secretary Knox, under three false pleas. The tyranny of the existing regime; but in the long years that followed, Secretary Knox and -his successors lived elsewhere in close and friendly relatio.s with worse tyrants than Zelaya as I-ng as they cooperated with the Ame) ‘can agents. It was claimed that Nicaragua was bankrupt and needed financial re- habilitation. Another false plea: Nicaragua in its history never was bankrupt; its debt -vas very small and the payment of interest on the Same was punctual; the financial re- habilitation for which the U. S. stands sponsor has cost the Nicaraguan peo- ple many millions in undue profits to American bankers and enterprise, with a corresponding impoverishment of the Nicaraguan people. Finally, in.some way or another the Monroe Doctrine is brought into play | prominently but loosely in explaining the Nicaraguan policy; another false pretense. Nicaragua is not and was not in danger of conquest by Euro- pean powers nor was there any ground for thinking even remotely, that such eventuality might happen. There is‘no record of any difficulty of the Nicaraguan government “with foreign ‘nations on -account.of débt-or by injury to foreign residents or their property. Convenient Threats. The pretended request’ of Eutopean} governments to protect the property and lives of their nationals that re- cently appears in newspaper dis- patches ‘is a trick often easily ar- ranged for at Managua to oblige the diplomatic agents of the U.S. gov- ernment. There has been no danger to Americans or their property in Ni- caragua. These are facts prominently brought out in the records of the U. S. Senate investigation (secret) of 1914 and 1927. Almost all the apostles of Im- perialism in defense of the Nicara- guan policy naively paint «a back- ground of hopeless illiteracy among the mixed races that populate that re- gion thereby making a subtle appeal to racial prejudice, the unspoken ar- gument for a special concept of justice and equity and special’ privilege in dealing with a supposedly inferior brand of human beings. Both the principle and the facts of the argu- ment ‘are wrong to the core. As a Central-American state, in its in- fancy, Nicaragua can boast of the abolition of human slavery fifty years ahead of the U. S. and of the early consecration in its political constitu- tion of the principles of freedom of Speech, conscience and the press, the inviolability of human life, trial by juries and all the principles of modern legislation that human beings at- tempt to practice more or less every- where. (To Be Continued.) ‘What Price Aliens in America’ This book on the problems of the Foreign Born Worker in Amer- ica can be had thru the Chicago Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers, 2003 N. California Ave., Chicago, Ill. Single copies 10 cents. 10 or more copies 40% rebate, COMES FIRST } DO NOT BE DECEIVED- BY CHEMICALLY , ». } AND -POISONED We sell you NATURAL am UNADULTE: 2D food Rea ucts, delivered to your door SEND $1 ; For Box of Assorted Samples. 1928 BNLAR( 1X1 NARS GATALOS. ee Health Foods Distributors WEST NORWOOD, \N. J. Phone Closter 211 NBW YORK OFFIC 247 WASHINGTON gate EET, . MINGS.) Page Three REIGN NEWS --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS Urges Peace Pacts 'FRANCO-SOVIET " NON-AGGRESSION ~ TREATY RUMORED New USSR Ambassador | Arrives in Paris ‘PARIS, Jun. 24.—Rumors of « non- aggression pact between the Soviet Union and France were current here Wehen President Doumergue receiv- ed the U.S. 'S. R. ambassador Thov- ood sna that the negotia- Maxim Litvinoff, who as vice- tions for a peace Commissar of foreign affairs of the Soviet Union, has been endeavoring to promote non-aggression treaties between the U. S. S. R. and her neighbors. treaty would be“in- dependent of any ssion of war The new Soviet Union dip- lomatic mission has on a number of oc- easions ‘made clear |the desire of the U. S. S. R. for mu- tual peace pacts with other nations. BRITISH TEXTILE WORKERS JOBLESS LONDON, (FP). — The woolen| bosses, after threatening a lockout on the expiration of their contract with the unions, have refused to negotiate. | The industry is operating without any contract at all while the bosses watch | hopefully ‘the maneuvers of their | friends in the cotton industry. Unemployment has bitten deeply | into the workers’ ranks, A fourth to} a fifth of England’s 1,150,000 textile } workers have been unemployed ever} since 1920. In cotton, whose exports | were normally 80 per cent of produc- } tion, the crisis is ,particularly acute. | ing of the Greater London Left Wing | G. Doumergue, | French Tory Litvinoff’s proposal for complete dis- armament at the Geneva conference | Several months ago at which the Vice |Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the U. S. S. R. expressed the willingness of the Soviet Union to conclude non- aggression pacts with her neighbors. | Members of the mission point to LEFT WING LABOR MEET IN ENGLAND LONDON, (By Mail).—A full meet- i | Indian and Japanese mills have Committee has decided to hold the; taken away the cream of Britain’s | third annual London Left Wing Con- | export market. Now comes the higher | | thorities in Vienn. | fore the court of « ference on Sunday, February 26. It was decided that the prelimin- | price of cotton to tip ‘the scales in} favor of immediate battle between ary agenda should include resolutions, cotton boss and worker—or surrender. on the Labor Party’s general elec- —=—— i tion programme, the surtax, the In-! i. ; } dian Commission and the nunieipal | SOViet Union to Honor | Tolstoy Centenary Soon. elections. « | Invitations ‘to the conference will| MOSCOW, Jan. 24.—In celebration | of the centenary of Leo Tolstoy’s} shortly be dispatched to all Labor! Parties, trades councils, I. L. P. and birth, which is due September 10th, | wing ''the government of the U. 8. 8. R. has} Guild of Youth branches;:Cooperative 1 Political Councils and left groups. | decided to honor the writer’s memory, | |to initiate a whole series of cultural land public undertakings -connected with Tolstoy’s name. In particular, the edition will be Samoan Natives Launch Boycott; Protest Rule) Of New Zealand Czar jundertaken of an absolutely full col- |lection of Leo Tolstoy’s works in WELLINGTON, New Vealaeid? Tait | three series comprising 90 volumes. 24.—A boycott against New Zealand | goods has been started by Samoan) More Germans Jobless jNnatives as a protest against the rule | | of Sir George Richardson, adminis- | trator of the islands. | workers in Geswany reported as un- A citizens’ committee which re-} employed on Januiry Ist totalled 1,- cently investigated the Richardson re- 446,000, according to “igures »made gime branded it as dictatorial. Three | public yesterday. These Y.7res com- | of ‘the members of the committee | pare with the 450,000 workeriii:nem- were later deported by Richardson. ployed in October. BERLIN, Jan. 24.—The number of INDICT AUSTRIAN COMMUNIST HEAD FOR JULY REVOLT - a . Many Workers in Jails Awaiting Trial vA, (By mail) the Austrian VIF retary of - The See- Communist |Party, Johann Koplenig is being pro- secuted by the social democratic au- His case is be- ed after making a funeral oration over the victims of the July He is charged with high treason inciting the workers to overthrow the government. The July Revolution, the uprising of the Vienna workers was s| by the social democratic police. Seores of workers have been arrested and held in jails for trial. Koplenig was ar Revolution. and Juries composed of workers, haye acquitted a large number of those who were charged with having partici- pated in the July revolt. ae Wear a Lenin Button Every militant wor! munist, should get hi: to wear this button! 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