The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1928, Page 6

AY, LY 26, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU: zy aly 2s, Worker | Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, “De SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: iwork” Phong Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 By Mail (in New Yo: $4.50 six months only) 0 three months DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. -ROBERT MINOR ..WM. F. DUNNE at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. } per year Address and mail out checks to THE VOTE COMMUNIST! _ For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW For President M Z. FOSTER WILL Hla | SA | WoRKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! | Against the Capitalists! | For the Workers! | merely a parasite. The United States govern- | Counter-Revolution in Mexico ment, which is very busy “assisting Mexico | Dwight W. Morrow is well launched in the| jin her trouble,” is not so-foolish as to con- | pole of hangman of Mexico. This partner of | cern itself with insignificant persons, such as | the classic imperialist banking house of Wall} Morones. It aims straight at the destruction Street went to Mexico in order by intrigue to| of an enemy social force, a force antagonistic | prepare the way for the conquest and occupa-|to the aims of Wall Street in Mexico. This tion of Mexico by the United States. | social force is the labor movement—more or | From the moment of the arrival of Morrow, | less crippled by such parasites as Morones, it who combined in his one person the function | is true—but nevertheless potentially the de- of representative of the United States govern-| Stroyer of the hopes of Wall Street in Mexico. ment with the function of representative of the The sublime courage which the Mexican financiers investing in Mexican exploitation,| workers and peasants have shown time and the affairs of Mexico have moved rapidly to- again in open battle is called now to its highest ward direct control of that country from New test. The struggle of life and death for a York City. great people is on. The capitalist-imperialist ‘Bolshevism” in Mexico, That is, to conquer 2 4 ; anything that interfered with the seizure of Mexican workers and peasants! Crush the Mexican resources, oil lands, mining rights, counter-revolution! ste., and with the super-exploitation of Mexi- van workers and peasants by, the Wall Street China In the Fight for Its Unity. inance-capitalists who sent him. With almost mlimited power of reward and punishment in | (Editorial Reprinted from the “Pravda” of June 8, 1928) tis hands, Morrow made long strides toward| A short time ago the defeat of Chang Tso his goal. Both the Calles government and the| Lin and the capture of Peking by the Southern orospective government of Obregon were al-| troops was—according to the official Kuomin- aady eating out of the hand of Morgan’s am-| tang Press—to bring about the unity of China sassador at the time of the assassination of and would mean almost the completion of the Ybregon by a religious fanatic. national revolution. It had long been openly stated in the press The long-desired moment seemed to have at Morrow, among other things, was work- | Come. ; ; i ~+g for.a reconciliation of the Mexican govern-|_ Chang Tso-Lin fled into Manchuria and ent with the church. In this he was at the| Peking appeared red under the Kuomintang vint of success. Certainly churches are not | flags. How is it, however, with the notorious | tstruments of workers’ and peasants’ revolu- “unity,” with the “unification” of China? ons, and equally, the imperialists valued the For the present one only hears that the qureh as an ally for the demoralization and Nanking government has extended its power otro! of the weaker elements of the peasan- | to the provinces of Kiangsu, Chekiang, Kiangsi, 'y. Boasts of the success of Morrow in fore- | Anhwei; the Kwangsi group rules the provinces ag Obregon to ally himself with the clergy of Hupei, Hunan, Kwangtung and Kwangsi; gainst the masses of Mexico, compelled Obre-| Feng Yu Hsiang obtains possession of the prov- on to make what was considered a partial but inces of Kiangsu, Shensi and Honan, with the | mbiguovs denial. His assassination followed | prospect of obtaining Shantung; the Yen Si- | Imost immediately at the hands of more or Shan group will, it is assumed, control the} 2ss “wild” elements of the clerical party. The provinces of Shansi, Chili and the adjoining eligious fanatic was an instrument of the districts of Mongolia; for the Mukden group lergy, and certainly not an instrument of the | there remain only three Eastern provinces or | :nti-clerical movement as the capitalist press Manchuria. iow pretends. The assassin only put into ac- Jp the official declaration of the Kuomintang ion what had beén repeatedly threatened by this lack of unity is masked as “the division of ountless pronouncements of the clerical China in six political areas with the towns of pokesmen in the United States and Mexico. It Nanking, Canton, Peking, Hankow, Kaifeng jay be that the subornation of Obregon by and Mukden as centres, which recognize the Torrow had already reached the success which power of the Supreme Council of Nanking yould have made the president-elect accept- which is the capital of China.” | tble to Morrow as Wall iS reet’s policeman over Such a masking is hardly likely to mislead iexico; but his assassination nevertheless was eau Baay, direct and clear result of the clerical-lang@prd ni Be | liamentary campaign more hovement and in revenge for the executions of priests and others involved in the recent re- wtionary priest-led revolt. Between the existence of a “Supreme Coun- cil in the capital of China, Nanking” and the recognition of this Council by the political areas, and the “unity” of the China there lies Whether or not Morrow had before the as- | 2748; Fy assination attained complete success in the ® vast difference. It is generally known that the ‘orruption of Obregon to his purposes, it is Pocus of the League ot Nations at Geneva tertain that he has now suéceeded in impos- and its recognition by Nees European powers ng his dictation in the present situation after tien mee by any means signify the unity of the assassination. Could there be anything P ey 4 A nore weird than the “Obregonista” party de- _ To bring proofs of this would be trying to manding that the murderer of Obregon shall force an open door; for many Kuomintang tot be executed? After a murder by a cleri-| People already openly recognize the failure of ‘al, can there be a more ironical turn of history | their “unity policy.” One of these Kuomintang than the punishment of the anti-clerical ele- People, in his article on the lessons of the nents for the clerical crime? Japanese intervention, cites the example of The entire imperialist press of the United | America, Germany and Japan herself, and 3tates is now trying to make the masses ac- maintains that only a Victorious foreign war ept the version sent broadcast that although could accelerate the unification of China and} t is admitted that a religious fanatic, domi-| help the cause of national defense to victory. rated by the priesthood, committed the mur- “We are convinced that only after a new peace jer, nevertheless the anti-clerical “labor” lead- id will all the present problems of the relations Bee’ reepiah evi mis : etwen Japan and the nationalists be solved and ors were the clube ite Seer oF math peace in the Far Bast be secured . . . The Chinese der. The capitalist press is even shamelessly have now learned that a foreign war not only can ‘rying to put over a cock. and-bull Story of an expedite the unification of China, but is also the anti-clerical agent posing as religious so as to only means in order to better the international inspire the religious assassin to kill Obregon. There is method in the madness of this. The United States imperialists want an ex- situation of China.” Thus the nationalist-minded Kuomintang see the only means of salvation in a foreign war, | REVEILLE! By JAY LOVESTONE. This year will see the American Communists participating in a par- inten- sively and on a greater scale than in any previous year. For a num-| ber of months, the Workers (Com- munist) Party has been engaged in direct pre ions for putting the Party on the ballot in its own name in as many of the 48 states as pos-| sible. i Leaflets and pamphlets have’ been | issued. Election conventions have | already been held in over 20 states. | A highly — successful national | nominating convention was held at the close of May for the adoption of an election platform and the sel- ection of Comrades Foster and Git- low as the presidential standard bearers of our Party in the Novem-| ber elections. k Hundreds of Communist. mass) meetings are being arranged thru- out the country. Scores of thou- sands of copies of the election plat- | form are being distributed. | Several organizers to reach new industrial centers where the Party organization is weak or non-exis- tent have been put into the field. For the first time in the history of | the Party an organized intensive| | effort is being made to pierce the Solid South—the most reactionary tier of states in the country, no- torious for their disfranchising and severe oppression and lynching of| the Negro masses. Increased attention is being paid | | to the exploited farmers, the Negro | masses, the youth and the working women. 2 entire election campaign has as its keynote, the class struggle, | and is based on such activities of | the Party as the great miners’| the textile and the long drawn out struggle of | the needle trades workers. The Present Situation in the United States. strike, workers’ | American Communists Active Campaign In Engaged In Most U. S. Labor History clude that American capitalism now has its basic crisis and is already on the downgrade, Big capitalist reaction continues in the saddle. There are no funda- mental issues sharply dividing the two big bourgeois parties. What- ever issues have developed are! largely within these parties rather than between them. The extent of reaction is marked by such events as the brazen acquittal of the multi- | millionaire Sinclair, one of the prin- cipal heroes in the Teapot Dome scandal; the arrogance characteris- ing Coolidge’s use of his executive power in vetoing the MeNary- | Haugen bill; the granting of a huge subsidy to American shipping mag-| nates; the decision of the supreme court legalising wire tapping; the! increasingly aggressive role of American imperialism as shown by the war on Nicaragua; the big naval | budget and the attack on China; the widespread use of the injunction in the continued aggressive campaign | by the biggest capitalists to smash the organizations of labor and wipe out such elementary rights as the right to organize and strike. The nomination of Hoover by the | republican party, which is the domi-| nant party of big business, is only | another index of the strength of| capitalist reaction and the growth in power of the executive depart- ment of the government. Hoover has been director-general of Amer- ican Big Business for seven years. His nomination for the presidency marks for the first time in the his- fact that someone is put up for the highest position in capitalist poli- tics without previously having held a single elective office in his life. spects big business and admires big business men....There can be no doubt that Hoover as pres- ident would be without precedent. He would be a dynamic business president, even as Coolidge has been a static business president. He would be the first business, as distinguished from _ political, president the country has had. “Al Smith’s record m_ politics is the best possible pledge that he will make a successful admin- istrator of the biggest business of all...that of managing the political business organizations of the United States, But what .about the Smith policies? They are just the reverse of Hoover's in relation to business. Hoover emphasizes economics, Smith, politics. Hoover would serve the | public by serving business; Smith would serve business by serving the public.” American imperialism, because of the narrowing of the domestic mar- Our Part,’s Election Campaign standards of living and the organ- izations of the working class. Politically, the American labor movement is very backward. Pres- ident Green of the American Fed- | eration of Labor drew up a program of five planks which he had pre- sented for the republican and demo- cratic conventions in the usual for- mal routine manner without even | the slightest pretense on the part | of the capitalist politicians to heed | these demands. The policy of “non- | Partisan political action,” which in effect means selling out the great |mass of workers to the republican | and democratic parties, continues. The railroad brotherhoods which formerly were the champions of Investments and Foreign Policy of U.S. By ROBERT W. DUNN. (Continued.) IN connection with loans made by= |" American financial interests té® these foreign governments of the™ | weaker sort we find your state de- ~ partment of the president of they United States playing a rather im- portant role. For insuring the pay- ment of loans and to facilitate their collection we find, for example, ing the Dominican Republic an Ameri-, can general receiver named by th president of the United States. In Nicaragua we find an American. col-y lector, acting on order of a high, | commission of three, one appointed, |by the American bankers and an- |other by the United States depart-; |ment of state. There is, also, to be |sure, in more recent days, Brigadier} |General McCoy and his staff con-| | ducting their “free and fair elec-} |tions.” In Haiti the control is |more complete. An American r . zeneral and an Americarf financial advisor are nominated b ihe president of the United State: |and appointed by a marionette na- | tive president. They have control | |of the entire revenue system of the! |country. An American Hign Com- | missioner and the marines complete the Haitian picture of American |domination. In Salvador the loans of the American bankers are served | Ly an American official who collects the customs. He is chosen by an | American corporation with the ap- |proval qf the American state de- |partment, Even in Bolivia, a | stronger country, the service of jloans of the American bankers in- yolves a permanent fiscal commis- sion consisting of three members, | two of them appointed by the presi- |dent of Bolivia upon recommenda- tion of the bankers. One of these |two is chairman of the commission | which virtually holds the key to the | |economic life of the country. In | Peru, Ecuador and other countries | American financial advisors and {agents have played their part in | directing financial policies in con- |formity with the desires of the American investing class. pee Armed Forces Protect Investments | Not only has your department of | state acted as business solicitor and loan guarantor for American capi- talists. The navy and the marines have upon occasions been used to protect American property interests © especially in the weaker countries | where effective resistance is quite | * impossible. Indeed, the United | entitled “The United States Navy | as an Industrial Asset” boasts of lits services rendered in this con- nection. This aggressive use of \the military and naval forces has |been illustrated in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Mexico and Nicaragua. | And it goes without saying that; both republican and demoe °c ad- ministrations have resorted to thi: practice. However, forgetful poli- | ticians, like President Harding, have |attacked the other party for acts | identical with the ones they them- |selves have committed while in of- |fiece. Mr. Bryan and other profes- sing pacifists were particularly ac- tive in their use of the armed forces | of the United States in certain Latin | American countries during the Wil- | son administration. | What are the effects of these in- lvestments and the accompanying |foreign policy upon the underlying population of the countries where |the investments are made? This | ought to be of some concern to those . | States navy, in one of its reports © | the Conference for Progressive Pol- | who formulate American foreign \itical Action, have moved so far to| policy. The effects, of course, vary the right that they recently gave’| with the size, strength and charac- | ter of the country involved. De- | The entire labor party movement is | at a low ebb today organizationally. } ; What is left of what was once | the socialist party—a membership [of less than 5,000—is organically | tied up with the reactionary trade union bureaucracy. At its last con- vention it has moved even further | to the.right and has taken decisive a blanket endorsement to Hoover. | fenders of imperialism have made | much of the benefits derived through the application of foreign capital— | good roads, sanitation and other evi- ‘dences of civilization. Some of these benefits are undeniable. Over | against them, however, is the crush- ing effect ‘upon the economie and political liberty of these peoples, and in many cases also their ma- ket which has been one of its main| StePs to break with whatever rem- terial status and welfare. * * * sources of strength, and the in-| "ants of working class ideology | creasing competition by other im-| there might have been in its ranks. perialist powers is waging an ever-| But because of the economic de. 'HE American investor in a mining more aggressive imperialist policy.| pression and particularly the acute) or rors enterprise abroad is om ; a being | Crisis in certain industries, like coal, | naturally eager to hire his labor at ee coer one eel there is today a greater volume of | the lowest possible price. The re- port of capital continues epace.| radicalization in the United States | sult in the case of Liberia, for ex- Yankee imperialism is strangling | jam at any time since the LaFol- | ample, is that the Firestone Planta- Nicaragua, securing a tighter grip lette rove neue of 1924. ES MAREE om Corny se now eetabiEhing a on the Philippines, making further | ®@ showing increasing readiness to | system of colonial slavery that bears inroads towards complete: domina-| ?¢Sist the attacks of the capitalists |More heavily on the natives than on their organizations and_ their the colonial regimes of even tho standards. This radicalization is ore frankly imperialist countries not yet national nor general. It is|°f Europe, In Cuba and in the Firestone Colonial Slavery tion of Latin America; waging a ruthless imperialist policy in the _ ‘ermination of the labor movement of Mexico, | a8 is to be seen from the above quotation. To he disarming of the poorer peasants and the | bring about a foreign war is of course not diffi- __assing of power completely into the hands of cult; the only question is how to lead it to _ *eactionary landlord and clerical instruments victory. _ £ United States capital. Where the church The victorious fight for the real unification _7a8 openly shown to have been the direct in-| of China was begun, but not by the Kuomintang *pirer of the crime, Morrow has performed the people who betrayed the Chinese Resolution, _ sgerdemain of transferring the “guilt” to what who capitulated to the imperialists and, along | a (It is only additional striking evi- Before proceeding ‘e seedy the ‘dence of the growing tin ae vie election campaign policy and activ-| pugi it fi ities of our Party, it is necessary | war se, With the highest govern- hs \ment officers, to sketch briefly the economic and} political situation in the country, The democratic party has nomin- The economic recession which set ated Al Smith, New York State gov- in about a year ago has developed | ernor, for president. The attitude of into an acute depression. ‘“Busi-, Wall Street towards Hoover and ness is irregular.” There still per-/ Smith is instructively summed up fight | tory of the country the significant | Pacific against China, beating back ‘decisively British imperialism on every front, winning a new hold on the financial resources of such European countries as, Germany, Poland and Italy, and continuously at work preparing the most devas- tating weapons for the impending imperialist war. This hostility of the American government towards the Soviet Union remains vigorous. The labor movement is in a crisis, Such basic organizations of the trade union movement as the United primarily limited to specific sec-| Dominican Republic American econ- tions and industries of the country. Mie Penetration has resulted in throwing thousands of farmers off Our Party has responded promptly their lands and making them vir- and effectively to this increased ‘readiness of the masses to struggle and has taken the jnitiative and leadership in such great class fights as the miners, textile workers and needle trades as well as in the gen- eral campaign ef organizing the un- organized workers. We have like- wise been most actively engaged in fighting American imperialist. pol- icies and for the development of an |tual peons of large sugar compan- ies. The same tendency is observ- able in Haiti under new legislation now being decreed with the approval of the American authorities, As for the. civil liberties of these backward peoples they weigh very lightly in the balance against the forces of the advancing dollar do- minion. Native presidents who + called “labor” in the persons of Luis N. Mor- with the latter, shot down the working and | mes and his fellow leaders of the CROM. peasant masses. The real unification of China The fact that Luis N. Morones is as big a|means mobilizing the million-fold masses of | raitor to labor as can be found in Mexico, and workers and peasants who will in the first place ‘ subservient as any to Wall Street, must not | settle with the agents of the imperialists and ‘ allowed to confuse the question. Morones | drive out the imperialists themselves. These offic « he “leader” of the labor move-| tasks will be solved by the workers and peas- at and as such for the moment he becomes ants of China under the leadership of the Com- tio. ss tae reaction. But the munist Party and against the Kuomintang ' target is not Morones, but the labor move-| which has become the flag of counter-revolu- Be tselt, nn +44, </+ton, \ sists “a lack of bouyancy” among the major industries. There are not many confident expectations. The | | bourgeoisie speak of “extreme spot- | | tiness in trade, crop and industrial reports.” But there is not suffi- cient evidence at hand to indicate that we are immediately approach- | ing an economic crisis as severe in| character as in 1921. Certainly the | depression is acute, with at least | | four million still out of work, but| tal department been so complete- it would be utterly wrong to con- A by the “Magazine of Wall Street” for May 19, 1928. When discuss- | ing the “business qualifications of | the leading presidential candidates” it said: “It is not an exaggeration to say that he (Hoover) has consid- ered himself and has actually been director-general of American business, Never before here, or anywhere else, has a governmen- ly fused with business. He re- | Mine Workers of America are being wiped out. This has narrowed the best proletarian base of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor consider- ably so that today it is primarily a movement of the labor aristocracy though it still has hundreds of thou- sands of semi-skilled and unskilled workers. The trade union bureau- cracy is becoming evermore reac- tionary and is bound up integrally with the employers and government in their figyt to determine the must come to New York for loans independent mass political party of the workers as the next big step in their political development as a class—for the organization of a la- bor party. Hs Our ‘Party has, through these struggles, grown in influence and numbers. Today, it is the only or- ganization of the workers conscious- ly, persistently and energetically fighting against capitalist reaction. {To be continued.) may be as ruthless as they please |so long as they pay their interest |regularly. Native training in self- government is thus out of the ques- tion in countries where the Ameri- jean marines, and American corpora- tions, unite to keep a local tyrant in power. This is particularly true of Haiti, where the government of- fices are filled either by Americans or by the political friends of the American-controlled president, (To Be Continued.) i