The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1928, Page 6

ey THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JOLY 30, 1928. BE A BOLSHEVIK! Page Six Daily NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS N By Jacob Burck Told You So | E is one darned thing after another 3 : | for harassed Jimmy Walker, our dapper little mayor and marathon | traveler. Barely had he recovered okey the socialist charge that he |dances too much and, attends the> |races instead of attending to the business of his bourgeois masters, | when he received a report from Com- |missioner of Police Warren that there was an $18,000 deficit in the |treasury of the Glee Club, the mu- |sical auxiliary of the New York | police department. a a Wey so much fuss should be made over the trifling sum of $18,000 is beyond our understanding. In these days of sewer graft and slush funds amounting to millions it should be beneath the dignity of a city official to take cognizance of a trifling indiscretion like the entbez- zlement of $18,000. He ek. ENATOR OWEN of Oklahoma has bolted the democratic ticket because he says Governor Smith, by reason of his environment, is not qualified for the exalted position of |president of these United States. | The senator continued that he could not support Smith any more than he could “a representative of the Vare machine of Pennsylvania.” What a fraud the Oklahoma senator is? Owen has declared for Hoover and it so happens that senator Vare is the pure mortal who forced the hand of secretary of the treasury Mellon and put the Pennsylvania | delegation in the Hoover column at |the Kansas convention. A pox on the lot of them. * HIGH-SALARIED salesman went ‘into a New York department store a few days ago and when he departed a pair of unpaid gloves |went along with him. A lynx-eyed |store detective tapped him on the |shoulder and his arrest followed. |The value of the gloves was put at ished } Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Cable Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months New York, N. Y. | 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Addres: s By Ma’ $4.50 New York only) $2.50 three months G x months $8 per year Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, 3 Editor : _. ROBERT MINOR GSH Aesisrant Editor ..-WM. F. DUNNE | Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 8, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Party of the Class Struggle! For the Workers! Against the Capitalists! —= JIM -CROWISM —— perialism which grows more and more aggres- sive and grasping each month. And now it is to be Africa! And this time it is not oil, but rubber! What was Hoover doing when, some two years ago, he, as secretary of commerce, made} drastic attacks on the British rubber mon- opoly? Was he already interested in the Fire- stone corporation and the Liberian venture in| | hundreds of millions? But these are not passing events, to be cured by some reform. This is not something ‘ab- normal” or excessive,” as the simpering liberals would have us believe. In the present period | it is normal, it is the inevitable course of capi- talism in the period of imperialism. Nor is it something peculiar to Hoover and the spectacular bunch of yeggs that started with Jess Smith, Jake Hamon, Albert B. Fall, Hoover Steals a Nation Herbert Hoover did nothing out of keeping with his regular role when as secretary of com- | merce, he used the dirtiest methods known to the art of imperialist robbery to force a whole nation into slavery to the Morgan-controlled Nationai City Bank and Harvey Firestone. Hoover used the power of the United States government to reduce the Republic of Liberia to slavery. A whole nation on the coast of Africa passed into the direct control of Hoover’s banking friends and his backers, the multi-millionaire rubber manufacturer, Harvey Firestone. Forced labor of practically the mass of the population ‘ of Liberia at a fixed wage of 25 cents per day per man was arranged for Harvey Firestone by the United States government. A forced! loan which clinches the control of the Liberian | | | | | | PEONAGE | ok a Hepoer bites s pee NS * * Republic until the year 1967 was put through for the National City Bank by Hoover and the state department. Then the National City Bank, that is, Mor- gan, Harvey Firestone, and other capitalist pa- triots brought about the nomination of Hoover (Coolidge, Firestone and Hoover have long been intimates.) Prior to this deal in politics it was arranged that the coming presi- dent of the United States would appoint a vir- tual dictator over Liberia to enforce the “agree- ment.” Behind the dictator, to be appointed by Hoover if Hoover is elected, will be Hoover him- for president. self, interested in the gigantic whole naval power of the United States. The reeking corruption of Teapot Dome is! outdone. Teapot Dome graft all, only some oil wells; this gigantic rubber graft and international thuggery involves the looting of a whole people. This is international crime on a scale which gives us a foretaste of what we are to expect of the capitalist imperialism of the United | Today Nicaragua is Mexico is raped, bloody coun- states in the near future. being bombed. ter-revolution launched against the head of its government murdered as the direct or indirect product of the effort of the United States to force Mexico under the control | of United States oil capitalists and bankers. Haiti is ruled by United States marines to make profits for New York bankers. Rico, Cuba, the Virgin Islands, the Philippines, fall under the colossal power of Yankee im-| years ago, and of Coolidge, Me And as for party, with Bill ports capitalis’ fair in Germa: racy” today. deal, and the involves, after divided fone | dawns, and the Imperialism its people and | inevitable war. Porto ing capitalism. The Bolshevi Warren G, Harding, Harry Sinclair some eight | which is continued in the gang llon and Hoover today. It is mot peculiar to Hoover, nor to the republican party. Al Smith and the democratic Kenny, John Raskob, Woodin— and the Tammany gang—they are likewise aiming at the same goal. Any party that sup- t “democracy”—including any “socialist” party, as proven by the Barmat af- ny—supports this imperialism which is the growing body of capitalist “democ- More than once in these columns we have called attention to the fact that the Firestone |venture in Liberia has vast political signifi- cance. Africa is the great continent heretofore nslavement between England, France, Belgium and other European nations— the United States having been out of it. But the heyday of American imperialism United States, in ever-sharpen- ing competition with Great Britain, will fight | for a redivision of colonal possessions. means slavery, and it means Let this example of the vile conspirator | Hoover be a potent lesson to the working class of the whole world and the enslaved colonial | and semi-colonial slaves of imperialism. Free- dom from imperialist slavery and war can come only by destroying imperialism, destroy- ik way is the only way out. Spike NG About Soviet Union World Tourists, 69 Fifth Ave., ac-| credited American agency for Sov- torgflot, official Soviet travel de- partment in Mescow, yesterday made public a communication from Narkomtorg (People’s Trade Com- missariat) of the Russian govern- ment instructing him to reply to charges made in American news- papers (New York World, July 28; Washington News, June 20, and others) that Russian customs offi- cials were prohibiting American i tourists to Russia from bringing into that country adequate necessi- ties to insure comfort. Soviet of-| ~ ficials recently estimated that about 6,000 American tourists will visit Russia during the next 12 months. (Journal of Commerce, July 26.) Send Instructions. The official communication to Goodman read, in part: “We are sending you herewith a list or ar- ticles which may be brought into U. S. S. R., in accordance with the decree of Narkomtorg (People’s Trade Commissariat) of April 26,| 1927, pertaining to domestic and for- eign trade of the U. S. S. R., and to the privileges accorded foreign | tourists in granting them the per- mission to bring certain necessities | © into the U. S. S. R. “Tt is desirable that you advise + those who contemplate visiting Rus- Sia of this decree so that they may be guided accordingly.” Instruc- tions to advise the press was con- tained in the communication. » Goodman said that the reason for | “the issuance of a tabulated list™ of ‘what the tourist may bring into Rus- sia was to prevent smuggling and ‘save the tourist custom charges. «He stated that under the present " fuling the tourist visiting Russia is _ allowed more personal effects than ‘the average traveler would care to ‘earry. In the matter of clothing, he said, four suits were allowed, ‘four coats, including one fur coat; ‘ten dresses, twelve skirts, twelve . 4 ‘suits of underwear, eighteen shirts; Na r ORM die Manitne erate me incoemnvare articles. The complete list would fill three steamer trunks, Goodman said. “The reason that the Soviet gov- ernment issues a restricted list of articles which may be brought into the Soviet Union is because it is anxious to check the introduction of contraband goods into that country. The U. S. S. R. is trying to build up | its home industries and if it allowed tourists to glut the market with foreign goods it would be defeating its own purpose,” Mr. Goodman said. SWINDLE SHEET FROM BUENOS AIRES, July 29.—The chief of the Tehuelche Indians in- habiting Northern Patagonia ar- rived in Buenos Aires to ask pro- tection of the federal government against the local authorities and “in- fluential citizens,” who are robbing them of their sheep herds, their only means of subsistence, and are driv- ing them away from the pasture lands, which have been reserved since the time of the Spanish rule. The old chief Truque! Seihuque, has been waiting in the capital for several weeks for an audience with the president, but the latter has no time yet to receive him. He gave several interviews to the Buenos Aires press, which published the de- tails. He described how local police officials rob the Indians of their sheep by imposing fines for imagin- ary offenses and as the Indians have no cash money the officials confis- cate sheep. In this process the authorities connive with ordinary swindlers who obtain from the Indians thumb-print | signatures on documents, the con- tents of which they never saw or knew. To enforce these fraudulent contracts, the sheep herds are con- fiscated and the Indians are driven from their land out into the desert. The Indian chief said that if his ‘tribe does not receive justice from the authorities {n Buenos Aires, the whole tribe will emigrate to Chile, emis 8 eb hich is bidding for immigrants and which does not discriminate against Indians, Dr. Pavlov’s New Book To Be Out Soon [NTEZNATIONAL PU BLISH- ERS, 381 Fourth Ave. New York, have received word from Dr. W. Horsley Gantt, from Leningrad, who is translating Professor Ivan P. Pavlov’s book on Conditioned Reflexes, that Professor Pavlov is preparing several new chapters, which have not been included in any tion” leaders are in jail charged i the lickspittle act. of his previously published writings, either in Russian or in foreign edi- SANTIAGO, Chile, July 29—In| his capacity as president of the! William Green, of the A. F. of L., received a letter from the “Congreso | Social Obrero” (Social Labor Con- | |bajo” (Association of Labor). | Benefit Association, | The “Congreso Social Obrero,” grouping of many mutual benefit, | consumers and manufacturing eas operatives, insurance, sick and death | jand recreation societies of workers, |employes and members of the lower mid_<le class. They hold yearly con- | gresses and accept a number of | resolutions, after which each organ- | | ization continues to sleep separately | | without any contact with or common | direction from the others. | | Real Unions Persecuted. | Pan-American Federation of Labor, Rieht Wing Union Makes Overtures to William Green Chilean Federation of Labor (mem- ber of the Profintern, with about about 10,000 members among the marine workers, and the employes’ association under Communist-syndi- their leaders exiled to the Mas Afuera Islands. Only the Catholic unions under the leadership of priests were tolerated. The letter of ‘the president and secretary of the.“‘Congreso Social Obrero” to Green points out that in Chile “the labor organization has not been carried on in the same man- gress) of Chile asking him for de- Mittee of this organization invited | which still divide the workingmen tails about the Pan-American Fed- | the Chilean Communist Labor Fed- | end eration of Labor, of which they ficst ¢ration to join, which invitation, | curbed our good efforts,” but “for- |learned about from a letter by a| however, was never accepted. With | tunately the Chilean employers association which | the advent of Ibanez all labor or-/has opposed them to a certain de- |calls itself the “Asociacion de Tra- | ganizations ot a militant character, | gree,” | particularly the largest of them, the | the Communists, have present government | False Claim. | With this introduction, they claim founded in 1900, is a very loose | 80,000 members) the I. W. W., with Consequently to “represent most genuinely the national labor move- | ment” and ask Green to tell them | whether the Pan-American Federa- premium associations and cultural |¢ate influence, were dissolved and | tion of Labor” is only.a.central or- | ganization representing the North ladteriean weikingmen, or whether jit is an international institution | with representation in all the | American countries.” Thus it seems that the fame of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, which clain's to represent tha | labor movement of the American | Before the establishment of Iban-| ner as in North America,” and gives hemisphere, has reached the “most |ez’s dictatorship, the central com-|as reason that “religious tendencies genuinely national labor movement” Militants Suppressed in Chile } of Chile through an employers’ or- | ganization. | If this organization becomes a |member of the Pan-American Fed- | eration of Labor, the latter then will be able to claim affiliations in | South America, including the fake | organizations of Peru (the “Assem- | bly of United Societies,” a Leguia | organization), and a non-existent | bia. Weak Influence of A. F. of L. A historical survey of labor legislation in Latin-America, by Moises Poblete TTroncoso, former under secretary in the Chilean min- istry of hygiene and labor, published in the July edition of the Bulletin of the Pan-American Union, Wash- ington, states that “it should be noted that there are no traces in South America of the action of North American workers’ organiza- tions, the American Federation of Labor, which only influences the |countries near the United States, | such as Mexico, Cuba, parts of Cen- | tral America and to a slight extent Venezuela and Cuba.” By HARRY GANNES NicaRacua is not the only cen- tral American country that is to have an election in which the United States is vitally interested. On) August 5 Panama will vote for president and members of Congress Since Panama is a military outpost of U. S. imperialism any official | selected must be a puppet of the White House and Wall Street, Little} Panama means big guns to Ameri- |can militarists. Panama, at the same time, politically, is connected with | the present conflict in Nicaragua. Pre-election excitement is becom- ing rife in Panama. Four “opposi- | with threatening the “liberal” can-| didate. That the insurgents are| One of the candidates for the presidency, representing the Por-| vista Party, is a decendant’ of an American family, Jorge E. Boyd, now in the United States undoub- tedly getting the approval of his U. S. masters. It is the representa- tives of the Porrista Party who are asking for marine supervision of the Panama elections. The Porissta Party derives its name from Belisario Porras, a for- mer president. The present gov- ernment of Panama is all that Kel- logg could wish in the way of a rubberstamp; yet in trying to win power the Porristas outdo Chiari. the present president of Panama, Wall St. Officials Rule. Panama is comfortably in the |by President Roosevelt. Professor Pereyra, member of the Hague per- manent court of arbitration calls the brigandage of the U. S. “the most |formidable scandal of American diplomacy.” | Military Stronghold. Now Panama is the key to the |American military machine. It is not impregnable, which is one of the reasons the marines are’ trying to |insure the right of U. S. bankers to build another canal through Nica- ragua. As war looms on the horizon, the iron bands that are riveted to Panama are welded tighter, and a \Chicago Tribune (Oct. 5, 1927), ra- | bid organ of imperialism, urges the further militarization of Panama. “The Panama Canal should be tions. Dr Gantt, who has been work- | receiving the sympathy of the|palm of Wall Street. Besides con- made as nearly impregnable as lies ing with Professor Pavlov in the Institute of Experimental Medicine i ii i Though the candidate they oppose is “adviser” to guard Wall Street’: in Leningrad since 1925, reports | r4 Pp | Jonigaat. aniges'aha aston ealitiat that Professor Pavlov is writing up his recent experiment in the field which has made him famous throughout the world, and gained for him the Nobel Prize some years ago. : 3 According to present indications, the book, which is being edited by _ Professor Walter B. Cannon of Har- vard University, will be published United States is proved by their in-| sistence on marine a former employe of the United trolling the bootlicking officials investors. There is a customs \within the power of military and intervention, there is always present a financial |naval engineers, It should be made another Gibraltar, with guns of the Fruit Company and a tried vassal of spector; a railroad commission; a| amply fortified, with great naval imperialism, their slogan is: “In-| police inspector—every type of in-|docks at either end, with flying tervention or revolution!” That is to|strument for the effective admin- fields and planes numerous enough say intervention of marines. U. §. Controls All Panama Area. It is the common belief that U. S. | control is limited to the Canal Zone. \In reality it includes a protectorate | over the entire so-called republic of | | Panama definitely established by the istration of a colony. Fi Last month the National City Company purchased $12,000,000 of Panama bonds secured by the cus- toms, liquor tax, stamp tax, 'and by liens on the annuity paid by the United States government for the in the early fall under the title written constitution of the republic. use and occupation of the Canal “Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes” Panama is a part of the American Zone, and on the constitutional —Twenty-five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Ac- tivity (Behavior) of Animals, r 4 Empire. Everything that happens | there is by the instigation of im-| \perialist agents, funds of the republic. Panama was wrested from Colum- bia, to which it belonged before 1903, to ward off any conceivable attack from the air, and with a land force large enough to man the fortifica- tions and to constitute a mobile body capable of repelling invasion. It is essential that the troops expected to serve in Panama should be located there in numbers. . . The Panama canal should be armed now.” Kellogg Peace Liar. It should be kept in mind that the ‘Panama canal is heavily armed new bond is put on Nicaragua. The) ARGENTINE. INDIANS U. S. Imperialism Flips a Coin in Panama now. Plans have already been drawn up for a $4,000,000 aerodrome in the Panama district. Work will start soon. The insitence on heavier armament in Panama, and the recent heavy |contribution by’ Congress to the army and navy, belie louder than jcanon shots Kellogg's peace-war maneucers. War and Business Interests. | _The entire Caribbean area is, con- sidered by the United States as an American lake. To the military au- thorities it is an important unit of |defense and offense; to Wall |Street, it is a rich source of ex- |ploitation. With the war danger a live issue, Panama, Nicaragua. Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala,— in fact the entire sector in the Caribbean becomes more and more a, naval and military reserve. With .U S. financial penetration of Latin- America growing by leaps and bounds, this territory is contem- plated as a private door-step for American entry into the rich hin- terland of South America. The United States has no op- position to the present government in Panama, or to the candidate of the Party in power, Arosamena, who has amply proved his fitness as an employee of American investors. Whichever way the coin falls Wall | Street wins. The agitation for inter- .|vention is just a vicious means of. proving the necessity for United rubber stamp organization of Colom- | States mastership of these colonies;| | $1.95. Whether the salesman tooie |the gloves with malice aforethot or | mot we cannot say, but detectives a\ jemployed by stores to watch out for talkative people oftentimes plant articles on prospective customers and then arrest them. A detective jis about the lowest thing in the human scale. | a eee {WHEN Mrs. Mary’C. Booze, Negro | Republican National Committee- | woman from the State of Mississippi, |attended the meeting of the Repub- lican National Committeewomen in Washington a few days ago, some- thing happened which should open the eyes of those Negroes who still \believe that the G. O. P. of today |freed them from chattel slavery. Mrs. | Booze was as welcome at the meet- |ing as a cat in a mouse hole. The |republican ladies were exceedingly embarrassed by her presence until a | resourceful reporter induced Mrs. Booze to leave her associates in or- der to get a separate picture. When |she returned the republican ladies | were missing. | * 8 8 'HERE is no differnece petoreen| | the attitude’ of the republican and democratic parties toward the | Negroes. The democrats. refuse | them the vote in the South. They | Jim-Crow them and lynch them. The |republicans whose votes in the southern states could be hidden in a waste basket make a big show of friendliness to the Negro for the sake of the northern Negro votes. But the action of the repub- lican national committeewomen shows clearly that the democratic | party has no monopoly on hatred of the Negroes. es Marces GARVEY, thru his organ the “Negro World,” has en- | dorsed Al Smith for the presidency. Garvey claims that Al is a better friend of the Negroes than Hoover. | But Garvey is no fool and he knows that the democratic party is the his- torical party of chattel slavery and | that the blacks in the South are no freer today than they were before | the civil war, except, perhaps, freer jto starve. They are not permitted to vote and on the eve of the demo- cratic convention in Houston, Texas, a Negro was lynched within gunshot of the city and no responsible demo- cratic leader uttered a word of pro- test. How much did Marcus get for the sell-out? — * * teats, for Garvey’s organiza- tion hold forth on the streets of Harlem night after night, firing their hearers with words of hate jagainst the “white man,” worker as | well as capitalist. But here we see the hypocrisy and dishonesty of those misleaders of the Negro masses shown up in the light of day, endorsing the white capitalist poli- ticians, a political party that treats the Negro race like the dirt on the street. This latest act of the char- latan Garvey should open the eyes of the Negro workers, those of them who are not already wise to him. Pe ey HE papers publish as news the report that the state Federation of Labor would support Al Smith when it meets next month. This is almost like saying that Tammany Hall would endorse Tammany. Hall. The New York trade union move- ment is in Tammany’s pocket and will take orders. It is said that Al intends to send the New York labor fakers all over the country enlisting the trade unions on his side. This should be a good year for labor leaders who look on the trade union movement as something to loot and barter for personal favors and emoluments. Jon OFahesly Nec?