The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 3

Garbage Can! That’s where the cloak and dressmakers have put the pious-looking gent shown above. Right you are: it’s M. Sigman (himself), well-known businessman and ex-union president. Since the union business flopped Mr. Sigman is now compelled to exist on the paltry thousands he makes from his émusement park in Storm Lake, La. * And the garbage can is where the workers e going to put his successor as head of the scab International, Benjamin Schlesinger, “socialist” and friend ef Tammany Hall. * Who helped put Sigman in the garbage can? The Daily Worker. Who fights against all the enemies of the workers all the time? Right you are again: the Daily Worker. * Cloak and dressmakers, all needle workers, what are you doing to help your paper? Convention time is here. Build your union and build your paper. * How? What? * * Send greetings to the fifth anniversary edition of the “Daily” NOW— greetings for yourselves, your union local, greetings for any organization you belong to. Keep the Daily Worker fighting for your union! Subsidies and Loans to Munson Ship Co., Imperialist Pioneers When? ‘ The Munson Steamship Company is to be refinanced and get a loan of $7,000,000 from bankers inter- ested in U. S. imperialism in Latin- America, particularly Kidder Pea- body & Co., and Brown Bros., who own Nicaraguayan government fi- nances, The Munson Line a few days ago followed the lead of the Ward Line in making war on the British Cun- ard Line by a rate-cutting competi- * tion on fares to Cuba. It has also been selected by the U. S. govern- * ment for a $750,000-a-year mail- carrying subsidy, made possible by bi recently passed Jones-White inl, The Munson concern is the prin- cipal U. S. steamer line to Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. It also trades in Cuba and in the Pacific. : GermanUnemployment Reaches 1,750,000 BERLIN, (By Mail).—The num- ber of unemployed in Germany rose more than 25 per cent in the last half of November, reaching a total of nearly 1,500,000. A few days he- fore Christmas. the total had soared to over 1,750,000. \ ‘ German Shipy PATTY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBEK 31, Role of Lati | i baie it is, or should be, clearly understood that effective oppo- | sition to U. S. imperialism will come jfrom the alliance of revolutionary workers of the United States with| jthe armed resistance of oppressed | |peoples led by their revolutionary |workers and peasants, it should not |be forgotten that bourgeois elements jamong the oppressed races and na-| |tions play a role. | That role is always important,| |though it be the role of traitor | |though it be vacillating and timid, | |though it alternately humble itself} before U. S. imperialism and seek | refuge from it under the wings of | its greatest foe, British imperialism. | Important to Understand. | | Though it at one time threatens, | | another time pleads, and again flees | |only to return to seek protection of | {American imperialism from the| |wrath of its own masses, it is most |important to understand the role of | |the bourgeoisie in the colonial and semi-colonial countries. We have only to il the de- spicable role of the Filipino, Aguin-| aldo, and more recently, the shame-| less betrayal of Quezon, or to ex- amine the present Nanking govern- |ment of China, with its “American” jversus “Anti-American” cliques within the Kuomintang, to sense the ‘significance of the role of the na- jtionalist bourgeoisie, be it ever so |shady and shameless. A New Example. The outbreak of armed hostilities | between Bolivia and Paraguay, has given new examples of the role of the bourgeoisie, and although the Spanish language paper “La Pren-| |sa” is published here in New York, |it aspires to speak the mind of the Spanish-American bourgeoisie, and an editorial in its issue of December | 20, 1928, both by what it says, the manner it says it, and in what it omits, sums up all the strength and weakness of the Latin-American {bourgeoisie now being overwhelmed by Yankee imperialism. The edi- torial, translated and commented upon in passing by us, is entitled “America for the Americans,” and| begins as follows : ‘ | “The acceptance, by Bolivia and Paraguay, of the arbitration of the Pan-American Conference of Washington, must signalize a | memorable date for the continent. Not yet fixed are the positions of all the American republics. Only | it is known that the representa- | tives of the majority of them, gathered in Washington, from the | beginning gave all support to the offer of mediation intiated by the Conference.” What is truly stated here is the quantitative importance but not the meaning of the acceptance noted. Attention is called to, and may we suggest a slight hopefulness shown | in, the dissidence of a minority of | Latin-American nations to the man- euvers of Kellogg. This is brought | |more clearly to the foreground in| | the next paragraph, which says: | Kellogg Used a Whip. | “It had unmistakable moral backing — reiterated at the measure in which doubts and vacil- lations appeared—from Secretary Kellogg. But while he, dexter- | ously, was proclaiming that the | State Department was not directly in mediation but in conjunction with the Conference in Europe they were recommending to bring | to debate the restless and singular shade of the Monroe Doctrine.” The picture of Kellogg’s “dex- |terity,” in conjunction with the | “moral backing” which, taken with the expressions about the “doubts jand vacillations,” is a beautiful, if jleft-handed, compliment to U. S. diplomacy, while the character of the Monroe Doctrine as “restless and singular” may hardly be just what Kellogg desires to hear from Latin- Americans, “It can already be stated that the arbitration of the Bolivian- Paraguayan conflict, in solution, constitutes the consecration of the policy of the famous president. The League (of Nations—H. G.) now reasonantly recognizes its jurisdiction. And the precedent remains established for the future: Inter-American conflicts will be solved on this continent. The fact that an American nation belongs to the League, will mean nothing So soon as the Monroe Doctrine appears on the horizon. . . .” | British Not So Easily Defeated Here we have the bourgeois trait illustrated of acceptance of formal and legal “solutions” as real solu- tions. For it is more than question- able that the. League of Nations, dominated by British imperialism, will from now on obligingly step aside from the path of American imperialism’s advance. The League’s role in the dispute does not show renunciation by any means; the removal of League head- quarters from Geneva to Paris was & war move, so was its threat to in- voke the penalties of the Covenant, and its pressure through Argentina and Brazil, admitted but not dis- closed as to nature, indicate that the League by no means surrendered abjectly to Kellogg. It should be noted that neither Brazil nor Ar- gentina are League members, yet it is openly conceded that the League brought the strongest pressure to bear thru these two nations, Nor is the significant turning over by Bolivia of the basic land dispute to Argentine mediation, temporary as it may be, to be seen other than as By HARRISON GEORGE ling juse made of capitalist justice by Ameri threatening collision in the South, arises, now converted into a supreme principle of world policy, the absolute disentangling of America and Europe in questions of continental order. The New World has constituted itself in separate jurisdiction.” Not So Fas tNor So Far. This is true, as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. A “world policy” to be workable, must be ac- cepted by the whole world and not by only half, with that half not fully unanimous; and that it is not so accepted appears in the very| fact of “disentangling,” and how- ever successful such process may be diplomatically, so long as British investments in Latin- America amount to over $5,000,000,000, the League will be interested and en- tangled, openly or secretly. That the “New World,” euphemis- tically terming American imperi: ism, establishes a “separate jur diction,” only proves that hostility grows, and over what but the con- siderable remnant of “entangle- ments”? “Nothing more clear and re- sounding than the opposition of | North America to the intervention of the League of Nations--of which Bolivia and Paraguay are members—in this incident, “Badly taken and pernicious” declared of this intervention an anthorized or- gan of Washington. And visibly influenced by the atmosphere, not a few Latin-American delegates of the Conciliation and Arbitra- tion Conference—from nations that are League ‘members—rele- gated to the background all possi- bility of the intervention of Geneva.” Raising—and Evading An Issue Here the underlying conflict be- tween American imperialism and the British dominated League is sharply and truly shown, and for the first time the clear inference is given of regret over the supposed surrender of the League to Washington is voiced and the Latin-American dele- gates are castigated for yielding to Washington “atmosphere.” Here! plainly appears the bourgeois na- tionalist trick of wishing to save it- self from one imperialism by relying own masses for open and real strug- gle against both. | “The consequences of this sur- | prising result of a dispute over | Bourgeoisie the frontier between the two small South American nations are not easily to be predicted. One may, surely, express a not exaggerated hope. The territorial and_polit- ical principle of ‘America for Americans’ has been definitely es- tablished. This has been attained —at least in appearance—by an entity that is called the Pan- American mference and in which, seemingly, move on equal footing the moral influences of all the nations of the Continent.” Was America Ready for War at Once It is quite true that the conse- quences are not easy to predict in all matters, especially for a bour- geois. That it means another and a more decisive step toward a new world war, whether or not Bolivia’s yielding to pressure from some- where signified America’s reluctance to precipitate world war at this mo- ment, is unquestionable. Here also “La Prensa” with its “at least in appearance” and “seem- ingly” lays the ambiguous ground for bourgeois vacillation between supplication to and attack on Yan- kee imperialism by Latin America. We at once find out that if the ideas of “La Prensa” prevail, it will be supplication and not attack. The editorial ends by saying: “When the Monroe Doctrine comes to final triumph in the world, may its spirit become really triumphant; and may that be, in effect, politically, economically, morally and materially, American for all the America’ an A Bourgeois Remains a Bourgeois Herewe end upon the only note ex- pected from a bourgeois opponent of imperialism, a humble appeal to the “spirit” of the Monroe Doctrine, a surrender to its material, armed and brutal force, and a fruitless plea of equality for “all” Americans, which means, in the lips from which it comes, an equal share for the Latin- American bourgeoisie in the slaught- er, the plundering and robbery and xploitation of Latin-American| workers and peasants, whose historic role in combination with the prole- tariat of the United States and un- der the banner of the Communist In- ternational will be the forceful over- throw of all imperialisms, Yankee ‘on another rather than rallying its and British, together with their cowardly Latin-American bourgeois satellites who abuse and betray the rightful national aspirations of their oppressed peoples. LABOR DEFENDER © IN THIRD YEAR Many Features Enliven New Issue | | The January issue of the Labor Defender, the official organ of the international Labor Defense, marks the third birthday of this workers’ illustrated monthly magazine. The number contains an excellent article by Robert W. Dunn entitled “Super- Salesmanship and Bayonets,” sum- marizing the results of Hoover's tour of Latin America and describ- | the white terror instituted | against the workers and peasants there by American imperialism. “The Attack On the New Unions,” by Norman Tallentire, assistant | secretary of the I. L. D., tells of the the employers against the new mili- tant unions, An article by Lenin on “Bourgeois Democracy,” illus- trated with photographs never be- fore published in America, is printed in the magazine to observe the fifth anniversary of Lenin’s death. There is an article by S, Millgrom on the fact that the I. L. D. has taken over | the defense of William Shifrin; an article by George Pershing on the Porter case; an article by Grace Hutchins on “Fighting Textile Wage Cuts”; and one by Vern Smith, of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker, on the Centralia Confer- ence recently held in Seattle. One of the most interesting arti- cles in the magazine is written by |reading a so-called Negro newspaper | | | | I saw a Negro worker in our plant during lunch hour. “Why don’t you | read a real Negro paper?” I said. “What's that?” he asked. | “The Daily Worker!” I said, and | I gave him a copy to take home. He came back the next day with his eyes popping and with a greeting | he donated for the fifth birthday of | the “Daily.” “I'm gonna see if I| can’t get more from my friends,” he | said. “Say, I didn’t know there could be such a paper in this bosses’ country!” ‘The socialist party endorses the robber Lengue of Nations, th e Kellogg pence pact and creates nt hed | ler capitalism. Down with these tors to the working clasal exposes the hellish conditions Moon- ey and other political prisoners are forced to endure there. Karl) Reeve, editor of the magazine, con- tributes an article on the “Third “An Inmate of San Quentin,” who Anniversary of the Labor Defender.” Greet TH oe Help E DAILY WORKER ‘ON ITS FIFTH BI SEND IN A DONATION SEND IN A GREETING 26-28 UNION SQUARE. a result of this pressure. “An? here is how, from the for- tunately peaceful solution of the RTHDAY Today "NEW YORK CITY. CROAT BOYCOTT | FORCES GABINET TO RESIGNATION Pacifists Surrender on Autonomy BELGRADE, Dec. ‘The prime minister of the Yugoslav govern- ment, “Father” Anton Koroshetz, re- signed today due to the cabinet crisis brought about by the boycott of the Belgrade government by the Croatian Peasant Party in tempcr- ary coalition with the Independent Democrats. The refusal of the Croatian depu- ties to participate in the Belgrade parliament ever since June 20 when five of their deputies were shot by government deputies, started the boycott. Bribing Leaders. It is believed that an attempt will be made éo win over the more con- servative democrats and the leader- ship of the Peasant Party by offer- ing them places in the new cabinet and agreeing to hold a general elec- tion for a new parliament. This has been made possible by the passive tactics of the Croatian officials, who now would agree to home rule for the provinces under the central jur- isdiction of the Belgrade govern- ment instead of the original de- mands for complete autonomy for the provinces. The declaration of martial law over Zagreb, capital of Croatia, by the Belgrade government and the appointment of a military governor over the province following the pro- test demonstrations in Zagreb on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Yugoslav kingdom, has led to the great resentment among the national minorities. Compromising. Following the death Raditch, the Croatian leader, Dr. Vladimir Matchek was made head of the party. While the 60 Croatian depu- ; ties were withheld from the Bel- grade parliament and attempted to set up a governing body of their own in Zagreb which was threatened by Yugoslav troops, the present adership, it is indicated, will be willing to compromise on home rule. The suppression of national min- orities in Jugoslavia grew in brutal- ity after the various provinces of the disintegrated Austria-Hungary of new kingdom. While the Serbs re- of BILL BOOK (A STORY OF DRAMA AND STRUGGLE OF DECADES) have been received by the Publication Will Start Edition of the Order your Copy Now $2.00 8 The Exclusive Rights to the Serial Publication HAYWOOD'S DAILY WORKER Subscribe to The Daily Worker! Rates Outside New York: $6.00 per year; $3.50 6 months; 19z8 These Indians Victim Fee ' s of Bosses’ Plunder Their lands by the unscrupulous business pirates of Wall Street, these Virginia Indians are Misguided by white lawyers, they are led from pillar to post in vain pleading n= ment of who are the protectors of the plunderers, These part of a delegation which appealed to Gov. Byrd of Virgi- 1 ally stolen destitute two are nia, a notorious of big business, WELSH MINERS STARVE LONDON, Dec. 30.—While mon- st and capitalist newspapers are yapping over the left lung of the king, 1,000,000 coai miners and their families are slowly starving to death in the Welsh coal fields. And the fault of this lies directly at the door of the general council of the trade union congress, which: betrayed the miners’ strike in 1926 and have gone »ver to the employers’ Mond-plan of iass collaboration, The Rhonnda Valley is an area de- vastated by British capitalists in the lass war they waged against the miners with the assistance of the Thomases, MacDonal Hickses and Purcells of the trade union congre The valley is full of emaciated, blocdless beings walking about in rags. 5 a Week. All a miner can get by working like a slave in the coal pits, is 29 shillings, or about $ a week. From this, families of five and more must live. This wage is for three | days work a week as there is no more than three d: to be had. So for the most it means a diet of bread, oleomargerine and weak tea, with a thin soup once a week, and nothing at all for a day or two each | week for hundreds of thousands. Through the natural beauty of the Welsh hills runs the Rhonnda Valley, and through the Rhonnda Valley run dingy narrow streets, | winding mile after mile between dull tained the hegemony in Belgrade, | the Croatians, Dalmatians, Slovenes | and Macedonians were ruthlessly oppressed. By far the most severe oppression fell upon the revolution- | | monarchy had been formed into the | ary workers and peasants and apon the uncompromising autonomists. With the Anniversary Daily Worker from your Newsdealer months, LENIN ON ORGANIZATION How the Bolshevik Party Was Formed; viks and Shop Nuclei; Menshe- Liquidation; Bourgeois Intellectuals; Opportunism; Party Unity; Democratic Cen- tralism and Party Discipline: | Historical Materialism vs. Bour- geois Idealism. NEW EDITION 75 CENTS Indispensable for every Communist. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 35 EAST 125TH STREET, NEW YORK | housekeeping. barren ornament. ks of the itable holes gray two-story stone hous of shrubber. othe Around the hi most depres not fit for wild animals. But these are the homes of the W. miners and their unfortunate families. Utter Pauperism. So poverty stricken are the mi: or ers that both the saloons and churches have closed down—beet and God are both too much of a ury. But what depth of pauper- sm has been reached can be under- stood when it is seen that even the most of the grocery stores, clothing shops and every kind of store als are locked up permanently. In the houses are so little furni- ture that one marvels how families can keep up the appearance of Thousands have no beds and sleep under old rags on the floor. Gas and electri are too expensive for the workers who dig Britain’s coal, so night is a weary scene of a few candles flick- ering in the gloom. Rags and Apathy. No one met has clothing that can be classified as anything but The majority have not had a new pair of shoes or a new piece of clothing in two years, But more ghastly is it to see the apathy and resignation to beggary by young and old, a moral decay settling like a pall over a popula- tion already dead but walking about pending internment. Growing chil- dren are stunted and pale. Insan- ity is growing. Not the End of the Story. British capitalists gloat over their work. The Trade Union Congress, which spends much time worrying about the sickness of empire trade, has no time for the Welsh miners. gr WHICH IS Remit to Daily Worker, 26-28 STREET .... CITY ccc ccccevccvccccsvccccncees Rates: $1.00 per name. All names —$——aees « Birthday Edition of the JANUARY 5, 1929 Page Three ard Strikers Fight On, Force Companies Into Tight Corner 50,000 WORKERS ARE WITH LEFT WING MOVEMENT To Continue Until the | Demands Are Met BERLIN, Dee. —The close’ of ear finds the 50,000 shipyard in Hamburg and in the Ger- orth Sea industry solidly out on strike after a walkout which has already lasted two months. The victory of the left wing in the rejection of the gov- ernme! arbitration award by a najority of 90 per cent, is consid- ered to be a decisive victory for the since tha shipowners are a tight corner due to on their ships. The will continue until their demands. yy the shipowners * on the state of their industry hes as its object to urge the gov- ernment to take steps to break or workers ieikies forced Publicity ‘ree a decision with the help of the refcrmi rs and the social- ats, done in the Ruhr luckout he North German announces that it will not be al le to use its two newest ships, launched in July, due to the close- down of the sheps and the inability of the strikebreaking agencies to force scab labor, The shipowners also have been forced to give up all repair work on their ships. The employers have also issued reports in which they try to malje it appear they are “having a hard time making the industry profft- tile,” with the chject in view to urge the reformist labor leaders to induce the men to give up their wage and hour demands. As @ matter of fact, figures show that the German merchant marine has grown considerably since the war, to a point where it is in direct competition with the British lines, the most powerful in the world. It s but a matter of a few years when the German lines will replace the United States as second place. They both think that Communism fs |“dead” in the Rhonnda Valley, |“Starved to death” they put it, But underneath it all is the explosive power of desperate masses which has caused more than one revolu- tion, and the Welsh miners have not yet written the end of their story., CUT OUT THIS BLANK ——$—$—$—$—$—$——————— Put Your Name on This List of ‘i GREETINGS! TO APPEAR Union Square, New York City SL TE RES TES TT COLLECTED BY: o must be turned in by December 29th, i J Vy