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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-02-07
Del alnbiente pOEtico

otra de las candidaturas que seran
presentadas en- la pr6xima Convention
que en- breve sera celebrada por eli
gran Partido Union de Puerto Rico en-
esta Capital
En- la noche del dia de aver un CRU
po de Unicnistas capacitados de esta
Capital, reunieronse en- una asamblea
Y despues de haber discutido amplia-
rlente la politica Local en- todos sus
detalles, acordaron defender en- la
pr6xima Convention la siguiente can
didatura para Ell Gobierno Municipal.
Para compromisarios:
Joss Ruiz soler.
Joaquin Lopez Cruz.
jose r.. va2quez.
Lcdo. Ortiz Alihran.
Emilio Navas.
Antonio Pacheco.
Juan Diez de Andino.
Manuel vaides y
Rafael Carlos Pujal.
Para ell Comite Local:
F. Wal Espinosa.
Juan Pcdrosa.
Emilio Diaz.
Tomas Lamela.
Martin Costoso.
Bernardo Cruz.
Ramon Lebr6n.
Eduardo Urrutia.
Jose Aldeas Bigil.
Para Asamblea Municipal:
Lcdo. Eduardo Acufia..
I,cdo. Luis Mu1oz Morales.
Lcdo. Roman Diaz COLLAGE.
Julio Correa.
Ramon Carvia.
Evangelista Calderon.
Lcdo. Sancho Bonet Y
Para Consejo de Administrator:
comisionado de Servicio P1blico, Ra
fael Diez de Andino.
Comisionado Hacienda, Abelardo
Gonzalez Fonts.
Com1isionaao obras Publicas, Pedro
Vierda.
Comisionado Educaci6n jose Con-
zalez Ginorio.
Comisionado Benefcencia, DR.. Yor-
dan.
Secretario Municipal, Luis Cintron.
Representante a la Camara.
Distrito No. l, Jose de JESUS Tizol.
Distrito No. 2. Juan Pedrosa.
Esta es la candidatura que Sc pro-
ponen defender en- la convention los
amigos que celebraron la indicada reu-
nifn como una candidatura ideal y que
AFRICAN la esperanza de que Ia han
de sacar triunfante, para bien be-
nefcio de la comunidad.
FL electorado de esta Municipalidad
queda ahora en- libertad de aquilatar
los m6ritos de todas y cada una de las
diferentes candidaturas presentadas
hasta Ell presente.
CoNcURRENTE.
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conducir en- cada viaje de Is 80 per
sonas. ns -rf
Ell Duraluminio es un nuevo metal
tan duro como el acero menos pesa-
do que el aluninio ~ i99
Antes de que termine Ell invierno
habra en- cperaci6n un aparato de es-
ia clase entire Puerto Rico y Cuba con
una capacidad para seis pasajeros.
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bajo rudo, la pobreza y humildad.
Gloria los humildes que asi elevan
la miseria hurnana y Sc rodean de M
nimbo de luz gloriosa siendo antitcsis
sublime de los que usan 81 hablan de
la hipocresia y adulacion.
Maria DOLORES POLO.
santurce. encro 90, 1924.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-02-07
COMMUNICATION AEREA ENTIRE
CUBA Y PUERTO RICO

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Teapot and the Colonies

The colonial benefciaries of American I'M
perialsm, on whom our soldiery ana house "a
MORGAN spokesmen have been urging govern
mental reforms based on the American plan'
are convulsed with laughter these days. !,
Uncle Sam, self-appointed guardian OF Jne
morals of backward peoples, has been caught
in an illicit alliance with highly questionable
characters-oily footsteps have been dlscov-
cred leading to his bedroom-and from one
end of the Western hemisphere to the other
brown faces are crinkled with smiles
This is source of great embarrassment TO
our best people and Congressman Fred A.
Britten, of Illinois, recently returned from
Cuba, gives tongue In protest. :,
Suggestions for political changes In CUBA,
saws Mr.. Britten, "are met with cartoons OF
Uncle Sam smeared with muck, mud and oil
and labeled, why not clean your own mouse
frst?'" Mr. Britten quite rightly ascrloes TINS
cockv attitude on the part of the proteges OF
the sugar trust to what he calls ''the hysterical
investigations" now being conducted In the
senate.
There may be some hysteria in connection
with the Investigations now under way, but 1t
is manifested mostly by the persons and inter-
ests whose misdeeds have been disclosed and
Mr. Brittens testimony is the best evidence OF
the fact that not only at home, but turnout tne
territories of small nations conquered by the
armed forces Of American oil, sugar, steel and
finance-capital there is a rising wave OF dis,
content and resentment against oppression and
exploitation by American capital.
Perhaps the workers of Cuba, Haiti, the
Philippines, Mexico and South America will
learn the lesson of Teapot Dome before the
American workers. If they learn it together
in the same hard school so much the better for
them and so much the worse for American
capitalism.
Will not some other scandalized and indig-
nant funkey of the oil-lords gladden. us with
tidings of occurrences similar to those in Cuba
from other mortgage holdings of the American
rulers?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
The Role of McAdoo - BAY z9zzs59zz
By JAY LOvESTONE

Of the state. Consequently, it is OBJ
vious that liberals of the McAdoo
and Wilson stripe and social-patriots
Of the Ebert kidney become the best
statesmen and saviors of capitalist
world Imperialism. Hence it is per-
fectly easy to understand how it
comes about that oil, steel, and finan-
clay capital should have chosen Mr..
McAdoo, the idol Of one of the skill
ed, upper layers of our working
class. the railway men, to do their
bidding against the whole mass of
appropriated workers and farmers.
In the role of rendering the most
invaluable service to the imperialists
that is, in the role of binding the
workers to the character of the gov
ernment-no one could have served
the exploiting class better than, or
even as we'll as did Mr.. McAdoo, the
Crown Prince of the regime Of the
liberal Wilson.
And nothing could have dramatized
more wildly and brought into holder
relief the exit of McAdoo and the
Gripping of McAdooism in the imme-
date political struggles of the work
ers than his exposure as the loyal
servant of that most unhoiy trinity OF
the capitalist dictatorship-oil, steel,
and finance capital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Helpless Readers

The concentration of ownership and the CEN
tralization of control in capitalist industry is
proceeding apace. There is not an industry
immune from this natural trend of develop
ment digging the grave of the competitive
system.
Today, the dispensing of news, the news
paper industry, is conducted, like all other in
dustries, on the commodity basis by individual
capitalists for sale and private profit. The
great mass of the workers and farmers, the
readers of the newspapers, are as helpless be-
fore the owners of the dailies they are at the
mercy of the owners of the means of produc-
ton and exchange. The worker-reader has
nothing to say as to who should dispense the
news and how events should be interpreted.
The workingman is confronted with an ac-
complished fact in his morning, afternoon or
evening newspaper, controlled by the capital
list class which exploits him.
The classification of the newspaper industry
tends to secure the ruling class firmer grip
on the minds of the working masses. Within
the last few years this tendency has been pain
fully evident in New York City. First, the SUN,
which was once run by Dana, was exter-
minated. The PRESS was buried next. The
GLOBE, the oldest American newspaper, fol-
lowed in quick order. The EVENING MAIL
was swallowed short time afterward. Then
there was signed the death-warrant for the
TELEGRAM. A few days ago formal obsequy
was held over the HERALD, which merged
with the NEW YORK TRIBUNE. Munsey has
been the assassin and undertaken of these
dailes.
The ease with which the capitalist owners
dispose of and dominate so vital a necessity of
the working class as the daily news should sci
the workers and farmers to thinking and do
ing. Slavery is not distant when the vital
sources of mental and physical development
needed by the many are monopolized by the
few. The best answer to and the most effective
way of dealing with this menace lies in the
building-up of powerful farmer and labor
press.
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cerned with, but the fact that his
being unmasked as an agent of the
biggest business interests is, to a
tremendous extent, precipitating the
collapse of liberalism in our political
conflicts.
Whoever falls into oil today, falls
into bad odor. Anyone who pours oil
on his political waters is bound to
raise a devastating storm for him,
self. 1t is not difficult to understand
the hasty retreat that the McAdoo
forces are now beating.
Steel is supposed to be king today.
1t is often said that this is the steel
age and our culture is steel culture.
McAdoo, the liberal pretender, has
been found to serve the steel in
terests.
Finance capital, thru its merger,
with industrial capital, is the car
of our capitalist system Of produc-
ton and exchange. AS Secretary
of the Treasury, Mr.. McAdoo turned
over the Federal Reserve Board
which is the heart of our circulatory
system of commodity exchange to-
day, to such powerful banking and
manufacturing groups of Kuhn, Loeb
& Co.; J. G. w. Seligman and Co.,
and the international Harvester
Trust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

No one can yet tell how many
political futures viii crash and how
many mighty careers will tumble as
a result of the Teapot disclosures.
But if nothing else is achieved by
the investigation in its coming la
bors, it has already caused irrepar-
able loss to one of the most harmful
forces in American working class
political life. Aside from shedding
welcome light on the true nature and
role of our government, the oil reve-
lations have dealt a mortal blow to
that last gasp Of American liberal
ism, to that half-hearted, weak ges-
ture of the last episode in our liberal
ism as exemplifed by the first Wilson
administration.
The exit Of Mr.. McAdoo from the
arena of national politics is signifi-
cant not so much because one of the
strongest figures has been removed
from the scene of struggle but be-
cause that most poisonous toxin of
sham liberalism, as personified by
McAdoo, has been fatally impaired
as a decisive force for misleading
the workers.
McAdoo Served Oil and Steel.
1t is not the exit of Mr.. McAdoo
as an individual that history is cor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
The Madir of Democracy

The zenith of our capitalist democracy, OF
our employing class centralized governmental
power over the workers and farmers, IS In the
Department of Justice, with its mighty army
of detectives, spies, marshals and nondescrlpt
The nadir of capitalist corruption attendant
to the exercise of this tyrannical rule over the
exploited masses in behalf Of the financial and
industrial powers that be, rests in the same
Department of Justice
It is natural that Attorney General Daugh-
erty, who is the link between the White House
and the Stock Exchange, who symbollzes the
apex, the height of capitalist dictatorship
should also embody all the crookedness, cor
ruption and bribery flowing out of the disease
breeding cesspool of government by and for
the bosses.
The indictment brought against Daugherty
by the Wheeler Committee is too formidable
to be thwarted even by the complicated tech
nicalities of employing class courts. In the
Teapot exposure FALL Doheny, Sinclair, Nc
Adoo, and DENLY were concerned only IN one
line of the political holdup professional. But
Daugherty's dirty business and thievery
branches out into all directions.
The facts adduced to date in the unmasking
of the Department of Justice are without paral-
lei in our history, which is replete with such
instances of sinister domination of government
by Big Business. Daugherty would make
Mark Hanna, the first apostle of American
imperialism, blush with shame The Teapot
scandal is as white as the first fallen snow
compared with the Daugherty regime. The
very witnesses called in the Daugherty inves-
tigation reflect the depths of depravity and
degradation to which capitalist democracy in
evitably sinks.
On the front-door steps of the Attorney
Generals chambers there rest liquor scandal
film conspiracy, espionage over political
opponents, and worst of all, the organization
of band of underworld gangmen and stool
pigeons to disrupt the labor organizations anc
smash their strikes.
Stern, swift action must be taken to put ar
end to Daughertyism. The workers and dis
possessed farmers are the ones who suffer mos
from the Daughertys and Burnses. The work
ing and farming masses alone have the courage
to uproot this nefarious evil. Every labor or
ganization, every farm organization, every loca
union and central labor body is face to face
with an urgent, a most pressing duty to make
itself heard in unmistakable terms on Daugh
ertyism. Burns and Daugherty must be kicked
out of office and thrown behind the bars. They
are the dark symbols of menace-the capital
list system of industry and government-tha
is gnawing at the very vitals of the labor anC
farmers movement the country over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
''The Life of John Brown"

some field, as he made a surveyor
of himself by home study. He
also read passionately, he says,
the lives Of great, COOL and wise
men; their sayings and writings;
the school Of biography that seems
to have nurtnred so many great
men. John Brown nj er went to
school after his childhood; but he
became an expert surveyor, he
learned the fine points Of cattle
breeding and tanning, he was
students Of astronomy, he knew
the Bible almost by heart, he
studied military tactics later in
life. he was familiar with the lives
and times of most Of the great
leaders of mankind, and best Of
all, he knew how to stir men to
great deeds, and lead them in the
battle.
Great men do not need to own
a college diploma; they teach
themselves, they are taught by
life.
How meaningless college de-
grees would sound II attached
after the names Of Brutus, Peri
cles, Socrates, Caius Gracious,
Buddha, Jesus. Wat Tyler, Jeffer-
son, Danton, William Lloyd Gar
rison
AS for instance: Jesus Christ,
ID. D.; Robert Burns. NJ. A. Vic
tor Hugo, B. s.; John Brown,
Phi. d.! How superfuous the
titles Of mans universities, when
Life has crowned the STUDENT with
real and greener laurelsl Yes,
there are many things not taught
in the collegesl
ITO Be Continued Wednesday,
(The Growth Of an Additionally
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

To the political innocents at home
and abroad it might appear paradox
ical that the oil, steel, and banking
interests should put their trust in a
liberal phrase-monger like McAdoo.
We find it easy to explain this seem
ing contradiction. In the final stage
of capitalism, the stage of imperial
ism, the role Of liberalism and civil
peace, the role of class cooperation
lists and industrial democracy schem-
ers, in the class struggles, is to serve
as the handmade Of the uppermost
crust of the financial and industrial
class in its perpetuation Of the vilest
outrages against the masses. Thus
it was that many liberal apologists
of individual enterprise and cabinet
social-democrats become the widest
Chauvinists and miiitarists during
the war.
Under capitalist-imperialism the
class conflicts between the employers
and the workers invariably draw in
the state-the government in all its
numerous qualifications. The state,
posing as an arbiter, pretending to
act in the interest of all society and
above any of the contending classes,
serves as a political, social and eco.
nomic strike-breaking agency
Particularly in such conditions it is
necessary to hide the class character
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

have to employ methods Of struggle
such as the master class win not hest
tate to employ against the workers.
The Communists were terrible peo-
pie, said these peace-loving gentle-
men, because they actually approved
Of, and applauded, the Russian Red
Army. And now they find themselves
in the highly uncomfortable position
Of having to approve the war-like
plans of their own lily-white pacifst
leader, Macdonald! 1t is somewhat
.nauseating spectacle.
Undoubtedly, however, this cruiser
project will provoke resentment and
protest among the more proletarian
elements of the labor party. In fact,
this has already become apparent,
and protests are coming in from
many sections. In my next letter, /
shall be better enabled to give an
estimate of the extent of the dis,
satisfaction among the rank and file
of the Labor Party.
Why Not Merchant Ships.
MacDonald's plea, Of course, was
that the building of the cruisers
would provide employment for the
ship-building workers. This is true;
but it would have been just as easy
for a government, which was really
proIetarian, to build up-to-date mer-
chant vessels, and to organize a gov
eminent shipping service, in the d.
rection of which the organized work.
ers would also have a part. There
are hundreds of ships in the present
merchant service which are old, in
efficient and dangerous. These could
have been replaced. But, really, Mr..
/ Macdonald probably thought we
should need the new cruisers for In
dia, the population of which land re-
fuses to remain quiet even under the
beneficient rule Of labor govern
ment.
India and the Labor Government.
And this brings me to the speech
of Lord Olivier, the Secretary of
State for India. Sidney Olivier is a
civil servant of many years standing,
and had attained high rank in the
government service. He was one of
the original members of the Fabian
Society, the secretarial chair of which
he once occupied. He has been gov.
i ernor of Jamaica. He has been ele.
waited to the peerage by the labor
government.
Lord Olivier's speech was Of sucf
a character that even the tickle, vacil
lating and rather old-maidish writer
Of the 'Daily Herald" editorials was
compelled to protest. Not thai
Olivier should have made any specia
concessions, said the "Daily Herald
; leader-writer, but his tone might have
been kindlier. mo one expected o.
wanted him to make any drastic
change" says the writer of the edi
} torial. This is perhaps true of som'
: people, but he SENS to forget tn,
: nearly four hundred millions of tn
population of India, who would very
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

their various ports and presented the
terms to the men at mass meetings.
All ports, with the exception Of two,
voted to accept the terms 1t must
be remembered, however, that the
national leaders urged the delegates
to appeal to the mass meetings to
accept the terms. So they did not
return to place the matter impartial
ly before the rank and file, but as
special pleaders.
However, despite the fact that all
demands were not Immediately con-
coded, this may be reckoned as VIC
tory. And it is the first victory of
any section of British labor for a
long, hard time. 1t should instill the
rest of the organized labor movement
with new courage and aggressiveness.
Now is the time to sohdify and ex-
tend the left-wing minority move
ment within the longshoremen's or
ganization, so far as to be ready to
press the matter Of decentralization
Our Labor Government.
1t is quite certain that the speedy
settlement of the lockers strike was
partly due to tremendous private
pressure exerted by the government
on the lockers leaders. During the
strike, it was stated in the press that,
in order to ensure the transportation
of goods, the government was max
ing the necessary preparations" This
can be understood in no other way
than that they were preparing to
adopt the strike-breaking methods
rendered familiar by Lloyd George.
And the British Fascist were also
organizing their special emergency
corps of transport scabs. Thus, it
might have been-had the strike
gone on-that we should have had
the admirable and edifying spectacle
of seeing Mr.. Macdonald co-operat-
ing with the 'loyal" technical corps.
Some excitement in labor ranks
has been caused by the government
announcement of it's plans to con-
lstruct five new naval cruisers. These
are to be cruisers of the County
| type, especially adapted to long
cruises. In other words, they are to
be the messengers of British Imperi-
alism, in the far seas. They are to
ulSpldce JyOOO IOHS. 1nlS Is q D6du-
tiful evasion of the terms of the
Washington disarmament conference
decisions which forbade an increase
in cruisers of 10000 tonsl
Paci6sts In Warrior Role.
Not all the members Of the Labor
Party could swallow this scheme, and
: a rift is visible between the labor
. politicians who stand more to the
right, and those who have a certain
, proletarian bias. But it is especially
painful to watch the contortions o.
: the I. L. P. Pacifsts, the gentlemen
who have poured voluminous vituper
: alton upon the Communists because
t they believed that, under certain cir
, cumstances, when the situation be
o comes revolutionary, the workers will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Thru Wrong Spectacles

The contest for the senatorial nomination
now being waged in the republican party Oh
Illinois is of first-rate interest to the workers
and farmers of the entire country. This IS
true, not because there is any doubt as to the
outcome of the contest, or because the COM
netition in the primaries is so keen.
There is no doubt that the present Senator
Medill Mccormick of Harvester Trust tame
the gentleman who has condoned and upheld
the outrageous Wall Street invasion OF HAITI,
and whose whole record in Washington is one
of unfaltering service to the biggest capitalist
interests, will win the nomination on April otn.
But the significant fact is that some trade
union leaders, with the frank support OF the
insurgent bloc in Washington are attempting
to wage plainly hopeless fight in the reac-
tionary republican party of the state.
If LaFollette refused to play this game in
North Dakota, state which has been his I'M
pregnable stronghold for many years, why
should the progressive forces waste their time
and get into a hopeless contest against so
powerful capitalist machine as the republl-
can party of Illinois?
The forces fighting to put over Newton
Jenkins against Mccormick or Deneen in the
republican party of the state are off on the
wrong foot. They are looking at things thru
the wrong spectacles. The republican party
cannot possibly afford the working masses a
chance for effective political action against the
big business interests now SJrangllng the coun-
try, politically and economically. Instead of
spending energy in useless demoralizing fights
in the house of the enemy, the labor forces
should rather devote this time and energy in
building up their own house, their own polit-
ical machinery. Now is the time to build up a
powerful farmer-labor party, speaking solely
for the working masses Of the city and farm
and committed to waging relentless fight or
the capitalist exploiters of the workers and
farmers.
Uncle Sam is getting little bit stouter and
more determined with each passing year
While his whiskers are gray, he has plenty Of
vigor, judging by the manner in which he
hauls a professor with peaceful inclination'
before an American flag and demands that he
teach patriotism" 1t appears "Uncle" il
getting along very nicely on an oil diet.