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Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-11

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Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-11
The Chinese Civil War
 and What It's All About

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. H. What's it all about"
 This question is asked by the av- craze newspaper reader who glances casually at an occasional front page account of the civil war in China. For the benefit of those who are not students of Far Eastern affairs ,the following explanatory digest, as gleaned from the various news re- ports of the Chinese situation is giv- en:
 China, with it's more than 100000 900 population, has been in more or less chaotic state since the over throw of the Manchu dynasty in the year 1911 and the formation of the Chinese republic. Chinese presidents have come and gone, the country has been divided into warning fac tions headed by "tuchuns,' or mili tary provincial governors, and a large percentage of the population has been constantly under arms.
 General Chang Tso-Lin and Gen. eral Wu Pei-Fu, former friends but now bitter enemies, are the two out standing figures in the current con- troversy. These two leaders joined forces in 1920 to overthrow the fa- nous Anfu club, a monarchist or ganization which threatened the new government. With Tsao Kun, the last Chinese president, then inspec- tor general of Chih, General Chang became the controlling power in Pe- king.
 General Wu permitted things to continue until 1922, when, declaring Chang was establishing military dictatorship in the capital, he drove the latter back into Manchuria. Chang began at once to build up an army, manufacture munitions and have his officers trained in modern military tactics. For two years China has expected renewal of hostilities be- tween the two militarists.
 Two somewhat inconspicuous tu- chuns "started the fireworks" In the latter part of last August, General Chi Shieh-yuan, military governor of Kiangsu apparently with the ap- proval of Tsao Kun, attacked the forces of General Lu Yung-Hsiang, the Chekiang military governor in aid of General Wu Pei-Fu's forces, finally took that city.
 In the meantime, General Wu de- cided it was time to eliminate Chang Tso-Lin and thus bring about a re- unification of China. General Chang, the Manchurian "war-lord," decided at about the same time that General Wu should be eliminated. So Chang declared war against the Peking forces and started his army toward Chihli. He met Wu's troops outside the great wall and fighting con- tinued for several weeks over a front of many miles. The most sanguinary battles took place not far from Shanhaikwan, near the eastern border of Chihli.
 With verying reports of successes coming from the headquarters of both leaders, Feng Yu-Hsiang, known as the Christian General" recently hurled a bombshell into the controversy by appearing at Peking with his troops and announcing that Tsao Kun must resign as president, General Wu be banished to Tibet and peace made with Chang Tso-Lin.
 General Feng, with the postpaid and best-equipped troops of the Chihli forces, had been sent to the front to hold back Chang's brig
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TAXES HIT MOTORS
AUTOlSTS PAY EIGHT SEPA- RATE TAXES IN VARIOUS
 STATES OF UNION

SEATTLE, Dec. 1.-The motorist is the most taxed of any class of tax payers in this country, paying eight separate taxes in various states of the Union. These consist of opera tors license fee, motor registration fee, gasoline tax ranging from one to three cents a gallon road tax, per- sonal property tax, federal income tax, state income tax, and federal excise tax.
 The autoist on a touring trip does not get off as easily as he used to years ago. Now every state has a special way of prying money out of him.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-11
GOVERNOR CANCELS JAP
 CONCESSIONS LOWER CALF.

MEXICALI, Lower California, Dec. 11.-Gov. A. Roderiguez of the north ern district of Lower California, an- nounced here today that he had can- celled all of the extensive fishing con- sessions held by Japan on the coasts of Lower California
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Classified Advertising

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
Reaping the WhirLwind

Mrs. Rosalie Evans, an American citizen by birth
and British subject thru marriage has just met
with death in Mexico.
This incident may bring about a situation
fraught with great dangers for the struggling Next
can republic. The death of Mrs. Evans will I'M
doubtedly be seized upon by the British imperiast
government as further cause for demanding that
the International Bankers Committee tighten up
on Mexico Our own capitalists, being close part
nership with the English fnanciers in Europe, may
yield to such pressure
For some time Mrs. Evans, who was a wealthy
landowner in Mexico, was resisting the supreme
law of the land Mrs. Evans was violating the
Mexican constitutional provision as to land. Mrs.
Evans refused to carry out the law which provided
for turning over to the workers of the land all acre
age over the fixed limits. More than that, Mrs
Evans totally disregarded all the provisions of the
constitution dealing with working conditions.
1t is this fragrant disregard of the highest law
of the Mexican Republic that proved a source Of
serious difficulties for Mrs. Evans. AS matter
of fact, Mrs Evans even went so far as to hire
private armed men to defend her hacienda and
herself in the violation of the constitution. Under
such circumstances, with Mrs. Evans waging pri-
waite war against the Mexican workers and the cons
stitution of the republic it was inevitable that
serious consequences should ensue. Mrs. Evans is
simply reaping the whirlwind she herself has sown
For scores of years the Mexican working and
farming masses have been giving away their lives
and spilling their best blood on account of the
manipulations of the foreign and native capitalist
exploiters and landowners After ten years of
continuous revolution the masses forced the adop-
ton of certain constitutional provisions guarantee
ing them few elemental rights. Mrs. Evans was
attempting to rob the workers and poems Of Mexico
of these hard-earned elementary rights.
The numerous years Of boodshed for the Mexican
masses has never brought wall from our imperial
list kept press. These defenders of the capitalist
faith cry only when the profit system, when an
exploiter is in danger or meets with defeat and
disaster.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
The American Okhrana

The Civil Liberties Union has done a service by
issuing pamphlet exposing the enormous growth
of the governments secret political police This
arm of the capitalist dictatorship goes under the
name of the Bureau of Investigation of the De
partment of Justice.
This bureau did not exist until 1908. Nothing
challenged capitalist rule They didn't need it.
But in 1924 it confesses to employ 700 spies en-
gagged in spying labor unions workers political
parties and radicals of any real or pretended
sort. If union arises in his local meeting
and speaks against capitalist profits the fact is
duly entered on a card in Washington. The graft
has been goods Nearly six times as much money is
being spent this year than ten years ago. This
years. bill will be $2,2S3S63
The excuse given that these huge sums are to
"catch criminals falls fiat. There has been only
six and twotenths per cent increase in cases prose-
cuted in the last ten years in federal courts and
actually less convictions obtained. But six times
the money is used.
Aside from the card file of 100000 workers and
radicals" the government illegally used money to
practically bride state and local officials to "raid
the reds" and try them for criminal syndicalism,
as in Michigan. Upon occasion its agents commit
crimes and cinch their jobs searching for the
criminals"
In foreword the Civil Liberties Union hope.
fully states, "It looks like this spy system was
about to be rooted out by the new Attorney
General, Harlan f. Stone" PiffIe! Do you think
the capitalist dictatorship is going to throw away
all those nice cards with our names and dongs
recorded, And abandon the system? We know
all will be on hand in pinch with new dope
and dopesters.
If we had no other evidence we would merely
take the fact that before the Bolshevk revolution
in 1917, investigation" cost Uncle Sam only $617,
534, but after the Soviets seized power IN Russia
in the name Of the world proletariat, it needed
81, 74S,226 to Investigate" in 1918. And the sum
since has been rising, just as has the Soviet
menace"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
The Flag Follows Oil

By virtue of the American governments grab
bling another strip of land from the weak republic
of Panama the area of the United States is now
larger by twenty-five miles.
The announcement of this land-grab given
practically no publicity by the press. Even the
financial papers saw fit to give very little publicity
to this incident Following the terms of the treaty
of February g. 1904 and in the path of the revolu
ton engineered in Panama by Roosevelt, President
Coolidge went ahead and issued an executive order
adding this territory to the Canal Zone.
Why the secrecy about this sudden awakening
as to this need for more land in the Canal Zone?
Merely to put this question is to answer it. Re-
cent months have seen several big American oil
firms acquiring an extensive acreage of land in
Panama These companies are drilling for oil. 1t
is said that this little republic has large oil tracts
of high merit.
The steal just perpetrated by the President Of
the United States is of twofold import CONNER
cially it would be of tremendous advantage to the
American capitalists to have oil cDse at hand in
Panama. Such oil will be particularly economical
in supplying fuel for the steamships passing thru
the Canal. The establishment of American re-
fneries on the west coast of South and Central
America will be of invaluable aid to Yankee bust
ness men in their transactions with the Latin
American countries.
Then there is the military and naval advantage
that will accrue to the United States from this
land grab In time of war American military
forces stationed at the Canal would not be i'm
perilled by the possible misfortune that might
overcome tankers bringing them fuel from the
outside Oil within the pipeline reach of the Canal
Zone will release for her the warship convoy that
would be necessary for the protection of these
tankers.
The American flag is beginning to drip oil from
every one of its corners, from every fringe and
thread of it's fabric in Persia, in Sakhalien, in
Venezuela, in the and far east and in Panama.
The Sinclair Consolidated owns more than mil
lion and quarter acres here. The Gulf Oil Co.,
the Texas Co.. and the Standard Oil of California
also own great acres of oil land in the Darien
region Of Panama. The Royal Dutch Shell is here
to contest their inroads. Now the American flag
is here, following the Yankee oil prospecters and
warning the British interests to get out. Our flag
does follow oil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
The AngLo-Russian Break

It is significant that the key question over which
the reported breakdown of Anglo Russian negotia-
lions took place was the demand of the "labor"
government of imperialist Britain that the Work
ers' Soviet Republic its right to national
ize the industries in Russia which had been COB
bled up by foreign capitalists during the Czarist
tyranny. Comrade G. Rakovsky of the Soviet
delegation fatty rejected this insulting trespass on
Soviet sovereignty.
At the same time it is announced that the "rad-
ical socialist" Premier Herriot, of France, "is
known to have become lukewarm recently toward
Russian negotiations" The Wall Street press
slyly notes that Morgan's whiskered messenger
boy Secretary Hughes, beat the Soviet ennis
sary, Comrade Kameneff, to Paris.
Hughes is bludgeoning Europe into line for Nor
gan The prize spokesman of American imperial
ism, the Neo York Times, goats over the end of
american isolation" and gleefuly remarks that
however unofficial" is the visit of Secretary
Hughes to the capitols Of Europe, "all Europe is
thanking God Tread, thank Morgan) while Amer
lea Tread, Morgan) stands by openly rejoicing"
1t adds hopefully that now ''we" are in Europe,
we soon will be in the League of Nations.
"Wev are in Europe! In Europe to stop the
westward course of Bolshevism. Hughes frankly
acknowledges that if Europe wants American
help it must fight Bolshevism. The Macdonald in
suit and the Herriot '1ukewarmness" toward the
Soviets are the result If Hughes do so, it will
be again the inhuman blockade, Vorovsky assas-
sinations, '1ibertarian' GttentGts within Russia
and, perhaps, war against the first Workers and
Farmers Republic. War marches on the heels of
Hughes
In this conflict between American imperialism
and Leninism, the revolutionary workers of Amer
lea stand behind Trotsky in his challenge to the
expansion of murderous Morgansm. And Hughes,
he is so little welcomed as the Savior of Europe"
that in Berlin he dares not go upon the street ex
cept under heavy guard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07

Whatever of apprehension bust
ness men the country over have been
experiencing, because of the political
outlook, can now be dismissed. The
nomination OF John w. Davis has, we
believe, restored to the commercial
and financial world that feeling Of
confidence in the future which is so
necessary for the free and untram-
meled progress of what we all know
under the general head of business"
The National Republican
Even the National Republican, the
official mouthpiece of the most reac-
tionary section Of the Republican
party, could not desist from praising
Mr.. Davis. In its issue of July 18th
1t declared:
John w. Davis Of West Virginia,
is perhaps second in ability to no
public man of the period. A. scholar
and gentleman of high personal char
acter, wide and successful experience
in public affairs and of proven capa-
city in his profession and in public
life, his fortuitous nomination by a
convention worn out with fruitless
effort to nominate someone else, puts
at the forefront Of the Democratic
campaign the most creditable candi-
date, personally, perhaps, who has
carried the standard of his party since
the Civil War.
John w. Davis is a man of great
ability and high character, who if
elected. would make a capable pre-.
sident."
Barron's Weekly
Mr.. c. w. Barron, the editor of this
national financial weekly, appearing
in New York, Boston, and Philadel-
phia, was rather generous in his
opinions of Mr.. Davis, as can be seen
from the following excerpt from an
article of his appearing in his organ
under date of July 21st, and purport-
ing to be summary Of the views
held in financial circles:
"Mr. Davis stands very high as a
lawyer and adviser in the financial,
the business, and the political world.
Indeed he is ranked by certain of his
admirers along with Choate and Root
He is sound in every way as a man
and professionally, and the wonder
is that he could come forth as presi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07

fined in prison, we appeal to you, our
brothers; we appeal to your class-con-
seriousness, your class might, your in
ternational solidarity; we ask: Do
something in our behalf! We no long
er have any faith in the amnesty hum
bug of our diet, we do not expect any
mercy nor pity from our class enc
mics, and we do not appeal to them
But you, comrades, you can help us,
you can at least alleviate a little the
unfortunate fate of us and the en-
tire oppressed and enslaved Finnish
proletariat. You can at least brand
the white executioners of Finland
with the burning mark of shame, you
can have them despised before the en-
tire civilized world, you can show the
foreign representatives of our coun-
try that the world does not consider
Finland a civilized state. With the
aid OF an economic boycott you can
compel Finland to free It's political
prisoners and cease its political op'
preston. You can save us and again
show in a practical way the gigantic
power of the united forces of labor.
comradesI 6rothersI
Do not allow our cry to echo in
vain, do not consider this Indifferent
ly and allow the working class Of Fin
land to sink down into deeper slavery,
do not betray the hofy commandment
of class brotherhood Act, brothers,
act, and you shall receive the undivid-
ed gratefulness of the entire working
class of Finland! Trusting in you.
we shall keep up our fighting spirit
even in these prison hells, and we ex-
tend you our hand in firm brother
hood thru our prison bars.
Down with the butcher execution
ers of Finland!
Long live the international broth
erhood of labor!
Long live the firm unyielding class
struggle!
Long live the Soviet Republic Of
the Workers of the World!
Tammisaari Institution Of Penal
Servitude, June. 1924.
Political Prisoners of Butcher Fin
land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
PROSPERITY is
DOWN AT HEELS
IN GALS STATE
100000 Fewer Jobs
Than Last Year

BOSTON, Aug 0.-The prolonged
depression in Massachusetts indus
tries which began in March, 1923, con-
tinued thru June, 1924, bringing en-
ployment to a level 1877 per cent be-
low June, 1928, and 1922 per cent be-
low the high mark of last year. Ap-
proximately 10000 factory workers
who had job in March, 1878, are out
of work today.
The average weekly pay has also
been shrinking. In June it amounted
to $22.79 as compared with $23.10 in
May and S24.72 year ago. Approx
mately $4,O00,00O has been cut from
the weekly pay of factory workers in
the state, nearly rs per cent.
In June as compared with May
there were decreases in the number
employed in q of the SO industries.
Compared with year ago every one
of the major industries shows a
marked decrease in the number on
payroll In the number fell off more
than 20 per cent: cotton 264 per cent,
boots and shoes 31.5 per cent, foun-
dries and machine shops 1923 per
cent, rubber products 34.4 per cent
and electrical machinery and appara-
tus 2S.4 per cent.
Only 2S.2 per cent Of the manufac-
turing establishments were operating
full-time full-capacity during the
month. In the shoe industry only 10
out of 121 plants were operating nor
mally, in the cotton goods 6 out Of
As and in wooden goods out Of 3S.
Brockton had only Of "a plants op-
Grating normally, Haverhill of "a,
Holyoke / of IL, Lynn Of 33, New
Bedford A of 2S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
What Wall Street Thinks of Davis

| end and heaves a sigh of relief that
he choice of candidate fell to one
not likely to indulge in rampages for
regulation If his campaign for cleo
ton should prove successful. Whether
this is the herald of the early APP
proach of the long hoped-for upturn in
business, or not, it marks the pas
sing of what, in some quarters, has
been regarded as one of the obstacles
in the path of business resumption"
The New York Commercial
This Oldest of our financial news
papers, which prides itself on being
called 1.-The National Business News
paper" made the following observa-
tions of the Democratic nominee in it's
issue of July 10th:
I'm nominating John w. Davis for
the Presidency, the Democratic Party
has assured the country that 1t has
neither trade nor parley with that
species of radicalism which has
acclaimed itself progressive" while
it is really destructive.
"Mr. Davis is sane, normal, intel
ligent, capable, efficient, and exper-
fenced. He stands with his feet on the
ground, not with his head in the
clouds. He has a knowledge of the
needs of the country and his record
as diplomat in the Court of st.
James proves him a wise man so far
as the nations foreign relationships
are concerned.
"Mr. Davis, like Mr.. Coolidge, is
entirely competent to fiji the great
office of President of the. United
States. In the election of either man
the country has nothing to fear. 1t is
inconceivable that selfish blocs or
associations should, in the mad pur-
suit Of government aid, get any en-
couragement in the White House,
when it is tenanted by either Coolidge
or Davis-and since one of the two is
to be chosen at the polls in November,
it is something of a pleasure to give
that assurance to Commercial readers.
1.-THE outcome Of the long drawn-out
strife of the convention in Madison
Square Garden is encouraging. If Mr..
Davis does not amalgamate all sane
divisions of his party it will not be
because he is not all right but the
other way around.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07

Dental candidate from such a con.
vention as that which for so many
days held the attention and something
Of the interest of the American people.
Nobody can question the standing
of Davis. He stands for stalwart
Americanism. The Democratic party
made it's best possible play to redeem
the convention fiasco by naming such
a man."
St. Louis Liberty Central Trust Co.
Monthly Review
President j. l.. Johnston, of the Ii
berty Central Trust Company of st.
Louis, expressed the attitude of West
ern bankers towards Mr.. Davis in his
last monthly Business Review, when
he said:
From the standpoint Of all who
desire to see our national affairs con-
Quoted on a. sensible basis, with no
compromise offered to destructive and
uneconomic forces, the outcome of
the two great political conventions is
highly satisfactory. The individual
will prefer one nominee or the other;
inaany event he should rest assured
that the next Chief Executive will do
all in his power to keep the business,
industrial, and agricultural life Of the
nation on an even keel"
The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle
In its July 18th issue, this spokes-
man of the most important industrial
and banking interests of the country,
strongly endorsed Mr.. Davis. In it's
lavish praise of the Democratic
nominee the Chronicle declared:
1.-THE whole business world has
reason to feel gratified over the out
come of the Democratic National con-
vention. In the turmoil through which
this convention passed during the
last two weeks, hardly any one had
dared to hope for the selection as the
nominee for President Of man of
the calibre of John w. Davis. 1t can
be said without reservation that Mr..
Davis is qualified in every way to fill
the Presidential Office should the
choice of the electorate fall upon him.
"Mr. Davis commands the support of
all the different elements OF the party.
There is in that circumstance occasion
for the greatest rejoicing"