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Evening star., 1926-10-31
New Speech Clinic Hours.

The speech clinic of the George
town University Hospital will be
open at o'clock every Thursday
afternoon instead of on Tuesdays, as
formerly. Free treatment for all dis
orders and irregularities of speech
are given at that institution, of which
Miss Jennie Hedrik is director.
Evening star., 1926-10-31
CARDS of Tbanks.

CRABTREE We wish to thank our friends
and relatives for their kindness and beau-
tiful floral tribute at the death 81 my
husband and our father. THOMAS ChAb-
MRS PRISCILLA CRABTREE AND
FAMILY.
FOWLER. Mr. s F. Fowler and family
wish to express their appreciation fOr lie
beautiful foraI tributes AT the death of
our dear wife and mother. ALICE r.
FOWLER tnee Davis).
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NewYork avenue car line. Bring
supp' to be eaten at the Chestnut
hom in Hyattsville after walk. ".
*. hestnut, leader.
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Der II and Is. at Pythian Hall. Lunch
con from 1880 to 1870 pm. Turkey
dinner from to s pm. Mrs. Ellen
Rowe, chairman In charge.
Dupont Circle Citizens Association
will meet tomorrow, 4:45 pm, at
Rauscher's.
The Junior Hadassah will give a tea
dance November 7, from to s pm,
at L'Aiglon Club, for the benefit of
the orphans of Palestine. Freda
Goodman, Rose Kruger, Dorothy
Singer and Rose Brooks compose the
committee in charge.
The Chemical Society of Washing
ton will meet November II for elec.
ton of officers.
The American War Veterans Club
will have a Halloween husking bee
tomorrow at L'Aiglon Club, Charles
Riemer, chairman.
The Graduate Nurses Association of
the District of Columbia will hold it's
first regular meeting of the year at
the clubhouse, 1887 K street, at $3.50
pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1926-10-31
Mai. Teter Goes to Texas.

Maj. Joseph J. Teter, Coast Artillery
Corps, at Fort II. G. Wright, New
York, has been detailed in the adju-
ant generals department and assigned
to duty with the list Cavalry Divi-
sion with station at Fort Bliss, Tex.
Evening star., 1926-10-31

The Wanderlusters' hike will star,
from Wisconsin and Massachusetts
avenues, going through Glover Park
Mr.. kemmerer will lead.
The Red Triangle Outing Club will
meet at FoXall Heights at PAS O'Clock
Tor four-milo hike through tie
woods. Bring lunch. cup and flash
ight for campfire party at the clup-
house.
Rev. Francis p. Lyons will give ne
sermon at the novena Of reparapn
at the Convent of Work for Dor
Churches, 4:30 o'clock. 4
Elphonzo Freeman will spea of |
the Worlds Christian EndeavorCon |
vention held in London last JE. at !
the Third Baptist Church at flock. |
All members of the a. A. :. w. !
and their friends are invited I walk |
from Mount Olivet to Mountf1amil-
ton. about two miles MeetAt Fif. |
teenth and Fl streets northe3t at 3 |
o'clock with bus transfers fm the
Evening star., 1926-10-31
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ts. Charles Wood will give an illus.
tried lecture on China tomorrow, II
an, at George Washington Univer-
sly. Public invited.
Evening star., 1926-10-31

The Citizens Association of TakOma,
D. c.. will meet tomorrow. 8 pm, at
the Library. Maj. William f. r.
Covell will speak on Public Utilities"
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Manor Park Citizens Association
will meet tomorrow, 1870 pm, at the
Whittier School. Election of officers.
Evening star., 1926-10-31

The Ladies' Aid Society of Gorsuch
NJ. f. Church will give it's thirty-third
annual luncheon and dinner Novem.
Evening star., 1926-10-31

Columbia Heights Citizens Associa-
ton will meet Tuesday, pm, at st.
Stephens Hall, 3017 Fourteenth
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FOUND.

CAT. handsome black and white n..r
Cleveland 6216 az
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NICKENS. Departed this life Wednesday
October %. 1925, at a14 pm. at Freed
of Alonzo Nickens. Mary E. Nickens Har-
ris of Waterbury, Conn. and Lloyd G.
Nlckens Funeral from her late residence
1881 4th st. NV. SUNDAY. October
81. at 2 pm. Relatives and friends in
Evening star., 1926-10-31

Dupont Circle Citizens Association
will meet tomorrow, 4:45 pm. at
Rauscher's
Evening star., 1926-10-31

THYSON. On Thursday October 2s 1926
at 2;15 pm, HERMAEUS G tMoN" y.
THYSON. aged 50 years. beloved husband
Of the late Susan Thyson. Remains at
residence Of son, Paul Thyson. the Oak
land Apartment. 2OO6 Columbia rd. NV
Funeral Monday, November ]. at 1890
am; thence to Sacred Heart Church mass
cemetery' PBal.imore 'pusa paper. please please copy, %
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
Aroused Against Lewis

That the organized coal miners larger numbers
coming realize the mOnOus nfamy of John L. Lewis in the
anthracite strike is evidenced by the adoption of resolutions
demanding that he call the maintenance and the miners
the soft coal fields thereby making the strike general The grim
realities of the struggle force this conclusion honest workers
But militant action in defiance of the coal baron would
with the ruling capitalist class of this country
would spoil bigger game that he after Lewis like many
others his type the labor stepping stones bet
positions agents of the capitalist class 1t rather farfeched
expect supported the strebreaer Cal Coolidge
president he hopes day be
appointed secretary aboro put up real fight for organized
labor
yielding the inssent demands of the rank and
America, Lewis continues his
dckering employers His teachery agree
voluntary upon acts"
Hoover Hardngs secretary eminent baptist
Pncho Pennsylvania These worthless will gather the
present them committee composed of miners and
operators which shall have power settle the question
only left for the rank and file in order gain
victory they have in order live above the level hope
get into action quickly by pulling the main
the anthracite and starting agitation make
the anthracite strike general.
mitans in the soft coal region will also take
backre of strike agitation
strike general the eacerous schemes being Matched
other republican henchmen will naught
their knees while Hoover Hughes
presenting distortion of the
budgeoning the strikers back into the mines
of the operators.
Now S the time to strike and strike hard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

of one country against another, in
wages, living conditions, strikes and
every phase Of the day-to-day class
struggle. Inevitably it means war.
Side by side with international steel
partnership goes an intensified strug-
gle for colonial territories on the part
of each national unit of the cartel.
There is a universal. speeding up of
armament production. International
partnership is merely a masked form
Of international rivalry on the basis
of assured monopoly profits. This is
especially true in the iron and steel
industry, which besides being the
basic industry for each imperialist
power, besides being the industry
most intimately bound up with export
of capital and colonial exploitation, is
also the war industry.
In the face of all this it is useless
for the handful OF unruly senators to
declaim against Americas entry into
the world court, on the ground that it
places this country within the danger
circle of the clashing antagonisms of
Europe. American governmental pol
icy is the instrument Of American
capitalism, and both have been deeply
involved in the European danger.cir-
Gle for long time. American capital
is being exported to Europe at a rapid
rate especially to Germany, where it
is controlling greater and greater sec
tions of German industry. One weeks
issue of the New York Commercial
and Financial Chronicle announces Of
ferings by American bankers of ga
limited amount" of stock shares Of
the Dresdner bank, 100000 Reichs-
marks Of capital stock of the Ham
burg Vereinsbank and 100000 shares
of preferred stock of the German
Credit and Investment corporation.
The last-named is an American firm
organized ito participate in invest
ments and loans in Germany"
American capital is thus reaching
not only into German industry bur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
Obstacles Overcome.

rs we have seen in the second
"A article of this series, the Hague
conference of 1907 failed to create
court because it was not possible to
reach an agreement upon the manner
of selection of judges. This barrier
was surmounted in 1920 providing that
the various nations could nominate
not more than four persons, and that
not more than two of them shall be
from their own nation and that in no
case must the number of candidates
be more than double the number of
seats to be filed. This arrangement
makes it comparatively easy matter
for the powerful imperialist nations to
dictate the selection of judges suitable
to themselves byNe exercising economic
and political pressure sufficient to
bring the small nations into line.
The court itself consists of Is mem
bers, of which eleven are judges and
four are deputy judges. At any time
considered feasible the council of the
league of nations may propose to the
assembly to increase, the number of
judges and if the assembly desires to
do so it may increase the number to
81; with 10 judges and six deputy
judges.
Of the eleven judges today on the
court, the United States has one, who
is Mr.. John Bassett Moore, a former
educator in international law and for
years an untiring propaganda for the
House of Morgan. Moore is eminently
fitted by training and inclination for
the role he is playing as the watch
dog Of Wall Street on the court, un-
til such time as the government is of
ficially in the court and the league.
These lackeys of imperialism that
drew up the articles of the world court
indulge in the usual eulogiums to their
profession by asserting in article 2:
The permanent court of interna-
tionaI justice shall be composed of
body of Independent judges elected
regardless of their nationality from
amongst persons of high moral
character.
Just as the feudal czars and kings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
BY MANUEL GOMEZ

A N item of transcendent Importance
1 \ appeared in the financial pages of
capitalist newspapers turnout the
country last Tuesday, and did not ap-
pear anywhere else. 1t was in form
simple advertisement An Amerl-
can banking syndicate headed by Dill
lon, Read and company offered to
American investors $25,O0O,O0O worth
of German industrial bonds. The Sc
curities are those of the Rheinelbe
Union, yielding 7.55 per cent on the
investment for a period of 20 years.
What this means aside from the
usual secret provisions (Which no
doubt assured Dillon, Read and COM
pany fat commissions and "flotation
profits"), is the domination of Amer
lean capital in the big international
iron and steel trust that is forming.
The Rheinelbe Union, also known
as the Big Three group, consists of
the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks A. G.,
the Observation-Disclosures Berg
werks-und Huetten A. G. and the
Bochumer Verin fuer Bergbau un
Gusstahlfabrikation Together the
concerns employ some 100000 men.
Operated as a unit under existing in
ter-company agreements, they consti-
tute the largest coal producing and
iron manufacturing group in the Ruhr
district of Germany. They are also
one of the largest steel manufacturers
and produce a more diversified line Of
highly finished steel products than
any other manufacturer in Germany.
The Rheinelbe Union is moreover
linked with the big Siemens electrical
interests in the Siemens-Rheinelbe-
Schuckert- Union.
1.-THE Rheinelbe Union" says the
bankers advertisement. lis the larg-
est unit in the pending consolidation
of German steel and coal companies
in the Rhur district" As matter of
fact the plans for this plunderbund
are not limited to the Ruhr, nor to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
Mr.. Sisson Again Heard From

Ssson, vcepresident of the Guaranty Trust
been heard FROM This time the
liar appears the role of prophet Speak
ing hundred bankers in Chicago Mr. Son praised
United into the world court and predicted
unprecedented prosperity because Europe pulling out OF the
political chaOs Ssson, like other Wall
bankers the world medium thru which his
may effectively plumber Europe Unquesonaby ne con-
political this country heralding prosperity for
Wall Street
the of the bag when in unguarded burst of
enth he said:
willing o Wall Street banker who
should join the COURT
assembled bankers loudly appauded this defiant remark
Unfortunately beyond the circle in which he and
well for workers to ponder this remark
they called defend the European interests
fight in mperaist If workers
conscped guns placed in their hands they will know how to
against the workers of Europe but in the interest of
their class.
readers cannot identify Mr. Sisson remind them
the patriot who presented trunk full of forged
purporng show that the Soviet
Matchmaking other weird tales long since exploded
These forgees still the Sisson documents and thus
far greater single achievement of the New York
ananias.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

Wilson in an effort to gain adherents
in the camp of the opposition and
eventually change the minority into
majority in the senate.
Mr.. Elihu Root was the ideal man
for this role. For years he had been
an ornament of the United States
senate, he had worldwide reputation
as an authority on international law
and he had served as secretary of
state under Theodore Roosevelt.
He was also the beneficiary of the
Carnegie millions in his capacity as
president of the board of trustees of
the Carnegie endowment for interna-
tional peace.
Carnegie's colossal fortune was
made out of steel, not an inconsider-
able part of which was realized thru
the manufacture OF armour plate for
battleships and other war material. AS
is we'll known, old Andrew Carnegie,
during his life, was conspicuous
apostle of peace and5 was great adj
mirer of and greatly admired by that
other eminent pacifist the Car of
Russia. His international connections
created by his "peace" agencies en-
abled him to sell his armour plate in
all parts of the world. He was one of
the first to utilize pacifist slogans for
capitalist pl''nder and it payed him
well. The good work continued after
his death because of his endowment.
Mr.. Roots connection with the Carne-
gle millions taught him the advant-
ages of conducting an imperialist di-
plomatic policy under the cloak of adj
vocating world peace.
/ The idea of world court held a
strong attraction for Root. While he
was secretary Of state the second con-
ference of the Hague court of arbitra-
ton met and Root, in his Instructions
to the American delegates, urged them
to establish a permanent court, similar
to the United States supreme court.
It's power over nations was to be
similar to that of the supreme court
over the separate states of the union.
Creation of the Court.
A RTICLE Ia of the covenant of the
4 league of nations provides that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

Germany itself. A huge international
iron and steel cartel is in process of
formation, with French and German
manufacturers taking leading part.
All Of the powerful trusts involved are
in agreement regarding the necessity
for combination. But on what basis ?
That has been the, difficulty. The big
German concerns occupy a strategic
position in the European industry and
have insisted on a controlling inter-
est. The French th6t they had a stra-
tegic position militarily, so they said
it with soldiers. one Of the motivat-
ing factors back on the French inyas-
ion of the Ruhr was to force the es-
adjustment of the international plum
derbund on terms favorable to the
French "Comite des FORCES" Frances
financial breakdown took away all
hope of success by this means. Now,
under different circumstances, nego-
tiations are again well advanced.
Establishment of the combine is a
practical certainty but the terms Of
agreement have been kept strictly Sc
cret.
France has no capital for new f.
nancing but the united States has.
The $4,000, 900 loan to the Rheinelbe
Union, as well as other similar ven
lures, indicate that American finance
capital is to become the real center
of gravity in the combine.
The American financial oligarchy is
interested in the iron and steel cartel
not only from the standpoint of the
investment of surplus capital but also
from the standpoint of the iron and
steel industry itself, from the stand
point of domination of the worlds
markets. When Judge Gary of the
United States Steel corporation war
in Italy in 1922, he was asked whether
or not he would favor world wide
steel combine, with U. S. Steel as q
unit. His answer, was: I'm my opin-
ion such a union, is absolutely neces-
sary to all concerned. 1t will have to
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come to pass, but 1 do not think the
time is yet ripe for it."
Since that time the French and
German capitalists have mutually
worn down each others resistance,
French finances have collapsed, Ger
many has been put into the strait
Jacket of the Dawes plan and Ameri-
can finance capital has secured foot
hold after foothold in the money mar
kets of Europe. Undoubtedly things
look different to Judge Gary now. Con-
ditions for the establishment of the
worldwide steel cartel are more
ripe" from the point of view of the
American steel trust. The American
trust, even before 1922, was fully
awake to the tremendous profits that
could be realized by internationally
ing" the steel industry. But unlike
the French and Germans, who squab-
bled with each other over terms, the
American interests were unwilling to
offer any terms at all. The time is
not ripe, said Gary. U. S. Steel felt
itself so strong that it could compete
in its own right with any foreign car
tel, until its hegemony should be
recognized. Power-industrial, finan.
cial, military-is the final arbiter in
all international agreements under
capitalism. That is why it is a long
way from agreement Sin principle. re-
garding a proposed cartel, to the prac.
teal establishment of the combine. II
is also why, once established, the
combine has no guaranty of perman-
ency. There is always the question
Of "terms"-of the share each unit Is
to have in the booty.
The International iron and steel car
tel represents a menace to all oppres-
sed peoples and TO the workers OF all
countries. 1t means further extension
OF monopoly price beyond national tar
riff walls; it means still greater dom
.nation OF markets, "systematizing" OF
production, and exploitation of work
ers. II nIeans playing off the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

also into German banks. The offering
OF Rheinelbe Union bonds by Dillon,
Read and company helps us to COM
plete the picture. In the gossip of
Wall Street brokers' offices, Dillon.
Read and company, whose recent me-
teoric rise to prominence has puzzled
the uninitiated as much as that Of the
Van Sweringen brothers in the rail-
road industry, is spoken of as "the
back door to Kuhn, Loeb and com
pany." The latter is the outstanding
representative in investment banking
of the great network of Rockefeller in
terests and their allies. Together
with J. P. Morgan and company it
stands at the top of the investment
world. The United States Steel corpo-
ration unites the interests of all. With
the Rockefeller interests on the board
of directors and J. P. Morgan as head
OF the finance committeeman Presi-
dent Coolidge himself small stock
holder-the steel corporation is the
example par excellence Of what Lenin
described as the personal union" be-
tween banks and industry, on the ba-
sis OF which financial oligarchy is
created dominating the economic and
political life of the country.
Ostensibly democracy, the United
States is, like every imperialist coun-
try, ruled by an oligarchy. Ostensibly
isolated from Europe, American CAPT
talism is in fact struggling for hege-
mony there. Whether or not the
world court leads inevitably to the
league of nations" whether or not the
court will be "a factor for peace
all these are worse than useless as
points of discussion and no light can
be thrown on them, unless we con-
slider at the same time recent trends
n the development of American capt.
lalism. And none is more significant
han the bold drive of American f.
lance capital for hegemony in a
mates agreement to dominate the
ron and steel markets of the world.
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and emperors who were members of
the holy alliance considered them
selves the chosen instruments OF
god" to rule by divine right" so the
modern agents of imperialism cloak
their predatory conspiracies with
puerile drivel about being the embodi-
ment of morality and justice and so
forth-superior people who are chosen
to rule the backward elements of the
world. The lower they grovel the loud
er they proclaim their uprightness. AS
to their boast of being independent,
the decisions already rendered against
labor, against Russia, against the
weaker nations and in the interest of
the imperialist powers explode fore
ever that boast.
lnseparabIe From League.
THE world court was created within
L the league and is inseparable
from the league. Just as the supreme
court of the United States must de-
pend upon the armed force of the fed
eral government to enforce it's DEGREES
so the league of nations must act as
the military power, the policeman and
jailer for and defender Of the perman-
ent court of international justice.
The council of the league may refer
any case to the court for an opinion.
After the opinion has been rendered.
then the council has legal sanction
for any aggressive action it desires to
take. Such action may be taken under
three sections of the covenant Of the
league-sections IL, 10 and 16.
Furthermore the league selects the
judges, pays them their salaries. has
power to increase the number, and in
every manner dominates the world
court.
And the hand of American imperial.
ism in creating the court was not. as
some romantic petty bourgeois SEN
ators fear, a betrayal of the nation
into the hands of European diplomats
and militarists, but betrayal of the
exploited masses of this country into
the hands of the House of Morgan SO
that he can more effectively defend
his economic interests in Europe.
Next ArticIe-The World Court
Decides Trade Union Cases.
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the council of the league shall formu-
late and submit to members plans for
the establishment of a permanent
court of International justice. No one
ever for moment questioned the fact
that such court would be a part and
parcel of the league until after the
United States senate refused to ratify
Woodrow Wilson's proposal that this
country enter. AS a matter of fact the
conception of the court was that it
would be created strictly within the
confines of the league and be the legal
cloak for the imperialist depredations
of the nations that dominated the
league.
But after the United States refused
to ratify the covenant of the league
the imperialist diplomats, at the sug-
gestion Of agents of the House of Nor
gan, proposed the establishment of the
court. The council of the league did
not formulate plans for the establish
ment of the court, but at this meeting
held in London in February, 1920, de-
cided to appoint a committee and give
it power to prepare plans for such a
court.
Great Britain, France, Italy, the
United States of America, Japan,
Brazil, Norway, Belgium, the Neither
lands and Spain were asked to send
representatives. Elihu Root was selec-
ted by the council of the league as the
representative of this country. Each
of the nine other states were repres-
ented by one member.
From the 18th of June to the oath
of July, 1920, this committee held con-
tinuous sessions at the peace palace,
the Hague, and prepared a report,
which was agreed upon unanimousI%
1t was submitted to the council of the
league of nations on the 5th of August,
1920. After some changes it was ac-
cepted by the council, which also con.
sisted at that time of 10 members
The council referred it to the assemb.
ly of the league which consisted of
SIS members. After a subcommittee
had proposed many changes it was
| finally adopted