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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11

Sheffield leaving Mexico City for the United
handing Gales which reporters hint will be the
last the American the petroleum questen
This hint has a deadly significance.
the T. s. diplomatic attaches in Mexico deny that
any Shed action and the rebellion of
which full swing in the southern
republic
religious fight domestic affair." they But what is
petroleum question matter that affects the Mexican peo
pe right interfere in the regula
rory government in relation to the oil in
dusry ntrude in the quarrel between the
Gales administration and Rome.
The United government tool of the oil barons and
other capitalist Shefeds action presenting
his last note to rebellion her hands
can have only one meaning United States government
thinks this opportune force the Mexican govern
breaking diplomatic action would
government.
powerful propaganda machine of the catholic church
carving on campaign intervention and the oil barOns always
ready counerrevOluon with government in Wash
neon big business and ready to do its bidding
there is serious danger with Mexico This would be wei
coined by the American imperas who piabe
regime in power south of the Rio Grande
The American the only reliable friends in the
United States Mexican people They demonstrate
that friendship making the powershatbe in Wash
gton will permit the bankers oil barons and
other expoer alliance with the catholic church to crush the
Mexican people slavery under the black
ZION from which they freed themselves.
The Coolidge administration hear in uncertain voice
the cry: "No Intervention in Mexico"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11

England and America for the control
Of Mexican mineral wealth and the
Mexican railway system has been de-
cided in favor of America. and the
United States needs more territory
than ever for the employment of their
surplus capital, conditions for the in
naturalization are mere favorable.
In the rear 1921 the number of peo-
pie who could neither read nor write
exceeded more than 1870 of the pop
ulation. Since then the government has
tried number of means whereby to
improve the system eff education.
Nevertheless, the cultural develop
ment of the rural population is even
now not much higher, than it was at
the time Of Spanish dominion. 1t is
clear that under such circumstances
neither the characterization of the
country nor the advancement of the
peasantry is possible
CREDIT must be given to the pres
~ ent Gales government in that the
founding of schools In every district
in the country has been undertaken
with great energy and with grants Of
considerable means. Special import
ance attaches to the agricultural in
stitutes, each of which can accomo-
date up to 400 pupils for free instruc-
ton in the theory and practice of
farming. These schools which are
often built in the most backward re-
gions, serve among the peasants as
revolutionizing centers of culture. 1t
Is now evident, however, that the
church is using every means in its
power to counteract the work of the
government in the direction of spirit
ual and cultural enlightenment. The
erection of the schools is rendered
difficult and even sabotaged, and the
population is melted against the teach
ers sent by the government. The peas
antry is intimidated by the menace of
hell-flre.
In conjunction with its civil organ
izations, the "CabaTleros de Colon"
(Knights of Colombus) and the "Asso-
citation de Damas Catolicas" (Associa-
ton of Catholic Women) the church,
which itself has been constitutionally
deprived of all economic and political
power, is nothing but the party of the
landowners and all other reactionary
and conservative elements in disguise
From this it will be seen that the fight
Of the Mexican government against
the catholic church is a fight of the
progressive petty bourgeoisie against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
The Position in Mexico and the Fight
Against the Catholic Church

/ the remnants of feudalism and resto-
ration endeayors of the conservative
bourgeoisie.
1t should be remarked that the
clergy enjoy the secret support of Eng
lish, Spanish and French capitalists,
while the Mexican industrialists tend
rather towards the side of the Mexican
government.
|OBJECTIVELY the fight of the gov
~ eminent is a revolutionary one.
On the other hand, however, it is a
factor in the disruption which is TAX
ing place turnout the bourgeois class
as whole, and, further, an element
Of the clash of interests within the
government itself. Just as is the case
with the policy of every other bour-
geois government, the policy of the
Gales government is full of contradlo-
tons in regard to all fundamental
questions. Concessions to the right,
concessions to the Left yesterday re-
evolutionary phrases against the big
landowners and partial distribution of
ground, today the assassination of re-
evolutionary leaders of the peasants.
Yesterday, re-expropriation of the land
and disarming of the peasants today
wild nationalism; tomorrow compro-
misses with foreign capitalism.
The government not only lacks the
courage to carry thru properly policy
of land reform; it has not even the
desire to do so. The majority of the
members Of the government are close
ly connected with the Mexican land
owners. Obregon himself, who is in gen.
eral, and especially among the peas
ants, the most popular personality In
the country and the real leader of
the national elements, is one of the
richest and biggest landowners.
FINDER these circumstances, the
- fight of the bourgeois government,
which is in a cul-de-sac, against the
catholic church amounts to a fight
along the line of least resistance. The
peasants demand and press for land,
while the workers defend themselves
against the construction of a national
economy founded upon cuts in wages
and lengthening of working hours. The
mood of the peasants is revolutionary,
while the workers are dissatisfied.
Altho it has waxed AID waned, the
civil war in the country districts of
Mexico has persisted for upwards of
Is years. The peasantry is we'll or
ganized and well armed. The many
revolutions brought arms and munt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
BY p. j. WALLACE,
In Producers News.

(The following article is taken
from the Producers News of
Sheridan county, Mont, where the
farmers have combined to elect a
genuinely farmer administration
in the country, much to the sorrow
Of the professional politicians and
bankers who once, ruled the roost)
The farmers government of Sheridan
county has come In for lot OF abuse
from old gangsters in different parts
Of the state Wierd stories have been
told about conditions up here. Sub
sidized sheets have pictured this
county as a place whore It would be
dangerous for outsiders to tread. Some
honest outsiders have been led to be-
lieve that up here all wear whiskers
like members of the House Of David
and that we practice anything from
gun toting to polygamy. This kind of
propaganda is all right until unpreju.
diced outsiders come up here and see
the people and the county. Some, like
BALKAN Of old, come TO curse but re-
main to pray. Ths SCALES drop from
their eyes. They1And out that the
only reason why the people of sheri.
dan county are reylled AMI slandered
is because the farmers elect their own
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DELIVERING THE GOODS

men to run the county. And some
times the broadminded men like Her
bert M. Peet of the Great Falls Tri-
bune go out telling the truth and con.
found the critics.
II any county government in the
state can show a better record than
the one now in Office in Sheridan
county, we would like to hear of it.
During the past five years while the
debt of the state was doubled, the of.
fcers of Sheridan county cut the out.
standing Indebtedness in half. And
while they were doing it they reduced
the tax levy every year. In 1922,
when the county debt was $1,261, 445. 05
the tax levy was rs mills: in 1926,
when the debt is down to $6S6,741.2S,
II is 81 mills. Where there was half
a million dollars in outstanding war
rants five years ago there Is less than
$6,741.2S today. BY the practice of
rigorous economy and by splendid
teamwork the county officers have
been talking about economy the farm
ers' government of Sheridan county
have been putting II into practice. II
is remarkable achievement and
demonstrates that stlif farmers are
capable OF conducting their public af.
fairs more efficiently than bankers or
other types OF graftsrs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
MIL WAUKEE PLANS TO
START STRONG WORKER
CORRESPONDENTS GROUP

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. O.
Plans to develop the worker CORE
spondence movement in this city
will be considered at the member
ship meeting of the Workers Party
to be held Tuesday night, August
10, at MilIer's Hall, so2 State st.
a. j., Louis Engdahl, editor of The
DAILY WORKER, who was here
Sunday as speaker at the party pic
mic, took up this matter with many
comrades who pledged themselves
to become active In the building Of
a local group. Considerable inter
est was shown in the proposed ex-
change, Of correspondence between
The DAILY WORKER and the
Pravda, the Moscow Communist
daily.
Otto r. Zimmerman, who draws
cartoons as "o'zlm," accepted the
responsibility of undertaking the in
itial work Of organizing a Milwau-
kee group Of worker correspond
ents. Michael Mickalachki, party
organizer, also pledged himself to
aid in this effort.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11

hungarian national minorities to the
Roumanian boyars and the Jugo-Slay
revolutionaries. The masses of work
ers are growing more and more radi-
cal. The opposition is growing in the
trade unions. The government must
save itself and appear as the Savior
of society,"
That is why the Rakosi trial is be-
ing staged.
What preceded this trial also
smacks of provocation. After the dis
closure of the shameful pact con-
cluded by the leaders of the Hunga-
rian social democracy with the Beth
len government, split took place in
the social democratic party The hon
est HUNGARIAN social democratic work
ers left the party of open aceomplices
of Horthy and formed the Hungarian
socialist labor party" We do not
know the leaders of this party. 1t is
not affiliated to the comintern. It's
representatives attended the congress
of the Second International in Mar
settles and obtained the admission of
their party to the Second Interna-
tional. To please the social demo
cratic leaders the Hungarian govern
ment has combined the Rakosi trial
with the trial of the leaders of the
socialist labor party, in order to prove
that the socialist labor party is a.
Communist party. This disgraceful
maneuVer this cont am ntihle nrovoca-
ton, is to furnish the government
with the pretext for the dissolution Of
the socialist labor party.
That is the meaning of the provoca-
ton.
Every worker must raise his voice
in protest against the trial of sincere
Hungarian revolutionaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
New Butcher Local
VIII Get Charter
at Open Meeting

DETROIT, Aug. 9-The newly or
ganized Polish Butchers local OF
Hamtramck will hold an open meetins
Tuesday, Aug. 10, at D. m. at the
Sokol Hall, 1O33O Jos. Campu st. A
representative of the Butchers and
Meat Cutters International will pre.
sent the charter to the local at this
meeting. The Detroit Federation Of
Labor will send representatives to the
meeting to address the local.
This local of the Butchers and Meat
Cutters was recently organized and
has already rs members most of whom
speak Polish. However. a number of
butchers who are not Polish have
taken an interest in the organization
of the union and steps are already be.
ing taken to organize local in other
districts of Detroit.
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tons into the villages and gave the
peasants ample experience and a GER
tain class-consciousness which the
European peasants lack. The workers,
too, are comparatively we'll organized.
the majority of them, in the most i'm
portant industries, such as tho petrol
cum industry and transport, are indie
pendent and work against the reform
lists in the government
The leaders of the Reformist Trade
Union Federation, the ministers fand
government candidates of the labor
party and other Defenders of the Re-
evolutionary IDEAL" fight with blind
fury against the Communists and
against the members of the peasants
union. But the Communists support
the government in its fight against the
church, just as they support the gov
eminent whenever it is attacked by
reactionary parties or by one of the
great imperialist powers. But even un.
der these circumstances, the Commun-
lists still affirm the truth to the prof.
etariat regarding the government;
they still maintain that the path of
the government is that which leads
from compromise to betrayal.
ENROM May 21st to 9th there took
place the " Conference of the
Communist Party of Mexico. For the
first time since the party was founded
a sharp discussion was held in regard
to all basic principles. The estimate
of the economic and political situation,
the role of the party, the attitude to-
wards the agrarian question, the pol
icy in regard to the trade unions, the
line to be taken by the party in the
national question and the fight against
American imperialism, the orgal>iza-
ton of the party-all hinged upon the
question: A mass party or a sect,
workers. party or workers and peas
ants party? The liveliness of the dis
cussion and the passionate disputes,
which often became personal, were
inevitable; they are characteristics of
a party in growth; they distinguish
and crystalline the true nature of the
movement.
The conference knitted the party
closer together than ever; in the first
place, it created a nucleus of leaders
consisting of real workers and peas
ants belonging to the masses, asso-
ciated with, them in the daily work and
proven by years of work to be pre-
pared to give up everything for the
cause. of the proletarian revolution.
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The Hungarian government also
would fain gain the favor of its Brit
ish masters. 1t endeavored in the
past already to deliver the exemplary
revolutionaries, the Communists Ra-
kosi, Weinberger, Cert Cogos and
Katherine Hannah, over to the hang
man, but the protest of the toilers all
over the world stayed the hand of the
hangman of the Hungarian counter
revolution.
Comrade Rakosi was peoples COM
missary of the first Hungarian Soviet
republic, and one of the founders of
the Communist Party in Hungary. He
went to the Hungary of Horthy and
Bethlen in order to build up the Com
munist Party and to stimulate sym
pathy in the Hungarian working class
for the Communist movement.
Comrade Rakosi journeyed to Hun
gary in order to expose the leaders Of
the Hungarian social democracy-th
allies of Bethlen, and to aid the Hun
garian workers to create their class
organizations.
The Bethlen government needed .
Communist trial at the present time.
The reconstruction" of Hungary I'M
der the patronage Of the league Of
nations has caused an unprecedented
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, bankruptcies,
and an agricultural crisis. The peas
ant masses are demanding real agra
rian reform. The forging of French
banknotes with the aid Of the authori-
ties has totally compromised the
counterrevolution Bethlen has gone
over to the camp of the adherents of
the restoration of the Hapsburg mon
archy. The league OF nations has not
suspended its control of Hungary.
The government has surrendered the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
COOLIDGE ERA is AMERICAN
PLUTOCRACYS COMING OF AGE

~ LELAND oLos, Federated Press.
Appointment Of young F. T. Dawson
assistant secretary OF war makes the
Coolidge era American plutocracy's
coming OF age as a governing aris-
tocracy Dawson gets the job because
ne Is the son Of the late II. p. Davi-
son OF j. = Morgan & co.
Seeks Honors.
Dawson, it seems is ambitious TO
cut a figure in government after the
best tradition Of the English upper
class Says the Chicago Journal OF
Commerce: Dawson becomes assist
AMT secretary OF war at the age Of
20. Such eminence al so early an
age is extraordinary; but even more
extraordinary Is the serious purpose
ill1css which characterizes this young
nan re wants 10 leave his mark
upon his country: he wants 70 affect
iis legislation and 10 increase IT'S
greatness; he undoubtedly wants to be
president"
No Obstacles In Path.
Davi5A encountered no such obsta.
clos as face Young men who must
work for a living For him Il was q
college courecet Yale I years NJ Co.
lumhla law school. q chance to take
Theodore Ho3aevelt's place in the
state iagi#fn ea1 thop- 70 ruoto
tho Chirre9 rvnrrl NJ Commerce.
LAT year when the national crime
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
MRS. SADLOWSKI
is FREED FROM
COUNTY PRISON
Union Greets Picket on
Her Release

Mrs. Eleanor Sadlowski. mother Of
1O-year-old boy, who was forced to
serve 60 days In Cook county prison
for refusing to leave the picket lines
in the 1924 strike of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union in
the Market street district, left the
jail amid the wild cheers and applause
of fellow union members that had
gathered to welcome her at the iaii.
Delegations from the union and
various shops were on hand to greet
this fighter for better conditions. Mrs,
Sadlowski was one of the first to enter
the jail and is, the last to leave. She
was sentenced to 60 days in Jail by
the notorious open shop tool, "Injunc-
ton" Judge Denis E. Sullivan.
The sentence which was meant to
have been "a lesson" to her, instead
of killing her spirit has made her more
determined to help in the fight for bet
ter conditions.
Tho / am no longer working at the
trade, if the union calls upon me to
help in the next strike 1 will 60 will.
ingly onto the picket line even if I
know that l will be sent to JAIL" de-
clared Mrs. Sadlowski. Il would
rather go to Jail than work under
slave conditions in scab shops"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
BY A. sTiRNER.

THE present government of General
4 Gales in Mexico represents the
petty bourgeois elements, which have
been striving for number Of years to
create the foundation for the building
up of national industry, The execu-
ton of this program meets with resist
ance, first Of all, from foreign capital,
secondly, from the landowners who
fight to preserve feudal and semi
feudal conditions and, thirdly, from
the contradictions inherent in petty
bourgeois democracy itself.
In Mexico the fight against feudal-
ism, right in the beginning took the
form of fight against the Spanish
colonials and against the catholic
church, the biggest and most powerful
landowner in the country. 1t was only
in the year 1900, after several indus
tries had begun to flourish and a work
ing class had been formed, and after
1910, when a number of revolutions
and Instructions, which, altho organ
lied and supported by foreign capital,
On the discomfort of the peasantry,
7olitical rule gradually came into the
.ands Of the progressive elements,
&, e. into the hands Of petty bourgeois
democracy, which had for several
years tentatively and with uncertainty
endeavored to carry thru national
economic policy.
T1HE most difficult problem for every
Mexican government is the agra
rian question. 1t is in the first place a
question of land distribution, secondly,
a question of the promoting and in
dustrializing of agriculture. In short,
in Mexico the problem consists of the
execution and completion of the bour-
geois revolution in a country in which
two-thirds of the national wealth is in
the hands of foreign capitalists. In
the colonial and semi-colonial coun-
tries the power of resistance exerted
by the old conditions is especially
strong, because the kind of industry
generally carried on requires no skill
ed labor, while the technical and ad-
ministrative stats are usually drawn
from abroad Furthermore, in Mexico
the development of factory industry
has been hampered by the long-con-
5inued uncertainty of the political situa-
ton. The only well developed factory
industry is the manufacture of textile
goods Now that the fight between
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11

THIS year. Vincente viIamin, Philip.
pine lawyer residing in New York.
who has previously sided with the IN.
terests of American capital in the
philippines, also endorsed this pro
posal. He declared the Filipinos men.
tally capable Of governing themselves.
out said they needed the protective
tariff and the U. S. army and navy
to keep them from being bounced on
by Japan or some other power.
Fine Solution.
Five supposed solutions were offer.
ed for the Philippines at the politics
institute: immediate and complete IN.
dependence cas- demanded repeatedly
by the Filipinos; independence when
the United States judges the islands
ready dominion status; permanent re.
tention of the islands; and division
by which the United States retains
the southern section best adapted TO
rubber production and inhabited by
the Moros chiefly. The last propoei.
ton Is embodied in the Bacon bill
presented to congress. IL Is strongly
opposed by the Fillpinos and Moros a
well. This plan would make workers
virtual poems on the rubber planta
lions for the pronts of American capl.
llists.
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commission was organized influential
friends OF young Dawson made him
chairman of the commission in order
to give him national prominence. Sim
ilarly he was helped to the present APP
pointment The chairman Of the pres
ident's aircraft commission was
Dwight w. Morrow OF j. P. Morgan
& Co. No doubt Mr.. Morrow spoke a
warm word in behalf OF the young
man"
No doubt
"In England" says the journal,
where there is an acknowledged aris-
tocracy, It is regarded as the duty Of
that aristocracy TO take a leading
part in the arduous duties Of govern
ment. In America, where no arlstoc-
racy Is acknowledged there is little
Of this feeling on the part of rich
young men, Young Dawson Is an ex.
ception"
Use Airplanes In Strike.
DAWSON Is now the army's air chief
In the absence OF secretary Davis and
assistant secretary MacNider he is
acting secretary Of war. The use of
he British army and navy during the
recent general strike shows how i'm
portant Il may be TO capital to have
rs representatives in the seats Of
authority. The three men mentioned
arc all associated with Investment
banking interp-'s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
INSTITUTE OF POLITICS OFFERS
SOLUTION OF FILIPINO LSSIJE

WILLIAMSBURG Mass 6FP)-mpeialsm pracicad nv ,h
oed states ruling the Philippine into one Of the os
discussed topics at the Institute Politics Colonel Cam
son and his associates Coolidge send gw,nv -
counts OF possible profits from the Philippine officials ar Williams
town criticize the failure the give the Fppos den
F'-o' "uepon
h point OF view OF dollar diplomacy bigbsness Imperialism
s frederick Wh former president assembly Of India e. v