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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
All Is Quiet Along the Rio Grande pvn-.
DplmaicO fenGveo Mexico.

of the house OF Morgan has become
the leading factor. All of these or
CARNATIONS have been engaged in con-
slant intrigues against Mexico. Look
ing upon that country as part of their
natural imperial domain, they have in
spired and directed the policy of the
United States government which is
merely the political arm of American
imperialist capitalism, at home as
well as abroad.
In their efforts to make Mexico a
tributary to Wall Street the American
absentee interests have stopped at
nothing. They have flouted all Next
can authority, insisting upon special
privileges and immunities for them
selves as compared with Mexican citi-
zens. On a number of occasions they
have withheld payment of taxes. They
have made systematic use of bribery,
diplomatic pressure and substituting Of
banditry. During the Carranza regime
they openly maintained the bandit,
Manuel Pelaez, in control of the Next
can oil fields, paying him regular
monthly subsidy Gas Doheny admitted
before the foreign relations commit
tee of the U. S. senate). Whenever
they got into legal difficulties they ap-
pealed to the American ambassador
whose SUPPORT was never-failing.
Important Role of Mexico.
There is purpose in these proceed
ures beyond the immediate object to
be attained, Mexico's enormous re-
sources of raw material, her signifi-
canoe in the worldwide struggle for
oil, her Importance as field for the
export of surplus capital, her steady
growth as a market-make her invalu-
able as prize to be definitely incor-
porated in the monopoly system of i'm
perialist economy. Moreover, the I'M
happy country lies directly athwart
the path of American Imperialism in
Central and South America. This has
long been a basic consideration in
the Mexican policy of Wall Street and
Washington. Mexico plays the same
role in the imperialist calculations for
Latin America as Latin America plays
in the American empire as whole.
Consciousness of the fate that is
always threatening pervades every i'm
portant phase of Mexican political life.
The revolution that began against
Porfirio Diaz in 1910 and 1911 has
had various stages but it was essen
TALLY a national bourgeois revolution
with the working and peasant mass
es showing the way to the timid petty
bourgeoisie in the struggle against
Mexican semi-feudalism and peonage
on the one hand and against imperial
list domination of industry on the
other. An outstanding accomplish
ment of the revolution was the con-
stitution of 1917, put thru under the
regime of Carranza, especially ar
ticles q and 1913. Article q is the
one Wall Street doesn't like; il pro-
vides for naturalization of mineral
lands, limits the rights of foreign cor
porations to carry on mining and oil
operations under lease and requires
all foreign corporations operating in
Mexico to consider themselves Next
can before the law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

A. interval of suspicious calm has
"A punctuated the u. S.-Mexican cris-
is. Fundamentally the situation re-
mains the same, but everybody pre-
tends that something has changed.
Newspapers with the most olea-
ginous Wall Street connections adopt
a tone that might almost be mistaken
for restraint-the restraint of leash
ed tiger. The attitude of the state
department, frankly belligerent few
weeks ago when Secretary Kellogg
sent his insulting and threatening
message to the Gales government, is
tempered now by self-conscious as
sumption of responsibility. Polite
exchanges of notes have, taken place
between Washington and Mexico City.
There is talk of negotiation. Sugges-
ton is heard that Mexico's anti-impe-
rialist agrarian and petroleum laws
are not really in their final form, that
judicial Interpretation may soften
them, that trouble between the United
States and Mexico may be averted
after all.
Workers who have been puzzled as
to why there should be any trouble
in the first place win at least be
pleased to know that it may be
averted."
Fencing For Position.
The apparent easing of the tension
is not based upon a solution of the
u. S.-Mexican crisis, for the crisis has
not been solved. Notwithstanding the
retreat from Kelloggism to good man
ners, Ambassador Sheffield in Mexico
continues to make daily visits to the
ministry of foreign relations, his de-
mands on behalf of U. S. imperialist
capitalism becoming more insistent
with each visit; and Foreign Minister
Saenz maintains more firmly than
ever that Mexico will not tear up her
constitution and abrogate her laws to
suit foreign investors. From time to
time news items, editorials and car
toons appear pointing slyly to the per-
sistent "wrongheadedness" of Mexican
policy and the sweet patience" of our
state department. Anyone with half an
eye can see that there is not trace
of sincerity in the pretense of nego-
tiation, that it is just so much fencing
for position.sy
This is a calm that conceals a
gathering storm. The United States
government has taken stand which
by its very nature precludes the pos
sibility of voluntary retreat.
Create Atmosphere.
The first jingo publicity from Wash
ington aroused opposition among wide
sections of the American population.
1t is therefore, necessary to mark
time for awhile before going ahead
with the assault upon Mexico's rights
as a sovereign nation. An atmosphere
must be worked up. There are many
ways of creating atmosphere but in
the present case it is obvious that the
method of flamboyant flag-waving is
inadequate. 1t must be gradually hint
ed that the u. s. demands upon Next
co did not involve any unavoidable
conflict, that the U. S. government is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

The United States government de-
manded that article q be annulled or
amended but Carranza refused to give
way. This was the period when, as
a leading Latin-American intellectual
described it, For the first time one
of our (Latin-American) republics
was confronting Imperialism and ad-
dressing it on equal terms" But
Carranza paid heavy price for his
resoluteness, Added to the other fac
tors that were piling up enemies for
him within Mexico, the bitter, unre-
lenting opposition Of Wall Street made
it impossible for him to govern. The
Carranza government was overthrown
In 1920 without having enjoyed a mo-
ments peace thruout its fife.
Fart. 27 Root Of Conflict.
Article q was the central point at
issue. To put it into effect would be
to complete the Mexican bourgeois
revolution. Here we have the root Of
the conflict with American imperial
ism. The contradiction between the
aspirations of the Mexican national
state and the interests Of Wall Street
is insoluble. 3i
Obregon, who succeeded Carranza
as president, did not try to solve the
contradiction as expressed in the con-
flict around article q. He lodged
it. While maintaining stoutly before
the Mexican people that article q
was fundamental conquest Of the
revolution and must be defended at
all costs, he nevertheless allowed his
entire term to elapse without adopt
ing the necessary legislation to put it
into effect. 1t was as imperative as
the U. s. prohibition amendment
would be without Volstead act.
1t is only now that the necessary
legislation for article 81 is put thru,
in the land and petroleum laws re-
Gently promulgated. American impe-
rialism STAYED this off for nine years,
by means of constant bullying,
threats, and financial and diplomatic
pressure of all kinds. Carranza had
all he could do to maintain the prin-
ciple of article 81 and hold on to his
presidential seat with both hands.
Obregon did the same thing tho not
without considerable equivocation. At
no time, however, did the masses of
the Mexican people fail to indicate
their support of the article nor to
insist that it must go into effect.
w.
President Gales has made many
concessions to American imperialism;
sometimes he has seemed to meet its
demands even more than half way.
But on the present issue he cannot af-
ford to back down-particularly since
the complete fiasco of Adolfo de la
Huerta's reactionary revolt in 1924,
which besides providing a significant
lesson enormously strengthened the
proletarian and peasant basis of the
government support.
On the other hand Wall Street can
not afford to back down either. The
passage of the land and petroleum
laws brings the oil, mining and bank
ing interests face to face not with
a dangerous principle" but with what
amounts to an overt act. The present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

Lady Cynthia Helps Donkey Pull Cart! This headline appear
ing in the pluto press part Of the great publicity campaign of
the petty bourgeois reforme who magnes herself socialist
refer Victor Berger and the socialist party but mule
that the elegant lady and her nspd husband Oswald
Mosey visited Like all meighers of the intelgenza they
imagine they survey industrial conditions by looking workers.
who appear to them strange queer people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

Tomorrow the Trumbu meeting in the North Side Turner
every who know about of the rami
Imperialism should be hand to hear the
story exsoder who hareny been released from the Aca
military prison because he dared challenge this deoc system
in the army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

Get member the Workers Party and subscription
fot The DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
BY JAY LovEsToNE.

I'VE are moving ahead to KEEP
w THE DAILY WORKER. We may
be little more slow than we have
hoped to be. But we are getting
there.
Philadelphia is setting the pace. In
30 far as The DAILY WORKER cam.
paign is concerned. Philadelphia is
certainly not sleepy city. Every
district Of the Workers (Communist)
Party has been assigned certain
quota which IL must attain in order
TO enable The DAILY WORKER TO
continue. In this contest. to date,
some OF the districts are doing we'll
Others had better wake up and wake
up quickly Unless they get on the
job very soon, they will wake up to
find that there IL no DAILY WORK
Err to KEEP.
ME herewith publish the achieve
w monts OF the different districts OF
the Workers CCommunist) Party thru
October 18th Examine this table
carefully and see whether You have
done your duty or failed to respond
20 the urgent cali to KEEP THE
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
SOFT COAL
STRIKE WILL
Be CERTAIN
So Says Editor of Gas
Makers Journal !.
Especial to The Daily worker)

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 17.-"It can
be said with reasonable certainty that
a soft coal strike will take place next
spring." was the assertion of Floyd
w. Parsons, of New York, editorial
director of the Gas Age Record, to
the American Gas Association con-
ventlon. He continued:
"The operators insist that they will
be able to break the strike before it
causes any considerable inconYeni-
ence to the consuming public. How
ever it is never safe to predict what
may happen in labor controversy
of this nature. Several times when
the miners union appeared to be on
its last legs diligent efforts Of the la
Dor leaders succeeded 50 well in con-
solidating their forces that the I'M
ion came back stronger than ever"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
SECRECY SURROUNDING
QUEENS ITINERARY is
CONNECTED WITH LOANS

NSpeclal 10 ne OaHy WorkcrD
NEW YORK, Oct. ia great deal
Of secrecy surrounds the arrange
ment of plans for Queen Marle's
visit in the United States. There
appears to be much confusion caus-
ed by reason OF the fact that ltine-
rarIes are being made up for the
royal party by several different
agencies. But since II 10 quite
definitely known that the Queen Is
coming to the United States large
ly to effect an arrangement for the
floatation Of large loans for Rouma-
MIA, II 10 likely that much OF her
time will be spent In tho East,
chiefly In New York. The United
States Lines Ia already preparing
to embark the queen on the Levla-
than for the return trip, which, II
Is announced, Will not OCCUR until
Christmas, giving the royal con-
sort three months time In which
TO transact her business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
Forge Ahead to Keep The Daily
Worker! Philadelphia Sets the Pace

cue parties. and entertainments have
been arranged All of these will
surely bring the necessary relief.
DUT we must hurry up. WE MUST
- GET SOME BIG CoNTRIBU.
TIoNS AT ONCE. The next few
weeks are our most critical and try
ing times.
There certainly must be thousands
OF workers-friends and sympathizers
lin every section OF the party who
have not yet been approached for a
direct immediate contribution to
KEEP THE DAILY WORKER.
II your district has made a poor
showing to date, there is only one
thing for you TO do. Hurry up. Brace
up. DO better. You can do It. You
must try harder and the results will
be there for The DAILY WORKER.
II your district has made good
record to date. It shows that you are
on the right road. II shows that you
can get results. Very likely you can
do much better even than you have
done so far. There is every re son
for believing that you can denver
even more telling support 20 KEEP
THE DAILY WORKER.
LET Us ALL FORGE AHEAD TO
KEEP THE DAILY WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
D. OF ]. NAN
REVEALS PLOT
AGAINST SACCO
But Boston Globe Did
Not Publish Letter
tepeeIaI . &c DaIIy werkerl

DEDHAM, Mass, Oct. II (FP)-
Although the hearing Of sacco and
VanzettI's last motion for q new trial
has already passed and Judge Web
ster Thayer Is supposedly considering
the evidence prior to giving his de-
cision for or against the two Italian
workers, another affidavit bearing on
the motion has been filed by defense
attorney William @. Thompson.
A letter of Feri Felixus Weiss. de-
partment of justice agent, to the
Boston Globe which that paper did
OF prints Incorporated into Thomp
sons aflldavit Weiss was named
in other affidavits supporting the
new trial motion as one of the men
considered in connection with the
frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti on
the payroll robbery and murder
charge.
Reveals Plos Against Law.
Weiss confirms the affidavit Of John
Ruzzamenti (secured by defense at
torney Fred Moore four years ago
but not used until Thompson entered
it in support OF the last notion RUIZ
zamenu was an under-coyer man
whom Weiss proposed to the then
district attorney Frederick G. Katz-
mann, as one who could be put in a
cell next to saeeo to get evidence.
Weiss claims In his unpublished
letter to the Globe that he explained
to Katzmann chat anarchists do not
commit crimes for money, but for a
principle, and that banditry was not
in their CODE
Weiss further claims that he had
intended to put spy next to sacco
as much to clear him of the murder
charge as to convict him, although it
was asserted at the recent hearing
that sacco and Yanzetti were framed
on the capital ~ arge in order to dis
pose Of them. 1hen federal agents
Gnnll not get slkaEtent evidence to de-
port them as radicals.
A. D. of J. Man Now.
Weiss was not in the federal SER
vice at the time of the Sacco Vsnzet-
ii arrest and trial but had been pre-
viously and is now again, though sta
toned in the west.
He writes to the Globe that he told
Katamann he knew Sacco was an an
archist. Weiss concludes his letter
with charges that Katzmann is trying
to clear himself of the "Ruzzamenti
fiasco' and that Ruzzamenti deliver
ed my life into the hands of the in
ternational reds the world over by
his treachery" in giving the defense
an affidavit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
LABOR BANK in
PITTSBURGH is
SWINDLE VICTIM

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 17.-Informa-
ton charging conspiracy were filed
here today against three officials Of
the brotherhood Savings and Trust
company, a labor bank, and two 9th
ers before Alderman A. M. Maloney
in connection with the disappearance
of between $320.0O0 and $425,O00, part
of which belonged to the bank.
r. A. McCrady, president of the
bank, Charles E. Knapp, bond sales
man, accused by McCrady of disap-
pearing with the money; William Kel
ly, vice-president; J. l.. Nelson, Treas
urer, and Frank Redman. who intro
duced McCrady to Knapp, were nam
ed in the information.
Bankers Grilleo.
Meanwhile, the men named, with
the exception of Knapp, for whom a
nationwide search has been launched,
were subjected to grilling by rep
resentatives of the state banking de-
partment and city detectives who
sought to learn more about the trans
action thru which the men under ar
rest said they we're to receive
$500 900 worth of bonds for $425, 900.
The banks doors are closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
SCHOOL CHILDREN
FORCED TO BOW
TO QUEEN MARIE
|. L. D. to Protest Show
of Royalism

NEW YORK, Oct. I'm the mad
frenzy to do homage to royalty. even
the children of America are being
forced to play a part.
In New York City, five thousand
Youngsters are to be taken from
school on the morning Of October %
and made to do honor to Princess
Heana who is being given recep-
ton at the Capitol Theater by a wom-
ems civic committee, headed by the
society matron, Mrs. Ira Nelson Nor
ris.
II the visits of European royalty
continue as frequently as they have
occurred during the past few years.
the children of our so-called denu-
cratic country will be well instructed
in the proper way to treat a mon
arch.
I. L. o. viii Protest.
It is to protest against 'this sort
of welcome to the representatives of
Roumania's fascist government that
the New York section OF the Interna-
tional Labor Defense has arranged a
demonstration in Union Square on
Monday the is, at $50.
There will be number Of promin-
emit speakers including Elizabeth Cur
ley Flynn, Bishop Paul Jones. Robert
w. Dunn, Forrest Bailey, McAllister
Coleman, Paxten, Hibben, Ben Gitlow,
and Carlo Tresca.
Tell of Persecution.
They will tell the stories that never
reach the ears OF our American peo-
pie about the horrible persecution of
workers and peasants in Roumania
who dare to speak against the rule
of oppression there, and who try to
organize for better conditions in fac
tories and on the farms.
Thousands of New York workers
will join in this expression of solidar-
ity with their Roumanian fellow-work-
ers, and in a mighty protest against
Roumania's government and It's
queen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
Open SHOPPERS
PRAISE GREEN
FOR REACTION
Loud Attack on Soviet
Workers Republic
BY }. LOUIS ENGDAHL.
Especial 10 The Daily Worker)


DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 17.-5ltter
hostility on the part of Detrolt's open
choppers toward the American FEEDER
alton of Labor changed to amiabIe APP
prevail of many Of the conventions sc-
lions here before the hour Of adjourn
mont arrived.
This change of attitude was most
clearly apparent in the local "Ameri-
can Plan" press, that spewed forth its
poisonous open shop venom as greet
ing to the arriving delegates. but
later learned how to take the A. F.
Of L. officials to its editorial bosom
and coo soft acquiescence Of the ad-
ministration's policies so oyerwhelm-
ingly endorsed by the assembled dele
gates.
Open Shoppers Have Reason.
This was especially true Of the De-
troit Free Press. It's editorial greet
ing to the convention was a demand
that no efforts be made to organize
workers locally, especially In the auto
industry, charging that the workers
were better off under the local open
shop regime. No denunciatory super
latives were too extreme to be hurled
at the heads of the A. F. of L.
But the action Of the convention on
the questions Of the Citizens Military
Training Camps, its opposition to the
recognition Of and the sending OF a
delegation to the Union of Soviet Re
publics changed all that. Thunderous
salvos Of editorial applause greeted
the conventions approval Of these
schools of militarism and of the i'm
pertalist opposition to the workers
and peasants government.
Open Shop Finds an Affinity.
Thus the Free Press entities its
leading editorial, 1.-TWO Bumps For
Communism and halls, the scorch-
ing condemnation OF Communism and
all its works, particularly as they are
represented by Soviet Russia, which
the American Federation of Labor con-
vention embodied in a unanimously
adopted resolution"
The 100 per cent capitalist Free
Press is happy to note that the A. F,
Of l.. is Standing against radicalism.
and particularly against radicalism OF
the Moscow brand" which It claims is
"a bad blow to the Soviet crowd. but
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
NEGRO STRIKE
is FEDERATION
MAIN BUSINESS
Conditions are Menace,
says Fitzpatrick

Discussion of the strike OF the Ne
gro women date suffers here was the
main topic at the meeting of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor Sunday af-
ternoon.
The federation pledged its support
to the Negro women and voted unani-
mously to give them credentials to
solicit strike funds from all labor or
CARNATIONS aflliated.
President Fitzpatrick introduced
the discussion declaring that the
strike has a great significance to the
entire labor movement. II exposeg the
exploitation OF the Negro workers, he
said, which is a menace to all work
ers, as the bosses use their power
over unorganized Negroes to decrease
all wages
Horrible Conditions.
This strike opens a little corner
Of the terrible conditions under which
Negroes must work" he said These
factories form a reservoir of cheap
labor, coming up fresh from the south,
and exploited in such manner"
Conditions under which they work
are horrible, it was related, and such
that the stuffed dates produced there
are unfit for human consumption.
Fitzpatrick declared that he had ap-
pealed to the U. S. department of la
Dor to Investigate. and that the Ma
ras company, where the women were
employed, refused to remedy condi-
tons.
Whlteman Speaks.
We've got to fight to go forward, ,"
said Fitzpatrick in closing.
Lovett Whiteman of the Amer
lean Negro congress, and Mrs. Fannie
Warnettas, president of the union, adj
dressed the meeting by invitation.
A. r. OF /. Report Weak.
A written report on the A. F. of L.
convention was read at the meeting.
II contained very little of Importance.
and emphasized mainly the question
Of whether open shoppers Of Detroit
were more loyal during the world war
than unionists. The questions OF
Passaic aid, organization of auto
workers, and the speeches on Russia
we're omitted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
French Cabinet Fears
to Open Debt Question

PARIS, Oct. 1.-THE French gov
eminent will not ask for ratification
OF the British and American debt set
Elements before February, It was
learned authoritatively today.
The delay has been decided upon
in the hopes that the November
elections in the United States and the
French senatorial elections in Janu.
airy may change the situation.
The government, It is learned. has
made canvas Of the situation and
found that there is little chance OF
the present parliament ratifying the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
Polish Bandit slain.

WARSAW, Oct. 17.-zeilinsky. a
notorious Polish bandit. was slain by
police here in raid on bandit
party staged by the robber. In the
last few months, zeilinsky is said to
have committed numerous murders.
thefts, and burglaries in and near
Warsaw. His romantic inclinations
caused him to give a ball, and the
place was discovered by the police
Several Of his guests were also seri-
ously wounded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
Three Killed in Fight
in Monterey Legislature

MONTERREY. Mex, Oct. 17.-Thrse
persons were killed and several per-
sons were injured in a revolver bat
tie between opposing factions in the
state legislature here.
The battle occurred outside of the
legislative palace and followed a
heated debate during which charges
were made that the agents OF Gov
ernor Siller had made attempts to as
sassinate two deputies
Oscar Spulveda, chief clerk of the
chamber of deputies. a policeman
and bootblack were killed. A news
paper reporter who hurried out to
cover the story was seriously
wounded.