The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-12
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WORK FOR LATIN AMERICAN UNION TO FIGHT U. 5.
IMPERIALISM; FEAR INTERVENTION FOR OIL GRAB

involved-although manifestly neither
Mexico, Venezuela nor Colombia, ag-
ricultural nations, have very extensive
needs for oil. The Board entirely
pverlooks the Latin American objec-
ton that Gil is natural resource,
given by nature and from which all
the people should benefit.
That oil is the major factor in
American diplomacy in Mexico and the
Caribbean, becomes more apparent
every day. The entire Mexican prob
lem is now in the hands Of undersec-
rotary of State Robert E. Olds-he
who issued the famous don't-quote-me
interview regarding Mexico, challeng-
ing American hegemony of the Carib-
bean, which inflamed Mexican-Amer-
lean relations last spring and brought
intervention so close that enthusiastic
militarists here almost smelled the
gunpowder. Odds may go to Mexico
as ambassador himself, so important
in the eyes of the state department is
the struggle over who should control
Mexico's oil-Mexico herself, or the
Mellon oheny- Sinclair-Standard Oil
combination.
Work for Latin-American Union.
The oil struggle in the Caribbean is
approaching a crisis expressed best in
the words of Jose Bejarano, secretary
of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce
of New York in a speech before the
anti-imperialist conference of the Peo-
pies Reconstruction League in Wash
ington last week:
"a period is rapidly approaching in
the history of Mexico which will final
ly decide the fate not only of Mexico,
but of many Latin-American coun-
tries; it will either be the epoch of
economic emancipation or the begin
ming of the collapse of the entire
Latin-American race. American i'm
perialism will not be mainly to blame.
To protest against the imperialism of
the United States because of Amer
lean invasion-political commercial,
economic and ideological-into our
countries, is like protesting against
the clouds when it rains and our roofs
are leaky."
In that last line is a prediction
either of Mexico's slavery, or of a
Latin-American union for defense
against American imperialism. Prob
ably Bejarano sees the apparent in
evitability of the collapse of the
Latin-American race" in the unequal
struggle against American oil barons
and battleships.
Governor-General Wood will never
return to the Philippines to take up
the reigns of dictatorship again.
While the President has salved the
broken old mans pride with public
assurances that he will be allowed to
return to Manila, it is certain that he
will not.
Wood and Coolidge are in complete
disagreement over military rule in
the islands, Carmi Thompson, who
sleuthed through the archipelago
for Coolidge, reported sharply on
| Woods cavalry cabinet" and urged
civilian rule under the Department of
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complete independence, would prefer
Department of State rule, in order to
recognize their foreign" status. Per-
haps Secretary Hoover, who has cor
rallied nearly everything loose in
Washington, will capture the Philip
pines for his Department of Com
merce.
Disgraceful tales of Cavalry cab
met rule continue to pour out of
Manila. Acting Governor-General E.
A. Gilmore is even more Grass in his
military despotism than Wood. He
barred Filipino reporters from a din
ner given the third congressional
party to visit the islands this sum-
mer. One cameraman succeeded in
entering, but a member of the
cavalry cabinet kicked over his cam
era and smashed it to bits. A fight
followed with police and secret ser
vice men called.
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