The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-06

! DRESlDENT Coolidge claims the
L United States is maintaining a
huge fleet of warships in Nicara-
guam waters to protect American
lives and property" Secretary Of
State Kellogg supports this claim
and gives all possible aid, thru his
department, in support of the actual
Intervention by Rear Admiral Lati-
mer, who has been busy establish
ing neutral zones" thruout that
harrassed Central American repub-
lie.
1t is perfectly clear, however, that
whatever U. S. property exists in
Nicaragua is there for the purpose
of exploiting the native population
and resources. The American
lives" endangered are those of the
agents of the exploiters who them
selves remain at a safe distance
here at home in "the states"
The Washington government,
being the instrument Of the profit
takers, is organized and maintain
ed to protect the interests of the
exploiters. But that is exactly the
reason why all American labor
should develop its fight against the
exploiters at home by opposing the
attack Of this same class Of pillag-
ers of the Nicaraguan people.
Workers and farmers join in
combat against the mine owners,
railroad barons, bankers at home.
They can develop this struggle by
joining forces with those combat
ting these same interests abroad.
1t is shown that fruit companies,
railway and banking interests con-
stitute the principal connections be-
tween the United States robber in
terests and the Nicaraguan people.
1t is the same connection that pro-
duced the historic strike of textile
workers at Passaic, New Jersey,
when the police, with poison gas
and armored tanks were ordered
out, instead of warships and the
marines, to do the fighting for the
master class.
Robert w. Dunn, in his book
American Foreign Investments"
details American imperialist inter
ests" in Nicaragua.
He shows that the United Fruit
Co. has 171,000 acres of unimproved
land with an approximate invest
ment of $4,000 according to its
own report.
The Atlantic Fruit Co. has $4,000
acres under cultivation, while the
Cuyamel Fruit Co. imports bananas
which are grown by the New Or
leans and Bluefelds Fruit & Trans
portation Co. "a subsidiary of Cuya-
nell the latter company holding in
its own name about 10000 acres of
land in Nicaragua.
The Central American Exploita-
tion Co. has a concession" cover
ing four million acres. The La Luz
and Los Angeles Mining Co.. owned
by Melons friends in Pittsburgh,
has been producing since 1901. The
Gold Mines Co. has carried on some
exploration work. Contracts for the
exploration of petroleum lands were
signed in 1923 between an American
company and a subservient Nicara-
guam government, the territory COW
cred being about 100000 hectares.
The Tonopah Mining Co., a large
American concern owing a majority
of the 100000 stock of the Eden
Mining Co., has also carried on
construction work in the gold fields.
1t owns controlling interest in the
Tonopah Nicaragua Co., operating
the Santa Rita mines.
The Pacific Railway or National
Railway of Nicaragua, In which
American bankers formerly shared
control, Is again nominally in the
hands OF the government, but under
the management of ]. G. White e.
Co., bankers. The fruit companies
have short branch lines. New rail-
road extensions are being contract
ed for between the government
and an American corporation, no
tably the pan-American railway.
The Brangmann's Bluff Lumber
Co., in 1923, obtained concession
thru Leroy T. Miles for 10000 hec-
tares of nationally-owned land. An
oil concession was granted Robert
]. Mckinley of Kansas in 1924.
The Central American corpora
ton owns $4,000 acres in lands de-
voted to banana, sugar cane and
pineapple cultivation.
Altho the National Bank of Mic
aragua, formerly controlled by
Brown Bros. & Co. and J. and w.
Seligman g. Co., was bought back
by the Nicaraguan government In
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