The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-28
BUILDING TRADES BOSSES OPEN WAR ON UNIONS
EUentS
By T. J. o'FLAHERry.


THE presidents speech at United
APress Association banquet was not
in the least disappointing. Its liter
airy style measured up to the high
standard set by the late, lamented
President Harding, the idol of the
tenants and guests of the "little
green house on X. street" Five
millions of people may have listened
to it provided they had their ears to
their radio sets, or did not go to
sleep at their switches before the
lnorphean effort was over.
MR.. COOLIDGE assures us that the
M United States has no imperialistic
ambitions. What nation has for that
matter? Capitalist powers are al
ways getting misunderstood. Take
England for instance So many
charges of greed and grabbing have
been levelled against her that large !
sections of the worlds population have
come to associate the British empire
with oppression and exploitation.
But any British cabinet minister
even our dear Ramsay Macdonald
will tell you that it is all beastly
conspiracy against the policeman of
the world
MO SIR, take it from Cal" the |
" United States is not hurting hot
shot into crowded Chinese streets for
any other purpose than to help the
Chinese free their country from i'm
perialism. Our marines are in Mic
aragua because the Nicaraguans
want them there. They are not
interfering in the internal affairs
Of that country; they only insist that
the rival parties only conduct war
where nobody is liable to get hurt,
least of all the reactionaries. Surely
This is most worthy service for our
marines to be engaged in.
I'VE have nothing but the most
peaceful attitude towards Mexico
1t is true that we threaten war
against our southern neighbor occa-
Bionally and there is strong sus-
picion that our secretary of state has
issued instructions to his agents in
Mexico to do everything in their
power to foment uprisings against the
Gales government, but perhaps this
is playful way the genial and jovial
Coolidge has of showing the Mexicans
that we are not the stilted folk our
Latin neighbors think we are; that
we are jolly bunch of handshakers,
Oack-slappers and practical jokers who
cannot refrain from horse-play even
in diplomacy.
THE president informs us that he
has had assurances from the Next
can government that the property of
the American oil, mining and land
barons would not be confiscated In
which case the generous Wall Street
administration would cease encourag-
ing civil war in Mexico and might
even hint to the pope that their united
front is off for the time being. Per-
haps the threats of war, of lifting
the arms embargo and the financial
measures taken by Wall Street had
its effect and renders military
measures unnecessary.
MR.. COOLIDGE upbraided a section
IVA Of the American press, which hap
pens to be less under the thumb of
big business than the rest, for
eriticising his administration foreign
policy. Listen to this gem: when
ever any section of our press turns
a - =
institutions and assumed foreign at
titude every informed person knows
that 1t has fallen from the high estate
which is our common heritage, and
becoming no longer worthy of regard,
Is destined to defeat and failure.
\ THE mild criticisms made of Cool
\ ! idge's policy by section of the
capitalist press was not in favor of
powers that could render favors. II
wars in behalf of the weak countries
that, were being ground into the dust
by the armed forces of the Amer1-
can Empire. And speaking Of selling
ones country, this jibe comes with
poor grace from an executive who
crouched silently in the white house
while hurricane Of Indignation over
the sale Of part of the national
domain by some of his cabinet col
leagues swept the nation and called
for the punishment Of the guilty
ones.
CooLIDGE'S speech was no disap-
y pointment to those who know the
ways Of capitalist diplomacy. He has
sympathy for China but he says it
with bullets. He shows his friendship
for Nicaragua by sending marines
there. This is the difference between
Imperialism in words and imperial
Ism in action. The policy of Ameri-
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