The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-31
BOOKS
LATIN AMERICA: MEN AND
MARKETS. By Clayton Sedgwick
Cooper. CHM and Co.

MARKETS. By Clayton Sedgwick
Cooper. CHM and Co.
TRADE and investments are the two
methods used by American imper-
ialism to gain control of the wealth OF
South America. In the field of in
vestments the United States, as the
greac creditor nation, has no rival.
But there is still trade competition,
particularly from Germany and Eng
land who were there before America
got in.
The present volume is a handbook
for the American manufacturer who
wants to capture some of the trade
of South America. 1t furnishes him
with a variety of information rang
ing from the history and geography
of each of the South American coun-
tries to the correct way to tie a par
cel-post package. The proper forms
of social etiquette to be used in ap-
preaching a Latin business man are
gone into in considerable detail. The
breaking down of his sales resistance
is facilitated by choice passages on the
mass psychology of each country, its
culture, and the sports that lis peo-
pie engage in. Suggestions as to
cheap raw materials produced by each
country and the kind of manufactured
cluded. Various facilities open -
Americans are mentioned such as the
credit facilities of the National City
Bank which has over a hundred
branches in South America.
We recommend this book to any as
piring American business man who
wants to get some of the gravy of
American imperialism in South Amer
lea. We can also add what he may
not know since it is no, mentioned in
the book-that his trade will be back
ed up by lot of South American
capitalists and politicians who are tied
hand and foot to the North American
credit sys-em; and if they don't be-
have, by few nice regiments of ma
rines who are just finishing up little
job in Nicaragua and will soon be
ready for service elsewhere.
CY OGDEN.
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RY arrangement with Ralph Chaplin,
noted l. w. w. poet, his collection
of verse "Bars and Shadows" is being
re-issued by the International Labor
Defense in two new large editions.
This stirring proletarian verse was
written by Chaplin while he himself
was class-war prisoner in Leaven-
worth penitentiary. The new edition
includes the introduction by Scott
Nearing.
THE January February issue of "The
Party Organizer" is just off the
press. 1t is special 24-page issue
and contains material of great inter
est to the work of every Party func-
tionary and every active Communist.
The leading article is by Jay Love-
stone, executive secretary of the
Workers (Communis9 Party, outlin-
ing the political and economic situa-
ton of the Party and the immediate
tasks before it; an article dealing
with the -Ruthenberg Memorial
Drive, giving in detail the plans and
methods of activity of the drive and
the duties of all the various depart
ments, district Party subdivisions,
and individual members.
A very important section is devoted
to the report from the field, includ-
ing report of Field Organizer Pat
Devine, on his tour in ahe anthracite
mining region and very detailed
QUESTIONABLE giving the report of ac-
tivity of the last four months Of the
Kansas-Colorado district. Also ar
ticles dealing with mass activity and
problems of the Party by Bedacht
and Oehler, the latter active in the
Colorado strike and district organizer
of the Kansas-Colorado district. There
is also an important announcement
dealing with the Party activities.
District committees are urged to
order Immediately from the National
Office. All members are urged to
secure a copy.
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