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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
Catholic Church, Morones, Allied With Wall
Street Imperialism

sassinate him twice during the last
two months.
His main enemies we're: The re-
dictionary clericals and the Catholic
church, which had been waging q
losing fight. Gales was beginning
to make important concessions to the
church, undoubtedly under the coach
ing of Morrow. They did not know
what treatment to expect from Obre-
gon.
Morones, the reactionary leader of
the Mexican labor movement, par
ticularly the Confederation Regional
Obrera Mexicana (CROM), was ex.
trcmely antagonistic to Obregon.
He had threatened to meet the as
cension to power of Obregon with
armed revolt. He was also candi-
date on the Labor Party ticket
controlled by Morones against Obre-
gon. Though he was the only candi-
date against Obregon, he received
about /, 900 votes. At recent ban
quet in honor of Obregon, charges
were made against Morones as being
tool of American capitalists
against a challenge that Morones
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
The Panhandling Trust.

It's rather funny when John D. Godfrey,
mendicant officer of the Brooklyn Bureau of
Charities, as quoted in capitalist newspaper
conducting campaign against panhandlers,
complains that 1000 beggars are making a
good living in New York City-chiefly from
panhandling in the subways. Just at the time
when the Interborough subway millionaires are
doing neat little "panhandling" job to COM
pei the payment of a 7-cent fare that will
mean an increase of 40 per cent in their gross
income or hundreds of millions of dollars, this
reference to subways looks suspicious. But
perhaps that is only secondary to Mr.. Godfrey.
His primary purpose appears to be the pro-
motion of the lucrative business of the "or-
gained charity" The charity monopoly is
losing something like S30,000,000 a year, &C
cordng to this complaint, which is being picked
up by pencil-peddlers or by plain moochers. The
crippled and broken victims of capitalism no
longer able to work and those unemployed who
may have given up hope of obtaining employ
ment, should still be slaves Of the charity trust,
according to the theory of the professional
charity organizers. Keep off the street, you
burns" they say in effect, 1--WE have mon
o-olv on handouts and mooches."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
BY HARRY CANNES
and LEON S. RUIZ.

When Jose de Leon Toral, the g.
year old art student, fired five shots
into the body of Alvaro Obregon
president-elect of Mexico on July
18th, what a sigh of relief must
have escaped from the breast OF
Wall Streets ambassador to Mexico
Dwight Morrow!
Let us not be mistaken about
Obregon. He was not the foremost
enemy of American imperialism in
Mexico. His own pockets had been
lined through the sweat and blood of
the Mexican peasants. Obregon
found the revolution of 1910 profit
able to him; it not only gave him
political power but wealth. At the
same time, he had the support OF
Mexico's revolutionary armed pea
SAINTS. He was the national unifying
force of these peasants. He based
his power upon their armed strength
Oregon was by no means tool in
the hands of Morrow such as Macha-
do, president ca Cuba, is in the cllt-
ches of Wall Street.
Murder of Obregon Political.
The murder of Obregon was not
an accident or a personal matter
The combined enemies of the one
armed general had attempted to as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
Mexican Working Class Must Fight Reactonaries

his cronies was forced to quit gov
eminent positions in the Gales
cabinet. He is reported to be in
hiding in Mexico City, Morones is a
friend of American imperialism and
an ally and warm supporter of
Green of the A. F. of l.. He is one
of the most reactionary leaders of
the Pan-American Federation of
Labor, outstripping at times Green
in todying to U. S. bankers. When
Dwight Morrow came to Mexico
Morones did everything he could to
win his favor. Morones ordered the
GROIN to demonstrate in honor of
Morrow when the partner of Nor
gan first came to Mexico.
All Deny Guilt.
Morrow, Morones and the Catholic
Church disclaim any knowledge of
the murder and call upon the gov
eminent to punish the guilty.
Whichever was responsible for the
crime, all three are pleased. We
state categorically that the clergy is
guilty of the crime.
Who is Obregon? Both Gales and
Oregon had fought together in va
rious phases of the 1910 revolution
which ultimately established the pre-
sent Mexican government. In late
years, however, there had developed
important differences in the policies
of Oregon and Gales. Both Gales
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

made against Obregon.
The blame for the murder OF
Obregon was first laid to the church
by the chief of police when he said
he was already in a position to
make public that the responsible,
for the crime belongs to the catholic
clergy" These vew same catholic
clergy had been dancing quadrilles
around Wall Street, and were not
averse to. a few murders to bring
back the happy days in Mexico when
everything was owned by the church
In later days, they were willing to
divide this honor with Wall Street.
on the assurance of support from
this quarter.
Msrones Friend of U. S.
Imperialism.
But now new charges have been
made. Contrary to the usual custom
the assassin has not been executed
summarily, but is being held in the
hope of further confessions. Open
charges against Morones are being
hurled from the Obregonist camp.
He is called the psychological author
of the crime" Morones with some of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

ALL military training) Just as fun
damentally as we are to bourgeois
mllltarism and in fighting against
the influence of bourgeois nilitar-
ism and jingoism over the working
class youth, we must at the same
time fight just as energetically
against the influence of pacifism.
Pacifism is a deadly poison to a
class fighting for its emancipation;
in present-day relations pacifism is
most useful support and prop for
imperialism. To break the pacifist
illusions of many elements of the
working class youth and to win the
youth away from both jingoism and
pacifism to the revolutionary class
struggle is one of our most import
ant tasks.
BECAUSE of perspective of revo-
- lutionary struggle, we are will
ing, yes, anxious, to have the pro-
letarian youth learn the use of
arms-especially the most advanced
sections of the young workers-for
this training on the part of the
working class is very necessary
prerequisite for the proletarian rev.
olution. "The bourgeoisie has mill
tarized the entire people-now it is
militarizing the youth. Tomorrow,
perhaps, it will militarize the -wo-
men. So much the better. So
much the faster do things go for
vard-so much nearer is the armed
uprising against the bourgeoisie''
Uenin). Our main task, of course,
is to prevent the young workers who
are being militarized from becom-
ing traitors to their class; it con-
sists in winning them for the pro-
letarian class struggle and getting
them to use their training for the
benefit of the workers and not
against their own class. This is
cur main task and this attitude is
in no contradiction tom the con-
trary, it clearly falls in with--our
bitter and most determined struggle
against new imperialist wars and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

THE Childs' restaurants began to
lose customers. The old racket
of Gathering dishes degenerated into
a faint murmur. The starched
mattresses stood around listlessly
or, as soon as stray customer
made for the door darted to his va
cant place in the trail of the lone
some dime. Childs, a chronic
vegetarian thought things were go
ing alright. Being fanatic he
would risk his stockholders fortunes
rather than haul down the cauli-
flower banner. But his stockhold-
ers went to bat and demanded that
the embargo on meat be raised.
They had not thing in the world
against vegetables, they insisted.
But neither had they anything
against meat, and if the customers
insist on pork and beans, veal stew
or small steak, why not let them
have it? So meat is returning to
the Childs' menu. 1t is marching
back with drums beating and the
pens of publicity men flying, in the
act of writing its praises. A tre-
mendous advertising campaign will
be carried on to sell meat to the
public who were led to believe by
previous Childs' advertising cam
paign that it just stopped of being
deadly poison. Childs has learned
from some mysterious source that
the use of meat is not the cause
of all human ailments but the abuse
IF II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

bourgeois militarism.
1t is not, however, for the actual
military instruction, that military
training was included in our schoot
curriculum. We realize very well
that under present conditions and
for the next period of time, the
chief way for us to obtain military
instruction is in the military organ
izations of the bourgeoisie Irregular
forces, National Guard, military
schools, R. o. T. c., G. M. T. c.,
etc.. (Of course, as Comrade Cor
kic points out, Jugendinternationale
May, 1928, the sending of our com
rades into these bourgeois military
institutions implies no rejection
whatever of the attempt to set up a
class organization of the proletariat
tc provide military training for
young workers"). Our chief reason
for including military instruction in
our schools is to make clear, in a
way that mere teaching cannot it
self accomplish, to the students, to
the league as whole, and to the
young workers, our feminist posi-
ton on the question of militarism
and our complete differentiation
from the pacifists. And here also
we are having success.
Correcting Pacifist Errors.
THE American league has had some
experience with pacifism. 1t was
not so very long ago that we were
very correctly branded as having
committed some of the worst pacif-
list errors-and the fault was not
all ours, but was shared by the
whole movement. Since then. how
ever, under the closest direction of
the Young Communist International,
we have gone a good way towards
stamping out the last remnants of
pacifism in our own league ranks,
and in carrying on broad propa-
ganda of the feminist principles of
nilitarism and war among the
young workers, but we can even
now record to our credit some sue
cess in actual anti-militarist activi-
ties, some noteworthy accomplish
md1ts. But the important thing
above all is that we are on the
right track. -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
''That Is Diplomacy"

The Mexican newspaper Excelsior published
Saturday an editorial in which it licked the
boots of the Wall Street ambassador, Morrow.
Mr. Morrow's work makes us say, that is
diplomacy" says the newspaper in a spirit
which makes us want to inquire into it's
sources of income.
The editorial is virtual declaration that the
real successor of the murdered Obregon as
president of Mexico is none other than Dwight
w. Morrow.
To quote few passages:
Mexico not discard that confidence
which Ambassador Morrow has placed in
since he has come among and learned to
know us. That dignity, that bravery that calm
which Mr.. Morrow found in the Mexican people
following the murder of President-elec Obre-
gon should convert to complete discipline
and unanimous cooperation with legal orders.
Civilized peoples distinguished from bar
barous by their acceptance of laws.
THE Ambassadors words call us to
sponsibity, and constitutional cour-
try if we do not heed them.
"Our great task is to unmask the ideas of
those who undisciplined and to show our
politicians that their greatest duty is to merit
the confidence of the outside world"
So the actions of J. P. Morgan and Co.'S part
ner SHOULD convert Mexico to complete dis
cipline." Whose discipline? Morgans 1.-THE
ambassadors words call us to our RESPONSE
bility. :" Responsibility" to whom? To
a foreign power-to the United States.
And those who are undisciplined' I'M
questionably are those Mexicans who refuse
to accept the discipline that Dwight W. Nor
row, impudent imperialist from Wall Street
is trying to force upon Mexico. The bold truth
is that Morrow, in his dual capacity as repre-
sentative of the International Bankers and of
fbo Init 0to+0 -
Mexico with carefully yelled military threats
$50 carefully yelled at present that the Elk
celsior says: Thanks to him the American
government has lost that aggressive attitude
with which at times it confronted us'') as well
as by the subtle pressure that the banking
monopoly can WELD upon a nation in financial
need.
The newspaper Excelsior has virtually de-
clared program of punishment of any ''un-
disciplined portion of the Mexican population
that may fail to bend the knee to the Wall
Street ambassador. The suggestion is obvious
that the workers in plants held by United
capitalists, and peasants whose demands for
land might conflict with illegal orders" as con-
ceived by Morrow, will very likely come into
conflict with the new discipline"
In the few but fast-moving days that have
elapsed since Obregon's assassination, Mexico
has been dragged many degrees toward COM
plete subsection as Wall Street colony under
dictatorship appointed directly from Wash
ington.
The Mexican masses are yet to be heard
from. And there is strong reason to think
that the Gales government is trying to stifle
the voice and still the actions of the masses
by suppressing gatherings and trying to com
pei both workers and peasants to "let Gales
do it."
Inactivity of the workers and peasants of
Mexico now would mean to "let Morrow do it."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

&c
THE decision to incorporate some
elementary forms of military
training (drill, etc. into the cur
riculum of the Young Workers
(Communist) League Sum m r
Schools has caused a certain amount
of surprise and perhaps trace of
opposition among even some sec
tons of the party membership. This
reaction is not entirely unexpected.
America, Land of Pacifism.
America is the classic land of
pacifism. In America petty bour-
geois pacifism has unfortunately
left deep traces on the labor move
ment and even on the more advanced
elements. We cannot here go into
the well-known historical reasons
for this, but it is an obvious fact
that until the influence of the pro-
letariat revolution in Russia began
to be left in America practically the
entire opposition to militarism and
war in the labor movement revolved
within the narrow limits of pacif-
ism; it is characteristic that Con
scientious objection" developed as
the most popular and recognized
weapon" against the world war.
Really revolutionary ideas on mill
tarism and war came to the fore
only towards the end of the war
when the most elementary lessons
of Bolshevism and the Russian rev.
olution began to absorbed. 1t needs
no long discussion to prove that in
the American movement traditions
of pacifism are strong and tradi-
tons of neutrality-suspicious.
struggle against bourgeois militar-
ism and imperialist war very weak.
Pacifism, still exercises its influence
in the labor and revolutionary move
ments. =.
Pacifist Opposition to Training.
The "shock" some feel when they
hear of the military training in the
league schools is clear manifesto
ton of these pacifist remnants.
Some Immediately raise the ques-
ton: 'But isn't the league
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
Oppressed Must Learn Use of Arms to Cast
Off Slavery
Off Slavery

AGAINST military training? What
kind of face will you have when,
on the one hand, you fight military
training in the City College of New
York and other colleges, and, on the
other, you institute military train
ing in your own schools? 2" Others,
however. are not so naive, they
are 'sfor" the military training Gin
principle"-but they raise all kinds
of arguments against it Gin prac-
tice"-"We aren't prepared for it
now" It'll bring all kinds of
trouble" and so on, arguments
that amount to the same thing in
the end.
TO produce such "shocks" was pre-
cisely one of the objectives for
instituting military training in our
schools; that is, to dramatize in
clearest possible form our feminist
position on militarism and to utilize
this to effect real work of clarifi-
cation. Already some good results
in this direction have been obtained.
Not Against All Militarism.
Our feminist position on militar-
ism and war is very clear aad GER
tain. We are NOT against war and
against militarism "as such" We
are against IMPERIALIST war;
we are against BOURGEOIS mill
tarism ii. e., the INFLAMMATION of
the proletarian and farmer youth to
fight in the interests of the bour-
geois-ie). But we are in favor of
REVOLUTIONARY wars (wars of
oppressed colonial peoples against
the imperialist powers, civil wars of
proletarian revolution); we are in
favor of the military training of
the proIetarian youth to learn to
use arms in the interests of their
class and against the bourgeoisie.
"An oppressed class that does not
strive to learn to use arms -. de-
serves to remain in slavery" lien
I'M. We are therefore opposed to
pacifism (Which opposes, "as a
matter of principle" ALL war and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
>&,sO&&.H

and Oregon favored the importa-
ton of American capital, and the
Cancellation of U. S. Imperialism.
They did not support the same
groups. Gales supports Wall Street
outright. Morrow has won Gales
over and seems to be bending him to
the Wall Street wind. Obregon had
a. weakness for the western brand of
United States bankers. He favors
the Standard Oil of California and
the California bankers.
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

THE nation wide chain of Childs
restaurants has deserted the
vegetarian cause and has taken back
to its bosom the prodigal meats that
were banished by the founder of the
marble-tiled hasheries. Tho it costs
money to dine in those starched
emporiums one gets an education
thrown in with the meal. Childs dis
covered that meat was bad for the
human system and not so good for
the cashiers cage. Vegetables could
be purchased more cheapIy than
meats and little propaganda would
make the patient like a vegetarian
dinner as well as couple of pork
chops or sirloin of beef
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

RUT the COMPOUNDED customers
- would not be saved. After leav-
ing the best part of a dollar in
Childs joint the diner went away
only partly satisfied and since
human nature is what it is it is
very doubtful if the people can ever
be converted to the idea that they
are better off hungry than with con-
tented tummies. A customer would
leave Childs with crouch and re-
air to the nearest Nedick stand for
glass of pineapple juice and
shot dog" He would have his meat.
pUT the COMPOUNDED customers
- would not be saved. After leav-
ing the best part of dollar in a
Childs' joint the diners went away
only partly satisfied and since hui
man nature is what it is it is very
doubtful if the people can ever be
converted to the idea that they are
better off hungry than with con-
tented tummies. A customer would
leave Childs' with a crouch and re-
pair to the nearest Nedick stand for
a glass OF pineapple juice and shot
dog" He would habe his meat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07

GENERAL MOTORS would like to
= eat its cake and still have it. If
Al Smith wins G. M. will have a
latch key to the back door of the
White House and the prestige ac-
cruing to an organization that
motored president into the execu-
tive mansion will be worth millions
of dollars in advertising. But in the
meantime, General Motors wants to
sell automobiles and lest fanatical
Republicans might turn to the lowly
flivver, Mr.. Sloan, president of G.
M. warns its employees that the
name of the corporation must not be
used in the election campaign.
General Motors intends to remain
neutral even if one of the several
floors of the G. M. building is &C.
cupied by the Democratic National
Campaign Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
Told You So

RY the time this appears in print
the meeting of the executive
council of the A. F. of L. held in
Atlantic City may have adjourned
and some decision reached regard
ing the capitalist candidate to be
supported this year by the "bona-
fide" labor leaders. Or, as is threat
ened, they may postpone final judg-
ment until they hear the acceptance
speeches of Hoover and Smith over
the radio.
THEY decided one important cues
: ton, however. They voted to raise
fund of $150,000 to erect a marble
statute of the late Sam Gompers,
The funny thing about poor Sam is
that since his death the fund to rig
up separate corner in the league of
nations headquarters in Geneva in
his honor is not yet much more than
ninety eight cents. Unless one of
the members of the executive coun-
Gil has a sculptor in the family we
fear that marble will not experience
bull market as a result of the A. F.
of L. decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-07
Military Training at the Leagues Schools

By WILL HERBERG
AN oppressed class that does
not strive to learn to use arms
deserves to remain in slavery"
--LENIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

Where closet room is lacking. and
sometimes also where it is plentiful,
open shelves are often one of the archi-
tectural features of a room. 1t Is
usually the task of the occupant and
not the designer of the house to make
this feature pleasing to the eye. Not
always is it possible to have such
shelves contain things beautiful in
themselves. yet. even so, it is not be-
yond possibility to have the shelves
decorative.
If the shelf to be considered is plain.
one is more fortunate than if it were
fancy. There was a period in Ameri-
can architecture when shelves of the
most ornate sort were given prefer
cnce. If the shelf or mantle full of
geWgaws can be Supplanted by plain
one, though it be but plain painted
board, the decorative possibilities are
5ettered.
The shelf treatment advocated today
IS especially appropriate in bedrooms,
pullman dining rooms and the living
rooms of such informal homes as are of
cottage nature or of old-fashioned de-
sign rejecting the colonial It is
charming in Southern bungalows where
cretonnes and chintZ flourish inside
even as the flowers do out. In other
lords, it is for these places where
coziness rather than forrnality is the
KEYNOTE.
The shelf or shelves are given
border of figured glazed chintz of di-
.Ainutive pattern. The lower edge is
cut in a shallow scallop, which, if
The material mentioned is used in
fine quality. will not fray, and there
fore requires no further finish. 1t is
'ut on perfectly plain, and for the
Ike of firmness the upper edge is
'r:lod in as it is secured to the Shelf