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Diplomacy of Kellogg

| rian legislation, the seizure Of Ameri-
| car.uwned hAciendaS, the status OF
American stockholders In Mexican cor
porations and Of American corporations
owning Mexican property, were unset
| tied and potent with misunderstanding
Linked with the controversy was the
Calve clause, on which the Mexican gov
eminent based It's concessions. Briefly,
this clause as to property obliged the
owner to be regarded as a Mexican
citizen and to undertake at no time to
make the property or any action taken
by the Mexican government the subject
Of diplomatic representations An APP
peal for diplomatic assistance was in
some cases penalized with forfeiture OF
the property.
Behind all this were the fundamental
distrust and Irritation on both sides OF
the border.
Morrow Reaches Agreement.
What Ambassador Morrow has done
In Mexico since his appointment by
President Coolidge through Secretary
Kellogg Is familiar to the average Ameri-
can newspaper, reader-except that the
United States Government has reached
controversy sufficiently satisfactory so
that e5 per cent of the oil production in
Mexico today is under new laws and
regulations. Because of the power and
influence oil companies have in the
United States, the readjustment of that
difficulty is an outstanding achievement
of Secretary Kellogg's term in Office.
But more important than all Ia the
fact that Ambassador Morrow has
been able to overcome great deal OF
the mistrust which has so long existed
between this country and Mexico. He
is returning to Mexico to continue the
work, an assignment which is perhaps
as important as that of Secretary OF
State. Good will and relations with
Latin America, which are better today
than In a score of years in the opinion
of some, start in Mexico.
almost year ago, published the fol-
lowing significant statement:
The petroleum regulations just
promulgated by President Gales con-
stitute executive action which COM
pletes the process beginning with the
decision made by the judicial branch
of the Mexican government on No
yernber II, 1927, and followed by the
enactment of the new petroleum law
by the legislative branch on December
26 last. Together these steps volun-
tarily taken by the Mexican govern
ment would appear to bring to prac-
tical conclusion the discussions which
began 10 years ago with reference to
the effect OF the Mexican. constitution
and laws upon foreign oil companies.
The department feels, as does Afnbas-
sador Morrow, that such questions, II
any, as may hereafter arise can be set
tied through the due operation of the
Mexican administrative departments
and the Mexican courts.
Tacna AFRICA Problem.
Tacna- africa was another Of Mr.. KEEL
logg's "inheritances" Chile and Peru
had never settled their differences over
this territory since 1888. In 1922 they
asked the President of the United
States to arbitrate and he agreed. Gen.
Pershing made his visit to africa as
chairman Of q plebiscitary commits
sion, but the plebiscite never mate
rallied and Gen. Pershing returned
to the United States in poor health.
| Gen. Lassiter, who succeeded Gen.
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tcontlnued FROM First pase.,

guam situation, Inherited" by the
frAy-haired, somewhat stopped Eecre-
fary Of State. American Marines had
been In Nicaragua since 1919. During
that year, when they stepped In to pro-
tect foreign lives and property, they
had serious clashes with opposing fac
tons. Matters quieted down between
1912 and 1925, but 100 Marines were
always at Managua as a legation guard:
This nettled all of Latin America, and
Il nettled the Nicaraguans. The ques.
ton was how to get the Marines out
of Nicaragua. Secretary Hughes had not
accomplished 1t, though 1t had been
promised for january /, 1925. 1t was
delayed at the urgent request OF Presi.
dent Solorzano, elected on coalition
ticket In November, 1924.
Secretary kellogg, upon his arrival at
the state Department from London,
took up the problem OF getting Ma
rfnes out OF Nicaragua. He accom-
plished 1t arbitrarily on August 4, 1925.
ls2s.
Nicaraguan order lasted three weeks
Friends of Gen. Chamorro, defeated
Conservative candidate. had expected
the withdrawal of the "leathernecks'
and had prepared. Liberal members OF
the SolorEano coalition cabinet were at
tending banquet on the night OF Au-
gust IS, when they were seized, together
by the Chamorro element and the for
ffler imprisoned.
Thereafter Chamorro progressed rap
fly toward power. Two months later
his forces took the fortress overlooking
the city of Managua, and on January
16, 1926, Chamorro assumed the duties
of office over the warnings and protest
Of the United States. American recog-
milton was withheld. Chamorro pro-
tested and held his own against the
Liberal revolutioniSts who opposed him.
The rest is fairly recent history.
Secretary Kellogg sent Henry l.. Slim
eon to Nicaragua The latter brought
the factions together and arranged for
the 1928 elections, supervised by an
American electoral commission headed
by Brig. Gen. Mccoy and q few Ma
fines. This election stabilized the situ-
alton in Nicaragua, and the question of
withdrawing American Marines now
passes to the Hoover administration.
If reports from Manila are correct.
that Gov. Gen. StimSon is returning to
the United States to be Secretary KEEL
loggis successor at the State Depart
ment, then the question of bringing
home the Marines will be one Of his
first preoccupations in office.
Relations Improved.
To the credit of the retiring Secretary
Of State is the fact that relations be-
tween the United States and Nicaragua
were never better than now. Both Con-
servatives and Liberals desire to keep
the Marines in their country until the
proper organization Of . guAfdia civil is
accomplished.
Better relations with Nicaragua may
well improve relations with Mexico-ia
fact, with all OF Latin America
Mexico is another Of the outstanding
sinheritances" Of the, retiring Secretary
Of State. What has happened?
The questions Of the current protec-
ton Of American interests in Mexico
and Of oil rights in the southern re-
public came to Mr.. Kellogg in the form
of indefinite and unfinished corre-
spondence when he took ONCE. The
problems which had arisen out Of agra
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0NE-MAN GRAND JURY
TO PUSH DEATH QUIZ
Adjourns Until Monday After Four
Days Investigation at
Detroit.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, February 16.--The one
man grand jury investigating the shoot
ing OF Ambrose Hagerty January 9
when he walked into an ambuscade Of
police awaiting gunner whom they ex-
pected to make an attempt upon the life
Of Ralph A. Wood, real estate dealer,
adjoafned yesterday after four days had
produced little apparent progress
The arnbuscade In which Hagerty was
killed was laid by police and State offi-
GERS acting upon tip given Wood by
Cecil Holt, his friend, who said he and
three gunner had been employed by
woods wife, Mrs. Grace M. Wood, to
abduct and kill him.
Subsequent arrest of Mrs. Wood, &C.
cusations by her that her husband had
participated in an $85 900 hold-up OF
the Sturgis, Mich, National Bank and
other developments led Judge Harry j
Dingeman to sit as grand jury to in
vestigate the shooting.
The investigation will be resumed
Monday.
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MAN STAYS HIS SISTERS
TO FORESTALL INSANITY
Nebraskan Feared for Mentality of
Entire Fami1y--Takes His
e1 Own Life.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr, February 16.-Frank
johnson, who feared insanity would
befall his entire family, went to hos
pitai late last night. shot and killed
two Of his sisters and then turnet
his pistol on himself.
One sister, Alma, as patien
under treatment for mental troubl,
Another, Edna, was hospital attache
A third sister, Hulda, has been a patien,
at the hospital for the insane at Hast
ings, Nebr., for q year.
Hospital authorities expected q friend
~ family gathering when johnson, a
Kearney, Nebr., farmer, called and asked
to see his sisters. The three had been
left in q room only few minutes, how
ever, when three shots were fred. Nurses
found the three bodies. An automatic
pistol was clutched IN Johnson's hand.
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WEEK TO GET HEARING.
Harsh Lawyers Fail to Appear to
Argue for New Trial.

ATLANTA, Ca, February is R.-
Attorneys for George r. Harsh, college
boy slayer of willard Smith in drug
store hold-up last october. failed to ap-
pear before Superior Judge E. d.
Thomas today to present arguments in
Import Of a motion for a new trial.
Taking cognizance of the voluminous
scords of the case. which we're COM
,leted yesterday, the court said he
uld allow opposing counsel week In
'hich to agree on another date for a
earring. The date for execution Of the
iealthy Milwaukee student was set at
Is trial last month for March is and
n the event the retrial motion is not
heard before that time, execution will
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Three Killed in Blast.

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, February
16 R.--An underground explosion be-
lieved to have been caused by a short
circuit killed three men today, injured
. dozen Of others and paralyzed traffic
here.
The population of part of the city was
thrown into excitement as windows were
shattered and balconies and roofs dam
aged. The explosion was near the canal,
whose locks and sluices were wrecked.
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Gen. sneed Heads Veterans.

CHARLOTTE N. c., February Is
R.-The appointment OF Gen. r. A.
sneed Of Oklahoma City. Okla, as COM
mander Of the transmississippi depart
ment of the United Confederate Vet
Grams was announced here yesterday.
letter from Gen. Harry Rene Lee Of
Nashville. Tenn, to Edmond r. Wiles
Of Charlotte, reunion manager.
Gen. Sneed succeeds Gen. j. A. Yea
ger Of Tulsa, Okla, who died recently.
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pathetic feeling toward Japan In Amer
lea today than In many years: Recent
debate on the naval cruiser bin In the
Senate indicated this by the absence of
any notable mention Of the dangers of
the Pacific All this perhaps did not
just happen. Some Of it is due to the
Kellogg diplomacy.
(CouyriRht, 1927
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automatically be stayed. The court an
nounced he would arbitrarily set q new
date for the retrial motion II attorneys
fail to agree to one. fEH4t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

In two weeks ending December 5,
New York State revoked s76 auto
licenses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Porto Rlcam Workers Paid
40 Cents q Day for Slavery

What has Wall Street imperial
ism, aided by the labor takers like
Marin and Iglesias, done to the
Porto Rican workers and pea
SAINTS? Our Porto Rican worker
correspondent tells some of the
results of Wall Street misrulc in
the following letter. part cf ~"
series he is writing for us on the
conditions of. the Porto kican
workers and peasants:
In spite of our little Mussolini,
the trusted servant of the American
moneyed class in Porto Rico since
the death of that "great" Pan-Amer-
lean bunkocrat, Luis Munos Rivera,
who had the nerve and audacity to
draft and tie our working class
youth to the bloody, imperialist war
chariot of the plutocratic, war-mon-
gering and jingoistic government of
Woodrow Wilson in the last bloody
world slaughter, against the will of
the Porto Rican masses, and who
never ceases to pray and hope that
some day Wall Street will honor him
with the job of being the first gov
ernor in the island of genuine Porto
Rican breed" and in spite of Santi-
ago Iglesias, who has already won
international recognition as a be-
trayer of Porto Rican and Latin
American labor, and in spite of
everything, the workers and pea
SAINTS of Porto Rico are becoming in
creasingly FESTIVE and militant
against the unbearable and despic-
able economic conditions systemat-
ically imposed upon them by the
dollar despots throughout the island.
/ Porto Rico is a wealthy country.
Notwithstanding the fact that it is
vastly populated, the island, it is
calculated, can feed and clothe more
inhabitants than what it is actually
holding now. in the fiscal year Of
1925, our total trade value, both with
the U. S. A. and foreign countries
amounted to the prodigious sum OF
$185, 323,545. These figures have re-
markedly increased with each sue.
cecding year.
Yes, we have a favorable trade
balance that helps to pay the inter.
est on municipal and government
bonds and other loans, fat politica
salaries, etc.
And the enormous and unheard- oi
profits and riches extracted ano
wrung from the toll of our working
and farming population, where does
ii go?
Does it save to better the condi
lions of to masses?
! Does it build roads, hospitals ant
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ever-increasing endemic diseases
rampant throughout the island.
All those profits, the fruit of hard
labor, are sent out of the island in
the form of dividend checks to alb
sentee landlords in the United States.
But the American bankers are not
yet satisfied. They want to extract
more profits from the sweat of our
workers, and since the catastrophe
cyclone of st. Phillips, the Ameri-
can corporations have reduced the
already meager and scanty wages
to nothingness.
Small town workers who were
paid so cents for hard days labor
before the horrid and gruesome hur-
ricane swept our little Borinquen,
are now lucky to receive % cents for
days wage. Plantation poems and
light factory workers, who were re-
ceiving wages of rs cenets to 81 a
day for 10 to ID hours day slavery,
are now forced to slave the same
amount of hours for 40 to 65 cents
day.
ITO BE Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
SLAVE HARD TO
even Get YOUR
PAY At FORD'S
Wait Over Half Hour
For Money
(By a Worker Correspondent

KEARNEY, N. J. (By MaiD.-
There are about 10000 workers
shaving for Henry Ford in his big
plant in Kearney. The day shifts
here are from seven in the morning
to $3.50 p. m. and from 1880 a. m.
to p. m.
The pay is a flat rate of S. day
for the first two months and after
that six dollars a day. There is a
five day week and of course you are
paid for only five days - and some
times six days of slavery a week.
They often work you overtime and
you are forced to take straight pay
- no time and a half here. You
work overtime at these rates or
quit.
The speed-up is terrible. Most
readers of the Daily Worker have
heard about the horrible belt sys-
TEN in the auto plants - which is
at its worst in a Ford plant. You
keep step with the next man, and
no delay, or out you go. You may
be feeling very sick; you may have
to go to the toilet, but no, you have
to keep your place at the belt for
the man holding things up is canned
Immediately.
If you are injured and go to the
company doctor at the Kearney
plant, he will not believe you are
hurt badly enough to stop working.
If he says you are not hurt or are
not sick, if you say you are sick,
and you want to go home, they tell
you: go home for good"
Then there is the waiting for pay.
You have to slave hard to make
your pay and then you have to slave
hard to get it on pay day. Over here
in Kearney they are paying three
different sets of workers on three
different days of the week. 1t is
all according to your check number.
On Tuesday they pay check num-
bers 1000 to 5000. On Wednesday
they pay check numbers 5000 to
| 1000. Then Thursday they pay
numbers 1000 to 10000. You have
to wait on line half or three quar-
ters of an hour to get the pay.
There are always 500 or more
unemployed worke-- waiting every
day outside the gate of Ford's, wait
ing to take the place of any worker
that is fired.
The workers in Ford's must try
to better their conditions, and they
can do so only through'a fighting
union. There is only one such union
- the Auto Workers Union. When
I found out that they were located
at SO Mercer ST., Newark, I quick
ly joined up, and it was the best
thing l ever did.
FORD SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
FORD EXPL OTIS
THOUSANDS IN
CHESTER, Pa, TOO
Stool Pigeons Are
Plentiful There
by a Worker Correspondent

/ y
CHESTER, Pa. (By MaiD.-Get-
ting a job in a Ford plant is like
going through the third degree if
you are what the capitalists call a
Criminal"
They ask you your life history,
who you are, what you are, why
you are. They don't want to let any
"agitators" slip in by mistake.
The speed-up in the Ford plant
here is fierce. You cannot stand
on your feet after day at the belt,
and after eight hours of torture,
when you figure here's where you
can at last go home and rest up
prior to the next days slavery. along
comes the pusher and says, "over-
time tonight, boys"
That amounts to saying, overtime
or get out, boys.
The lines of GLASSES bear down on
you continually; it seems like they'll
never stop coming. The belt brings
them to you; you've got to do the
thing that is assigned to you as
your job before it gets past you;
| if you don't the next man can't do
his job; if the line is held up they
may fire every man along it.
Due to this fact, the men next to
you curse you out if you slow down,
because they are liable to be fired
as well as you. Poor fellows. They
don't have any hard feelings against
you; it's a matter of bread and but
ter. If they were organized in a
real fighting union they'd know bet
ter. The Auto Workers Union, 1
mean.
l am at present making S. day,
having been here only little over
month don't know if I will last
long enough to be getting Sc day
eventually. If I don't there are
about 800 men always waiting out
side to grab my place.
The place is full of stool-pigeons
and special policemen of the com
pany watching you. If you feel like
dying horse, if you get cramps, you
can't leave your place on the line,
unless permanently.
There are many cases where
workers who are badly injured on
the job are given harder work in
order to get rid of them.
CHESTER FORD SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19

The first cinema revue has arrived
in New York and according to all
indications will be with us for many
months to come. 1t is the Holly
wood Revue" and is presented by
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer at the Aston
Theatre, where it is being wildly re-
ceived twice daily by enthusiastic
audiences.
The film has no plot and follows
the same procedure as revues shown
on Broadway by such gentlemen as
Flo Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll. 1t
is crammed full of entertainment
sketches, catchy songs and dynamic
dancing. While it is not as entertain
ing as most flesh and blood revues,
it proves the potential value of this
new type of film. The ordinary mo-
ton picture fan will eagerly well
come this kind of entertainment,
while the hard boiled legitimate
theatregoer will have to admit that
here is something new that has to
be given earnest consideration.
The cast of stars that are shown
in this picture equals any attempts
in the past to assemble well known
artists. To name a few: Marion
Davies, Norma Shearer, John Gil
bert, William Haines, Buster Keaton
and John Crawford. The all appear
in one sketch or another and help
liven up the evening.
1t is,difficult to state which sketch
has the most fun in it. However,
among the leaders must be placed
the burlesque on the balcony scene
from Romeo and Juliet" John Gill
bert and Norma Shearer are shown
in the balcony scene according to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
First Cinema Revue ShO1Un
VIII Haze a Long Run

Shakespeare. Suddenly Lionel Barry
more, the director, appears on the
stage and announces that it has
been decided to give the play in
modern words. What follows is a
riot of laughter.
Marie DRESSER, Polly Moran and
Bessie Love, appear in funny little
sketch called Marie, Polly and
Bess." Gus Edwards, is among
those present and contributes sew
eral songs to the general fun-feast.
Buster Keaton also contributes some
satire when he does riotous
dance of the Sea-" Joan Crawford
sings Scotia Feeling for You"
Charles King sings Your Mother
and Mine" and Conrad Nagel sings
"You Were Meant for Me-"
Marion Davies does not do much
except look pretty in snappy cos
tune when she appears in number
called Tommy Atkins on Parade"
She is assisted by very capable
male chorus.
Others who appear include Jack
Benny, Ukelele Ike, Anita Page, the
Bronx Sisters, Karl Dane, George
K. Arthur and the Albertina Rasch
Ballet.
The dances and the ensemble were
under the direction of Sammy Lee,
while Charles F. Reisner, held the
megaphone. The dialogue is by Al
Boasberg and Robert Hopkins.
In short: 1t will be a tremendous
money maker for M-G-M and will
be followed by f! I'd of other film
revues which will be the beginning
of a new epoch for the talking film
and more keen competition for the
legitimate stage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Police Brutality on
Workers Protested by
Toronto Labor Council

TORONTO, Ont, Aug. 1S.-A
resolution protesting to the mayor
and city council against police bru-
tality used to prevent free speech
demonstration in Queens park on
Tuesday night was last night adopt
ed at a meeting of the district labor
council here.
The resolution demands an in
quiry into the methods of the police
board.
Several thousand workers had
been brutally driven from the neigh
borhood of the stand in the park
when mounted police and motorcy-
clists rode through the crowd. Jack
Macdonald, Communist Party leader
who recently ran for local office
in free speech campaign, had
tried to speak in defiance of police
orders, but was beaten off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
NO. DAK,FA FARMERS
DISCUSSED WITH
mon -PARTISANS'
This Lea que Has
Proved Their Foe
(Bu Farmer Correspondent

by Farmer Correspondent
BLAISDELL, N. D. (By MaiD.-
The crop south of this village is
very poor and it isn't likely the
farmer will get more than his ex-
penses back when it is marketed.
North of Blaisdell the crop is some
what better, though very spotted.
In former years hundreds of har-
vest work } were to be seen in
many of the larger towns in the
wheat belt. Today there are very
few, the reasons being that the
farmer wants to get along with as
little help as possible, since he feels
he cannot afford to hire workers.
Secondly, the combine is eliminating
thousands of harvest workers. The
capitalist papers in North Dakota
are advertising for 10000 harvest
workers for this state this year,
but this is an exaggeration, as this
number is not required.
This section used to be one of
the strongholds of the Nonpartisan
League but the farmers now are
Disguised with the League because
it no longer fights for their inter
ests. They have also lost faith in
Townley because he gypped them
on the coil deal" Practically every
farmer here sunk from $50 to $1,000
in the Townley oil wells in North
Dakota. The United Farmer, which
is a real farmers paper, has ex-
posed this rotten deal.
During the last two decades the
small farmer has travelled the mort
gage route quite ! pidly and politi-
cally he has travelled through the
socialist party and the nonpartisan
league, and he has also had his fill
of the Farmers Union and the
Townley oil wells. He has been
shedding a lot of illusions and the
deck is clearing for action of
different sort. He is beginning to
discover, though as yet family,
that he must have a revolutionary
program and use revolutionary tao
tics in fighting his exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
SLAVE BUILDING ROAD
81 Hour Week IN East Mauch Chunk

a week.
The men working on building
roads are all unorganized. The
American Federation of Labor has
never bothered about trying to or
ganize these men whom the digni-
fled officials call "bums," merely
because these workers have to rely
only on temporary jobs, and are
sent by employment agencies to diff
ferent parts of the country to work.
The road laborers are at the mer-
cy of the dishonest employment
agencies as we'll as the bosses. They
have to pay as high as 10 per cent
Of their wages as fee.
Some day, we are hoping, we'll
be organized under the lead of the
Communist Party. - LABORER.