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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02
u. S. LURES FALLEN
MEXICAN LEADERS
Gen. Iopete Is in Movies,
Caraveo and Manzo Run
Filling Stations.
Special Dispatch to The star.


MEXICO CITY, May 2.-PerhapS no.
where better than in Mexico can an
illustration of the fickleneSs Of fame
and fortune be found. In this republic,
that during its brief period of inde-
pendence has found itself engaged in
one internal disturbance after another,
generals have risen and fallen over
night.
Scores of Mexico's once famous gen.
erals and public officials are now exiled
in foreign lands. most of them in the
United States. Their once envied top
notch position in Mexico shattered when
they guessed wrong and allied them
selves with the wrong side in one or
another revolution, former generals are
now trying to exc out an existence by
dispensing gas and soda pop or by
teaching Spanish.
But there are few exiled generals and
politicians who have lost their love for
their native Mexico. They may have
listing Mexican government that led to
their Punishment from Mexico, but in
very few cases do they cease trying to
seek pardonS to be permitted to enter
their native land. The Mexican gov
eminent has permitted many former
rebel leaders to return to Mexico upon
promise to keep clear Of politics, but
for the most part official Mexico is
slow to permit such return from exile.
Return of Body Barred.
There is the case of "President-Dicta
tor" Pofirio Diaz, who was at the helm
Of the Mexican ship of state until his
fall in 1911, when Francisco 1. Madero
headed a revolution that ushered into
power the present So-called 'revolu-
tionary" government of the republic.
Gen. Diaz was exiled to Paris, where
he died Of broken heart. Since that
time constant efforts have been made to
return his bones to Mexico, but MeXi-
can oficialdom to date has refused the
request.
The last revolution in Mexico, which
was In full sway about a year ago, led
to the exile Of many generals who once
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when he fell. He Is said to have stored
away a portion Of his money in United
States banks. Much Of his property,
however, including o valuable ranch,
has been seized in connection with his
1929 revolution activities.
HueTta Teaching Music.
Former President Adolfo de Ia Huerta
Is now teaching music in Los Angeles.
Exiled with him is Gen. Enrique Es-
trada, former secretary Of war and at
one time in possession of as great q
power as perhaps any one In Mexico
has ever held. Gen. Estrada is now an
automobile mechanic in California.
Gen. Ramon B. ArnaiZ, also exiled
with De Ia Huerta, Is in the theatrical
business in Los Angeles.
Jorge Prieto Laurens, famous orator,
who is sometimes termed the Mexican
Boraf, is life insurance agent in Los
Angeles. He is a former member OF
the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico.
Gen. Marcelino Murrieta Is a jew
eler, as he was in his pre-revolution
DAYS in Mexico. He was once chief of
customs at Ciudad Juarez, opposite FL
Paso, Tex.
Col. Mariana Monteroi Villar, for
merly a prominent politician in Mex
leo, is linotype operator in New York.
Juan Manuel Alvarez del Castillo,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02

former diplomat and at one time leader
Of the Chamber of Deputies, IL now
teaching Spanish In Washington, D. G.
Ricardo Topete, Gen. Faust0s
younger brother. also at one time leader
Of the Chamber of Deputies, is in the
ice cream and candy business in Ha-
vana. With him in Havana is Ruben
Vizcarra, former party leader, who is
in the money exchange business now.
There are many others. They fall
overnight from the pinnacle Of power
in Mexico. And as long as revolutions
continue to spring up in Mexico the
fickleness of fame and power Is destined
to continue its prowess In the republic.
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SEEKS $12,00O,00O LOAN
Lisbon Authorities Negotiate With
Swedish Match Trust.

LISBON, May R.-The govern
ment has opened negotiations with the
Swedish-American Match Co. for q
loan of $12,Ooo,ooo. The announced
object of the loan Is the sterilization
OF the escudo. In return, In addition
to the current rate Of interest. the
match company will receive Q partial
MONOPOLY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
Organization of Workers Defense
Corps
Corps
By Fred Ellis

Speakers are arrested aefore the meetings be-
gin. Workers are inundated and prevented
from entering the hall. Beatings of workers
often take place.
In view of this situation, even before the
conference workers defense groups were or
ganized with the result that two victories can
already be recorded for the workers of this
section. At meeting of the LID. in Negro
neghborhood the attempts of the police to
disrupt the meeting were smashed by an or
ganized body of so workers. At the defense
conference, for the first time in many months
the so-caled "red squad" failed to show up in
spite Of the fact that the conference was wide
ly advertised and was known to the police
Defensive and Offensive Organization.
The conference adopted resolution which
clearly indicates the organizatonal methods
proposed for the carrying on of defense work
Special emphasis laid on registration of
the workers Who enrolled. Such information
as whether the worker is an service man as
well as other information valuable from the
view point of defense work was secured.
This defense conference opens the broad per-
spective of an entirely new feldsof activity
for the Party. This work must be energeti-
cally pushed by the Party throughout the coun-
try. Tens of thousands of workers will en-
roll and will build the shield of defense of
working class activities. The workers defense
organization is not only weapon of defense
for the working class, it is also an offensive
weapon. The working class cannot defend it.
self without at the same time waging an Of
fensive struggle against capitalism. The very
nature of workers defense is an offensive
against the offensive of the bourgeoisie The
workers defense groups will play an import
ant role in the immediate struggles of the work.
we'll as defense of the Soviet Union
and the offensive against the capitalist sys-
tenn as whole.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
THE LIBERALS AND MARCH 81
Some ASPECTS OF Unemployment Campaign

so did the multitude of workers as WELL This
is made clear by the moving pictures of the
demonstration, which show that when the
parade started the whole gigantic mass got
into motion and started to head down Broad
way. Naturally the Communists, the leaders
of the demonstration, came most sharply into
conflict with the police before, during, and
after the demonstration. But to attempt to
reduce the issue simply to a struggle between
"the reds and the police" not only misses but
combats the real political meaning of the dem
onstration.
The liberals attempt further to narrow down
the issue to their own petty-bourgeois concep-
lions by seeking to divert the struggle simply
into legalistic effort to remove Whalen from
his post as police commissioner. They saw
nothing wrong in the capitalist state of which
Whalen is a part: 1t is only case of
bad" and "illiberal" official. Remove him
and all will be well.
All these tendencies of the petty-bourgeois
liberals to destroy the mass working class
character of the March 6 demonstration we
must combat 1t is necessary to emphasize and
to develop our whole line on the fact that the
March 6 fight was a great struggle of the
workers around the issue of unemployment.
We must use this demonstration as a means
to enormously strengthen our campaign among
the unemployed workers to organize them, to
link their Eight with that of the employed, and
to bring forward their demands for social in
surance the shorter work day, etc. We must
also make the unemployed masses realize that
all the workers arrested in connection with
the unemployed demonstration are in first line
the leaders of the unemployed, and then draw
these masses into support Of the March 6
prisoners.
We must mitantly resist all efforts of the
liberals which follow the same line as the
social democrats and the capitalists themselves,
to portray the March demonstration simply
as meeting of Communists. This is an at
tempt to divorce us from the masses On the
contrary, the March demonstration must be
utilized for the purpose of strengthening our
mass contacts, of building the Communist Party
and establishing the Trade Union Unity League
in the broad ranks of the working class
We must also fight against the dangerous
liberal illusions that the problem will be solved
by the removal of Whalen. While fighting for
the elimination of this capitalist lickspittle, we
must emphasize that the main enemy is the
Whalens.
When Whalen goes he will be succeeded by
another chief of police equally loyal to the
capitalists and probably far more efficient in
carrying through their program of suppressing
and exploiting the workers. Above all the
March demonstrations must be utilized to
dsillusion the masses regarding the capitalist
SYSTEM to inculcate in them revolutionary prin-
ciples, to draw them into our program of de-
tense of the Soviet Union, and of revolutionary
attack against capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
'Pravda" on the Second
International
(By Inprecorr Press Service)

Referring to the proposed conference between
the presidium of the Second Labor and So
cialist) international and the International
Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam), to
deal with the disarmament problem, "Pravda"
declares that the conference can be nothing
more than further proof of the hypocrisy of
the socialist leaders. Paul Boncour, Emil VAN
dervelde and the others were those who acted
as whippers in for the rejection of the Soviet
proposal for complete disarmament in Geneva
1t was the Socialist leaders who sabotaged the
disarmament proposals and substituted the i'm
perialst phrasemongery of security" and
guarantees" In Germany the social democrats
in the government were responsible for the
building Of modern cruisers and for the con-
struction of poison gas factories. The British
Socialists organized the London naval confeg.
ence which is exposed as nothing but an i'm
periast bargaining meeting not for disarm-
ament but for armament. The British Social
lists introduced the remarkable principle that tn
kill people with submarines is inhuman, where
as to kill people with battleships and armoret
cruisers is absolutely humane and in order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09

By c. CLARK.
IN Tuesday, April 1, a conference took place
in the city of Los Angeles which is certain
to have far reaching effects, and marks the
first organized effort for a mass organization
of workers defense groups.
The Conference included a number of organ
izations but was called with view of enroll
ing as great number as possible into direct
membership in the defense squads. The con-
ference put before itself the goal of 1,00G
workers, men. women and youth, by the first
of May. This goal, judging by the splendid
enthusiasm prevailing at the conference AMI
the fact that the conference called at one
weeks notice, will not only be easily attained
but in all probability will be surpassed.
One weakness was noticeable. Most of those
who enrolled into workers defense squads were
non-Party members. The Party membership
underestimated and failed to respond suffi
GENTLY to this exceedingly important work. Not
withstanding this fact, the splendid response
of the workers, the enthusiasm with which the
organization was launched and the great un-
derstanding by the workers of the necessity
of such an organization proves conclusvely
that workers defense squads are not organized
on the basis of abstract preparations but are
now based on the condition of the class strug-
gle itself. The possibilities for the growth
and activities of workers defense groups are
tremendous.
Workers Defense Protects Meetings.
The enthusiasm for this work evidenced in
the conference grows out of the experience of
thousands of workers in Los Angeles at the
Feb &c and March demonstrations. In Los
Angeles an extremely acute situation exists
with regard to police terrorism. Not only are
open air demonstrations and meetings viciously
the police follow systematic policy of dis
rupting every meeting arranged indoors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
Notice of the Central Control
Commission Decision on the
Expulsion of James E. Carr
As a Spy

The Central Control Commission has def
initely established that James E. Carr Cknown)
as Edward Carter is a spy.
Having expelled him from the Communist
Party of the U.S.A., the Central Control Com
mission warns all workers organizations
against this scoundrel and stool-pigeon.
Formerly of San Francisco when his ac-
tons had aroused certain suspicion as to his
real character, he left there in the spring of
1929 and went to Chicago for week or two
From there he went to New Orleans and then
to Baltimore, where he arrived about August,
1929 and where he succeeded to sneak into the
Party organization. He came to New York
about the end of September 1929 and shortly
thereafter, when he saw he would be exposed,
he disappeared.
The Central Control Commission has obtain
ed the following description of this spy: height
about feet inches; weight, about 140
pounds, slender; complexion, fair; hair, dark
blond, thin; eyes, blue; nose, straight; age
about 30 to 40 years; clean shaven talks ra-
pidly with Texan accent, like lawyer;
wears overalls; carries railroad engineers
pass on which he can move around freely.
He, no doubt will try to ply his Shiny trade
somewhere else and all workers organizations
must keep a sharp lookout for this snake and
to close their doors to him wherever he NAV
appear.
CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF
or, USA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
By VIM. Z. FOSTER.

THE liberals are showing much activity in
connection with the New York March G
demonstration. This holds true of the Civil
Liberties Union, as we'll as of the groups of
professors and other ntellectuals following the
lead of Norman Thomas. These petty bourgeois
elements are undertaking to turn this historic
struggle to their own advantage. Their whole
line shows that true to their class makeup,
they are part of the capitalist united front
against the workers.
To begin with the liberals, like the capital
lists in general, try to play down the basic issue
of the March demonstration; that is, a
struggle of the great masses of unemployed
against the intolerabIe conditions confronting
them They ignore almost completely that the
big struggle developed around the Union So.
demonstration primarily because millions of
workers have no jobs and the unemployed, in
New York as elsewhere, seized upon March
as an occasion when, under the leadership of the
Communist Party they could develop strug-
gle in defense of their demands. To hear the
liberals tell it, the Union Square demonstra-
ton developed almost out of thin air. In thus
ignoring the central issue of unemployment,
the liberals play the game of the capitalists
and tend to sidetrack and defeat the whole
movement
The liberals try to reduce the Union Square
demonstration merely to a question OF ponce
brutality. They do not even raise the ques-
ton of civil liberties. They admit that Whaen
was within his legal rights to prohibit the
parade and thus to deny the workers the OPP
portunity to bring forward their intoerabe
grievances effectively. Did not the Civil Lib
critics Union in fact send letter of praise
to Whalen complimenting him for his prepare
tions for handling the March 6 demonstration,
preparations which constituted a gigantic mob
ilization of New York's $4,000 police and fire
men to terrorize the workers and to deny them
their alleged civic rights? To the liberals the
issue was not that elementary civil liberties
of the workers were suppressed but that Wha-
len used unseemly violence in so doing.
Following their line of distorting the political
character of the Union Square demonstration,
the liberals try to narrow the struggle down
simply to between the Communists and the
police Here again they follow the propa-
ganda of the capitalist press. They try to make
it appear as though the gigantic demonstration
consisted primarily only of a small group of
Communists, plus masses of more or less dis
interested and curious onlookers and that the
trouble arose when the Communists under
took to march and thus came into conflict
with the police For them the issue is 'the
reds versus the police"
This falsifies the whole situation. The Union
Square meeting was not simply Communist
demonstration, but great mass turnout of the
workers generally. The great masses were
active participants. Not only did the Com
munists come into conflict with the police but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
OUR GERMAN BROTHER
PARTY
Reb0yt of Central Committee FlenuM

paratus, no matter whether they come forward
in theory or in the practical work, must be |
ruthlessly overcome.
The Central Committee further stated that
in the last few weeks, in particular in con-
nection with the factory council elections
LEFT" deviations from the Marxist-Leninist
line have made their appearance which give
rise to the danger of sectariansm, of the
isolation of the Party from the main masses
of the proletariat. The struggle against the
chief danger of Right opportunism cannot be
successfully conducted without at the same
time an irreconcilable struggle against Left
sectaranism The Central Committee, there
fore, devoted its attention to those shortcom-
ings in Party work which are based on sectar-
anism masked by Left phrases and sham
radical shouting.
Certain tendencies to abandon the struggle
for the proletaran united front from below to
neglect the struggle for the social democratic
workers and work in the reformist trade unions J
and other mass organizations under reformlst
leadership, are decisive hndrances to the car
rying out of the revolutionary policy of the
Party. The Central Committee declared most
sharply in it's political resolution that every
real advocate of the Party line and of the de-
cisons of the Wedding Party Congress must
boldly attack and eradicate also these Left mis-
takes The C. C. condemned the fact that in
the last campaigns the united front tactic from
below was partly neglected and partly was not
applied at all The C. c. was of the opinion
that the establishment of the united front
from below in all the future actions and cam
pagns must become the chief task of the
Party.
The open self-criticism with which the c. C.
exposed the shortcomings and weaknesses in
the work of the Party and the unanimty with
which it adopted the necessary decisions for
their overcoming must find response in pow
erful stormy initiative of the whole Party for
the determined carrying out of the line of the
Welding Party Congress against all deviations,
hindrances and distortions.
The acceptance of the Young Plan and of
the Law for the Defense Of the Republic, the
rushing through of the financial reform with,
its new taxes and customs duties on food.
these attacks of the German bourgeoisie ami
of their social fascist hangmen upon the,
masses of the working people in town al
country confront the Communist Party with
great tasks. The organization of the offfn-
sive Of the proletarian masses in the struggle
for their class demands, the breaking down of
the barriers which still separate the social
democratic and christian workers from the
Communist Party, the establishment of the
proletarian united front for the common strug-
gle against capital and its social fascist lack
eys-all this requires the bold eradication Of
all the mistakes in our Party work, the i'm
provement of the methods, and the overcome
ing of all half -heartedness and vaciilations,
The decisions of the Central Committee give
the guarantee that the Party will march for
ward to new successes and new victories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
A Reply to Kulak-Emigrants

The following news has been received from
the Republic of the Volga Germans:
Members of collective farms of the Marien-
thai canton of complete collectivization having
met in one-day's conference prior to the
spring sowing. declared their intention to con-
stitute shock brigade.
"In answer to the challenge of the first All
Union Congress of shock brigade workers." de-
cared the conference, collective farm men,
bers of the Marenthal canton will prepare
themselves energeticalfy for collective sowing
and organization of labor of high standard
We look upon our decision as Boshevik
reply to the attempt of the kuIaks and emf
rrant-coonsts to get the imperialists to attack
The Soviet Union.
eve say to the imperialists:
IF you try to hinder us in the constrmc-
ton of socialism, you will meet with the
united front of crack towns and villages!
eve are aware that we are taking an enor-
nous responsibility upon ourselves. BY con-
sttutng ourselves into shock brgades, we I'M
dertake to organize our labor in an examn'ary
manner. to raise its productivity, to prove that
ranks are well ORGANIZED and to be always
in the forefront Of the collectivization move
ment.
difficulties don't Tighten US. We will make
collective farming the basis of rising prosper
ity and the constant source of industrial pro-
duction, in order to guarantee the development
Of our socialist industry"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09
Berlin Anti-S0viet Conference


The "Rote Fahne," the "Welt am Abend" and
number of bourgeois newspapers publish re-
ports of conference of about 70 prominent
personages in Berlin in order to organize an
anti-Soviet campaign in Germany. The prom
inent leaders of the Protestant Catholic and
Jewish churches were present, the new Presi-
dent of the Reichsbank, DR.. Luther, the former
Reichswehr Minister Gessler the former Min.
lister OF the Interior for the Reich Won Keudell,
the leader of the Catholic Centre Party Won
Papen, the former Cabinet Chief of the Ex-
Kaiser Won Berg and number of Russian mon
archist emigrants.
committee of action for the leadership of
the anti-Soviet campaign was appointed under
the leadership of Won Papen and Prince Ali
Won Loevenstein. A causus session also took
place at which the most prominent leaders "dis
cussed the Russian problem without reserve"
to use the words of the Catholic leader. who
also declared that the Catholic church had made
all the necessary preparations for the campapn
and that the necessary funds would be supplied
by the Congregation for the Propaganda of
the Faith in Rome.
He also declared that the new Roman Nunt;us
orsenlgo in Berlin had come with detailed in
structions from the Cardinal Secretary of State
Paceh concerning the organization Of the CAM
paign, and that the public declaration of the
anti -bolshevist crusade would take nlace ar .
general conference of Catholic bishops ct the
grave OF st. Boniface shortly.