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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
Wall Street Loans Behind the
War in Colombia and Bolivia
j. Morgan and Rockefeller Prime Movers; Communist
Party Election Program Fights ImberiaIist War Drive
y By! 3 B 9

since 1922 when a loan for $780,
100000 was put through by the
Equitable Trust Co., a Rockefeller
bank, heading syndicate of bank
ers. Under the terms of this loan
the U. S. government has a mort
gage on the chief taxes and in
comebearing wealth of the nation.
U. S. bankers dictate the raising
and expenditure of Bolivian reve-
nues. Since that time oil has be-
come increasingly important and
it is for this oil that the blood of
Bolivian and Paraguayan workers
is now being shed again.
THE very close relations of the
bankers loans and the prepa-
rations for war comes out in the
facts surrounding the $23,o00,0O0
loan of 1928 floated by Dillon,
Reed & Co., Wall Street bankers.
Over 100000 of this loan was
used to pay Vickers Ltd, the lead
ing British arms manufacturer.
AAtOOtlCI pl,oUU,uUO WcllU lOI bllC
building of military roads near
the border of Paraguay in prepa-
ration for the Chaco war now in
progress, which is fought in real
ity to advance the interests of the
American oil companies in their
conflict with British oil companies.
Bolivia wants to extend her terri
tory down to the Paraguay river at
the Paraguan capital, Asuncion. If
this were done the Standard Oil
could ship its products out more
easily than at present thus making
huge gains in operating econo-
mics.
Thus behind the Bolivian war
and U. S. State Department aid
to Bolivia stands clearly the form
of Rockefeller and the Wall Street
oil interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
Lamson, Former 'Wobbly,' Is
Red Candidate Tor Congress
Leader of Chicago Unemployed Council Tells
Of Hard-Fought Struggles

mist Party and the Unemployed
Councils Lamson brings a rich
background of working class activ-
ity. A militant in the old Socialist
Party in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in
1908, he later joined the I. w. w.
Arising from activity in strike Of
the orange pickers near Los An
geles, he was indicted for criminal
Syndicalism. He helped a unioniz-
ng campaign among the workers of
the Rock Island Railroad in Mary
land, Kansas.
He was arrested IS times, SPEND
ing anywhere from a day to two
months in Jail, while secretary Of
the I. w. w. branches in Los An
geles during the war.
In those days, LamSon recalled,
the T. w. W. was militant organi-
cation of which the workers could
be proud. The I. W. w. has since
degenerated into a bitter anti-Sov-
let clique, and has been engaged
in active strike breaking, as in the
Illinois miners strike and in other
struggles. On the most pressing
issues of the day-unemployment
insurance, immediate relief, hous-
ing instead of flop houses, the I.
w. w. has fought every militant
action of the workers. OF course,
their best members joined the
Communist Party long ago.
CLATED at the swiftly growing in
Il f1uence of the Communist Party
among the workers, Lamson re-
members the time when enemies
used to sneer at the Party as base
only for the immigrant.
mo enemy can fling such sneers
now" he said. Eve are building
ourselves more and more into the
life of the American workers. And
the American workers are beginning
to see that they have no other way
out of the crisis but the revolution
airy way of the Communist Party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

IN october 7, 1881, the American
" Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers, affiliated with
the American Federation through
the United Textile Workers of
America, accepted a wage-cut of
from IS to so per cent. The Presi-
dent OF this union, Emil Rieve,
and other officials are prominent
members of the Socialist Party. At
it's recent national convention
the union renewed this wage
slashing agreement with the man
ufacturers for another year, ex-
piring August 81, 1898. Among
those voting for the renewal of this
agreement we're all the IL Social
list delegates from Milwaukee.
When the cut was first put over,
1t was hailed in an editorial by the
Socialist Milwaukee Leader (Oc-
tober rs, 1880, which said: e. we
rejoice with them in their victory
for collective bargaining and
voice in their industry"
Milwaukee has Socialist Mayor,
Daniel Hoan, as well as other Off
Gals in the. administration. The
Milwaukee Leader, July 26, 1882
reported that: after a prolonged
fight of several hours, during
which numerous amendments were
proposed and rejected, Socialist al,
dermen succeeded in passing their
proposal for 10 per cent wage
and salary donation by city en-
ployees.'
IN West Allis, Wisconsin, there is
Socialist Mayor, Baxter, and
several other Socialists in the city
council. The Socialist Milwaukee
Leader, August 81, 1882, reported
the following:
"West Allis Common Council
approved general cut i'm pay
by means Of voluntary contribu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
STRUGGLE AGAINST
PROPAGATION

ROBERT NORTON, Of New York
City, also known as Milton Schachtsd
Comstock and Larvey. He is easily
recognized, because he is crippled byl
paralysis and can walk only with the
aid of two crutches.
In August, 1881, he came as vol
unteer worker to the National Office
of the Workers International Relief
in time he proved himself an eff
cient clerical worker and was given
more responsible work. With the end
of the Kentucky Relief Campaign,
the W.I.R. released his services and
soon thereafter found out that Nor
ton had made duplicate lists of con-
tributing organizations and individu-
ais, that he had set up an office at
1910 Broadway and sent out fake
circulars soliciting funds under the
pretext of unemployed workers re-
lief and using the name of Workers
Relief International Order" and
signing as Milton Schacht, Sec'y So
cial Insurance Campaign
Upon further investigation 1t be-
came clear that he is stool pigeon
and that he used the workers relief
movement as a pretext for getting
information and also for the basest
sort of sWindle,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
QUESTION

I. S., of Kansas City, wants to
Jknow why he Communist Par
ty supports the fight of the veter-
ans for their back pay known as
the bonus, when these very SOL
diers took part in an imperialist
war. and did not follow radical
1914-1918.
teaching to resist the draft in
j. S. also is afraid the bosses will
make the workers and farmers bear
the burden of the bonus.
ANSWER
Many workers we're driven into
the bosses war of 1914-1918. AS
long as capitalism exists wars will
take place. Revolutionary organiza-
tions can only postpone the strug-
giles, but only by overthrowing the
capitalist system can wars be done
away with. Therefore we cannot
hold workers responsible for the
fact that they we're compelled to
enter into a reactionary war. II
war breaks out, then of course,
workers cannot stand aside. Capt.
talism will drive workers into war
again and it will be necessary for
revolutionary class conscious work.
ers not to adopt the position Of
k.atf ~ n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

Jfl6J many IldIlleS were WTlJUeIl Ill GIIe
same handwriting.
The comrades in charge of collect
ing signatures appeared before the
registrars and denied the charges
Then the board of aldermen called a
special meeting and started police
investigation, in the course of
which many signers were visited and
intirnidated by the politicians, and
driven to come to the city hall and
scratch their names off the nominal
ton papers.
In the meantime the section or
ganizer and other comrades got busy
and protested to the secretary of
state, and to the attorney general,
and demanded that the signatures be
certified Also a meeting was held
in the Manchester city hall by the
party, and protest against the &C
ton of the registrars was the prin-
cipal topic of the meeting.
The workers filled every seat in the
hall, and many were standing. John
J. BALKAN and the local speakers
scored the officials for their intirnida-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

and Atlantic Fruit CO.. and pub
lie utilities (West Indies and Co
lombia Electric Co. and American
and Foreign Power Coz in addi-
ton to coffee and sugar interests.
1t was on behalf of the United
Fruit Company's investment in
Colombia that Colombian troops
killed at least 1000 workers and
wounded 5000 in the strike on the
banana plantations of Santa Mar
ia in 1928. Similar strike breaking
services were performed by the Co
lombian government for the Trop-
ical Oil Co. in 1927.
THE BANKERS CLAIM,
IN BOLIVIA
Bolivia: The chief American in
veStments in Bolivia, which total
at least $120,000,000, center around
minerals such as tin, lead, copper,
silver and oil. The chief American
companies involved in the exploit
tation of the country are the
Standard Oil Co. Of New Jersey
which has a concession for the ex-
ploitation of over 100000 acres
of oil land, near the border of
Paraguay, the National Lead Co.,
which controls about 80 per cent
of the tin production of the coun-
try, which ranks second only to
the Straits Settlements in the pro-
duction of tin.
There is also a Guggenheim-
controlled tin company with
capital of $40,oO0,O0O, the Interna-
tional Mining, Co., organized by
w. r. Grace g. Co., and several
other Yankee mining investments.
Light power and construction
companies also have large interests
in the country.
BOLIVIA A U. S.
COLONY
Bolivia has been practically
colony of the United States ever
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
How the Socialist Party
Helps Bosses Cut Wages
S. P. Leaders in Unions Knife Workers. Vote
Communist on November 8!

tions of 10 per cent for all city
employees earning over $1,000 .
year."
NEEDLE TRADES UNIONS
Among the leaders of the needle
trades unions are many prominent
members of the Socialist Party,
notably, David Dubinsky, head of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union. These unions ara
usually referred to in the trade as
Socialist" unions.
"A general strike i'll the Mon
treal cloak industry has just been
averted by the signing of COLI
lectiye agreement between the
international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union and the Mon
treaI Cloak Manufacturers As-
ISOLATION. The Montreal workers,
the union official stated, ac-
cepted a 10 per cent reduction in
wages (WOmen's Wear Daily,
January 20, 1922
"WAGEs in the local (Phila-
w delphia) clothing market will
be reduced 10 per cent, beginning
Tuesday, July 5, according to a
ruling by Judge Horace Stern.
"The present reduction in wages
follows a reduction of per cent
made in 1881. Copies of Judge
Storms ruling were given to Morris
Wolf, counsel for the manufactur-
ers, and Charles Weinstein, chair
man of the Philadelphia branch Of
the Analgamated Clothing Work.
ers of America" DAILY News Rec
ord, June %, 1922
"Our organizations il Chicago,
Rochester and Cincinnati have been
obliged to take a 10 per cent wage
cut" (Advance, June, 1882, official
organ of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27


last war, and the present capitalist
crisis
The bosses steal as much as they
can from the workers and farmers.
Only the organized pressure of the
workers and farmers will fight the
bosses theftS. Therefore we do not
say to the veterans, "Do not take
your back pay, because the bosses
will rob it from the workers and
farmers We support the veterans
in the fight for their back pay, and
we organize the workers and farm
ers to fight the bosses robberies.
That is the only program by which
the working class can overthrow
the boss class and establish Q 10.
cialist society.
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ton. One of the registrars was
shown TO be an official of the Amos
keag Corporation.
AS a result of the meeting, several
applications for membership in the
Party were received, and the Man
chester unit was started into real ac-
tivity again. Also about 400 of the
signers were certified
AS a result of the section imnedi-
ately fighting back against intimida-
ton, our party has made substantial
gains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

strengthen themselves SO as to get
rid of the entire system Of capt.
talism and their wars. To reject
this demand means to aid the CAPT
talists who see in the demand and
struggle for the bonus, a real mem
ace to their profits and the system
it represents.
The Socialists hypocritically OPP
pose the bonus because they say it
arises out Of wars, but the Socialist
Party of 1920 favored payment Of
the debts arising out of the war
and now they oppose this debt Of
The capitalists to the workers not
because they do not wish to soil
their hands but because they are
helping the capitalists to overcome
the difficulties arising out Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
BILL GREEN'S DOLE"

William Green, president Of the
American Federation of Labor,
draws $1,000 month in salary
and 1867 month for travelling ex-
penses. or a total of $4,000 a year,
in addition to unspecified "hon-
orariums" for addresses before col
Ieges, Rotary clubs, Chambers OF
Commerce. and similar. .organiza-
TONS IA,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
The Special Role of Mr.
Alfred E. Smith

Alfred 3. Smith
SMITH an outstanding example of the ability of the
n propaganda machine of American capitalism to make
black reactonary appear tribune of the people.
Allied with the wealthy hierarchy of the Holy Roman
Catholic Church and creature of American finance capital
Smith has made science of the of religion in politics.
AT the time with the help of the press he has made
himself appear martyr prosecuted by the agents of Satan
disguised politicians of opposing Democratic Party fac
tons
He is expert at the game played by the capitalist
parties with the working cass-heads win tails you lose!
CTTH has been assigned special role by finance capital
~ wealth. political
opportunity
for the capable individual in America His deagoc orao his ability
himself battle nothing particular
for apparently identifying himself with the interests the
mouthpece
him invaluable to finance capital which bought him while still
cheap.
special keep capitalist camp in wing
Democratic Party the immigrant workers mostly of peasant oigand
Catholic
majority oen-bor population overwhelming
majority Of them industries
They presses
Millions of them unemployed
job up capitalism
making bigoty chief
as he did in his Newark speech on Oct Is represents studied attempt
unemployment
creating the belief Of criticism the Catholic
Church and its aconary teachings and practices coupled with free
flow beer will float the working class comfort
flood tide prosperity
ME speculate
fight carry Party
demagogy
by big
workers will read:
talking
other country world
initiative opportunities
and where class prejudice uniportant
of people trouble. The the
poor the crisis today
effort of all citizens whatever class
the the solid
good American enterprise and prosperity.
"The Forgotten Man a myth and he disappears
the campaign the better will be concerned"
EVEN demagogc working
forgotten speech
warning companion that
the capitalist class
the bank
bosses and their responsible their suffering
places approval
betrayal working
fight against Of the
deportation
pag whose Islander the Soviet Union exceeds that OF the capital
sabotage strikes hostility the
whose support of reaconay nancecaptal brand
them servants spies and save-dlers for American capitalism
til the industry
again that hungry
starvation
be built again.
HOOVER thing. speaks
Smith peddles the reacona that the United States the
coming closer and all suffering the crisis
tecng the interests OF the public whole and saving the com
munty from capitalist crisis is the deception of the workers
the socialists the tide Of class
struggles Here they receive The praise of the boss class.
Hoover trying
the the of the lives living liberties
the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
BY MARTIN MORTALITY

CHICAGO, III. Sore foot?" I
" asked Warren Lamson. city
secretary of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis. Lamson limped.
No" he said. "one of them's
wood"
A freight train had chopped off
his foot when he was leaving San
Diego after an I. w. w. free speech
light. That was back in 1912, when
Bill Haywood was leading the Law
renee textile strike.
Today, Lamson is Communist
candidate for U. S. Representative,
Ninth Congressional District.
SUFFERING IN
CHICAGO
You can see the most intense
suffering in that district" he said.
Take the And Ward, for instance.
Unskilled Mexican, Negro and Ital-
ian workers-their living standards
were low enough before the crisis,
let alone now. And from the same
novels you can throw a stone and
hit the wealthy homes of the Gold
Coast, the palaces of the Rookie
fellers, the McCormicks, the insult
swindlers.
Before these homes, before the
homes of all the rich, the Unem-
ployed Councils will lead great dem
onstrations this winter in the fight
for immediate relief.
I'VE shall demonstrate, too. before
the homes of local boss politicians,
before city and state authorities. In
line with the decisions of the recent
conference Of unemployed councils
from throughout Illinois, we shall
mobilize the greatest masses of
workers-Single home owners, bank
depositors, ex-servicemen, especially
the women and children.
I'VE are planning now for city,
childrenis and mothers starvation
parades; strikes of forced laborers;
county and state hunger marches;
factory hunger marches.
MUCH of Lamson's campaign is
IVA devoted to sweeping exposure
OF one of his opponents, Congress
man Fred Britten, Republican, of
the Ninth District.
"Britten voted for the Dies Bill"
Lamson said. "Yet he has the gall
to ask for votes frfom the Mexican,
Negro and italian workers in his
district-the very workers he pro-
poses to deliver to the bounding
squads of deportation Doak. This
demagogue is also out to snatch
votes from the unpaid teachers here.
He wants their support, because he
pleaded before the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, not for direct
appropriation to pay the wages of
the teachers--no, he begged only for
loan.
This hounder of the foreign
born is naturally fierce American
lingo. He is a friend and ally of
William B. Shearer, the publicity
man who got SIS, 900 from the ship
building corporations for his propa-
ganda for big ravies at. the Geneva
conference in 1927. Britten is inter-
ested in real estate company
which is pushing the development of
Montauk Point, Long Island, as
shipping port. 1t was Britten who
had the Navy carry on its maneu-
vers there-his real estate values
were improved that way, too"
To his campaign in the Commu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
OIL COMPANIES
INVOLVED

The oil companies involved in
this historic concession are the
South American Gulf Oil Co.,
Mellon company, and the Carib
Syndicate controlled by J. P. Nor
gan &c Co. These companies in
their sharp fight with the British
companies-Royal Dutch Shell and
Anglo-P ersian-Were compelled to
resort to the usual imperialist
methods of bribery and overpower-
ing economic pressure. The way
they did it in this case was to
have Secretary Stinson at the U.
S. State Department bring pres
sure to bear upon the National
City Bank of New York to speed
up the granting of a short term
credit to the Colombian govern
ment.
When the Colombian Congress
had validated the concession, June
10, 1881, ten days later ls4,000,000
was paid over by the New York
bankers at the beheSt of the State
Department. Thus the State De-
partment obligingly performed a
service for the Mellon Morgan oil
company which clinched the claim
of these companies to 100000 acres
of the richest oil land in the
world.
THERE are dozens of other U. S.
! oil companies operating in Co.
lombia, but this is the major oil
investment, and the one INVOLVING
the most political implications.
In addition to this major invest
ment in oil, Wall Street has dug
its way into the riches of Colon
bia in other ways. Up to the be-
ginning of the world economic cri-
sis, over $200,000000 had been in
vested in foreign bonds of the CEN
trail government, of the Agricul-
tural Mortgage Bank, and of the
various departments and munich
alities. Together with the direct
investment in mining and industry
tbs brings total Yankee invest
ment in the country of over $780,
100000.
Other direct investments in the
industries of the country. other
than those in government bonds,
are to be found in minerals (the
South American Gold g. Platinum
Co.--Lewisohn Colombia
International Corp, Colombia En-
erald Development Corp. and
others, in fruits UNITED Fruit CO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
Fight Against Terror Builds
Party in Manchester, n. H
Ry FRED Il. CHASE.

HILLSBORO, N HDurng
signatures
certifcaion,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
By ROBERT DUNN

MALL STREET interest in the
w wars over disputed areas" in
South America is directly connect
ed with American investment in
the countries involved. Let us con-
slider Colombia and Bolivia as ex-
amples of countries in which large
Yankee interests are at stake.
Colombia: The president OF Co.
lombia, the plant Liberal Olaya
Herrera, is as subservient to the
interests of U. S. imperialism as
any ruler of a so-called 'indepen-
dent" country south of the Rio
Grande. In March, 1881, he signed
and submitted to the Colombia
Congress law which enables big
American oil companies to enjoy
fully the loot they had staked out
for themselves in earlier years
through the famous Barco Con-
ceSSion.
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TRY TO COVER UP
ANTI SOVIET ACTIVITY

The workers must know that the
demand" for Russian recognition
by the S. p is merely to cover up
its participation in the interna-
tional counter Revolutionary bloc
against the Workers Republic.
Norman Thomas speaks of his
friendly" attitude toward the Rus
sian experiment Cd The New
Leader" official S. P. organ, of
which Thomas is one of the edi-
tors, wrote as follows on Januray
Is, 1880:
"The Russian underground work
of today is full of heroic sacrifices;
the active underground Russian
Socialists are today the real mar
tyrs. Here in the United States
Comrade Alb amovitch is the am
bassador of this heroic task"
This is the kind of friendly at
titude the S. P. has for the Soviet
Union-by supporting Menshevik
leaders who organize against the
Soviet Government, together with
tsarist counter-revolutionary gem
erals and other emigres.
The workers of the world and
the oppressed colonial peoples who
draw insiration for their struggles
against capitalism and imperialism
from the stupendous achievements
Of the Soviet Government under
the leadership OF the Communist
Party, know the true role of the
Socialist parties and their counter
revolutionary utterancea ..,...s,.
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tons of 10 per cent for all city
employees earning over $1,000
year"