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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Alfonso Lopez To Carry
On Wall Street Rule
In Colombia
By Burek

bad bargain for Colombia. The
Colombian Government and the
legislative power seem not to be
aware that the same company,
under another name, pays a neigh
boring nation 171a per cent for the
same deal and makes the delivery
in a much more convenient form
for the recipient.
When the investigation OF this
scandal took place in the Senate at
Washington, the Barco Concession
was valued at 100000, 900 American
dollars. In this calculation is not
included the exploitation of work
ers and Colombian consumers, nor
the forced slavery as practiced by
the Standard Oil Co., in refined
Colombia oil products, which she
sells at such high prices that her
annual utilities amount to $4,000
600, while she pays starvation
wages.
A Colombian writer says on this
score: ut is certain-that change
took place in the attitude of the
government, a change coincident
with the arrival of the new minis
ter of the United States at Bogota,
Mr.. Jefferson Caffery. From then
on commenced a reign of terror
which manifested itself not only in
connection with the Barco Conces-
sion, the Petroleum Laws and other
problems but in the murder of hun
dreds of workers, woman and chill
dren in the banana region Of Santa
Marta where the Colombian public,
unarmed and peaceful, was shot
down by a regular division of the
National Guard, sent there to ease
the conscience of the United Fruit
Co. Colombia has been victimized
in the first place by the interests
represented by Mr.. Jefferson CAT
ferry in his double character of
plenipotentiary minister of the
United States in Bogota and as
agent of Messrs. Mellon and Nor
gan and the United Fruit Co., of
the National City Bank of New
York and other affiliates; in the
second place by a tiny group of
Colombians headed by DR.. Olaya
Herrera who placed his position
and the confidence deposited in
him at the service of foreign in
terests."
The Barco Concession and the
Petroleum Laws established under
the administration of DR.. Olaya
Herrera eliminated Colombian com
panies that wished to exploit the
national resources. Foreign com
panies like the Texas Oil Co. that
had bought up large quantities of
land were ousted, along with the
Transcontinental Oil Co., the Rich
mond Petroleum Co., the Colombian
Syndicate and the Leanord Oil Co.
all OF which ceased to operate,
throwing several hundred thousand
workers into the ranks of the
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Hayes and the Terror

IN A recent radio speech supposedly
directed against the vigilante terror on
the West Coast, Arthur Garfield Hayes,
Chief Counsel for the Civil Liberties
Union, joined with those reactionary forces
who are now endeavoring to prepare the
public mind for mass terror against Com
nunists and for the suppression OF the Conmu-
mist Party.
Assuming the mock attitude of Justice herself
sitting cloud above the class battle, this glib
liberal lawyer, without the slightest concern for
facts, Jumped fascism and Communism together
endeavoring to picture Communists as well as fas-
cists, as advocates Of terror and tyranny
These people" he declared (referring to the
yigilantes) adopt fascist methods OF terrorism to
prevent fascism They adopt Communist methods
of tyranny to avoid Communism"
THE American Civil Liberties Union" he said
at another point in his speech Does not distinguish
between Communists in Russia fascists in Ger
many or vigilantes in the United States"
Mr.. Hayes knows quite we'll that Communists
are fundamentally opposed to terrorism He also
knows that Communists are opposed to tyranny
Mr.. Hayes knows that in the Soviet Union the
widest democracy prevails for the masses of the
people greater and broader democracy than exists
In any other country. But Mr.. Hayes chooses to
ignore these well established facts
He chooses to pose as a liberal standing between
the classes, above the class struggle. He would
make it appear that he fights equally against
Communists and fascists against struggling work
ers and exploiting capitalists. In doing So he
gives aid to the capitalists and to advancing fas-
cisn.
On the West Coast the Communists were in
the forefront of the battle OF the marine strikers
in their fight for bread and union recognition The
Communists at no time resorted to terrorism but
worked to organize and unite the masses of the
waterfront workers and the workers generally In
fight to win their justified demands
The vigilantes on the other hand were the paid
fascist gangsters of the employers. Their aim
was to defeat the workers by means of outright
terrorism, by beatings and torture They were sent
to raid the Communist headquarters for the sole
purpose OF beheading the strike and of defeat
ing the striking workers Their aim was to aid
the police and the militia in their efforts to ter
rorize the workers into returning to work under
the bosses terms.
Is there no difference here between the vizilanses
and the Communists?
The Communists were fighting at the head of
the masses against poverty and misery and for
improved conditions. They were relying on the
sTganized mass strength of the workers
The vigilantes were acting for those who would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23

continue the present low wages, long hours and
miserable conditions enforced on the waterfront
workers. To do this they relied on most brutal
acts Of terror and abrogated all civil rights.
It is not liberalism" Mr.. Hayes, to stand in
the middle between such contending forcesAbhe
forces Of progress and the forces Of black reac-
ton. Such stand is itself resctionary. Such
q stand If endorsed by the OWL Liberties Union
would place them on the side Of those who, at all
costs By the greatest persecution OF the masses
of people, protect capitalist suffering and exploita-
ton.
The Civil Liberties Union would do well to make
known its stand on this speech Of It's chief counsel
Arthur GARFIELD Hayes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Neev US, Pubbet Takes Office

New York, which was granted
through the mediation of Mr..
Schoepperlee, carrying as collateral
the agreement known as the June
80, 1880 Pact, whose contents are
still a closely guarded secret.
This preliminary operation, this
$20,000,000 short -term loan at an
exorbitant rate of interest, was the
first of series of great com
bination among which figured the
resurrection of the Barco Conces-
sion, proposed to the Congress in
March, 1881, in compliance with a
legal disposition which MeSsrs.
George Bubble, H. H. Jefferson,
representative of Boston interests
and Samels, of the National City
Bank, drawn up for approval with
out change of a single punctuation
mark" and which Mr.. jefferson
Caffery himself went over scrupu-
lousy.
In order to create favorable
atmosphere for this unpopular law,
the press undertook to assure the
public from day to day that the
exploitation of the Barco Conces-
sion would make possible the en-
ployment of $4,000 men and that
the entire region would derive
enormous economic benefit, that it
would free the region from the
misery in which it's inhabitants
uypro cI1ffooofi,o D1.o-iJon4 OI.,a
Herrera, on his side, sent three
messages to the Congress recon-
mending approval of the law, al
leging he had studied it with pa
triotic zeal, and because it opens
new horizons for the nation. That
because of the psychological effect
OF it's approval, it would restore the
appearance of confidence in Colon
bia."
After months of elaboration,
carried out so that the huge farce
might have all the usual legal
aSpects-including that of opposi-
tion-the legislators received COM
pensations and accepted as CO.
legislator Mr.. Rublee, appointed by
presidential decree, despite his
United States nationality and the
unconstitutionality of the DISPOSE
ton, the resurrection of the Barco
Concession was approved and legal
lied on May 2, 1881 in favor of the
Morgan interests by a ma
jority of 26 votes in the Senate and
by 81 vs.. 80 votes in the House OF
Representatives
The territory included in the con-
cession is much larger than the
original granted to General Virgilio
Barco since it amounts to 414000
hectares (the original being $1,000
hectares. The concessionaries would
retain 100000 hectars which they
could exploit until 1881.
According to the contract exclu-
sive rights are granted to the
Colombian Petroleum Co. of Del
aware, over a period of so years, to
exploit the asphalt, carbon, natural
gas and all the hydrocarbons,
among which are specified helium
and the rare gases. In return the
concessionaries give up 10 per cent
] of the net production, an extremely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
The Minneapolis Strike

THE settlement which ended the Min
Aneapolis truck drivers strike is un-
satisfactory to the drivers, and does not
grant their main demands. Wages are left
as they were at fifty cents an hour for
drivers and forty cents for inside men,
helpers and platform men, This settle
ment was put over the drivers by the Trotzkyist
leaders OF local STA who claimed victory" for
the workers.
Under the terms Of the settlement the way is
leN open for BLACKLIST and victimization These
Trotgky1T leaSeys have accepted an agreement that
in the election 30 b held under N r. A. auspices
those drivers who remained at work and scabbed
will be allowed to vote in the elections The
Trotzkyists have accepted the federal mediators'
proposals for this election, which gives every sign
OF ushering in the company union and weaken
ing the drivers union
THE putting over of this agreement by the Trotzky-
list Dunno brothers and other Trotzkyist lead
ers is OF piece with the misleadership furnished
since the beginning of the strike Since the Begin
ming, while Floyd Olson Farmer Labor governor
has been breaking the strike with his troops, the
Irotzkyist leaders have refused to carry on mill
tant fight against Olsons strikebreaking
The Trotzkyist leaders delayed until it was too
late any criticism or exposure of the strikebreak-
ing being carried on by Olson They did not nut
up fight against Olson's declaration of martial
law. This enabled Olson to issue 5000 military
permits for the running of scab trucks, which his
troops protected
The Trotzkyists to the last, did not carry on
any fight or exposure of the General Labor Union
officials sabotage of the strike They allowed with
out protest these A. F. of L. leaders a part of
Osons Farmer Labor machine to prevent the
calling of general strike in support of the drivers
They silently acceded to this splitting I'D of the
ranks of the workers which isolated the drivers
strike. No steps were taken by these Trotztv,st
leaders to win the other A. F. of I, unions over
the heads of the officials for support of the drivers
THE Communist Party put forward three main
steps to win the strike Cd To call out all
members OF local STA and reorganize the picket
lines. % To send committees of the drivers to
all union meetings in the city to shops and fac
torres and call upon the workers to Join the drivers
90 TO call city United Labor Conference Of all
unions unemployed and other organizations to or
game the General Strike in support of the drivers
ana Tor the workers right to organize strike and
picket for free speech and assemblage and against
martial law.
The strikers were defeated because the Trotzkv
lst leaders succeeded in preventing the militant
drivers from adopting this aggressive policy The
truckmen must now prepare with new. militant
leadership chosen from their own ranks. for the
strengthening of their organizations in preparations
for new struggle to win their demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Seaman, Denied Relief,
Leaps To His D ath

NEW ORK.-Upon being refused
relief by Mr.. Lucas. the relief agent
of the Seamen's Church Institute,
Broad and Front SITS, an unknown
seaman, about 40-years-old, dived
from a window of the building and
killed himself Monday morning.
The seaman is reported to have
been unemployed fo- a long time.
When he was denied relief he wan
de-ed in dazed condition from the
relief Office to the library and threw
himself out of one of the large
windows. His crushed body was
picked up on Front Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Chicago Jobless Leader
Will Speak AT Outing
In Wisconsin Aug. 25

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-David Poin-
dexter, leader of the unemployed
just released on bond pending ap-
peal against a five-year sentence
will be the main speaker at an out
ing August Is, at Camp Nitgedaiget
in Bristol.
The International Labor Defense
which is holding the outing, has ar
ranged for transportation from the
Peoples Auditorium, Saturday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock, of those wish
ing to go from Chicago. Ticket;
are $3.50, and include transporta-
ton, meals and lodgings for two
nights at the camp. The proceeds
will go to the Observation-Disclosures
defense fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Southern W orker Again
Appears In New Issue
Despite r aid S, Terror

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 22.-
The first issue of the Southern
Worker, Southern organ of the
Communist Party, to appear since
Birmingham police raided its print
ing plant and suppressed the paper,
has been eagerly received this week
by Negro and white workers and
poor farmers throughout the South.
The Southern Worker is gotten
out under illegal conditions. FIRE.
quent police raids, however, have
failed to halt the appearance and
distribution of the paper.
This issue carries a concrete ex-
posture of the miserable conditions
of the Southern toilers and the fas-
cist terror against white workers and
the doubly oppressed Negro masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
By CARLOS RUIZ

"Masas," Cuban Revolutionary
Organ.
By CARLOS RUIZ
nm August 7, Olaya Herrera, one
" of the most shameless lackeys of
Yankee Imperialism in South Amer
lea, will hand over the official
reinS Of Colombia to his successor,
Alfonso Lopez, who has just passed
through Havana on his way to
Washington, D. Gin order to
confer" were the declara-
lions offered us-"with the presi-
dent Of the U. S. before taking
charge of the office to which have
been elected"
The change of presidents, if we
are to judge by these declarations,
will make no change whatsoever in
the fortunes of the impoverished
Colombian people, bowed down at
this very moment under the weight
of new and old credits for the army,
navy and air forces.
Alfonso Lopez has been called
into office to continue the policy
of submission to Yankee impe-
rialism, showing promise, even be-
fore occupying the executive chair,
of following in the footsteps of
Olaya Herrera, of Machado, of the
presidents of Ecuador, Panama and
Haiti, in search of direct instruc-
tions from the North American
chancelleries with which to press
down on the people they claim to
represent.
The administration of Alaya Her
rera has been one of the most
deadly for the people of Colombia.
His participation in the most no.
torious oil scandal of the period
the Barco Concessions enough to
prove to what extent he conspired
with foreign interests to exploit the
native wealth of the Colombian
people. We shall limit ourselves to
describing the part that DR.. Olaya
Herrera played in the pillage of
which Colombia is the victim.
President Abadia Mendez and his
cabinet were on the point of re-
opening the Barco Concession Coil
region Of Catacumbo) when the
president-elect, DR.. Olaya Herrera,
cabled them from the United States
ordering them to halt procedure be-
cause the affair was in his hands.
Olaya Herrera, who from Colon
bian envoy at Washington rose to
the presidency of the republic, re-
turned to Bogota with the United
States minister, Mr. Jefferson CAT
ferry, who succeeded the fallen
Samuel H. Piles to office, accom-
panied DR.. Olaya Herrera on his
electoral campaign and was with
him in New York on the visit he
made as PRESIDENT elect. Together
they negotiated short term loan
with the National City Bank of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Relief Taxes

MAYOR LaGUARDIA'S new tax plan,
@A announced yesterday, for financing
city relief, places the burden Of providing
relief funds on the shoulders of the work
ing population, the small shopkeepers, and
the professional people.
The lottery plan, whereby the city ex-
poets to raise twelve million dollars, is means
Of placing the relief load the masses. With
its promise of a substantial reward for lucky
few it is an ingenious plan to make the workers
pay the bills which should be paid by the rich
The one-hah of one per cent tax on the gross
receipts Of all business establishments and stores
crossing than $4,000 annually will eat directly
into the bread and butter incomes of the thousands
of small storekeepers-it will be taken directly out
of their livelihood.
Professional workers will also be taxed at the
same rate, on their total gross revenues Salaries
in the higher brackets however, are entirely ex-
empted
ONLY the unity of the unemployed and the whole
v working class, together with the professional
workers and the small businessmen in the united
demand for adequate relief and decent work re-
lief jobs to be financed by the rich by those who
can afford to pay, will defeat these plans of the
LaGuardia regime. Only unity of these groups
will force the LaGuardia-Wall Street regime to
open up new avenues of taxation for the t1nanc-
ing of relef-taxes on the large incomes and in
heritances, taxes on the tremendous profits of the
public utility corporations, on large realty hold
ngs and on the large corporations operating within
the confines Of the city.
Employed and unemployed workers, profession
ais and small businessmen should mass at the
public hearings on the taxation bills today and
tomorrow and voice their demands for adequate
cash relief at the expense of LaGuardia's Wall
Street masters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23

1t gives detailed reports of the or
ganization of the White Legion and
other fascist groups which are di-
rected against the Negro and white
toilers.
The Southern Worker" reports a
number of new strike actions in the
South, and draws the lessons of
the experience of the strike betray-
ais of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Change of Presidents
Means Same Slavery,
Cuban Writer Says

YANKEE IMPERIALISM IN CO.
LOMBIA IRA slated from
"Masas," Cuban Revolutionary
0rpaul
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23
Committee For Defense
Of Political Prisoners
Hits Movie-Star Inquiry

NEW YORK.-"The private af-
fairs of an individual, whether a
movie star or anything else, do not
concern the police" declared Alfred
H. Hirsch, secretary of the National
Committee for the Defense of Poll
tical Prisoners, in a statement is
sued yesterday denouncing proposed
prosecution Of movie stars alleged
to have contributed funds to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23

The Daily Worker can Better Aid
Your Struggles If You Build its
Circulation.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
BURROUGHS SON HURT
Crashes in Plane Bought by Au-
thor of "Tarzan" Stories.

SANTA MONICA, Calf, February
II P).-Losing control in cross
wind after landing, Hubert Bur-
roughs, IS, son of the "Tarzan"
writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, re-
ceived a cut over one eye and was
shaken up yesterday as nis plane
nosed over and broke its propeller
Both the youth and his father, who
recently bought the plane, have been
practicing flying for several weeks.
Evening star., 1934-02-18

Values drawing shoppers
fabric
wardrobe.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
Va Chine" Muslin Prints

beautiful and as re-
freshing as a Spring day-sott,
silk like cotton prints in glori-
Gus assortment of new patterns
and colors. SO inches wide.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-11
VIE.
At GLEN ECHO
7 D N | III 7

The first outdoor swimming
meet takes place tonight in the
Crystal Pool at Glen Echo Park
and a glittering array will com.
pete. The first event will be
called at $3.50 o'clock.
There will be events for men
and women with some spirited
competition expected.
Ambassador Entries
Representing the Ambassador
Swimming Club will be Fred
York in the fancy dive and Rob
ert Jordan in the free style.
Competing for the sho-eham
Girls Swimming Club will be
Shirley Thompson. Marie Pollock,
Annabelle Ernbrey, Jean Rawls,
Annabelle Whaler, Leonora Taube.
Betty O'Too1e, Lidia Cort. Jean
Emery, Betty Thompson and Marie
Duvall.
Shoreham Threats
Dwyer Ghormley, Archie Meat
yard, Bob Knight and William
Talbert will carry the colors of
tbs Shoreham Mems Club.
Penn A. C. has entered William
Mackey, Robert Holk and Daniel
Hogan.
The Baltimore Y. M. c. A. will
be represented by H. Kinsley, F.
Cummings, N. Matthews, E.
Cowan and M. Anchakaitis.
Washington Y.M.C.A. will have
seven representatives. They are
Ernest Boggs, Knox Moncure.
Paul Wilson, Lou Clay, James Mil
Ter, Forrest Harding and Robert
Kearney.
Unattached entries include
Johnny Broaddus, Constancio Al
varado, Julian Adler, Louis Adler
and Stewart Wells.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-11
Il D. {. NETMEN
SEEK MD. TITLE

BALTIMORE, Nd, June II.
Eleven prominent Washington, D:
C. racquet-wielders are included
among the IS men participating
in the Maryland State tennis
tournament which begins today
at the Baltimore Country Club.
The field includes players from
Mexico, Canada, and the Pacific
Coast.
Berkley Bell, of New York, will
try for his fifth State title. He
won in 1923, 1929 and 1881 and
again last year. Eddie Jacobs OF
Baltimore won in 1880 and 1882.
Washington entries and oppon'
entS:
Barney Welsh, jr., VS.. W. J. Dane:
Happy" Jacobs VS.. Ralph Ellis Manuel
]. Martinez VS.. s. NJ. Herman, Bob Bur
we'll VS.. Morton Shapiro, Clarence Char
est vs. Milton Ladensky, Pat Deck rs.
Wilbur Hess, Gilbert Hunt vs.. j. l. Tai
more, Hy Ritzenberg vs.. John A. Magee'
Ralph McElvenny VS.. Peter Blanchard
and FREDERICK Sendel VS.. E. W. Brown
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-11
SPEEDY BOXERS
SHOW TONIGHT
At HUNT.C[UB

When the curtains are drawn
aside tonigh tat the Riding and
Hunt Clubs second fisitc offer
ing, the Districts patrons Of
punch may view the fastest set
of leather fiippers to perform
here since the game has been
legalized. The Riding and Hunt
Club is located at Twenty-Second
and P Streets Northwest. The
first preliminary tonight will be
called at $50 o'clock.
Speed should match speed in
the 10-round final between the
home grown Ray Bowen and
frankie Petrolle. Ray stands on
the fence Of ring popularity and
success, lettering. Should he
weather the punch, craft and
guile of the New Yorker the LEGAL
welter's star will be ready for
ascendency.
Bowen is ready. For 10 days
he has been lashing away at
big Red Barry at the Mohawk
club gym. At times, Manager
Patsy Donovan, has fed him little
fellows to polish his speed upon.
Yesterday he hung up his gym
mittens as fit as he has even
been in his ring career.
Jacobs on Gard
Threatening to steal the thun-
der from the top bout is the
one between Joe Zelda, Of Brook
Ign and Stumpy Jacobs of Nor
folk, a six rounder. Zodda is
colorful and fast; he hits similar
to joey Costa, who stole the
show at the last Hunt Club affair.
Jacobs is a boring-in fellow with
a wallop.
Billy Landers meets a young
ster in AL Ragone. who wants to
hang around this bailiwick for
the winter shows. So he will
give his best. Ragone replaces
Johnny Ladao, who is injured.
Johnny Mays, of the Third
Corps Area and Eddie Marks, of
Walter Reed Army staff, are
down for a six rounder. Pete
Bevans, with a record of wins in
this locality, and Charlie Thomp.
son, Of Baltimore, will open the
card.