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flowery words of
ecked. with.
Haved I" an2 :.“Pan-American coop-
. -feration,” ‘epens-id thé midst ofan ac-
“ih pertalist, “Wall Street war of
peevsldn ‘against. Latin-America.
. me oenianing of Pan-Americah-
Missclear. * 2. .
1 erica Imperialist Hypecricy.
therican’ ‘capitalism and the United
' Stétes' government’ as a whole must
z take fall responsibility for -the crime.
seater agreement between the jeaders of
wlbeth the republican and democratic
‘| parties,” abruptiy adjourned ita: ses-
pions t te prevent discussion on resola-
sitlons’” which ‘had been .. submitted
t against intervention in Nicaragual
‘This perticolar war, this war which
-lis actually taking place, cannot be da-
1{bated—even jn the United States sen-
ate! Oh, no, “it may embarrass the
[president at Havana.” What the sena-
-/$0r, who pronounced those words
itmeant.was that it might expose too
aiclearly= thé president ‘at Havana,
;, might expose -what ‘American imper-
a inlista-is dolfg under, the hypocritical
¥ logan of Pan-Americanism.
; ‘7 Latin-American affairs play an im-
portant. role in all foreign policy of
the. Wal Street..g inv. snment at the
[present time.
vf Mt is noteworthy that even in these
“| pypocritical proposals of treaties
THehich Secretary ‘Kellogg makes to
: France, it is stipulated that the pro- |’
‘te the Monroe-Doctrine zone of Amer-
‘ican imperialism in Latin-America,
American foreign policy conceives
ee er
-of Latin-America as the cornerstone
‘of a politico-economie American em-
7: pire which: can be thrown into the
* scales agninst the European empires
i. jp the struggle for world domination,
That President Coolidge himself, ac-
- gompanied by an impressive delega-
\ tion sees fit make the trip to Hae
1 vena, is an earnest of the rapid un-
¥. ‘folding of the new drive ,to subjugate
‘'Latin-America.
Cau’t Hide Crimes in Niearagua.
" But it is an earnest of something
else as-Well.- The delegation has been
-selected with such care because any
’ American _ delegation at any Pan-
‘American Conference just now ,,will
* have its hands full in parrying the in-
‘ereasingly insistent counter-attacks
-of the representatives of a now thor-
oughly aroused Latin-America. Even
though the U. 8. state department has
already exercised great care and
brought all the weights of its influ-
ence to bear in determining that the
representatives of Latin-American
governments at Havana will be unable
to speak out plainly, the mass senti-
» ment -in ‘Latin-America is so great
that unless every precaution is.taken,
the conference is likely to break up
suder the weigh* of protest.
.Visions for arbitration do not apply |:
Sthtement of the Workers (Communist) Party, L.
‘AS President: Coallage- depaits dor Havana to-nttend the Sixth Pan-Anies-
A eee , Conteretice,. 1,000 : marines. embark for Nicaragua to help crash ‘the
q wian people straggling. to regain their liberty. - .
am: Gonfarence,. pre. }——-—-—
+.
Tho question of Nicaragua -is not
on the order of business. However,
three Latin-American governments
have already presented proposals for
taking op the quedtion of intervention
in Latin-America. The: United States
delegation will. do everything in Its
power to prevent such an “improper”
discussion from disturbing the har-
mony of the gathering.
The Havana Conference—A War
Conference.
‘But the ghost of Nicaragua will
haunt the sessions of the Pan-Amer-
jean Conference at Havana. The crim-
inal war cannot be ignored. The
bloody invasion of Nicaragua remains ;
~{the true expression of United States j
policy in Latin-America. It is Fan-
mericanism and the Monroe Doc-
Tine in practice. Neither the frantic
efforts of the state department
\spokesmen, nor the Ianding of Wall
Street's proudest military aviator at
Havana, can do more than emphasize
tha hypocritical aggressive purposes
which are hidden beneath the term
“Pan-Americanism,”
Par-Anmericaniso means subjection
of Latin-America to the United
States,
Under the present circumstances
(Continued on Page Two}
A.F-_L. Ghiefs
One Fu Si
jened that all witnesses’ who, reblise aed
night. a he
Won't Organiz
By T. J. O'FLAHERTY,
a + Avwize
L, .was..practi tie bee
dey by former U, 8, <tlstal
Emory R. Bucknez: ara
edge of the destruction’
connection with the’
asst
urer of tha Awixa’ pope
most conspicuous: objectors:
vate investigation which Justice.
_|der is now conducting a8 & y prelim’ far
to the probe * whic
scheduled to begin’ on Feb:
Buckner, who is. repressntty the
testify before Scudder. at these: daoriier’
hearings will beheld in-eontempt by
the ‘committee, and jailed. Connolly f
relinquished hia job to August: ‘Kupla, |-
assistant commissioner ‘of ‘E ; public t
works in Queens,. last ‘Friday’ in order.
to “have time to conduct his defénse.” |:
13 Burned to Death
BUCATUNNA, Miss., Jany 3. .
Negro family of Calvin -Smith,-‘his
wife, their five children,: §nd- rot
children staying at” guests. ‘were
burned to: death in .w: fire ‘that’ de-}
atroyed- their home. Jate Saty
peclal To The DAILY W
sentiment behind the miners’ strike.”
This sounds good and might he en-
couraged, but Wiiliam Collins, A. F.
of L. field organizer and chairman
of the conference, blasted all hopes
that the militant announcement of
intentions might generate when he
declared that “no specific program is
mapped out, but we-will be guided by
developments.”
This statement by Collins wAs in|
reply .to a query whether the labor
officials included the steel trust
among the industries they proposed to
organize,
Political Maneuver.
The real purpose of the conference
is a political manoeuver designed to
impress the capitalist politicians of
Pennsylvania.
No well-informed person here en-
tertains the slightest hope that the
A. F. of L. officials who have sabot-
aged every effort to raise adequate
relief for the miners will organize
even one junk shop not ta speak of
? RENE IB, Ut Le
ts if
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 8.—With much blowing of horns and bea. se
of druma another army of high salaried labor officials descended : on: Pitts-
burgh and organized a conference to wage a concerted campaign to unionize’ ,
z]] the state industries, and crystallize > —~ = .
cane erik,
tackling the giant stee! indudtry.
They must make no bluff to‘save’ ‘their
faces to the miners and alse to arouse
fnlse hopes that are doomed to*:be!
shattered with the inevitable resuit:
on the strikers’ morale,
Looks: Like Blackmail,
That the threat to orgenize “the
etate industries is a form of political,
blackmail rather than a serious: {n~
tention is indicated jn an _inapired
news story on the front page of, the
Pittsburgh Preas, a Scripps Howard
paper extren.ely friendly to: the: rey
actionary Iabor leaders. It-says. ‘that!
“with the imminence of presidential
and senatorial campaigns this will. be
an important factor in the impr”
ing elections, Inasmuch as the fede.
tlon acknowledged, in a resolution
passed at the executives’ meeting here
Jast November, that it intended” to
support the rtriking miners
litical participation.”
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va
ea Sm: eo, Tone poe
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