February 1927

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Published monthly by the Daily Worker Publishing Company, 1113 W. Washington Blvd.,Chicago, 111. Entered as Second Class Matter November 8, 1924, at the postofflce of Chicago, Illinois, under the act ofMarch 3, 1879. 290 FEBRUARY, 1927. No. 16. Mexico and Nicaragua Beginning with the March issue the By Ella G. Wolfe A MJETUCAN imperialism is on a rampage. It swings other millions are being consumed by the modern motor "^ its big stick in an effort to whip a few Central transport on land. But in the next war the major ap- American republics into line—so they may be hitched paratus will be the airplane which takes even larger "WORKERS MONTHLY" onto the profit coining treadmill of Wall Street finance quantities of this precious fuel. will change its name and its appearance. It will be pub- and oil capital. Mexico is being threatened. Nicaragua But what has Mexican oil to do with Nicaragua? Nica- is invaded. All the arts of demagogy are employed to ragua is a good excuse for picking a quarrel. It would lished as justify this plain imperialist aggression. Even Bol- be somewhat raw and very unpopular, to say the least, shevism is conjured up to iplay its trick of blinding the for the State Department to tell the American people masses to the real character of the expeditions. But that we are fighting with Mexico because we want her the facts are too plain. The acts of the imperialists oil. Even American statesmen are somewhat concerned speak too loud. by outward appearances, and desire to give a more Mexican oil has sent our battleships Into the Carib- idealistic reason. So our State Department tells the bean and has landed our marines in Nicaragua. "We" world that we are landing marines in Nicaragua to fight must defeat Sacasa not because he is a bolshevik, not the influences of Mexican bolshevism. On November because he is friendly to the working class—nor evea 17, 1926, the Assistant Secretary of State, Robert Olds, "THE COMMUNIST" because he is a liberal. We must defeat him now be- called the directors of the Washington Bureaus o'f the cause his success would mean a strengthening of the three principal news agencies—The Associated Press, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii rebellious Latin-American feeling against the U. S. in the United Press, and Hearst, into a secret conference, general—and in Mexico it would stiffen the opposition and he told them that "it is an undeniable fact that the against American interests, and endanger the easy, Mexican government today is a bolshevist government. steady flow of oil. We cannot prove it, but we are morally certain that a We have a vital need of Mexico's oil wells. John Ise warm bond of sympathy, if not of actual understanding READ DETAILS ON PAGE 763 AND 764 in his recent .book summing up the oil resources of the exists between Mexico City and Moscow. A steady stream United States calculates that at the present rate of of Bolshevist propaganda has been filtering from Mexico OF THIS ISSUE. American consumption our oil resources will last about down through Central America, aimed at property rights six years. Six years! An appalling short period; there and designed to undermine society and governments as is little time to lose. Mexico is still rich in producing they are now constituted. We feel that this picture oil lands and a number of American geologists who have should be presented to the American people and I desirs been busy for years in reconnoitering for Standard Oil to ask for your advice and co-operation." report that in the States of Chihuahua, Chiapas and One of the representatives present asked why the Tabasco alone there are millions of acres of rich oil lands. State Department did not make a public statement to In our scramble for oil we must consider not only the that effect. The reply was: "Surely you must realize why 19 million American automobiles that have to be fed the Department of State cannot afford to be directing daily, but also the fuel supply of a future war. Modern such a serious statement against a government with battleships have taken to burning oil. First, because it which it is on friendly terms." is easier to store and second, because it emits no tell- The Associated Press fell for this piece of inspired tale smoke. These battleships consume millions of gal- propaganda and published it broadcast—but the "news" lons. And while these are being consumed on the sea, fell flat on the American people as a whole and failed FEBRUARY, 1927 725 724 WORKERS MONTHLY canal against Mexico. When Sacasa says that no one Calles government will arm against the counter-revolu- to browbeat Calles into submission on the oil and land Prior to this election the Nicaraguan national bank in Nicaragua is attempting to endanger the treaty grant- tion. The workers and peasants will fight to protect laws. Not because the Calles regime is revolutionary—• and the national railways were in the hands of Ameri- ing canal rights to the U. S.: what few and meager rights they have won during the nor always even friendly to labor—but because he is can bankers. The Solorzano and Sacasa government Then "we will brook no interference in our Caribbean last decade and a half, for they know that should -forced by the militant spirit of the Mexican peasantry bought back the railway and the bank. policy." the Church and landed opposition come to power—all and working class to make revolutionary gestures from A few months after this, Chamorro, Minister of War The Inconsistent, hypocritical, uncertain movements o£ rights will be destroyed. time to time. 'Calles, like Obregon, before him, has in the Solorzano cabinet, with the aid of Diaz, the pres- Coolidge and Kellogg has created a general conviction American imperialism is gradually swallowing Central had to straddle in his policy. On the one hand he is ent president of Nicaragua, executed a coup d'etat that the massing of so many battleships in the Carib- America. South America is next on the list. The Monroe constantly bullied and worried by the demands of the against Solorzano and forced the latter to resign—and bean has nothing to do with the Nicaraguan affair—- Doctrine is preparing to celebrate its final triumph. American concessionaries with all the power and wealth Sacasa—who then constitutionally was entitled to the that 100 marines could keep Diaz in power but that it Mr. Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relation Commit- of their government behind them; and on the other, he is presidency, was forced into exile. is aimed directly at Mexico. As time progresses the in- tee of the United States senate, protests against the in- threatened by a well organized militant peasantry and 'Chamorro has always been the friend of America a tention of Coolidge becomes more sharply defined.

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