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pI th Mowery “Pan-American ‘coop- ina.i the midst of.an ac- st, Wall Street war of Jon jagatnst: Latin-America. true‘ meaning of Pan-Americah- italism and the United | Stites’ government as 9 whole mast {take fall responsibility for the crime. 'The: United States senate, after: pri- sata agreement between the leaders of ‘poth the republican apd democratic ‘]parties, ‘abruptly adjourned its: ses- ions to prevent discussion on resola- ‘which “had been. submitted t Bgalnst intervention in Nicaragua! | ”~ “This perticular war, this war which is actually taking place, cannot bo de- ted—even in the United States sen- late! Ob, ino, “it may embarrass the [president at Havana.” What the sena- -}or, "who . pronounced those words ismeant was that it might expose too 2jelearly® thé president ‘at Havana, Hight expose ‘what ‘American i ,ialista“is doifg under. the hypocritical jogan of Pab-Americanism. Tatio-American affalrs play an im- portant: role in all foreign policy of ithe. Wal Street g¢i-xsnment at the present, time. | Nt {3 noteworthy that even in these “Inypocritical proposals of treaties Jlwhich Secretary ‘Kellogg makes to £ France, it ix stipulated that the pro- ? visions’ for arbitration do not apply ito the Monroe-Doctrine zone of Amer- * fean imperialism in Latin-America. ji American foreign policy conceives 4’ of Latin-America as the cornerstone of @ politico-economie American em- 7 pire which: can be thrown into the * gcales against the European empires ¥ tn the struggle for world domination, ‘That President Coolidge himself, ac- t a Calg agate ee Havana to-attend the Sixth Pan-Anied- 2, 1,000, marines embark for Nicaragua to help crush the jomle straggling to regain their liberty. — 1 Gonterence,. pre- d———— ow words of| The question of Nicaragua is not . ‘taBel arfor i on the order of business. However, three Latin-American governments have already presented proposals for taking up the queation of intervention in Latin-Americs, The-United States delegation will. do everything in Its power to prevent such an “improper” diseussion 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- fean Conference at Havana. The crim- inal war cannot be ignored, The the true expression of United States policy in Latin-America. It is Pan- mericanism and the Monroe Doc- ine in practice. Neither the frantic efforts of the state department spokesmen, nor the landing of Walt Street's proudest military aviator at Havana, can do more than emphasize the hypocritical aggressive purposes which are hidden beneath the term “Pan-Americanism.” Pan-Americanisri means subjection of Latin-America to the United States. Under the present circumstances (Continued on Page Tio) [der is now conducting es a pi bloody invasion of Nicaragua remains | testity before Scudder. at th uight. most conspicuous aera vate investigation which Justi ta the general. probe ', scheduled to begin on: Febs 1 Buckner, who is. represent state in ‘the he rected primarily against Maurice. Connolly, prekident of Queens, threat; [. jened that all witnesses who, refuse: aol q hearings will beheld in Saleen ¥S the ‘committee, and jailed. Connolly relinquished bis job to August’ Kupks, assistant commissioner "of i, public |: works in Queens, last Friday in order [to “have time to conduct his defen 13 Burned to Death BUCATUNNA, Miss, Jan; 8-71 Negro family of Calvin -Smith? wife, their five children,- ghd. two children staying at guests ‘were burned to: death in. fire that ‘de stroyed their home ts ‘Satur (eect 8, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jai cll the state sentiment behind the miners’ strike.” ‘companied by an impressive delega-| \ lon sees fit Yo make the trip to Ha-| + yana, is an earnest of the rapid un- Vifolding of the new drive to subjugate -'Latin-America. Can't Hide Crimes in Nicaragua. 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- creasingly insistent counter-attacks of the representatives of a now thor- oughly aroused Latin-America, Even though the U. S. 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-Amorica is so great that unless every precaution is.taken, the conference ikely to break up ‘This sounds good and might be en- couraged, but William Collins, A. F. of L. field organizer and chairman of the conference, blasted all hopes that the militant announcement of intentions might generate wken he: declared that “no specific program is mapped out, but we-will be guided by’ developments.” ‘This statement by Collins wis in reply .to.a query whether the labor officials included the steel trust among the industries they proposed to organize, Political Manceuver. The real purpose of the conference ‘a political manoeuver designed to impress the capitalist politicians of Pennsylvania. No well-informed person here en- tertalis 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 vader the weigh? of protest. _}even one junk shop not to speak of A. FL. Ghiefs Went Organiz One; ung top, Sa of drums another army of high salaried labor officials descended: oa Filia: burgh and organized # conference to wag stries, and crystallize ®—-—— concerted ¢: ‘paign to unionize eee tackling the giant steel industry. ‘They must make n bluff to'save their faces to the miners and als6 to arouse false hopes that are doomed to’:be. shattered with the inevitable result |: on the strikers’ morale, Looks: Like Btackmai 2 That the threat to orgenize’ the state industries is a form of political. blackmail rather than a serious: {a~ tention {s indicated in sn_inapired news story on the front page of the Pittsburgh Press, a ScrippsHoward|L paper extres.ely friendly to: the: re< ‘actionary labor loaders. It-says that swith the Imminence of presidential [# and senatorial campaigns this will. be ‘an important factor in the impe ing elections, {nasmuch as the fede. tion acknowledged, in a resolution passed at the.executives’ meeting here fat November, that it intended’ to support the ‘ftriking miners with’ po- tical participation.” This “political: participation,”.tiow!| ” (Continued on Pa Two):