The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1924, Page 3

Friday, eee 26, dedi BRITISH LABOR | TENE POWER eqyranpane DEATH SENTENCE jms: GOVERNMENT IN WAR ON CHINA British Warships Force Chinese Executions The great capitalist powers of the world are engaged in a struggle with each other over the exploitation of China, at the expense of the Chinese people. Since the civil war ‘started the DAILY WORKER has ex- plained the true inwardness of the struggle, pointing out, that behind the warring tuchuns and generals were the capitalist powers, deluging China in blood in order to be in a better posi- tion to grab off the spoils. Urge Aid to Sun Yat Sen. The Communist International is-\ sued a proclamation calling on the workers of the world to come to the assistance of the bleeding Chinese workers and peasants under the lead- ership of Sun Yat Sen, radical leader of Southern China, the only province in China where the workers have the right to organize, The British Communist Party took steps to rally the workers of Britain behind the Communist International which is leading the proletarian fight in defense of the people of China, The following manifesto issued by the British Communists will aid our read- ers to better understand the momen- tous conflict raging in China, the par- ties involved and the alignment of the great capitalist powers: British Communist Manifesto. “There is civil war in China. The papers tell us that the governor of the province of Che-Kiang is fighting the governor of Kiang-Su. The latter is supported by the Pekin government and by Wu-Pei-Fu, one of China’s big- gest would-be Napoleons. The former is supported by Wu-Pei-Fi’s mortal enemy, Marshal Chang-Tso-Lin, the governor of Mongolia, And the allies are sending their warships and land- ing their marines to restore order. “What is the meaning of the civil war? Why do generals fight one an- other in China? A quarrel between rival generals—what does it matter to the British workers? It matters this—that the. Chinese civil war is only..a reflection of the struggle. be- tween the allied imperialists for) world domination. For. behind Wu- Pei-Fu, the dictator of Pekin, stands Anglo-American imperialism: it finan- ces him, it supplies him with muni- tions, it booms him in the British and American press. Behind Chang-Tso- Lin, the dictator of Mongolia, stands Japanese imperialism, which supplies him with money and munitions, “The rival ‘armies’ of forcibly-re- eruited Chinese peasantry are only pawns in the game-——the game for the prize of China’s markets and China’s cheap labor. It is a game that began a long time ago, while China was still ruled by emperors. Just as they did in Egypt and Turkey, British, French, and American capitalists lend money to,incompetent despots in order first too corrupt them and then to main- tain their rotten power. When the Chinese revolution took place in 1911, British and American capital bribed one set of generals, Japanese another set: they overthrew the first revolu- tionary government, and have kept China for thirteen years in a state of chaos and disruption. “The time is now ripe foie, allies to ‘restore order’—by dividing the country up amongst themselves. In parts of China, where the allies have established their own rule already, the Chinese workers and peasants have tasted the sweets of British government. Several incidents during the last three months have opened “their eyes. “A Chinese soldier, Li-Yu- An, was given hundreds of strokes with a bam- boo for walking in a district reserved for foreigners. Enraged, he struck \three foreigners in the street. A » British court tried him, and gave him four years and ten days’ imprison- ment. But when a British subject, \ Westbury, violently assaulted a Chi- nese customs official in the execution of his duty, the same court inflicted a penalty of twentyive dollars fine, twenty-five dollars damages, and costs. “Again, an American merchant, Hailey, interfered with some dockers on strike at a port on the river Yang- Tse-Kiang, and was knocked (or fell) into the water and drowned. A Brit: ish gunboat, the “Cockchafer,” hasten- ed,to the scene, and the captain, un- der pain of immediate bombardment motive power behind the DAILY and Inspiration of every conquests. women of the working class who By driving “The National Labor which the presses ‘are being mand. This week Special Local New York (ten thousand). October. cities in subscriptions secured the Special Editions printed list of orders made: New York Philadelphia Milwaukee Lake Co., Ind. Chicago ) Detroit Pittsburgh .. Los Angeles Toledo Erie . Denver 15,000 (Steel -10,000 . 3,000 . 2,000 . 2,000 . 3,000 Lack of funds can prove no ing cost more to print. low. Gary, South Bend and other pr THE POWER COLUMN Twice every week—this column uncovers to your view the WORKER. Here for the interest reader—and especially the DAILY WORKER agents and committees—are tried and proven sugges- tions and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WORKER.to further Here is POWER—the power of brain and effort of men and not only believe—but ACT! RING the past month there has been an increase in subscriptions received. Bundle orders have grown in response to the demand at campaign meetings. far from satisfactory have proven an increase to the POWER Both tho Daily.” And both have been overshadowed by the Special Local Campaign Editions on kept’ busy with increasing de- Editions are going to Toledo, Ohio) (two thousand), Detroit, Mich. (five thousand), and Local New York received the first edition of 14,000 for the Gitlow meeting. a success financially and in good work both for the DAILY WORKER and the local that this week sees an additional issue of 10,000 going out to precede the Catinon meetin October 2. Beside this the largest single order yet made— 50,000—will=go to New York for the Foster meeting in It proved such of A lively campaign drive aided by these Special Editions is one reason for the fact that Local New York has led all during the past month. That for different cities with their own front page has proven a success can be seen by this .74,000 (3 Editions—24,000 already shipped) 30,000 (possibly, 50,000) .20,000 (State Edition) District—Gary, South Bend etc.) . 5,000 (Shipped—3 more editions to follow) (Shipped) . 2,000 (Shipped) Besides these orders definitely made, arrangements are being completed with other live locals who are availing themselves of this splendid opportunity for building up their organization and putting a real kick into their campaign. deterrent to any local not as yet having ordered. Advertising, leaflets etc. that are a poor substitute for the Special Local Edition to advertise a meet- Rates have been purposely kept The returns to the DAILY WORKER from these issues must repay for the efforts made to make them a success. Comrade Shklar of Milwaukee who has helped put that city on the map with a State Edition of 20,000 (half Milwaukee and the balance to Racine, Kenosha, and other towns in the backyard of LaFollette and Vic Ber- ger) was not satisfied with this accomplishment. Going on a trip thru the Steel District of Lake County, Ind., including Fateh 5 to juperior towns his report to the local comrades on the possibilities of the Special Edition brought an order for 15,000 wHich is now in preparation. At no place where consideration has been given to this edition have the comrades failed to grasp the opportunity esented. Here is POWER—effective dynamic power not only to build up the DAILY WORKER but to make your canpelgn meetings a.success, to give added drive to your local campaign—to BUILD your local as well. of the city, forced the civil and mili- tary authorities to give Hailey a pub- lie funeral, and to execute without trial or delay of any kind two leading members of the strike committee. And. when the Chinese government protested, the minister in Pekin of MacDonald’s “labor government” re- fused to give satisfaction, and instead demanded further punishment of the strikers! More than that—the time for the al- lies is now or never, “For a new power is rising to challenge them— the power of the revolutionary work- ers, peasants, and middle classes, or-| ganized in the Kuo-Ming-Tang, or Na- tional Revolutiohary Party, under the leadership of the veteran socialist, Sun-Yat-Sen. At his capital in Can- ton, the great port in South China, he has for many years carried on a hitherto invincible fight against counter-revolutionary foreign imper- jalism, and in this fight he has had to rely more and more on the workers and péasants. Canton is the only part of China where the trade untons and the socialists can’ work legally. “The allies have long tried to get rid of him by sending first one gen- eral then another; but always their attempt has been foiled by their mu- tual jealousies and rivalries. Even today their rival puppets, Wu-Pel-Fu and Chang-Tso-Lin, are locked in struggle; but whoever wins, wether the outcome is a despotism financed by Japanese or Anglo-American capt- talism, the survivor will have to fight Sun-Yat-Sen, the representative of the Chinese people, the ally of Soviet Rus- sia, the spokesman of the workers’ fund peasants’ will to be free of all capitalist rule, Chinese or fore “True, Sun-Yat-Sen has weighed w his chances. He sees that Japanese imperialism is the weaker. If it wins, its, own domestic troubles are too great to enable it to eat up China, Therefore he may support Chang-Tso- Lin, And therefore the British “la- bor” government, under the dictation "RINCE GETS CARD IN PRESSMEN’S UNION BY GRACE OF BERRY’S GANG ———_—_—_ NEWSVORK, Sept, 25.—B) Prince of Wales served a spe app! tion to the Printing Pres¢men's and honorary member. | » (By The Federated Press) , ting the press of the Herald-Tribune, the renticeship and was qualified for elec- Assistants’ union, Local No. 25, as an H, R. H. The Prince of Wales, reads engraved union card No, 01, is qualified as journeyman, honorary member at large, of the union of which Major George L. Bei rry is international president. , David Boyle and Joseph C. Orr are the local secretarl 1s who issued the prince’s working sare “The time is ripe, we haye said.) bankers, is organizing a Fascist move- ment in Canton, just as they did in Soviet Russia. “The story has already appeared in the, Herald. Let us recall its main facts. Last May the Chinese mer- chants, bankers, and, capitalist ele- ments held a congress, at which they decided *to organize volunteers—of course, only “to defend property.” To-day there are 27,000 of them, all |armed with rifles imported from the |British colonies at Hong Kong and {Shanghai. Their leader is Chen-Lin- |Pak, for fifteen years representative ‘of the British-owned Shanghai and Hongkong bank, director of the ten largest native banks, with a capital of 200 million dollars. “When Sun-Yat-Sen seized their last consignment of rifles, they revolted When the workers of Canton formed workers’ guards, and began to move against the merchants’ quarter, the British consul threatened that British warships would bombard the city. British Sepoys have been told off to protect Chen-Lin-Pak’s property! “The result so far has been to pre- vent Sun from marching against Wu- Pei-Fu. His position, and with him that of Chinese labor and Chinese democracy, is critical. They are faced with the prospect of seeing Chang-Tso-Lin defeated, Anglo-Amer- ican capital victorious in the north, and then joining hands with the’ Can- ton Fascisti to stamp out the labor movement in blood, reestablish auto- eracy, and make China'safe for the British bankers. And the “labor” gov- ernment is playing: its part—relying on the alleged indifference of the British workers to foreign affairs. “What can be done? The Chinese workers have forméd a “Society for fighting imperialism”; the Russian Trade Union.Congress has formed a “Hands Off China” committee, in which tens of thousands of workers are enrolling. This is the path we must take, The workers’ organiza- tions, the labor leaders, all who are “honest” in their claim to defend labor and democracy, must defeat the capitalists--and their puppet’ Mac- Donald. Hands Off China! Down with the Chinese Fascisti! Defend the Chinese Revolution! With these watchwords let us force the “labor government” to remember its duty to fulfil its pledges of peace by with- drawing all support from the counter- revolution in China. “Hands off the Chinese revolution.” « Join the Workers Party! THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! THE DAILY inescapable iii NR DAILY WORKER | DEATH SENTENCE OF TERRORIST IS COMMUTED Savinkoff Was Agent of Allied Powers (By Rosta News ‘Ageney.) MOSCOW (By Mail).—Boris Savinkoff, a leading member of the Social Revolutionary party, who was sentenced to death for his crimes against the Soviet Republic, crimes which included attempts at the assassination of Lenin, Trotsky and other Soviet chiefs, had the sentence com- muted to ten years imprison- ment and finally to a complete pardon, Savinkoff, Russian terrorist and leading agent of the Allied governments in their war against Soviet Russia, recently visited his native country in disguise and under an assumed name but was captured by the Soviet police and brought be- fore a military tribunal. On the 23rd of August, was served with the act of accusation, and within seventy-two hours, his trial was opened in the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. The announcement of Savinkoff’s arrest created a sensation not alone in Russia, but thruout Europe as he j« was perhaps the most prominent agent I of the British and other governments | in their conspiracies to stir up civil | war in Russia, since 1917. Public Interested, Public opinion in the capital and | thruout the Soviet Republics is fol- lowing with unabated attention the case of Boris Savinkoff, which has re- vealed a striking picture of the close connections between the white coun- ter-revolutionary movement and for- eign intervention and support against | the Soviet, a connection which was known, of course, but as to the actual proportions of which was difficult t6| have an exact idea. Boris Savinkoff had been a leading member of the Socialist Revolution- ary Party, a believer in terror and an active participant of a number of dar- ing attempts against the lives of high of the British, French, and American: officials and dignitaries of the Tsarist regime, and among them against Home Minister Plehve in Petersburg and Grand Duke Sergius ‘in Moscow. Pleaded Guilty. Savinkoff's trial opened on the 27th inst. To the question whether he is Pleading guilty the accused answered in the affirmative without any hesita- tion. He then went on to give frank evidence dwelling on all the details and stating that he was now utterly disappointed in and disgusted with all the counter-revolutionary groups, that he despised them now and had lost faith in the sincerity of the interven- tionists and, finally, that he recogniz- ed that all his own anti-Soviet activi- ties had been mistaken, while right was on the side of revolution. Savinkoff told the court in detail about his many negotiations with Messrs. Millerand, Poincare, Noulens, Lloyd George, Churchill, Maszarik, Pilsudski and others, having met some of them in Paris and London, where he represented Kolchak and Denikin. Thru personal contact he had come to the conviction that the “Allies” aimed but at weakening Russia and benefitting by the counter-revolution- ,;jary movements in their own selfish interests. As for Russian emigrants abroad, Sayinkoff gave vivid pictures of the moral decomposition and decay prevailing among them. Intervention a Failure. It was in the spring, 1923, that the accused, according to his statement, saw finally that intervention was no longer possible that all counter-revo- lutionary attempts were doomed to I See the Legionnaries has met and sive their appetite a whet for frequent portions, more and more, of wars and battles, blood and gore. They took a awful vicious fling at fotks who try to do a thing to make) old Woodrow’s promise good that wars | should cease, as all wars should. In language that was quite uncouth they hit at movement of the Youth, as if youth’s only aim should be to die! forthe security of fat old bankers’ ofl concessions and Pierpont Morgan's world possessions. That youth should | like to live\a life that's free from fratieidal strife, makes Legion men to rave and grgan and spit out epileptic | foam. The Legion /aving had its fill of Woodrow's dey cratic pill, would like same dose down the Savinkoff | iseems as ‘really fell would have a different tale WORKERS LYCEUM T0 BE SCENE OF A MOST UNUSUAL EVENING There is really no reason why you shouldn't attend it, you know. And don't pretend that you don’t know to what we refer. You know durn well that we mean the Com- munist cabaret that is being given by the North Side branch of the Young Workers League tomorrow night, Sept. 27, at the Workers Ly- ceum, which, as is well known, is situated at 2733 Hirsch Blvd. We'll admit that you don't know the surprises that are going to be. | pulled off there, and by cricky, we don’t propose to tell them to you now. Suffice it to say to the Wise seekers for revolutionary amuse- ment that the entertainment that will be got up by the Communist lads and lassies is unprecedened in the history of the socials of the rad- ical movement. Heaven and hell have been moved in order to secure adept talent and after much effort it was done. The stage is set. Cough up your dough and spend a night as you never spent it before, A word to the wise should be suf- ficient. The length of this word is for those who are not wise and have to be told. Come in huge masses! failure and that international recog- |nition of the Soviet power was bound to come. The last words of the accused were that having spent many years in Tsar- ist prisons and in exile, he had lost touch with the popular masses, whose mood and feelings he no longer un- derstood. This, he says, explains why ‘an old revolutionary, who took part jin tens of attempts against Tsarist ministers, later committed the most {abominable crimes against his peo- |ple and motherland, being one of | |those most responsible ‘for the latter’s bloody ordeal.” Issus¢ Statemen The accused concluded his evidence |by the following statement: “In the | face of the people’s representatives, 1 | Savinkoff, declare that I erred, that I | |recognize the Soviet power, and I tell to all the emigrants who love the Rus- | sian people that they must’ recognize the Soviet power. It is harder for me |to make such a statement than to list- en to your verdict. “This conviction that the people is | with you I acquired not here, in the court, but a year ago—in Paris. And |I returned to Russia, for I did not be- |lieve in what other, people told about you, I am ready to hear the sentence of death and ask for no leniency Your revolutionary conscience will re mind you that I have been a revolu tionary.” The sentence was declared after three hours’ conference of the judges. Boris Savinkoff has been sentenced to capital punishment. However, taking into consideration the statements of the accused, the tribunal has decided to ask the supreme organs for re- trieve. Death Sentence Commuted. The Central Executive Committee of the U. S. S. R. has satisfied the request of the Military Court and has commuted the death verdict to a sen- tence of ten years’ prison. In the motives put forth for this decision, it is explained that since thé ccurt, which tried aSvinkoff, was able to establish that the accused has giv- en up struggle against the Soviet pow- er and since he himself has stated that he is ready to serve loyally and honestly the toiling people under the léadership of the power established by the October Revolution, the applica- tion of the death sentence is not call- ed for by the interests of preserving the revolutiqnary order. The, prole- tarian masses cannot be actuated by motives of vengeance. Vote Communist This Time! THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! Ten dollars from you means leaflets to 5,000 workers. - sb Epics bs Bill Lloud die back up Woodrow Wilson's lie, that conscripts must be shippedd to France to break forever old Mar's lance, should shake a very warlike fist like any Wall Street jingoist. It if the Legion lacks gas- masks to ‘ward off the attacks of our financial pirate crew who mix imper- jalistic stew. Perhaps the boys who ito tell. But khaki lads who got as far as training camps give me a jar. What they can’t tell of war themself would | fill a Harvard five-foot shelf. Give ‘em a little running start and they will beat N. Bonepart, and put up a) most awful bluff that Caesar didn't) know his stuff. If Legion men wanta fight, I move we take ‘em some dark night, and turn 'em loose in some bull-pen where they can “win the war" agen, Then | Collecting campaign funds means altar Ing for communism, jthat those who failed to, let each battered sunuvagun just fig- ure out how much he ‘won, Page Thre SIL AAA LA Ad § ri i & 5 ‘3 re Chicago Tribune is a fighting, aggressive newspaper. It is frankly for the interests of the Capitalist class. But in a burst of fairness (?) it devotes very often a part of.its editorial page to “The Other Side.” % BERE it presents the viewpoint of in- terests opposed to theirs. 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