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ote ‘emee Page Ten_ ; CHINA POWDER BARREL IN THE BROILING EAST The Chinese Masses Are Backing Sun Yat Sen By JACK ARMITAGE (For The Federated Press.) YOKOHAMA, Jan. 12,—The| resent lull in the hostilities in hina is but an armed peace, ready to burst into flame of} war at any moment. Popular opinion, judging by reports from different parts of China, will demand that Sun} Yat Sen be made head of the government with headquarters at Peking. Hits Foreign Treaties. | Such a government, once firmly ¢s-| tablished, would be a deathblow to all| the aims of the powers. The position | By MARTIN ABERN. NYONE who reads the glowing his- tory of the Spark, the Russian revolutionary newspaper of years ago; anyone even remotely acquainted with the history and development of Prav- da, organ of the Russian Communist Party, and its powerful connection with, and influence over the masses of Russian workers, need not be told of the gigantic importance of the press. For malevolent influence, consi. der the scorpion capitalist press of Am- erical How did the Spark, Pravda, and other working class newspapers attain such immense influence? Be- cause they were working class papers? That is not enough. There are work- ing class papers that do not, nor are ever likely to have any real hold on the hearts and minds of the workers. The success of the revolutionary or ns in Russia lies in their close con. t and sympathy with the daily needs and aspirations of the strug- gling workers. Pravda succeeded be- cause it spoke the needs and aims of the workers. But more important: The workers themselves spoke In would be more acute than ever, for| Sun has repeatedly and emphatically stated that he will not observe the present treaties with foreign powers. In that he will have the backing not only of China, but of all Asia, and | Russia playing the leading role. It} will then be up to the powers to either | ignominiously climb down or to con- | quer Asia. How far the armed forces of the powers could get is a question. To occupy treaty ports is an easy mat- ter, but that would barely affect even China. To all intents they are occu-} pied at the present moment. For the} powers to conquer China would be a bigger undertaking than Napoleon’s march to Moscow. China would wel-| come it as part of her strategy. The coast, and some of the rivers, could | be held but to conquer the interior | Chairman of the committee on educa |ku klux klan made another bid for Pravda. They made the paper their own by writing always in it of the lives they lived and worked. Hence, Pravda was, or is, not just a paper. It is the blood, bone, muscle, brain and body of the workers. Pravda is the worker, The famous “Workers’ Columns” .or “On the Job” columns made a living paper. Shop Nuclei Will invigorate Com- munist Press. Yet not even Pravda could succeed 8o well without something else. That is, the Communist Party organization, But, further, a certain type of party organization: The shop nuclei, party units organized in the shops, at the place of work, That spells permanent mass contact. The party in Russia fs completely ¢rganized on the basis of shop nuclei, to do all party work, The Communist press gives concen- trated propaganda and daily direction to the work in the shops. Communist nuclei units in the shops. Communist things, report the conditions of work, their struggles and lives, all the little things which arise daily and which mean so much to them. These are written in and commented upon’ by the press and result in building the Press and party. The DAILY WORKER, our American Communist daily, tries in every way to reach the masses of\workers. It wants the workers to write about themselves and their work in the DAILY WORKER. Real success in this field will come when the Workers (Communist) Party is a party of shop nuclei, Until our party, moreover, has its base and absolute majority of membership in the large and basic in- dustries, steel, coal, railroad, etc. dan- gers in the party and in its press will Klan Tries to Capture Indiana’s Educational Laws (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 12.—The power in the state legislature here, | when Walter Bossert, grand dragon of the klan in Indiana, sought to have James Knapp of Hagerstown named tion. It is thot unlikely that Harry is a different proposition. Sees Lightning Change. The situation in oriental countries is undergoing lightning change. Rus- sia will be a powerful influence in China, both militarily and politically. Some are inclined to the belief that Japan will not throw in her lot with China. However, things political in Japan are altering rapidly. Recent events in the Yang-tse val- ley show the trénd of public opinion in-China. It is here that the country is most thickly populated, for the Yang-tse carries along its valley one- eighth of the world’s population. Radi- cal propaganda has been extensively etmethodically disseminated among these | people, most of it emanating from Shanghai and Canton. These in no mood to tolerate peopie are concessions to foreigners. With the people of the Yang-tse and} south China at his back Sun Yat Sen / holds a strong position. He has al-| ways been the idol of the Cantonese | and the overseas Chinese, who are} radical in thought. These people have | literally poured money into his war} chest, especially from America and | Australia. At the moment foreign newspapers | are full of the most ridiculous calu-| mnies regarding Sun. That may be/ well enough for foreign readers, but it | will have no influence on the Chinese. | Sun Yat Sen is the chosen leader of | the revolutionary elements in China. It is hardly to be conceived that he would sell them into the hands of their enemies, as some writers would | have us believe, and that is the only} thing which would discredit him with | his followers. Foreign financial interests will have | to find a strong man to stem the wave | of radicalism which has fast spread} thruout China. The question today is| not, will there be war, but where will | it end? The situation at Pekin is a match which may set fire to the pow- der barrel of -the orient. Dasune Te Sack, theaker tn 42s b aaaeaaaaaaadaaadaaaaaadaad GREETINGS On the First Birthday of the First Communist Daily in the United States. Long Live the DAILY WORKER and the Communist Movement! _'Jewish Branch, Workers Party St. Paul, Minn. Notary Public Birthday Greetings to The Daily Worker from V. BERNAU and INSURANCE of every kind 2034 N. HALSTED STREET Leslie, speaker of the house, will ap- | point the klansman as Lesie is un- | friendly to the klan. | The intense desire of the klan forces |to secure appointment on the commit- |tee on education points to a klan ; campaign to force its educational pro- | Sram on the state. Rent Raise Defeated. VIENNA, Jan. 12.— The govern- ment’s move to make Austrians who |now pay no rent pay small amounts was blocked in the Austrian parlia- |mentary committee on justice by the social-democrats who created a dis- turbance with whistles and bells, causing the committee to adjourn, without passing the rent law. Dead in Siberia. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12.— Captain Charles Henry Sells, the Am- prican commander of the band of set- tlers taken from Wrangel island by a Soviet government icebreaksr, has ment declares. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Allied Arts Concert. About a year ago the writer re- viewed the first program of the Chi- cago Solo Orchestra. This organiza- tion gave one concert and then gave up the ghost. In connection with the Adolph Bolm ballet, until this year the ballet of the Chicago opera, the Solo Orchestra has risen from the dead. The amalgamation calls itself the Allied Arts, and has given two pro. grams so far, with tremendous suc: cess. » The second program, given its sec- ond repetition at the Eight Street Theater last Sunday, was divided in two sections, one given over to the or- chestra, the other to the ballet and or- chestra together. The orchestral section opened with two compositions the reviewer regrets | not having heard, a tone poem de. scribing an evening party, by Arthur Bliss, and a symphonic movement by Paul Juon. Arthur Bliss is one of the least known of the new English school, Juon is a German who has written a great deal of queer and sometimes bad stuff. Miss Hager, Excellent Soprano. The third number was a group of “four pleasant songs,” by Stravinski, sung by that most excellent of so- pranos Mina Hager. They are typical of Stravinski in his lighter moods, which is to say they are cryptically ; REAL ESTATE Lincoln 3208 THE DAILY WORKER be present to a degree in the direction of petit-bourgeois deviations (yielding to the ideas of those in small indus- try, shop-keepers, etc.) This would not be necessarily conscious or pre- meditated, but determined by material objective and mental considerations. In organizing shop nuclei, we aim to establish our party in the basic indus- tries and thus reach the living ma terial for bolshevization of the Work- ers (Communist) Party. The influ. ence, circulation, content and view- point of the press are automatically thus affected, Even now our press does not give sufficient reading matter on condition: in the workshops, not due to the un- willingness of the press to print such information, but quite the contrary. Our party members must first be in the large shops, a condition which lays the basis for a workers corre- spondence, When dealt with, the cases have been concerned, too often, with individual or special cases of ex- ploitation or with those employed in isolated or small shops. If there is nothing better, there can, of course, be no objections, But, obviously, it will be more important and striking for our Communist press, for the DAILY WORKER, and our Commun. ist cause, when shop reports will come mainly from the big industries, mines, mills, ete., thus making a single Revolutionary Committee of the Youngest Soviet Republic—Moldavanian illustration of shop struggle common to thousands of workers in the same The Communist Press and Shop Nuclei industry. Then, too, letters from the workers “On the Job” stuff, have been dependent on chance and on a few “willing” comrades, or, let us say, loyal and energetic ones. Shop Correspondents Thru Shop Nuclei. With Communist shop nuclei organ- ized, every shop will have a regular and special shop correspondent. Sueh news of workshop life will interest broad masses of workers. They will feel it is their story that is being told, that it is their paper. The shop nu- clei will be another direct link be tween the workers and our Communist press, and also inversely so. Plainly, we are but in the sheerest beginnings of our work in the fleld of fuesday, January 13, 1928 ometaeminen a. Jewish Branch No. 1, Bronx, N.Y. ~ Greets The Daily Worker on its First Birthday, shop nuclei and a GREATER COM- MUNIST PRESS. Still we must build right, rest our foundation solid—in the shops. To organize shop nuclei is to lay the best groundwork for in. creasing systematically the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER and other Communist papers; is to make it possible for the DAILY WORKER to become in fact the written expres- sion of the workers’ drudgery, wrongs hopes and aims. To build our Com< munist press thru the shop nuclei is also to build more shop nuclei and to get increasing contact with the work- ers. Thru shop nuclei and a Com. munist press—hopes translated into deeds—a mass Communist Party. ONLY ONE NIGHT! THURSDAY, JAN, 15 From 6:30 to 11 P. M. First Row from Left to Right: Krivorukov and Stroev. Center: Chair- died at ‘Vladivostok, the state depart- man of the Committee, Comrade Stary. Third Row: Badaev and Batlushkin. brief and delicate and cubistic in style. Two langorous slow waltzes, the “Valse Triste” of Sibelius and a waltz by d’Indy closed the orchestral sec- tion. The ballet opened ‘with a little thing called “Love the Magician,” by Manuel di Falla, who is a past master at the composition of Spanish dance rhythms. The story was about a lady pursued by a ghost, and it was done perfectly, as the Bolm company al- ways does things. (And as many others don’t—got to the opera this year and see how ballet should not be done.) F Henry Eichheim, who used to If in Chicago, directed a pantomime 0? his own called “The Rivals.” Lich. heim specializes in Oriental music. Not the woul-be Oriental music of Rimiski-Korsakovy and Irving Berlin, but the real authentic stuff. He has spent considerable time in the far east, and his melodies are genuine, “The Rivals” is concerned with two Chinese generals, one the homliest one the best looking in China. The handsome comander kills the ugly one in a duel. But the dead man’t wife, who is the most beautiful woman in the land, arrives to fight the victor. After considerable pantomime, includ- ing an armistice during which the woman prays for victory, they kill each other and die embracing. Eichheim scored this bloody affair with gory music. It has all fe noise and rattle of the Chinese tonal art, but has enough melody to make it in. telligible to western ears, Variety In Program. There was a great deal more on the program, impossible to review ‘in de- tail. There was a burlesque of a cir- cus, played to that ancient cireus tune Offenbach’s overture to “Orpheus in the Underworld,” a masked ball pan- tomime, set to variations on a well known operatic ‘aria, the Tartar dances in Borodin's opera “Price Igor,” and a lot of short individual work, The scene painter for the Allied Arts is Nicholas Remisoff, who did many of the scenes for the Chauve Souris. These scenes are done in the fantastic, highly colored, extravagant fashion tha‘yput the Chauve Souris for the over. Reminsoff’s. curtain shows the spirits of the ballet dancing in the air between high office buildings. When one thinks of ballet one is too often inclined to think of the art solely as it is cultivated in Russia and presented by Pavlowa or Fokine. The Allied Arts, by giving us ballet of Spain, America and France, will cor. rect that error. And the performance ot the latest in small orchestra music by Mr. Delamarter and his organiza- tion helps to make the Allied Arts wirth while. All Art Is Propaganda. © Upton Sinclair will publish from his Pasadena, California, office early in February a work of criticism entitled “Mammonart.” The book is a study of literature and all the arts from the point of view of economics. The au- thor advances the thesis that all art is propaganda, whether consciously or unconsciously. He examines the arts, beginning with Homer and the Old Testament, and coming down to the present day, inquiring to what extent they have been used to serve and glorify the ruling classes. This vol- ume is the fifth in a series of studies of culture from the point of view of the class struggle; the other works, already published, being “The Profits of Religion,” “The Brass Check,” “The Goose-Step” and “the Goslings.” Fire Drives Sixteen Families Into Streets In Standard Oil Town WHITING, Ind., Jan. 12.— Sixteen families were driven to the street early today, homeless and bereft of all belongings, by a $100,000 fire that destroyed a three-story brick block. The block was located on the main street and. housed four stores, a the- ater, and apartments above. The fire started in one of the apartments and spread so rapidly that it was soon out of control. Aid was sent by the Chicago fire department, the Hammond, Ind., and Indiana Harbor departments. When “Ad” Polikushka Famous Story by L. N. 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(We meet every 1st and 3rd Monday at 3118 West Roosevelt Road) THE BRONX RUSSIAN BRANCH OF THE ¥ ATTENDED TO—— English Comrades Begin Forming Factory Groups (8 eclal to The Daily warner LONDON, England, |. 12.—Trans- formation of the English Communis Party on a factory group basis is mak- ing solid progress. London has sfx. teen factory groups, organized on the shop nucleus basis, and Glasgow five Other districts report that difficultiee | More Privileges for Political Prisoners in the way of organizing factory groups are fact being met. | A district congress was recently| litical prisoners is to be introduced held in the Tyneside for the special|in the Czechoslovakian prison sys- purpose of informing the comrades of| tem. It will give these offenders mary this district on the means of carrying| more privileges than are enjoyed by |died.at his home here last out this new form of organization. WORKERS PARTY looking back upon a year of real achievement is intent.upon “Telling the World” that our branch was, is, and will be doing all possible—and then some—to keep THE DAILY WORKER supplied with ammunition for the purpose of felling Capitalism. Are We on the Job? I'll Say So! With Communist Greetings, G. ROUBIN, Branch Organizer. Lenin Physician Dead. LEIPZIG, Germany, Jan, 12,— Dr, Adolf von Struempell, senior mem- ber of the medical faculty of the Uni- versity of Leipzig who treated Premier Lenin of Russia at his last PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Jan, 12. —An important change affecting po-